October 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You post War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk
present Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime every week. At
this time, two great names were joined as you Postwar
Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful
(00:24):
and daring characters in all detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master detectives.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Someone's coming down here in the basement. So I hear
I'm scarce, Take it easy? Have you got your done?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm a part of the what if? My husband writer,
he's the murderer we've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Now for the case of a hermit plush. Today's exciting
adventure starring Lon Kock as Nick Carter, brought to you
by a new post war Old Dutch Clencher. Our story
begins outside of imposing edifice, which seventy years ago was
considered beautiful and luxurious. Today, with its boarded windows and
air of decay, it is ugly and ominous.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
A tall, distinguished.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Looking man stands on the dark porch of the mansion,
banging away with the heavy bronze knocker.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Mister Kens over the door, mister kenough do you hear me?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I turn on affair?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Oh police?
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Was good night?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Sleep and here you are. Office.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
You've got to help me get into this house?
Speaker 8 (01:41):
Are you crazy? That's mister Rolis Kavanaugh's house. Nobody goes
in there but Officely Kavanaugh locked himself up in there
fifteen years.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Ago and he's never come out, I know.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
But more he don't let nobody in, nobody except his
housekeeper and his lawyer.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
But I'm Otis Kevanarugh's lawyer, Leonard Kelsey.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You say you're his law.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Listen, I've got to get inside this house, even if
I have to break.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
You while you're not breaking in list.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And not as long as I've got anything to say
about it.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
But I'm afraid mister kavanois met with foul's play of
some kind. What makes you think that I phoned here
half an hour ago? Officer Eleanor Drew. That's mister Keavenoid's housekeeper,
answered the poe. So she was very excited. She said
that she and mister kevanaugh had been quarreling, and she
refused and let me speak to him.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Eh.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Then when I called bank a few minutes later, no
one answers the phone.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That is funny, seeing as I'm mister Kavanaugh never goes
out of the house officer. Please.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Miss Drew is a woman of violent temper.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
He hates mister Kavanaugh, even though she continues to work
for him. We we've got to get him here. I
tell you she may have killed him, but you're trying it,
or of course not. It's always kept block officer him.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wait, no, ain't luck now what hey? Maybe something funny
is going on in here?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Oh well, let's have a look.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, let's let me find the light here it is
now he gets good. Lord, Holy smoke, that's miss and
it looks like you've been worrying about the wrong party.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
It's a housekeeper. That's meant with file play, mister Kelcea.
She's been murdered.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
By mister Kelcey. But much to tell me. The identity
of the murderer is quite clear.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
His identity, yes, but not his whereabout.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
In other words, all you want Nick to do is
to find others Kavanaugh is that.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
At mister Kelsey precisely his book.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The police are quite capable when it comes to locating
missing persons.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
Kelsey, especially in a case like this. They can't be
many places where ODI's Kavanaugh can hide.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
W you say that in this book, well after all, he's.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Been cut off from everybody for the last fifteen years.
I remember hearing about him when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, I locked himself up in that old place because
of the broken heart, didn't they?
Speaker 10 (03:41):
Yes, mister Kevanaugh was juted by the young woman he
intended to marry. He's been a recluse ever since.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Oh wasn't he also just beginning a career as a singer.
I know the tabloids always referred to him as a
hermit thrush.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It was on the concert stage, builds a high society time.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And now he's wanted from murder.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Can you want to waste it?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Yes, But mister Cotton, I I.
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Think it's tremendously important that Oh just be found quickly,
you do, why, frankly?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
To prevent more murders. I don't believe out this Kavanaugh insane.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
No no, No man who locks himself in the gloomy
mansioned and refuses to come out can be in full
possession of his faculties. But and I'm very much afraid
that though this arrangement is become permanent and violent, right, and.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
There's real danger if it isn't caught.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
It's my point is well, what do you say, mister Carter?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Very well, mister Kelsey out on my level. Best to
find him, and I hope it won't be too late. Ah.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now that's the Kavanugh mansion.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Mm how long has this houseband brought it up? This
whay calty? But ever since Otis went into seclusion and
Ell and miss Drew were the only ones of Simon
all of that in years. That's the only one.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, Oh, that's side of Madison.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Nick Ah, Hi ready, well I would be what are
you doing here?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Why mister Kelsey here hired me to lend a hand
on the Drew killing at a objection? A lot of
good to do me to object? Okay, come on, and
thanks Maddy for the cordial invitation.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
This is really a genial place, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, it's Drew. Dame may have called herself a housekeeper,
but brother, she never kept house.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
She result his private secretary is cook, and his nurse
as well. How she hated him?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Huh, she hated him. You had to continue to work
for him rather d well. Though this was a victor,
she wasn't the miser of it.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
He hate her very well.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I see I was about him at it and the
Knights from Nick corn shirt. He stand out an alarm
for Kavana. Yeah, we got every man on the force
on the lookout for him.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Had a chance that he's hiding somewhere in the house.
We searched every insure a joint from top of the bottom.
He's none in here, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Is she is? Huh got it right through the heart,
didn't he? Yes, lady, Yeah, Nick, you won't have any reason.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
To believe it wasn't Kavanaugh. Hotel her. Nick, There's only
one way that adds up.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Look, Kavanaugh don't budge out of the house for fifteen years,
and then when he does blow, he leaves the body behind.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
To me, it's openman shot.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well that sounds reasonable, nig, especially since mister Kelsey.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Spoken this drew just a few moments before she died,
and she and Kavanaugh were having a quarrel.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You know what they were quarreling about? Kelsey.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
No, she didn't say, uh.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Huh, hey, why do you call Kavanaugh?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
It was about his monthly annuity.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Chick, it's annuity check, Yes, says mister Kevanaugh's father left
his money tied up in trust and otis received.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
In a newit kick.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, I called the light at night time meant nothing
to miss Kavanaugh, and I'd been working late.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
At my office, so I phoned to see whether he'd
mind if I stopped by.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
With his chick. She'd be a trip tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Couldn't you have mailed it?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Wo?
Speaker 9 (06:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Kavanaugh always insisted that I delivered it to him in prison.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Married did you find the murder weapon? A lot of
silent leg What about Fringer? Friend boys are working on him.
We'll have a report by more gird Well lo's as
if the only question is where Kavanaugh could be hiding?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Well, I might make one guess. We found this in
Miss Drew's pocketbook.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
By the telegram, let's see.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Addressed to Ois Cavanah, there's arriving steamship mon of Ade.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
On Monday, Monday.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But that's today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'll go straight to Granger's tourist camp on Highway forty seven.
Let's see you don.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Oliver Ali, who's Oliver County? Why?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I I don't know, mister Carter.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
I never heard mister Kavanaugh mention anyone by that name. Well,
whoever he is, what made him think Caveau would leave
the house even.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
To meeting somewhere. I don't know, Maddy, but there's one
place where we might get the answer.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Sure, Granger's tourist camp.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Right, come on, let's go, Mack. I got her up
to sixty nine.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I want to get there in one piece.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
It hadn't been so bull headed about corning headquarters.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Before we left the Kavanaugh place with Wait, how many
times do I have to tell you I ain't one
of you private eyes.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
When I Scott going places, I gotta let people know.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Well, I suppose you're right, Maddy, Ny what do you
set the simon?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You do?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Get this camp?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh it's Kavani. Oh maybe we should have brought Chelsea
along to identifyingment. You don't mind. I'd rather work without
Kelsey around.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Why do you think he's mixed up in it?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I didn't say that. I make the whole deals as
plain as the nose on my face.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Cavanaugh the Dame how to fight. Cavanaugh plugged it and
then beat it.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
And that's that.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Maybe, Maddy, maybe, But then again.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Letty look out. The headline's coming out that size.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
On, Mandy, It's coming right in front of us.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Torn shooting at us.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
Watch you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
With the tire shot out from under him. Now he
tries to control the Kreine automobile, but it's too late,
and with Nick and Patsy huddle together in the back seat,
the speeding car plunges into the ditch at the side
of the road.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We'll see what happens next in just a minute, and I'll.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Back to the case of a Hermit Thrush.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new post war all that scrunger. As we pick up
our story, Nick, Patsy and Sergeant Mattheson are just recovering
from the shock of having their car skid off the
road at high speed. Betsy, Betsy, you're right, I think
so well, all life look at this bump?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
What life is?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Oh golly, huh?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, thanks Heaven. Whoever was shooting it up wasn't a
better shot.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I don't think those shots are meant to kill its huh.
And we're supposed to delay our arrival at Granger's camp.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
They certainly succeeded. We'll have to wait until morning to
get out of this state.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We can't wait until morning.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I don't wanna take a chance of having a homicidal
maniac like Havanah running around ruse. Well, maybe we can
hitch a ride out the Grangers. That's that's what we're
going to do, Maddie necessary. We'll come in there and
right come on, Are you the proprietor of this tourist camp. Yes,
(10:19):
that's trade named Rabbit Granger.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
My name is Nick Carter. This is Sergeant Mathieson of
the homicide squad. Yeah, we're looking for a man who
may have checked in here sometime yesterday. What was your
fellow's name, Oliver? It was that his last name? I
don't know. Do you have a register? Yeah? Sure, he's here.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Here's a book you books.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Kimm He used to be do anything?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, Niles, Oliver Niles. And that's the only Oliver here?
Where is he?
Speaker 11 (10:50):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
In like the cabin twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Twenty sixty straight on deck least one to you lift?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Thanks Grainger. Okay, we shall see what we shall see
at Denials. That's de Niles. Uh, don't hope. Make nobody
(11:19):
in there or wanna be?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
The lights are on, and how about looking in the window.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I guess her better.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If you don't think we're.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Too late, are you, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You can see him to this window yet?
Speaker 11 (11:29):
Uh? Huh?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Have you seen him?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Mack, Holy smoke, that's a car laying on the floor.
But you'll look at his face while I answers your question, Patty,
we are too later. That man's dead, and.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I say, you're not sure whether this man is Oliver
or Niles? Rand it? No, No, I ain't, mister corn.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You sure can't tell much from his face, not after
somebody's shouting point blank with a shotgun.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh it's awful.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Hasn't been dead more than hour, Nick, Only there was
some sort of identification on him. Take a look around
when he has to go through everything? See what you
gonna fine?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Okay, Nick, I'll look.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't get it, Nick. We already know who he is,
do he Why he was Oliver Niles?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Of course, it's perfectly clear what happened. Yeah, we Kavanaugh
found out where we were heading and beat us with
a punch, took a couple of pot shots at us
on the road, and came out here and knocked off Niles.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
But why, Maddy, why that's he up to? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
He probably don't know that himself.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Didn't show yourself. Call him a homicidal media. Nay, that's
what they Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Look, he was in his dead under his pillow.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Oh oh a watch let me see?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well? Well, well something a grave at Nick? Yes, from
m V to oh Ce Christmas nineteen thirty two. O.
See that stands for well, Mada, what's this due to
your neat middle theory?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
O brother?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
It knocks it into a cockcat Nick, This guy ain't
Oliver Nils at all. It's Otis Cavanaugh.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Oh boy, we finally caught up with him.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Carty's office, Patty Bowe speaking.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
This is at Kelsey. I've just come from the morgue.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh yes, mister Kelsey.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Will you tell mister Carter that there's no doubt in
my mind whatsoever about the men's identity.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
It is Otus Kevanaugh.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I see, well, thanks, mister Kelsey. I'll helen.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Naked. Looks as though you're out.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Of a job, Kelsey, identify enough. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And since we were hired just to find Cavanaugh, it
looks as though we were about to be fired.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That's see. I don't like it. I like it one
little bit. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Don't bad?
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Though?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
It's something wrong someplace.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't see what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh tell me again? What happens? Patty stops from scratching.
I think you will see.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well, Cavanaugh had a quarl with Eleanor Drew and killed
it go.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
On, and he let out for the tourist camp, planning
to lie low there when he found out we were
heading for the same place he'd tried to stop us.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
But how did he find out where we were going?
Speaker 9 (14:16):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
And why didn't they kill us when they had the chance? Well?
And why did Niles shoot Cavanaugh in the face with
a shotguns? Two killers usually do that. No, of course not, no, no, no, Now, Patsy, there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Are too many holes, too many murders and attempt at
murders for no apparent reasons.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
There's something missing. I want to find it.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
That's Wait a.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Minute, Nick cardis out the Patty Bone speaking.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
It's me, Patsy. Let me talk to Nick the second Madison.
I suppose you know Leonard Kelsey identified the body.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, I know. Well, I just thought I checked
with you before I gave the story.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
To the papers. I, Madie, what about the fingerprint fingerprints? Yes,
you have a report in the ones your boys found
in the Kavanaugh house. Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Those yeah, any of them drive with the dead man?
They don't they none of them. No, I don't see
why you're getting so hot and bothered about that. After all,
the body's been identified by the man who knew Kavanaugh.
Best luck matter. What's what? Huh? How could Kavanaugh live
in that place for fifteen years and not leave a
single fingerprint? Hey, you've got something there. I think I have,
(15:18):
And I don't think we've found ODIs Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
See this Kavanaugh mansion has even spoke here in the
daytime when it isn't nice.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, don't worry. We're gonna go to be here long
enough to take a look through Kavanaugh's private papers.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
See if we can find out who is Oliver and Iles?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Maybe maybe, Yeah, this looks as it might have been
a study in here.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
That window day, that crack in the shutter, Oh, I
could have sworn it was a man's eyes looking.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Then there's no one there.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Now, Well, maybe this creepy old house is making me
seeking forget it.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'll take all right, Let's have a look in this
file cabinet.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh, my goodness, makes millions of papers. It'll take us.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Forever to go through all those they're all old two
turning yellow ones.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Right, Oh, here's the.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Scraps, look me, oh, the reviews, the critics, comments on
Kavanaugh's dade you as a concert singer.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And back here with some society column. Oh, here's the
picture of the whole family and a yes, which one's ode?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Reading from left to right, Missus Roger Hobart, Mister Roger Hobart,
mister and missus James Niles Niles, Yes, and the two
sons mister Oliver Niles and mister Otis kept.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Otis Karen off their two sons.
Speaker 11 (16:55):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
That's what it says, Mister and missus James Niles and
the two sons mister Oliver Niles and mister Otis Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oliver Niles and Otis Kavanaugh were half brothers.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Otis Kavanaugh's mother must have been married twice, the second
time to a man named James Niles.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Christ.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Look at that picture.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Otis and his half brother looked very much alike.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
He certainly good heavens.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
This means that the man we found out the tourist
camp could have been Oliver Niles.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yes, could have been that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It also explains how Kelsey could have been mistaken.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I say, it may explain a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Nick's got to find others Kavanaugh if we don't. Also,
who could be calling up here?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I don't know. I'm gonna find out. I wonder where
that porn is.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's over there in the alto under the stairs.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Oh, yes, I say it, I'll get it. Hello, I
warn you to give up your investigation. Carter, who is this?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
If you don't, you'll meet the same faith to my housekeeper?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Met you're hearsekeeper?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yes, mine, this is Otis Cavanaugh.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
H Hello, Hello, I hung up and you heard what
he said?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yes, Kavanaugh must have seen us come in. That must
have been his face. I saw at the window. Then
he went somewhere in near box to wait.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Wait, wait, let me think it. Yes, of course it
come on.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
You gotta hurry.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Where are we going to try to find Otis Kavanaugh?
I think I know where he is.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You're crazy. Otis Kavanaugh couldn't be down here. And the
sell you just talked to him.
Speaker 11 (18:45):
On the phone.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That wasn't Kavanaugh.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
What how do you know it was?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Fact? They don't remember how Otis Kavanaugh was billed as
a concert singer.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yes, it is a high society Tanner.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Well, was it likely that a man who had sung
tenor could speak in a deep bass voice like the
one we heard on the phone?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But that still doesn't prove the Kavanaugh.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Is down here.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Maybe he doesn't prove it, Patty, But we're going to
keep on looking. I have a feeling if we're going.
But yeah, the door the ahead of the cellar stairs.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Someone's coming down.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, they don stairs. Get easy. Have you got your gun?
As Nick, I'm not pargeted ft If my haunch is right,
it's the murderer we've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Nick and Patsy wait tensely in the basement of the
old Kavanaugh Mansion while someone descends the cellar stairs. Whether
or not gets the killer and who he is we'll find.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Out in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Now for the conclusion of the case of a hermit Crush.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new post war all Dutch cleanser closely together in the
basement of the old Kavanaugh Mansion.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Making tactic. Wait, if someone slowly descends the stairs.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Comes, aren't you really know where he is?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I think you already knows it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Why is not Otis Kavanaugh and any is? Mister Kelsey?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yes, come on in, Kelsey. Oh, mister Carter.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And missus Bowen too. What in the world are you
doing down here?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
If I'm looking for Otis Kavanaugh?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Is the seller?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Afraid you'll never find him here?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
You're mistaken, Kelsey. You mean you found his?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Great Oh he is buried down here, yes, Nicole cad
he's got a gun.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Why hunts was right at Kelsey? You and Eleanor Drew
buried Cavanaugh down here fifteen years ago, knowing.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
That won't do you any good now, Carter n crazy.
He's got a cover, and I'm going to kill you both.
I can't a sport to have my secret nose.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
That's why you killed miss Drew and her Niles.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You should do everything else, don't you?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
I did kill him. It does matter that.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
You too know now, because neither one of you will
live to testify against me.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I'm not so sure of that, Gelty, Okay, Sergeant Madison,
it can't come out now. Here's your killer, don't you
Maxicon Okay, Kelsey, that's the same figure.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
He's your fellow for an old gag looking around when
you closed out to Madison, who isn't within five miles
of this place.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How they do it nearly every time. Now, our next
year is to get our murderous little friend here down
to headquarters and have him booked for murder. We'll make
you well, right, I got a complete confession.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
From Leonard Keltic Good. Just as you figured, Nick, the
whole story was a phony. Otis Kavanaugh never locked himself
up in.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
That house fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
He died fifteen years ago, he did, Yeah, apparently it
was a natural death. Patsy by Kelsey, who was the
executive of the Kavanagh State, saw a chance to keep
on collecting Kavanaugh's large monthly annuity.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
But where did Eleanor Drew come in?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Why else?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Kelsey apparently needed her help, first to bury Kavanaugh a
seller after he died.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And second to maintain the fiction that orders was alive
all those years.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, I still don't see why he killed Eleanor Drew.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
All right, I'll get back to that in just a minute.
I see, Oliver Niles had been living in South America
for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah, so he, like everybody else, thought.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Kavanaugh was alive. But then when he returned to this country.
Kelsey's game was threatened.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He had to kill Niles, eh, but the gul name wouldn't.
Speaker 11 (22:36):
Go for that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
That right. She probably figured that fraud was one thing,
murder another. So they quarreled and Kelsey killed him, and
he saw.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
A perfect after himself by claiming Kavanaugh killed it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
All he had to do was murder Niles and identify
Niles's body as kavanill kill.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That way the case of be closed. He thought the
reason he came to me was to be sure Nile's
body would be found.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, but that telegram in the true woman's purse? Didn't
he know that would be found?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
H That's where he slipped Now, I probably thought she
destroyed it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, And Kelsey was the only one who could have
known we were head which stilled the tourist camp.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
Wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
That's right? And then there was that watch. It was
the only identification in the cabin. Sure Kelsey plain wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And that's what made me ask myself why somebody wanted
me to think that Otis Kavanaugh was dead?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So what about that phone called Nick? Why did Kelsey
call you?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Because if he succeeded in killing me he wanted you
to testify that I'd been threatened by Tamanov.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh, Nick, I'll never forgive you for one thing.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Why what's that that be?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
For not telling you that Otis was dead? And for
not pointing out his grave in the cellar?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I didn't find his grave good.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And that was all a blow.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Sure, well, I.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Thought I was right, but I didn't know. I had
to get Kelsey to tip his hand. Of course, I'm
sure Kavanough's grave is down there now, Yeah it is, Nick.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
We found it.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Good for you, Maddie, But that's what. Don't ever accuse
me of holding out on you again. After all, you
wouldn't be able to stand me if I were the
kind of guy.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Knows everything all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Nick Carter Master Detective, produced and directed by Jock McGregor,
is controrighted by S. Freeden Smith's Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson
is featured at Patsy. Today's script was written by Ken
Pettis and Lou Scofield. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons
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Speaker 4 (25:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Someone's coming down here in the basement. So I hear
I'm scarce, Take it easy? Have you got your done?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm a part of the what if? My husband writer,
he's the murderer we've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Now for the case of a hermit plush. Today's exciting
adventure starring Lon Kock as Nick Carter, brought to you
by a new post war Old Dutch Clencher. Our story
begins outside of imposing edifice, which seventy years ago was
considered beautiful and luxurious. Today, with its boarded windows and
air of decay, it is ugly and ominous.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
A tall, distinguished.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Looking man stands on the dark porch of the mansion,
banging away with the heavy bronze knocker.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Mister Kens over the door, mister kenough do you hear me?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I turn on affair?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Oh police?
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Was good night?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Sleep and here you are. Office.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
You've got to help me get into this house?
Speaker 8 (01:41):
Are you crazy? That's mister Rolis Kavanaugh's house. Nobody goes
in there but Officely Kavanaugh locked himself up in there
fifteen years.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Ago and he's never come out, I know.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
But more he don't let nobody in, nobody except his
housekeeper and his lawyer.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
But I'm Otis Kevanarugh's lawyer, Leonard Kelsey.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You say you're his law.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Listen, I've got to get inside this house, even if
I have to break.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
You while you're not breaking in list.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And not as long as I've got anything to say
about it.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
But I'm afraid mister kavanois met with foul's play of
some kind. What makes you think that I phoned here
half an hour ago? Officer Eleanor Drew. That's mister Keavenoid's housekeeper,
answered the poe. So she was very excited. She said
that she and mister kevanaugh had been quarreling, and she
refused and let me speak to him.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Eh.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Then when I called bank a few minutes later, no
one answers the phone.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That is funny, seeing as I'm mister Kavanaugh never goes
out of the house officer. Please.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Miss Drew is a woman of violent temper.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
He hates mister Kavanaugh, even though she continues to work
for him. We we've got to get him here. I
tell you she may have killed him, but you're trying it,
or of course not. It's always kept block officer him.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wait, no, ain't luck now what hey? Maybe something funny
is going on in here?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Oh well, let's have a look.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, let's let me find the light here it is
now he gets good. Lord, Holy smoke, that's miss and
it looks like you've been worrying about the wrong party.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
It's a housekeeper. That's meant with file play, mister Kelcea.
She's been murdered.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
By mister Kelcey. But much to tell me. The identity
of the murderer is quite clear.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
His identity, yes, but not his whereabout.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
In other words, all you want Nick to do is
to find others Kavanaugh is that.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
At mister Kelsey precisely his book.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The police are quite capable when it comes to locating
missing persons.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
Kelsey, especially in a case like this. They can't be
many places where ODI's Kavanaugh can hide.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
W you say that in this book, well after all, he's.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Been cut off from everybody for the last fifteen years.
I remember hearing about him when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, I locked himself up in that old place because
of the broken heart, didn't they?
Speaker 10 (03:41):
Yes, mister Kevanaugh was juted by the young woman he
intended to marry. He's been a recluse ever since.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Oh wasn't he also just beginning a career as a singer.
I know the tabloids always referred to him as a
hermit thrush.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It was on the concert stage, builds a high society time.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And now he's wanted from murder.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Can you want to waste it?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Yes, But mister Cotton, I I.
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Think it's tremendously important that Oh just be found quickly,
you do, why, frankly?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
To prevent more murders. I don't believe out this Kavanaugh insane.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
No no, No man who locks himself in the gloomy
mansioned and refuses to come out can be in full
possession of his faculties. But and I'm very much afraid
that though this arrangement is become permanent and violent, right, and.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
There's real danger if it isn't caught.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
It's my point is well, what do you say, mister Carter?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Very well, mister Kelsey out on my level. Best to
find him, and I hope it won't be too late. Ah.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now that's the Kavanugh mansion.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Mm how long has this houseband brought it up? This
whay calty? But ever since Otis went into seclusion and
Ell and miss Drew were the only ones of Simon
all of that in years. That's the only one.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, Oh, that's side of Madison.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Nick Ah, Hi ready, well I would be what are
you doing here?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Why mister Kelsey here hired me to lend a hand
on the Drew killing at a objection? A lot of
good to do me to object? Okay, come on, and
thanks Maddy for the cordial invitation.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
This is really a genial place, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, it's Drew. Dame may have called herself a housekeeper,
but brother, she never kept house.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
She result his private secretary is cook, and his nurse
as well. How she hated him?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Huh, she hated him. You had to continue to work
for him rather d well. Though this was a victor,
she wasn't the miser of it.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
He hate her very well.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I see I was about him at it and the
Knights from Nick corn shirt. He stand out an alarm
for Kavana. Yeah, we got every man on the force
on the lookout for him.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Had a chance that he's hiding somewhere in the house.
We searched every insure a joint from top of the bottom.
He's none in here, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Is she is? Huh got it right through the heart,
didn't he? Yes, lady, Yeah, Nick, you won't have any reason.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
To believe it wasn't Kavanaugh. Hotel her. Nick, There's only
one way that adds up.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Look, Kavanaugh don't budge out of the house for fifteen years,
and then when he does blow, he leaves the body behind.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
To me, it's openman shot.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well that sounds reasonable, nig, especially since mister Kelsey.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Spoken this drew just a few moments before she died,
and she and Kavanaugh were having a quarrel.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You know what they were quarreling about? Kelsey.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
No, she didn't say, uh.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Huh, hey, why do you call Kavanaugh?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
It was about his monthly annuity.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Chick, it's annuity check, Yes, says mister Kevanaugh's father left
his money tied up in trust and otis received.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
In a newit kick.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, I called the light at night time meant nothing
to miss Kavanaugh, and I'd been working late.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
At my office, so I phoned to see whether he'd
mind if I stopped by.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
With his chick. She'd be a trip tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Couldn't you have mailed it?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Wo?
Speaker 9 (06:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Kavanaugh always insisted that I delivered it to him in prison.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Married did you find the murder weapon? A lot of
silent leg What about Fringer? Friend boys are working on him.
We'll have a report by more gird Well lo's as
if the only question is where Kavanaugh could be hiding?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Well, I might make one guess. We found this in
Miss Drew's pocketbook.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
By the telegram, let's see.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Addressed to Ois Cavanah, there's arriving steamship mon of Ade.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
On Monday, Monday.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But that's today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'll go straight to Granger's tourist camp on Highway forty seven.
Let's see you don.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Oliver Ali, who's Oliver County? Why?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I I don't know, mister Carter.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
I never heard mister Kavanaugh mention anyone by that name. Well,
whoever he is, what made him think Caveau would leave
the house even.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
To meeting somewhere. I don't know, Maddy, but there's one
place where we might get the answer.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Sure, Granger's tourist camp.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Right, come on, let's go, Mack. I got her up
to sixty nine.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I want to get there in one piece.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
It hadn't been so bull headed about corning headquarters.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Before we left the Kavanaugh place with Wait, how many
times do I have to tell you I ain't one
of you private eyes.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
When I Scott going places, I gotta let people know.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Well, I suppose you're right, Maddy, Ny what do you
set the simon?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You do?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Get this camp?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh it's Kavani. Oh maybe we should have brought Chelsea
along to identifyingment. You don't mind. I'd rather work without
Kelsey around.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Why do you think he's mixed up in it?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I didn't say that. I make the whole deals as
plain as the nose on my face.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Cavanaugh the Dame how to fight. Cavanaugh plugged it and
then beat it.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
And that's that.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Maybe, Maddy, maybe, But then again.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Letty look out. The headline's coming out that size.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
On, Mandy, It's coming right in front of us.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Torn shooting at us.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
Watch you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
With the tire shot out from under him. Now he
tries to control the Kreine automobile, but it's too late,
and with Nick and Patsy huddle together in the back seat,
the speeding car plunges into the ditch at the side
of the road.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We'll see what happens next in just a minute, and I'll.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Back to the case of a Hermit Thrush.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new post war all that scrunger. As we pick up
our story, Nick, Patsy and Sergeant Mattheson are just recovering
from the shock of having their car skid off the
road at high speed. Betsy, Betsy, you're right, I think
so well, all life look at this bump?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
What life is?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Oh golly, huh?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, thanks Heaven. Whoever was shooting it up wasn't a
better shot.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I don't think those shots are meant to kill its huh.
And we're supposed to delay our arrival at Granger's camp.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
They certainly succeeded. We'll have to wait until morning to
get out of this state.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We can't wait until morning.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I don't wanna take a chance of having a homicidal
maniac like Havanah running around ruse. Well, maybe we can
hitch a ride out the Grangers. That's that's what we're
going to do, Maddie necessary. We'll come in there and
right come on, Are you the proprietor of this tourist camp. Yes,
(10:19):
that's trade named Rabbit Granger.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
My name is Nick Carter. This is Sergeant Mathieson of
the homicide squad. Yeah, we're looking for a man who
may have checked in here sometime yesterday. What was your
fellow's name, Oliver? It was that his last name? I
don't know. Do you have a register? Yeah? Sure, he's here.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Here's a book you books.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Kimm He used to be do anything?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, Niles, Oliver Niles. And that's the only Oliver here?
Where is he?
Speaker 11 (10:50):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
In like the cabin twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Twenty sixty straight on deck least one to you lift?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Thanks Grainger. Okay, we shall see what we shall see
at Denials. That's de Niles. Uh, don't hope. Make nobody
(11:19):
in there or wanna be?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
The lights are on, and how about looking in the window.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I guess her better.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If you don't think we're.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Too late, are you, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You can see him to this window yet?
Speaker 11 (11:29):
Uh? Huh?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Have you seen him?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Mack, Holy smoke, that's a car laying on the floor.
But you'll look at his face while I answers your question, Patty,
we are too later. That man's dead, and.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I say, you're not sure whether this man is Oliver
or Niles? Rand it? No, No, I ain't, mister corn.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You sure can't tell much from his face, not after
somebody's shouting point blank with a shotgun.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh it's awful.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Hasn't been dead more than hour, Nick, Only there was
some sort of identification on him. Take a look around
when he has to go through everything? See what you
gonna fine?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Okay, Nick, I'll look.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't get it, Nick. We already know who he is,
do he Why he was Oliver Niles?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Of course, it's perfectly clear what happened. Yeah, we Kavanaugh
found out where we were heading and beat us with
a punch, took a couple of pot shots at us
on the road, and came out here and knocked off Niles.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
But why, Maddy, why that's he up to? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
He probably don't know that himself.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Didn't show yourself. Call him a homicidal media. Nay, that's
what they Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Look, he was in his dead under his pillow.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Oh oh a watch let me see?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well? Well, well something a grave at Nick? Yes, from
m V to oh Ce Christmas nineteen thirty two. O.
See that stands for well, Mada, what's this due to
your neat middle theory?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
O brother?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
It knocks it into a cockcat Nick, This guy ain't
Oliver Nils at all. It's Otis Cavanaugh.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Oh boy, we finally caught up with him.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Carty's office, Patty Bowe speaking.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
This is at Kelsey. I've just come from the morgue.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh yes, mister Kelsey.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Will you tell mister Carter that there's no doubt in
my mind whatsoever about the men's identity.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
It is Otus Kevanaugh.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I see, well, thanks, mister Kelsey. I'll helen.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Naked. Looks as though you're out.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Of a job, Kelsey, identify enough. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And since we were hired just to find Cavanaugh, it
looks as though we were about to be fired.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That's see. I don't like it. I like it one
little bit. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Don't bad?
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Though?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
It's something wrong someplace.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't see what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh tell me again? What happens? Patty stops from scratching.
I think you will see.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well, Cavanaugh had a quarl with Eleanor Drew and killed
it go.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
On, and he let out for the tourist camp, planning
to lie low there when he found out we were
heading for the same place he'd tried to stop us.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
But how did he find out where we were going?
Speaker 9 (14:16):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
And why didn't they kill us when they had the chance? Well?
And why did Niles shoot Cavanaugh in the face with
a shotguns? Two killers usually do that. No, of course not, no, no, no, Now, Patsy, there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Are too many holes, too many murders and attempt at
murders for no apparent reasons.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
There's something missing. I want to find it.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
That's Wait a.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Minute, Nick cardis out the Patty Bone speaking.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
It's me, Patsy. Let me talk to Nick the second Madison.
I suppose you know Leonard Kelsey identified the body.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, I know. Well, I just thought I checked
with you before I gave the story.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
To the papers. I, Madie, what about the fingerprint fingerprints? Yes,
you have a report in the ones your boys found
in the Kavanaugh house. Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Those yeah, any of them drive with the dead man?
They don't they none of them. No, I don't see
why you're getting so hot and bothered about that. After all,
the body's been identified by the man who knew Kavanaugh.
Best luck matter. What's what? Huh? How could Kavanaugh live
in that place for fifteen years and not leave a
single fingerprint? Hey, you've got something there. I think I have,
(15:18):
And I don't think we've found ODIs Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
See this Kavanaugh mansion has even spoke here in the
daytime when it isn't nice.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, don't worry. We're gonna go to be here long
enough to take a look through Kavanaugh's private papers.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
See if we can find out who is Oliver and Iles?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Maybe maybe, Yeah, this looks as it might have been
a study in here.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
That window day, that crack in the shutter, Oh, I
could have sworn it was a man's eyes looking.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Then there's no one there.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Now, Well, maybe this creepy old house is making me
seeking forget it.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'll take all right, Let's have a look in this
file cabinet.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh, my goodness, makes millions of papers. It'll take us.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Forever to go through all those they're all old two
turning yellow ones.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Right, Oh, here's the.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Scraps, look me, oh, the reviews, the critics, comments on
Kavanaugh's dade you as a concert singer.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And back here with some society column. Oh, here's the
picture of the whole family and a yes, which one's ode?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Reading from left to right, Missus Roger Hobart, Mister Roger Hobart,
mister and missus James Niles Niles, Yes, and the two
sons mister Oliver Niles and mister Otis kept.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Otis Karen off their two sons.
Speaker 11 (16:55):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
That's what it says, Mister and missus James Niles and
the two sons mister Oliver Niles and mister Otis Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oliver Niles and Otis Kavanaugh were half brothers.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Otis Kavanaugh's mother must have been married twice, the second
time to a man named James Niles.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Christ.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Look at that picture.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Otis and his half brother looked very much alike.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
He certainly good heavens.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
This means that the man we found out the tourist
camp could have been Oliver Niles.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yes, could have been that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It also explains how Kelsey could have been mistaken.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I say, it may explain a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Nick's got to find others Kavanaugh if we don't. Also,
who could be calling up here?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I don't know. I'm gonna find out. I wonder where
that porn is.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's over there in the alto under the stairs.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Oh, yes, I say it, I'll get it. Hello, I
warn you to give up your investigation. Carter, who is this?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
If you don't, you'll meet the same faith to my housekeeper?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Met you're hearsekeeper?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yes, mine, this is Otis Cavanaugh.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
H Hello, Hello, I hung up and you heard what
he said?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yes, Kavanaugh must have seen us come in. That must
have been his face. I saw at the window. Then
he went somewhere in near box to wait.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Wait, wait, let me think it. Yes, of course it
come on.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
You gotta hurry.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Where are we going to try to find Otis Kavanaugh?
I think I know where he is.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You're crazy. Otis Kavanaugh couldn't be down here. And the
sell you just talked to him.
Speaker 11 (18:45):
On the phone.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That wasn't Kavanaugh.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
What how do you know it was?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Fact? They don't remember how Otis Kavanaugh was billed as
a concert singer.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yes, it is a high society Tanner.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Well, was it likely that a man who had sung
tenor could speak in a deep bass voice like the
one we heard on the phone?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But that still doesn't prove the Kavanaugh.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Is down here.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Maybe he doesn't prove it, Patty, But we're going to
keep on looking. I have a feeling if we're going.
But yeah, the door the ahead of the cellar stairs.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Someone's coming down.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, they don stairs. Get easy. Have you got your gun?
As Nick, I'm not pargeted ft If my haunch is right,
it's the murderer we've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Nick and Patsy wait tensely in the basement of the
old Kavanaugh Mansion while someone descends the cellar stairs. Whether
or not gets the killer and who he is we'll find.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Out in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Now for the conclusion of the case of a hermit Crush.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new post war all Dutch cleanser closely together in the
basement of the old Kavanaugh Mansion.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Making tactic. Wait, if someone slowly descends the stairs.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Comes, aren't you really know where he is?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I think you already knows it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Why is not Otis Kavanaugh and any is? Mister Kelsey?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yes, come on in, Kelsey. Oh, mister Carter.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And missus Bowen too. What in the world are you
doing down here?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
If I'm looking for Otis Kavanaugh?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Is the seller?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Afraid you'll never find him here?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
You're mistaken, Kelsey. You mean you found his?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Great Oh he is buried down here, yes, Nicole cad
he's got a gun.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Why hunts was right at Kelsey? You and Eleanor Drew
buried Cavanaugh down here fifteen years ago, knowing.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
That won't do you any good now, Carter n crazy.
He's got a cover, and I'm going to kill you both.
I can't a sport to have my secret nose.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
That's why you killed miss Drew and her Niles.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You should do everything else, don't you?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
I did kill him. It does matter that.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
You too know now, because neither one of you will
live to testify against me.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I'm not so sure of that, Gelty, Okay, Sergeant Madison,
it can't come out now. Here's your killer, don't you
Maxicon Okay, Kelsey, that's the same figure.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
He's your fellow for an old gag looking around when
you closed out to Madison, who isn't within five miles
of this place.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How they do it nearly every time. Now, our next
year is to get our murderous little friend here down
to headquarters and have him booked for murder. We'll make
you well, right, I got a complete confession.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
From Leonard Keltic Good. Just as you figured, Nick, the
whole story was a phony. Otis Kavanaugh never locked himself
up in.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
That house fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
He died fifteen years ago, he did, Yeah, apparently it
was a natural death. Patsy by Kelsey, who was the
executive of the Kavanagh State, saw a chance to keep
on collecting Kavanaugh's large monthly annuity.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
But where did Eleanor Drew come in?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Why else?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Kelsey apparently needed her help, first to bury Kavanaugh a
seller after he died.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And second to maintain the fiction that orders was alive
all those years.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, I still don't see why he killed Eleanor Drew.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
All right, I'll get back to that in just a minute.
I see, Oliver Niles had been living in South America
for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah, so he, like everybody else, thought.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Kavanaugh was alive. But then when he returned to this country.
Kelsey's game was threatened.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He had to kill Niles, eh, but the gul name wouldn't.
Speaker 11 (22:36):
Go for that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
That right. She probably figured that fraud was one thing,
murder another. So they quarreled and Kelsey killed him, and
he saw.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
A perfect after himself by claiming Kavanaugh killed it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
All he had to do was murder Niles and identify
Niles's body as kavanill kill.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That way the case of be closed. He thought the
reason he came to me was to be sure Nile's
body would be found.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, but that telegram in the true woman's purse? Didn't
he know that would be found?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
H That's where he slipped Now, I probably thought she
destroyed it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, And Kelsey was the only one who could have
known we were head which stilled the tourist camp.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
Wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
That's right? And then there was that watch. It was
the only identification in the cabin. Sure Kelsey plain wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And that's what made me ask myself why somebody wanted
me to think that Otis Kavanaugh was dead?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So what about that phone called Nick? Why did Kelsey
call you?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Because if he succeeded in killing me he wanted you
to testify that I'd been threatened by Tamanov.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh, Nick, I'll never forgive you for one thing.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Why what's that that be?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
For not telling you that Otis was dead? And for
not pointing out his grave in the cellar?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I didn't find his grave good.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And that was all a blow.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Sure, well, I.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Thought I was right, but I didn't know. I had
to get Kelsey to tip his hand. Of course, I'm
sure Kavanough's grave is down there now, Yeah it is, Nick.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
We found it.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Good for you, Maddie, But that's what. Don't ever accuse
me of holding out on you again. After all, you
wouldn't be able to stand me if I were the
kind of guy.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Knows everything all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Nick Carter Master Detective, produced and directed by Jock McGregor,
is controrighted by S. Freeden Smith's Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson
is featured at Patsy. Today's script was written by Ken
Pettis and Lou Scofield. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons
(24:41):
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saying when minutes count, use new post war old thatch cleanser.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
This is a mutual broadcasting.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
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