November 6, 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):
New post war old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt,
presents Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime. Every week. At
this time, two great names are joined as new post
war old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most
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resourceful and daring characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Nick Carter. Have you lost your mind?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
No, passy, I said you're going to go crazy?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Me go crazy?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And Mary and I are going to chase you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Why are you going to chase me?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Because you've got the King's Apology and you're going to
run with it until you run into a killer.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And now the Case of the King's Apology, Today's adventure
starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by
New post war old Dutch Cleanser. In his library filled
with rare books, letters, stamps, and coins, wealthy collector Robert
Bixby sits behind a desk and stares coldly at a
small oily man named Thomas gall Gall displaying an open
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leather portfolio filled with papers.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Talks excitedly.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
I am deeply obliged to you for asking me to
call on you, mister Bixby. He hits an honortacy of
himous collection, I assure.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You not at all.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
At the same time, I have always regretted the fact
that I am the one dealer in this city who
has not yet had the good fortune to assist you
in your collecting. Indeed, well, I s is why I
took the liberty of bringing a few of my more
precious items for your esteemed consideration. That several interesting autograph
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letters dating from the eighteenth since, mister go especially this
note in the handwriting of King George, the third King
of England during the American Revolution. It is an apology
to a friend for failure to keep an appointment.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Hey, his Majesty's arms on the envelope is leasure, gal.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Is, mister Bixby, I did not ask you here to
display your stock.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
No, mister Bixby, I want you to answer a question.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
A question yesterday, while driving past your shop, I saw
something with the man's full explanation.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
What did you see? Sir?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I saw you in close conference with a well known forger,
John Pryor. You saw me, I did, but prior the
literary forger.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I think you're mistaken, mister big.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Let me warn you, gal, I'm Cairman of the Collectors Association.
I know you can blast my reputation with one word,
mister Bigsby.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I know you can put me out of business, and.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I shall do so unless you can explain your association
with prior.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I am not associated with him. Mister Bigsby. You're mistaken.
You must believe me.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Sir, that's all you have to say.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I can say very well, I'm sorry, girl.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I should like action at once, and you've made up
your minds and view of the fact that no explanation
is forthcoming.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
You're going to ruin me.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
It's not a question of personal animas day. There are
other collectors to be protected.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
My duty is chance to ruin me.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I'm afraid you're ruining yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I have to know your lying, gal.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I've got too much at stake to let you do that,
mister Bixby. For five years, I've built up my reputation
just waiting for this chance to make a killing.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
So I'm afraid the killing is going to start with you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
In the name of John.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Als, I'm mister b It's not a question of personal animosity.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I've got to protict my share. Good day, mister Bixby.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I hope you enjoy your new career collecting fire in Brimstone.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Nick Carter's office, Patsy Bowe, I'm speaking Hello, Hello, no.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Matter that he's gotta me proposing in a new and
different way.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Nick.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Hello, sounds like someone groaning on the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, let me have it. Yeah, Hello, this is Nick
Cotton speaking Nick Nickconnor. Yes, this is Nick Otta speaking.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Who is this Nick? Nick Cornor?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Is something wrong by? Can't you speak openly? Or are
you sick? Come quick? Who is this?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hello? Hello?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What is it? Someone asked me to come quick?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One named no Adred? Hello, Hello, and no answer?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hang up? He'll call again.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
No, No, I'll hold onto this line and keep it open.
You'll get on the other phone and call the phone company.
Have this open wire trace right, and when you got
the address, call medi This is an invitation to trouble.
We might as well be legal about accepting it. Well,
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all I've got to say is Nick, if you interrupted
my sandwich to bring me here on a false alarm.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Why don't you do darky?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
All right?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
For years Nick's been breaking into my meals. I still
haven't figured out what to do about it, says no,
false alarm, Maddy, nobody's answering the door. Nick, you sure it's.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The right house.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sure it is Robert Bixby one oh three five, Russell plays,
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'd still like to know what this is all.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
About, so would I? All right if I use a
skeletal key.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Look are you sure?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He groaned on the from a word of honor, Sergeant
all right, all right, let's go in and have a look.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Good.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Well, you got that door open quick enough, you know, Nick.
Sometimes I'm glad you're on the right side of the.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Law, except when Nick interrupts your meal.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh yeah, and if this is a false alawn, but
I know it now. Why look on the left in
the library. Why, oh, holy smoke, this is Robert Bixby,
all right, and he's dead and we're smack in the
middle of a murder case.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He was strangled. Look at the finger marks on his throat.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Golly, see the way his head tilts s Matty, Yeah,
his neck's broken. He died instantly, But he tell no,
he didn't, Patsy, not with a broken neck. What someone
else called us, someone who was here during or immediately
after the murder. Oh, give me the aluminum. Want to
get my kid with you? I want to dust the
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phone for fingerprints, right, no matter? You better look around
see if anything looks displaced or missing.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll do.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Here's a part of me.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Thanks, not a sign of a print, Nick, No, whoever
telephone may have grown, made sure to wipe all prints
off the phone.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, the place doesn't look as though it's been searched, Nick,
nothing's been touched. That's funny. Several thousand dollars worth of
rare books and literary material in this room and nothing
was taken.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Then it wasn't murdered for robbery?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
No found why it was old? Bixby killed? And who
called me?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And why? Wait a minute, Nick, here's something under Bixby's feet.
It looks like a letter or something that's.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Have a look at it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Where do I get it out.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Of the envelope?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It looks pretty old.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
It's probably be part of Bigsby's collection. Uh huhm, stated seventeen.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Eighty seventeen eighty.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who let me see.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Seems to be some kind of an apology.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's signed George r. R.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That means Rex Latin for King.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
And this was signed by King George.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, King George third. Judging by the.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Date, that must be the World Code of Arms on
the envelope.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Do you really mean that? Letters from a king?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
It's a royal apology, Sergeant. Isn't that exciting?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Not only exciting, passy, but it also gives us an
angle on this case?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What's then?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
A letter's a forgery?
Speaker 10 (08:32):
It is? Well, how do you know?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Never mind that right now, Patty. Just take my word
for it, okay, Nick, But a man like Bixby would
never have a forgery like this in this collection. Evidently
his death was in some way connected with this king's apology.
And I have an idea.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
What's noting?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I suppose you go.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Ahead with the departmental routine, Madie, sure, Nick, I say,
you're going to check our files for a forger who
can do this kind of work. And if we find
the man who forged this letter, we may find the
man who murdered Bixby.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Tom, Tom, what reader, stop that painting.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You're giving me a headache.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I can't help it. I could strangle him all over again.
Comphatass sitting there so he were my judge, But he's dead.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Isn't he?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
And I could kill him again, and I could kill
him each day forever. He's win the work of five years.
That's what he wanted. One word from Bixby and we
would have been finished. But we're not.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
For five years, I've been honest for five years. I
built up a reputation for this moment.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
They first me.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Now those fools who buy letters and autographs, they believe
in me. And in six months we'll unload every fortuery.
We'll make a fortune.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
That's what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You've been a good wife, Lita. You played along with
me during those years when we had to be honest.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
And don't think it didn't hurt ah.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
But now comes the payoffs. We'll make two hundred thousand,
maybe three. And we can't pissed up. Now that Bixby
is dead, we can rise Twain.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
I take you, Yes, girl, Yes, this is prior. Yes,
I want you to come over to my place for
a talk. Why I got bad news.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
For you, girl?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Talk straight prior?
Speaker 12 (10:35):
When U Bixby got you up to his place.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
How did you find out about that?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I was there?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Girl?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
What Bixby had me hidden in the next room? He
was going to confront us. Girl, you get it all
set up?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Things right, I know all about it.
Speaker 12 (10:52):
I think you better come over to my place for
a talk right away. It cost your money if you
want me to afford you an all by for murder.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, let's see Nick.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
We've been to see Joe Dyer, Eddie Barker, Sam Browning
and Billy Webster.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, not a reaction, not of any of them, leaving
John Pryor, Henry Foster and Steve Screenner as the possible
forges of the King's apology. Well, let's hope we have
some luck with at least one of them.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah. Of who are we visiting now?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The next man on the list, John Pryor.
Speaker 13 (11:39):
Uh huh, Well, what's your attack going to be?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
With him?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Same as the others? Surprise, sudden shock. He's got a
ground floor apartment in the rear. Now that must be
the door.
Speaker 13 (11:51):
Down there, right, said way you not give me the
shanksnake so stern and officials.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Because precisely why I do it gives us a psychological
ans Yes you're John Pryor. Yes, I'm Nick Carter working
in a murder case. I want to talk to you.
I bought my secretary a longer take note. No, no,
wait a minute, mister Carter Wet Starling Pryor, you're in
a bad gem and you know it. I don't know
anything of the kind. You look at this letter? What
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don't dummy up? Prior? This is a forged manuscript, a
king's apology dated seventeen eighty, and it's your what I'm
mister kay. You went to the murder of Robert Bixby
so tight you won't get out of it with a crow.
But I'm not better than my work. No any objections
if I take your fingerprints fingerprint you heard me, prince
were left on this letter on the inside flap of
the envelope. I want to compare them with yours.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Sure, I've got no objections in sakonner. Just let me
go into the kitchen. Get the grease off my hands.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Okay, I'll get the equipment ready while you're gone.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Now, I give you all the princes you want as
soon as I get my hands clean.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Go.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I yes, bagging long enough, I make up your mind fast?
Do I come before you?
Speaker 6 (13:03):
But he said he had your finger.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
Think I didn't leave any prints on that letter? And
you think I'm a baby. One hundred grand.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That's my price. Make up your mind.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
No what I said, No, Prior, I can't trust you,
not with Ni Kata so close to my tears. You
came sorry, Prior, anah, I feel.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Wait waiting, Prior, make it snappy, come out, not Priar,
you've got an the idea of this guys in those pressure.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Lover, he's instabbed. He's dead.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Nick and Patsy stare at the body of John Pryor,
stretched out on the kitchen floor, a kitchen knife through
his ribs. We'll see what they do in just a moment.
All back to the case of the King's Apology. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. Nick and Patsy stand over the
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dead body of John Pryor, sprawled on the kitchen floor
of his apartment. Quickly, Nick's eyes taking the few clues before.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Them, Mont Patsy, we gotta work fast, all right, Nick,
We're going out through that kitchen window too. It's only
a short drop to the back. Harry, I'll go first, yep,
all right, come on, I'll catch.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You all right.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Now down the ale, Nick, do you know whoever kill
prior is more than twenty seconds ahead of him, and
we have a chance of catching up with him. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I've been hiding in the kitchen while we were there.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, we went back to cook up an alibi and
was killed to keep his mouth shut.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Oh, Nick, this is a dead end.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, got to go back to the other way.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Oh no, that's a dead end too. I noticed it
when I came through the window. Yeah, but wait, here's
a cellar door and look at the handle, got blood
on it. Yeah, he must have gone in here.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
M hm h.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'll stay dark and.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 13 (15:16):
I I think I hear.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Someone, probably the killer. Let's go now quick.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Yeah, seems to be a story drooman here came from
inside that there.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
We'll have to go in after him.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I'll stay with me. Be careful. It's almost bitch darker.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Nick, can't you use your flashlight?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
No, he's got a gun. He can use the lightboard dark.
Come on, someone tries to go behind that killer was
waiting in the back of it. I found it straors
fastened on the outside with an iron.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Bar locked in.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yes, instead of trapping the killer, he trapped us?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And why why is knitting?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Got bad news? Spoil? He's opened a gas pipe somewhere
in this room. You don't work fast, wear a couple
of dead ducks.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Tom, here's weet?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Did you get everything arranged with carr here?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
With prior hand with Nick Cartera?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Nick carter I took care of that gentleman after I
took care of Pria.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I trapped Nick Cartera, and just about now he should
be dead. At least he can hold his breath for
half an hour.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Did Prior help you?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I told you I took care of Prior too. What
do you mean I closed his mouth for good? Tom,
He's dead?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You killed him?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
No, non better?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I see you're in love with him, an't you? Ancho?
What's the idiot I've been?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You had this all worked out with Pride, didn't you.
You'd take every Nickola I made in this you to
go off with pride nant was the idea. You'd help
him blackmail me for the rest of my life, and
you would be laughing at me the two of you.
Don't don't no, da, don't try.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I won't kill you.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Maybe it's just as well this happened. Now, I've got
what I want. I got plenty of money waiting for me,
and I got you forever.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Come in, Hey, Nick, we haven't gotten anywhere in apartment
with this, but I, for the love of heaven, what
happened to you too? Hello, Sergy, Hi, Maddie, come help.
Patsy and me somemere ointment on our faces?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I repeat what happened to you?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
We met the killer?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Did you get him?
Speaker 10 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He nearly got up.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Look I'd better sit down.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yes, do you see, Maddie, we were trapped in a
cellar storage.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Room with an open gas pipe.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
With an open gas pipe, Yeah, an open gas pipe.
The killer wrenched the fixture off and left the gas
pouring into the room.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
But what did you do?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, Nick, found the pipe and lie of the gas.
That's how our faces got burned.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yes, that stuff flamed out like a volcano. Luckily there
wasn't enough gas in the room to cause a real explosion.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I'll be durned.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Then we pounded on the door and yelled until the
janitor came and let us out. Of course, by that
time the killer was gone forever.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
No, we're not lacked yet, Betsy.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That a boy, Nick, Okay, but have you got any
idea I have?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We're going to catch this killer with a king's apology?
Speaker 6 (19:16):
You mean the pogery?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well what do we do?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
While I've been nursing my blisters, I've been doing some thinking, Betsy,
h Prior wasn't working on this forgery alone. Oh you
don't think so, I don't.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Look, look, have a heart. I'm not caught up on
this case yet. Who's Prior?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'll brief you later, Maddie. Have they worked this out
with Patsy? First? We haven't much time.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Now, Prior was a forger, but he couldn't sell us
forgeries himself. He needed a front man, a dealer to
do that. So there's a strong chance he was killed
by the dealer who was working with him.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Could be gone.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That's where our trick starts.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Hi, Well watch the trait.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Well first you go crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Go crazy?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, man, Maddie, and I chase you.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Why do you chase me?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Because you've got the King's apology and you're going to
run with it until you run into the killer.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Patsy takes the forged letter and listens carefully to her instruction.
Her face brightening as Nick unfolds the mechanism of the trap.
We'll learn what it is in just a moment. Now
for the conclusion of the case of the King's Apology.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new
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post war old Dutch cleanser. For an hour, Valentine Street,
where most of the city's autograph dealers have their shops,
has been watching a curious spectacle.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A girl has walked.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Into one shop after another, displayed a letter, screamed at
the astonished proprietor, and then run out. She is followed
cautiously by two men who make profound apologies for her. Finally,
she enters the shop of Thomas gaull.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Yit madam, May I be of service to you?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Do you tell autographs?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yes, madam, I have a very fine stock for your consideration.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Uh huh do you buy them?
Speaker 6 (21:14):
To?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Is madam? If it is of it? What's that?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Maya?
Speaker 10 (21:20):
It's a rarero letter, a King's apology, King George the
third of England.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Where did you get that letter?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Madam?
Speaker 10 (21:26):
Oh I I found Where did you get the letter?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Well?
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Maybe it isn't legal, but I found it and find
your keepers.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I was outside a house on Russell Place this morning.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Uh huh, number ten thirty five brus A Place. A
man came running out and he dropped this letter.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What you're the man?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I know you're the man.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You're the man came running out.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
They said, come quick, you're run out of the house,
and that she was murdered.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You dropped this letter.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I want you want to be arrested.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Get your hands off me.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
There.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
We're not nothing to help me get her into the
bank of the store. You want to burn from murder.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I know in this with me.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
This has got to be shut up for good.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Sho you left the transom over your door open.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We heard everything.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's the Sergeant Mathieson of the homicide squad. You heard
the confession Mary, every blessed word. Nick, am I releasing
the young lady? She's my assistant, Miss Patsy Bowen, your assistant.
That's right. She pulled his act. And every dealer in
the street.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Huh what famous to all think I'm crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh no, Bessy, we explained as we followed you. Mister
girl's confession will do the rest.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
But you were lucky, Miss Teller.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You. You couldn't be here you, Oh girl, I'm not
an optical illusion. I'm just the man with a bad news.
Sergeant Mathieson wants you for murder.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Yes, murder.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'm afraid you're invited to keep a date for the
state's executioner with no apologies accepted.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Nick, there are a couple of things about this case
I haven't figured out yet. Go ahead, Bey, Well, First,
who killed Bixby?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Goll did?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay? Then who called you from Bixby's house?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Prior?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, why did he do that?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Gall said in his confession that Prior was in love
with Rita and wanted her for himself.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
She was apparently willing to help him double cross Gall,
and then turned Gall over to the police for murder.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Oh so when Pryor phoned you, he was setting.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Up the case.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That's right, one of the police to close in on
Goal quickly. That would increase the pressure and make the
blackmail easy. Then after he had all Gall's money, he
could turn him in and go off with Rita.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Well, I see now, one last thing, what sin twin
of you?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You've been an autograph.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Expert, I am not.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Then how did you know the King's apology was a
forgery the minute.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You looked at it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh, that's simple.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You were playing a hunch.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Now I knew, and it happened to be one of
the odd bits of information I've picked up here and there.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, how did you know?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, the letter was dated seventeen eighty and the envelope
or the Royal Arms of England.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
The addressed on the envelope was in the same writing
as a letter. Besides, the envelope matched the paper and
looked just as old.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, but that makes it sound genuine.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Maybe so. But it proved there was a forgery, you see, Patsy.
While the letter was dated seventeen eighty, envelopes were unknown
before about eighteen thirty. Oh, Brier made a mistake.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Well how about that, And all the while I thought
you were guessing, Nick, I.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Bowled the Master's quite all right, Patsy, Your apologies accepted.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Kudahey Packing Company. It is produced and
directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy ed
Latimer plays Matty. Today's script was written by Alfred Bester.
Original music is played by Henry Silvern. This program is
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is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count,
use new post war old Dutch plender. This is the
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New post war old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt,
presents Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime. Every week. At
this time, two great names are joined as new post
war old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most
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resourceful and daring characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Nick Carter. Have you lost your mind?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
No, passy, I said you're going to go crazy?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Me go crazy?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And Mary and I are going to chase you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Why are you going to chase me?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Because you've got the King's Apology and you're going to
run with it until you run into a killer.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And now the Case of the King's Apology, Today's adventure
starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by
New post war old Dutch Cleanser. In his library filled
with rare books, letters, stamps, and coins, wealthy collector Robert
Bixby sits behind a desk and stares coldly at a
small oily man named Thomas gall Gall displaying an open
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leather portfolio filled with papers.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Talks excitedly.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
I am deeply obliged to you for asking me to
call on you, mister Bixby. He hits an honortacy of
himous collection, I assure.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You not at all.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
At the same time, I have always regretted the fact
that I am the one dealer in this city who
has not yet had the good fortune to assist you
in your collecting. Indeed, well, I s is why I
took the liberty of bringing a few of my more
precious items for your esteemed consideration. That several interesting autograph
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letters dating from the eighteenth since, mister go especially this
note in the handwriting of King George, the third King
of England during the American Revolution. It is an apology
to a friend for failure to keep an appointment.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Hey, his Majesty's arms on the envelope is leasure, gal.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Is, mister Bixby, I did not ask you here to
display your stock.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
No, mister Bixby, I want you to answer a question.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
A question yesterday, while driving past your shop, I saw
something with the man's full explanation.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
What did you see? Sir?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I saw you in close conference with a well known forger,
John Pryor. You saw me, I did, but prior the
literary forger.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I think you're mistaken, mister big.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Let me warn you, gal, I'm Cairman of the Collectors Association.
I know you can blast my reputation with one word,
mister Bigsby.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I know you can put me out of business, and.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I shall do so unless you can explain your association
with prior.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I am not associated with him. Mister Bigsby. You're mistaken.
You must believe me.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Sir, that's all you have to say.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I can say very well, I'm sorry, girl.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I should like action at once, and you've made up
your minds and view of the fact that no explanation
is forthcoming.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
You're going to ruin me.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
It's not a question of personal animas day. There are
other collectors to be protected.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
My duty is chance to ruin me.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I'm afraid you're ruining yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I have to know your lying, gal.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I've got too much at stake to let you do that,
mister Bixby. For five years, I've built up my reputation
just waiting for this chance to make a killing.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
So I'm afraid the killing is going to start with you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
In the name of John.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Als, I'm mister b It's not a question of personal animosity.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I've got to protict my share. Good day, mister Bixby.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I hope you enjoy your new career collecting fire in Brimstone.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Nick Carter's office, Patsy Bowe, I'm speaking Hello, Hello, no.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Matter that he's gotta me proposing in a new and
different way.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Nick.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Hello, sounds like someone groaning on the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, let me have it. Yeah, Hello, this is Nick
Cotton speaking Nick Nickconnor. Yes, this is Nick Otta speaking.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Who is this Nick? Nick Cornor?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Is something wrong by? Can't you speak openly? Or are
you sick? Come quick? Who is this?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hello? Hello?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What is it? Someone asked me to come quick?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One named no Adred? Hello, Hello, and no answer?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hang up? He'll call again.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
No, No, I'll hold onto this line and keep it open.
You'll get on the other phone and call the phone company.
Have this open wire trace right, and when you got
the address, call medi This is an invitation to trouble.
We might as well be legal about accepting it. Well,
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all I've got to say is Nick, if you interrupted
my sandwich to bring me here on a false alarm.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Why don't you do darky?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
All right?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
For years Nick's been breaking into my meals. I still
haven't figured out what to do about it, says no,
false alarm, Maddy, nobody's answering the door. Nick, you sure it's.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The right house.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sure it is Robert Bixby one oh three five, Russell plays,
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'd still like to know what this is all.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
About, so would I? All right if I use a
skeletal key.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Look are you sure?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He groaned on the from a word of honor, Sergeant
all right, all right, let's go in and have a look.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Good.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Well, you got that door open quick enough, you know, Nick.
Sometimes I'm glad you're on the right side of the.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Law, except when Nick interrupts your meal.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh yeah, and if this is a false alawn, but
I know it now. Why look on the left in
the library. Why, oh, holy smoke, this is Robert Bixby,
all right, and he's dead and we're smack in the
middle of a murder case.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He was strangled. Look at the finger marks on his throat.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Golly, see the way his head tilts s Matty, Yeah,
his neck's broken. He died instantly, But he tell no,
he didn't, Patsy, not with a broken neck. What someone
else called us, someone who was here during or immediately
after the murder. Oh, give me the aluminum. Want to
get my kid with you? I want to dust the
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phone for fingerprints, right, no matter? You better look around
see if anything looks displaced or missing.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll do.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Here's a part of me.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Thanks, not a sign of a print, Nick, No, whoever
telephone may have grown, made sure to wipe all prints
off the phone.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, the place doesn't look as though it's been searched, Nick,
nothing's been touched. That's funny. Several thousand dollars worth of
rare books and literary material in this room and nothing
was taken.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Then it wasn't murdered for robbery?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
No found why it was old? Bixby killed? And who
called me?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And why? Wait a minute, Nick, here's something under Bixby's feet.
It looks like a letter or something that's.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Have a look at it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Where do I get it out.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Of the envelope?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It looks pretty old.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
It's probably be part of Bigsby's collection. Uh huhm, stated seventeen.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Eighty seventeen eighty.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who let me see.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Seems to be some kind of an apology.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's signed George r. R.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That means Rex Latin for King.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
And this was signed by King George.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, King George third. Judging by the.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Date, that must be the World Code of Arms on
the envelope.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Do you really mean that? Letters from a king?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
It's a royal apology, Sergeant. Isn't that exciting?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Not only exciting, passy, but it also gives us an
angle on this case?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What's then?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
A letter's a forgery?
Speaker 10 (08:32):
It is? Well, how do you know?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Never mind that right now, Patty. Just take my word
for it, okay, Nick, But a man like Bixby would
never have a forgery like this in this collection. Evidently
his death was in some way connected with this king's apology.
And I have an idea.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
What's noting?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I suppose you go.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Ahead with the departmental routine, Madie, sure, Nick, I say,
you're going to check our files for a forger who
can do this kind of work. And if we find
the man who forged this letter, we may find the
man who murdered Bixby.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Tom, Tom, what reader, stop that painting.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You're giving me a headache.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I can't help it. I could strangle him all over again.
Comphatass sitting there so he were my judge, But he's dead.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Isn't he?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
And I could kill him again, and I could kill
him each day forever. He's win the work of five years.
That's what he wanted. One word from Bixby and we
would have been finished. But we're not.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
For five years, I've been honest for five years. I
built up a reputation for this moment.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
They first me.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Now those fools who buy letters and autographs, they believe
in me. And in six months we'll unload every fortuery.
We'll make a fortune.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
That's what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You've been a good wife, Lita. You played along with
me during those years when we had to be honest.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
And don't think it didn't hurt ah.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
But now comes the payoffs. We'll make two hundred thousand,
maybe three. And we can't pissed up. Now that Bixby
is dead, we can rise Twain.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
I take you, Yes, girl, Yes, this is prior. Yes,
I want you to come over to my place for
a talk. Why I got bad news.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
For you, girl?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Talk straight prior?
Speaker 12 (10:35):
When U Bixby got you up to his place.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
How did you find out about that?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I was there?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Girl?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
What Bixby had me hidden in the next room? He
was going to confront us. Girl, you get it all
set up?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Things right, I know all about it.
Speaker 12 (10:52):
I think you better come over to my place for
a talk right away. It cost your money if you
want me to afford you an all by for murder.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, let's see Nick.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
We've been to see Joe Dyer, Eddie Barker, Sam Browning
and Billy Webster.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, not a reaction, not of any of them, leaving
John Pryor, Henry Foster and Steve Screenner as the possible
forges of the King's apology. Well, let's hope we have
some luck with at least one of them.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah. Of who are we visiting now?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The next man on the list, John Pryor.
Speaker 13 (11:39):
Uh huh, Well, what's your attack going to be?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
With him?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Same as the others? Surprise, sudden shock. He's got a
ground floor apartment in the rear. Now that must be
the door.
Speaker 13 (11:51):
Down there, right, said way you not give me the
shanksnake so stern and officials.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Because precisely why I do it gives us a psychological
ans Yes you're John Pryor. Yes, I'm Nick Carter working
in a murder case. I want to talk to you.
I bought my secretary a longer take note. No, no,
wait a minute, mister Carter Wet Starling Pryor, you're in
a bad gem and you know it. I don't know
anything of the kind. You look at this letter? What
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don't dummy up? Prior? This is a forged manuscript, a
king's apology dated seventeen eighty, and it's your what I'm
mister kay. You went to the murder of Robert Bixby
so tight you won't get out of it with a crow.
But I'm not better than my work. No any objections
if I take your fingerprints fingerprint you heard me, prince
were left on this letter on the inside flap of
the envelope. I want to compare them with yours.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Sure, I've got no objections in sakonner. Just let me
go into the kitchen. Get the grease off my hands.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Okay, I'll get the equipment ready while you're gone.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Now, I give you all the princes you want as
soon as I get my hands clean.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Go.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I yes, bagging long enough, I make up your mind fast?
Do I come before you?
Speaker 6 (13:03):
But he said he had your finger.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
Think I didn't leave any prints on that letter? And
you think I'm a baby. One hundred grand.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That's my price. Make up your mind.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
No what I said, No, Prior, I can't trust you,
not with Ni Kata so close to my tears. You
came sorry, Prior, anah, I feel.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Wait waiting, Prior, make it snappy, come out, not Priar,
you've got an the idea of this guys in those pressure.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Lover, he's instabbed. He's dead.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Nick and Patsy stare at the body of John Pryor,
stretched out on the kitchen floor, a kitchen knife through
his ribs. We'll see what they do in just a moment.
All back to the case of the King's Apology. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. Nick and Patsy stand over the
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dead body of John Pryor, sprawled on the kitchen floor
of his apartment. Quickly, Nick's eyes taking the few clues before.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Them, Mont Patsy, we gotta work fast, all right, Nick,
We're going out through that kitchen window too. It's only
a short drop to the back. Harry, I'll go first, yep,
all right, come on, I'll catch.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You all right.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Now down the ale, Nick, do you know whoever kill
prior is more than twenty seconds ahead of him, and
we have a chance of catching up with him. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I've been hiding in the kitchen while we were there.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, we went back to cook up an alibi and
was killed to keep his mouth shut.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Oh, Nick, this is a dead end.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, got to go back to the other way.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Oh no, that's a dead end too. I noticed it
when I came through the window. Yeah, but wait, here's
a cellar door and look at the handle, got blood
on it. Yeah, he must have gone in here.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
M hm h.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'll stay dark and.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 13 (15:16):
I I think I hear.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Someone, probably the killer. Let's go now quick.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Yeah, seems to be a story drooman here came from
inside that there.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
We'll have to go in after him.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I'll stay with me. Be careful. It's almost bitch darker.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Nick, can't you use your flashlight?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
No, he's got a gun. He can use the lightboard dark.
Come on, someone tries to go behind that killer was
waiting in the back of it. I found it straors
fastened on the outside with an iron.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Bar locked in.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yes, instead of trapping the killer, he trapped us?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And why why is knitting?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Got bad news? Spoil? He's opened a gas pipe somewhere
in this room. You don't work fast, wear a couple
of dead ducks.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Tom, here's weet?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Did you get everything arranged with carr here?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
With prior hand with Nick Cartera?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Nick carter I took care of that gentleman after I
took care of Pria.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I trapped Nick Cartera, and just about now he should
be dead. At least he can hold his breath for
half an hour.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Did Prior help you?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I told you I took care of Prior too. What
do you mean I closed his mouth for good? Tom,
He's dead?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You killed him?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
No, non better?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I see you're in love with him, an't you? Ancho?
What's the idiot I've been?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You had this all worked out with Pride, didn't you.
You'd take every Nickola I made in this you to
go off with pride nant was the idea. You'd help
him blackmail me for the rest of my life, and
you would be laughing at me the two of you.
Don't don't no, da, don't try.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I won't kill you.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Maybe it's just as well this happened. Now, I've got
what I want. I got plenty of money waiting for me,
and I got you forever.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Come in, Hey, Nick, we haven't gotten anywhere in apartment
with this, but I, for the love of heaven, what
happened to you too? Hello, Sergy, Hi, Maddie, come help.
Patsy and me somemere ointment on our faces?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I repeat what happened to you?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
We met the killer?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Did you get him?
Speaker 10 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He nearly got up.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Look I'd better sit down.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yes, do you see, Maddie, we were trapped in a
cellar storage.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Room with an open gas pipe.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
With an open gas pipe, Yeah, an open gas pipe.
The killer wrenched the fixture off and left the gas
pouring into the room.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
But what did you do?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, Nick, found the pipe and lie of the gas.
That's how our faces got burned.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yes, that stuff flamed out like a volcano. Luckily there
wasn't enough gas in the room to cause a real explosion.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I'll be durned.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Then we pounded on the door and yelled until the
janitor came and let us out. Of course, by that
time the killer was gone forever.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
No, we're not lacked yet, Betsy.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That a boy, Nick, Okay, but have you got any
idea I have?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We're going to catch this killer with a king's apology?
Speaker 6 (19:16):
You mean the pogery?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well what do we do?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
While I've been nursing my blisters, I've been doing some thinking, Betsy,
h Prior wasn't working on this forgery alone. Oh you
don't think so, I don't.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Look, look, have a heart. I'm not caught up on
this case yet. Who's Prior?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'll brief you later, Maddie. Have they worked this out
with Patsy? First? We haven't much time.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Now, Prior was a forger, but he couldn't sell us
forgeries himself. He needed a front man, a dealer to
do that. So there's a strong chance he was killed
by the dealer who was working with him.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Could be gone.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That's where our trick starts.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Hi, Well watch the trait.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Well first you go crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Go crazy?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, man, Maddie, and I chase you.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Why do you chase me?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Because you've got the King's apology and you're going to
run with it until you run into the killer.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Patsy takes the forged letter and listens carefully to her instruction.
Her face brightening as Nick unfolds the mechanism of the trap.
We'll learn what it is in just a moment. Now
for the conclusion of the case of the King's Apology.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new
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post war old Dutch cleanser. For an hour, Valentine Street,
where most of the city's autograph dealers have their shops,
has been watching a curious spectacle.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A girl has walked.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Into one shop after another, displayed a letter, screamed at
the astonished proprietor, and then run out. She is followed
cautiously by two men who make profound apologies for her. Finally,
she enters the shop of Thomas gaull.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Yit madam, May I be of service to you?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Do you tell autographs?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yes, madam, I have a very fine stock for your consideration.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Uh huh do you buy them?
Speaker 6 (21:14):
To?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Is madam? If it is of it? What's that?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Maya?
Speaker 10 (21:20):
It's a rarero letter, a King's apology, King George the
third of England.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Where did you get that letter?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Madam?
Speaker 10 (21:26):
Oh I I found Where did you get the letter?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Well?
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Maybe it isn't legal, but I found it and find
your keepers.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I was outside a house on Russell Place this morning.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Uh huh, number ten thirty five brus A Place. A
man came running out and he dropped this letter.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What you're the man?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I know you're the man.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You're the man came running out.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
They said, come quick, you're run out of the house,
and that she was murdered.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You dropped this letter.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I want you want to be arrested.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Get your hands off me.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
There.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
We're not nothing to help me get her into the
bank of the store. You want to burn from murder.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I know in this with me.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
This has got to be shut up for good.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Sho you left the transom over your door open.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We heard everything.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's the Sergeant Mathieson of the homicide squad. You heard
the confession Mary, every blessed word. Nick, am I releasing
the young lady? She's my assistant, Miss Patsy Bowen, your assistant.
That's right. She pulled his act. And every dealer in
the street.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Huh what famous to all think I'm crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh no, Bessy, we explained as we followed you. Mister
girl's confession will do the rest.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
But you were lucky, Miss Teller.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You. You couldn't be here you, Oh girl, I'm not
an optical illusion. I'm just the man with a bad news.
Sergeant Mathieson wants you for murder.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Yes, murder.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'm afraid you're invited to keep a date for the
state's executioner with no apologies accepted.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Nick, there are a couple of things about this case
I haven't figured out yet. Go ahead, Bey, Well, First,
who killed Bixby?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Goll did?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay? Then who called you from Bixby's house?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Prior?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, why did he do that?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Gall said in his confession that Prior was in love
with Rita and wanted her for himself.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
She was apparently willing to help him double cross Gall,
and then turned Gall over to the police for murder.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Oh so when Pryor phoned you, he was setting.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Up the case.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That's right, one of the police to close in on
Goal quickly. That would increase the pressure and make the
blackmail easy. Then after he had all Gall's money, he
could turn him in and go off with Rita.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Well, I see now, one last thing, what sin twin
of you?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You've been an autograph.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Expert, I am not.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Then how did you know the King's apology was a
forgery the minute.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You looked at it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh, that's simple.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You were playing a hunch.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Now I knew, and it happened to be one of
the odd bits of information I've picked up here and there.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, how did you know?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, the letter was dated seventeen eighty and the envelope
or the Royal Arms of England.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
The addressed on the envelope was in the same writing
as a letter. Besides, the envelope matched the paper and
looked just as old.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, but that makes it sound genuine.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Maybe so. But it proved there was a forgery, you see, Patsy.
While the letter was dated seventeen eighty, envelopes were unknown
before about eighteen thirty. Oh, Brier made a mistake.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Well how about that, And all the while I thought
you were guessing, Nick, I.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Bowled the Master's quite all right, Patsy, Your apologies accepted.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Kudahey Packing Company. It is produced and
directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy ed
Latimer plays Matty. Today's script was written by Alfred Bester.
Original music is played by Henry Silvern. This program is
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fictional and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead
is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count,
use new post war old Dutch plender. This is the
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