October 28, 2025 • 23 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):
And now the Taste of the Martyred Rat, starring Long
Park as Nick Carter, brought for you by a new
post war old Dutch Twinsor. It's past midnight and beside
a dark highway fifty miles west of the city, a
young man stands in the driving rain, swaying weakly as
he tries.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
To flag down a passing car.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
His left arm hangs useless, the hand red with blood
that drifts steadily from under the head. Body, Hey, you
want to ride? Stop here here? I thought there wasn't
anybody ever got Oh, Nicky's.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hurt, look at his hand.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Let me help you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What We'll get you to a doctor right away.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Never mind the doctor, Get me to the nearest police station. Please.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
What happened when you held up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Three guys, Hi jacked my truck?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Shut me Hi?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
All right?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Oh nichi?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He passed out.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Hello. Is this mister Henry Barton or the Barton Motor
Freight Company? Yes, w are you? My name's Carter, mister Barton.
I'm speaking for one of your drivers, Red Kennedy. What
is read in trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I asked her to let you know that this truck
was hide decked to night, ten miles west of Elm City. Oh,
it's heavens that truck was carrying a load worth almost
thirty thousand dollars. How about Red? Is he all right?
He's been shot, but it's only a flash wound. The
doctor says he's in pretty good shame.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You tell that doctors that I want read to have
the best of everything.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Why don't you say your name was Conter Nick Carter.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh you're a detective, aren't you. Well, yeah, I'm a
private investigator.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
All right, Then go to work, find out who held
up my truck, get that cargo back, reports.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
To meet the ball afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Wait a minute, I haven't said i'd take this kid.
I'm asking you. Wait, eyes, how about it? Okay, I'll
do it for red sake. I don't like seeing people
hide deck.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Fine, see when.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
My office at two o'clock sharp, good night, my back list?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You're okay?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Hezy now? Oh it's not d.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Hey, d im think him that you're doing back on
the job today. Oh, Hi in Misconna, gonna have no
missing I have the arm. Red, It's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well you can't drive with it, can you?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No driver?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Lady, I'm the superintendent. Last night was an emergency take
the load on this creek. Yeah, oh, let's I want
you to meet mister cottor ms Bowen. There's let's gone.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This is a guy that ought to have this hole
in his arm.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Instead of me that was supposed to be his one
last night?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh how come it was? Well I I was sick
and my boss has bread to take over for me.
I see, lucky for you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, come on, folks, I'll take you to the boss's office.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He's waiting for you. Well, it's cotta.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Why didn't you find out so far?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Not much, mister Barton.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He did go out and take a look at the
truck last night, but we couldn't tell anything from Matt.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
What do you mean park half a mile off the
main highway in a side road. Yeah, that's where the
hijackers made me drive so that they could load this
stuff into their own truck. How about tire tracks, so
two detectives locate criminals or things like that.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Well not unless there are tire tracks, mister Barton.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You see, there's plenty of them. Un where the truck
was parked. Start a red clay, but the rant had
washed out and the wheel marks the might have been.
In other words, you haven't found out one blain thing
I've seen here, mister Barton. You can't expect miracle. Here.
Go look and you give me a list of everything
that was stolen last night. Yes, I've got it right here, cigarettes, nylons, silverware,
electric cliances, chemicals and a lot of small stuff. M
(03:43):
most of those things to be easy disposed of. Yeah. Oh,
by the way, Red, what about least think you can
drive tonight? Sure? Left is okay, mister bark?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Is that the driver who was sick last night?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Rick?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He was drunk sending back the Kiddery's boarding house to
sleep it off. The he's red take over the wrung
call look for less, wasn't drunk? I told you that
last night. I spilled liquor on his sawl Right, so
we had a drink maybe too, But he never done
it before, did he't? No, you better not do it
again if it hadn't live for you and I fired
him on the spot. Well that's the bark and I'll
let you know it's in as I've gone. Anything just good,
(04:16):
and don't make it any later than the day after tomorrow.
But my brother's side in the Carnick.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That truck stocking the driveway.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I know we can't get out until.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Someone moved it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Maybe half an hour. I try this other dress. Okay,
not that going around the building.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You want to come out on the opp of the side.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Golly, this is a big old place.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I used to be a brewery in the old days.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Makes an idea? Where house the truck are at?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I hope this drive doesn't come to a dead end
in the back of the building, and as do it
as I make.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This turn, It's okay, see broad to it right on out?
Was a shop.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
To fall?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No, but what's the big idea?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You shooting the dress? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A big game? Honah?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Huh, Look, lady, the stag shore with the grass come
out of that big drain from the old parts of
the buildings.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It's part they don't use the wor and.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You shoot him as they come out. That the idea?
You bet you? Mister Barton bade me diam a beach
for sometimes you get ten or twelve one afternoon?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
How much does mister Barton pay for innocent five standard?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm real sorry if I scared you, man, but oh,
maybe a better introduce myself.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'm a miss kiddery. I'm kind of caretake around.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Here, kittery and a connection with Kennery's boarding house.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
You bet you my daughter in love runs it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And I bet you know less gone. I want to
mister Barton's driver. Do you bet you rooms with this
h like I ARLETTI.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
He wasn't making his regular run last night, wasn't it.
I suppose you heard that his truck was high decked?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Ya? You bet your funny thing too.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
La must have had any feelings something was good.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
It's happened on that run.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
He was nervous and jumpy all day long.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh like you see if he was.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Dreams ridding something.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, he even started to drink in the middle of
the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
This never done that since you know him, that's so yeah,
you bet you acted like he had to work in
for his courage go to work. He got so drunk
and the boat wouldn't let him drive, so he stayed
home safe and fair.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, not so you'd notice it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
We're right back to the saloon and started slugging him
down again.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Then all of a suddenly he jumped in.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
His car and lit out, lit out for ware with
no telling didn't get.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Back to almost daylight?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And what is that car a mesh?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Let's give me a dollar to wash it off for
him today?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Done this d red Clay?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You ever did see reddy?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You bet your lights and never got it off? Get
that road last night?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That you I know it's the many Where is your
daughter's boarding house? When you get out of the street?
You just done driving edge about half mile straight ahead
and the.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Left hand did shine out in front?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just why? Because if any of that red clay is
still stuck under the fenders of Less's car, I want
to compare it with some I took off a truck.
He's likely to be shame. Maybe not, But if they are,
Less Garner is going to have to do some pretty
heavy explaining. Well, bet you, I'm afraid it's true.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Finish your analysis, Nick, Yeah, clay from the hijack truck.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And that's from Less Garner's car had exactly the same
chemical composition. Then they must have come to the same plane,
no question about it.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
But if Less was.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
In on the hold of Nick, do you think he's
fake being drunk in order to get out of driving.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Plus petty the poe was Less was approached by the
hijackers and agreed to let them know when he'd be
carrying a valuable load. Yeah, well it might have arranged
a fake hold er.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I yes, that could account for his nervousness that day.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Right then, when Barton refused to let him drive less,
would have had to get in touch with the mob.
Then one of them that somebody else would be driving.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
And that's my See how I got the clay on
his car alight.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
We don't have any actual proof this.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Nick Carter is having Patty Bonne speaking.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I want to talk to Carter, young woman right now.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeses, you better take it, naked piece of Barton.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I want hello, think I have some news for you?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh you do well, I've got some news for you.
Another one of my trucks has been hijacked. Another one? Yeah,
who was driving it? Let's Garner? Yes, how did you go?
I'll tell you later. I don't let Ganna get away.
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He won't get away.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Good. The hijackers put a bullet through his head.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So let's Garner.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The man Nick counted on to lead him to the
hijackers has been killed. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the Martyred Rat.
Today's Adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new
post war old Dutch Plenser. It's now three o'clock in
the morning. Nick and Patsy have driven off to the
(09:00):
steam of the hold up with mister Barton. State, Please
are detouring traffic around the big truck still park beside
the highway. The body of left Garner.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Slumped over the wheel.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
From the angle of the wound pass it looks as
though whoever killed Ganna stood here on the running board.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yes, and it must have happened without any warning, otherwise
less wouldn't have just sat there behind the wheel.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
You're right, there wasn't any fights planned, cold blood and murder.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Then you'll be taking another big lure swoons, mister Barton.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh, I won't lose anything. All my trucks are fully
as sure against robbery. This cargo wasn't worth much anyway,
Oh it wasn't now now the whole shipment consisted of
king kitchen, where toys, rat, poison, chief, lamp, shaded dried fish,
nothing better.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, I hope the hijackers were plenty of disappointed.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They weren't, though, if they went to the trouble of
unloading this stuff even after they had saw what it was.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
They must have been pretty dangerous too, right on our
Disney Highway like this.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
If maybe they took the truck off on a side
road to unload it and then brought it back here.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Now, mister Barton less was killed here.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The blood stands showed that his body hadn't been moved
from behind the wheel. If you're all drew, mister Carter
would like to take the body into town.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, officers, thanks for your help.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Let's no we're here for missus Gordon. Okay, Doc, you
can take over now, by the way, officer, Yeah, exactly
what time was the body found?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Let me see, got it down here?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Twelve forty five? Twelve forty five.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Ye, but you didn't notify mister Barton until after one thirty.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That wasn't rful, lady. We tried to phone him but
there wasn't any answer.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, I my Peanuckle club met last night and I
didn't get home till after one Peanutle club, Yeah right,
come on, come on, let's get back to the car.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, that's a good idea, and I'm getting cold.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
How long would it take to move the sort of
load you had on this truck from one truck to
another at least half an hour.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Why I'm trying to figure out what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Well, it's plain enough they made a big hole the
first time, so they tried it again and then no, no, no, no.
Hijackers don't rob just any truck. They always have information
about which trucks they're carrying valuable cargoes.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Nick, this truck didn't have a valuable cargo, which proves
mister Carter is wrong for the second time tonight, young lady.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The second time, didn't you say that lest corner was
mixed up for the hijackers? I did well the fact
that they had to kill him to get the cargo crews,
You were wrong there too, Oh, mister Barkler. Hijackers didn't
care less in order to get that worthless cargo. They
stole the cargo in order.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
To cover up his murder.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You mean the less urdue. He couldn't talk about the
first rob er exactly what truck woul hijacked to make
it look like another holder. Oh, you're crazy? Who knew
what was on that first truck and what ruder was
going to take? Let's do and were a superintended to
even before he cook over his driver? What that's all?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
What didn't anyone else know?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Absolutely not, not even you.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, yes, of course I knew, Betsy. When we got
back to town.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Remind me to call the newspapers. Call the newspapers. Why
because you could locate all sorts of things to a
newspaper at and maybe if we advertise, we can.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Locate a murderers.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Hey, maybe listen to this In the personal column. Wanted
to contact motorists who were driving west from Devers Springs
Friday night between eleven thirty pm and one o'clock.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Called Surry nine oh five.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Where we were on that road?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
About them? Yeah, let me write that number down. Maybe
I can help this guy out. Yes, mister Habit, I'm
trying to get information about a trailer truck that was
parked just beyond the top of a long hill ten
miles west of Dever Springs Friday night, Barton motor freight truck. Yes,
(12:24):
did you see, I'll say I did. I got stuck
behind it at the bottom of the hill and I
had to go all the way up and low. That's
why I remember the name.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Do you remember what time that ross to Hades.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
As a matter of fact, I had the car radio
on waiting for the twelve thirty news. It started just
as I went around him at the top of the hill.
Was there another truck on the hill at the same time, No,
just one other passenger car and me if we were
both stuck behind the truck? It said there was another
passenger car. Yeah, and you know there was something funny
about that too. What was that? Well? I stopped about
(12:54):
a mile farther on. Of course, I thought I had
a flap, But neither the truck nor the other car
ever did pass me.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Made the car turned off on a side row there
were already on that stretch.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Well, what thought of a car was it? You know?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It was behind me. All I could see was the headlights.
And afterwards Mabel and I wondered what happened to it.
I think I know what happened to it, mister Heven.
In fact of what you've told me, I think I
know the answered to a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
What's the idea of exploring the base in this gold warehouse?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Oh, I thought it might be interesting to see what's
down here on the unused part of it. Oh, but
it's like a dungeon.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Down here, I can sell take something right across my foot,
probably a rat.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
A rat.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Oh dear, I.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Thought we'd runner unrets. That's why I wanted you to
wear slacks, and you were heavy walking through. Oh but honestly,
this part of the building is alive with them.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Here.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Let's see what's on the other side of this door.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You seem to know exactly where you're going.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
To where through the flash lights? See those marks in
the dusk. Okay, well, I'm following you.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
But if you asked, mister Barton, you probably would have
sent somebody along to to clear the rats.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Out of the way through it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Didn't want to barking run anybody else to know. We'd
be snooping around.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
This part of the building.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And oh, here's another door, so we go through that too.
Oh golly, it's musty in here.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah. It must have been used for storage rooms when
the place was a brewery. Oh, dick, it's another rat.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Look, Pats, you insisted on coming along.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
But hey, they still use this room for storage. It
full of boxes and cream.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, let's see what they are.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
My Belle's kitchen wear fried herrings, So I say, flam
shade that's the.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Cargo that was supposed to be stolen from less guard
a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Last night, and it wasn't so at all.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Say that again, Oh my truck was unloaded before I
never left the warehouse.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Red red Charity.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, I don't read the apocket at Socatta. You couldn't
draw up very fast wearing a heavy glove my.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Gunn dame, that you're right now.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I were these glove for protection against four footed rats.
Read can you you hijacked your own truck? Guess then
mudded his own partner. That jerk wasn't my partner. I
gave less a chance to get in on a deal.
But he was a nice little boy that didn't believe
in taking things that didn't belong to him. You were
saying that less Garner wasn't mixed up in that first robbery.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
He would have been his partner.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Let him drive that night, but he didn't really want
any part of it. That's why he started drinking.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But he was there that night. The red play on
his car proved it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
He was there trying to chalk me out of it.
He said, he was a peeling to my better nature.
Now that's how you got shot. There was a fight. Now,
I just left the jerk and sent him back to town.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Then, who shocked you?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I put that bullet hole in my arm myself, just
to night Tho'll hold up? Looked like the mccolly for
thirty thousand dollars cargo it was worth.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And then when you learned that Nick was suspicious of rest,
you killed him.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's right. Jolly Fish would have spilled everything if he'd
been pinched. So I unloaded the truck, told him the
schedule had been changed and that he was to pick
up a load in Pittburgh. And when he left, I
followed his truck, flagged it down and got of them.
Won't be so weed, they're getting rid of us, Red, No, No,
anybody hears shots coming from this part of the build.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Are you kid?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You can shoot off a cannon down here without nobody
hearing it outside? No, No, I got a better idea. Yeah,
what is it? You're going to get locked pins down
here by accident? Oh no, wait a minute, Red, Sorry,
cot Hey, don't come back and see you again in
a couple of years. Red sick, what.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Get away from the door. I want to try them,
but we can't work. Well, let's don't mean a thing
against the door like that. But nobody knows he's here.
Nobody will come looking first.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
We've got to break out of here somehow.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
We can't break out, Sae.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
If we yell out enough, somebody will hear us.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
See, these walls are over a footstick. No one can
possibly hear us.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
No one can possibly Oh, Nick, think's like bringing it
to him.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Sick, quick, tell me is all right? Locked in a
forgotten basement room of the old brewery, unable to break
out or make themselves heard, Nick and Patsy are faced
with almost certain death. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now for the conclusion of the case of
(17:22):
the Martyred Rat. Today's adventure with Nick.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Carter, brought to you by new post war old.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Dutch cleanser Red Kennedy, has left Nick and Patsy to
die locked in a small, windowless basement room deep inside
the old Brewery. Now, Nick examined the door with his flashlight.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Okay, can you do anything with the lost me.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Written to me? Lock on this side, not even a keel,
that's all on the other side.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Only somebody you would come here? Another rat they're all over.
Hey rats, Yes, for.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Rats, for pety. Those rats must come from somewhere, and
these are brick walls. There has to be a Yes,
there it is a grain pipe. Here, hold the flashlight.
When I moved some of these boxes.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You got an idea how we can get and said,
this included a ship with the rat pois.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah's shine a light on this box.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Sure, keel rat poison.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
They die outside outside, patty, and the rats can get
outside through the drain pipe.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Oh, but what good of that you was?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Look?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
When I was a kid, I used to make rabbit
traps out of a box, a sticking a piece of string.
But you prop the box up with a sting and
tie the string to it. Then when the rabbit goes
under the box after the base, you'll pull the string
and the box falls down on top of it. I
still don't see. If we can get some of these
rats into a trap, maybe they'll get us out of
the trap we're in.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Oh, Nick, what time?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Four o'clock in the afternoon? Been in here twenty three hours? Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I guess it is more sidy crazy not. It was
such a nice scheme to time messages. The legs of
those rats, then letting them eat the rat poison and
came into the grain pipes.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Garn it. One or two of them must have got
to the boxes containing a poison, said he almost gone
onto the open air to die.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, maybe they died and nobody found.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Maybe list.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
That party's fun, I'd tell you, Cornard.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
When old Imlish Kidery brought me that dead rat with
a message tied to its leg, I thought he was crazy.
I don't blame you, mister Barton. I gamble on the chance,
but Kerry had either shoot or find one that had
a message tied to it. Well, it turned out to
be a good gamble. But why did you think you
would find the stolen cargo where you gave the gud
Garner's truck was seen climbing the hill at twelve thirty,
just fifteen minutes before his body was found, And you'd
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so as.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It would take at me thirty minutes to unload the truck.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
That's why I figured that truck must have been empty
when it left the warehouse. I see then, when I
heard about the car that followed Donner up the hill,
but no farther, I was pretty sure the driver of
it was the one who killed Connor? Why? Well, there
was nothing wrong with the truck, which meant that Donner
wouldn't have stopped without being flagged.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Down and by somebody he knew.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, you're right there. He wouldn't have stopped for a stranger.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
It also had to be somebody who worked here, mister Barkin.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Sure, otherwise the driver of that car wouldn't have known
the route and he wouldn't have had a chance to
unload the truck before it pulled out of here. Well,
it could have been me, of course. I don't think
I didn't think of you or you did.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Did you? Of course I did?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
But I checked your alibi and you didn't do very
well in that panofful game, did you, mister Barton.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's why you didn't care to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Well, all the way, Rads confessed that the first car,
well the one of was hijacked when he was driving,
is hidden in an old barn nearby.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You better stand out a trust for it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, I'll do that right away. And Connor, I got
to give you credit. You did a fine job.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
There's just one thing.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, what's that passy?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I still load rests, but I feel kind of sorry
for the one that's got a message through.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
We poisoned him and then he saved our lives.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Will he was a martyr and a good cause. Miss
Boyne will bury him with honor, Yes, Percy, and every
year and this day you can put a piece of
cheese in his grip.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And now.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The winners of the four nineteen forty eight Super DeLux
forty eight four door sedans in the fourth new Post
War Old Touch Cleanser Jingle Contest with pos my twentieth
Beck you mind if I make the awards this week?
Sorry Mike, but it has been just too much fun
giving away for it.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Okay, go to it, try and stop me.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well, folks, here are the lucky people who get brand
new Forge this week, Missus Bruce Gordon, Box six three
six Hamilton, New York and Hall five five O oh
North Newland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Missus Theodore Payne e O
box or eight Washington for District of Columbia, and Missus
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Verra Peter eight oh one seven North Whitney Road, Milwaukee eleven, Wisconsin.
And to all these fortunate folks, says well as to
all the other contest winners, let me say congratulations and
Remember we'll announced winners of the last week's contest as
soon as possible, so be sure to keep listening. And Nick,
that reminds me, what do you have in store.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
For us next week?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Something real exciting, Mike. You see, it all started when
an East Indian maharaja lost a one hundred carrot diamonds.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh no, me, it really started when the movie produces
John and disappeared.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Maybe so passy, but it was because of the diamond
that we found a dead body three thousand miles from
where it should have been. Take it easy. This is
getting too rich for my blood.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What do you call this story?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I call it the Case of the Star of Evil.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutter Heatacking Company. It is produced and
directed by Jock McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith's Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Today's
script was written by Jim Parsons.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons
living or dead is purely coincidental. Because of the state
of our schools, the future of twenty eight million American
children is in peril. This means we must all work
to improve educational conditions because the future of these children
and their teachers is the future of America. This is
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Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count us new post war
old Dutch pleanser. This is the mutual broadcasting system.
And now the Taste of the Martyred Rat, starring Long
Park as Nick Carter, brought for you by a new
post war old Dutch Twinsor. It's past midnight and beside
a dark highway fifty miles west of the city, a
young man stands in the driving rain, swaying weakly as
he tries.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
To flag down a passing car.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
His left arm hangs useless, the hand red with blood
that drifts steadily from under the head. Body, Hey, you
want to ride? Stop here here? I thought there wasn't
anybody ever got Oh, Nicky's.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hurt, look at his hand.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Let me help you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What We'll get you to a doctor right away.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Never mind the doctor, Get me to the nearest police station. Please.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
What happened when you held up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Three guys, Hi jacked my truck?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Shut me Hi?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
All right?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Oh nichi?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He passed out.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Hello. Is this mister Henry Barton or the Barton Motor
Freight Company? Yes, w are you? My name's Carter, mister Barton.
I'm speaking for one of your drivers, Red Kennedy. What
is read in trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I asked her to let you know that this truck
was hide decked to night, ten miles west of Elm City. Oh,
it's heavens that truck was carrying a load worth almost
thirty thousand dollars. How about Red? Is he all right?
He's been shot, but it's only a flash wound. The
doctor says he's in pretty good shame.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You tell that doctors that I want read to have
the best of everything.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Why don't you say your name was Conter Nick Carter.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh you're a detective, aren't you. Well, yeah, I'm a
private investigator.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
All right, Then go to work, find out who held
up my truck, get that cargo back, reports.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
To meet the ball afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Wait a minute, I haven't said i'd take this kid.
I'm asking you. Wait, eyes, how about it? Okay, I'll
do it for red sake. I don't like seeing people
hide deck.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Fine, see when.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
My office at two o'clock sharp, good night, my back list?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You're okay?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Hezy now? Oh it's not d.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Hey, d im think him that you're doing back on
the job today. Oh, Hi in Misconna, gonna have no
missing I have the arm. Red, It's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well you can't drive with it, can you?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No driver?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Lady, I'm the superintendent. Last night was an emergency take
the load on this creek. Yeah, oh, let's I want
you to meet mister cottor ms Bowen. There's let's gone.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This is a guy that ought to have this hole
in his arm.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Instead of me that was supposed to be his one
last night?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh how come it was? Well I I was sick
and my boss has bread to take over for me.
I see, lucky for you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, come on, folks, I'll take you to the boss's office.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He's waiting for you. Well, it's cotta.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Why didn't you find out so far?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Not much, mister Barton.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He did go out and take a look at the
truck last night, but we couldn't tell anything from Matt.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
What do you mean park half a mile off the
main highway in a side road. Yeah, that's where the
hijackers made me drive so that they could load this
stuff into their own truck. How about tire tracks, so
two detectives locate criminals or things like that.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Well not unless there are tire tracks, mister Barton.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You see, there's plenty of them. Un where the truck
was parked. Start a red clay, but the rant had
washed out and the wheel marks the might have been.
In other words, you haven't found out one blain thing
I've seen here, mister Barton. You can't expect miracle. Here.
Go look and you give me a list of everything
that was stolen last night. Yes, I've got it right here, cigarettes, nylons, silverware,
electric cliances, chemicals and a lot of small stuff. M
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most of those things to be easy disposed of. Yeah. Oh,
by the way, Red, what about least think you can
drive tonight? Sure? Left is okay, mister bark?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Is that the driver who was sick last night?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Rick?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He was drunk sending back the Kiddery's boarding house to
sleep it off. The he's red take over the wrung
call look for less, wasn't drunk? I told you that
last night. I spilled liquor on his sawl Right, so
we had a drink maybe too, But he never done
it before, did he't? No, you better not do it
again if it hadn't live for you and I fired
him on the spot. Well that's the bark and I'll
let you know it's in as I've gone. Anything just good,
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and don't make it any later than the day after tomorrow.
But my brother's side in the Carnick.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That truck stocking the driveway.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I know we can't get out until.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Someone moved it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Maybe half an hour. I try this other dress. Okay,
not that going around the building.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You want to come out on the opp of the side.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Golly, this is a big old place.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I used to be a brewery in the old days.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Makes an idea? Where house the truck are at?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I hope this drive doesn't come to a dead end
in the back of the building, and as do it
as I make.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This turn, It's okay, see broad to it right on out?
Was a shop.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
To fall?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No, but what's the big idea?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You shooting the dress? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A big game? Honah?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Huh, Look, lady, the stag shore with the grass come
out of that big drain from the old parts of
the buildings.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It's part they don't use the wor and.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You shoot him as they come out. That the idea?
You bet you? Mister Barton bade me diam a beach
for sometimes you get ten or twelve one afternoon?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
How much does mister Barton pay for innocent five standard?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm real sorry if I scared you, man, but oh,
maybe a better introduce myself.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'm a miss kiddery. I'm kind of caretake around.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Here, kittery and a connection with Kennery's boarding house.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
You bet you my daughter in love runs it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And I bet you know less gone. I want to
mister Barton's driver. Do you bet you rooms with this
h like I ARLETTI.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
He wasn't making his regular run last night, wasn't it.
I suppose you heard that his truck was high decked?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Ya? You bet your funny thing too.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
La must have had any feelings something was good.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
It's happened on that run.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
He was nervous and jumpy all day long.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh like you see if he was.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Dreams ridding something.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, he even started to drink in the middle of
the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
This never done that since you know him, that's so yeah,
you bet you acted like he had to work in
for his courage go to work. He got so drunk
and the boat wouldn't let him drive, so he stayed
home safe and fair.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, not so you'd notice it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
We're right back to the saloon and started slugging him
down again.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Then all of a suddenly he jumped in.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
His car and lit out, lit out for ware with
no telling didn't get.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Back to almost daylight?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And what is that car a mesh?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Let's give me a dollar to wash it off for
him today?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Done this d red Clay?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You ever did see reddy?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You bet your lights and never got it off? Get
that road last night?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That you I know it's the many Where is your
daughter's boarding house? When you get out of the street?
You just done driving edge about half mile straight ahead
and the.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Left hand did shine out in front?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just why? Because if any of that red clay is
still stuck under the fenders of Less's car, I want
to compare it with some I took off a truck.
He's likely to be shame. Maybe not, But if they are,
Less Garner is going to have to do some pretty
heavy explaining. Well, bet you, I'm afraid it's true.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Finish your analysis, Nick, Yeah, clay from the hijack truck.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And that's from Less Garner's car had exactly the same
chemical composition. Then they must have come to the same plane,
no question about it.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
But if Less was.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
In on the hold of Nick, do you think he's
fake being drunk in order to get out of driving.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Plus petty the poe was Less was approached by the
hijackers and agreed to let them know when he'd be
carrying a valuable load. Yeah, well it might have arranged
a fake hold er.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I yes, that could account for his nervousness that day.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Right then, when Barton refused to let him drive less,
would have had to get in touch with the mob.
Then one of them that somebody else would be driving.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
And that's my See how I got the clay on
his car alight.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
We don't have any actual proof this.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Nick Carter is having Patty Bonne speaking.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I want to talk to Carter, young woman right now.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeses, you better take it, naked piece of Barton.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I want hello, think I have some news for you?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh you do well, I've got some news for you.
Another one of my trucks has been hijacked. Another one? Yeah,
who was driving it? Let's Garner? Yes, how did you go?
I'll tell you later. I don't let Ganna get away.
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He won't get away.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Good. The hijackers put a bullet through his head.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So let's Garner.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The man Nick counted on to lead him to the
hijackers has been killed. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the Martyred Rat.
Today's Adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new
post war old Dutch Plenser. It's now three o'clock in
the morning. Nick and Patsy have driven off to the
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steam of the hold up with mister Barton. State, Please
are detouring traffic around the big truck still park beside
the highway. The body of left Garner.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Slumped over the wheel.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
From the angle of the wound pass it looks as
though whoever killed Ganna stood here on the running board.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yes, and it must have happened without any warning, otherwise
less wouldn't have just sat there behind the wheel.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
You're right, there wasn't any fights planned, cold blood and murder.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Then you'll be taking another big lure swoons, mister Barton.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh, I won't lose anything. All my trucks are fully
as sure against robbery. This cargo wasn't worth much anyway,
Oh it wasn't now now the whole shipment consisted of
king kitchen, where toys, rat, poison, chief, lamp, shaded dried fish,
nothing better.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, I hope the hijackers were plenty of disappointed.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They weren't, though, if they went to the trouble of
unloading this stuff even after they had saw what it was.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
They must have been pretty dangerous too, right on our
Disney Highway like this.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
If maybe they took the truck off on a side
road to unload it and then brought it back here.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Now, mister Barton less was killed here.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The blood stands showed that his body hadn't been moved
from behind the wheel. If you're all drew, mister Carter
would like to take the body into town.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, officers, thanks for your help.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Let's no we're here for missus Gordon. Okay, Doc, you
can take over now, by the way, officer, Yeah, exactly
what time was the body found?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Let me see, got it down here?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Twelve forty five? Twelve forty five.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Ye, but you didn't notify mister Barton until after one thirty.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That wasn't rful, lady. We tried to phone him but
there wasn't any answer.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, I my Peanuckle club met last night and I
didn't get home till after one Peanutle club, Yeah right,
come on, come on, let's get back to the car.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, that's a good idea, and I'm getting cold.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
How long would it take to move the sort of
load you had on this truck from one truck to
another at least half an hour.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Why I'm trying to figure out what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Well, it's plain enough they made a big hole the
first time, so they tried it again and then no, no, no, no.
Hijackers don't rob just any truck. They always have information
about which trucks they're carrying valuable cargoes.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Nick, this truck didn't have a valuable cargo, which proves
mister Carter is wrong for the second time tonight, young lady.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The second time, didn't you say that lest corner was
mixed up for the hijackers? I did well the fact
that they had to kill him to get the cargo crews,
You were wrong there too, Oh, mister Barkler. Hijackers didn't
care less in order to get that worthless cargo. They
stole the cargo in order.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
To cover up his murder.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You mean the less urdue. He couldn't talk about the
first rob er exactly what truck woul hijacked to make
it look like another holder. Oh, you're crazy? Who knew
what was on that first truck and what ruder was
going to take? Let's do and were a superintended to
even before he cook over his driver? What that's all?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
What didn't anyone else know?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Absolutely not, not even you.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, yes, of course I knew, Betsy. When we got
back to town.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Remind me to call the newspapers. Call the newspapers. Why
because you could locate all sorts of things to a
newspaper at and maybe if we advertise, we can.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Locate a murderers.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Hey, maybe listen to this In the personal column. Wanted
to contact motorists who were driving west from Devers Springs
Friday night between eleven thirty pm and one o'clock.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Called Surry nine oh five.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Where we were on that road?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
About them? Yeah, let me write that number down. Maybe
I can help this guy out. Yes, mister Habit, I'm
trying to get information about a trailer truck that was
parked just beyond the top of a long hill ten
miles west of Dever Springs Friday night, Barton motor freight truck. Yes,
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did you see, I'll say I did. I got stuck
behind it at the bottom of the hill and I
had to go all the way up and low. That's
why I remember the name.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Do you remember what time that ross to Hades.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
As a matter of fact, I had the car radio
on waiting for the twelve thirty news. It started just
as I went around him at the top of the hill.
Was there another truck on the hill at the same time, No,
just one other passenger car and me if we were
both stuck behind the truck? It said there was another
passenger car. Yeah, and you know there was something funny
about that too. What was that? Well? I stopped about
(12:54):
a mile farther on. Of course, I thought I had
a flap, But neither the truck nor the other car
ever did pass me.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Made the car turned off on a side row there
were already on that stretch.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Well, what thought of a car was it? You know?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It was behind me. All I could see was the headlights.
And afterwards Mabel and I wondered what happened to it.
I think I know what happened to it, mister Heven.
In fact of what you've told me, I think I
know the answered to a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
What's the idea of exploring the base in this gold warehouse?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Oh, I thought it might be interesting to see what's
down here on the unused part of it. Oh, but
it's like a dungeon.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Down here, I can sell take something right across my foot,
probably a rat.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
A rat.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Oh dear, I.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Thought we'd runner unrets. That's why I wanted you to
wear slacks, and you were heavy walking through. Oh but honestly,
this part of the building is alive with them.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Here.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Let's see what's on the other side of this door.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You seem to know exactly where you're going.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
To where through the flash lights? See those marks in
the dusk. Okay, well, I'm following you.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
But if you asked, mister Barton, you probably would have
sent somebody along to to clear the rats.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Out of the way through it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Didn't want to barking run anybody else to know. We'd
be snooping around.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
This part of the building.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And oh, here's another door, so we go through that too.
Oh golly, it's musty in here.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah. It must have been used for storage rooms when
the place was a brewery. Oh, dick, it's another rat.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Look, Pats, you insisted on coming along.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
But hey, they still use this room for storage. It
full of boxes and cream.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, let's see what they are.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
My Belle's kitchen wear fried herrings, So I say, flam
shade that's the.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Cargo that was supposed to be stolen from less guard
a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Last night, and it wasn't so at all.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Say that again, Oh my truck was unloaded before I
never left the warehouse.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Red red Charity.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, I don't read the apocket at Socatta. You couldn't
draw up very fast wearing a heavy glove my.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Gunn dame, that you're right now.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I were these glove for protection against four footed rats.
Read can you you hijacked your own truck? Guess then
mudded his own partner. That jerk wasn't my partner. I
gave less a chance to get in on a deal.
But he was a nice little boy that didn't believe
in taking things that didn't belong to him. You were
saying that less Garner wasn't mixed up in that first robbery.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
He would have been his partner.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Let him drive that night, but he didn't really want
any part of it. That's why he started drinking.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But he was there that night. The red play on
his car proved it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
He was there trying to chalk me out of it.
He said, he was a peeling to my better nature.
Now that's how you got shot. There was a fight. Now,
I just left the jerk and sent him back to town.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Then, who shocked you?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I put that bullet hole in my arm myself, just
to night Tho'll hold up? Looked like the mccolly for
thirty thousand dollars cargo it was worth.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And then when you learned that Nick was suspicious of rest,
you killed him.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's right. Jolly Fish would have spilled everything if he'd
been pinched. So I unloaded the truck, told him the
schedule had been changed and that he was to pick
up a load in Pittburgh. And when he left, I
followed his truck, flagged it down and got of them.
Won't be so weed, they're getting rid of us, Red, No, No,
anybody hears shots coming from this part of the build.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Are you kid?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You can shoot off a cannon down here without nobody
hearing it outside? No, No, I got a better idea. Yeah,
what is it? You're going to get locked pins down
here by accident? Oh no, wait a minute, Red, Sorry,
cot Hey, don't come back and see you again in
a couple of years. Red sick, what.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Get away from the door. I want to try them,
but we can't work. Well, let's don't mean a thing
against the door like that. But nobody knows he's here.
Nobody will come looking first.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
We've got to break out of here somehow.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
We can't break out, Sae.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
If we yell out enough, somebody will hear us.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
See, these walls are over a footstick. No one can
possibly hear us.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
No one can possibly Oh, Nick, think's like bringing it
to him.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Sick, quick, tell me is all right? Locked in a
forgotten basement room of the old brewery, unable to break
out or make themselves heard, Nick and Patsy are faced
with almost certain death. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now for the conclusion of the case of
(17:22):
the Martyred Rat. Today's adventure with Nick.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Carter, brought to you by new post war old.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Dutch cleanser Red Kennedy, has left Nick and Patsy to
die locked in a small, windowless basement room deep inside
the old Brewery. Now, Nick examined the door with his flashlight.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Okay, can you do anything with the lost me.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Written to me? Lock on this side, not even a keel,
that's all on the other side.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Only somebody you would come here? Another rat they're all over.
Hey rats, Yes, for.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Rats, for pety. Those rats must come from somewhere, and
these are brick walls. There has to be a Yes,
there it is a grain pipe. Here, hold the flashlight.
When I moved some of these boxes.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You got an idea how we can get and said,
this included a ship with the rat pois.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah's shine a light on this box.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Sure, keel rat poison.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
They die outside outside, patty, and the rats can get
outside through the drain pipe.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Oh, but what good of that you was?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Look?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
When I was a kid, I used to make rabbit
traps out of a box, a sticking a piece of string.
But you prop the box up with a sting and
tie the string to it. Then when the rabbit goes
under the box after the base, you'll pull the string
and the box falls down on top of it. I
still don't see. If we can get some of these
rats into a trap, maybe they'll get us out of
the trap we're in.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Oh, Nick, what time?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Four o'clock in the afternoon? Been in here twenty three hours? Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I guess it is more sidy crazy not. It was
such a nice scheme to time messages. The legs of
those rats, then letting them eat the rat poison and
came into the grain pipes.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Garn it. One or two of them must have got
to the boxes containing a poison, said he almost gone
onto the open air to die.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, maybe they died and nobody found.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Maybe list.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
That party's fun, I'd tell you, Cornard.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
When old Imlish Kidery brought me that dead rat with
a message tied to its leg, I thought he was crazy.
I don't blame you, mister Barton. I gamble on the chance,
but Kerry had either shoot or find one that had
a message tied to it. Well, it turned out to
be a good gamble. But why did you think you
would find the stolen cargo where you gave the gud
Garner's truck was seen climbing the hill at twelve thirty,
just fifteen minutes before his body was found, And you'd
(20:00):
so as.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It would take at me thirty minutes to unload the truck.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
That's why I figured that truck must have been empty
when it left the warehouse. I see then, when I
heard about the car that followed Donner up the hill,
but no farther, I was pretty sure the driver of
it was the one who killed Connor? Why? Well, there
was nothing wrong with the truck, which meant that Donner
wouldn't have stopped without being flagged.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Down and by somebody he knew.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, you're right there. He wouldn't have stopped for a stranger.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
It also had to be somebody who worked here, mister Barkin.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Sure, otherwise the driver of that car wouldn't have known
the route and he wouldn't have had a chance to
unload the truck before it pulled out of here. Well,
it could have been me, of course. I don't think
I didn't think of you or you did.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Did you? Of course I did?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
But I checked your alibi and you didn't do very
well in that panofful game, did you, mister Barton.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's why you didn't care to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Well, all the way, Rads confessed that the first car,
well the one of was hijacked when he was driving,
is hidden in an old barn nearby.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You better stand out a trust for it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, I'll do that right away. And Connor, I got
to give you credit. You did a fine job.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
There's just one thing.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, what's that passy?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I still load rests, but I feel kind of sorry
for the one that's got a message through.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
We poisoned him and then he saved our lives.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Will he was a martyr and a good cause. Miss
Boyne will bury him with honor, Yes, Percy, and every
year and this day you can put a piece of
cheese in his grip.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And now.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The winners of the four nineteen forty eight Super DeLux
forty eight four door sedans in the fourth new Post
War Old Touch Cleanser Jingle Contest with pos my twentieth
Beck you mind if I make the awards this week?
Sorry Mike, but it has been just too much fun
giving away for it.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Okay, go to it, try and stop me.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well, folks, here are the lucky people who get brand
new Forge this week, Missus Bruce Gordon, Box six three
six Hamilton, New York and Hall five five O oh
North Newland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Missus Theodore Payne e O
box or eight Washington for District of Columbia, and Missus
(22:14):
Verra Peter eight oh one seven North Whitney Road, Milwaukee eleven, Wisconsin.
And to all these fortunate folks, says well as to
all the other contest winners, let me say congratulations and
Remember we'll announced winners of the last week's contest as
soon as possible, so be sure to keep listening. And Nick,
that reminds me, what do you have in store.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
For us next week?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Something real exciting, Mike. You see, it all started when
an East Indian maharaja lost a one hundred carrot diamonds.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh no, me, it really started when the movie produces
John and disappeared.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Maybe so passy, but it was because of the diamond
that we found a dead body three thousand miles from
where it should have been. Take it easy. This is
getting too rich for my blood.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What do you call this story?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I call it the Case of the Star of Evil.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutter Heatacking Company. It is produced and
directed by Jock McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith's Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Today's
script was written by Jim Parsons.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons
living or dead is purely coincidental. Because of the state
of our schools, the future of twenty eight million American
children is in peril. This means we must all work
to improve educational conditions because the future of these children
and their teachers is the future of America. This is
(23:40):
Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count us new post war
old Dutch pleanser. This is the mutual broadcasting system.
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