October 30, 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 (00:00):
Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, present Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
At this time, two great names are joined as new
post war Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the
most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Look, Mattie, you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Have a description of the killer, don't you, Yes, Scubby?
And what a description? An average size man wearing.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
A dark overcoat.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Why I can pick up a dozen suspects on every
corner with that description.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
That's going to be tough, all right, Maddie.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't know where the murdered man went last night,
don't know whom he was with, don't even know where.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
He was killed.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Aren't there any clues at all? Nick?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Just one, Scubby and you're looking right at it. Yeah,
fine clue. That is a dead body with a knife
in its back.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And now the case of the hen pecked Husband. Today's
adventure starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you
by a new post war Old Dutch Cleanser. Professor Harold
Thompson has never been inside a gambling house in all
his fifty three years his wife wouldn't allow it. But
since reading about the game of Roulette and his encyclopedia,
(01:24):
the professor is willing to risk missus Thompson's anger because
he has a wonderful plan.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
That's why he's come to Nick Carter.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I shall win twenty thousand dollars each evening, mister Carter,
and then cease my activities.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Holle, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
First, show me the establishments where this game is played. Second,
ascertain whether the roulette read is honest. And third, see
that I'm not robbed of my winnings by some footbad a.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Professor, What makes you so sure there will be any winnings?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Will for reading the article on Roulette in my encyclopedia,
I have avowed the system of wagering by.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Which I can't possibly lose.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Take my word for professor. You can't possibly win, not
over any period of time. Oh, but you don't know
my system. Here, let me have a piece of paper.
Believe me, Professor Thompson, No system will be a Roulette wheel.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
But it's quite simple to the mathematical mind. Now here
we have Oh, my fountain bin is drying.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Excuse me, Nick Carter, speaking Sergeant Mathieson, Nick, Oh, it's
on your mind, made. How's about having dinner with me tonight?
My wife's visiting her mother and I hate eating alone.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I sure, Maddy, good idea.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Patsy's gone down a Cuba for a few days, so
I'd probably be eating alone anyway. All right, then suppose
you picked me up in my office about seven un.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, do see you?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Then? So long?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I filled my pen from your inquell mister Carta. I
hope you don't mind. Oh no, of course not.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No. I have withdrawn twenty five hundred dollars from my
savings account, and I'm ready to begin operations.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Do you want to help me or not? I do not.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
All I want to do is to keep you from
throwing your money away. I'm sorry, mister Kufa. In that case,
I shall proceed without you.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Good day, Hey, Daisy, take a look at the little
old guy at the roulette table.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Hey, he's doing all right, isn't he? Yeah, he's doing Hey.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Look, maybe I ought to go over and get acquainted.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Huh yeah, feed him a couple of drinks and keep
him playing till the house gets those chips back. I
don't want him leaving here with that kind of dough.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Number four fly?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Why you're lucky?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
For you want again?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
But of course I intended to. I was standing right
behind you. Maybe I've brought your luck. Huh? Today is
my birthday?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Really? You must give me your address so that I
can send you some flowers. Flowers? Are you here?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I have brought your drink licy bets, ladies and gentlemen,
the cocktail, But I mustn't. My wife never allows me
to take in toxic can I'll go on?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It won't hurt you. So you've got a lot of
chips there?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yes, my winnings amount to twenty two thousand dollars and
where can I exchange them for money?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You don't mean you're quitting? Oh I must. It's long
after midnight.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't know what my wife will say, not leaving.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You care when you're winning?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Come on this for will?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Since I have an extra two thousand dollars, I shall
rager it on number thirty three. Hey, wait a minute,
you can't bet two brands on a.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Number one hundreds of elements? All right, MAXI? But boss
the numbers pay thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Five to one was a run on this place Okay, okay,
it's your funeral, that's all.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
That's all. I'm all bets, thank you, mister Bil, Harry Yale,
mister Bean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Actually I'm throwing away this two thousand dollars. Usually I
don't wish to win more than twenty thousand to night
and number thirty three.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Hey you are again?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Mind? How extremely fortunate? Yeah, another seventy grand.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
MAXI closed it up?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Everything no more played in night. Okay, Boss Harold, he's
got lightly the box. Comony, what are you gonna do?
I'm gonna pay it.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Come on back to my office, Sport. We'll have a
few drinks to celebrate your good luck, and I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Curse in your chips. Imagine me winning all this money.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Imagine Ohm whom I come on?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Tell me you'll be all right when you get in
the car?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Is all right now, Maxine, I should have been home
long long ago. Maybe you'd like to stop for another
drink before you go home?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Her profit o.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, Miss Kilmore, looks I might become a tipsy in
my wife.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
She don't like drink, and.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
My wife doesn't like anything. My wife doesn't like anybody
except her brother Wilfred. Of course he's been visiting us
for nine years.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hey, here's a boss's car. Rough, that's blow comparable pilot day.
Well I should drive on, No, I'm driving shumming.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You sit in the middle.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Okay, where do you live?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Fro far far away in the suburbs.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
He's feu Hey, Maxie, it's going to be too windy
driving out there with the car all open like this year.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Better put the top of on you nuts, yell do
him good. I assure you that I am quite capable
of driving.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Hey, prop fab your hat?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What's too late?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It's gone?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Whoso it is?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Will if you will let me out of your six still,
I'll get.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It, thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Now look me, Frov, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
You don't want to get behind the wheel. Maxi's coming back,
cop turn around, go.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Back from Maxi. Jompson never turns back.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I was thinking of my right. If she could see
me now with you, miss Gilmore, she'd murdered me. H
gone it you, miss Patsy. Shoot away? I am. I
(07:12):
am in house things? Why hello, Scubby?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Long time, no seas, I'm pretty busy, Nick. But the
newspaper's hitting a new load. Just now what you mean
there's no story worthy of the attention of a hot
shot reporter like Scubby Wilson.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Not a thing.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's why I dropped in to see if you had
any hot tips.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Oh, not a thing, Scubby he wears Patsy Oh, taking
a little vacation in Cuba.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And do I miss her? Yeah? I can imagine. Do
you want me to type that for you? Uh? No, thanks,
it's just about finished.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Now excuse me, Nick Carter speaking morning, Nick made Hi
am madie. You remember the little guy who wanted to
play roulette, the one you told me about it dinner
last night.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Professor Thompson?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yah, yeah, yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, I'm on my way out to his house in Eastview.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I thought you'd like to come along. Or what's happened?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The proft was found in a ditch north of the
city about eight o'clock this morning, Nick stabbed in the back.
When did you see your husband last, missus Thompson? He
left immediately after dinner last night.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And is your name, missus Thompson?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well, now look here, never mind, Wilfred dear, I feel
strong enough to talk now.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Don't excite yourself, Hannah. Remember your indigestion.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
All right now, Missus Tomper, You know I sleffer.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Terribly from nervous indigestion last night when Harold wasn't home
by midnight.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I was so.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Furious worried, Hannah, Yeah, so worried. Poor brother Wilfred had
to get out of bed and phone the doctor.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Missus Thompson, do you know where your husband went last night?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Some dinner of iniquity, no doubt. What makes you say
that no.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Respectable place keep a man out after midnight?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You're right, Hannah.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
When the doctor left at one point thirty, I told
brother to lock the front door and.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Vote it well, the medical examiner says Professor Thompson was
killed at least an hour later than that.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And we found him clear on the other side of town.
Did you say he'd been robbed? That's right. His pockets
were turned inside out.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
If his pockets were empty, Maddy, how did you identify
the body so quickly?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
His initials were in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
His hatband scubby, and the inside pocket his overcoat had
been overlooked.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
His notebook and a letter were there.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I can't imagine why anyone would want to rob Harold.
And if we're allowed him to carry more than five
dollars in cash.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
According to what he told Nick, Missus Thompson, he had
just drawn twenty five hundred dollars in the bank twenty
He wouldn't there now, Hannah, don't excite yourself.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
And only last week he objected when I spent fifty
dollars to get brother a new suit.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, my dear, you know Harold never liked me. Can't
Wilford buy his own clothes.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Wilfred is temporarily out of employment, mister cutter. Did my
husband mention why he drew that money out of the bank.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I think he intended to play roulette with it, missus.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Thompson, that's what she was doing, gambling, throwing his money
away in and getting himself chilled.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
There's always the insurance, Hannah.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
I will shoot, of course, ten thousand dollars, and in.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
A case like this, we'll be able to collect double
indemnity too. Isn't that right, mister Carton, you'll have to
settle that for the insurance company.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Twenty thousand dollars. Well, brother dear, I guess everything is
all right after all?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Hey, Nick, where are we driving to an address I
found in the professor's notebook.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Apartment nine B, one seventy six, men arm on the street.
But he had a couple of dozen addresses in that book.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Why click this one?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Who lives there? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Mary wasn't any name, but the address was written in
blue ink, and everything else in the notebook wasn't black ink.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Do you think the blue ink means something?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I do?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Scubby?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
See the professor Philis Fountain pen in my office right
yesterday afternoon with blue ink, Which makes you think he
wrote down this address after.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
He met you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's the way I figure it. And there may be
someone who was with him last night.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well one seventy six should be in this block.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, it's building on the rights, the only one that
looks like an apartment house.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I can't see the number, but there's a guy walking
over here that ought to be able to tell us, Hey,
you follow sure?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Make good time? Is this one seventy six?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You're the police, ain't you? I am? But why mine?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And I'll take you up.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Where we're looking for an apartment nine B.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You're right, no one the one that sent for you
what you sent for the police. Yeah, And the superintendent
of the apartment house. It was me that found the body.
What body Daisy Gilmore is? Of course, like I said
over the phone, she'd been.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Lighted, and so the address and the dead professor's notebook
had led not to a solution of the cases, Nick hoped,
what to another murderer. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the hen
(12:03):
pecked husband. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you
by new post war old Dutch cleanser. As Nick examined
the lifeless body of Daisy Gilmore, Matty questions the building
superintendent of Daisy's apartment house.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's just the way she was when I found her
about fifteen minutes ago. I seen right away she was dead,
So I call the cops. Yeah, and what business did
you have in this apartment?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I comend to clean up like I always do on
Saturday afternoons.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I get five touch for it. Uh huh. How long
do you think she's been dead, Nick? Least eight or
ten hours? Matty?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
She was stabbed, wasn't she just like the professor? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, judging from the wound, I'd say it could have
been the same knife.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, then I'll bet he was killed here too. It
was inside someplace for what makes you think that, Maddy?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh, I forgot you and Nick didn't see the body
of the professor.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Well, the knife didn't go through his overcoat. What they
put that on him after he was dead? Hey? Hey?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Could miss Kilmore have been killed at four point thirty
this morning?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Might have been done that long ago?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Why, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Seen a guy coming down the stairs from this floor
about four point thirty, or maybe it was closer to five.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
They say he was coming down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I thought it was funny. He didn't take the elevator,
and I bet that's why. I bet he just killed
her and he didn't want anybody to see him.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
When you recognize the man if you saw him again, sure.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
He was about my size and he wore a doc
over cook. That's a swell description.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Wow, fuck you?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
What were you doing prowling around at four point thirty
in the AA? Mister Wagner on the floor below this
couldn't find this key when he come home, See, so
I had to get up and let him in.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Look.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You know whether Miss Gilmore was acquainted with a Professor Thompson. No,
but they might be able to tell you the sixty
club where she was. What the sixty club, Hey, Nick,
that's a gambling joint.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Sure it is Harry Beale's place. And the professor was
going to play roulette last night. Sounds like a definite lead.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Letty, look, Nick, I don't want to leave here until
the medical examiner and the fingerprints boys come.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Maybe you would like to go over and talk.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
To Bill hih I certain they would, And right now,
come on, scubby, Yeah, I'm Harry Bale.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What about it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'm trying to find out whether a Professor Harrol Thompson
was in your club last night. Hey Maxie, the guy
wants to know.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
We saw the prof last night, as he kidding, and
you do remember him. I wish I could forget him.
He cleaned out the joint.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You mean the professor won?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
He took ninety thousand bucks away from me, that's all.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Oh, and in cash. I'll be durned that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Roulette system of his work.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Look, mister, there ain't any roulette system that works. The
prof won in spite of his system. That's what I
get for running a honest toil. Never again believe me.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And you say the professor had ninety thousand dollars in
cash when he meets in my cash.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Not only that, he took my car and my girl,
Daisy Gilmore. That's a oh, so maybe you were jealous
her of the prof Don't make me laugh. Look if
Daisy would have held a Prop's hand, even it'd have
faded hard.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
He happened to take your car, Hey.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I told Maxie here to drive him home to be
sure he got this safe. Yeah, especially since he was
slightly plastic and Daisy was going along. So I thought
that joke lets him get away from him.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
My time? Did all this happened about to him?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
What's shad do?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
All the questions? But long after that the Professor was
robbed and murdered.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You mean somebody knocked him up.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yes, somebody who knew he had that money. You knew
about it? Be you, and so did you? Maxi?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
What are you picking on? Uspah?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
What about Daisy? She was with him, we wanted Both
of you knew that too. Maybe you expected her to
get the money away from him. Maybe that's why one
of you was waiting at her apartment when she got home,
waiting with a knife. Huh, what did you say you
mean Daisy got A two.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
She's dead, She sure is, And you too, got a
lot of explaining to them.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Well, look, you can't pin anything on me.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I was still there at the club at four thirty.
I got a dozen witnesses. What makes you so sure
Daisy wasn't killed after four thirty?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Well, I look here, Harry.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
The superintendent of her apartment building saw a man leaving
between four thirty and five, and he says he'd recognize
that man if he saw him again. Maybe you'd better
come down the headquarters and let him take a look at.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
You, all right, all right?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
So I was when I close up the job, I
hopped the cab the Daisy's place.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
When I walked in, she was already dead. So that's
your story. Eh, well, Harry, I think they'll want to
hear that at headquarters too.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, I'm not afraid to go down there.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Max. She get me my hat off?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Isn't that it on the desk there beside.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
You, that day nineties model?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah? Not much that belongs to the prop what's that? Sure?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's how he got away from me. His hat blew off,
and when I got out of the car to get
it for him, he drove off and left.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Me, So that's what's happened. Come on, Scully, we got
work to do.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Hei, God, for I thought you was houlding me in.
Haul yourself in, Harry, I'm going after the real killer.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
This is Dobson. Did your husband own a car, Yes,
but I didn't let him drive it.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I always felt much safer with brother Wilfrid at the wheel.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Where's the car now?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Wilfred took it down to the Holloway Garage to have
the oil changed.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Oh, he did her.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Yes, I thought the drives might clear my head after
that drug the doctor gave me.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
You've had the doctor again today.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No, he gave me something awfully strong last night. He said,
I'm going to give you enough of this so that
we can both.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Get some sleep.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
He doesn't like being called out at night.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Just one more question, missus Thompson. How many hats did
the professor have?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
He had two? Why where are they now?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Till he was.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Wearing one of them and he was killed the others
on the.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Whole tree right, No, it isn't quick, John.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
He must have lost it.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That beautiful three.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Dollar hat of all that.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Never mind about that. Now, how do I get to
the Holloway garage.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's down the street about six plots.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
You're going to see my brother.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Now, I'm not going to see your brother, Missus Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I'm going to ask him some very pointed questions.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Look, Nick, you're not really sure that will for kill
the professor, are you?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'm positive? Scavy? Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
But why while the.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Professor lost his hat at the same and yet he
was wearing his other hat when he was found dead.
That proves he got home safely. But suppose he went
out again.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, not him, scubby, Not at three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Beside the front door was locked and bolded. Missus Thompson
was in a heavy sleep induced by a drug. So
Wilfrid must have let the Professor into the house. Sure
after he killed him, he got the overcoat and the
second hat off the hall tree, put them on.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
The body, and then drove to the other side of
town and dumped it in the ditch.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Sure thought he'd make it look like a hold up.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Do you think Wilfrid also knocked off Daisy.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I'm sure of it. The wounds in both bodies were
made by the same kind of knight.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Probably won he got from the kitchen Oh but Nick,
how could he know about trying out there later?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Here's the Holloway croage just ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hey, did you notice that car that just came out
of the garage?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, and brother Wilfrid was driving it.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
His sister must have falled ahead to warn him.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I should have expected that, now, got it?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hey, do you think that we can catch.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Him unless that buzz of his can make better than
ninety miles an hour. I can hold on, Scubby.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We're gaining on him.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I don't want to belong now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh brother, Hey, you weren't kidding when you said hold on?
Can't you even go down on the curves?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And if I want to catch this guy, we'll take
it easy.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're almost up to him now, flocks got I'm gonna
pull up alongside of him. If you want me to
yell at him the bed over and want to do
any good?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You know what we want? But sure, but he can
marks him over to the side of the road. Well,
he's not swelling up, Andy, and I'll crowd him some more. Pete, Nick,
look out, he's cutting into a little love of Pete.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Nick watching.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
At high speed the killer's words his car directly into
Nick's and with a crash, both all us leave the highway.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
We'll see what happens in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Now for the conclusion of the case of the hen
pecked husband. Today's adventure with Nick brought to you by
a new post war old Dutch cleanser. Driving at high speed,
Nick Carter tried to stop an escaping killer by forcing
his car to the side of the road, but the killer,
realizing he's been trapped, smashed his car into Nick's.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
With a crash, both cars left the road. It's now
a few moments later. Oh, brother, Oh, was that a
narrow escape? You hurt? Scuvey.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I don't think so. Oh, my joints seemed to work. Okay,
how about you?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Huh? Nothing serious, I guess you know.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
For a minute there, I thought we were going to
turn over daring Lucky we didn't.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Down, Lucky, I had good breaks. I managed to slow
down a little before he hit us.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Holy cow, Look at Brother Wilfrid's car.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
There's our wreck for you.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
H huh.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
The way he's wrapped around that tree, it's a wonder
if he's not dead.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Try opening the door, scovy, Okay, no, no, selp, it's
jammed but good that case you'll have to bust a window.
Want to hold him out that way? Look, God, I'm
gonna hear this rock. Let her go.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh well, listen to that, brother, Wilfrid's still alive. I'm
glad to say. I'd give me a hand, Scubby and
we'll get him out.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yea, I should think, Oh skip it, Wilfrid, save your strength.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I'm dying. I'm dying, and.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Maddy's just dying for a little conversation with you. Come on,
let's go down to headquarters.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
What's the doctor say, Maddie?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
No bones broken, plenty of bruisesn't a possible concussion?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
We'll know, limitted Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So I wonder when out all dead?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
After what happened? Now you can come in, sargant. Doc
says no concussion. You can talk to him if you
want to, Brother, I sure do. Come on, Nick, you
two Scubby.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Okay, I'd like to know what in Heaven's name was
the idea of chasing me and looking my car.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Now, if you think you.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Want Wilford, instead of asking questions, suppose you answer.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
So I tell you I'm the perfect.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Came home last night and told you that he had
won ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You killed him, didn't it, Sargert. That's ridiculous. Now it
went wild.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You want boat at the door and let the professor
in when he came home last night, I told, And
you killed him with a.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Knight you got from the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
True, And you put the Professor's hat and coat on
the dead body and took it out in the suburbs
and dumped it in a ditch.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Now where do you hire the money carter?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You can't prove a.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Word of that. How we can, Wilfrid.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You can't even prove Harold came home after being in
that gambling dead. No, when the professor was found he
was wearing a hat that he had left on the
hall wreck, and the hat and the hall wreck of
his home when he went out for the evening.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Heaverntheless?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You didn't know that he left the hat he was
wearing at the club.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
He left his hat at the he did, And with
missus Thompson asleep under the influence of the opiate, you
were the only one who could have let him in
because the door was bolted.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
All right, I did kill him, the old tight one.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Come on, Wilfrid wears the money in his shoe box
in my closet. And look, how did you find out
about Daisy?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I saw her sitting in the car when I.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Let Harold in, and knowing she could swear that he
got home safely, you had to get rid of So
you asked the prop about it, and he told you everything,
even gave you her address, which had written down in
his notebook.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
All right, if you know everything, why ask me? We'd
just like you to hear you tell it. That's all so.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Long from now, brother, we'll have a confession ready for
you to sign in a little while. Oh Nick, do
you still have that notebook, the one with the Professor's
roulette system in it? Well, I was just thinking i'd
further like to copy down the system he figured.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Out to beat the game, Scubby. Are you nuts? Now?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
If he could win ninety grand with it?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Why I don't see why I can't copy?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
You want to know better?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Whenever the professor wanted he won in Spider of his system,
not because of it. Oh yeah, sure, Nick, you're right,
But I'll bet I can write a swell story on
it for the Sunday Paper.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cudahy Packing Company. It is produced and
directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications Incorporated. Ed Latimer plays Matty. John Kaine is Scubby.
Today's script was written by Jim Parsons. Original music is
played by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any
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despite the progress made in the treatment of cancer, we
can't let up in our fight to stamp out this
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Speaker 4 (24:47):
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Speaker 1 (24:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
At this time, two great names are joined as new
post war Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the
most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Look, Mattie, you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Have a description of the killer, don't you, Yes, Scubby?
And what a description? An average size man wearing.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
A dark overcoat.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Why I can pick up a dozen suspects on every
corner with that description.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
That's going to be tough, all right, Maddie.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't know where the murdered man went last night,
don't know whom he was with, don't even know where.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
He was killed.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Aren't there any clues at all? Nick?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Just one, Scubby and you're looking right at it. Yeah,
fine clue. That is a dead body with a knife
in its back.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And now the case of the hen pecked Husband. Today's
adventure starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you
by a new post war Old Dutch Cleanser. Professor Harold
Thompson has never been inside a gambling house in all
his fifty three years his wife wouldn't allow it. But
since reading about the game of Roulette and his encyclopedia,
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the professor is willing to risk missus Thompson's anger because
he has a wonderful plan.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
That's why he's come to Nick Carter.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I shall win twenty thousand dollars each evening, mister Carter,
and then cease my activities.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Holle, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
First, show me the establishments where this game is played. Second,
ascertain whether the roulette read is honest. And third, see
that I'm not robbed of my winnings by some footbad a.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Professor, What makes you so sure there will be any winnings?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Will for reading the article on Roulette in my encyclopedia,
I have avowed the system of wagering by.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Which I can't possibly lose.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Take my word for professor. You can't possibly win, not
over any period of time. Oh, but you don't know
my system. Here, let me have a piece of paper.
Believe me, Professor Thompson, No system will be a Roulette wheel.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
But it's quite simple to the mathematical mind. Now here
we have Oh, my fountain bin is drying.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Excuse me, Nick Carter, speaking Sergeant Mathieson, Nick, Oh, it's
on your mind, made. How's about having dinner with me tonight?
My wife's visiting her mother and I hate eating alone.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I sure, Maddy, good idea.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Patsy's gone down a Cuba for a few days, so
I'd probably be eating alone anyway. All right, then suppose
you picked me up in my office about seven un.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, do see you?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Then? So long?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I filled my pen from your inquell mister Carta. I
hope you don't mind. Oh no, of course not.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No. I have withdrawn twenty five hundred dollars from my
savings account, and I'm ready to begin operations.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Do you want to help me or not? I do not.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
All I want to do is to keep you from
throwing your money away. I'm sorry, mister Kufa. In that case,
I shall proceed without you.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Good day, Hey, Daisy, take a look at the little
old guy at the roulette table.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Hey, he's doing all right, isn't he? Yeah, he's doing Hey.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Look, maybe I ought to go over and get acquainted.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Huh yeah, feed him a couple of drinks and keep
him playing till the house gets those chips back. I
don't want him leaving here with that kind of dough.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Number four fly?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Why you're lucky?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
For you want again?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
But of course I intended to. I was standing right
behind you. Maybe I've brought your luck. Huh? Today is
my birthday?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Really? You must give me your address so that I
can send you some flowers. Flowers? Are you here?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I have brought your drink licy bets, ladies and gentlemen,
the cocktail, But I mustn't. My wife never allows me
to take in toxic can I'll go on?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It won't hurt you. So you've got a lot of
chips there?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yes, my winnings amount to twenty two thousand dollars and
where can I exchange them for money?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You don't mean you're quitting? Oh I must. It's long
after midnight.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't know what my wife will say, not leaving.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You care when you're winning?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Come on this for will?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Since I have an extra two thousand dollars, I shall
rager it on number thirty three. Hey, wait a minute,
you can't bet two brands on a.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Number one hundreds of elements? All right, MAXI? But boss
the numbers pay thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Five to one was a run on this place Okay, okay,
it's your funeral, that's all.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
That's all. I'm all bets, thank you, mister Bil, Harry Yale,
mister Bean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Actually I'm throwing away this two thousand dollars. Usually I
don't wish to win more than twenty thousand to night
and number thirty three.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Hey you are again?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Mind? How extremely fortunate? Yeah, another seventy grand.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
MAXI closed it up?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Everything no more played in night. Okay, Boss Harold, he's
got lightly the box. Comony, what are you gonna do?
I'm gonna pay it.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Come on back to my office, Sport. We'll have a
few drinks to celebrate your good luck, and I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Curse in your chips. Imagine me winning all this money.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Imagine Ohm whom I come on?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Tell me you'll be all right when you get in
the car?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Is all right now, Maxine, I should have been home
long long ago. Maybe you'd like to stop for another
drink before you go home?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Her profit o.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, Miss Kilmore, looks I might become a tipsy in
my wife.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
She don't like drink, and.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
My wife doesn't like anything. My wife doesn't like anybody
except her brother Wilfred. Of course he's been visiting us
for nine years.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hey, here's a boss's car. Rough, that's blow comparable pilot day.
Well I should drive on, No, I'm driving shumming.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You sit in the middle.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Okay, where do you live?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Fro far far away in the suburbs.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
He's feu Hey, Maxie, it's going to be too windy
driving out there with the car all open like this year.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Better put the top of on you nuts, yell do
him good. I assure you that I am quite capable
of driving.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Hey, prop fab your hat?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What's too late?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It's gone?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Whoso it is?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Will if you will let me out of your six still,
I'll get.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It, thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Now look me, Frov, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
You don't want to get behind the wheel. Maxi's coming back,
cop turn around, go.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Back from Maxi. Jompson never turns back.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I was thinking of my right. If she could see
me now with you, miss Gilmore, she'd murdered me. H
gone it you, miss Patsy. Shoot away? I am. I
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am in house things? Why hello, Scubby?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Long time, no seas, I'm pretty busy, Nick. But the
newspaper's hitting a new load. Just now what you mean
there's no story worthy of the attention of a hot
shot reporter like Scubby Wilson.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Not a thing.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's why I dropped in to see if you had
any hot tips.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Oh, not a thing, Scubby he wears Patsy Oh, taking
a little vacation in Cuba.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And do I miss her? Yeah? I can imagine. Do
you want me to type that for you? Uh? No, thanks,
it's just about finished.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Now excuse me, Nick Carter speaking morning, Nick made Hi
am madie. You remember the little guy who wanted to
play roulette, the one you told me about it dinner
last night.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Professor Thompson?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yah, yeah, yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, I'm on my way out to his house in Eastview.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I thought you'd like to come along. Or what's happened?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The proft was found in a ditch north of the
city about eight o'clock this morning, Nick stabbed in the back.
When did you see your husband last, missus Thompson? He
left immediately after dinner last night.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And is your name, missus Thompson?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well, now look here, never mind, Wilfred dear, I feel
strong enough to talk now.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Don't excite yourself, Hannah. Remember your indigestion.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
All right now, Missus Tomper, You know I sleffer.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Terribly from nervous indigestion last night when Harold wasn't home
by midnight.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I was so.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Furious worried, Hannah, Yeah, so worried. Poor brother Wilfred had
to get out of bed and phone the doctor.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Missus Thompson, do you know where your husband went last night?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Some dinner of iniquity, no doubt. What makes you say
that no.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Respectable place keep a man out after midnight?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You're right, Hannah.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
When the doctor left at one point thirty, I told
brother to lock the front door and.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Vote it well, the medical examiner says Professor Thompson was
killed at least an hour later than that.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And we found him clear on the other side of town.
Did you say he'd been robbed? That's right. His pockets
were turned inside out.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
If his pockets were empty, Maddy, how did you identify
the body so quickly?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
His initials were in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
His hatband scubby, and the inside pocket his overcoat had
been overlooked.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
His notebook and a letter were there.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I can't imagine why anyone would want to rob Harold.
And if we're allowed him to carry more than five
dollars in cash.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
According to what he told Nick, Missus Thompson, he had
just drawn twenty five hundred dollars in the bank twenty
He wouldn't there now, Hannah, don't excite yourself.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
And only last week he objected when I spent fifty
dollars to get brother a new suit.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, my dear, you know Harold never liked me. Can't
Wilford buy his own clothes.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Wilfred is temporarily out of employment, mister cutter. Did my
husband mention why he drew that money out of the bank.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I think he intended to play roulette with it, missus.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Thompson, that's what she was doing, gambling, throwing his money
away in and getting himself chilled.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
There's always the insurance, Hannah.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
I will shoot, of course, ten thousand dollars, and in.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
A case like this, we'll be able to collect double
indemnity too. Isn't that right, mister Carton, you'll have to
settle that for the insurance company.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Twenty thousand dollars. Well, brother dear, I guess everything is
all right after all?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Hey, Nick, where are we driving to an address I
found in the professor's notebook.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Apartment nine B, one seventy six, men arm on the street.
But he had a couple of dozen addresses in that book.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Why click this one?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Who lives there? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Mary wasn't any name, but the address was written in
blue ink, and everything else in the notebook wasn't black ink.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Do you think the blue ink means something?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I do?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Scubby?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
See the professor Philis Fountain pen in my office right
yesterday afternoon with blue ink, Which makes you think he
wrote down this address after.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
He met you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's the way I figure it. And there may be
someone who was with him last night.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well one seventy six should be in this block.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, it's building on the rights, the only one that
looks like an apartment house.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I can't see the number, but there's a guy walking
over here that ought to be able to tell us, Hey,
you follow sure?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Make good time? Is this one seventy six?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You're the police, ain't you? I am? But why mine?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And I'll take you up.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Where we're looking for an apartment nine B.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You're right, no one the one that sent for you
what you sent for the police. Yeah, And the superintendent
of the apartment house. It was me that found the body.
What body Daisy Gilmore is? Of course, like I said
over the phone, she'd been.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Lighted, and so the address and the dead professor's notebook
had led not to a solution of the cases, Nick hoped,
what to another murderer. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the hen
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pecked husband. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you
by new post war old Dutch cleanser. As Nick examined
the lifeless body of Daisy Gilmore, Matty questions the building
superintendent of Daisy's apartment house.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's just the way she was when I found her
about fifteen minutes ago. I seen right away she was dead,
So I call the cops. Yeah, and what business did
you have in this apartment?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I comend to clean up like I always do on
Saturday afternoons.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I get five touch for it. Uh huh. How long
do you think she's been dead, Nick? Least eight or
ten hours? Matty?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
She was stabbed, wasn't she just like the professor? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, judging from the wound, I'd say it could have
been the same knife.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, then I'll bet he was killed here too. It
was inside someplace for what makes you think that, Maddy?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh, I forgot you and Nick didn't see the body
of the professor.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Well, the knife didn't go through his overcoat. What they
put that on him after he was dead? Hey? Hey?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Could miss Kilmore have been killed at four point thirty
this morning?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Might have been done that long ago?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Why, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Seen a guy coming down the stairs from this floor
about four point thirty, or maybe it was closer to five.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
They say he was coming down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I thought it was funny. He didn't take the elevator,
and I bet that's why. I bet he just killed
her and he didn't want anybody to see him.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
When you recognize the man if you saw him again, sure.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
He was about my size and he wore a doc
over cook. That's a swell description.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Wow, fuck you?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
What were you doing prowling around at four point thirty
in the AA? Mister Wagner on the floor below this
couldn't find this key when he come home, See, so
I had to get up and let him in.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Look.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You know whether Miss Gilmore was acquainted with a Professor Thompson. No,
but they might be able to tell you the sixty
club where she was. What the sixty club, Hey, Nick,
that's a gambling joint.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Sure it is Harry Beale's place. And the professor was
going to play roulette last night. Sounds like a definite lead.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Letty, look, Nick, I don't want to leave here until
the medical examiner and the fingerprints boys come.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Maybe you would like to go over and talk.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
To Bill hih I certain they would, And right now,
come on, scubby, Yeah, I'm Harry Bale.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What about it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'm trying to find out whether a Professor Harrol Thompson
was in your club last night. Hey Maxie, the guy
wants to know.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
We saw the prof last night, as he kidding, and
you do remember him. I wish I could forget him.
He cleaned out the joint.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You mean the professor won?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
He took ninety thousand bucks away from me, that's all.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Oh, and in cash. I'll be durned that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Roulette system of his work.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Look, mister, there ain't any roulette system that works. The
prof won in spite of his system. That's what I
get for running a honest toil. Never again believe me.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And you say the professor had ninety thousand dollars in
cash when he meets in my cash.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Not only that, he took my car and my girl,
Daisy Gilmore. That's a oh, so maybe you were jealous
her of the prof Don't make me laugh. Look if
Daisy would have held a Prop's hand, even it'd have
faded hard.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
He happened to take your car, Hey.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I told Maxie here to drive him home to be
sure he got this safe. Yeah, especially since he was
slightly plastic and Daisy was going along. So I thought
that joke lets him get away from him.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
My time? Did all this happened about to him?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
What's shad do?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
All the questions? But long after that the Professor was
robbed and murdered.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You mean somebody knocked him up.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yes, somebody who knew he had that money. You knew
about it? Be you, and so did you? Maxi?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
What are you picking on? Uspah?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
What about Daisy? She was with him, we wanted Both
of you knew that too. Maybe you expected her to
get the money away from him. Maybe that's why one
of you was waiting at her apartment when she got home,
waiting with a knife. Huh, what did you say you
mean Daisy got A two.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
She's dead, She sure is, And you too, got a
lot of explaining to them.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Well, look, you can't pin anything on me.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I was still there at the club at four thirty.
I got a dozen witnesses. What makes you so sure
Daisy wasn't killed after four thirty?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Well, I look here, Harry.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
The superintendent of her apartment building saw a man leaving
between four thirty and five, and he says he'd recognize
that man if he saw him again. Maybe you'd better
come down the headquarters and let him take a look at.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
You, all right, all right?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
So I was when I close up the job, I
hopped the cab the Daisy's place.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
When I walked in, she was already dead. So that's
your story. Eh, well, Harry, I think they'll want to
hear that at headquarters too.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, I'm not afraid to go down there.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Max. She get me my hat off?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Isn't that it on the desk there beside.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
You, that day nineties model?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah? Not much that belongs to the prop what's that? Sure?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's how he got away from me. His hat blew off,
and when I got out of the car to get
it for him, he drove off and left.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Me, So that's what's happened. Come on, Scully, we got
work to do.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Hei, God, for I thought you was houlding me in.
Haul yourself in, Harry, I'm going after the real killer.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
This is Dobson. Did your husband own a car, Yes,
but I didn't let him drive it.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I always felt much safer with brother Wilfrid at the wheel.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Where's the car now?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Wilfred took it down to the Holloway Garage to have
the oil changed.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Oh, he did her.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Yes, I thought the drives might clear my head after
that drug the doctor gave me.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
You've had the doctor again today.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No, he gave me something awfully strong last night. He said,
I'm going to give you enough of this so that
we can both.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Get some sleep.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
He doesn't like being called out at night.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Just one more question, missus Thompson. How many hats did
the professor have?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
He had two? Why where are they now?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Till he was.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Wearing one of them and he was killed the others
on the.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Whole tree right, No, it isn't quick, John.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
He must have lost it.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That beautiful three.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Dollar hat of all that.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Never mind about that. Now, how do I get to
the Holloway garage.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's down the street about six plots.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
You're going to see my brother.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Now, I'm not going to see your brother, Missus Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I'm going to ask him some very pointed questions.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Look, Nick, you're not really sure that will for kill
the professor, are you?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'm positive? Scavy? Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
But why while the.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Professor lost his hat at the same and yet he
was wearing his other hat when he was found dead.
That proves he got home safely. But suppose he went
out again.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, not him, scubby, Not at three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Beside the front door was locked and bolded. Missus Thompson
was in a heavy sleep induced by a drug. So
Wilfrid must have let the Professor into the house. Sure
after he killed him, he got the overcoat and the
second hat off the hall tree, put them on.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
The body, and then drove to the other side of
town and dumped it in the ditch.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Sure thought he'd make it look like a hold up.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Do you think Wilfrid also knocked off Daisy.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I'm sure of it. The wounds in both bodies were
made by the same kind of knight.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Probably won he got from the kitchen Oh but Nick,
how could he know about trying out there later?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Here's the Holloway croage just ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hey, did you notice that car that just came out
of the garage?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, and brother Wilfrid was driving it.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
His sister must have falled ahead to warn him.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I should have expected that, now, got it?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hey, do you think that we can catch.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Him unless that buzz of his can make better than
ninety miles an hour. I can hold on, Scubby.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We're gaining on him.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I don't want to belong now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh brother, Hey, you weren't kidding when you said hold on?
Can't you even go down on the curves?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And if I want to catch this guy, we'll take
it easy.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're almost up to him now, flocks got I'm gonna
pull up alongside of him. If you want me to
yell at him the bed over and want to do
any good?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You know what we want? But sure, but he can
marks him over to the side of the road. Well,
he's not swelling up, Andy, and I'll crowd him some more. Pete, Nick,
look out, he's cutting into a little love of Pete.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Nick watching.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
At high speed the killer's words his car directly into
Nick's and with a crash, both all us leave the highway.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
We'll see what happens in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Now for the conclusion of the case of the hen
pecked husband. Today's adventure with Nick brought to you by
a new post war old Dutch cleanser. Driving at high speed,
Nick Carter tried to stop an escaping killer by forcing
his car to the side of the road, but the killer,
realizing he's been trapped, smashed his car into Nick's.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
With a crash, both cars left the road. It's now
a few moments later. Oh, brother, Oh, was that a
narrow escape? You hurt? Scuvey.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I don't think so. Oh, my joints seemed to work. Okay,
how about you?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Huh? Nothing serious, I guess you know.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
For a minute there, I thought we were going to
turn over daring Lucky we didn't.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Down, Lucky, I had good breaks. I managed to slow
down a little before he hit us.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Holy cow, Look at Brother Wilfrid's car.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
There's our wreck for you.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
H huh.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
The way he's wrapped around that tree, it's a wonder
if he's not dead.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Try opening the door, scovy, Okay, no, no, selp, it's
jammed but good that case you'll have to bust a window.
Want to hold him out that way? Look, God, I'm
gonna hear this rock. Let her go.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh well, listen to that, brother, Wilfrid's still alive. I'm
glad to say. I'd give me a hand, Scubby and
we'll get him out.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yea, I should think, Oh skip it, Wilfrid, save your strength.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I'm dying. I'm dying, and.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Maddy's just dying for a little conversation with you. Come on,
let's go down to headquarters.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
What's the doctor say, Maddie?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
No bones broken, plenty of bruisesn't a possible concussion?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
We'll know, limitted Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So I wonder when out all dead?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
After what happened? Now you can come in, sargant. Doc
says no concussion. You can talk to him if you
want to, Brother, I sure do. Come on, Nick, you
two Scubby.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Okay, I'd like to know what in Heaven's name was
the idea of chasing me and looking my car.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Now, if you think you.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Want Wilford, instead of asking questions, suppose you answer.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
So I tell you I'm the perfect.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Came home last night and told you that he had
won ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You killed him, didn't it, Sargert. That's ridiculous. Now it
went wild.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You want boat at the door and let the professor
in when he came home last night, I told, And
you killed him with a.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Knight you got from the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
True, And you put the Professor's hat and coat on
the dead body and took it out in the suburbs
and dumped it in a ditch.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Now where do you hire the money carter?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You can't prove a.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Word of that. How we can, Wilfrid.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You can't even prove Harold came home after being in
that gambling dead. No, when the professor was found he
was wearing a hat that he had left on the
hall wreck, and the hat and the hall wreck of
his home when he went out for the evening.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Heaverntheless?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You didn't know that he left the hat he was
wearing at the club.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
He left his hat at the he did, And with
missus Thompson asleep under the influence of the opiate, you
were the only one who could have let him in
because the door was bolted.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
All right, I did kill him, the old tight one.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Come on, Wilfrid wears the money in his shoe box
in my closet. And look, how did you find out
about Daisy?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I saw her sitting in the car when I.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Let Harold in, and knowing she could swear that he
got home safely, you had to get rid of So
you asked the prop about it, and he told you everything,
even gave you her address, which had written down in
his notebook.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
All right, if you know everything, why ask me? We'd
just like you to hear you tell it. That's all so.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Long from now, brother, we'll have a confession ready for
you to sign in a little while. Oh Nick, do
you still have that notebook, the one with the Professor's
roulette system in it? Well, I was just thinking i'd
further like to copy down the system he figured.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Out to beat the game, Scubby. Are you nuts? Now?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
If he could win ninety grand with it?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Why I don't see why I can't copy?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
You want to know better?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Whenever the professor wanted he won in Spider of his system,
not because of it. Oh yeah, sure, Nick, you're right,
But I'll bet I can write a swell story on
it for the Sunday Paper.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cudahy Packing Company. It is produced and
directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications Incorporated. Ed Latimer plays Matty. John Kaine is Scubby.
Today's script was written by Jim Parsons. Original music is
played by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any
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