October 18, 2025 • 26 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 Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk, presented
Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time,
two great names are joined as new post war Old
Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And daring characters in.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Nick. I'd like to know why you shut up like
a claim. Ever since we had our soup.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh, I didn't mean to Patsy, I've been thinking, Oh,
that's good. What about marriage? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Why me?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Marriage is the only way to solve a murder?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now for the case of the Policymakers. Today's adventure starring
lown Clock as Nick Carter, brought to you by a
new post war all Dutch plendor. It's a beautiful afternoon
early in November, and along a section of deserted highway,
an open car moves toward the hills.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
In the distance.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
In the car are Harvey Craig, a candidate for the
state Senate in the coming elections, and Julia Prentiss, is
fiance of a few weeks. Suddenly, another car comes from behind,
swears sharply to the right and.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Cuts them off. Take it easy to you, hey, you man,
what's the idea hig your car on this?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'll do nothing of the kind.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Let make it out, tom, I'll swim at showing a
rush staff. How you kidding? This guy's a hit run driver,
a killer? Maybe? What's that where we saw the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mister, that man was on the road.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You went right over and you kept on going. We would,
Julia become with these better things. I know what they're saying, dear,
and I'm going to let them prove it. We're going back,
(02:06):
is mister, exactly the way you're left it, exactly the
way you and Joe left him. Marthy, don't worry, Julia.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That man on the road's a friend of theirs, a
co partner. But when I get through with it, he
seems to be unconscious. I'll show you how unconscious he is.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
God, you get up, Get up. The egg is over?
Are you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Hobby?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This man is dead?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh no, I almost said this at the convention. He
wasn't a friend of ours. You killed him. Cut it out, Pal,
I ain't gonna get you out of a man swallow
a rap.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You murdered him, and then you followed me from the
city what's the idea.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Who's paying you to do.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
This to me?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Pennis?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
That's a laugh.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
What are you doing, Joe checking this guy for identification? Hobby?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We can't let these men get away with this. There
must be some way of.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Hey, let us Tom. I've heard the dead guy's pocket
and insurance policy for fifty grand. I see taken out
by Frank Hudson. That must be the dead guy's name.
Never mind that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Look and see who's the beneficiary?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, it's Harvey Craig.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What he's the guy that's running for the state senate?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Harvey?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
How does it happen that's your name is on there?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Man? Wait a minute, this guy's Harvey Craig. So that's
the angle? Huh? Murder? Frame up? It's tough here, honah, Well, Junior,
this is it the end of the career.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Why you can prove that you don't know that man?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That that Frank Hudson.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Maybe, but suppose I've been set up for the perfect rap. Look, Bud,
what a couple of reasonable guys. You pay us the
face value of that policy in fifty grand, and we
destroy the policy and forget what we saw. M h.
We even make the corpse there's a What are.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You saying, Harvey, You're not.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Going to do it.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I'm afraid, I am Julia, because if I don't, neither
of us will live to tell the story.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I see what you mean.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Let's go back to town. I'll get the money you
go with. I'm joan. Yeah, I'll say an take care
of the bunny. And that's the whole story, Nick. I
paid them because I was afraid of what they might
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do to Julia and me, and because I wanted to
get to your office as quickly as possible. Why didn't
you go to the police, Harvey, I promised.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Julia I wouldn't. As a matter of fact, she doesn't
even know I'm here.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't understand it, Harvey. The girls are engaged to
doesn't want you to go to the police.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I know it sounds odd, Patsy, but you and nick
have never met Julia. She's proud. She thinks I'm a
sucker for having paid off it, and she thinks the
less I talk about it to anyone.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
The better you want us to keep mom, Yes, please,
Why didn't you raise your voice when you got back
to town.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I was afraid of the bad publicity, nick A murder
charge Harvey. They wouldn't have dared to make it against you.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I wasn't thinking at the time, Nick, I want you
to get the will.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Of course he will, Harvey.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I guess that settles that I haven't put to work.
Thanks Nick, Oh, here's a description of Joe and Toma.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I've written it down.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Good for you. Every little thing helps. I've got to
go now. I'll be at my campaign headquarters. Nick, if
you should want me, goodbye and good luck.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Poor Harvey. Well, Nick, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I think this has all the earmarks of a murder
racket for blackmail. I wonder whom it's happened to you before.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You don't think this was the first time.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
It couldn't be gang that operates so smooth. He must
have had a lot of experience. But where do they
get the victims?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, if Harvey's typical, I'd say from who's who?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean? The victims they killed? Harvey told us in
I never saw that Frank Hudson before. Yet that man
had a policy naming Harvey is a beneficiary.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well it could have been a phony.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It could have been. But suppose it wasn't. Who sat
Hudson up for it, And how why are they old clothes?
An he bury o clothes?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Would you mind telling me what old?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Not at all?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I've got an idea that somewhere in the slums or
along the waterfront, there are operators pulling hopeless prospects out
of the gutter and setting them.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Up for the kill. Well, you and I are going
to be a couple of prospects.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But how much longer?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
There?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
We've been to every waterfront dive in town. Were just
living around.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Well that's the detective business. Oh, going to your we're
being watched.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh oh, why did I ever marry you? You are
going to buy me a well housed and fur coats.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I was going to be a grand lady.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well that's not when I fault. My plans didn't work out.
All I need is one real break.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
One real break. That's what I've been hearing for years.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, I wish you'd break your neck off, way off
for you?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Why I haven't marry you? No place to live, no
decent clothes to wear. You never even had a job.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Maybe you think jobs draw all trees. Maybe they do.
And what do you want? Tom's name are in trouble bounds?
How you have business?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He talks a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I couldn't tell, biddy, Henry, I'm so set up.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
She's got a right to be. He's hungry, she's got
no place to live. Why don't you go take a walk.
Maybe I got a job for you? And what you too? Baby?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
It don't count on it.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I'm over the outside guy, I got a boss. I
kind of work or let's be I defense answers.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, yes, here, what it is, Henry, you're going to
work it? And tells you that's go mister tom.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
So you've been married for six years and you've done
some traveling the hobo trail, mister Nicholas. Sometimes any man
who would subject a woman to such a life, well,
I couldn't help it. Mister Bentley, that breaks for all
against me. How did you feel about that, Missus Nicholas, Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I couldn't leave Henry.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Ah, that's devotion. Well, I need a couple in my house. Naturally,
you've never been a butler, mister Nicholas. No, no, sir, No, sir,
that's better. I see you learn quickly. You'll keep this
place in order, and you'll see that it's dusted, yes, sir.
And now Missus Nicholas can you cook.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Sure, I mean yes, sir, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Good. My taste is very simple. We'll get along a Tom.
These people are going to stay in the room on
the fourth floor. Ask Joe to prepare it for them.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Do we go with it?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
No? No, you wait here. If you're wondering about my
two men, Tom and Joe, they live here with me.
I prefer them to dog. No, we weren't wondering, mister Bedlin. Good,
you make the idea of Butler. Now there's one matter
that must be settled before we begin our relationship. Yeah.
(09:29):
As you see, I have many valuables in this house,
rare paintings, antique vases, so forth.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Oh you don't think we steal from you, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's happened before my dear lady, and so I have
one strict policy in this establishment. All my employees must
be bunded. Ah, I see. Do you object, mister Nicholas,
Oh no, no, no, sorry with me, sir. Yes, I'll
have forms here sometimes the morrow morning. In the meantime,
(10:02):
excuse me, miss Friendley.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Tom chose on his way up the room. You want
me you don't want to go? Oh, they'll find it
the fourth floor. Mister Nicholas then turned to the left. Yes, sir,
come along Mabel. Yes, I didn't do so bad. Did
I miss Bentley two instead of one? Yeah? When only
you give him the insurance business, we don't know anything
(10:27):
about them. Tom, a couple of unlocked bombs, and so
I wonder the lady had clean fingernails.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Thank, I don't get it. What's already comes He would
bonded darylic or a couple of derre links.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Perhapsy, we're not going to be bonded, but mister Bentley's
will be a good for the last minute switch.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh from bonding to insurance.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Then when mister Bentley starts talking about insurance.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yes, Betsy, I think I'll let some err into this room.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But Nick, in the Frank Hudson policy Harvey told us
about Bentley, wasn't the beneficiary.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
You're not in You're toast, Like Betsy.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I'm only trying to put myself in the place of.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
An intended victim.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Don't try.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
But I become suspicious of a policy that didn't make
Bentley the beneficiary.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Windows sealed shut.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It's what sealed It's glass barrier to the outside but
why just in case someone should want to yield for help.
Oh does I answer your questions about the policy?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You mean the victims were forced?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They were if they became suspicious of Bentley, but as
long as they believed in him as a good samaritan
who could do no wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Even when he made someone else the beneficiary.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Even then, Remember, the people who signed those policies were hungry,
down and out Bentley was giving them.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Of course, yes, sir, thank you, you stay here at
the door times you joel right, mister Bentley. Well, dear
mister and Missus Nicholas, don't look so surprised. It's an
old customer mine when I'm welcoming you servants. I've brought
a bottle of wine for us, for me too, a
rare sparkling Burgundy. I want you to feel it home.
(12:15):
Permit me to do the honors for you, Missus Nicholas,
Thank you sir, for you, mister Nicholas, and now one
for me. Raise your glasses please, a toast to my
(12:39):
new servants, mister and Missus Nicholas better known as Nick Carter.
Did I startle you, miss Bone?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
How did you find out about it?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
My underground espionie system. I see you going to do
with this now kill you both, of course, but not
until I've made arrangements to convert you into cash, and
that my friends will be very soon. So Bentley has
(13:18):
found out Nick and Patsy, and behind him are two
men with guns. We'll see what happens in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Now back to the case of the policymakers. Today's adventure
with Nick Carter brought to you by a new post
war all Dutch glenter. It is several hours later and
in Bentley's luxurious library. Nick and Patsy are sitting near
the desk, surrounded by Tom, Joel and Bentley.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
As forms all filled ot and ready for the sickness.
Thank you to give mister Carter his your application for insurance.
Mister Carter, you're asking for quarter of a million? Can't
you rate me too high? Bentley? Who No, not too
high for a man of your reputation and connections. Here's
your applications system. Yes, forgive us, miss Bowen, but we
(14:12):
think you're worth only one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm not worth anything to you.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
You'll let me be the judge of that. Want to wow,
So Jackson Phillips is going to be my beneficiary.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
He's our city's leading banker. Now, miss Bowen, your beneficiarity
is Mortimer Evans, the department store owner. He knows you
quite well personally and by your extensive charge account.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
It will do you a bit of good Dentley, will
you please.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Sign these applications. You're not going to send our friends
up for blackmail. To a very harsh word, mister Carter,
let me go to work on a mister Bentley. Joe, Joe, Joe,
much too temperamental.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But it's no dice if we don't get their signatures.
This ain't like the other jobs.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
We don't. We're shooting for big Doe.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Now we're gonna have their signatures and their own hand.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right. We'll have them, Joe, but without your methods. What's
wrong with my methods? Oh? They're much too crude for
present company. Oh, I'm sure that mister Carter and miss
Bowen will prefer my more scientific methods of persuasion. Darn
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room like a vault, top floor vault.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
They were going to torturous Nick if we hadn't signed.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Listen, Patsy, I'll let you win on a secret. What
I knew all the time when we're going to sign
those applications you did. Of course we had to sign
to get the goods on bentle in this game. O
caase without them? I see that now, Nick, let's see
two o'clock. Time to get out of this room and
down to the library safe.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh that's going to be easy. But with that window seal,
and with Joe parked in the hall just outside, it.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Can be done. In tom ought to be asleep by now.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I suppose they are. We still can't get out.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Take off your shoe? What your shoe? Take it off?
We got a job for it, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Now what do I do?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Hobble around, smack the heel of your shoe against that
window pane and break it.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Look, Nick, I'd like to get some air too, But
now I've.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Want to plant myself behind this door on that chair
you've got there, no under it, ready to bring it
down on Joe's head.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Okay, go ahead. What's the idea of breaking it? Well, Patsy,
see what I mean?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh, you're full of tricks tonight, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Full of them? Now let's get out to the library
and take out some reading matter.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Nick, can't you get it open?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It's been a long time since I opened a safe
without knowing the combination.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Why had he got enough light? It's a lucky thing.
We found this flashlight in Bentley's desk drawer. And look
at the size of it. Why it must be ten
inches long and it's weighs close to.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It goes the boat. Now for some quick research.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Can need help?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Just bring the light closer?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Uh, look, betzy, policy.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Of blanks, a staff of it.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Mister Bentley had plans for a future. Didn't he.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
See what's in this drawer?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Are they there?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Nick? The applications we signed?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Uh? Yes, here they are good.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Now we'll make a bundle of all this evidence and
then lock up the safe just in case.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We're not going back upstairs, Nate.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Of course not. We're forming the police.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
H that's much better.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It's quiet.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Was walking outside in the hall.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He didn't close the door, Patsy.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Why for god they've seen the flashlight.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
They won't to see us. Let's get behind him. She
fell down, turn in the flash.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Did Look that's Harvey Craig, So what's he doing in
this house?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
He just died? Oh, murdered unless I don't know what
I'm talking about. Oh, don't you see it? Patsy? See
what this whole dirty business? How did Harvey Craig get
to this house? Who brought him?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Someone turned the lights on?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh you finally figured it out.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Mister Nick Carter?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Who is she?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yeah, Julia Prentis, aren't you?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yes, I brought Harvey here. He shouldn't have told you
what happened to us on the road.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You killed him.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
We had some wine, honey, Harvey's glass had poison in it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh, say where you are, carder.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Mister Bentley wouldn't like me to shoot you.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
All right, Julia, You've got the heavy artillery.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And to think Harvey considered her a friend.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
So many people do, men, particularly huh Man, with a
lot of money. Yes, here Bentley's contact woman. You set
up the blackmail victim, and then you're in the car
with him when.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
The so called hit and run takes place.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Of course, at the right place and the right time
are very important in our business.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
How did you know we were in this house? We
didn't see you.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
I saw you, miss Bowen, and I recognized mister Carter
from his newspaper pictures. A peep hole in the wall
of your room upstairs, missus Nicholas.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Nick, we never had a chance.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Let's say you might have had one if you didn't
have clean fingernails, clean a bad habit, miss Bowen, when
your life depends on it. Bentley phoned me in town.
I came, I saw, and I couldn't believe my eyes.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, what happens now, Julia.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
There's a little room in the cellar i'd like to
have you see.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Oh it's not much of a room, but it's this
cape proof and we want so much to see you
again tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
That is when we'll meet you.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What time is it, Nick?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
My watch isn't as luminous as it used to be,
but I should say there's about a quarter.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Past one day night or eternity afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Patsy, Hey, you're not losing your nerve, are you?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I never felt better in my life. I'll bet we'll
turn on your flashlight and you'll see. After all, we've
only been down here since last night. Why don't you
turn it on? Can't better? Is dead?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Afraid? So oh no, no, listen, will never again.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
They'll kill us before they take us out of here.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
No they won't.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
They can, but they will oh, Patsy, We've got to
appear to be accidents.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
They can't run a car over us here. They've got
to take us out of the house, and once we're
not in the open, this may be a passy. Now listen,
don't fight them. You don't want you to carry us
out with the lantern. Right, Miss Bentley, you're next Joe
and don't know your gun with him around? Was Oh
good afternoon, mister Carter. Miss Bowen, Julia told me you
(21:21):
were very not a last man. Oh I hope we
didn't put you to any inconvenience. We make the punishment
fit the crime. Come here, Miss.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Bowen, I like it where I am.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh me, we're going to have trouble. Julia has an
appointment to go driving this afternoon with Mortimer Evans, your beneficiary.
You've got to be on the road, Miss Bowen. Nick
his turn will come later another day. We can't do
everything at once, you know. Listen, Bentley, you take both
of us, so you don't take either of us. Very galants,
mister cutter, Tom, you take Miss Bowen outside. Okay, Now
(21:54):
you don't.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Give him.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Joel. You heard what I'll kill anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That tap with my gun makes me even for last night.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Come along, miss Vaughn, you killed him? No, no, no,
my dear, it won't do you a bit of good struggle.
Julia has an appointment and you must help her keep this.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Now for the conclusion of the case of the Policymakers,
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new postwar all Dutch cleanser.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
It's ten minutes later.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Patsy fainted and is lying on the sofa in the
living room of Bentley's house. Nearby, Bentley and Julia are
discussing their plans with Tom and Joe over a roadmap
which is on the table.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Now, this is the exact point in the road where you're.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
To be, Caddy. Use the same road for a change, mister,
But listen to Julia Joe and don't ask so many questions.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Mortimer Evans and I will pass that point about half
past three.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Now what time you have I've got one thirty five, me.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Too, We agree, Well, Lucia's I'm ready to leave the town.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I told Mortimer i'd meet him at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I'm going to be late.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Oh not too late, my dear. Ten of fifteen minutes
for one, as charming as you can it.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Brother, The only thing I see in you is a
bookkeeping item.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Frank aunt Joe, Joe, get my car out.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Of the garage.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, sure, give me a cigarette, Lucia.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
There are times, Julia, when your behaviors. If you're running
this show, I might as well be.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You couldn't get along without me.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
That are other women as well qualified?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
That's going to cost you fifteen percent more, Darling? What
another book keeping item? I was going to talk to
you about that later, but since you brought it up now, look,
I want forty five percent from now on. You can
have the twenty five percent I've been getting.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Oh wait a minute, it's no you was arguing. I
tell you that, cy. Why am I interrupting something? The
gun falling out among thieves?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
You won't have to worry about percentages anymore. Or maybe
you should.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Worry about the percentages because from now and they're all
against you. Operator give me police headquarters, Nick, How did
you do it? That's is I came up from the cellar.
That was Joe walking toward the front door. He went
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out like a light. Of course I had to hit
him here. That's not what I mean then I took
his gun and made the grand difference.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They were no, no, no, you don't understand. I mean,
how did you get out of that cellar room?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
It was simple. I took the door off its hinges.
What with Bentley's flash light?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
You mean you used that flashlight to unhinge the door?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Mm hmm. It was heavy enough to drive the pins
out of the hinges very neatly. What but I didn't hear.
That's not I'm up with the noise with my coat.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Honest, Nick, When I saw you on the floor unconscious, I.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Thought, Oh I wasn't unconscious.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh no, this is too much.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Oh Joe telegraphed that wallap. I saw it coming and
I rode with it. The gun caught me on the
back of the neck. That's why you're driving the car.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Why.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I'm all right, Nick, I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
There's no mystery to it, Patsy. I've just got a
good stiff pain in the neck, that's all.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Can you tell us something about the story new post
war old Utch Klender's going to bring us next week, Nick, well, pop.
Next week we're going to meet a young contractor who
helped us track a killer by trying to build a
garage on an imaginary street.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And Nick found the killer by listening to a talking typewriter, talking.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Typewriter imaginary streets. It sounds fascinating. What do you call
a story, Nick?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I call it the Case of the Missing Street.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutdaheat Packing Company. It is produced and
directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Today's
script was written by Stedman Coles. Original music is played
by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any resemblance
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to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes count used.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
You folth war old dat you Cleanson. This is the
mutual broadcasting system.
You postwar Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk, presented
Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time,
two great names are joined as new post war Old
Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And daring characters in.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Nick. I'd like to know why you shut up like
a claim. Ever since we had our soup.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh, I didn't mean to Patsy, I've been thinking, Oh,
that's good. What about marriage? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Why me?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Marriage is the only way to solve a murder?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now for the case of the Policymakers. Today's adventure starring
lown Clock as Nick Carter, brought to you by a
new post war all Dutch plendor. It's a beautiful afternoon
early in November, and along a section of deserted highway,
an open car moves toward the hills.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
In the distance.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
In the car are Harvey Craig, a candidate for the
state Senate in the coming elections, and Julia Prentiss, is
fiance of a few weeks. Suddenly, another car comes from behind,
swears sharply to the right and.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Cuts them off. Take it easy to you, hey, you man,
what's the idea hig your car on this?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'll do nothing of the kind.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Let make it out, tom, I'll swim at showing a
rush staff. How you kidding? This guy's a hit run driver,
a killer? Maybe? What's that where we saw the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mister, that man was on the road.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You went right over and you kept on going. We would,
Julia become with these better things. I know what they're saying, dear,
and I'm going to let them prove it. We're going back,
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is mister, exactly the way you're left it, exactly the
way you and Joe left him. Marthy, don't worry, Julia.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That man on the road's a friend of theirs, a
co partner. But when I get through with it, he
seems to be unconscious. I'll show you how unconscious he is.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
God, you get up, Get up. The egg is over?
Are you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Hobby?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This man is dead?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh no, I almost said this at the convention. He
wasn't a friend of ours. You killed him. Cut it out, Pal,
I ain't gonna get you out of a man swallow
a rap.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You murdered him, and then you followed me from the
city what's the idea.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Who's paying you to do.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
This to me?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Pennis?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
That's a laugh.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
What are you doing, Joe checking this guy for identification? Hobby?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We can't let these men get away with this. There
must be some way of.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Hey, let us Tom. I've heard the dead guy's pocket
and insurance policy for fifty grand. I see taken out
by Frank Hudson. That must be the dead guy's name.
Never mind that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Look and see who's the beneficiary?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, it's Harvey Craig.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What he's the guy that's running for the state senate?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Harvey?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
How does it happen that's your name is on there?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Man? Wait a minute, this guy's Harvey Craig. So that's
the angle? Huh? Murder? Frame up? It's tough here, honah, Well, Junior,
this is it the end of the career.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Why you can prove that you don't know that man?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That that Frank Hudson.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Maybe, but suppose I've been set up for the perfect rap. Look, Bud,
what a couple of reasonable guys. You pay us the
face value of that policy in fifty grand, and we
destroy the policy and forget what we saw. M h.
We even make the corpse there's a What are.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You saying, Harvey, You're not.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Going to do it.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I'm afraid, I am Julia, because if I don't, neither
of us will live to tell the story.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I see what you mean.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Let's go back to town. I'll get the money you
go with. I'm joan. Yeah, I'll say an take care
of the bunny. And that's the whole story, Nick. I
paid them because I was afraid of what they might
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do to Julia and me, and because I wanted to
get to your office as quickly as possible. Why didn't
you go to the police, Harvey, I promised.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Julia I wouldn't. As a matter of fact, she doesn't
even know I'm here.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't understand it, Harvey. The girls are engaged to
doesn't want you to go to the police.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I know it sounds odd, Patsy, but you and nick
have never met Julia. She's proud. She thinks I'm a
sucker for having paid off it, and she thinks the
less I talk about it to anyone.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
The better you want us to keep mom, Yes, please,
Why didn't you raise your voice when you got back
to town.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I was afraid of the bad publicity, nick A murder
charge Harvey. They wouldn't have dared to make it against you.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I wasn't thinking at the time, Nick, I want you
to get the will.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Of course he will, Harvey.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I guess that settles that I haven't put to work.
Thanks Nick, Oh, here's a description of Joe and Toma.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I've written it down.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Good for you. Every little thing helps. I've got to
go now. I'll be at my campaign headquarters. Nick, if
you should want me, goodbye and good luck.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Poor Harvey. Well, Nick, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I think this has all the earmarks of a murder
racket for blackmail. I wonder whom it's happened to you before.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You don't think this was the first time.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
It couldn't be gang that operates so smooth. He must
have had a lot of experience. But where do they
get the victims?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, if Harvey's typical, I'd say from who's who?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean? The victims they killed? Harvey told us in
I never saw that Frank Hudson before. Yet that man
had a policy naming Harvey is a beneficiary.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well it could have been a phony.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It could have been. But suppose it wasn't. Who sat
Hudson up for it, And how why are they old clothes?
An he bury o clothes?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Would you mind telling me what old?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Not at all?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I've got an idea that somewhere in the slums or
along the waterfront, there are operators pulling hopeless prospects out
of the gutter and setting them.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Up for the kill. Well, you and I are going
to be a couple of prospects.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But how much longer?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
There?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
We've been to every waterfront dive in town. Were just
living around.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Well that's the detective business. Oh, going to your we're
being watched.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh oh, why did I ever marry you? You are
going to buy me a well housed and fur coats.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I was going to be a grand lady.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well that's not when I fault. My plans didn't work out.
All I need is one real break.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
One real break. That's what I've been hearing for years.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, I wish you'd break your neck off, way off
for you?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Why I haven't marry you? No place to live, no
decent clothes to wear. You never even had a job.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Maybe you think jobs draw all trees. Maybe they do.
And what do you want? Tom's name are in trouble bounds?
How you have business?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He talks a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I couldn't tell, biddy, Henry, I'm so set up.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
She's got a right to be. He's hungry, she's got
no place to live. Why don't you go take a walk.
Maybe I got a job for you? And what you too? Baby?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
It don't count on it.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I'm over the outside guy, I got a boss. I
kind of work or let's be I defense answers.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, yes, here, what it is, Henry, you're going to
work it? And tells you that's go mister tom.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
So you've been married for six years and you've done
some traveling the hobo trail, mister Nicholas. Sometimes any man
who would subject a woman to such a life, well,
I couldn't help it. Mister Bentley, that breaks for all
against me. How did you feel about that, Missus Nicholas, Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I couldn't leave Henry.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Ah, that's devotion. Well, I need a couple in my house. Naturally,
you've never been a butler, mister Nicholas. No, no, sir, No, sir,
that's better. I see you learn quickly. You'll keep this
place in order, and you'll see that it's dusted, yes, sir.
And now Missus Nicholas can you cook.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Sure, I mean yes, sir, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Good. My taste is very simple. We'll get along a Tom.
These people are going to stay in the room on
the fourth floor. Ask Joe to prepare it for them.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Do we go with it?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
No? No, you wait here. If you're wondering about my
two men, Tom and Joe, they live here with me.
I prefer them to dog. No, we weren't wondering, mister Bedlin. Good,
you make the idea of Butler. Now there's one matter
that must be settled before we begin our relationship. Yeah.
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As you see, I have many valuables in this house,
rare paintings, antique vases, so forth.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Oh you don't think we steal from you, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's happened before my dear lady, and so I have
one strict policy in this establishment. All my employees must
be bunded. Ah, I see. Do you object, mister Nicholas,
Oh no, no, no, sorry with me, sir. Yes, I'll
have forms here sometimes the morrow morning. In the meantime,
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excuse me, miss Friendley.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Tom chose on his way up the room. You want
me you don't want to go? Oh, they'll find it
the fourth floor. Mister Nicholas then turned to the left. Yes, sir,
come along Mabel. Yes, I didn't do so bad. Did
I miss Bentley two instead of one? Yeah? When only
you give him the insurance business, we don't know anything
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about them. Tom, a couple of unlocked bombs, and so
I wonder the lady had clean fingernails.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Thank, I don't get it. What's already comes He would
bonded darylic or a couple of derre links.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Perhapsy, we're not going to be bonded, but mister Bentley's
will be a good for the last minute switch.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh from bonding to insurance.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Then when mister Bentley starts talking about insurance.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yes, Betsy, I think I'll let some err into this room.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But Nick, in the Frank Hudson policy Harvey told us
about Bentley, wasn't the beneficiary.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
You're not in You're toast, Like Betsy.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I'm only trying to put myself in the place of.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
An intended victim.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Don't try.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
But I become suspicious of a policy that didn't make
Bentley the beneficiary.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Windows sealed shut.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It's what sealed It's glass barrier to the outside but
why just in case someone should want to yield for help.
Oh does I answer your questions about the policy?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You mean the victims were forced?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They were if they became suspicious of Bentley, but as
long as they believed in him as a good samaritan
who could do no wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Even when he made someone else the beneficiary.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Even then, Remember, the people who signed those policies were hungry,
down and out Bentley was giving them.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Of course, yes, sir, thank you, you stay here at
the door times you joel right, mister Bentley. Well, dear
mister and Missus Nicholas, don't look so surprised. It's an
old customer mine when I'm welcoming you servants. I've brought
a bottle of wine for us, for me too, a
rare sparkling Burgundy. I want you to feel it home.
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Permit me to do the honors for you, Missus Nicholas,
Thank you sir, for you, mister Nicholas, and now one
for me. Raise your glasses please, a toast to my
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new servants, mister and Missus Nicholas better known as Nick Carter.
Did I startle you, miss Bone?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
How did you find out about it?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
My underground espionie system. I see you going to do
with this now kill you both, of course, but not
until I've made arrangements to convert you into cash, and
that my friends will be very soon. So Bentley has
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found out Nick and Patsy, and behind him are two
men with guns. We'll see what happens in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Now back to the case of the policymakers. Today's adventure
with Nick Carter brought to you by a new post
war all Dutch glenter. It is several hours later and
in Bentley's luxurious library. Nick and Patsy are sitting near
the desk, surrounded by Tom, Joel and Bentley.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
As forms all filled ot and ready for the sickness.
Thank you to give mister Carter his your application for insurance.
Mister Carter, you're asking for quarter of a million? Can't
you rate me too high? Bentley? Who No, not too
high for a man of your reputation and connections. Here's
your applications system. Yes, forgive us, miss Bowen, but we
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think you're worth only one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm not worth anything to you.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
You'll let me be the judge of that. Want to wow,
So Jackson Phillips is going to be my beneficiary.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
He's our city's leading banker. Now, miss Bowen, your beneficiarity
is Mortimer Evans, the department store owner. He knows you
quite well personally and by your extensive charge account.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
It will do you a bit of good Dentley, will
you please.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Sign these applications. You're not going to send our friends
up for blackmail. To a very harsh word, mister Carter,
let me go to work on a mister Bentley. Joe, Joe, Joe,
much too temperamental.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But it's no dice if we don't get their signatures.
This ain't like the other jobs.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
We don't. We're shooting for big Doe.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Now we're gonna have their signatures and their own hand.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right. We'll have them, Joe, but without your methods. What's
wrong with my methods? Oh? They're much too crude for
present company. Oh, I'm sure that mister Carter and miss
Bowen will prefer my more scientific methods of persuasion. Darn
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room like a vault, top floor vault.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
They were going to torturous Nick if we hadn't signed.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Listen, Patsy, I'll let you win on a secret. What
I knew all the time when we're going to sign
those applications you did. Of course we had to sign
to get the goods on bentle in this game. O
caase without them? I see that now, Nick, let's see
two o'clock. Time to get out of this room and
down to the library safe.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh that's going to be easy. But with that window seal,
and with Joe parked in the hall just outside, it.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Can be done. In tom ought to be asleep by now.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I suppose they are. We still can't get out.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Take off your shoe? What your shoe? Take it off?
We got a job for it, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Now what do I do?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Hobble around, smack the heel of your shoe against that
window pane and break it.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Look, Nick, I'd like to get some air too, But
now I've.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Want to plant myself behind this door on that chair
you've got there, no under it, ready to bring it
down on Joe's head.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Okay, go ahead. What's the idea of breaking it? Well, Patsy,
see what I mean?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh, you're full of tricks tonight, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Full of them? Now let's get out to the library
and take out some reading matter.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Nick, can't you get it open?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It's been a long time since I opened a safe
without knowing the combination.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Why had he got enough light? It's a lucky thing.
We found this flashlight in Bentley's desk drawer. And look
at the size of it. Why it must be ten
inches long and it's weighs close to.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It goes the boat. Now for some quick research.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Can need help?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Just bring the light closer?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Uh, look, betzy, policy.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Of blanks, a staff of it.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Mister Bentley had plans for a future. Didn't he.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
See what's in this drawer?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Are they there?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Nick? The applications we signed?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Uh? Yes, here they are good.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Now we'll make a bundle of all this evidence and
then lock up the safe just in case.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We're not going back upstairs, Nate.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Of course not. We're forming the police.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
H that's much better.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It's quiet.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Was walking outside in the hall.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He didn't close the door, Patsy.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Why for god they've seen the flashlight.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
They won't to see us. Let's get behind him. She
fell down, turn in the flash.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Did Look that's Harvey Craig, So what's he doing in
this house?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
He just died? Oh, murdered unless I don't know what
I'm talking about. Oh, don't you see it? Patsy? See
what this whole dirty business? How did Harvey Craig get
to this house? Who brought him?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Someone turned the lights on?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh you finally figured it out.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Mister Nick Carter?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Who is she?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yeah, Julia Prentis, aren't you?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yes, I brought Harvey here. He shouldn't have told you
what happened to us on the road.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You killed him.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
We had some wine, honey, Harvey's glass had poison in it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh, say where you are, carder.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Mister Bentley wouldn't like me to shoot you.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
All right, Julia, You've got the heavy artillery.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And to think Harvey considered her a friend.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
So many people do, men, particularly huh Man, with a
lot of money. Yes, here Bentley's contact woman. You set
up the blackmail victim, and then you're in the car
with him when.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
The so called hit and run takes place.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Of course, at the right place and the right time
are very important in our business.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
How did you know we were in this house? We
didn't see you.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
I saw you, miss Bowen, and I recognized mister Carter
from his newspaper pictures. A peep hole in the wall
of your room upstairs, missus Nicholas.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Nick, we never had a chance.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Let's say you might have had one if you didn't
have clean fingernails, clean a bad habit, miss Bowen, when
your life depends on it. Bentley phoned me in town.
I came, I saw, and I couldn't believe my eyes.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, what happens now, Julia.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
There's a little room in the cellar i'd like to
have you see.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Oh it's not much of a room, but it's this
cape proof and we want so much to see you
again tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
That is when we'll meet you.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What time is it, Nick?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
My watch isn't as luminous as it used to be,
but I should say there's about a quarter.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Past one day night or eternity afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Patsy, Hey, you're not losing your nerve, are you?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I never felt better in my life. I'll bet we'll
turn on your flashlight and you'll see. After all, we've
only been down here since last night. Why don't you
turn it on? Can't better? Is dead?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Afraid? So oh no, no, listen, will never again.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
They'll kill us before they take us out of here.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
No they won't.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
They can, but they will oh, Patsy, We've got to
appear to be accidents.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
They can't run a car over us here. They've got
to take us out of the house, and once we're
not in the open, this may be a passy. Now listen,
don't fight them. You don't want you to carry us
out with the lantern. Right, Miss Bentley, you're next Joe
and don't know your gun with him around? Was Oh
good afternoon, mister Carter. Miss Bowen, Julia told me you
(21:21):
were very not a last man. Oh I hope we
didn't put you to any inconvenience. We make the punishment
fit the crime. Come here, Miss.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Bowen, I like it where I am.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh me, we're going to have trouble. Julia has an
appointment to go driving this afternoon with Mortimer Evans, your beneficiary.
You've got to be on the road, Miss Bowen. Nick
his turn will come later another day. We can't do
everything at once, you know. Listen, Bentley, you take both
of us, so you don't take either of us. Very galants,
mister cutter, Tom, you take Miss Bowen outside. Okay, Now
(21:54):
you don't.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Give him.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Joel. You heard what I'll kill anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That tap with my gun makes me even for last night.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Come along, miss Vaughn, you killed him? No, no, no,
my dear, it won't do you a bit of good struggle.
Julia has an appointment and you must help her keep this.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Now for the conclusion of the case of the Policymakers,
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new postwar all Dutch cleanser.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
It's ten minutes later.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Patsy fainted and is lying on the sofa in the
living room of Bentley's house. Nearby, Bentley and Julia are
discussing their plans with Tom and Joe over a roadmap
which is on the table.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Now, this is the exact point in the road where you're.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
To be, Caddy. Use the same road for a change, mister,
But listen to Julia Joe and don't ask so many questions.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Mortimer Evans and I will pass that point about half
past three.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Now what time you have I've got one thirty five, me.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Too, We agree, Well, Lucia's I'm ready to leave the town.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I told Mortimer i'd meet him at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I'm going to be late.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Oh not too late, my dear. Ten of fifteen minutes
for one, as charming as you can it.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Brother, The only thing I see in you is a
bookkeeping item.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Frank aunt Joe, Joe, get my car out.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Of the garage.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, sure, give me a cigarette, Lucia.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
There are times, Julia, when your behaviors. If you're running
this show, I might as well be.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You couldn't get along without me.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
That are other women as well qualified?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
That's going to cost you fifteen percent more, Darling? What
another book keeping item? I was going to talk to
you about that later, but since you brought it up now, look,
I want forty five percent from now on. You can
have the twenty five percent I've been getting.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Oh wait a minute, it's no you was arguing. I
tell you that, cy. Why am I interrupting something? The
gun falling out among thieves?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
You won't have to worry about percentages anymore. Or maybe
you should.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Worry about the percentages because from now and they're all
against you. Operator give me police headquarters, Nick, How did
you do it? That's is I came up from the cellar.
That was Joe walking toward the front door. He went
(24:34):
out like a light. Of course I had to hit
him here. That's not what I mean then I took
his gun and made the grand difference.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They were no, no, no, you don't understand. I mean,
how did you get out of that cellar room?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
It was simple. I took the door off its hinges.
What with Bentley's flash light?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
You mean you used that flashlight to unhinge the door?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Mm hmm. It was heavy enough to drive the pins
out of the hinges very neatly. What but I didn't hear.
That's not I'm up with the noise with my coat.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Honest, Nick, When I saw you on the floor unconscious, I.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Thought, Oh I wasn't unconscious.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh no, this is too much.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Oh Joe telegraphed that wallap. I saw it coming and
I rode with it. The gun caught me on the
back of the neck. That's why you're driving the car.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Why.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I'm all right, Nick, I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
There's no mystery to it, Patsy. I've just got a
good stiff pain in the neck, that's all.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Can you tell us something about the story new post
war old Utch Klender's going to bring us next week, Nick, well, pop.
Next week we're going to meet a young contractor who
helped us track a killer by trying to build a
garage on an imaginary street.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And Nick found the killer by listening to a talking typewriter, talking.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Typewriter imaginary streets. It sounds fascinating. What do you call
a story, Nick?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I call it the Case of the Missing Street.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutdaheat Packing Company. It is produced and
directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Today's
script was written by Stedman Coles. Original music is played
by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any resemblance
(26:29):
to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes count used.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
You folth war old dat you Cleanson. This is the
mutual broadcasting system.
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