October 27, 2025 • 24 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Third Contest Winners.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yes, folks, later will announce the Ford winners and the
third Big Jingle Contest. So listen while New Post War
Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for Chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time, two
(00:22):
great names are joined as New post War Old Dutch
Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring
characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Why do you want us all?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You're in the workshop because Patsy.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
This is where the great Canestro cooked up his most
famous illusions, and it ought to be a good place
for me to pull a couple of tricks toohy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Don't tell me you're going to pull rabbits out of
a hat.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Rabbits No, Patsy a killer, I hope.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And now the Case of the Magic Rope. Today's adventure
starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by
New Post War Old Dutch Cleanser. Tonight at the Elton Theater,
magicians from all over the country will compete for the
Fulton Award, a ten thousand dollars prize for the best
illusion of the year. But the greatest magician of them all,
Carlos Chelestral will not be present confined to a wheelchair,
(01:20):
since he's all now a leading contender for the Fulton Award.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Ha ha, You know, Alma, I suggested the idea of
the Magician's Award to mister Fulton myself.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
What I did not think he would take me seriously?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He can afford it with all his millions, He certainly can.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Funny how so many people take up magic as a hobby,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
With fulling in it is more than a hobby, It
is an obsession.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But all he's ever learned is a little sleight of hand.
But let him get on.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The stage and he's as happy as if he had
made another million dollars in the stock market.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Oh course, I've simply got to win that ten thousand
dollars prize tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Perhaps you should have.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
This, that piece of room, that piece of route, my dear,
will mistify the world. It is the most spectacular illusion
of my whole career.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Oh how does it work?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No? No, no, no, that is Canesterol's secret.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
When I returned to.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
The theater, you expect to work again, But of.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Course I do I'll be out of this wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But it's so now well, well, but that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
News, Alma.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You will tell me what happened to me the night
of the accident. It was the equipment, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
The equipment was all right, Carlos, you slip, that's all.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But I couldn't have. I had done that three a
thousand times. Why did I fall through that trap door? Alma? Why? Why?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Wallas?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Carlos.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
You mustn't get excited, head for you saw your hands
are trembling.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Here.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Let me hold him in mind for a moment. There Now.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I beg your.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Pardon, missus Canestro. Dinner is ready to wheel yourself into
the dining room.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Will you want to say something to Alma? Very well?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Catin come back again soon, Alma, but I.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Have to say, won't take long, missus canistro. What you
saw didn't mean a thing. I don't want to hear
any lies. You've been in love with my husband for years.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
If you weren't so crazy, you never to come here,
not get out.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
And don't come back, or what.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You'd better be pretty nice to me, missus Canstro. Or
I might tell the newspapers. Exactly why Carlos feil that night?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
And you wouldn't want that, would you?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
How you doing passy at the end of it?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Nick, Oh, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Twenty five after seven? How did I take in a
stage show? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
That would be wonderful.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
I haven't been to the theater in months.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh, I'll answer it.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
We'll get your hat right, Nick Carter speaking? Who Oh, yes,
I say yes, I'll be right over. Oh Nick, no show, No,
not even any dinner. That was missus Canstrol, wife of
the great magician.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Well what did she want?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
She wanted to tell me that her husband's been stabbed.
It's been dead for at least two hours, missus Canstro.
Where did you find the body?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Only a few minutes ago? I opened the door and
there he was, with that knife in his chair.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You ever seen this knife before?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Yes, it was part of carlos magic act. He kept
a tear in the workshop.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
With his other prop. I suppose you've notified the police.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
No, I did not know what to do.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'll call him Nick, all right, but get me a
clean envelope first for yours.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Why did you find something?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yes, Canstro, who evidently tried to get up a fight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh, the fingernails in his right hand are broken, as
if something had been torn out of his hand.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And these bits of fiber under his.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Nails, why they look like the stuff they make robottoms.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I thought, here put him in the envelope.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
The rope trick, mister Carter, it is gone.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What rope trick?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
It is an illusion Carlos was working on. He wouldn't
tell me how it.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Worked, but he said it was the most spectacular trick
he'd ever created.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
It was here on this desk only this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A trick as good as that would be worth a
fortune to Enemagy.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
That must have been what he was shouting about, shouting,
what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
We had an early dinner and I went up to.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
My room about six, yes, and a few minutes later
I heard Carlos screaming at someone.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
He was in a rage.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
I didn't think anything about it at the time. Carlos
was always excited about Remember what he said. He was shouting, No,
you cannot have it, No one can have it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You haven't had any idea whom he was talking to.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
People were always dropping in. He'd go to the door
and this wheelchair let them in himself. That is how
Alma Whiting got in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Alma Whiting, Yes, isn't she a magician too?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yes, she was. She was here this afternoon. Maybe I've
had a talk to you.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
You will find her at the Elton Theater competing for
the Foot and the Wall.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Say I read about the Fulton. It was in the
paper today.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
It's a ten thousand dollars price for the best magic
trick of the year, isn't it. Yeah, maybe it could
not have been anous She not a dollar before this happen.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
That's the same, missus chinnesto. She may be able to
give us some information that's to get that police called
through right away. We're going to see a show tonight,
after all. I beg your pardon, mister Fulton, will let
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you into my box.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I distinctly told you. Her name's Nick Carter U Nick Carter,
the detective. That's right. This is my secretary of Patsy Bowen.
How do you do well.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I'm happy to meet you both, I'm sure, but what.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I'd like to talk with one of your performers. I'll
not Whiting thought perhaps you could tell me when the
best time would be.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But Elma's on in a few minutes. Is it something urgent?
Is if you called murder urgent? Murder?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Carlos Canestra was stabbed to death about six thirty this evening.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Canistra stab doctor. I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Sorry, but he was, and Miss Whiting seems to be
the last person who saw him alive.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
A frot and tell me if you have any of
the magicians done a rope trick here to Night's rope trick.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
No, no, callistro dead. The greatest magician in the world
has ever known dead?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well, can you take us backstage and introduce.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Us to Miss Whiting?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
No, certainly, I'll take you back just as soon as
Marvella finishes his act.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He's nearly true.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I have to stay and judge the contest tricks, you know,
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, ladies and gentlemen, watch close with me. This is
the contest trick coming up now.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, you're a patient to this very familiar object I
hold in my head, common ordinary piece of rope.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Do you suppose that rope could be the one?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Please? But I hope to find out before long.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Watches step Miss Bowne's pretty dark backstage here. Oh there's Elma, Alma, Alma, Yes,
mister Fulton, this is mister Carter and mister Bowen. Elma.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Hello, how are you doing, Alma? Something's Terrible's happened.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Camistro is dead, is what you're stabbed about? Six thirty
this evening, this writing.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Who killed him?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
That's what we're trying to find out. You mind telling
me where you were at that time.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I was right here in the theater rehearsing.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I suppose you can prove this, of course I can.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Mavella was here too when he saw me. If you
think you're going to put the flame on me, you're
out of your mind. What's the audience laughing at?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Oh that's the comedy magician going on after Marvella's act.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Oh do you want to talk to Marvella? To mister Carter,
Yes I do. I'll get him right away, mister Carter.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
I don't understand this. Why would anybody want to kill Carlis?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, Missus Kinestro thinks it was to steal a magic
trick he just perfected.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's ridiculous. Machine knows this.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Nobody who knew Carlus would do anything like that?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Because he well, I I mean they know they couldn't
get away with it? Why not? Look, I've got to
check my props. I'll talk to you when the axe over.
Is that all right?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Okay? Thanks?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
What do you think make something?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
She isn't telling us Bessie and I don't know whether
she's afraid of the ail? I thought this was a
magic show.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
What's the idea of the clowning?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How many relief? I suppose? Kale time? While he's strike one,
I can set up the next. Mister Carter, this is Marvello,
one of our best magicians? Is he through the great cans? True?
He's deep? Yes, you'll excuse me, won't you? Mister Carter?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I have to get back to my box before Alma's
ax starts. Chure, go right ahead, mister for you? Uh Novello?
What time did you get to the theater tonight?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
About six o'clock? Anyone see you here at six? Certainly
I spoke to his wife things that came either.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I say, you're her alibian, she is yours? What are
you getting at? A solution to a murder?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I hope, Avella? Where's the rope you used tonight?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I have it to ride here in my court book.
That's funny. Now, don't tell me it's disappeared. Well, no, no, no,
of course not.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I oh for here the reason my left pockettype thought
it was in the right one.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
That's all I see, Martha bart Let that hope for
what I'm sending it to the police, laboratory police. Maybe
this is the rope that will kill Conestro's killer.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Nick, where are you being's I'm a whiting axe almost
overcding Maddie.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Ask him to send an officer. We're here to pick
up that rope.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Oh are they going to make a comparison toy?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah? And if those fibers we found under canstrous fingernails
are from the same rope at my velous, it'll show
up heat.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Look what you may have another rope for the sergeant
to pick up. Look what Alm was doing out there
on the stage.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What's she doing up there on that platform.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you're all representative of the audience,
and examine this rope.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
To be sure there is no trickery. Slay themselves.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Applied the rope firmly around my neck.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Two rope tricks tonight, seize the.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Rope tested with a heavy sandbag. You'll see it with
your own eyes, and it does not reach within eight feet.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Of the floor.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
She going to do both that platform with a rope
around her knee.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
That's, of course, as soon as you falls, she'll be
out of sight behind that screen.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I'll be glad it's her instead of me.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
My hands are securely tied, as well as my feet.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Looks like a good trick has been.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Done by the committee from the.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Audience, Alestra's rope trick, though she may find this is
only a rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
For the real thing. And now.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
The leave I'm dead, dick, she jumped.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, well what now?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Well, there shouldn't be a dead poise like this.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Why doesn't she come out from behind that screen or
whatever she.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I don't know. That's somebody's gone wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Close men, they're running back at the screen and mister
footman's coming up over the footlights.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Something has yo free way Nick quite start. The trick
didn't work. She's did at the end of a rope.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The rope which she hoped would win her the ten
thousand dollars Footing Award, swings the lifeless body of Alma
fighting on we'll see what happens in just a minute.
Now back to the case of the Magic Rope. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. As the police cleared the theater,
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the body of Alma Fighting is lowered to the stage
and Nick Carter begins his investigation.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
She's dead, all right?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Her next person, NICKO, happened that went wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I don't know? Hey, do is anybody here know this trick?
How are you supposed to work? Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, I do. I'm Sam Foster. I do the comedy clownix.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well, what was the trick she tried to do?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
She was supposed to jump off the platform on the stage.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
The rope was too short for her to reach the stage.
I was watching when they tested it with the sandbang.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh oh, but there's about five foot a slight concealed
in that cross bar.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The rope hangs from.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Oh, Alma could release it by stepping on a foot
switch on the platform.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Then when she hit the floor, she.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Could grab the rope and yank get tight with her
hands to make it look as though she were suspended
in mid air.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The audience couldn't see her behind the screen. Of course
her hands were tied. Oh no, no, no, she got
the moose during the pattern before she jumped. Now, my
part of the act was to come up through the
trap door in the stage and take her place.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
I see.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Then she'd step out in front, pull away the screen,
and instead of Alma being suspended there, the audience would
see me in this clown suit hanging from the noose
by my feet. All things took only about five seconds,
and the.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Trigger messed in with that foot switch that was supposed to.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Release the extra rope.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, something must have gone.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Wrong with it. Oh show me that switch, will you? Shuh?
Works by electricity.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Here. See this wire running up the Michael the platform,
does it?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Look Nick, the wire has been caught.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Wow, for the second time tonight, Patsy, we're face to
face with murder.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Nick watched the audio coming back here at Canestro's house.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Remember what on my wedding said that no one on
k new Chnestro would have killed him to get the
rope trick.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yes, but I don't know what she meant by it.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Neither do I, But I think perhaps Missus Canstro does
missus Sorry to disturb you, Missus Canstrol.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Please not now, come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm sorry, but this can't wait.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
The Nick's trying to help you, missus Kneestro, but they
can help me.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
No, Carlos is gone.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Did maybe I should be glad he's at peace now.
No more soft dream, no more, no.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
More of what had he been here?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
No, no, except for the lame that his health was perfect?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
What was wrong? Then? His mind?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
His mind? Who said anything about his mind?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Alama Whiting told me.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
That, Alma, writing, I might have known.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Look, missus Chestra, your husband was a famous man, a
public figure. You can't hide important facts about a man
like that.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
But I had too. His public knew him.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Is the Great Canestro, a name that meant as much
in the theater as Bernhard Caruso Pablo.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Of course, he could not chatter that illusion.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
I could not let the world know that the Great
Conesto had.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Lost his mon Oh, that's awful.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
So that's what I, Alma meant by saying that anyone
who knew Canestra wouldn't steal a strick Elmaux.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
That is what caused his accident.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
His mind snapped during the performance that ninety save Alms
is the only one.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Who knows you say, no one else suspected your husband's condition.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
No, he always talked rationally when he had visitors. He'd
boast about the new illusions he was created, poor petreful
little tricks that wouldn't pool the baby.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I knew his rope trick was no good.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But I know someone's at the door. I'll go.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Why hello, Carter, Marvello and I stopped by to see
whether we could do anything for Missus Canestra. I'm glad
you did, mister Fulton. Come on in, you too, Marvello. Huh,
thank you, Oh Patsy, You and Missus canstro coming to
the workshop here please.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I want to try an experiment, of course, an experiment.
Don't tell me you're going to try to produce rabbits
out of hats, mister Carter.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Rabbits, No, my Vello, I'm going to try to produce
some murderer. You mean you got us all here in
the workshop just to tell us Chinestro's rope trick was worthless,
mister Carter, well, I thought you might be interested in
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knowing it. It was worth about fifty cents the cost of
the rope itself.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Bruves.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I did not steal it. You saw my rope trick.
You heard how the audience apploaded.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Mavello.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I got a report from the police laboratory on that
rope you used tonight. The fibers matched those I found
under Canestro's fingernails perfectly.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What are you trying to say.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I'm saying that your rope is the one that was
stolen out of this room early this evening. The rope
somebody killed Carlos Canestro four No, No.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I did not do it. It is a lie.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I'll pay you who killed him. Missus Canistro did it.
She was wildly jealous of Alman Carlos. Everybody in the
provision you eat.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
That is a lie.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And after she killed him, it would have been easy
enough for her to sneak backstage and.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Cut the wire on that foot switch. A good theory
except for one thing.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
What's there?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Alma Whiting left me to check her props just before
I talk to you, my bellow, and she certainly wouldn't
have overlood testing anything as important as that switch. Her
life depended on it, naturally.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
No, right then the wire was cut after she tested
it in.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
The last two or three minutes before she started erect
and at that time we were all standing within a
few feet of the platform that contained the switch.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
If missus Kinnestro had been there, i'd have seen her.
You're trying to put the blame on me. Oh, I'm not.
You were talking to me all during that time.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Man Marvello couldn't have done it.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
No, he couldn't, and nobody else was there except the
stage hands. Well, I think we can count them out,
mister Fulton. They'd have no reason to kill either Alma
or Canstol.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
But that does not leave anyone but click watching he's getting.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Away the way a Fulton caught her put away that gun.
You don't seriously think of a.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Man in my posess.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't think Fulton. I know here, Patsy, you hold
a gun while I frisk him.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I could buy and sell can that'sdra a hundred times.
Why should I steal anything from him? Because there are
some things that money can't buy, and that rope trick
was one of them. You're being silly, am I. You're
crazy about magic, Fulton, and when you couldn't buy that trick,
you'll kill Canester to get it.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Has he got a gun?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Me, No, there's nothing at him. Keep him covered while
I call a police car. Uh huh, at least headquarters
and hurry, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Patsy, Yes, Nick, BET's see. I'll look at me for
a minute, Yes, Nick, and you see any Thanks.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You got the gun away from me.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yes, thanks for looking at Cotter instead of me. Miss
going now put down that.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Phone, Cotter, Okay, Yes, I was kind of dumb, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yes, you were, and I'm in command now.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But you killed Canestro, didn't you feel? Yes, you were
right about that. I thought so.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I've always wanted to own one great trick, one real
illusion that no one else had. So I tried to
buy the rope trick from him, but he laughed at me.
He said his trick was much too good for a
near beginner like me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I flew into a rage and grabbed the knife off
the desk and stabbed him. Yes, he shouldn't have laughed.
And after you found out the rope trick wasn't worth anything.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
You tried to put the blame on my Vellow by
planning the rope on him, didn't you. Naturally, when I
brought my Vellow across the stage to you, I took
the rope he'd used out of his right coat pocket
and put Canstro's rope in his left pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Sorry, twas you who tried to find me.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yes, my Vellow, even Canistro couldn't have done a neather
bit of slight of hand than that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
What about Alma Photon?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I switched the ropes and my vellow. I looked up
and saw her watching me, so there was nothing else
I could do. All right, what's your next trick? A
disappearing act?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I'm going to lock you all in here while I
take my leave.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Stand away from that door, Octter. Sorry, Phulton, I'm not moving.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Get away from that door.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'll put a bullet in. You're not leaving this room, Pholton.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh, Nick means it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I know it does, and so do I.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
All right, if that's the way you want it.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
While the others stand by dumbfounded, Fulton, at point blank range,
fires his revolvering directly.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
At Nick Carter's heart.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
We'll see what happens in just a minute now for
the conclusion of the case of the Magic Rope. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser in the workshop of Carlos Chnestral.
World famous magician JB. Fulton makes a desperate attempt to
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escape as he points a gun at.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Nick's hart and says, get away from that door, Cutter,
I'll put a bullet in you. You're not leaving this room, Fulton,
all right?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
If that's the way you want her to.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Right? Get through playing with that gun? Fulton? Are please
notice that.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I've got your cover to the revolver that shoots real bullets. Pete,
what happens the revolver Fulton has only shoots blank cartridges.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I've picked it up here in the workshop.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
It must be the gun Carlos used in his act.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I guess it was missus Chnestrool, but Fulton didn't know it.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Why you'll ship at Fulton all right, Patsy, call headquarters
and tell him to come here and pick up Fulton.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The great Nick.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
When are you going to tell me about that gun? Trick?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
That why there's nothing to at Patsy. Haven't you ever
seen a magician have somebody shoot a gun at him.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
At close range?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Not until I saw Fulton do it to you.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
While the magician announces what's going to happen, then he
gets people up on the stage to examine the gun.
Army officers if possible, and it's a real gun, certainly
it is. But after the gun's been examined, the magician's
assistant makes a quick switch.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Do I get it?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
The gun that fires blanks is substituted for the real gun.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's it, And that gun has no hole in the
barrel for the bullet to come out of.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Hell.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I sure wish I'd known all that when I was
holding that gun on Fulton.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You see, I didn't have a Nichols worth of proof that.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Fulton was Yilli Patsy, so I had to trick him
into a confession. I have learned from experience that a
murderer talks a lot more freely with a gun in
his hand.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Well, he certainly talked plenty. I guess it only goes
to prove the truth of the old saying.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh what I was saying is that I.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Give a man enough rope and I'll hang himself.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And now.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
The winners of the four nineteen forty eight super Deluxe
Ford V eight four door sedans in the third new
post War Old Dutch Cleanser Jingle contest, which closed March thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, Nick, are you going to make the awards? Am I?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Mike, I've been looking forward to this all week. Here
are the folks who get those brand new nineteen forty
eight Fords. Eileen Brassfield of two two one Emerson Avenue,
aspin Wall, Pennsylvania. Missus Helen Hill McWilliams in Cara of E. S.
West of one six seven Park Street, East, Orange, New Jersey,
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Missus Robert L. Perry of two three one four West
Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona, and Missus Helen Jane Stage of
six nine two six Parnell Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And let me add that.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I hope these lucky people get as much pleasure driving
their Fords as I had in awarding them. Yes to
all these Ford and other prize winners, Congratulations, and remember
we'll have more winners next week, so'll be sure to
listen then, Nick Carter Master Detective is presented.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Each week at this time by the Cutter Heatpacking Company.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It is produced and directed by Jack McGregor and is
copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is
featured as Patsy. Today's script was written by Evelyn Goodman
and Jim Parsons. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
This program is fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris saying,
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when minutes count, use new postwar old Dutch cleanser.
Third Contest Winners.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yes, folks, later will announce the Ford winners and the
third Big Jingle Contest. So listen while New Post War
Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for Chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time, two
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great names are joined as New post War Old Dutch
Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring
characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Why do you want us all?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You're in the workshop because Patsy.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
This is where the great Canestro cooked up his most
famous illusions, and it ought to be a good place
for me to pull a couple of tricks toohy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Don't tell me you're going to pull rabbits out of
a hat.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Rabbits No, Patsy a killer, I hope.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And now the Case of the Magic Rope. Today's adventure
starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by
New Post War Old Dutch Cleanser. Tonight at the Elton Theater,
magicians from all over the country will compete for the
Fulton Award, a ten thousand dollars prize for the best
illusion of the year. But the greatest magician of them all,
Carlos Chelestral will not be present confined to a wheelchair,
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since he's all now a leading contender for the Fulton Award.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Ha ha, You know, Alma, I suggested the idea of
the Magician's Award to mister Fulton myself.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
What I did not think he would take me seriously?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He can afford it with all his millions, He certainly can.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Funny how so many people take up magic as a hobby,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
With fulling in it is more than a hobby, It
is an obsession.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But all he's ever learned is a little sleight of hand.
But let him get on.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The stage and he's as happy as if he had
made another million dollars in the stock market.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Oh course, I've simply got to win that ten thousand
dollars prize tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Perhaps you should have.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
This, that piece of room, that piece of route, my dear,
will mistify the world. It is the most spectacular illusion
of my whole career.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Oh how does it work?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No? No, no, no, that is Canesterol's secret.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
When I returned to.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
The theater, you expect to work again, But of.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Course I do I'll be out of this wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But it's so now well, well, but that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
News, Alma.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You will tell me what happened to me the night
of the accident. It was the equipment, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
The equipment was all right, Carlos, you slip, that's all.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But I couldn't have. I had done that three a
thousand times. Why did I fall through that trap door? Alma? Why? Why?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Wallas?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Carlos.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
You mustn't get excited, head for you saw your hands
are trembling.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Here.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Let me hold him in mind for a moment. There Now.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I beg your.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Pardon, missus Canestro. Dinner is ready to wheel yourself into
the dining room.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Will you want to say something to Alma? Very well?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Catin come back again soon, Alma, but I.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Have to say, won't take long, missus canistro. What you
saw didn't mean a thing. I don't want to hear
any lies. You've been in love with my husband for years.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
If you weren't so crazy, you never to come here,
not get out.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
And don't come back, or what.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You'd better be pretty nice to me, missus Canstro. Or
I might tell the newspapers. Exactly why Carlos feil that night?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
And you wouldn't want that, would you?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
How you doing passy at the end of it?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Nick, Oh, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Twenty five after seven? How did I take in a
stage show? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
That would be wonderful.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
I haven't been to the theater in months.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh, I'll answer it.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
We'll get your hat right, Nick Carter speaking? Who Oh, yes,
I say yes, I'll be right over. Oh Nick, no show, No,
not even any dinner. That was missus Canstrol, wife of
the great magician.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Well what did she want?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
She wanted to tell me that her husband's been stabbed.
It's been dead for at least two hours, missus Canstro.
Where did you find the body?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Only a few minutes ago? I opened the door and
there he was, with that knife in his chair.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You ever seen this knife before?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Yes, it was part of carlos magic act. He kept
a tear in the workshop.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
With his other prop. I suppose you've notified the police.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
No, I did not know what to do.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'll call him Nick, all right, but get me a
clean envelope first for yours.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Why did you find something?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yes, Canstro, who evidently tried to get up a fight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh, the fingernails in his right hand are broken, as
if something had been torn out of his hand.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And these bits of fiber under his.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Nails, why they look like the stuff they make robottoms.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I thought, here put him in the envelope.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
The rope trick, mister Carter, it is gone.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What rope trick?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
It is an illusion Carlos was working on. He wouldn't
tell me how it.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Worked, but he said it was the most spectacular trick
he'd ever created.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
It was here on this desk only this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A trick as good as that would be worth a
fortune to Enemagy.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
That must have been what he was shouting about, shouting,
what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
We had an early dinner and I went up to.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
My room about six, yes, and a few minutes later
I heard Carlos screaming at someone.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
He was in a rage.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
I didn't think anything about it at the time. Carlos
was always excited about Remember what he said. He was shouting, No,
you cannot have it, No one can have it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You haven't had any idea whom he was talking to.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
People were always dropping in. He'd go to the door
and this wheelchair let them in himself. That is how
Alma Whiting got in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Alma Whiting, Yes, isn't she a magician too?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yes, she was. She was here this afternoon. Maybe I've
had a talk to you.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
You will find her at the Elton Theater competing for
the Foot and the Wall.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Say I read about the Fulton. It was in the
paper today.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
It's a ten thousand dollars price for the best magic
trick of the year, isn't it. Yeah, maybe it could
not have been anous She not a dollar before this happen.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
That's the same, missus chinnesto. She may be able to
give us some information that's to get that police called
through right away. We're going to see a show tonight,
after all. I beg your pardon, mister Fulton, will let
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you into my box.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I distinctly told you. Her name's Nick Carter U Nick Carter,
the detective. That's right. This is my secretary of Patsy Bowen.
How do you do well.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I'm happy to meet you both, I'm sure, but what.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I'd like to talk with one of your performers. I'll
not Whiting thought perhaps you could tell me when the
best time would be.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But Elma's on in a few minutes. Is it something urgent?
Is if you called murder urgent? Murder?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Carlos Canestra was stabbed to death about six thirty this evening.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Canistra stab doctor. I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Sorry, but he was, and Miss Whiting seems to be
the last person who saw him alive.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
A frot and tell me if you have any of
the magicians done a rope trick here to Night's rope trick.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
No, no, callistro dead. The greatest magician in the world
has ever known dead?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well, can you take us backstage and introduce.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Us to Miss Whiting?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
No, certainly, I'll take you back just as soon as
Marvella finishes his act.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He's nearly true.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I have to stay and judge the contest tricks, you know,
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, ladies and gentlemen, watch close with me. This is
the contest trick coming up now.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, you're a patient to this very familiar object I
hold in my head, common ordinary piece of rope.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Do you suppose that rope could be the one?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Please? But I hope to find out before long.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Watches step Miss Bowne's pretty dark backstage here. Oh there's Elma, Alma, Alma, Yes,
mister Fulton, this is mister Carter and mister Bowen. Elma.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Hello, how are you doing, Alma? Something's Terrible's happened.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Camistro is dead, is what you're stabbed about? Six thirty
this evening, this writing.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Who killed him?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
That's what we're trying to find out. You mind telling
me where you were at that time.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I was right here in the theater rehearsing.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I suppose you can prove this, of course I can.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Mavella was here too when he saw me. If you
think you're going to put the flame on me, you're
out of your mind. What's the audience laughing at?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Oh that's the comedy magician going on after Marvella's act.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Oh do you want to talk to Marvella? To mister Carter,
Yes I do. I'll get him right away, mister Carter.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
I don't understand this. Why would anybody want to kill Carlis?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, Missus Kinestro thinks it was to steal a magic
trick he just perfected.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's ridiculous. Machine knows this.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Nobody who knew Carlus would do anything like that?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Because he well, I I mean they know they couldn't
get away with it? Why not? Look, I've got to
check my props. I'll talk to you when the axe over.
Is that all right?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Okay? Thanks?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
What do you think make something?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
She isn't telling us Bessie and I don't know whether
she's afraid of the ail? I thought this was a
magic show.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
What's the idea of the clowning?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How many relief? I suppose? Kale time? While he's strike one,
I can set up the next. Mister Carter, this is Marvello,
one of our best magicians? Is he through the great cans? True?
He's deep? Yes, you'll excuse me, won't you? Mister Carter?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I have to get back to my box before Alma's
ax starts. Chure, go right ahead, mister for you? Uh Novello?
What time did you get to the theater tonight?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
About six o'clock? Anyone see you here at six? Certainly
I spoke to his wife things that came either.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I say, you're her alibian, she is yours? What are
you getting at? A solution to a murder?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I hope, Avella? Where's the rope you used tonight?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I have it to ride here in my court book.
That's funny. Now, don't tell me it's disappeared. Well, no, no, no,
of course not.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I oh for here the reason my left pockettype thought
it was in the right one.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
That's all I see, Martha bart Let that hope for
what I'm sending it to the police, laboratory police. Maybe
this is the rope that will kill Conestro's killer.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Nick, where are you being's I'm a whiting axe almost
overcding Maddie.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Ask him to send an officer. We're here to pick
up that rope.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Oh are they going to make a comparison toy?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah? And if those fibers we found under canstrous fingernails
are from the same rope at my velous, it'll show
up heat.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Look what you may have another rope for the sergeant
to pick up. Look what Alm was doing out there
on the stage.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What's she doing up there on that platform.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you're all representative of the audience,
and examine this rope.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
To be sure there is no trickery. Slay themselves.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Applied the rope firmly around my neck.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Two rope tricks tonight, seize the.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Rope tested with a heavy sandbag. You'll see it with
your own eyes, and it does not reach within eight feet.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Of the floor.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
She going to do both that platform with a rope
around her knee.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
That's, of course, as soon as you falls, she'll be
out of sight behind that screen.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I'll be glad it's her instead of me.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
My hands are securely tied, as well as my feet.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Looks like a good trick has been.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Done by the committee from the.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Audience, Alestra's rope trick, though she may find this is
only a rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
For the real thing. And now.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
The leave I'm dead, dick, she jumped.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, well what now?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Well, there shouldn't be a dead poise like this.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Why doesn't she come out from behind that screen or
whatever she.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I don't know. That's somebody's gone wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Close men, they're running back at the screen and mister
footman's coming up over the footlights.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Something has yo free way Nick quite start. The trick
didn't work. She's did at the end of a rope.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The rope which she hoped would win her the ten
thousand dollars Footing Award, swings the lifeless body of Alma
fighting on we'll see what happens in just a minute.
Now back to the case of the Magic Rope. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. As the police cleared the theater,
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the body of Alma Fighting is lowered to the stage
and Nick Carter begins his investigation.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
She's dead, all right?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Her next person, NICKO, happened that went wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I don't know? Hey, do is anybody here know this trick?
How are you supposed to work? Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, I do. I'm Sam Foster. I do the comedy clownix.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well, what was the trick she tried to do?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
She was supposed to jump off the platform on the stage.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
The rope was too short for her to reach the stage.
I was watching when they tested it with the sandbang.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh oh, but there's about five foot a slight concealed
in that cross bar.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The rope hangs from.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Oh, Alma could release it by stepping on a foot
switch on the platform.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Then when she hit the floor, she.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Could grab the rope and yank get tight with her
hands to make it look as though she were suspended
in mid air.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The audience couldn't see her behind the screen. Of course
her hands were tied. Oh no, no, no, she got
the moose during the pattern before she jumped. Now, my
part of the act was to come up through the
trap door in the stage and take her place.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
I see.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Then she'd step out in front, pull away the screen,
and instead of Alma being suspended there, the audience would
see me in this clown suit hanging from the noose
by my feet. All things took only about five seconds,
and the.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Trigger messed in with that foot switch that was supposed to.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Release the extra rope.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, something must have gone.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Wrong with it. Oh show me that switch, will you? Shuh?
Works by electricity.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Here. See this wire running up the Michael the platform,
does it?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Look Nick, the wire has been caught.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Wow, for the second time tonight, Patsy, we're face to
face with murder.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Nick watched the audio coming back here at Canestro's house.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Remember what on my wedding said that no one on
k new Chnestro would have killed him to get the
rope trick.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yes, but I don't know what she meant by it.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Neither do I, But I think perhaps Missus Canstro does
missus Sorry to disturb you, Missus Canstrol.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Please not now, come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm sorry, but this can't wait.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
The Nick's trying to help you, missus Kneestro, but they
can help me.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
No, Carlos is gone.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Did maybe I should be glad he's at peace now.
No more soft dream, no more, no.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
More of what had he been here?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
No, no, except for the lame that his health was perfect?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
What was wrong? Then? His mind?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
His mind? Who said anything about his mind?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Alama Whiting told me.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
That, Alma, writing, I might have known.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Look, missus Chestra, your husband was a famous man, a
public figure. You can't hide important facts about a man
like that.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
But I had too. His public knew him.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Is the Great Canestro, a name that meant as much
in the theater as Bernhard Caruso Pablo.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Of course, he could not chatter that illusion.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
I could not let the world know that the Great
Conesto had.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Lost his mon Oh, that's awful.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
So that's what I, Alma meant by saying that anyone
who knew Canestra wouldn't steal a strick Elmaux.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
That is what caused his accident.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
His mind snapped during the performance that ninety save Alms
is the only one.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Who knows you say, no one else suspected your husband's condition.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
No, he always talked rationally when he had visitors. He'd
boast about the new illusions he was created, poor petreful
little tricks that wouldn't pool the baby.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I knew his rope trick was no good.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But I know someone's at the door. I'll go.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Why hello, Carter, Marvello and I stopped by to see
whether we could do anything for Missus Canestra. I'm glad
you did, mister Fulton. Come on in, you too, Marvello. Huh,
thank you, Oh Patsy, You and Missus canstro coming to
the workshop here please.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I want to try an experiment, of course, an experiment.
Don't tell me you're going to try to produce rabbits
out of hats, mister Carter.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Rabbits, No, my Vello, I'm going to try to produce
some murderer. You mean you got us all here in
the workshop just to tell us Chinestro's rope trick was worthless,
mister Carter, well, I thought you might be interested in
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knowing it. It was worth about fifty cents the cost of
the rope itself.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Bruves.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I did not steal it. You saw my rope trick.
You heard how the audience apploaded.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Mavello.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I got a report from the police laboratory on that
rope you used tonight. The fibers matched those I found
under Canestro's fingernails perfectly.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What are you trying to say.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I'm saying that your rope is the one that was
stolen out of this room early this evening. The rope
somebody killed Carlos Canestro four No, No.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I did not do it. It is a lie.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I'll pay you who killed him. Missus Canistro did it.
She was wildly jealous of Alman Carlos. Everybody in the
provision you eat.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
That is a lie.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And after she killed him, it would have been easy
enough for her to sneak backstage and.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Cut the wire on that foot switch. A good theory
except for one thing.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
What's there?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Alma Whiting left me to check her props just before
I talk to you, my bellow, and she certainly wouldn't
have overlood testing anything as important as that switch. Her
life depended on it, naturally.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
No, right then the wire was cut after she tested
it in.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
The last two or three minutes before she started erect
and at that time we were all standing within a
few feet of the platform that contained the switch.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
If missus Kinnestro had been there, i'd have seen her.
You're trying to put the blame on me. Oh, I'm not.
You were talking to me all during that time.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Man Marvello couldn't have done it.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
No, he couldn't, and nobody else was there except the
stage hands. Well, I think we can count them out,
mister Fulton. They'd have no reason to kill either Alma
or Canstol.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
But that does not leave anyone but click watching he's getting.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Away the way a Fulton caught her put away that gun.
You don't seriously think of a.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Man in my posess.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't think Fulton. I know here, Patsy, you hold
a gun while I frisk him.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I could buy and sell can that'sdra a hundred times.
Why should I steal anything from him? Because there are
some things that money can't buy, and that rope trick
was one of them. You're being silly, am I. You're
crazy about magic, Fulton, and when you couldn't buy that trick,
you'll kill Canester to get it.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Has he got a gun?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Me, No, there's nothing at him. Keep him covered while
I call a police car. Uh huh, at least headquarters
and hurry, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Patsy, Yes, Nick, BET's see. I'll look at me for
a minute, Yes, Nick, and you see any Thanks.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You got the gun away from me.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yes, thanks for looking at Cotter instead of me. Miss
going now put down that.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Phone, Cotter, Okay, Yes, I was kind of dumb, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yes, you were, and I'm in command now.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But you killed Canestro, didn't you feel? Yes, you were
right about that. I thought so.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I've always wanted to own one great trick, one real
illusion that no one else had. So I tried to
buy the rope trick from him, but he laughed at me.
He said his trick was much too good for a
near beginner like me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I flew into a rage and grabbed the knife off
the desk and stabbed him. Yes, he shouldn't have laughed.
And after you found out the rope trick wasn't worth anything.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
You tried to put the blame on my Vellow by
planning the rope on him, didn't you. Naturally, when I
brought my Vellow across the stage to you, I took
the rope he'd used out of his right coat pocket
and put Canstro's rope in his left pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Sorry, twas you who tried to find me.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yes, my Vellow, even Canistro couldn't have done a neather
bit of slight of hand than that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
What about Alma Photon?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I switched the ropes and my vellow. I looked up
and saw her watching me, so there was nothing else
I could do. All right, what's your next trick? A
disappearing act?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I'm going to lock you all in here while I
take my leave.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Stand away from that door, Octter. Sorry, Phulton, I'm not moving.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Get away from that door.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'll put a bullet in. You're not leaving this room, Pholton.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh, Nick means it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I know it does, and so do I.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
All right, if that's the way you want it.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
While the others stand by dumbfounded, Fulton, at point blank range,
fires his revolvering directly.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
At Nick Carter's heart.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
We'll see what happens in just a minute now for
the conclusion of the case of the Magic Rope. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser in the workshop of Carlos Chnestral.
World famous magician JB. Fulton makes a desperate attempt to
(20:57):
escape as he points a gun at.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Nick's hart and says, get away from that door, Cutter,
I'll put a bullet in you. You're not leaving this room, Fulton,
all right?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
If that's the way you want her to.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Right? Get through playing with that gun? Fulton? Are please
notice that.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I've got your cover to the revolver that shoots real bullets. Pete,
what happens the revolver Fulton has only shoots blank cartridges.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I've picked it up here in the workshop.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
It must be the gun Carlos used in his act.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I guess it was missus Chnestrool, but Fulton didn't know it.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Why you'll ship at Fulton all right, Patsy, call headquarters
and tell him to come here and pick up Fulton.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The great Nick.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
When are you going to tell me about that gun? Trick?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
That why there's nothing to at Patsy. Haven't you ever
seen a magician have somebody shoot a gun at him.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
At close range?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Not until I saw Fulton do it to you.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
While the magician announces what's going to happen, then he
gets people up on the stage to examine the gun.
Army officers if possible, and it's a real gun, certainly
it is. But after the gun's been examined, the magician's
assistant makes a quick switch.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Do I get it?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
The gun that fires blanks is substituted for the real gun.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's it, And that gun has no hole in the
barrel for the bullet to come out of.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Hell.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I sure wish I'd known all that when I was
holding that gun on Fulton.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You see, I didn't have a Nichols worth of proof that.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Fulton was Yilli Patsy, so I had to trick him
into a confession. I have learned from experience that a
murderer talks a lot more freely with a gun in
his hand.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Well, he certainly talked plenty. I guess it only goes
to prove the truth of the old saying.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh what I was saying is that I.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Give a man enough rope and I'll hang himself.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And now.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
The winners of the four nineteen forty eight super Deluxe
Ford V eight four door sedans in the third new
post War Old Dutch Cleanser Jingle contest, which closed March thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, Nick, are you going to make the awards? Am I?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Mike, I've been looking forward to this all week. Here
are the folks who get those brand new nineteen forty
eight Fords. Eileen Brassfield of two two one Emerson Avenue,
aspin Wall, Pennsylvania. Missus Helen Hill McWilliams in Cara of E. S.
West of one six seven Park Street, East, Orange, New Jersey,
(23:26):
Missus Robert L. Perry of two three one four West
Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona, and Missus Helen Jane Stage of
six nine two six Parnell Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And let me add that.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I hope these lucky people get as much pleasure driving
their Fords as I had in awarding them. Yes to
all these Ford and other prize winners, Congratulations, and remember
we'll have more winners next week, so'll be sure to
listen then, Nick Carter Master Detective is presented.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Each week at this time by the Cutter Heatpacking Company.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It is produced and directed by Jack McGregor and is
copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is
featured as Patsy. Today's script was written by Evelyn Goodman
and Jim Parsons. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
This program is fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris saying,
(24:34):
when minutes count, use new postwar old Dutch cleanser.
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