October 4, 2025 • 27 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 (00:03):
It's in crime.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Every week. At this time, two great names are joined
as all Dutch Clenter brings you one of the most
resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective Patsy get every boy belonging to the club
(00:32):
into the gymnasium. Why what's up, Nick, I've got to
make a speech to one of them.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
To one then, why make it to one hundred and twenty, Because.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
One of the boys knows the killer in this case,
and I don't know which boy it is.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Now the case of a luminous spots.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old
Dutch Clinter. There's pandemonium in the gymnasium of the Downtown
Boys Club, Nick Carter's favorite charity. Or with one minute
to go in the big basketball game with Delaware House Knicks, boys.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Were trailing by one point. Boys we kept let Delaware feeder.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh, Nick, only ten seconds bore go.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
To tie Patsy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Come on, Smokey, bigot broke, make it Smokey worse, Nick,
Miss Patsy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Smoky missed again and that's the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, they took a linking. I'd sort of hope that
Smoky Bat's gonna help us like Delaware this year. It
looked like a flash when he joined the club last month.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh we don't look so sad, Nick, Think how much
worse Smoky Baits feels.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh, highest smoky and expecting you come in, come in coine.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Nice little joint you got here.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Fella plays upstairs just to be a dance fall. This
is the basement. Cost us three bucks a month. Rent, Hey,
who's the dame? All right? That's Frand Hollis a friend. Yeah,
this here, Smoky Baits, Smoky Hire a friend.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Nice game you played tonight, thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Say, which reminds me. Here's your dough, smoky twenty five bucks.
Nice pay for just missing a few baskets now and then. Yeah,
I'll say so we cleaned up pretty good on the
bets too, made some nice dough. Yeah, boy, this twenty
five fields good in the pocket. Dad, that's pin money, kid, peanuts.
We could cut you in on some real though. If
(02:44):
you want to play ball.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You mean throw another game.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wake up, kid, Wake up. Life ain't all basketball games.
If you're the kind of guy that's got nerve and
brains and likes plenty of excitement you you could make
plenty of though.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, Harry and Jean from your club joined up with
Noonan last night. What do you make a week noon in?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, forty fifty bucks? Easy?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
What do you say, Smoky?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I think maybe this is just what I've been looking for.
You can count me in, no.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Good, it's a deal.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Meet me here tomorrow morning. It's seven thirty, Smoky, bring
twenty newspapers and a screwdriver.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What's the paper's gotta do with it?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Look, Smoky, here's the pitch you and me is gonna
make like we're newsboys in case we get stopped. Oh,
I get it. We make like we're on a delivery rock.
That's right, only we don't work for no pikers though,
like regular newsies do. It's a popping house and next bates,
(03:49):
what do we do here?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Same as the last place?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Ah, Now we use a different technique in here. It's
the first apartment on the right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Ring the bell, you kidding? Ring?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And Ice said, this is another of the joints I've
been casing. Like I said, it's a cinch to look
in the first floor apartments and get the dope. The
guy lives here alone goes to work every morning's seven.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's why you rang the bell.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, just to make sure hell he ain't in. Give
me that screw driver, a kid, I'm gonna show you
a fancy wade open locks. I don't match. I want light, Okay.
This guy keeps his dough in the kitchen and a
sugar candies not just smoky. How do you kids doing that?
Nothing mess there with just delivering papers?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh do you think you're fooling?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Make ice? How you're working at the lock of that screwdriver.
There are a couple of sneak you're drunk it away, Sonny,
get your head off hardsters. You got us wrong, mister,
we ain't crust. How smoking it out of the way?
Try nothing funny? What do you got in your hand?
The gun? Mister? Think I'll fall for that, sunny boy?
(04:59):
You're falling? But good Grandpa Nick?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What's the rush? Where are we driving to?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I got a telephone call from Matty Patsy insisted I
drop everything and hurry up to one twenty Amsterdam Avenue,
says my downtown Boys club is involved it he is?
How I don't know? Maddy wouldn't say away are want twenty?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Come on right?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
All that he would say it was that he discovered
a murder.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Murder, Hey that you, Nick, Yes, Maddie, it's a nasty case. Nick,
looks like one of your boys is mixed up in it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'd hate to believe that, Maddy.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Man. We'll look here. This corpse is Homer well End,
janitor of the building. Oh quiet, you boys, what here? Quiet?
He was found dead about a half an hour ago,
twenty two caliber bullet right through the heart, and some
kind of scrap before he was shot.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Nick, Yeah, I see the scratches on his hands.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And look what we found inside one hand a piece
of wool torn from a sweater, and on it a
small silver pin with the initials D B c Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Nick is the Downtown Boys Club pin.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, I'm sorry to say, well, Nick, mad I can't
answer for every boy in the club. We've got over
a hundred members. One or two may be kind to
do a thing like this. Hey, uh, who belongs to
this screwdriver?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I figured it was the janitors, but I don't figure
all these newspapers what happened to Zavis? Some boy came
in here this morning carrying these newspapers, probably to disguise himself.
As a newsboy. Eh tried to jimmy open the apartment door.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
With the screw Nick, how can you tell.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Screwdriver's brand new, Petsy, And there are plates of metal
on the end of it that match the metal of
the door lock. Uh see the fresh scratchers and the brass.
Holy smoke, I didn't boy use matches for light. You
can tell because there's several burnt paper matches on the floor.
Also the match book, which is probably dropped to the scubble.
That's right, and the janitor interrupted him. There was a
fight and then the murder. Typical case of juvenile delinquency.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Nick, We gotta get down to your club and pick
this kid up right away, Maddie.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
There are more than a hundred kids in that club,
but it'll take a week to question every one and
a month to check their alibis. We gotta work quicker
than that. How can we make the wolf from the sweater?
Is your lead? Patsy? Check the stores that sell sweaters.
It may be possible to trace the sale to the
boy who's wearing it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Also check the club. Someone may be able to identify
the sweater day.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Right now, what are you gonna do.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This match book is my lead, Mary. It's got the
address of a candy store on Sherman Avenue on it
near the old Sherman Dance Hall. You know the place. Yeah,
gang may be operating. Come around there they are, I'll
find them. I don't like cheap, tin horned crooks, especially
in my club.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Close the door, smoking, okay, Noonan, Hian Hi Jerry hygiene
friend at here? Huh? No I smoking? How'd you make out? Lousy?
Are you kidding? Took thirty three bucks in cash and
some jewelry. You call it lousy.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I call murder, lousy murder. Yeah, it's like I've been
telling you, Noonan. It's okay swiping a few books, but
I don't go for killing.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm getting out of here right now, running out to
squeal the Papa Nick Carta. Huh like fun you up?
You need a little slugging around the wise up? Okay,
you're talking enough, ton Noonan. But I can take you anytime.
A Your winds bad, Nooning. You're weak. Why didn't you
play a little basketball? Easy? Your mucket head like that
(08:51):
of smoke. He's reaching first pitot of.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Norman.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, I dropped him. He'd have squealed, I'm sure anything. Look,
you guys got to help me get rid of the body. Yeah,
get rid of it yourself. I'm getting out of here
me too. And don't wave that gun at us, noon
And only holds one shot. We'll be gone before you
can reload it. Here in on this kill. And so
remember that when we were able, we're getting out.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Like Smokey said, Box, it's one thing, but murder something else.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You guys got We ain't gonna squeal loada don't worry
about us.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Just start worrying about Smoky. You'll do more talking dead
than it ever done.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Alive.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Alone in the basement with the body of Smoky Baits,
Noonan begins working desperately to find a hiding place for
the corpse. We'll see what happens next in just a moment.
Now back to the case of the Luminous Spots.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Today's adventure with Nick.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Carter, brought to you by old Dutch Glinter. An hour
after the murder of Smoky Baits, Nick and Maddie cautiously
descend the steps leading to the basement of the Sherman
Dance Hall. This is the place the Candy Starman told
us about Maddie, gang of kids use it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
For club n No, maybe, but it's empty now.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I was a smell of fresh cigarette smoke here. I'll
sit Hey, wait a minute, muh, there's water on the floor.
It's a pitch dark in here. I can't see a
thing about, Mattie where I'm flashing my light what the
rest of this place is a shambles. But somebody's been
trying to scrub this part of the floor. I know why,
the spring house cleaning. Maybe I doubt it that we'll
(10:32):
find out. I'm going back to my car to get
my portable lap kit. While I'm doing that, you get
some policemen what for? What's the entrance of this cellar?
Tell them to let anyone in, but not to let
anyone out. When I come back, I may have something
interesting to show.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
You already, Maddie.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, sure, Hey, what's that thing you got there? A
spray got filled with a derivative proloic acid. But come again,
pout your flag slaight and I'll show you something.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Okay, Oh, it's black. It's pitching here.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Now watch well, I spray this acid and the wet
spots where the floors have been scrubbed Yeah, Hey, Nick,
there's blue spots appearing on the floor flow like phosphorus,
don't they Yeah, they burn just like a blue flame.
That's what I expected, would ha. Look Nick, there more
(11:30):
spots up ahead. There has come on. We'll follow and
see where they lead to. Right, See, I just keep spraying.
The spots keep on appearing.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Sure, But what the dickens is the stuff that's burning?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Blood? Mattie, Yep, did you say blood? That's what I said.
Calic acid is a recent discovery makes the haman and
the blood glow in the.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Dark, even if it's been cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yes, enough always remains to react like this.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Hey Nick, Look the blood spots lead directly to that
old ash pile.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, maybe there's a body buried under the ashes. Mun
that's a shovel, Matta, take a look. Yeah, sure, as
flash I can. I'll hold the flash for you.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Okay, h come on, come on, come on, Matty, hurry, hurry,
I am I am.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Wait a minute. Yep, what's that? Good grief?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's a body, Yes, let me uncover his face.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
It's a weak.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh good heavens, Nick, you know who he is. It's
Smoky Baits, one of the kids in my downtown boys go.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh, that's too bad.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Poor kids shot through the heart, probably by the same
murderer that killed well of Nick.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
He's wearing the sweater that matches the piece of yarn
found in Wellen's hand. Yeah, what are you doing here? Nick?
It's a girl.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, that's the light so she can't see us. Yeah, sure,
but what once it comes close up? Flashed the light
in her face's doing back in the ash piers? Hello?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
O oh, you're blinding me.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Looking for someone who wants to know it's a sergeant
mathis another homicide squad. I'm Nick Carter. What's your name?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Friend, Francis Hollis?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Looking for someone to particular Miss Hollis?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No, no, well, that is a friend of mine wanted
me to meet her here, and her.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You usually refer to your girlfriends as fellows.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Oh sure, it's kind of a gang.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
What's the name of the friend you're supposed to meet here?
Sally bro Eh you usually meet her here.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
No, I've never been here before, mister.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Carter, And you know nothing about a gang of boys
that hang out here.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's the gang. Oh no, no, mister Carter. Oh you
Miss Hollis almost seventeen.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Why aren't you in school?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, I had a study period and I kind of
slipped off. I guess Sally must been playing a trick
on me.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Ye, look, you better go back to school, miss Hollis,
you might get into trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes, sure, I hate to get caught playing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Hockey, Maddy. Yeah. I have one of the men follow
that girl, okay, and tell him to let her see
she's being followed. Also tell him to make sure she
goes to school. I needs to wait and follow her
home after school. Right in the meantime, I'll do a
little checking on her and then rush down to the club.
If Smoky Bates was mixed up with this gang, there's
a chance some of my other boys maybe too, Okay,
Between Francis Hollis and the Downtown Boys Club, we ought
to be able to pick up the killer. Everybody here
(14:40):
in the gym now, Patsy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I'm rounded up every last boy.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Good, Let me have your attention a minute, Colors. A
few hours ago, Smokey Bates was murdered in the basement
of the Sherman Dance Hall. He was shot down like
a dog, dragged to an ash heap and buried in
dirt and rubbish. Who was murdered by a killer without decency, honor,
(15:06):
or shame. Now it may be that some of you
here had been mixed up with this killer, And if
you have, I can understand why you saw a chance
for some easy money, for excitement and adventure. You figured
the law wasn't your friend, it was just another rival
to compete with. You thought crime was a bigger, more
(15:30):
thrilling game. That's what smoke he thought. And I've told
you what happened to him. But crime isn't fun. It's dirty, mean, dangerous.
If I were you, whoever you are, I'd be ashamed
(15:51):
and scared. Whoever it is who's mixed up in this
as a choice to make. He can come down to
my office and let me help. I'm out of this jam,
and believe me and my word of honor. I'll do
everything I can. Or he can try to bluff his
way out of it, but if he does, Heaven help him.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Mister Carter.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh hello, Jerry, come on in, Come in, Jane.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We're the guys here.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, fellas, I'm glad you came to me. You're in
a bad mess. This is the only way to work
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I guess it's like you said, mister Carter. We just
started off doing it for fun.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
But when he killed Smokey, who killed Smoky Jane? I
can't tell you, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh look, mister Carter, we'll tell you everything.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
We'll pay back every nickel we swipe, We'll do anything
you say, but we can't squeal on this guy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
We gave him our word.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We wouldn't, Okay, Jerry, that's the way you feel. I'm
not going to insist. I'll get him without your help.
But there's one thing I do insist on, Fellas, and
it's not going to be easy for you. You're going
to the police. You're going to confess everything you've done.
You're going to take what's coming to you. I understand, yes,
(17:28):
mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Sure, mister Carter.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Good boys, And if it'll give you any satisfaction, Miss
Boone and I are driving to fran Hollis's home right now,
and inside of an hour, the killer of Smoky Bates
is going to get what's coming to him.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Nick, how come you know where fran Hollis lives?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Hit a little check him before I went back to
the club. Patsy Ah, he should be here to meet
me by now. This is it the white Clapport house.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
How much does friend know about the murder's nick?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I don't think she knows anything.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
She wouldn't have come arging into the basement if she did.
But she is mixed up with the gang. Hm. Maybe
we can locate the killer through her.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh, there is Maddie standing in the doorway, and is
he mad?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm on in the house, hear, And for the love
of Pete Hurriyetta at all?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I take it easy, Maddie, that bonehead cop let the
Hollis girl get away? What well, let's have it, Mattie.
What happened?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He tailed her back to school, then he tailed her home.
Then then about five minutes ago a whole flock of
girls trooped in here to see her. A couple of
minutes later they all marched down and she went with him,
and my man didn't spot her.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh us, you got a hand to her. She's a
smart kid.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, okay, so what what do we do now?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'll show you.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Come on over here to the telephone.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Hey, wait a minute, I'll come. You know where the
phone is.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I was here a little while ago as an inspector
for the phone company.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh so that's the checking up you were doing.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yes see, I figured fan was smart enough to spot
the copee put on her tail. That's why she came
straight home from school.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Didn't she let you in the house?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
She did?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh, my man must have missed you.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Too, Look sad? Why didn't I?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
But look, how come she didn't spot your voice as
belonging to the guy she talked to in the basement
of the Sherman Dance Hall.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Because I used a different voice. Why are you moving
the dating.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Cord just so I can pick this up?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
What's that thing?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Looks like a small radio?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Better than that? And I said, I was sure a
friend would head for home, and she did. She wanted
to do some phoning in a hurry. Only I got
here before she had a chance to. And then what
I set this small wire recorder down here on the
floor next to the telephone box.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
So that's what that is? A wire recorder.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I look, nick, wire tapping us out? It won't stand
up in court anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
This isn't wire taping ready, it ain't no, No, I
don't have to attach it to the phone. Said, you
just laid this wire near the telephone.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Wire and it picks up what said over the telephone.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's right, Betsy, We'll all be darned. Think up next.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I don't know yet, Honny, But didn't you see you
leave the recorder?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I asked her to get me a drink of water, Patsy,
and while she was out of the room, I fixed it.
And I'm sure she made a phone called a minute
after I left the house. Oh, let's see.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh Lulan, Yeah, that's your friend.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Run what's happened? There were cops down in your club room,
snooping around, and it's been a cop call me all afternoon, honey,
watch the racket.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Cops down the basement. Hey, that ain't so good.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Well tell me what's up.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, Perennie, listen, I'm over at the Sherman Killing Station.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I just acquired a cock. Beat it over here, and
I'll tell you what's.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Doing with the cops are watching my house.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Maybe use your brains, you can figure a way to
get out. Just hurry up over here. It's on.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay, that's all there is. It's enough matter. You stay
here and cover the house. Patsy, come with me. There's
not a minute to lose. Nick and Patsy dash out
of frand Hollis's house, hoping to meet her and Smokey
baits killer in just a minute. We'll see whether they
left in time. And now for the conclusion of the
(21:05):
case of the Luminous Spots, brought to you by all
Dutch Glinter. At the curve in front of the Sherman
filling station, Joe Loman sits impatiently in a new sedan.
As he sees Francis Hollis approaching, He calls out softly.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Frian over here in the car, nobody followed me. What
kept you so long? I'm gonna hurry, he told you.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And before I've been followed all afternoon.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Then I had to get rid of some kids, and
I had to duck in it and out of alleys
to make sure nobody followed me here.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Okay, okay, how do you like the car, baby?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
No, it's a beauty.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I listen, Chid, the car's taking you and me right
out of town for good. I gotta work fast, baby,
so the explanations will have to keep. Now. This is
what you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
They care.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We budge into the filling station. See and as soon
as we get inside, you pull a faint. Just drop
right under the floor out call you understand. Yeah, but
just do it, kid, that's all, Just do it. Come on, yeah,
gotta have a set of news.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I feel kreative, funny.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
What's the matter? Fram Give me a hand, get her
off the floor. Okay, mister, if you want to help,
you can reach you. Get over against the wall. Get
the rodd he keeps on the registered Frian. It'll shoot
a lot better than this. Thinking twenty two, I got
grab the dough out of the registered toole. Kid, duel
like I told your friend. We need that dome. We
ain't got all day, all right. I don't think this
(22:22):
character is gonna spill anything that anybody.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You kill him?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Then I won't get mixed up in a killing.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You're mixed up already, Baby. I knocked off Smoky Bates.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You killed Smokes.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Why do you think the cops are on your tail?
Take up your mind? Are you with me? Or do
you want to get over there against the wall with him?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Please let me out here.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Please can't, baby, get over there. I'll knock them both off. There,
all right, all right, take it eat your friend. Nobody's Richard.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I got shot the gun on your boyfriend's hand, that's all.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I couldn't get here any sooner. I was soon enough
to end the criminal career of mister Noonan. Well, that's
about all the rest of the case, Patsy. We've got
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Noonan for two murders, and we've got him cold.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, but how did he kill Smoky in Well? And Nick,
one of the reasons he held up the gas station
was to get a revolver.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He had a small, single shot pistol at far as
a twenty two caliber shell. Would have preferred something better,
no doubt, but that was deadly enough at close rain.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh, well, if the case is finished, Nick, where we're driving.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
To this morning?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The case isn't finished, Patsy, as far as I'm concerned,
has just started. What do you mean I'm getting out here?
Come on?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Oh, but this is the courthouse.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
We're headed for court.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I don't get it, Patsy.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You and I are going into that court and put
up the fight of our lives for Jerry, Jean and
fran Hollis.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Oh but Nick, what can you do?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Get them suspended? Sentences, I hope, and then we're really
going to work on them at the Downtown boys Club.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You mean fran a girl at the Downtown Boy's Club.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Patsy Rush Clever's opening
a girl's luxiliary and you're running it.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I'm running it now.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
See here, Nick car listen, Patsy. If I do want
to arguing this morning, I'm going to do it in court.
Those kids aren't hard in criminals, and I'm not counting
this case of success unless I save them. Well, Nick,
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can you tell us something about the adventure Old Dutch
Cleanser is going to bring us next week? Next week,
we're going to meet a young war veteran who decided
to turn me into a detective college.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Only he unfortunately turned himself into a number one murder suspect.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Nick got him out of it by making him wear.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Gloves, gloves and detective colleges. Sounds fascinating. What do you
call a story, Nick?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I call it the Case of the Missing Thumb. Nick Carter,
Master Detective is presented each week at this time and
over these same stations by the Cutting Heat Packing Company,
make of All Dutch Cleanser. Nick Carter Master Detective, produced
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and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick, with
Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy. Matty is played by Ed Latimer.
Today's script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is
played by George Wright. This program is fictional and any
resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes count, use all
Dutch cleanser. This is the mutual broadcasting system.
It's in crime.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Every week. At this time, two great names are joined
as all Dutch Clenter brings you one of the most
resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective Patsy get every boy belonging to the club
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into the gymnasium. Why what's up, Nick, I've got to
make a speech to one of them.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
To one then, why make it to one hundred and twenty, Because.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
One of the boys knows the killer in this case,
and I don't know which boy it is.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Now the case of a luminous spots.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old
Dutch Clinter. There's pandemonium in the gymnasium of the Downtown
Boys Club, Nick Carter's favorite charity. Or with one minute
to go in the big basketball game with Delaware House Knicks, boys.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Were trailing by one point. Boys we kept let Delaware feeder.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh, Nick, only ten seconds bore go.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
To tie Patsy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Come on, Smokey, bigot broke, make it Smokey worse, Nick,
Miss Patsy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Smoky missed again and that's the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, they took a linking. I'd sort of hope that
Smoky Bat's gonna help us like Delaware this year. It
looked like a flash when he joined the club last month.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh we don't look so sad, Nick, Think how much
worse Smoky Baits feels.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh, highest smoky and expecting you come in, come in coine.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Nice little joint you got here.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Fella plays upstairs just to be a dance fall. This
is the basement. Cost us three bucks a month. Rent, Hey,
who's the dame? All right? That's Frand Hollis a friend. Yeah,
this here, Smoky Baits, Smoky Hire a friend.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Nice game you played tonight, thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Say, which reminds me. Here's your dough, smoky twenty five bucks.
Nice pay for just missing a few baskets now and then. Yeah,
I'll say so we cleaned up pretty good on the
bets too, made some nice dough. Yeah, boy, this twenty
five fields good in the pocket. Dad, that's pin money, kid, peanuts.
We could cut you in on some real though. If
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you want to play ball.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You mean throw another game.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wake up, kid, Wake up. Life ain't all basketball games.
If you're the kind of guy that's got nerve and
brains and likes plenty of excitement you you could make
plenty of though.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, Harry and Jean from your club joined up with
Noonan last night. What do you make a week noon in?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, forty fifty bucks? Easy?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
What do you say, Smoky?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I think maybe this is just what I've been looking for.
You can count me in, no.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Good, it's a deal.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Meet me here tomorrow morning. It's seven thirty, Smoky, bring
twenty newspapers and a screwdriver.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What's the paper's gotta do with it?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Look, Smoky, here's the pitch you and me is gonna
make like we're newsboys in case we get stopped. Oh,
I get it. We make like we're on a delivery rock.
That's right, only we don't work for no pikers though,
like regular newsies do. It's a popping house and next bates,
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what do we do here?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Same as the last place?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Ah, Now we use a different technique in here. It's
the first apartment on the right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Ring the bell, you kidding? Ring?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And Ice said, this is another of the joints I've
been casing. Like I said, it's a cinch to look
in the first floor apartments and get the dope. The
guy lives here alone goes to work every morning's seven.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's why you rang the bell.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, just to make sure hell he ain't in. Give
me that screw driver, a kid, I'm gonna show you
a fancy wade open locks. I don't match. I want light, Okay.
This guy keeps his dough in the kitchen and a
sugar candies not just smoky. How do you kids doing that?
Nothing mess there with just delivering papers?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh do you think you're fooling?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Make ice? How you're working at the lock of that screwdriver.
There are a couple of sneak you're drunk it away, Sonny,
get your head off hardsters. You got us wrong, mister,
we ain't crust. How smoking it out of the way?
Try nothing funny? What do you got in your hand?
The gun? Mister? Think I'll fall for that, sunny boy?
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You're falling? But good Grandpa Nick?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What's the rush? Where are we driving to?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I got a telephone call from Matty Patsy insisted I
drop everything and hurry up to one twenty Amsterdam Avenue,
says my downtown Boys club is involved it he is?
How I don't know? Maddy wouldn't say away are want twenty?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Come on right?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
All that he would say it was that he discovered
a murder.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Murder, Hey that you, Nick, Yes, Maddie, it's a nasty case. Nick,
looks like one of your boys is mixed up in it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'd hate to believe that, Maddy.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Man. We'll look here. This corpse is Homer well End,
janitor of the building. Oh quiet, you boys, what here? Quiet?
He was found dead about a half an hour ago,
twenty two caliber bullet right through the heart, and some
kind of scrap before he was shot.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Nick, Yeah, I see the scratches on his hands.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And look what we found inside one hand a piece
of wool torn from a sweater, and on it a
small silver pin with the initials D B c Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Nick is the Downtown Boys Club pin.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, I'm sorry to say, well, Nick, mad I can't
answer for every boy in the club. We've got over
a hundred members. One or two may be kind to
do a thing like this. Hey, uh, who belongs to
this screwdriver?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I figured it was the janitors, but I don't figure
all these newspapers what happened to Zavis? Some boy came
in here this morning carrying these newspapers, probably to disguise himself.
As a newsboy. Eh tried to jimmy open the apartment door.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
With the screw Nick, how can you tell.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Screwdriver's brand new, Petsy, And there are plates of metal
on the end of it that match the metal of
the door lock. Uh see the fresh scratchers and the brass.
Holy smoke, I didn't boy use matches for light. You
can tell because there's several burnt paper matches on the floor.
Also the match book, which is probably dropped to the scubble.
That's right, and the janitor interrupted him. There was a
fight and then the murder. Typical case of juvenile delinquency.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Nick, We gotta get down to your club and pick
this kid up right away, Maddie.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
There are more than a hundred kids in that club,
but it'll take a week to question every one and
a month to check their alibis. We gotta work quicker
than that. How can we make the wolf from the sweater?
Is your lead? Patsy? Check the stores that sell sweaters.
It may be possible to trace the sale to the
boy who's wearing it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Also check the club. Someone may be able to identify
the sweater day.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Right now, what are you gonna do.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This match book is my lead, Mary. It's got the
address of a candy store on Sherman Avenue on it
near the old Sherman Dance Hall. You know the place. Yeah,
gang may be operating. Come around there they are, I'll
find them. I don't like cheap, tin horned crooks, especially
in my club.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Close the door, smoking, okay, Noonan, Hian Hi Jerry hygiene
friend at here? Huh? No I smoking? How'd you make out? Lousy?
Are you kidding? Took thirty three bucks in cash and
some jewelry. You call it lousy.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I call murder, lousy murder. Yeah, it's like I've been
telling you, Noonan. It's okay swiping a few books, but
I don't go for killing.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm getting out of here right now, running out to
squeal the Papa Nick Carta. Huh like fun you up?
You need a little slugging around the wise up? Okay,
you're talking enough, ton Noonan. But I can take you anytime.
A Your winds bad, Nooning. You're weak. Why didn't you
play a little basketball? Easy? Your mucket head like that
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of smoke. He's reaching first pitot of.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Norman.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, I dropped him. He'd have squealed, I'm sure anything. Look,
you guys got to help me get rid of the body. Yeah,
get rid of it yourself. I'm getting out of here
me too. And don't wave that gun at us, noon
And only holds one shot. We'll be gone before you
can reload it. Here in on this kill. And so
remember that when we were able, we're getting out.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Like Smokey said, Box, it's one thing, but murder something else.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You guys got We ain't gonna squeal loada don't worry
about us.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Just start worrying about Smoky. You'll do more talking dead
than it ever done.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Alive.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Alone in the basement with the body of Smoky Baits,
Noonan begins working desperately to find a hiding place for
the corpse. We'll see what happens next in just a moment.
Now back to the case of the Luminous Spots.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Today's adventure with Nick.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Carter, brought to you by old Dutch Glinter. An hour
after the murder of Smoky Baits, Nick and Maddie cautiously
descend the steps leading to the basement of the Sherman
Dance Hall. This is the place the Candy Starman told
us about Maddie, gang of kids use it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
For club n No, maybe, but it's empty now.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I was a smell of fresh cigarette smoke here. I'll
sit Hey, wait a minute, muh, there's water on the floor.
It's a pitch dark in here. I can't see a
thing about, Mattie where I'm flashing my light what the
rest of this place is a shambles. But somebody's been
trying to scrub this part of the floor. I know why,
the spring house cleaning. Maybe I doubt it that we'll
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find out. I'm going back to my car to get
my portable lap kit. While I'm doing that, you get
some policemen what for? What's the entrance of this cellar?
Tell them to let anyone in, but not to let
anyone out. When I come back, I may have something
interesting to show.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
You already, Maddie.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, sure, Hey, what's that thing you got there? A
spray got filled with a derivative proloic acid. But come again,
pout your flag slaight and I'll show you something.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Okay, Oh, it's black. It's pitching here.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Now watch well, I spray this acid and the wet
spots where the floors have been scrubbed Yeah, Hey, Nick,
there's blue spots appearing on the floor flow like phosphorus,
don't they Yeah, they burn just like a blue flame.
That's what I expected, would ha. Look Nick, there more
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spots up ahead. There has come on. We'll follow and
see where they lead to. Right, See, I just keep spraying.
The spots keep on appearing.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Sure, But what the dickens is the stuff that's burning?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Blood? Mattie, Yep, did you say blood? That's what I said.
Calic acid is a recent discovery makes the haman and
the blood glow in the.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Dark, even if it's been cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yes, enough always remains to react like this.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Hey Nick, Look the blood spots lead directly to that
old ash pile.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, maybe there's a body buried under the ashes. Mun
that's a shovel, Matta, take a look. Yeah, sure, as
flash I can. I'll hold the flash for you.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Okay, h come on, come on, come on, Matty, hurry, hurry,
I am I am.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Wait a minute. Yep, what's that? Good grief?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's a body, Yes, let me uncover his face.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
It's a weak.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh good heavens, Nick, you know who he is. It's
Smoky Baits, one of the kids in my downtown boys go.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh, that's too bad.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Poor kids shot through the heart, probably by the same
murderer that killed well of Nick.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
He's wearing the sweater that matches the piece of yarn
found in Wellen's hand. Yeah, what are you doing here? Nick?
It's a girl.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, that's the light so she can't see us. Yeah, sure,
but what once it comes close up? Flashed the light
in her face's doing back in the ash piers? Hello?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
O oh, you're blinding me.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Looking for someone who wants to know it's a sergeant
mathis another homicide squad. I'm Nick Carter. What's your name?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Friend, Francis Hollis?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Looking for someone to particular Miss Hollis?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No, no, well, that is a friend of mine wanted
me to meet her here, and her.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You usually refer to your girlfriends as fellows.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Oh sure, it's kind of a gang.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
What's the name of the friend you're supposed to meet here?
Sally bro Eh you usually meet her here.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
No, I've never been here before, mister.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Carter, And you know nothing about a gang of boys
that hang out here.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's the gang. Oh no, no, mister Carter. Oh you
Miss Hollis almost seventeen.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Why aren't you in school?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, I had a study period and I kind of
slipped off. I guess Sally must been playing a trick
on me.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Ye, look, you better go back to school, miss Hollis,
you might get into trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes, sure, I hate to get caught playing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Hockey, Maddy. Yeah. I have one of the men follow
that girl, okay, and tell him to let her see
she's being followed. Also tell him to make sure she
goes to school. I needs to wait and follow her
home after school. Right in the meantime, I'll do a
little checking on her and then rush down to the club.
If Smoky Bates was mixed up with this gang, there's
a chance some of my other boys maybe too, Okay,
Between Francis Hollis and the Downtown Boys Club, we ought
to be able to pick up the killer. Everybody here
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in the gym now, Patsy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I'm rounded up every last boy.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Good, Let me have your attention a minute, Colors. A
few hours ago, Smokey Bates was murdered in the basement
of the Sherman Dance Hall. He was shot down like
a dog, dragged to an ash heap and buried in
dirt and rubbish. Who was murdered by a killer without decency, honor,
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or shame. Now it may be that some of you
here had been mixed up with this killer, And if
you have, I can understand why you saw a chance
for some easy money, for excitement and adventure. You figured
the law wasn't your friend, it was just another rival
to compete with. You thought crime was a bigger, more
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thrilling game. That's what smoke he thought. And I've told
you what happened to him. But crime isn't fun. It's dirty, mean, dangerous.
If I were you, whoever you are, I'd be ashamed
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and scared. Whoever it is who's mixed up in this
as a choice to make. He can come down to
my office and let me help. I'm out of this jam,
and believe me and my word of honor. I'll do
everything I can. Or he can try to bluff his
way out of it, but if he does, Heaven help him.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Mister Carter.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh hello, Jerry, come on in, Come in, Jane.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We're the guys here.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, fellas, I'm glad you came to me. You're in
a bad mess. This is the only way to work
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I guess it's like you said, mister Carter. We just
started off doing it for fun.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
But when he killed Smokey, who killed Smoky Jane? I
can't tell you, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh look, mister Carter, we'll tell you everything.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
We'll pay back every nickel we swipe, We'll do anything
you say, but we can't squeal on this guy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
We gave him our word.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We wouldn't, Okay, Jerry, that's the way you feel. I'm
not going to insist. I'll get him without your help.
But there's one thing I do insist on, Fellas, and
it's not going to be easy for you. You're going
to the police. You're going to confess everything you've done.
You're going to take what's coming to you. I understand, yes,
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mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Sure, mister Carter.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Good boys, And if it'll give you any satisfaction, Miss
Boone and I are driving to fran Hollis's home right now,
and inside of an hour, the killer of Smoky Bates
is going to get what's coming to him.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Nick, how come you know where fran Hollis lives?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Hit a little check him before I went back to
the club. Patsy Ah, he should be here to meet
me by now. This is it the white Clapport house.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
How much does friend know about the murder's nick?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I don't think she knows anything.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
She wouldn't have come arging into the basement if she did.
But she is mixed up with the gang. Hm. Maybe
we can locate the killer through her.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh, there is Maddie standing in the doorway, and is
he mad?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm on in the house, hear, And for the love
of Pete Hurriyetta at all?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I take it easy, Maddie, that bonehead cop let the
Hollis girl get away? What well, let's have it, Mattie.
What happened?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He tailed her back to school, then he tailed her home.
Then then about five minutes ago a whole flock of
girls trooped in here to see her. A couple of
minutes later they all marched down and she went with him,
and my man didn't spot her.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh us, you got a hand to her. She's a
smart kid.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, okay, so what what do we do now?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'll show you.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Come on over here to the telephone.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Hey, wait a minute, I'll come. You know where the
phone is.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I was here a little while ago as an inspector
for the phone company.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh so that's the checking up you were doing.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yes see, I figured fan was smart enough to spot
the copee put on her tail. That's why she came
straight home from school.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Didn't she let you in the house?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
She did?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh, my man must have missed you.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Too, Look sad? Why didn't I?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
But look, how come she didn't spot your voice as
belonging to the guy she talked to in the basement
of the Sherman Dance Hall.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Because I used a different voice. Why are you moving
the dating.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Cord just so I can pick this up?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
What's that thing?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Looks like a small radio?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Better than that? And I said, I was sure a
friend would head for home, and she did. She wanted
to do some phoning in a hurry. Only I got
here before she had a chance to. And then what
I set this small wire recorder down here on the
floor next to the telephone box.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
So that's what that is? A wire recorder.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I look, nick, wire tapping us out? It won't stand
up in court anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
This isn't wire taping ready, it ain't no, No, I
don't have to attach it to the phone. Said, you
just laid this wire near the telephone.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Wire and it picks up what said over the telephone.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's right, Betsy, We'll all be darned. Think up next.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I don't know yet, Honny, But didn't you see you
leave the recorder?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I asked her to get me a drink of water, Patsy,
and while she was out of the room, I fixed it.
And I'm sure she made a phone called a minute
after I left the house. Oh, let's see.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh Lulan, Yeah, that's your friend.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Run what's happened? There were cops down in your club room,
snooping around, and it's been a cop call me all afternoon, honey,
watch the racket.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Cops down the basement. Hey, that ain't so good.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Well tell me what's up.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, Perennie, listen, I'm over at the Sherman Killing Station.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I just acquired a cock. Beat it over here, and
I'll tell you what's.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Doing with the cops are watching my house.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Maybe use your brains, you can figure a way to
get out. Just hurry up over here. It's on.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay, that's all there is. It's enough matter. You stay
here and cover the house. Patsy, come with me. There's
not a minute to lose. Nick and Patsy dash out
of frand Hollis's house, hoping to meet her and Smokey
baits killer in just a minute. We'll see whether they
left in time. And now for the conclusion of the
(21:05):
case of the Luminous Spots, brought to you by all
Dutch Glinter. At the curve in front of the Sherman
filling station, Joe Loman sits impatiently in a new sedan.
As he sees Francis Hollis approaching, He calls out softly.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Frian over here in the car, nobody followed me. What
kept you so long? I'm gonna hurry, he told you.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And before I've been followed all afternoon.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Then I had to get rid of some kids, and
I had to duck in it and out of alleys
to make sure nobody followed me here.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Okay, okay, how do you like the car, baby?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
No, it's a beauty.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I listen, Chid, the car's taking you and me right
out of town for good. I gotta work fast, baby,
so the explanations will have to keep. Now. This is
what you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
They care.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We budge into the filling station. See and as soon
as we get inside, you pull a faint. Just drop
right under the floor out call you understand. Yeah, but
just do it, kid, that's all, Just do it. Come on, yeah,
gotta have a set of news.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I feel kreative, funny.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
What's the matter? Fram Give me a hand, get her
off the floor. Okay, mister, if you want to help,
you can reach you. Get over against the wall. Get
the rodd he keeps on the registered Frian. It'll shoot
a lot better than this. Thinking twenty two, I got
grab the dough out of the registered toole. Kid, duel
like I told your friend. We need that dome. We
ain't got all day, all right. I don't think this
(22:22):
character is gonna spill anything that anybody.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You kill him?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Then I won't get mixed up in a killing.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You're mixed up already, Baby. I knocked off Smoky Bates.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You killed Smokes.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Why do you think the cops are on your tail?
Take up your mind? Are you with me? Or do
you want to get over there against the wall with him?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Please let me out here.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Please can't, baby, get over there. I'll knock them both off. There,
all right, all right, take it eat your friend. Nobody's Richard.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I got shot the gun on your boyfriend's hand, that's all.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I couldn't get here any sooner. I was soon enough
to end the criminal career of mister Noonan. Well, that's
about all the rest of the case, Patsy. We've got
(23:12):
Noonan for two murders, and we've got him cold.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, but how did he kill Smoky in Well? And Nick,
one of the reasons he held up the gas station
was to get a revolver.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He had a small, single shot pistol at far as
a twenty two caliber shell. Would have preferred something better,
no doubt, but that was deadly enough at close rain.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh, well, if the case is finished, Nick, where we're driving.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
To this morning?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The case isn't finished, Patsy, as far as I'm concerned,
has just started. What do you mean I'm getting out here?
Come on?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Oh, but this is the courthouse.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
We're headed for court.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I don't get it, Patsy.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You and I are going into that court and put
up the fight of our lives for Jerry, Jean and
fran Hollis.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Oh but Nick, what can you do?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Get them suspended? Sentences, I hope, and then we're really
going to work on them at the Downtown boys Club.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You mean fran a girl at the Downtown Boy's Club.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Patsy Rush Clever's opening
a girl's luxiliary and you're running it.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I'm running it now.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
See here, Nick car listen, Patsy. If I do want
to arguing this morning, I'm going to do it in court.
Those kids aren't hard in criminals, and I'm not counting
this case of success unless I save them. Well, Nick,
(24:26):
can you tell us something about the adventure Old Dutch
Cleanser is going to bring us next week? Next week,
we're going to meet a young war veteran who decided
to turn me into a detective college.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Only he unfortunately turned himself into a number one murder suspect.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Nick got him out of it by making him wear.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Gloves, gloves and detective colleges. Sounds fascinating. What do you
call a story, Nick?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I call it the Case of the Missing Thumb. Nick Carter,
Master Detective is presented each week at this time and
over these same stations by the Cutting Heat Packing Company,
make of All Dutch Cleanser. Nick Carter Master Detective, produced
(25:13):
and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick, with
Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy. Matty is played by Ed Latimer.
Today's script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is
played by George Wright. This program is fictional and any
resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
(25:37):
This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes count, use all
Dutch cleanser. This is the mutual broadcasting system.
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