October 19, 2025 • 29 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You postwar old Dutch cleaner, famous fort chasing Dirk presents
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characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective Patsy.
This case has been solved by a talking typewriter.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Did you say a talking typewriter.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
As Petsy I did. What's more, this typewriter talked about
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Today's adventure starring lawn Clock as Nick Carter, brought to
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you by a new postwar old Dutch cleanser. A pretty
girl named Jeane White rushes up the rickety stairs of
an ancient office building in the older part of Pound.
She pushes open the door marked Wallace White Contractor and
enters Wally.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Wally, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
System, take a look at this, take a look at
what my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
When you for me to rush over, it sounds if
you'd finally got a contract.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I have, Geene, I have. I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh, Wally, after all these months, I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh say you didn't think Wallace White and five at
first Class could turn into Wallace White Contractor.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hey, well, here's my first job, says Oh, that's great.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Because Marbola's company's building a ten story garage down on
the northwest corner of Ninth Avenue on Ninth Street. Here
here's the architect set of blueprints. But how did you
get them. Well, they asked me to submit a bid,
so I sent for them, and I submitted a bid
that it's got to be the lowest I can't lose.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, Wally, that's wonderful. Hey wait a minute, since when
are they tearing down the movie house?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What movie house?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You one on the northwest corner of ninth aven You're
on ninth Street.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh, you're crazy. There is no movie house there. That's
an empty line.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh no, it isn't. Remember I lived in Greenwich Village
when I first came to town, when I roamed with Patsy.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Bowen, the girl who works for Nick Connor.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, that's right. And there's a movie house right where
this garage is supposed to go. I know that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, wait a minute, I know the village too. It's
a vacant lot.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It is not. The vacant lot is at tenth Street.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The movie house is at tenth Street.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
All right, wise guy, come on down to the village
and i'll prove your raw.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well, this is ninth Avenue and tenth Street, and there's
the movie house on the corner.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just as I say, golly, I could have sworn. Wait
a minute, Wally, we're both right. There's the vacant lot
across the street, also at Ninth Avenue. Intent. Golly, the
village is so twisted and mixed up. You can never
remember anything about. What's the matter.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
There's something fishy here?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Fishy?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, there isn't any intersection of Ninth Avenue and Ninth Street.
What we take a look for yourself. The avenue runs
into the village square and ends. Ninth Street is below
the square.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It doesn't even come close to the avenue.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The blueprints set.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, it says that a garage is going to be
built on imaginary land, but there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Just isn't any such street corner. I don't understand, Wally.
Is this some kind of a gag or something.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, if it is, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I paid a fifty dollars deposit to the Cosmopolis Company
on these blueprints.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Do you think something is crooked, Wally? It sure looks
that way.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But Wally, Jean, do you think Patsy Bowen could get
us into see nic Carter, even if it's a case
involving only fifty dollars?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Gee, I don't know. We could try.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, then let's try.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
We gotta get help from somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In the first place, mister Whitt, there's no such thing
as a case too small for me to investigate. Understand that.
But I can't pay him, mister Carter.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You see, Wally hasn't earned much money since he's been
out of the army. He's trying to get started in
the contracting business.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's why I don't charge folks. I want to help
if they can't afford to pay.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh, mister Carter, you're you're excuse me, but I've got
to do this. Hey, what's the idea kissing my balls? There?
I'm his Why I just had to show you my gratitude.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, we enter that on a new file card, mark Wallace.
Fee one kiss paid in advance, and that's a fee
it'll be a pleasure to earn.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That is what I call an ambiguous crack.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right, then suppose we skip it. You know why?
If because mapulist companies and the racket I think it is,
it'll be a pleasure to smash it. What recket do
you think that is, mister Connor. I figure they've sent
out blueprints to contractors all over this part of the country,
and those blueprints are for buildings no one ever intends
to build. But I paid a fifty dollars deposit for
those times. The crooks that you paid your money to
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have no intention of returning it. Oh I, they don't
care what you do with the blueprints. Court them only
a few cents. You motify fifty dollars by a couple
of hundred gullible contractors, and you have quite a racket,
a racket which is repeated in city after city.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, Nick, what are you going to do about it?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
First thing, Patsy is they were going down to the
mailing address or the Chausmopolis company. They're legitimate, Okay they're not? Yes,
then I'm going to earn that kiss.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Good afternoon, please. I'm Doris Foster.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm Nick Carter. This is my secretary of Patsy Bowen.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Nick Carter, the detective.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's right. Tell me, miss Foster, what's your connection with
the Cosmopolis Company? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
None, really, Miss Harris. My boss rents out this office
as a mailing address. She has several clients, and the
Cosmopoulus Company is one of them. Why is there any
mail for them?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, yes, yes there is.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Let me see it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Please, really, mister Carter, I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm not going to open the mail. I just want
to look at it. May I see it? Please?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But why?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Because there's a chance that the Cosmopolis company may be
running a racket. I want to check.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You mean they're doing something crooked. That's the audio. Oh
my gosh, this is awful. I mean, here's the meal.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Thanks. I'll turn out that light for your passy.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Uh huh like this?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yes, that's fine. Thanks. Eleven letters here, the strong light
behind them. It looks as though each one contains a
check or money order. I guess that's all the proof
we need, passy.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
How is that proof need? Wally White isn't the only
contractor in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
True enough, But a legitimate firm wouldn't be requesting construction
bids from so many different contractors. This is a racket,
all right. Oh and you're right in the middle of
Miss Foster.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now listen, mister Carter, I only worked here for a
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't bing up the mail for Chrismopolis.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
A man named Nixon.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Do you know anything about this Nixon? His address, how
to get in touch with him? No?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But he usually comes in every afternoon, my time, anytime.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
All right, we won't trouble you anymore, Miss Foster.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But we'll certainly trouble that mister Nixon when he comes in.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh uh, Miss Foster, when Nixon comes in, give him
this mail. I'd be careful not to say anything about me.
I understand.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh yes, mister Carter, all right, come.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
On, passy. Huh. Looks as if I'm not going to
earn that kiss after all. Jean White will have to
give it to Uncle Sam. Step around the corner of
the hall. Passy.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
What was that crack about, Uncle Sam?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Nick? This is a federal case, illegal use of the mail.
Got to notify the FBI. This isn't for us. Oh,
but I'm not taking any chances on this Nixon. In
the meantime, when over here, why I want to look
in this broom closet? But what for? Tell you in
a minute?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh no, no, Nick, what's all the mystery?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
See that vent later up there. Yes, there's also a
battle letter in the office where Ms. Foster is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I didn't notice it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well I did, and we should be able to hear
anything that's said in there from right here.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But I can't hear anything mortually.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Ms Foster's in there long. She's not talking to anybody.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What do you intend to do? Just stand here until
somebody comes in and starts to talk.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, I'm leaving you here, and I'm sending Scubby over
with a portable wire recorder. You too should be able
to get that grill off and hold the microphone right
up against the grill on the other wall.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Gee, it's pretty high up mee.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Scubby will give you a boost. Sure, I want you
to try to record everything that's said in that office.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We'll do our darnis Nick. But what's the.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Idea that foster girl looked flustered?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
She was.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'm sure she won't be able to keep her mouth
shut when she sees Nixon. She may be provoked into
saying something valuable.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And when Nixon leaves, Scubby tails in her.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, you're a smart girl, Patsy. When Scubby leaves, you
report back to the office. We'll turn over everything we
got on this case to the government. Man. What's the joke?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, I just can't wait to see you turn over
to an FBI man. That kiss Jane gave you, Well, guys,
Pozzy office going Gosh, Miss Harris, I'm awful glad you
(10:01):
came in. Something terrible's just happened what's the matter of doors?
So I'm afraid we're mixed up in some kind of racket,
Miss Harris. Nick Carter was just here, Nick Carter, what
did he want? He was doing some investigating for a
man named Wally White. Mister Carter said, those Becausmopolis people
are some kind of crooks. And I think mister Carter's
going to wait until mister Nixon calls for his mail
and then do something to it. I'll take it easy, Doris.
(10:21):
If that Nixon is a crook, I'll get rid of
him fast enough. Oh gosh, Miss Harris has got me
so upset, I Doris, why don't you take the rest
of the day off. I'll take care of things here
at the arfics, Miss Harris. Honestly, I'm so shaky I
couldn't type anymore today. Don't worry. I'll finish up for you. Gosh,
you swell. It's a pleasure working for you, even if
I have only been here a few weeks. Oh, mister Nixon,
(10:46):
my boss has something to tell you. Mister Nixon. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, what's the matter with her?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Your mail is on the desk, mister Nixon.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Why, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Thanks, I'll trouble you to take your mail out of
here and take yourself too.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Never mind what I'm talking about. Just understand that I'm
severing relations with your company as of today. I don't
want anything more to do with you, Miss Nixon, or
the Cosmopolis Company.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, okay, I don't know why you're sore at me
all of a sudden, but it's okay with me. You
ain't the only public steno in this city.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Quite right, Miss Nixon. Goodbye, Nick?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Nick, you're back yet?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Go back to the ago? Then talking with a Justice Department?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Do they know about Nixon?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They're hot on his trail? Active? Then after him for
over a year? Oh and tell me he always operates
with the same girl. They were an old team. Doris Foster,
the girl in the office. Yes, what makes you so sure?
Did she tell Nixon anything?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Listening, Doris Foster pretend to be upset by your visit.
She went home for the day and left the office
to a borse, a woman named fran Harris. Then Nixon
came in for his mail and fran Harris didn't say
a thing to him, just told him to get out.
That's so I'll bet Doris Foster pull that act just
to get a chance to warn him.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Maybe it's gobby tail Nixon when he.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Left, huh, he went right out after him. Maybe I
wasn't thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Can't you imagine me cooped up in a dark closet
with a scubby. He kept asking me to marry him
every two minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Huh. He didn't say yes, did you?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Not? Well, what about this fran Harris?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But she kept her mouth shutting. It just gave Nixon
the frieze. Told him to take his mail and never
come back.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
She did.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Uh huh. I've got the recording here, but he won't
do any good. Nixon didn't say anything incriminating.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Minscubbies are only lead. I hope you can hold on
a Nixon.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Oh, you'll report back as soon as he gets the chance.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Nick Carter speaking, mister Carter, this is Gene White.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yes, gee, you've got to come up to my brother's
office right away.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What's the Mtter.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
He's been shot. I think he's dead murdered.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Nick and Patsy leave the office of to run, jump
into Nix convertible and drive swiftly toward Wallace White's office.
We'll see what happens next in just a moment, Ladies,
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on the floor while Jean pours out her story.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We were just sitting here, mister Carter, talking about the
missing street, wondering whether you get well these bloody easy jeene.
All of a sudden there was a shot to the
glass pen and the door. Wally just slumped out of
his chair. I called you right away.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's a good thing you did, Jean. Wally's badly hurt,
but he isn't dead.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Who thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Bullet through the lung, missus hart Lie fraction of an inch?
I think Patsy get on the phone and get an
ambulance here.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Past right, Nay. I can't understand that, mister.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Neither can I, Jean, mister tempted. Murder doesn't make sense.
True enough, Wally made the move that uncovered Nixon's blueprint racket.
It's true that Nixon can get about seven years in
the federal penitentiary. He's caught, but that doesn't that have
to murder. It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
The ambulance coming, Nick.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh good, the place has happened to Scubby. He was
on Nixon's tail. How did he let him shoot Wally?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Maybe he just waded downstairs when Nixon came up here.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
He couldn't be that stupid, he explained to her about
the case, didn't you. Of course I did, Nick, And
he knew that this was Wally's address. Of course he'd
follow Nixon up the stairs to see what he was after.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Uh, we'll hold on here until the ambulance takes over,
and we'll hustle back to the office and see whether
we can find Scubby. I want to hear what he's
got to say.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh wait a minute, Nick, you said this was a
federal case. It isn't our business.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
A mail fraud part isn't. And we'll bow out on that.
An attempted murder. It was something else, Patsy, that's all.
It was my business, Scubby. Hire folks, Scubby, what the
deuce are you doing here in the office? Where's Nixon?
(16:25):
Gen Nick? I'm sorry he got away from me, got
away from you. Yeah, I lost him and let him.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Go up to Wali White's office and pump a bullet
into him. What, Scubby? I hate you. Don't you ever
propose to me again?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
How easy? Passy? What happened, Scubby?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I tell Nixon out of the building. I swear he
never saw me. Then he got into a cab and
I followed the cab all the way up to the
city line. But when we got there, Nixon was an
inn it old dodge. Eh went in one door of
the cab and ran on out the other. Must have
seen you, scubby. Oh how could he? I wasn't tailing
him for more than a minute. Maybe he's smarter than
we think. Oh well, gen Nick, all right, all right,
we've lost our lead with Nixon. Let's find another Patsy.
(17:00):
Let me hear that. Why are recording?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Well, there isn't anything on it, all right, let's hear
it anyway. Okay, here it goes. Oh, mister Nixon, I
have my boss had something to tell you. Mister Nixon,
good bye.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh what's the matter with her?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Your LEO is on the desk, mister Nixon.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh yeah, thanks, I'll trouble.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
To take the mail out of here to take yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What are you talking about? Just understand, but I.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Have severing relations with your company as of today.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I don't want anything more to me or the Cosmos. Okay, okay,
I don't know why you're sword all of a sudden,
but it's okay with me. You ain't the only public
steadle in the city quite right? Goodbye? Well how about that?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
See you're wrong, Nick, We didn't learn any thing.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I repeat, how about that?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well did we?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What time is it, Passy? That's time enough to go
down and have another interview with fran Harris. That girl
didn't talk, but maybe she can help us find Nixon
another way.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I hope we're in time, Nick, I think we are.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What now, Nick, it's got You're going upstairs? Wait the
corder outside fran Harris's office. She leaves the office. Stay
with her. Check. We'll wait here and pick you up.
When you come out. I'll get going, you bet, And
this time I don't give food. Passie has going that
drug store there? We need a phone. The phone, right,
I'm going to interview miss Harris and the telephone and
when I finished, wild Horses won't be able to keep
her in that office. One minute longer, one cheese? I
(19:11):
come on, then, be pretty crool.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I don't mind, Okay, come on, Nick, What are you
going to say to Frian Harris when you get her
on the phone.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
First of all, I'm going to try to sound like Nixon.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
But what are you going to say?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Anything that comes into my head? Just as long as
it doesn't make sense to me. Muffled the phone with
your handkerchief, so I can have my other hand freeze.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Sure, but I don't get it quiet.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'll have her in a second. Okay, Hello, oh hello,
miss Harris?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yes, who's this?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
This is a Crodison trying a set of company calling.
The time of day, just the curbas ef ectancy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Why the double part?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I don't think you do you, Miss Harris? Oh? Please
understand the way it means released. I want to say
it again the twice time when he went inside of
the office he did. He didn't get that, and he did.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm afraid I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I wouldn't if I were the type that jue. It's
per make a ridiculous isn't the time I went in there?
WI should at least because listening is understanding, which is
a sensible way, isn't it? You have the wrong number? Goodbye? Ah?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
She hung up me. What were you tapping your ring
against the phone for all the time you were talking?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I was part of the interview. Come on, Brian, Harris
will be shooting out of her office any minute, and
we've got to be in the car ready to follow her.
She's turning down four Street. Nick, right, we'll stay with her.
I wish I knew what you said to her on
the phone. She came scooting out of her office. I
(20:45):
gave her some double talk, double.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Talking with Nixon's voice or a reasonable facsimile, and well
he took Nick also tapped on the phone with his
ring though.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I wish I could figure out your tricks, NICKI yeah, good.
Group's good too, and that wouldn't be so good. Heads
up now, Brand just ducked into that law building.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Are we going in after it?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We are. We're going to move fast, or we'll lose her.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I can hear Nick. She's still running up the stairs.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Ahead of us, robbably headed for the top floor. What
she got to do with Nixon and Doris Foster you'll
find out?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Is she so because they were using her office for
the racking.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Let's keep extra quiet. Please stop for coming up.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Do you think Nixon's inside that lot?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I hope so. But what do we do a simple thing?
Just knock on the door and go in. After we're inside,
we'll take him. Well, suppose he puts up the fight.
Don't forget what he did to Wally White. I'm not
forgetting Wally White, but Nick, you can't right.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
On right now, stop here, Nixon, open up, Open up, Nixon.
I want to talk to you quick.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I was wrong. There's going to be a fight, maybe
another murder. Nick, Patsy and Scubby crouched on the floor.
A shot splinter the plant door. We'll see what happens
in just a moment. Friends, we won't be with you
again until next week, so we take this opportunity to
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the blueprint plant, Nick, Patsy and Scubby hug the floor
as bullets smashed through the door over their heads.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We've got do something, Nick.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That's friend Harris. I'm coming in, Miss Harris.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
N you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Are you crazy? He'll drop you as soon as you
go through that door? How here I come? Nixon? All right?
Didn't come into Patsy. Nixon's dead dead. Nixon's dead with
a bullet through his heart. As ran over against the wall.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You got here just in time, mister Carter. Nixon was
going to kill me.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's no use, Miss Harris. You made a good try,
but it didn't work. A good try. How could Nixon
be dead with a bullet through his heart when I
never fired a shot. We're hoping I would shoot, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
He he killed himself when you said you were coming in.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh no, he didn't. Friend You put a bullet into
him and stage the whole act. Too bad? I followed
up the lead so quickly, isn't it you were hoping
he'd be framed for the murder of Wally White?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You mean she she shot waalllly?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I told you that murder didn't make sense. Patsy but
he did as soon as I discovered fran was in
the racket with Nixon was using Doris as a front.
That's not true, and Doris was illocently she was scubby.
When we started investigating the fraud pulled on Wally White,
she got scared and reported it to fran Harris, and
Franz suddenly got a bright idea. What do you mean?
You figured that if you killed Wally with Nixon's gun,
you could blame the killing on Nixon, and a ballistics
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test would show that it was Nixon's gun and he'd
be executed for murder. Then you could take over the racket.
You're a liar, friend. Whether or not we can prove
that you killed Wally makes no difference, because we can
prove you killed Nixon just now you cannot. Oh, yes
we can. You see, friend, there's no gun within Nixon's
reach as he lies there dead, and there are also
no powder marks on him to indicate suicide. Therefore, the
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only person who could have killed him is you.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, you'll never prove anything.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Don't bother to argue, fran A criminal court will set
up look for you and settle it good. With the
evidence I have from now on a prison cell is
going to be your mailing address.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Nick, there are a couple.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Of points about what Betsy.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well, you say Fran, Harris and Nixon worked this racket together.
That's right. Then you mean that whenever Nixon started this
racket in a new city, Fran went on ahead and
rented an office so we could have a mailing address.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Sure. She also hired a girl to work for as
a snographer. A girl, of course, knew nothing about the racket.
She just knew that she worked for friends.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Uh huh, Yeah, But how did you figure out the
tie up between Fran and Nixon?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The minute I heard that wire recording, I knew that
they were working together.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But she didn't say anything, Nick, She didn't, But.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Her typewriter said plenty. Her typewriter m She was typing
in code all the time. She was talking in code.
That's right. What she and Nixon had it worked out
for emergencies. She was afraid someone might be listening outside,
so she tapped on a message on her typewriter in
international code. Nick Carter snooping around, played dumb and go
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back to the plants.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So that's how Nixon knew Scubby was tailing here, correct,
And that's how you got it to lead us to
the plant. While you were talking double talk to her,
you were also tapping a message.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
To her with your ring right again.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
All I said was Nixon calling emergency, come to plant immediately.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And when she heard us outside the loft door, she
realized she'd been followed.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Exactly, and she tried her last desperate trick. She killed
Nixon and then fired a few more shots and pretended
she was an innocent victim about to be murdered.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, but you didn't fall for it, which finished the case.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, not quite. We've got to go around to the
hospital and see Wally White.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Ah, got a present for Jeans.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, but I've got a reward for Wally.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
A Justice department was offering one thousand dollars for information
leading to the rest of Nixon, and I'm seeing to
it that Wally collects.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh that's swell.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He lost money on a missing street right now he's
going to collect done a missing crook. Nick, how about
a hint or two on what new post World Dutch
clencher has in star for us next week? Well, Bob,
the only thing I can tell you is something I'm
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afraid you won't believe. Well if you see it, well
I'll believe it. Go on and tell me. Okay, then
it's the story of a man who was shot and
killed by a stained glass window, killed by a Now, Nick,
wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh well, Bob, you can't say Nick didn't warn you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But that sounds absolutely crazy. What do you call the story, Nick?
I call it the case of the Devil's left Eye.
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you by a new postwar old Dutch cleanser. A pretty
girl named Jeane White rushes up the rickety stairs of
an ancient office building in the older part of Pound.
She pushes open the door marked Wallace White Contractor and
enters Wally.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Wally, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
System, take a look at this, take a look at
what my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
When you for me to rush over, it sounds if
you'd finally got a contract.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I have, Geene, I have. I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh, Wally, after all these months, I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh say you didn't think Wallace White and five at
first Class could turn into Wallace White Contractor.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hey, well, here's my first job, says Oh, that's great.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Because Marbola's company's building a ten story garage down on
the northwest corner of Ninth Avenue on Ninth Street. Here
here's the architect set of blueprints. But how did you
get them. Well, they asked me to submit a bid,
so I sent for them, and I submitted a bid
that it's got to be the lowest I can't lose.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, Wally, that's wonderful. Hey wait a minute, since when
are they tearing down the movie house?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What movie house?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You one on the northwest corner of ninth aven You're
on ninth Street.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh, you're crazy. There is no movie house there. That's
an empty line.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh no, it isn't. Remember I lived in Greenwich Village
when I first came to town, when I roamed with Patsy.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Bowen, the girl who works for Nick Connor.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, that's right. And there's a movie house right where
this garage is supposed to go. I know that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, wait a minute, I know the village too. It's
a vacant lot.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It is not. The vacant lot is at tenth Street.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The movie house is at tenth Street.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
All right, wise guy, come on down to the village
and i'll prove your raw.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well, this is ninth Avenue and tenth Street, and there's
the movie house on the corner.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just as I say, golly, I could have sworn. Wait
a minute, Wally, we're both right. There's the vacant lot
across the street, also at Ninth Avenue. Intent. Golly, the
village is so twisted and mixed up. You can never
remember anything about. What's the matter.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
There's something fishy here?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Fishy?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, there isn't any intersection of Ninth Avenue and Ninth Street.
What we take a look for yourself. The avenue runs
into the village square and ends. Ninth Street is below
the square.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It doesn't even come close to the avenue.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The blueprints set.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, it says that a garage is going to be
built on imaginary land, but there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Just isn't any such street corner. I don't understand, Wally.
Is this some kind of a gag or something.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, if it is, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I paid a fifty dollars deposit to the Cosmopolis Company
on these blueprints.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Do you think something is crooked, Wally? It sure looks
that way.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But Wally, Jean, do you think Patsy Bowen could get
us into see nic Carter, even if it's a case
involving only fifty dollars?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Gee, I don't know. We could try.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, then let's try.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
We gotta get help from somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In the first place, mister Whitt, there's no such thing
as a case too small for me to investigate. Understand that.
But I can't pay him, mister Carter.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You see, Wally hasn't earned much money since he's been
out of the army. He's trying to get started in
the contracting business.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's why I don't charge folks. I want to help
if they can't afford to pay.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh, mister Carter, you're you're excuse me, but I've got
to do this. Hey, what's the idea kissing my balls? There?
I'm his Why I just had to show you my gratitude.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, we enter that on a new file card, mark Wallace.
Fee one kiss paid in advance, and that's a fee
it'll be a pleasure to earn.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That is what I call an ambiguous crack.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right, then suppose we skip it. You know why?
If because mapulist companies and the racket I think it is,
it'll be a pleasure to smash it. What recket do
you think that is, mister Connor. I figure they've sent
out blueprints to contractors all over this part of the country,
and those blueprints are for buildings no one ever intends
to build. But I paid a fifty dollars deposit for
those times. The crooks that you paid your money to
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have no intention of returning it. Oh I, they don't
care what you do with the blueprints. Court them only
a few cents. You motify fifty dollars by a couple
of hundred gullible contractors, and you have quite a racket,
a racket which is repeated in city after city.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, Nick, what are you going to do about it?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
First thing, Patsy is they were going down to the
mailing address or the Chausmopolis company. They're legitimate, Okay they're not? Yes,
then I'm going to earn that kiss.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Good afternoon, please. I'm Doris Foster.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm Nick Carter. This is my secretary of Patsy Bowen.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Nick Carter, the detective.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's right. Tell me, miss Foster, what's your connection with
the Cosmopolis Company? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
None, really, Miss Harris. My boss rents out this office
as a mailing address. She has several clients, and the
Cosmopoulus Company is one of them. Why is there any
mail for them?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, yes, yes there is.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Let me see it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Please, really, mister Carter, I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm not going to open the mail. I just want
to look at it. May I see it? Please?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But why?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Because there's a chance that the Cosmopolis company may be
running a racket. I want to check.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You mean they're doing something crooked. That's the audio. Oh
my gosh, this is awful. I mean, here's the meal.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Thanks. I'll turn out that light for your passy.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Uh huh like this?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yes, that's fine. Thanks. Eleven letters here, the strong light
behind them. It looks as though each one contains a
check or money order. I guess that's all the proof
we need, passy.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
How is that proof need? Wally White isn't the only
contractor in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
True enough, But a legitimate firm wouldn't be requesting construction
bids from so many different contractors. This is a racket,
all right. Oh and you're right in the middle of
Miss Foster.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now listen, mister Carter, I only worked here for a
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't bing up the mail for Chrismopolis.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
A man named Nixon.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Do you know anything about this Nixon? His address, how
to get in touch with him? No?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But he usually comes in every afternoon, my time, anytime.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
All right, we won't trouble you anymore, Miss Foster.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But we'll certainly trouble that mister Nixon when he comes in.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh uh, Miss Foster, when Nixon comes in, give him
this mail. I'd be careful not to say anything about me.
I understand.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh yes, mister Carter, all right, come.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
On, passy. Huh. Looks as if I'm not going to
earn that kiss after all. Jean White will have to
give it to Uncle Sam. Step around the corner of
the hall. Passy.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
What was that crack about, Uncle Sam?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Nick? This is a federal case, illegal use of the mail.
Got to notify the FBI. This isn't for us. Oh,
but I'm not taking any chances on this Nixon. In
the meantime, when over here, why I want to look
in this broom closet? But what for? Tell you in
a minute?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh no, no, Nick, what's all the mystery?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
See that vent later up there. Yes, there's also a
battle letter in the office where Ms. Foster is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I didn't notice it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well I did, and we should be able to hear
anything that's said in there from right here.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But I can't hear anything mortually.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Ms Foster's in there long. She's not talking to anybody.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What do you intend to do? Just stand here until
somebody comes in and starts to talk.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, I'm leaving you here, and I'm sending Scubby over
with a portable wire recorder. You too should be able
to get that grill off and hold the microphone right
up against the grill on the other wall.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Gee, it's pretty high up mee.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Scubby will give you a boost. Sure, I want you
to try to record everything that's said in that office.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We'll do our darnis Nick. But what's the.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Idea that foster girl looked flustered?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
She was.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'm sure she won't be able to keep her mouth
shut when she sees Nixon. She may be provoked into
saying something valuable.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And when Nixon leaves, Scubby tails in her.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, you're a smart girl, Patsy. When Scubby leaves, you
report back to the office. We'll turn over everything we
got on this case to the government. Man. What's the joke?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, I just can't wait to see you turn over
to an FBI man. That kiss Jane gave you, Well, guys,
Pozzy office going Gosh, Miss Harris, I'm awful glad you
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came in. Something terrible's just happened what's the matter of doors?
So I'm afraid we're mixed up in some kind of racket,
Miss Harris. Nick Carter was just here, Nick Carter, what
did he want? He was doing some investigating for a
man named Wally White. Mister Carter said, those Becausmopolis people
are some kind of crooks. And I think mister Carter's
going to wait until mister Nixon calls for his mail
and then do something to it. I'll take it easy, Doris.
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If that Nixon is a crook, I'll get rid of
him fast enough. Oh gosh, Miss Harris has got me
so upset, I Doris, why don't you take the rest
of the day off. I'll take care of things here
at the arfics, Miss Harris. Honestly, I'm so shaky I
couldn't type anymore today. Don't worry. I'll finish up for you. Gosh,
you swell. It's a pleasure working for you, even if
I have only been here a few weeks. Oh, mister Nixon,
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my boss has something to tell you. Mister Nixon. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, what's the matter with her?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Your mail is on the desk, mister Nixon.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Why, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Thanks, I'll trouble you to take your mail out of
here and take yourself too.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Never mind what I'm talking about. Just understand that I'm
severing relations with your company as of today. I don't
want anything more to do with you, Miss Nixon, or
the Cosmopolis Company.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, okay, I don't know why you're sore at me
all of a sudden, but it's okay with me. You
ain't the only public steno in this city.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Quite right, Miss Nixon. Goodbye, Nick?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Nick, you're back yet?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Go back to the ago? Then talking with a Justice Department?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Do they know about Nixon?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They're hot on his trail? Active? Then after him for
over a year? Oh and tell me he always operates
with the same girl. They were an old team. Doris Foster,
the girl in the office. Yes, what makes you so sure?
Did she tell Nixon anything?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Listening, Doris Foster pretend to be upset by your visit.
She went home for the day and left the office
to a borse, a woman named fran Harris. Then Nixon
came in for his mail and fran Harris didn't say
a thing to him, just told him to get out.
That's so I'll bet Doris Foster pull that act just
to get a chance to warn him.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Maybe it's gobby tail Nixon when he.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Left, huh, he went right out after him. Maybe I
wasn't thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Can't you imagine me cooped up in a dark closet
with a scubby. He kept asking me to marry him
every two minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Huh. He didn't say yes, did you?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Not? Well, what about this fran Harris?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But she kept her mouth shutting. It just gave Nixon
the frieze. Told him to take his mail and never
come back.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
She did.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Uh huh. I've got the recording here, but he won't
do any good. Nixon didn't say anything incriminating.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Minscubbies are only lead. I hope you can hold on
a Nixon.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Oh, you'll report back as soon as he gets the chance.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Nick Carter speaking, mister Carter, this is Gene White.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yes, gee, you've got to come up to my brother's
office right away.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What's the Mtter.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
He's been shot. I think he's dead murdered.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Nick and Patsy leave the office of to run, jump
into Nix convertible and drive swiftly toward Wallace White's office.
We'll see what happens next in just a moment, Ladies,
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on the floor while Jean pours out her story.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We were just sitting here, mister Carter, talking about the
missing street, wondering whether you get well these bloody easy jeene.
All of a sudden there was a shot to the
glass pen and the door. Wally just slumped out of
his chair. I called you right away.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's a good thing you did, Jean. Wally's badly hurt,
but he isn't dead.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Who thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Bullet through the lung, missus hart Lie fraction of an inch?
I think Patsy get on the phone and get an
ambulance here.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Past right, Nay. I can't understand that, mister.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Neither can I, Jean, mister tempted. Murder doesn't make sense.
True enough, Wally made the move that uncovered Nixon's blueprint racket.
It's true that Nixon can get about seven years in
the federal penitentiary. He's caught, but that doesn't that have
to murder. It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
The ambulance coming, Nick.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh good, the place has happened to Scubby. He was
on Nixon's tail. How did he let him shoot Wally?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Maybe he just waded downstairs when Nixon came up here.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
He couldn't be that stupid, he explained to her about
the case, didn't you. Of course I did, Nick, And
he knew that this was Wally's address. Of course he'd
follow Nixon up the stairs to see what he was after.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Uh, we'll hold on here until the ambulance takes over,
and we'll hustle back to the office and see whether
we can find Scubby. I want to hear what he's
got to say.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh wait a minute, Nick, you said this was a
federal case. It isn't our business.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
A mail fraud part isn't. And we'll bow out on that.
An attempted murder. It was something else, Patsy, that's all.
It was my business, Scubby. Hire folks, Scubby, what the
deuce are you doing here in the office? Where's Nixon?
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Gen Nick? I'm sorry he got away from me, got
away from you. Yeah, I lost him and let him.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Go up to Wali White's office and pump a bullet
into him. What, Scubby? I hate you. Don't you ever
propose to me again?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
How easy? Passy? What happened, Scubby?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I tell Nixon out of the building. I swear he
never saw me. Then he got into a cab and
I followed the cab all the way up to the
city line. But when we got there, Nixon was an
inn it old dodge. Eh went in one door of
the cab and ran on out the other. Must have
seen you, scubby. Oh how could he? I wasn't tailing
him for more than a minute. Maybe he's smarter than
we think. Oh well, gen Nick, all right, all right,
we've lost our lead with Nixon. Let's find another Patsy.
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Let me hear that. Why are recording?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Well, there isn't anything on it, all right, let's hear
it anyway. Okay, here it goes. Oh, mister Nixon, I
have my boss had something to tell you. Mister Nixon,
good bye.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh what's the matter with her?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Your LEO is on the desk, mister Nixon.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh yeah, thanks, I'll trouble.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
To take the mail out of here to take yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What are you talking about? Just understand, but I.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Have severing relations with your company as of today.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I don't want anything more to me or the Cosmos. Okay, okay,
I don't know why you're sword all of a sudden,
but it's okay with me. You ain't the only public
steadle in the city quite right? Goodbye? Well how about that?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
See you're wrong, Nick, We didn't learn any thing.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I repeat, how about that?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well did we?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What time is it, Passy? That's time enough to go
down and have another interview with fran Harris. That girl
didn't talk, but maybe she can help us find Nixon
another way.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I hope we're in time, Nick, I think we are.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What now, Nick, it's got You're going upstairs? Wait the
corder outside fran Harris's office. She leaves the office. Stay
with her. Check. We'll wait here and pick you up.
When you come out. I'll get going, you bet, And
this time I don't give food. Passie has going that
drug store there? We need a phone. The phone, right,
I'm going to interview miss Harris and the telephone and
when I finished, wild Horses won't be able to keep
her in that office. One minute longer, one cheese? I
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come on, then, be pretty crool.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I don't mind, Okay, come on, Nick, What are you
going to say to Frian Harris when you get her
on the phone.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
First of all, I'm going to try to sound like Nixon.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
But what are you going to say?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Anything that comes into my head? Just as long as
it doesn't make sense to me. Muffled the phone with
your handkerchief, so I can have my other hand freeze.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Sure, but I don't get it quiet.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'll have her in a second. Okay, Hello, oh hello,
miss Harris?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yes, who's this?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
This is a Crodison trying a set of company calling.
The time of day, just the curbas ef ectancy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Why the double part?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I don't think you do you, Miss Harris? Oh? Please
understand the way it means released. I want to say
it again the twice time when he went inside of
the office he did. He didn't get that, and he did.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm afraid I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I wouldn't if I were the type that jue. It's
per make a ridiculous isn't the time I went in there?
WI should at least because listening is understanding, which is
a sensible way, isn't it? You have the wrong number? Goodbye? Ah?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
She hung up me. What were you tapping your ring
against the phone for all the time you were talking?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I was part of the interview. Come on, Brian, Harris
will be shooting out of her office any minute, and
we've got to be in the car ready to follow her.
She's turning down four Street. Nick, right, we'll stay with her.
I wish I knew what you said to her on
the phone. She came scooting out of her office. I
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gave her some double talk, double.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Talking with Nixon's voice or a reasonable facsimile, and well
he took Nick also tapped on the phone with his
ring though.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I wish I could figure out your tricks, NICKI yeah, good.
Group's good too, and that wouldn't be so good. Heads
up now, Brand just ducked into that law building.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Are we going in after it?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We are. We're going to move fast, or we'll lose her.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I can hear Nick. She's still running up the stairs.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Ahead of us, robbably headed for the top floor. What
she got to do with Nixon and Doris Foster you'll
find out?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Is she so because they were using her office for
the racking.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Let's keep extra quiet. Please stop for coming up.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Do you think Nixon's inside that lot?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I hope so. But what do we do a simple thing?
Just knock on the door and go in. After we're inside,
we'll take him. Well, suppose he puts up the fight.
Don't forget what he did to Wally White. I'm not
forgetting Wally White, but Nick, you can't right.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
On right now, stop here, Nixon, open up, Open up, Nixon.
I want to talk to you quick.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I was wrong. There's going to be a fight, maybe
another murder. Nick, Patsy and Scubby crouched on the floor.
A shot splinter the plant door. We'll see what happens
in just a moment. Friends, we won't be with you
again until next week, so we take this opportunity to
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wish you the very best of everything for the new year.
Nineteen forty seven has seen America assume a role of
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look to us in the years ahead for strength and guidance.
So let us set the example by welcoming the coming
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the world on the paths of peace and righteousness. The
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makers of new Postwar Oldatch Cleanser, and the entire cast
of Nick Carter all join me in wishing you a
very happy, very prosperous new year. Now, for the conclusion
of the case of the Missing Street, do you buy
a new postwar Ald Dutch Cleander Outside the door of
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the blueprint plant, Nick, Patsy and Scubby hug the floor
as bullets smashed through the door over their heads.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We've got do something, Nick.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That's friend Harris. I'm coming in, Miss Harris.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
N you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Are you crazy? He'll drop you as soon as you
go through that door? How here I come? Nixon? All right?
Didn't come into Patsy. Nixon's dead dead. Nixon's dead with
a bullet through his heart. As ran over against the wall.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You got here just in time, mister Carter. Nixon was
going to kill me.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's no use, Miss Harris. You made a good try,
but it didn't work. A good try. How could Nixon
be dead with a bullet through his heart when I
never fired a shot. We're hoping I would shoot, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
He he killed himself when you said you were coming in.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh no, he didn't. Friend You put a bullet into
him and stage the whole act. Too bad? I followed
up the lead so quickly, isn't it you were hoping
he'd be framed for the murder of Wally White?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You mean she she shot waalllly?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I told you that murder didn't make sense. Patsy but
he did as soon as I discovered fran was in
the racket with Nixon was using Doris as a front.
That's not true, and Doris was illocently she was scubby.
When we started investigating the fraud pulled on Wally White,
she got scared and reported it to fran Harris, and
Franz suddenly got a bright idea. What do you mean?
You figured that if you killed Wally with Nixon's gun,
you could blame the killing on Nixon, and a ballistics
(24:29):
test would show that it was Nixon's gun and he'd
be executed for murder. Then you could take over the racket.
You're a liar, friend. Whether or not we can prove
that you killed Wally makes no difference, because we can
prove you killed Nixon just now you cannot. Oh, yes
we can. You see, friend, there's no gun within Nixon's
reach as he lies there dead, and there are also
no powder marks on him to indicate suicide. Therefore, the
(24:53):
only person who could have killed him is you.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, you'll never prove anything.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Don't bother to argue, fran A criminal court will set
up look for you and settle it good. With the
evidence I have from now on a prison cell is
going to be your mailing address.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Nick, there are a couple.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Of points about what Betsy.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well, you say Fran, Harris and Nixon worked this racket together.
That's right. Then you mean that whenever Nixon started this
racket in a new city, Fran went on ahead and
rented an office so we could have a mailing address.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Sure. She also hired a girl to work for as
a snographer. A girl, of course, knew nothing about the racket.
She just knew that she worked for friends.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Uh huh, Yeah, But how did you figure out the
tie up between Fran and Nixon?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The minute I heard that wire recording, I knew that
they were working together.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But she didn't say anything, Nick, She didn't, But.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Her typewriter said plenty. Her typewriter m She was typing
in code all the time. She was talking in code.
That's right. What she and Nixon had it worked out
for emergencies. She was afraid someone might be listening outside,
so she tapped on a message on her typewriter in
international code. Nick Carter snooping around, played dumb and go
(26:08):
back to the plants.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So that's how Nixon knew Scubby was tailing here, correct,
And that's how you got it to lead us to
the plant. While you were talking double talk to her,
you were also tapping a message.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
To her with your ring right again.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
All I said was Nixon calling emergency, come to plant immediately.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And when she heard us outside the loft door, she
realized she'd been followed.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Exactly, and she tried her last desperate trick. She killed
Nixon and then fired a few more shots and pretended
she was an innocent victim about to be murdered.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, but you didn't fall for it, which finished the case.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, not quite. We've got to go around to the
hospital and see Wally White.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Ah, got a present for Jeans.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, but I've got a reward for Wally.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
A Justice department was offering one thousand dollars for information
leading to the rest of Nixon, and I'm seeing to
it that Wally collects.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh that's swell.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He lost money on a missing street right now he's
going to collect done a missing crook. Nick, how about
a hint or two on what new post World Dutch
clencher has in star for us next week? Well, Bob,
the only thing I can tell you is something I'm
(27:18):
afraid you won't believe. Well if you see it, well
I'll believe it. Go on and tell me. Okay, then
it's the story of a man who was shot and
killed by a stained glass window, killed by a Now, Nick,
wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh well, Bob, you can't say Nick didn't warn you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But that sounds absolutely crazy. What do you call the story, Nick?
I call it the case of the Devil's left Eye.
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