November 9, 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):
Post war Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents
Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
At this time, two great names are joined as new
post war Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the
most responseful and daring characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
She said she locked all the doors and windows, but
don't you think we ought to check them just in case?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You're right, Petsy. I'm going to check them right now.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Good.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Of course, I don't really believe this Indian.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Led It's somebody screamed. Do you come.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Pound it?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Look, yes, we're too late. She's dead, Yes, Petsy with.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
A red arrow in her heart.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Now the Case of the Red Arrow today's adventure starring
Long Clark as Nick Cutter, drop to you by new
post war Old Dutch Cleanser as Miss Harriet Hartwell removes
the hairpins from her iron gray hair before going to bed.
It's a stern, determined face that looks back at her
from the mirror, the face of a woman not easily
frightened even by a sound heard often during the past
(01:27):
few weeks in the historic Old Heartwell mention.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh for Heaven's sake, not again. Where's that gun? Hendie, Habbie?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I say again, Henry, I was letting the dog.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Harness, you are saying his head and the ball and had.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Stop that noise? You too, Hannibal.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
You hear her?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
What?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, Abby says she saw him again. Dear Jeryl takes
a gun. Look around. Okay, I heard the screaming. Hay's
come again.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
He never mind, Lisa, go back to bed. I told
you not to plow up that grave. He'll keep coming
back until one. Go back to bed, Lisa, unless you
want me to look for a new housekeeper in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm going. But remember I've warned you.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Now, Abby, you stop that blubbering right now. The house,
of course, there never is, Oh, Harriet, Harriet, please let's
get out before it's too Nay.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Let a dead Indian run me out of my own house,
I should say. Now, perhaps you will imagine I did
not I tell.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
You I saw you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh head, you listen to me. You can't fight it,
Oh can't I have?
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Well, I'm going to make this particular ghost, which he'd
never been.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Born, question enormous Heartwell, chasing ghost isn't exactly my line.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, I need maybe it would be interesting for a change.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, maybe you have something there, Patsy. Tell me about
the ghost anyway, miss Heartwell, well, the.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Old Heartwell place is about fifty miles up the river,
I see. And when my great great grandfather, General Absom
Heartwell gost it back in eighteen fifteen, the Indians around
that section were pretty riled about it. Why well, because
they had a burial ground on the property and they
considered it sacred soil.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I see.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Now among the Grays was that of Red Arrow, one
of their greatest cheeks.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And the Indians warned that his spirit would come back
to avenge the insult.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
And did it.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Well, something did, because one morning the general was found
dead in his bedroom with a red arrow in his heart.
Why and I suppose the ghost has been appearing ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, no, not until I moved in three months ago. Uh.
You see, for the past thirty.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Years, no one has lived in the house but Lisa
Maybury the caretaker. Now she's my housekeeper.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But I wonder why the big chief is on the
warpath again after all these years.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Well, according to Lisa, when I put in my rose garden,
I accidentally had his grave clowed up.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Did you ever see the ghost yourself, miss Hartwell.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Well, yes one time, but when I threw a brass
inkwell at him, he ran into my bedroom and disappeared.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
What happened there?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Well, I went right in after him, but there was
nobody there and all the doors and windows were locked.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But both your housekeeper miss Abbey have seen it several times.
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Yes, we've all seen it except Gerald.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Gerald, that's the nephew who is visiting you last night. Yes,
she usually comes out the weekend.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Gerald is the only close relative I have, and he
knows he'll get my money someday, so he tries to
keep on the good side of me.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
When Miss Abbey's Arella lived too.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Isn't she She's a second cousin twice removed, But both
she and Gerald know I'm not leaving her much.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
That's Heartwell, what do you think a private investigator can
do against a ghost.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Ghost my foot?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Someone's deliberately trying to frighten me, and I want to
know who it is and why they're doing it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Well, I'll tell you what, Patsy, and I'll drive up
there tonight. Stay if you did good but please don't
tell the others who I am. Whatever you say, mister Carson,
from now on, it's Professor Carter, Miss Hotwell, I'm a
scholar who's interested in psychic manifestations.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Okay, very well, Professor coch see, this is going to
be interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yes, fancy, but not only for us. With a little luck,
I think we can make it plenty interesting for mister ghost. Yes,
there is definitely an aura about this house conduce you
(05:44):
to psychic phenomena, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Home's bone?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Absolutely, Professor Well.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Eleven o'clock, I think I'll turn in.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yes, it's time we all went to bed. Oh did
you take the dog out? Abby?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh? You handy, but and I had in love walk
in the gardens.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Did Lisa show you your room, Miss Bowling, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
At the head of the sayers, Oh, your room is
on the ground floor of Professor Carter.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I thought you'd prefer that.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Oh, that's very thoughtful of you.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Did I tell you that the ghost has never been
seen upstairs?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Why? No, how very interesting. Yes, that's why nobody but
Aunt Harriet will sleep down here.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well not all.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Oh wait a minute, yes, I'm going up to I
don't like to walk to the hall alone.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Not after last night, Oh, mister Nesbeth, Yes, you say
that every time the ghost has appeared, you made an
immediate search and found all the doors and windows locked
on the inside. Yes, every time I happen to be
here on each case.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well imagine what would have happened if we'd.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Been alone, That's what I was thinking. Well, good night,
good night, and good luck with your ghost cases.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Good night, possesses, good night, miss going good night is Abbey.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
I think I'll retire to Is there anything you need
to Professor Cauty, No.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Thank you, Miss Hadra. That's and I'll sit here for
a while and watch for our friend the Redskins.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, I just hope you're cassin. Good good night, Well, professor,
what do you think?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Try to tell VESI but the fact that the ghost
always appears on this floor and everybody but miss Harriet
leaps upstairs.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
There is a help, yes, from this room.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Need to keep an eye on the front stairways, and
they're on any backstairs.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
That's what I mean. They're all panned in, even Miss
Harriet herself. There's only one door to her room, and
I can see that from here.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh what do you think of her?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
It's Harriet. She's a great old girl. I'd hate to
be that ghost when she gets it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That's the way I feel. Well, Oh Lisa, I didn't
see you come in.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
You and the professor was talking. Will you be wanting
anything else before I go up to bed?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Thank you, Lida.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Did you lock up?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Yes, sir, I tested every door and window, not that
it will do any good against him.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You've lived here a long time, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Thirty years, most of it all alone in this house,
just like it was my own, and there was never
no trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
With him till she moved in.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
You mean, miss Harriet, I do, moving the furniture around,
things that ain't been changed in a hundred year, plowing
up the burial ground, Boss and everybody, like as if
she was a queen?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Does just feel that way? Why don't you quit me,
leave this house to nursery.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
I got more right here than she has, and I'll
be here after she is gone.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
What makes you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Think miss Harriet will go live?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He'll go cheap red Errow will take care of that.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I mean, the way he took care of all general
heart wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That ain't for me to say, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Up now, good night, good night, good night her.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
He's a pleasant person to have around.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Wonder how far she'd go to get Miss Harriet out
of here. That's what I was thinking, You know, bad
say this place must be worth a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Collection of the Indian Relict, Tolona, the finest I ever saw.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
And did you see those things up stairs? Helmet sus arma, crossbows,
antique guns.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I mean the European collection. Uh yeah, Miss Harriot said
they belonged to her grandfather. Oh said them from museum pieces.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I've been thinking something that. Not to change the subject,
Lisa said. She locked all the doors and windows.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Don't worry, I'm going to check them myself. Harrio, Come on,
harr matter does did now that your aunt harrings Harriet
isn't the fainting type?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Harriet pacific?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yes, it was found at the door's locks. Stand back
that you take it in.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I won't let you.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You haven't anything to say about it, Lisa, get.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Home, write something, stop down dead.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yes, Patsy with a red arrow to her heart.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
A red arrow symbol of the long dead Indian chiefs
for truth from the chest of the woman who dug
up his grave, a woman who was alone in a
room with every door and window shut. We'll see what
happens in just a moment. Now back to the case
of the Red Arrow. Today's adventure with Nick Carter, rock
(10:33):
to you by new post war old Dutch cleansers. Only
a moment has passed since Nick broke into the locked
bedroom to find Miss Harriet lying on the floor with
a red arrow in her heart.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
There's only one door to this room, and the killer
didn't come in or leave that way. I've been watching that.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
How about the windows, Miss, This one locked on the inside.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And the killer must still be in the room. What's
this door?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
That's the closet.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I'll be cliding there. I own nothing here but a
few dresses.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I tell you it was cheap red arrow. He don't
need no doors, no windows. He walked through the walls.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Do you want to believe that?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Lither? Go ahead? But I don't take any stock and ghosts,
not yet anyway, Really, Professor Carter, that's an odd remark
for a man who says he's interested in psychic phenomena.
I am a private investigator in EDBD.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Hey dear, that's right, Miss Abbey.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Nothing must be touched until the police arrived.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Will you phone them passing.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Something awful?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Would he have? I want I beg you to leave
this house.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
You should have known those were the wrong tactics to
use on Aunt Harriet, Miss Abbey.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
He hasn't thought to come here in a first place,
changing things around, follow him up grade.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
No ghosts did this leaper, and no human being could
have gone out and locked the windows after him on
the inside. So it's someone who's in this house right
now by You don't mean one of us. That's exactly
what I mean, Lesabon, and I'm making it my business
if I out which one of you it is.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
You expect to find her secret panel in the wall,
Miss Curter, But.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Be Sheriff, they don't sound pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh but next secret panels. You don't find those things
in real life, not.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Nowadays, Miss Bourne. But this house is a hundred and
thirty years old.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
The Sheriff's right, patty.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
But that doesn't seem to be any panel in these walls,
you know, missus Carter.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Maybe what we are to look for first is the motives.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Yeah, well, first, as Lisa, he certainly was ed Miss.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Harriot seeing here they all had motives except Miss Abbey.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Even she might have hated Miss Harriots couldn't have been
too easy living here as a poor relation.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
No, but she could always leave if she wanted to.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
How about money? Miss Harriet was rich, and miss miss.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Abbey thought she'd be the here now cheff, Miss Abbey
knew that practically all the money goes to the nephew,
Gerald Nesbit nes Bidder, uh huh.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
And Gerald Nesbit is the only person in the house
who never saw the ghost, even though he says he just.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Happened to be here every time it showed up.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
That does look suspicious. Yeah, but just now I'm interested
in this arrow.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Yes, it looks looks like a homemade no stone near ahead,
tied into lue shirt.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Tape down shaf and very neatly too.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I've seen that sort of tape before. Neck pressmakers use it.
You can get it at any dime store.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I know, patchy, but it's the way the tape is
born down that interests me.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Very distinctive design.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yes, oh, mister Carter, Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
I bless my glasses in here. Really on miss Abbey
on the table, Oh thank you, mister COTTI you don't
really think it's.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
One of us.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I'm afraid I do, Miss Abbey.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh but we were all up steam.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Ms Carter was trying to find a secret passage when walls,
but didn't get nowhere.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh I should It couldn't be anything like that. Say
what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Good reef Croder, she's sad it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Here, Miss Abby drengthing. Thank you? Did I see?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You said you saw something?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Oh? Yes, she red arrows goose where no closet the closet.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yes, you susted someone were hiding there. And then then
I saw a head.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
No you just imagine the train. Nobody in here?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
No, no, no, why I saw it?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Maybe this is up there? Looking for sure? I mean
the walls in the room more solid, But that sounds howl.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
There's some clothes hooks on the back of the closet wall.
Maybe if we pull one of them.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
H got this one either, how we run?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I didn't stay away going upstairs, so that's how the.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Killers get in them out.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Let's see what goes up to?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, these stairs, and now aren't they.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Set laying on the step a blanker and an Indian
headdress with friends?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
So go cost you, Patsy, Let's go on up.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, the one we didn't see anybody using the sun stairs.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
There's another door at the top. Who was a legals
They were in another closet let. They pushed these clothes out.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Of the way and they'll go into the room to
be the men's clothes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
The cloud.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
The few people come up, Well, you want to know,
summer boys, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Well, you wait, but you were the first one to
come upstairs just before the murder. You come directly for
this room. Yes, why did anybody else come through here? No,
of course, so that does.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
A junk killer. You're under rest for the meadow of
your ant.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Hell, I'm blamed if I know why you wanted me
to come back out here this morning, Mick.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I want to take a look at the outside of
the house there. Now, these are the windows to miss
Harriet's room. Yes, who is Leatha's room is on the
other side of the house to back. It's Abby's windows
are directly above here, and that's Nesbit's room above and
to the right.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Well, what difference is to make? We know he is it,
and we got him safe from the county jail.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I won't hurt him to stay there for a day
or two, and he'll throw the real killer off time it.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Nick Nesbits, the cure goes hidden stairs are the only
way into Miss Harriet's room. Yeah, that's right, and no
prey button has bit could have used them at that time.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He admitted it.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Right again, So the arrow must have been shot from outside.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The house through those locked windows.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Not necessarily. Here. Look at this tree, shair, it's right
in front of Miss Harriet's window, not six feet away
from them.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, if you think one of the women climb down
that tree up therese, you're crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
That isn't what I'm driving at here.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Take a look at these marks on the inside of
the place where it's forks about five feet from the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Eh, puny. The tree forks.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Three ways, and something's been pressed into the bark inside
the forts.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah, something has been wedged firmly between those three forks,
and recently, well you can tell the toose marks a
new chad. Did you ever see a crossbow?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Who's gossbol who said?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
A medieval weapon with a stock like a shotgun and
a bow mounted crosswires on the front end shoes more
powerful than an ordinary bull and it can be aimed
more accurately.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
When Yeah, there's one in the collection upstairs.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Answer, it's cart to pull the trigger to shoot here.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's the weapon.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
I mean, Oh, didn't you think that the cross bull
was wedged in the flock of this tree?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Pointing in the Miss Harry, true.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I wouldn't be surprised. Could easily be pulled loose from
the tree fork and hauled into an upstairs window with
a strong cord and a corner on the trigger. Could
pull the trigger by remote control.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Maybe sure, But still couldn't shoot through clothes and locked
window without breaking it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You can't get away from ane.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Maybe not Sheriff, But I'm doing my best.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Why are you too pulling around out here?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
For ood? I asked you the same question, Lida, is
the time you were getting dinner?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I'm doing the washing. Miss Abbey always tends to the
cooking on wash day. I see that you're brun with
your helping her. If you're interested looking for something, I'm
looking for my clothes.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's why somebody moved.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Clothes crop. That's a poll about seventy feet, isn't it
choose to.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Prop up the clothes line and hold the clothes off
the ground here?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It is?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
How in the name of common since did it get
around here in the tall grass? Let me see that
I catched the one that threw it out here.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Never mind, lit, I'll catch that person for you. Come on, Sheriff,
I've got the answer. Now.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
If you have another big, nice mis Babby, I'll help
you shred that cabine.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I'm almost shrewe mistering. But if you'd like to
take a look at the sink, I better get along.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Screw to stirred with run in the drawer of the
cabinet over the here. Thanks, this one that's fermanded.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Yes, the hendry came loose, and I put some taper
around it. I am very good at sixteen things.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
But that's the same time kind of tape with you tonight?
The arrow that what did you say?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Well, the way the tape is round around the spoon handle,
that complicated way. That's the same.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
As what was on that arrow.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I wish you had noticed that, missus Bowen, was you
he is?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Abby? Yes, miss Bowen, it was I. But you had
no reason to kill her? No reason.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
How would you like to be a poor relation, always
taking orders, watching her by the best of everything, and
having to get.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Along with nothing?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
You said, I made up my mind that I was
going to have nice thing too. You kill her for
the money, but surely you know that practically everything goes
to Gerald, not that.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
He's convicted of killing her. It doesn't.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
The lord doesn't let the murder of prophet by his down,
and I'm the only as a related Harriet head.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I'll get it off. Maybe a wood had but now
you won't.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Care on mean mess bowing, He won't air that put
down that knife heavy please.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Trapped in the corner of the old fashioned kitchen, Patsy
has no chance to get.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Past miss Abbie as the old lady advances with a
heavy knife in her hand.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We'll see what happens in just a moment. And now
the conclusion of the Case of the Red Arrow. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. In the kitchen of the historic
heartwell mentioned, Patsy is alone with a murderess, a murderers
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with a heavy knife in her hand, who advances slowly
as she says.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You won't care on means throwing. You won't air that
tim on my knife? No happy please?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Wait all right, I.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Got the nice hair hold.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
On, she did she killed me.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Terry caff and I were just coming in to rest her, and.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
She wanted Gerald the lens. That's why the ghosts never
appeared unless he was here.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
It was you played around dressed up like oh she
read Errosmas.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Then very well, I admitted, got the idea when Lita
warned Harriet if the chief ghost would come back for revens.
And when I discovered that he could stay away, I
knew just how it could be done.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yes, a stair away to Gerald's room made it appear
that he was the only person who could have shot
Miss Harriet come inside the house. Well, actually you shut
her from outside the window.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
But Nick, how could you do that?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
A crossbow Patsy what wedge in the fork of a tree.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Outside the window? Fired by pulling a string tried to.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
The trigger, then quickly pulled up into Miss Abbey's own
room with a cord.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Tied around the stock.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Could I don't see the arrow was ain't.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
At the center of Miss Harriet's window. When Miss Harriet
opened the window for the night, the light inside the
room threw her shadow when the tree drunk outside. Ah,
and that's when Miss Abbey pulled the string.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
What a setup?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Okay, what if we hadn't found that secret stairway, though,
then there wouldn't have been no evidence against Joey Long.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I didn't find it.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
It looked fir even after I put the blanket and
hit this on the stairs for you to discover.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
So I had to.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Pretend I saw something there.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Do you look close to.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Oh, miss Abbey, I got a nice cew waiting for
you down to my jail. Awful, Sorry, there ain't no
secret panel for the monkey.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Ris, what are your shume makeout?
Speaker 7 (23:58):
So no, Nitch, I still don't see how miss Abbey
managed to close that window after shooting Miss.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Harriet with that out, It was easy, Patsy, But she
merely leaned out of her own window and pushed it
shut with a clothes crop.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
The clothes crop.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah, she took it upstairs early in the evening, and
when she was finished with it, she threw it out
into the yard.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
But Nick, miss Harriet's window was locked.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, but you remember when we broke into the room
just after Miss Harriet was killed. It was Miss Abbey
who rushed to the window to see whether.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
It was locked.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
What you mean she locked it?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Then she did well, I'll be donned and right in
front of us.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
It was a clever scheme, all right, Oh, but.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Slowly so sure that Gerald hadn't come down that hidden
stairway and.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Murdered his hand because I knew Miss Abbey was lying
when she pretended to see someone in the closet.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
How did you know?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Because if anyone had come into the closet from the
hidden stairway, the secret door would have creaked so loudly
that we couldn't have missed hearing it.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Geez.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
She must have planned that murder for months in advance.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I'm sure she did. But she had lost her head
when she tried to kill you.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
If she couldn't cover that up, it would have been
a bad mistake.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well also not only for her but for me. Thanks
for not letting her make it.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Nick, You're quite welcome, Betsy. I'd hate to have to
break in a new assistance.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What say you?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Can you tell us something about the adventure new post
war old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Nick, Indeed, I can Mike. Next week we're going to
meet a brand new version of an old horse and
buggy racket. It's a sore streamline that it murdered three people.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
And the only clue of the solution was a fact
that a lot of people suddenly started wearing new glasses.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Well, that certainly sounds interesting.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What do you call the adventure, Nick?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I call it the Case of the Failing Eyes?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Nick Carter, Master Detective, presented each week at this time
by the Kutaha Packing Company, is produced and directed by
Jack McGregor and is copyright by Freedom Smith's Publications Incorporated.
Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Today's script was written
by Jim Parsons. Original music is played by Henry Silberns.
This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons
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living or dead is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris saying,
when minutes count, use new post war old Dutch tleasors.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
Post war Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents
Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
At this time, two great names are joined as new
post war Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the
most responseful and daring characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
She said she locked all the doors and windows, but
don't you think we ought to check them just in case?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You're right, Petsy. I'm going to check them right now.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Good.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Of course, I don't really believe this Indian.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Led It's somebody screamed. Do you come.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Pound it?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Look, yes, we're too late. She's dead, Yes, Petsy with.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
A red arrow in her heart.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Now the Case of the Red Arrow today's adventure starring
Long Clark as Nick Cutter, drop to you by new
post war Old Dutch Cleanser as Miss Harriet Hartwell removes
the hairpins from her iron gray hair before going to bed.
It's a stern, determined face that looks back at her
from the mirror, the face of a woman not easily
frightened even by a sound heard often during the past
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few weeks in the historic Old Heartwell mention.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh for Heaven's sake, not again. Where's that gun? Hendie, Habbie?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I say again, Henry, I was letting the dog.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Harness, you are saying his head and the ball and had.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Stop that noise? You too, Hannibal.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
You hear her?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
What?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, Abby says she saw him again. Dear Jeryl takes
a gun. Look around. Okay, I heard the screaming. Hay's
come again.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
He never mind, Lisa, go back to bed. I told
you not to plow up that grave. He'll keep coming
back until one. Go back to bed, Lisa, unless you
want me to look for a new housekeeper in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm going. But remember I've warned you.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Now, Abby, you stop that blubbering right now. The house,
of course, there never is, Oh, Harriet, Harriet, please let's
get out before it's too Nay.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Let a dead Indian run me out of my own house,
I should say. Now, perhaps you will imagine I did
not I tell.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
You I saw you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh head, you listen to me. You can't fight it,
Oh can't I have?
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Well, I'm going to make this particular ghost, which he'd
never been.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Born, question enormous Heartwell, chasing ghost isn't exactly my line.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, I need maybe it would be interesting for a change.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, maybe you have something there, Patsy. Tell me about
the ghost anyway, miss Heartwell, well, the.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Old Heartwell place is about fifty miles up the river,
I see. And when my great great grandfather, General Absom
Heartwell gost it back in eighteen fifteen, the Indians around
that section were pretty riled about it. Why well, because
they had a burial ground on the property and they
considered it sacred soil.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I see.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Now among the Grays was that of Red Arrow, one
of their greatest cheeks.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And the Indians warned that his spirit would come back
to avenge the insult.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
And did it.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Well, something did, because one morning the general was found
dead in his bedroom with a red arrow in his heart.
Why and I suppose the ghost has been appearing ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, no, not until I moved in three months ago. Uh.
You see, for the past thirty.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Years, no one has lived in the house but Lisa
Maybury the caretaker. Now she's my housekeeper.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But I wonder why the big chief is on the
warpath again after all these years.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Well, according to Lisa, when I put in my rose garden,
I accidentally had his grave clowed up.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Did you ever see the ghost yourself, miss Hartwell.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Well, yes one time, but when I threw a brass
inkwell at him, he ran into my bedroom and disappeared.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
What happened there?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Well, I went right in after him, but there was
nobody there and all the doors and windows were locked.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But both your housekeeper miss Abbey have seen it several times.
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Yes, we've all seen it except Gerald.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Gerald, that's the nephew who is visiting you last night. Yes,
she usually comes out the weekend.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Gerald is the only close relative I have, and he
knows he'll get my money someday, so he tries to
keep on the good side of me.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
When Miss Abbey's Arella lived too.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Isn't she She's a second cousin twice removed, But both
she and Gerald know I'm not leaving her much.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
That's Heartwell, what do you think a private investigator can
do against a ghost.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Ghost my foot?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Someone's deliberately trying to frighten me, and I want to
know who it is and why they're doing it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Well, I'll tell you what, Patsy, and I'll drive up
there tonight. Stay if you did good but please don't
tell the others who I am. Whatever you say, mister Carson,
from now on, it's Professor Carter, Miss Hotwell, I'm a
scholar who's interested in psychic manifestations.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Okay, very well, Professor coch see, this is going to
be interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yes, fancy, but not only for us. With a little luck,
I think we can make it plenty interesting for mister ghost. Yes,
there is definitely an aura about this house conduce you
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to psychic phenomena, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Home's bone?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Absolutely, Professor Well.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Eleven o'clock, I think I'll turn in.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yes, it's time we all went to bed. Oh did
you take the dog out? Abby?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh? You handy, but and I had in love walk
in the gardens.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Did Lisa show you your room, Miss Bowling, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
At the head of the sayers, Oh, your room is
on the ground floor of Professor Carter.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I thought you'd prefer that.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Oh, that's very thoughtful of you.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Did I tell you that the ghost has never been
seen upstairs?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Why? No, how very interesting. Yes, that's why nobody but
Aunt Harriet will sleep down here.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well not all.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Oh wait a minute, yes, I'm going up to I
don't like to walk to the hall alone.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Not after last night, Oh, mister Nesbeth, Yes, you say
that every time the ghost has appeared, you made an
immediate search and found all the doors and windows locked
on the inside. Yes, every time I happen to be
here on each case.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well imagine what would have happened if we'd.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Been alone, That's what I was thinking. Well, good night,
good night, and good luck with your ghost cases.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Good night, possesses, good night, miss going good night is Abbey.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
I think I'll retire to Is there anything you need
to Professor Cauty, No.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Thank you, Miss Hadra. That's and I'll sit here for
a while and watch for our friend the Redskins.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, I just hope you're cassin. Good good night, Well, professor,
what do you think?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Try to tell VESI but the fact that the ghost
always appears on this floor and everybody but miss Harriet
leaps upstairs.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
There is a help, yes, from this room.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Need to keep an eye on the front stairways, and
they're on any backstairs.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
That's what I mean. They're all panned in, even Miss
Harriet herself. There's only one door to her room, and
I can see that from here.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh what do you think of her?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
It's Harriet. She's a great old girl. I'd hate to
be that ghost when she gets it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That's the way I feel. Well, Oh Lisa, I didn't
see you come in.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
You and the professor was talking. Will you be wanting
anything else before I go up to bed?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Thank you, Lida.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Did you lock up?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Yes, sir, I tested every door and window, not that
it will do any good against him.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You've lived here a long time, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Thirty years, most of it all alone in this house,
just like it was my own, and there was never
no trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
With him till she moved in.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
You mean, miss Harriet, I do, moving the furniture around,
things that ain't been changed in a hundred year, plowing
up the burial ground, Boss and everybody, like as if
she was a queen?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Does just feel that way? Why don't you quit me,
leave this house to nursery.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
I got more right here than she has, and I'll
be here after she is gone.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
What makes you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Think miss Harriet will go live?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He'll go cheap red Errow will take care of that.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I mean, the way he took care of all general
heart wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That ain't for me to say, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Up now, good night, good night, good night her.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
He's a pleasant person to have around.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Wonder how far she'd go to get Miss Harriet out
of here. That's what I was thinking, You know, bad
say this place must be worth a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Collection of the Indian Relict, Tolona, the finest I ever saw.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
And did you see those things up stairs? Helmet sus arma, crossbows,
antique guns.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I mean the European collection. Uh yeah, Miss Harriot said
they belonged to her grandfather. Oh said them from museum pieces.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I've been thinking something that. Not to change the subject,
Lisa said. She locked all the doors and windows.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Don't worry, I'm going to check them myself. Harrio, Come on,
harr matter does did now that your aunt harrings Harriet
isn't the fainting type?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Harriet pacific?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yes, it was found at the door's locks. Stand back
that you take it in.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I won't let you.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You haven't anything to say about it, Lisa, get.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Home, write something, stop down dead.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yes, Patsy with a red arrow to her heart.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
A red arrow symbol of the long dead Indian chiefs
for truth from the chest of the woman who dug
up his grave, a woman who was alone in a
room with every door and window shut. We'll see what
happens in just a moment. Now back to the case
of the Red Arrow. Today's adventure with Nick Carter, rock
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to you by new post war old Dutch cleansers. Only
a moment has passed since Nick broke into the locked
bedroom to find Miss Harriet lying on the floor with
a red arrow in her heart.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
There's only one door to this room, and the killer
didn't come in or leave that way. I've been watching that.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
How about the windows, Miss, This one locked on the inside.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And the killer must still be in the room. What's
this door?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
That's the closet.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I'll be cliding there. I own nothing here but a
few dresses.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I tell you it was cheap red arrow. He don't
need no doors, no windows. He walked through the walls.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Do you want to believe that?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Lither? Go ahead? But I don't take any stock and ghosts,
not yet anyway, Really, Professor Carter, that's an odd remark
for a man who says he's interested in psychic phenomena.
I am a private investigator in EDBD.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Hey dear, that's right, Miss Abbey.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Nothing must be touched until the police arrived.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Will you phone them passing.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Something awful?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Would he have? I want I beg you to leave
this house.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
You should have known those were the wrong tactics to
use on Aunt Harriet, Miss Abbey.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
He hasn't thought to come here in a first place,
changing things around, follow him up grade.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
No ghosts did this leaper, and no human being could
have gone out and locked the windows after him on
the inside. So it's someone who's in this house right
now by You don't mean one of us. That's exactly
what I mean, Lesabon, and I'm making it my business
if I out which one of you it is.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
You expect to find her secret panel in the wall,
Miss Curter, But.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Be Sheriff, they don't sound pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh but next secret panels. You don't find those things
in real life, not.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Nowadays, Miss Bourne. But this house is a hundred and
thirty years old.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
The Sheriff's right, patty.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
But that doesn't seem to be any panel in these walls,
you know, missus Carter.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Maybe what we are to look for first is the motives.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Yeah, well, first, as Lisa, he certainly was ed Miss.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Harriot seeing here they all had motives except Miss Abbey.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Even she might have hated Miss Harriots couldn't have been
too easy living here as a poor relation.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
No, but she could always leave if she wanted to.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
How about money? Miss Harriet was rich, and miss miss.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Abbey thought she'd be the here now cheff, Miss Abbey
knew that practically all the money goes to the nephew,
Gerald Nesbit nes Bidder, uh huh.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
And Gerald Nesbit is the only person in the house
who never saw the ghost, even though he says he just.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Happened to be here every time it showed up.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
That does look suspicious. Yeah, but just now I'm interested
in this arrow.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Yes, it looks looks like a homemade no stone near ahead,
tied into lue shirt.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Tape down shaf and very neatly too.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I've seen that sort of tape before. Neck pressmakers use it.
You can get it at any dime store.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I know, patchy, but it's the way the tape is
born down that interests me.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Very distinctive design.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yes, oh, mister Carter, Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
I bless my glasses in here. Really on miss Abbey
on the table, Oh thank you, mister COTTI you don't
really think it's.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
One of us.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I'm afraid I do, Miss Abbey.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh but we were all up steam.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Ms Carter was trying to find a secret passage when walls,
but didn't get nowhere.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh I should It couldn't be anything like that. Say
what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Good reef Croder, she's sad it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Here, Miss Abby drengthing. Thank you? Did I see?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You said you saw something?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Oh? Yes, she red arrows goose where no closet the closet.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yes, you susted someone were hiding there. And then then
I saw a head.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
No you just imagine the train. Nobody in here?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
No, no, no, why I saw it?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Maybe this is up there? Looking for sure? I mean
the walls in the room more solid, But that sounds howl.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
There's some clothes hooks on the back of the closet wall.
Maybe if we pull one of them.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
H got this one either, how we run?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I didn't stay away going upstairs, so that's how the.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Killers get in them out.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Let's see what goes up to?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, these stairs, and now aren't they.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Set laying on the step a blanker and an Indian
headdress with friends?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
So go cost you, Patsy, Let's go on up.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, the one we didn't see anybody using the sun stairs.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
There's another door at the top. Who was a legals
They were in another closet let. They pushed these clothes out.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Of the way and they'll go into the room to
be the men's clothes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
The cloud.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
The few people come up, Well, you want to know,
summer boys, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Well, you wait, but you were the first one to
come upstairs just before the murder. You come directly for
this room. Yes, why did anybody else come through here? No,
of course, so that does.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
A junk killer. You're under rest for the meadow of
your ant.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Hell, I'm blamed if I know why you wanted me
to come back out here this morning, Mick.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I want to take a look at the outside of
the house there. Now, these are the windows to miss
Harriet's room. Yes, who is Leatha's room is on the
other side of the house to back. It's Abby's windows
are directly above here, and that's Nesbit's room above and
to the right.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Well, what difference is to make? We know he is it,
and we got him safe from the county jail.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I won't hurt him to stay there for a day
or two, and he'll throw the real killer off time it.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Nick Nesbits, the cure goes hidden stairs are the only
way into Miss Harriet's room. Yeah, that's right, and no
prey button has bit could have used them at that time.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He admitted it.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Right again, So the arrow must have been shot from outside.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The house through those locked windows.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Not necessarily. Here. Look at this tree, shair, it's right
in front of Miss Harriet's window, not six feet away
from them.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, if you think one of the women climb down
that tree up therese, you're crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
That isn't what I'm driving at here.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Take a look at these marks on the inside of
the place where it's forks about five feet from the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Eh, puny. The tree forks.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Three ways, and something's been pressed into the bark inside
the forts.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah, something has been wedged firmly between those three forks,
and recently, well you can tell the toose marks a
new chad. Did you ever see a crossbow?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Who's gossbol who said?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
A medieval weapon with a stock like a shotgun and
a bow mounted crosswires on the front end shoes more
powerful than an ordinary bull and it can be aimed
more accurately.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
When Yeah, there's one in the collection upstairs.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Answer, it's cart to pull the trigger to shoot here.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's the weapon.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
I mean, Oh, didn't you think that the cross bull
was wedged in the flock of this tree?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Pointing in the Miss Harry, true.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I wouldn't be surprised. Could easily be pulled loose from
the tree fork and hauled into an upstairs window with
a strong cord and a corner on the trigger. Could
pull the trigger by remote control.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Maybe sure, But still couldn't shoot through clothes and locked
window without breaking it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You can't get away from ane.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Maybe not Sheriff, But I'm doing my best.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Why are you too pulling around out here?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
For ood? I asked you the same question, Lida, is
the time you were getting dinner?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I'm doing the washing. Miss Abbey always tends to the
cooking on wash day. I see that you're brun with
your helping her. If you're interested looking for something, I'm
looking for my clothes.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's why somebody moved.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Clothes crop. That's a poll about seventy feet, isn't it
choose to.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Prop up the clothes line and hold the clothes off
the ground here?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It is?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
How in the name of common since did it get
around here in the tall grass? Let me see that
I catched the one that threw it out here.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Never mind, lit, I'll catch that person for you. Come on, Sheriff,
I've got the answer. Now.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
If you have another big, nice mis Babby, I'll help
you shred that cabine.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I'm almost shrewe mistering. But if you'd like to
take a look at the sink, I better get along.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Screw to stirred with run in the drawer of the
cabinet over the here. Thanks, this one that's fermanded.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Yes, the hendry came loose, and I put some taper
around it. I am very good at sixteen things.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
But that's the same time kind of tape with you tonight?
The arrow that what did you say?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Well, the way the tape is round around the spoon handle,
that complicated way. That's the same.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
As what was on that arrow.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I wish you had noticed that, missus Bowen, was you
he is?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Abby? Yes, miss Bowen, it was I. But you had
no reason to kill her? No reason.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
How would you like to be a poor relation, always
taking orders, watching her by the best of everything, and
having to get.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Along with nothing?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
You said, I made up my mind that I was
going to have nice thing too. You kill her for
the money, but surely you know that practically everything goes
to Gerald, not that.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
He's convicted of killing her. It doesn't.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
The lord doesn't let the murder of prophet by his down,
and I'm the only as a related Harriet head.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I'll get it off. Maybe a wood had but now
you won't.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Care on mean mess bowing, He won't air that put
down that knife heavy please.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Trapped in the corner of the old fashioned kitchen, Patsy
has no chance to get.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Past miss Abbie as the old lady advances with a
heavy knife in her hand.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We'll see what happens in just a moment. And now
the conclusion of the Case of the Red Arrow. Today's
adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. In the kitchen of the historic
heartwell mentioned, Patsy is alone with a murderess, a murderers
(21:53):
with a heavy knife in her hand, who advances slowly
as she says.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You won't care on means throwing. You won't air that
tim on my knife? No happy please?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Wait all right, I.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Got the nice hair hold.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
On, she did she killed me.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Terry caff and I were just coming in to rest her, and.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
She wanted Gerald the lens. That's why the ghosts never
appeared unless he was here.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
It was you played around dressed up like oh she
read Errosmas.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Then very well, I admitted, got the idea when Lita
warned Harriet if the chief ghost would come back for revens.
And when I discovered that he could stay away, I
knew just how it could be done.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yes, a stair away to Gerald's room made it appear
that he was the only person who could have shot
Miss Harriet come inside the house. Well, actually you shut
her from outside the window.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
But Nick, how could you do that?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
A crossbow Patsy what wedge in the fork of a tree.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Outside the window? Fired by pulling a string tried to.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
The trigger, then quickly pulled up into Miss Abbey's own
room with a cord.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Tied around the stock.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Could I don't see the arrow was ain't.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
At the center of Miss Harriet's window. When Miss Harriet
opened the window for the night, the light inside the
room threw her shadow when the tree drunk outside. Ah,
and that's when Miss Abbey pulled the string.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
What a setup?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Okay, what if we hadn't found that secret stairway, though,
then there wouldn't have been no evidence against Joey Long.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I didn't find it.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
It looked fir even after I put the blanket and
hit this on the stairs for you to discover.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
So I had to.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Pretend I saw something there.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Do you look close to.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Oh, miss Abbey, I got a nice cew waiting for
you down to my jail. Awful, Sorry, there ain't no
secret panel for the monkey.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Ris, what are your shume makeout?
Speaker 7 (23:58):
So no, Nitch, I still don't see how miss Abbey
managed to close that window after shooting Miss.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Harriet with that out, It was easy, Patsy, But she
merely leaned out of her own window and pushed it
shut with a clothes crop.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
The clothes crop.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah, she took it upstairs early in the evening, and
when she was finished with it, she threw it out
into the yard.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
But Nick, miss Harriet's window was locked.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, but you remember when we broke into the room
just after Miss Harriet was killed. It was Miss Abbey
who rushed to the window to see whether.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
It was locked.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
What you mean she locked it?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Then she did well, I'll be donned and right in
front of us.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
It was a clever scheme, all right, Oh, but.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Slowly so sure that Gerald hadn't come down that hidden
stairway and.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Murdered his hand because I knew Miss Abbey was lying
when she pretended to see someone in the closet.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
How did you know?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Because if anyone had come into the closet from the
hidden stairway, the secret door would have creaked so loudly
that we couldn't have missed hearing it.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Geez.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
She must have planned that murder for months in advance.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I'm sure she did. But she had lost her head
when she tried to kill you.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
If she couldn't cover that up, it would have been
a bad mistake.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well also not only for her but for me. Thanks
for not letting her make it.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Nick, You're quite welcome, Betsy. I'd hate to have to
break in a new assistance.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What say you?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Can you tell us something about the adventure new post
war old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Nick, Indeed, I can Mike. Next week we're going to
meet a brand new version of an old horse and
buggy racket. It's a sore streamline that it murdered three people.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
And the only clue of the solution was a fact
that a lot of people suddenly started wearing new glasses.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Well, that certainly sounds interesting.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What do you call the adventure, Nick?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I call it the Case of the Failing Eyes?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Nick Carter, Master Detective, presented each week at this time
by the Kutaha Packing Company, is produced and directed by
Jack McGregor and is copyright by Freedom Smith's Publications Incorporated.
Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Today's script was written
by Jim Parsons. Original music is played by Henry Silberns.
This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons
(26:25):
living or dead is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris saying,
when minutes count, use new post war old Dutch tleasors.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
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