October 17, 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 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
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Master detective.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Careful crossing the streets, Patsy, I'm watching Hey wait, look
at that car. Come?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Why is he traveling?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Why that crazy fool he's driving on the wrong.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Side of the street.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
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Now on the same familiar package. Now for the case
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of the great nineteenth century man of letters, Joshua Bancroft.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
An elderly woman, moaning in.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Pain, drags herself across the old fashioned library to the
telephone and dials with a trembling and uncertain hand.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Operator operate it gets me the police.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Hurry Hello, this is Julia Bancroft at Bancroft Hall.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
We we've been odd.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I've been beaten, victorian and killed.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Have you seen the afternoon paper, Patsy Not yet, Nick
twise a nasty piece of business at Bancroft Hall. Last
night Victoria Bancroft was murdered, her sister Julia badly beaten.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Oh, Nick, how horrible there, Old Joshua Bancroft's granddaughters, aren't.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They great granddaughters and my brother lived together at Bancroft Hall.
But why would anyone want robbery? Pertsey the murder a store,
the original manuscript of Joshua Bancroft's first book of essays.
Oh so that's it, worth thousands of dollars, probably just
about as valuable as any of the original manuscripts of
Emerson nor thorough Going.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Nick Hardy's office, Patsy Bonne speaking.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
This is Arthur Haskell. Is mister Carter there?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Please just a moment. It's for you, nigger, Mister Arthur
Haskell Art Haskell.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hello, Hello, Nick hard It is you. How are you?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I must see you Nick today if possible. It's important.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Why what's up?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
I'd rather not discuss it on the telephone. Will you
come to my store this evening after closing time?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Why?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
How's eighty fot good good, I'll be looking for you.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, that's Frange.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Who's Arthur Haskell.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There's an old friend of my father's. I've known him
since I was a kid, owns the Haskell bookstore. Deals
in rare books and old manuscripts.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Nay, isn't that a funny coincidence that he should call
just when we're discussing the Bancroft robbery.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I wonder whether it is a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Hello, I was good of you to come.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'd let me introduce you my secretary. That's a Born.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
How do you do, miss Born.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm glad to know you, mister Haskell, come in, Come.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
In both of 'em. Yeah, let's go back to my office.
It's in the rear of the store.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I haven't forgotten that.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Be careful, eh, shot the dark in here.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Yes, I didn't want our meeting to attract too much attention.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So that sounds mysterious, mister Haskell.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What I have to tell you is even more mysterious.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's all. Here we are, sit down, Nick, let me sporn. Thanks.
I now what's happened?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
You've read in the paper?
Speaker 8 (05:02):
I suppose about the theft of the bankruft manuscript?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yes, what about it?
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Well, you'll find this hard to believe, Nick, But yesterday,
just yesterday's dark.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Outide, Nick sat shooting through the window.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I can just sneak up.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Don't stay away from there, I can get a look outside.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
See anyone, No.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Whoever? It was gone. Now find the lights with Patty.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
He was right by the door.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, here it is, Nick.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I wonder whether, oh.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Nick, look what happens art art hate, Yes, Patsy, he's dead.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Everything's so old and musty and well, I'll bet no
one's even opened.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
A window on Bankroft's horse in the stock of a
Grandcroft died.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Here's the library, Butler said, we find Julian here. Well,
you can tell us if there's a connection between Haskell
and the Bankroft manuscripts. Oh, miss Bancroft, here.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You're mister Carter and miss Bury.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, forgive me for not getting at it my doctics.
I can't move from Miss Council. Of course we understand
the s.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Bancroft right this down, won't you?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I'm so glad you called. I know if anyone can
find the man who killed my sister stole great grandfather's manuscript,
you can.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Miss de clartt you say, the man who killed your sister?
You certain it was a man?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh positive, Miss de Cartti, Ah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I see. Now tell me what time did the robbery
take place, Miss Bancroft.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It was about ten thirty. I was in my room
on the second floor, when I heard Victoria's scream, I
started down the stairs and then there was a shot
I see, and then I rushed into the room, and
just as I stepped through the arch, I was stuck
on the head two or three times.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
With what do you know, miss Bankroft?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yes, yes, the base of that desk lamp over there.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's all I remember until I came to. Then I
saw the safe open, the manuscript was gone, and Victoria
was stick.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well let's see you not just a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What what are you doing at those draperies, mister Carter?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Just this, Taylor? How do you do? Mister Kakak? I
don't know who you are, but the next time you
hide behind drapery is but shore your feet don't show
mister Carter.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
This is my brother, Taylor Bancroft.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
I I was just coming in to get a book.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well you what book? And what book? Why? Never mind?
I had one more question to ask you, Miss Bancroft.
Yes you any idea who could have done this?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Why any one might have done it? So many people
knew of great grandfather's manuscript, and nearly everyone knew that
it was kept here.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
True enough, but no ordinary fate was still a rare
old manuscript stolen by a person who knew how to
dispose of it.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, there are several people here in the city who
know a great deal about old books.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So happened to know the names of any particular individuals?
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Well, I know who would know, Julia Carvin Lyden, Professor
van Lyden.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yes, he's the.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Best known authority in the field. I'm sure he'd be
glad to help you.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Thank you, miss Bancroft. Think I'll pay him a visit
right now.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
So you think only someone who knows enough about rare
books to dispose of the Bancroft manuscript would have stolen it? There,
mister Carper exactly, Professor van Lyden, who who suggested.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That you could give me the names of a few
such people to check on? Byers can?
Speaker 10 (09:00):
If you've been excuse me, I'll go to my study
all I'll write out of this for you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Oh, please make yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Gosh, look at all those books.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Make yes, Betsy, there it is the famous Van Liden Library,
thousands of books worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Well,
that's a good and big Bible. And that glass case
there God, and up here on this shelf these are art.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
What is You wouldn't think Professor van Leyden would be
so careless?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Oh a couple of volumes upside down?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Huh yeah, I wanted to be mine if I turned
the right side up.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I don't imagine any what what? Mm oh? What is it?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
There's something stuck in behas of these books.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It looks like what oh, let's say it. Petsy here,
great Scott, do you know what this is? What? Meck?
This is what we're looking for the Joshua Bancroft Manuscript.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
In amazement and disbelief, Nick and Patsy's stare at the
bulky sheep of yellowing pages, the precious manuscript has been found,
but as Nick himself realizes, this serves only to deepen
the mystery of Bancroft Hall. We'll see what happens in
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As we pick up our story, a few months of
passed since Nick and Patsy discovered the Joshua Bancroft manuscript
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hidden behind some books in Professor Van Lyden's library. The
Professor is just returning from his study.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
I hear, mister Carter, I have made a list of
a few people you might want to talk.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
To right now, Professor, you're the only person I want
to talk to.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yes, Professor, we found the Bancroft manuscript.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
I see, and you believe that it was I who
broke into Bancroft Hall, stole the manuscript, killed Victoria Bancroft,
and beat your her sister. Well didn't you, Of course
I didn't. I came by the manuscript quite innocently. I
was about to buy it from whom from a friend
of yours, Arthur Haskell.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Arthur Haskell cry, it's the truth, Miss Bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Haskell stopped by.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
Here only day before yesterday and to let me examine it.
I was about to call drawn for the purchase when
I heard that it had been stolen from Bancroft Hall
the night be.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Why didn't you notify the police that you had it?
Speaker 10 (12:02):
But frankly I was frightened, mister Carter, particularly have I
heard of Haskell's death. I realized that I had no
proof of how the manuscript came into my possession.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And Arthur didn't tell you how it had come into
his possession. No, how much were you going to pay
him for it?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
I was prepared to offer seventy three thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Seventy three thousand, Who, professor, why exactly seventy three thousand?
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Well?
Speaker 10 (12:23):
I did considerable investigating in the matter about six weeks ago,
and from the inquiries I made I feel that seventy
three thousand is about what a team collector would pay
for the manuscript today.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Why were you so interested in the bankrupt manuscript six
weeks ago? I wasn't.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I appraised us as a favor to mister Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Who's Arnold Gibson, a stuckgoker.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Here in the city, an old friend of the Bancroft family,
or so he said.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did he say why he wanted to praise?
Speaker 10 (12:47):
No, he did not, but he seemed to feel it
was very urgent.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Next something to tell me it's urgent that we see
this Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Right, Professor, with your permission, I'm taking this manuscript with me.
It's evidence and one or perhaps two murder cases.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Mister Carter, thank you a patter. You go back to
the office. I'm going to pay another visit to Bankroft Hall.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So what am I going to do at the office?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You're going to put the manuscript in our office safe
and leave it there. We're not carrying seventy three thousand
dollars worth of pros a round on our luggage compartment.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Then you found it already on, mister Carter.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
That's wonderful news.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Where is the manuscript now, mister Carter? In the safe
in my office? Mister Bancroft, I'm holding it for the police.
Tell me, do you know Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Arnold Gibson, Arnolds and old friend of his family, Mister Carter?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
What is he to do with it? Did either of
you authorize him to seek an appraisal of your great
grandfather's manuscript six weeks ago?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No, certainly not.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's why you don't need to say. He Van Lyden
says Arnold Gibson asked him to determine the current market
value of the manuscript.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's incredible. Why would he have done such a thing.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm sure I don't know, Miss Bancroft. That's one more
thing I'd like to rescue you for safe from which
the manufacpt was stolen behind that picture over the mattel.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
The picture slide that show him very well?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Julia you, mister Carter. How many people knew the combination
of the safe? Just too Victoria and my stays, you
don't know what, mister Bancroft.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Now, Vicarian never trusted me enough to give it to me.
Being the elder sister, she looked upon great grandfather's manuscript
as her personal property.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, she told you.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The combination of Miss Frankle Yes, but only because she
felt someone else should know it and didn't have been
anything happened to her.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I see, thank you. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm
going to pick up Miss Bourne and pay a call
on Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh slow down, Meg, isn't that the pop you onned up.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Ahead Gibson lives?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yes, I think it is.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
He was turning around here. We might as well park
over here, right careful crossing the street.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I'm watching Come on, hey.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Wait, Patsy, Wait what a car coming?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Is he traveling by that? Crazy Ricky's riding on the
wrong side of the street.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Must be drunk. He can right pull get back back
to behind that car.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Jump.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
That was close, Nick, Whoever was driving that car deliberately
try to run us down.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That's obvious.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Did you see who it was?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh? I was too busy getting out of the way.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Me too, Nick.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I bet someone was trying to keep us from talking
to Donold Gibson.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Maybe so this makes me all the more interested in
meeting the gentleman.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Oh should I Miss Bourne and mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Thank you, mister Gibson. Cigarette rist Carter, no thing.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They're a special brand I have made for my customers.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
They called Arcadias.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh sorry, I don't you.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I see.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, what can I do for you, mister Gibson? You
can tell us why you asked Professor van Leyden to
ascertain the market price of the Bancroft manuscript.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Boy, And just what business is it of yours?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Who murders? Make it my business? Even though the manuscript
has been recovered, Oh, you've got it back. I have
safely stowed away in my office safe. Oh are you
going to tell me what I want to know? Cornor?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I had the Bancroft manuscript the praise because I was
tired of waiting for the money Taylor Bancroft owes me.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Bancroft owes you money.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Fifty five thousand dollars, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Taylor was playing the market. He lost, didn't have the
money to cover.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I advanced for him, and you wanted to find out
whether he could raise enough on the manuscript to pay
you bank.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
That's right, miss Carr.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I see, I thank you, mister Gibson. Not all all right, Patsy,
Shall we go, my nanny? I'm taking you home. I'm
going over to the athletic club.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
The athletic club.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What's think A good brisk rub down'll do me good,
and a good night's sleep and I'll be ready for
another busy day tomorrow. Oh all right, alright, take it easy. Hello, Patsy, Oh, Patsy,
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what time is it?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
It's nine fifteen. I'm at the office. Something terrible has happened, Nick.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Don't tell me. Let me guess. The Bancroft Manual gets
been stolen.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes, someone broke in here last night.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They blew the safe, blew it? Uh? They sure they
blew it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Of course, Nick. But what'd you say?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I said, Good? Now I found out, but I wanted
to know. Hold everything, Patsy. I'll be right down, Nick.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
How can you be so calm? In the bank manuscript
has been stolen again?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
For one thing, it hasn't been stolen. Why you look
in the safe in my private office, that new burglar
proof one would put there last year. You'll see that
it's still there.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
But Nick, I put it in the old safe the
way you told me to.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yes, I know. But after I left you last night
I came back here. I took the cover sheet of
the manuscript and put it over a bundle of blank pages.
I figured that Deep had been too big a rush
to notice that he was stealing a dummy But I
put the manuscript itself in the news Safte.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Then you expected the manuscript to be stolen.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I hope it would be. That's why I took care
of mention in front of every single suspect in the case.
That's where it was hidden.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Put Nick quiet on earth.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh wait a minute, what are you looking at me?
This ashtray by the chair here? Wasn't he when I
left last night?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And there's only been one person in the office since,
the person who stole a dummy manuscript.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And this cigarette thought must have been left by that person.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But says Arcadie on it, that's the brand Donald Gibson
offered me last night, and it must have been well,
I'll get it, hey, Carter speaking. Oh hello, Maddie, what
what's that I see? Yeah? Yeah, it does, isn't it? Hell? Okay, Maddie,
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thanks for calling.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
What do you say, Nick?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
He says? The case of the bankruft manuscript is solved.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
It solved.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Police just found Donald Gibson dead when out on Riverside Road.
Apparently his car skidded and went over an embankment.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
How does that solve a chase?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
They also found the dummy manuscript was in the car.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
With him, So that's not quite Fatsy, What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Got your hat?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But where we're going?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
To?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
The morgue?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I want to take a look at Donold Gibson's body.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Hurry up, Nick, I don't like morgs all right, thought so, well, why.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Are you two interested in gibson hands and teeth?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Listen, Patsy, remember when Gibson offered me a cigarette last
night and I refused. Well, Gibson didn't take one either.
In fact, he didn't smoke the whole time we were
with him.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
You mean, I mean that he.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Didn't smoke at all. There's not a sign of a
nicotine stain on his teeth or fingers.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
He said he had those cigarettes made for his customers.
He didn't say for himself.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Right, Patsy. Cigarette stub in the office was just a
plant to throw a suspicion on Gibson.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
And Gibson must have been murdered, correct, And I.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Know who murdered him to do, And I've also got
a pretty good idea who murdered Victoria.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Bankrupt, confident that he assolved the mystery, and Nick turns
away from the body of Arnold Gibson. We'll bring you
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Now for the conclusion of the case of the Priceless Pose.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new pulstwar old Dutch cleanser. After leaving the morgue, Nick
and Patsy's feed swiftly across the town and stand now
the door of the old mansion known as Bancroft Hall.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Bring the doorbell again, Patsy, I think I.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Hear someone coming.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh, good evenings.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
To cut good evening, miss Bankruft. Is your brother at home? Taylor? Why?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, he's in the library, won't you?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Did you thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Taylor?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yes? Julia, did you want to see me? I want
to see you, Bankruft? Oh God sah for about about murder?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Mister Carton? You want accusing Tale, I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Accusing him of the murder of Raza High School and
Ronald Gibson. Is it the look on your brother's face,
I'd say he doesn't agree with you. Bankruft. You made
your big mistake when you blew my safe and left
that cigarette stub in my office to frame Gibson, did
I Carter? You did because Gibson had those cigarettes made
for his customers, and of all the people involved in
this case, you were the only one who was the
customer of his your round, Carter, My mistake was in
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not running you and miss Bowen down in front of
Gibson's apartment. Nay, but I can undo that mistake right now.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh Taylor put away that pistol.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I didn't think you'd cracked so easily bankrupt. Sit
down on that couch, Carter, You too, Miss Bowen, very well,
you realize, of course you can't go on killing people indefinitely.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
I've killed three people, mixed, Carter. A couple more will
make little difference.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Three. I didn't accuse you of killing three backs, well
I did. Nonetheless.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
You you who killed Victoria Taylor.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yes, Julia, I killed it.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
She came into the library just as I was opening
the safe to get the manuscript.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Then you came in and I struck you, and you
had to kill Haskell to keep him from telling me
from whom he brought the manuscript. And last night, after
you stole the manuscript from my office, you met Gibson
and gave him the manuscript in place of the money
you owed him after he gave you a receipt for it.
Just slugged him and wrecked his car to make it
look as if he'd been killed in an accident, right
on all counts. Carter, Now, if you will excuse me,
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I'm afraid I can't excuse you yet.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Bankrost, But down that so a fellow.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
With the name, Oh.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Are you hurt?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Just a minute, Miss Bancroft, to ask your brother to
do me a mean Carter, open that safe above the mantle,
just the way you say you did it the night
of the robbery. Go on, open it. I can't car,
I don't know the combination. That's what I thought. It
was you who killed Haskell and Gibson, all right, but
you didn't steal the manuscript from this safe?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Then who did, mister Carte?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Who did Why you, miss Bancroft, And it was you
who murdered your sister, Victoria. Hope came, Maddie, thanks for calling. Wow, Fatcy,
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that's that. Julia Bancroft just dictated the statement.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
She confessed that she killed Victoria.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, pretty much the way I figured it. She stole
the manuscript and then took it down and sold it
to our Haskell. The next day. When Victoria accidentally discovered
it was gone, she was curious. Of course, she accused
Julia of taking it. That was a fight. In a
fit of temper, Victoria struck Julia with the lamp, and
Julia in turn shot and killed Victoria.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And framed the whole story of the robbery.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Right, But why did Julia take it?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
It was Taylor who was in debt to Gibson.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
True enough, Patsy. But what Gibson didn't know was that
Julia was the one who had prodded Taylor into playing
the market.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Oh see, in fact, I see everything except how you
figured out it with Julia.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Well, I got my first clue to that when the
old safe here in our office was blown open. What
did that prove? Me? Proved that the killer wasn't a
safe cracker, a professional thief. If he'd opened the safe
in Bancroft Hall just by his sense of touch, he'd
certainly done the same thing here. But he didn't use
an explosive precisely. And that told me that the person
who took the manuscript out of the Bancroft safe must
have known the combination. I get it when I got
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to thinking about our castle's last words just before he died.
Remember what they were, Patsy?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Why yes, he said yesterday? Nick just yes, Friday.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, it seemed logical that what he was going to
say was yesterday, Nick, just yesterday, I bought the Bancroft manuscript.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Another words, the thing that was worrying him, that made
him call you, was that he actually had the manuscript
for the papers announced it was stolen.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Exactly when I realized that I knew that either Julia
or Taylor had sold it to him.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
And Julia was the only one besides Victoria herself who
knew the combination.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yes, but I didn't rely on my words. That's why
I ordered Taylor to open the safe. And when he
couldn't do it, I knew he was covering for his sisters.
So Julia had to be guilded.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I see it all now that the end of Bancroft Hall,
end of a Bancroft line too.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
How the line may be passing, but Americans will still
be reading Old Joshua's essays long after the crimes of
his great grandchildren. I've forgotten. Friends. This is Nick Carter
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again asking you all to help in the great campaign
to stab out tuberculosis. You can help rid our country
of this dreaded killer by purchasing all the Christmas seals
you can buy buy some more Christmas seals tomorrow, William.
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Us next week? Next week's story, Bob concerns a man
who went driving with his fiance.
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And drove right into murder. There was also some blackmail.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yes, and I might mention that room on the top
floor with a sealed window.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And that room in the cellar without a window.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
See that really sounds intriguing.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
What do you call it?
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Story? I call it the case of the policymakers. Ooh,
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produced and directed by Jock McGregor and copyrighted by A.
Streed and Smith Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy.
Today's script was written by Ken Petters and Louis Sophio.
Original music is played by Henry Silver. This program is
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Why is he traveling?
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Why that crazy fool he's driving on the wrong.
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Now on the same familiar package. Now for the case
of the priceless pose. Today's exciting adventure starring Lonclock as
Nick Carter, brought to you by a new postwar old
Dutch cleanser. Story opens in Bancroft Hall, the ancestral home
of the great nineteenth century man of letters, Joshua Bancroft.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
An elderly woman, moaning in.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Pain, drags herself across the old fashioned library to the
telephone and dials with a trembling and uncertain hand.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Operator operate it gets me the police.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Hurry Hello, this is Julia Bancroft at Bancroft Hall.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
We we've been odd.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I've been beaten, victorian and killed.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Have you seen the afternoon paper, Patsy Not yet, Nick
twise a nasty piece of business at Bancroft Hall. Last
night Victoria Bancroft was murdered, her sister Julia badly beaten.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Oh, Nick, how horrible there, Old Joshua Bancroft's granddaughters, aren't.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They great granddaughters and my brother lived together at Bancroft Hall.
But why would anyone want robbery? Pertsey the murder a store,
the original manuscript of Joshua Bancroft's first book of essays.
Oh so that's it, worth thousands of dollars, probably just
about as valuable as any of the original manuscripts of
Emerson nor thorough Going.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Nick Hardy's office, Patsy Bonne speaking.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
This is Arthur Haskell. Is mister Carter there?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Please just a moment. It's for you, nigger, Mister Arthur
Haskell Art Haskell.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hello, Hello, Nick hard It is you. How are you?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I must see you Nick today if possible. It's important.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Why what's up?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
I'd rather not discuss it on the telephone. Will you
come to my store this evening after closing time?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Why?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
How's eighty fot good good, I'll be looking for you.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, that's Frange.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Who's Arthur Haskell.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There's an old friend of my father's. I've known him
since I was a kid, owns the Haskell bookstore. Deals
in rare books and old manuscripts.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Nay, isn't that a funny coincidence that he should call
just when we're discussing the Bancroft robbery.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I wonder whether it is a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Hello, I was good of you to come.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'd let me introduce you my secretary. That's a Born.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
How do you do, miss Born.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm glad to know you, mister Haskell, come in, Come.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
In both of 'em. Yeah, let's go back to my office.
It's in the rear of the store.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I haven't forgotten that.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Be careful, eh, shot the dark in here.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Yes, I didn't want our meeting to attract too much attention.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So that sounds mysterious, mister Haskell.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What I have to tell you is even more mysterious.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's all. Here we are, sit down, Nick, let me sporn. Thanks.
I now what's happened?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
You've read in the paper?
Speaker 8 (05:02):
I suppose about the theft of the bankruft manuscript?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yes, what about it?
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Well, you'll find this hard to believe, Nick, But yesterday,
just yesterday's dark.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Outide, Nick sat shooting through the window.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I can just sneak up.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Don't stay away from there, I can get a look outside.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
See anyone, No.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Whoever? It was gone. Now find the lights with Patty.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
He was right by the door.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, here it is, Nick.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I wonder whether, oh.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Nick, look what happens art art hate, Yes, Patsy, he's dead.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Everything's so old and musty and well, I'll bet no
one's even opened.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
A window on Bankroft's horse in the stock of a
Grandcroft died.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Here's the library, Butler said, we find Julian here. Well,
you can tell us if there's a connection between Haskell
and the Bankroft manuscripts. Oh, miss Bancroft, here.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You're mister Carter and miss Bury.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, forgive me for not getting at it my doctics.
I can't move from Miss Council. Of course we understand
the s.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Bancroft right this down, won't you?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I'm so glad you called. I know if anyone can
find the man who killed my sister stole great grandfather's manuscript,
you can.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Miss de clartt you say, the man who killed your sister?
You certain it was a man?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh positive, Miss de Cartti, Ah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I see. Now tell me what time did the robbery
take place, Miss Bancroft.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It was about ten thirty. I was in my room
on the second floor, when I heard Victoria's scream, I
started down the stairs and then there was a shot
I see, and then I rushed into the room, and
just as I stepped through the arch, I was stuck
on the head two or three times.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
With what do you know, miss Bankroft?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yes, yes, the base of that desk lamp over there.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's all I remember until I came to. Then I
saw the safe open, the manuscript was gone, and Victoria
was stick.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well let's see you not just a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What what are you doing at those draperies, mister Carter?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Just this, Taylor? How do you do? Mister Kakak? I
don't know who you are, but the next time you
hide behind drapery is but shore your feet don't show
mister Carter.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
This is my brother, Taylor Bancroft.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
I I was just coming in to get a book.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well you what book? And what book? Why? Never mind?
I had one more question to ask you, Miss Bancroft.
Yes you any idea who could have done this?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Why any one might have done it? So many people
knew of great grandfather's manuscript, and nearly everyone knew that
it was kept here.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
True enough, but no ordinary fate was still a rare
old manuscript stolen by a person who knew how to
dispose of it.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, there are several people here in the city who
know a great deal about old books.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So happened to know the names of any particular individuals?
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Well, I know who would know, Julia Carvin Lyden, Professor
van Lyden.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yes, he's the.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Best known authority in the field. I'm sure he'd be
glad to help you.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Thank you, miss Bancroft. Think I'll pay him a visit
right now.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
So you think only someone who knows enough about rare
books to dispose of the Bancroft manuscript would have stolen it? There,
mister Carper exactly, Professor van Lyden, who who suggested.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That you could give me the names of a few
such people to check on? Byers can?
Speaker 10 (09:00):
If you've been excuse me, I'll go to my study
all I'll write out of this for you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Oh, please make yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Gosh, look at all those books.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Make yes, Betsy, there it is the famous Van Liden Library,
thousands of books worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Well,
that's a good and big Bible. And that glass case
there God, and up here on this shelf these are art.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
What is You wouldn't think Professor van Leyden would be
so careless?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Oh a couple of volumes upside down?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Huh yeah, I wanted to be mine if I turned
the right side up.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I don't imagine any what what? Mm oh? What is it?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
There's something stuck in behas of these books.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It looks like what oh, let's say it. Petsy here,
great Scott, do you know what this is? What? Meck?
This is what we're looking for the Joshua Bancroft Manuscript.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
In amazement and disbelief, Nick and Patsy's stare at the
bulky sheep of yellowing pages, the precious manuscript has been found,
but as Nick himself realizes, this serves only to deepen
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As we pick up our story, a few months of
passed since Nick and Patsy discovered the Joshua Bancroft manuscript
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hidden behind some books in Professor Van Lyden's library. The
Professor is just returning from his study.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
I hear, mister Carter, I have made a list of
a few people you might want to talk.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
To right now, Professor, you're the only person I want
to talk to.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yes, Professor, we found the Bancroft manuscript.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
I see, and you believe that it was I who
broke into Bancroft Hall, stole the manuscript, killed Victoria Bancroft,
and beat your her sister. Well didn't you, Of course
I didn't. I came by the manuscript quite innocently. I
was about to buy it from whom from a friend
of yours, Arthur Haskell.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Arthur Haskell cry, it's the truth, Miss Bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Haskell stopped by.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
Here only day before yesterday and to let me examine it.
I was about to call drawn for the purchase when
I heard that it had been stolen from Bancroft Hall
the night be.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Why didn't you notify the police that you had it?
Speaker 10 (12:02):
But frankly I was frightened, mister Carter, particularly have I
heard of Haskell's death. I realized that I had no
proof of how the manuscript came into my possession.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And Arthur didn't tell you how it had come into
his possession. No, how much were you going to pay
him for it?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
I was prepared to offer seventy three thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Seventy three thousand, Who, professor, why exactly seventy three thousand?
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Well?
Speaker 10 (12:23):
I did considerable investigating in the matter about six weeks ago,
and from the inquiries I made I feel that seventy
three thousand is about what a team collector would pay
for the manuscript today.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Why were you so interested in the bankrupt manuscript six
weeks ago? I wasn't.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I appraised us as a favor to mister Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Who's Arnold Gibson, a stuckgoker.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Here in the city, an old friend of the Bancroft family,
or so he said.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did he say why he wanted to praise?
Speaker 10 (12:47):
No, he did not, but he seemed to feel it
was very urgent.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Next something to tell me it's urgent that we see
this Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Right, Professor, with your permission, I'm taking this manuscript with me.
It's evidence and one or perhaps two murder cases.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Mister Carter, thank you a patter. You go back to
the office. I'm going to pay another visit to Bankroft Hall.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So what am I going to do at the office?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You're going to put the manuscript in our office safe
and leave it there. We're not carrying seventy three thousand
dollars worth of pros a round on our luggage compartment.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Then you found it already on, mister Carter.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
That's wonderful news.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Where is the manuscript now, mister Carter? In the safe
in my office? Mister Bancroft, I'm holding it for the police.
Tell me, do you know Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Arnold Gibson, Arnolds and old friend of his family, Mister Carter?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
What is he to do with it? Did either of
you authorize him to seek an appraisal of your great
grandfather's manuscript six weeks ago?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No, certainly not.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's why you don't need to say. He Van Lyden
says Arnold Gibson asked him to determine the current market
value of the manuscript.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's incredible. Why would he have done such a thing.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm sure I don't know, Miss Bancroft. That's one more
thing I'd like to rescue you for safe from which
the manufacpt was stolen behind that picture over the mattel.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
The picture slide that show him very well?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Julia you, mister Carter. How many people knew the combination
of the safe? Just too Victoria and my stays, you
don't know what, mister Bancroft.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Now, Vicarian never trusted me enough to give it to me.
Being the elder sister, she looked upon great grandfather's manuscript
as her personal property.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, she told you.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The combination of Miss Frankle Yes, but only because she
felt someone else should know it and didn't have been
anything happened to her.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I see, thank you. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm
going to pick up Miss Bourne and pay a call
on Arnold Gibson.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh slow down, Meg, isn't that the pop you onned up.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Ahead Gibson lives?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yes, I think it is.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
He was turning around here. We might as well park
over here, right careful crossing the street.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I'm watching Come on, hey.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Wait, Patsy, Wait what a car coming?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Is he traveling by that? Crazy Ricky's riding on the
wrong side of the street.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Must be drunk. He can right pull get back back
to behind that car.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Jump.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
That was close, Nick, Whoever was driving that car deliberately
try to run us down.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That's obvious.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Did you see who it was?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh? I was too busy getting out of the way.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Me too, Nick.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I bet someone was trying to keep us from talking
to Donold Gibson.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Maybe so this makes me all the more interested in
meeting the gentleman.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Oh should I Miss Bourne and mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Thank you, mister Gibson. Cigarette rist Carter, no thing.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They're a special brand I have made for my customers.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
They called Arcadias.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh sorry, I don't you.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I see.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, what can I do for you, mister Gibson? You
can tell us why you asked Professor van Leyden to
ascertain the market price of the Bancroft manuscript.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Boy, And just what business is it of yours?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Who murders? Make it my business? Even though the manuscript
has been recovered, Oh, you've got it back. I have
safely stowed away in my office safe. Oh are you
going to tell me what I want to know? Cornor?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I had the Bancroft manuscript the praise because I was
tired of waiting for the money Taylor Bancroft owes me.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Bancroft owes you money.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Fifty five thousand dollars, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Taylor was playing the market. He lost, didn't have the
money to cover.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I advanced for him, and you wanted to find out
whether he could raise enough on the manuscript to pay
you bank.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
That's right, miss Carr.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I see, I thank you, mister Gibson. Not all all right, Patsy,
Shall we go, my nanny? I'm taking you home. I'm
going over to the athletic club.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
The athletic club.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What's think A good brisk rub down'll do me good,
and a good night's sleep and I'll be ready for
another busy day tomorrow. Oh all right, alright, take it easy. Hello, Patsy, Oh, Patsy,
(17:31):
what time is it?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
It's nine fifteen. I'm at the office. Something terrible has happened, Nick.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Don't tell me. Let me guess. The Bancroft Manual gets
been stolen.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes, someone broke in here last night.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They blew the safe, blew it? Uh? They sure they
blew it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Of course, Nick. But what'd you say?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I said, Good? Now I found out, but I wanted
to know. Hold everything, Patsy. I'll be right down, Nick.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
How can you be so calm? In the bank manuscript
has been stolen again?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
For one thing, it hasn't been stolen. Why you look
in the safe in my private office, that new burglar
proof one would put there last year. You'll see that
it's still there.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
But Nick, I put it in the old safe the
way you told me to.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yes, I know. But after I left you last night
I came back here. I took the cover sheet of
the manuscript and put it over a bundle of blank pages.
I figured that Deep had been too big a rush
to notice that he was stealing a dummy But I
put the manuscript itself in the news Safte.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Then you expected the manuscript to be stolen.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I hope it would be. That's why I took care
of mention in front of every single suspect in the case.
That's where it was hidden.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Put Nick quiet on earth.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh wait a minute, what are you looking at me?
This ashtray by the chair here? Wasn't he when I
left last night?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And there's only been one person in the office since,
the person who stole a dummy manuscript.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And this cigarette thought must have been left by that person.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But says Arcadie on it, that's the brand Donald Gibson
offered me last night, and it must have been well,
I'll get it, hey, Carter speaking. Oh hello, Maddie, what
what's that I see? Yeah? Yeah, it does, isn't it? Hell? Okay, Maddie,
(19:15):
thanks for calling.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
What do you say, Nick?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
He says? The case of the bankruft manuscript is solved.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
It solved.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Police just found Donald Gibson dead when out on Riverside Road.
Apparently his car skidded and went over an embankment.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
How does that solve a chase?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
They also found the dummy manuscript was in the car.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
With him, So that's not quite Fatsy, What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Got your hat?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But where we're going?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
To?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
The morgue?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I want to take a look at Donold Gibson's body.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Hurry up, Nick, I don't like morgs all right, thought so, well, why.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Are you two interested in gibson hands and teeth?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Listen, Patsy, remember when Gibson offered me a cigarette last
night and I refused. Well, Gibson didn't take one either.
In fact, he didn't smoke the whole time we were
with him.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
You mean, I mean that he.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Didn't smoke at all. There's not a sign of a
nicotine stain on his teeth or fingers.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
He said he had those cigarettes made for his customers.
He didn't say for himself.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Right, Patsy. Cigarette stub in the office was just a
plant to throw a suspicion on Gibson.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
And Gibson must have been murdered, correct, And I.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Know who murdered him to do, And I've also got
a pretty good idea who murdered Victoria.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Bankrupt, confident that he assolved the mystery, and Nick turns
away from the body of Arnold Gibson. We'll bring you
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Now for the conclusion of the case of the Priceless Pose.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new pulstwar old Dutch cleanser. After leaving the morgue, Nick
and Patsy's feed swiftly across the town and stand now
the door of the old mansion known as Bancroft Hall.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Bring the doorbell again, Patsy, I think I.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Hear someone coming.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh, good evenings.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
To cut good evening, miss Bankruft. Is your brother at home? Taylor? Why?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, he's in the library, won't you?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Did you thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Taylor?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yes? Julia, did you want to see me? I want
to see you, Bankruft? Oh God sah for about about murder?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Mister Carton? You want accusing Tale, I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Accusing him of the murder of Raza High School and
Ronald Gibson. Is it the look on your brother's face,
I'd say he doesn't agree with you. Bankruft. You made
your big mistake when you blew my safe and left
that cigarette stub in my office to frame Gibson, did
I Carter? You did because Gibson had those cigarettes made
for his customers, and of all the people involved in
this case, you were the only one who was the
customer of his your round, Carter, My mistake was in
(22:43):
not running you and miss Bowen down in front of
Gibson's apartment. Nay, but I can undo that mistake right now.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh Taylor put away that pistol.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I didn't think you'd cracked so easily bankrupt. Sit
down on that couch, Carter, You too, Miss Bowen, very well,
you realize, of course you can't go on killing people indefinitely.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
I've killed three people, mixed, Carter. A couple more will
make little difference.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Three. I didn't accuse you of killing three backs, well
I did. Nonetheless.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
You you who killed Victoria Taylor.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yes, Julia, I killed it.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
She came into the library just as I was opening
the safe to get the manuscript.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Then you came in and I struck you, and you
had to kill Haskell to keep him from telling me
from whom he brought the manuscript. And last night, after
you stole the manuscript from my office, you met Gibson
and gave him the manuscript in place of the money
you owed him after he gave you a receipt for it.
Just slugged him and wrecked his car to make it
look as if he'd been killed in an accident, right
on all counts. Carter, Now, if you will excuse me,
(23:42):
I'm afraid I can't excuse you yet.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Bankrost, But down that so a fellow.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
With the name, Oh.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Are you hurt?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Just a minute, Miss Bancroft, to ask your brother to
do me a mean Carter, open that safe above the mantle,
just the way you say you did it the night
of the robbery. Go on, open it. I can't car,
I don't know the combination. That's what I thought. It
was you who killed Haskell and Gibson, all right, but
you didn't steal the manuscript from this safe?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Then who did, mister Carte?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Who did Why you, miss Bancroft, And it was you
who murdered your sister, Victoria. Hope came, Maddie, thanks for calling. Wow, Fatcy,
(24:38):
that's that. Julia Bancroft just dictated the statement.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
She confessed that she killed Victoria.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, pretty much the way I figured it. She stole
the manuscript and then took it down and sold it
to our Haskell. The next day. When Victoria accidentally discovered
it was gone, she was curious. Of course, she accused
Julia of taking it. That was a fight. In a
fit of temper, Victoria struck Julia with the lamp, and
Julia in turn shot and killed Victoria.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And framed the whole story of the robbery.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Right, But why did Julia take it?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
It was Taylor who was in debt to Gibson.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
True enough, Patsy. But what Gibson didn't know was that
Julia was the one who had prodded Taylor into playing
the market.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Oh see, in fact, I see everything except how you
figured out it with Julia.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Well, I got my first clue to that when the
old safe here in our office was blown open. What
did that prove? Me? Proved that the killer wasn't a
safe cracker, a professional thief. If he'd opened the safe
in Bancroft Hall just by his sense of touch, he'd
certainly done the same thing here. But he didn't use
an explosive precisely. And that told me that the person
who took the manuscript out of the Bancroft safe must
have known the combination. I get it when I got
(25:41):
to thinking about our castle's last words just before he died.
Remember what they were, Patsy?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Why yes, he said yesterday? Nick just yes, Friday.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, it seemed logical that what he was going to
say was yesterday, Nick, just yesterday, I bought the Bancroft manuscript.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Another words, the thing that was worrying him, that made
him call you, was that he actually had the manuscript
for the papers announced it was stolen.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Exactly when I realized that I knew that either Julia
or Taylor had sold it to him.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
And Julia was the only one besides Victoria herself who
knew the combination.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yes, but I didn't rely on my words. That's why
I ordered Taylor to open the safe. And when he
couldn't do it, I knew he was covering for his sisters.
So Julia had to be guilded.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I see it all now that the end of Bancroft Hall,
end of a Bancroft line too.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
How the line may be passing, but Americans will still
be reading Old Joshua's essays long after the crimes of
his great grandchildren. I've forgotten. Friends. This is Nick Carter
(26:48):
again asking you all to help in the great campaign
to stab out tuberculosis. You can help rid our country
of this dreaded killer by purchasing all the Christmas seals
you can buy buy some more Christmas seals tomorrow, William.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I'm sure the answer to that question, Nick is a
great big yes. But now, what can you tell us
about the adventure that new post war old Dutch clincher
is going to bring.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Us next week? Next week's story, Bob concerns a man
who went driving with his fiance.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
And drove right into murder. There was also some blackmail.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yes, and I might mention that room on the top
floor with a sealed window.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And that room in the cellar without a window.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
See that really sounds intriguing.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
What do you call it?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Story? I call it the case of the policymakers. Ooh,
attention homemakers.
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(28:18):
Carter Master Detective, presented each week at this time, is
produced and directed by Jock McGregor and copyrighted by A.
Streed and Smith Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy.
Today's script was written by Ken Petters and Louis Sophio.
Original music is played by Henry Silver. This program is
fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead
(28:40):
is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
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Speaker 1 (28:43):
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