November 1, 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 (00:01):
War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk presents Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Each week at this.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Time two great names I joined as new post War
Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful
and daring characters in all detective fiction.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Nick Carter, Master Detective Well Patsy at last, I know
the name of the killer, how he murdered his victims,
and why.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Well, then let's go. Let's go where Why, let's go
arrest him? Of course, not so fast, Passy. There's still
one slight hitch, hitch, what is it?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I know all these things, but I can't prove an
earned one of them. And now the case of the
Salesman of Death.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Today's Exciting Adventures starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought
to you by New Ghost War Old Dutch Cleanser. As
our story opens, Nick Carter is just completing a telephone
conversation with a would be client.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I understand, Missus Gordon, but yes, but if you don't,
all right, Missus Gordon, I'll come out right away that
Betsy was the rich Missus Benjamin.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Gordon of Park Avenue on Newport.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Oh, you mean the one who gives so much mind
of charity is mixed up in the East Bay Boys Club.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's the one.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
What's with her?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Seems someone wrote her threatening letters, So get your hat.
She's waiting for us.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I've already got it, Nick, But just watch this mysterious
someone threaten Missus Gordon with anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Apparently someone is trying to kill her. By prayer.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh, my de power is too great for the mind
of mortal to know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I pray you grant.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The book knocked in to the woman, Missus Benjamin Gordon.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Lie.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Oh, come in, mister Carter. Missus Gordon is expecting you.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
I'm Albert Farmer, Missus Gordon's secretary, and.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
This is miss Bowen, my assistant. How do you do,
miss Bowl?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
How do you do in here?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Please?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sorry?
Speaker 8 (02:42):
I dropped my cane.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I got it, thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
I turned my ankle last week and I'm still clumsy
with this cane here bogstor please thank you, Missus Gordon.
Here's mister Carter and his assistant, Miss Bowen.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
How do you do, Missus Gordon?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
See Andy? I told you he'll be alive in kicking
when mister Carter got here.
Speaker 9 (03:02):
Be quiet, Blake. This is my nephew, Blake Gordon. Mister Carter,
he's lazy and impertinent. Pay no attention to him.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, Andy, you'll know mister Carter will suspect me instantly.
I'm the only one who has any reason to want
your bed. I'm the only one who inherits anything except
those charities of yours.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
That's enough, Blake. Well, mister Carter, you certainly took your time.
I could have been dead before you got here.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The time seem longer because you're so upset, Missus Gordon.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Of course I'm upset.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
How over the phone you mentioned the letter, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
A hearted letter. Give it to him now that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Here it is, mister Carter, Thank you, mmmm cheap alope,
a rest and a type right now.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But it has a return address. People are right threatening.
Letters don't usually give their addresses.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh they don't. Temple of Thought five one three eight
Second Avenue.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
That's the worst slum district in the city.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
What in the world is the Temple of Thought?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh no, let's see what the letter said.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Huh. Dear missus Gordon, I am happy to inform you
that the boon of death has been requested for. You
have begun to pray for your release from life. In
accordance with the ancient ritual. I advise you to put
your affairs in order so that you may enter into
the peace of eternity with a free mind. Sign Rama
High Priest, are the temple of Thought.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, I've seen threatening letters before, but this certainly beats
them all.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
I feel shorts from the crank, don't you agree, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Not necessarily, mister Farmer, Lord, it certainly is worded curiously.
My theory is that Williams the chauffeurs behind this andy.
Remember when you discharge him last week he threatened to
kill you.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
We're not interested in your theories, Blake, mister Kater. You
must catch this RAMA person and lock him up immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
All right, I'll call him right away and see what
he's up to. Have you notified the police?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
The police no lying entirely on you, Albert. Yes, Missus Gordon,
go upstairs and make sure there are no crowd is
looking about. And I'm going up and lock myself in
my room until this RAMA person is still.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I don't think you're in any real danger, Missus Gordon. Well,
I can't do any harm. To take the cautions.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Then I'm going upstairs, Blake. You will see mister Carter
and miss Bowman to the.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Door right over you. I hope you can ease the
old girl's mind. You see here Bach is worse than
her bite. Why she's getting away. She's falling downstairs. She
fell all the way to the foot of the stairs.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
She is moving, Nick, what's happened to missus Gordon?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
She fell down the stairs, Missus Carter?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Is she sorry? Mister Gordon, but your aunt is dead.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Now. Look, Nick, I've been in the homicide bureau for
ten years and I've never heard of anyone getting prayed
to death. That's strictly screwball stuff, I know, Madam. But
just the same two hours after she received that letter,
Missus Gordon died. But accidentally, Nick. Any of them maid
and Blake Gordon, the nephew, swear they saw her fall
down the stairs break her neck when nobody was nearer.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
That's true, I know, But in her.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Secretary was upstairs, swear there's no one in the upper
hole or even so. Okay, it was an accident. She fainted,
her had a heart. It's Maddie, did you notice that,
according to the coroner's report, there was a curious bruise
on her body, a small round bruise directly over the
solar plexus. So what Naturally she bruised herself falling downstairs,
but she fell back. Why listen, Nick, all right? Will anyway?
(06:30):
I fought you'd want to question this Rama with me.
That's why I left Patsy at the office and stop
buy for you. Of course I want to talk to him,
But I still say, you don't kill people by praying
them to death. Well, no answer. Maybe mister Rama has
(06:55):
beat it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I doubt it. Let's try to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Okay, Hey, you ain't even lot.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I suppose we see what a Temple of Thought looks like.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
A Oh brother, what a joint?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You can say that again.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
They're all aloft, all fixed up with red velvet curtains
and funny looking idols.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Somebody certainly likes the oriental incense.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You wish to see, Rama, High Priest of the Temple
of Thought that, Hey, where did you come from.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
From behind the kittens?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I was meditating and could not answer your.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Not you Rama, I am Rama, and you are the police.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
What you have come to question me about the death
of missus Benjamin Gordon. Hey, how do you know she's dead?
Ain't ben announced yet? The spirit's arranged for me to
be informed. It was I who killed her. Oh, you're
admitting it. I am not admitting it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I am steating it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Then you're confessing to murder. Now you're being ridiculous. It
is not yet the crime to pray for someone to die. There, Mary,
I thank you for real life in the obvious. We're
not here to charge you with murder. We want information.
Rama has no secret. And suppose you explain what you're
up to and fast. I am an Oriental mystic. It happens.
I know a rare and ancient Eastern prayer that frequently
(08:12):
brings death within a very short time. Do you mean
you're in the business of selling death? Yes, but quite legally.
Well of all, there are many people who desire someone's death, Sure,
but they come to me and pay what they can.
I provide the death prayer. I need no guarantee, but
if death does not occur within one year, I refund
the money. It is a simple business transaction.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
How many times have you been successful to date? More
than you will believe.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I will give the names of six persons who I
have provided with death.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You may check them for yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You're die right. We will suppose you tell us who
it was that ordered Missus Gordon's death.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I do not know, or do you mean you don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The order came by mail with five hundred dollar bills
in flows five hundred and not was composed of words
cliped from newspapers and simply asked me to pray for
the death of Missus Gordon. So you prayed and she dies.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So the transaction is closed. Boy, you were a pardon hello, Yes,
this is drama speaking. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I was sure you would be satisfied. I understand. Goodbye. Hey,
who was that that gentleman? Was a client who ordered
Missus Gordon's death? He said that he had highly pleased
with my services and is sending me an order for
a second death prayer tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Well, apparently Nick has encountered a new and baffling method
of murder. We'll find out more about it in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the salesman
of death. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you
by new post war old Dutch cleanser. It is the
(10:04):
morning after the mysterious death of Missus Benjamin Gordon. Nick
and Patsy at the office are trying to puzzle out
the truth of the case.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Nick, could Ramer have had anything to do with Missus
Gordon's death or was it just one of those horrible
coincidences that she fell.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Down the stairs?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The answer is no to both questions.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Patsy, Well, do you suppose Missus Gordon's nephew and that
mate Annie are lying when they say they saw a
fall down the stairs and that nobody was anywhere nearer?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well could be so far? Blake Gordon is the only
person we know who hasn't motive.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, he gets one hundred thousand dollars in the old
lady's will.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And he needs it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
He gets more, except that the rest of her money
goes to charity.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
True, Say how about that show for Williams Missus Gordon
fired last week?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Or we're checking at him?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Oh, just the same.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I can't help believing that Rama may have some kind
of strange power.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yes, he's in the face of it. Rama's powers are
very convincing. Only I am not convinced.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Well, yesterday he said his client was going to order
another death prayer and if somebody else dies now, then
we'll know Rama's on the level.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I hope we can see to it that no one
else does die.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Maddie's gonna let me know if he gets a report
from anybody who.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Nick, Hey, what the devil's the matter? Maddy?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Come on, Nick, I got a squad car outside, just
had a phone call from all Hire and worse that
devil Ramas started praying him to death him worse.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He's one of the richest men in the city, Maddy.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I better for him first, Oh for the lover heavened
why to tell him around the way and wanted to
be careful.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Wen't only take a minute?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Well, okay, but make it fast. Not Rama. Guys probably
praying for him to die right this moment. Yeah, I
am hello, Hello, I'd like to speak to mister Worth. Please.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I'm sorry, but that is impossible.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But this is Nick Carter speaking.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
I'm sorry, mister Carter, but mister Worth cannot come to
the phone.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
He died five minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Ah, look gives you say that after mister Worth read
that letter from the High Priest, Drama, he phoned Sergeant
Matheson and then stayed in his library with you on
guard outside that right, yes, sir, and no one came
near him.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
No, sir, not a soul.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Mister Worth was very much upset at reading about the
death of Missus Gordon, and he was taking no chances.
Did he know Missus Gordon? Oh, yes, sir. The two
of them founded the East Bay Boys Club. Mister Worth
was chairman of the board of governors and Missus Gordon
was treasurer.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I see.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
In fact, they had an appointment to meet only today
to look into its affairs.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
They were very disturbed about something.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, well that's got nothing to do with the fact
that they got killed.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Now that's and that's a fast that's a fast manic.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
This East Bay Boys Club seems to be a link
between Worth and Missus Gordon. They want a genuine like
we found for sure. But Lenni Musters had deaths must
be tied together somehow. Maybe it's through this boys Club.
I don't see how they could be nick I yet.
But yips, you didn't leave the house for a single minute.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Just long enough to slip outdoors and mail a letter
for mister Worth.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
But I wasn't gone more than a minute or so.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What was the letter you mailed?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Why this morning. Along with the letter from this drama.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
Person, mister Worth also received a letter from a mister
Smith in Raleigh, North Carolina, offering to sell him a
rare early American glass bowl at a very good price.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Mister Worth's.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Was very keen on early American glassware, so I've heard
go on please Well, he'd.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Been searching for just such a ball for years.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
In fact, only last month he wrote Missus Gordon, who
also collects glassware, asking her to sell him the bowl
she owns. She refused, So you see, he was delighted
to learn that one was for sale. And while he
was waiting for you, he made out his check, sealed in.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The self addressed envelope. Mister Smith enclosed and sent me
out to post it immediately.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
You did, And when I returned, mister Worth was perfectly
all right.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
But five minutes later he cried out. I rushed in.
There he was sloped across his desk.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Did yips, I'd like to see the envelope? The letter
from this mister Smith arrived in.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yes, mister Carr thought to be right here, Yes, here
it yees, Maddie, look at this return addresses Raleigh, North Carolina.
This envelope was postmark right here in the city and
it's up phony. Yes, Mary, a very deadly for me
unless I miss my guess. Whatever killed hiram Worth is
in the US mail and we can't get it back.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Hi, Bessy, Well you look pleased with yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I am last time making some progress, such as why
discovered that the finances of the Bay Boys Club are
in bad shape?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Really this man and.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
My guess about hiram Worth's death has been proved correct.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
He was killed by poison usilage and the flap of
that letter he sealed just before he died.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
But Nick, how did you get hold of that letter?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Fortunately, Hiramworth was a very methodical man.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He put his return address on the envelope when he
sealed it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Oh, so when the post office couldn't deliver it back
to the fake address written on it, it came right back.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Here right And an analysis showed that there was enough
poison in the muculage and the flap that killed three men.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yeah, but who sent the letter, Nick Rama?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I'd guess the man who hired Rama didn't trust Rama's
powers any more than I do, and decided to help them.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Out a little.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Uh huh. Have you any idea who he is?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Logically only one person could have done it all.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
But logic isn't proved.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh it isn't. I haven't any proof yet. That means
we'll have to make him trap.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Himself, trap himself, huh.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I have a plan in mind, pretty elaborate, but if
it works, we'll be able to wash the whole case
up tonight.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh that'll be swett.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And as I first stepped Patsy, we're going to call
on mister High Priest.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Ramah, it is mister Cutter and his attractive assistant, Please
to enter the temple of thought.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
What's that wreckage you're playing?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It is the ritual drum, which signals the unseen power
that I command, the powers of death.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
You mean you're praying somebody else to death? Now?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It is so this morning my new plan wrote in closing,
still a third order.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And I will ask you this new victim is to
be you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
May Indeed, I were just about to inform you the
drums of death, mister Cutter are beating for you.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So now Nick himself is to be prayed to death.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And when the High Priest rama begins his strange spell,
something fatal always happens. We'll find out how Nick evades
the deadly fate that has already overtaken at least two
victims in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And now for the.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Conclusion of the case of the Salesman of Death to
Day's Nick Carter Adventure, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. It is evening, and at Nick's request,
every one connected with the case, including Sergeant Matheson, has gathered.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
At the Temple of Thought. Uneasily.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
They sit in a circle in the dimly lighted room,
while Rama, the mysterious high Priest, stands aloof in flowing
robes and a fantastic turban stray.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Quiet everyone, clease quiet, please, sir. I know you're all
wondering why I've asked you to come here. The answer
is that one of you is responsible for the deaths
of Missus Gordon and mister Worth.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Rama's help. We're going to punish that person.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Before we begin.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I want to be sure you're all here of your
own free will.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
First.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Missus Gordon's nephew, Blake Gordon b Helme. It's Carter.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
I haven't been so intrigued in.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Years as his Gardon's maid. Annie.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I said i'd come, and I'm here, but I don't
like this place.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It scares me. We won't belong Annie Albert Parmer, Missus
Gordon's secretary.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I'm here voluntarily, Mister Carter, glad to help out if
I can.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And Gibbs, mister Worth's vallot.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
I'm here because you asked me, mister Carter.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
I don't like it, but if it will help avenge
mister Worth's death, I'll stay.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And last Williams, miss Gordon's farmer chauffeur.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Shure, I'm here my own free will. I shut off
my mouth when the old lady fired me, but I
never touched the old battle axe. I'm here to see
I ain't frayed.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Then we can get going.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
One person here tonight use the strange and mysterious powers
of Rama to bring death to two people. It's only
simple justice that we should use Rama's mystic powers to
bring punishment to that person who it seems cannot be
touched by the law. Hey, look, Nick, silence, please Rama, Rama,
is that your service again? The prayer of punishment for
(19:10):
the one who paid you to bring death to missus
Gordon and mister Worth.
Speaker 12 (19:14):
Drama will invoke the inch and rd deal by fire,
used for ten times ten thousand years to make the
guilty known to his fellows. Slowly, the blood in the
guilty one's veins will come to a boil.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He will feel his skin and.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Fire heath will envelop him, and if he does not speak,
he will die screaming in mass milk.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
You can't be serious about this, mister Carton, really know
that sounds absurd, Hey, Nick, for the.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Love of my silence, praise everyone. I'm perfectly serious, as
the guilty person will discover. When the incantation begins to work,
Rama begin, All mighty power is beyond the gnawing of
mere mottles. Your servant calls down your deal by fire
upon the one who has will the guests of others.
(20:02):
I begin the first drum of the fire ritual. Y.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I'm enjoying the music, but nothing seems to be happening.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I'm afraid I want to go home.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Hey, you gotta let me out of here. Those drums
have given me the willis mister Cotton.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
I can't stand it much longer.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I can't silence everyone.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
This is all just a trick.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Of some kind. Stop those drums and let us out
of here. Why, mister farmer, you're perspiring badly, your face
is flushed. You're feeling too warm.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
No, of course not so.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
You're trying some kind of trick, and I've had enough.
Stop those drums, I.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Said, Rama, stop the drums, turn out the lights.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Drama here than the bees.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But the spill cannot be stopped.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Mister Farmer, Your face is streaming with perspiration. Your skin
is as red as fire. You sure you don't feel
it's uncomfortably warm? What if I do? You can't fool me.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
You're up to some hopeless cocus pocus.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I you poison me.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You're trying to pin this whole thing on me, but.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You can't do it. You haven't had a thing to
heat a drink since you came here. You haven't been poisoned.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
You've turned the heat on in here. You're all of
some kind of a plos.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No one else is suffering from the heat now, mister Farmer.
Rama's spell is working and nothing can stop it, nothing
but a confession by the guilty person. Lie.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Rama is just a fake.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
I looked him up.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I know just how big a fake he is.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And why do you feel as if you were on fire?
Your skin is burning hot? That proves rama spells are
no trickery. No, I've used Rama to fool you all
from the beginning, but you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Can't use him to fool me.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I won't be pricked into confession.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
I won't be.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
But you haven't confessed Farmer.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Okay, Maddie put the handcuffs on him. Now listen, Nick,
I want a few facts out, are you?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
And so do I?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Facts?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Well, you both heard Albert Farmer's confession after we realize
he'd given himself away.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And you know how he killed missus Gordon.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, yeah, sure. He hid behind the drapers at the
head of the stairs, and when she got within a
couple of steps to the top, he jabbed the end
of his cane against her solar plexes as hard as
he could. She fell head over heels down the stairs
and broken neck.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And she was in such a position that her nephew
and maid, who were downstairs couldn't see the cans.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
That's what made it look like an accident.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, that's that.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And you already know how Farmer killed Worth with a
poison envelope and you also know the motive behind both murders.
We sure Albert said they were going to investigate the
affairs of the East Bay Boys Club.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, but what did he have to do with the
boys club?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I think for a minute Missus Garden was treasurer of
the charity. Okay, but what a woman as old as
missus Gordon do the actual work herself?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Why?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Of course not. She'd give a job to someone else,
and the natural person for her to pick would be
her secretary.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Then Albert handled all the money she and Worth contributed, right,
and he managed to steal about thirty thousand dollars, as
I discovered by checking the books.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
But Nick, why were you so sure Albert was guilty.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Because of that fake letter to mister Worth.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It had to be sent by someone who knew Worth
wanted a bull such as the one described in the letter,
and also knew he wanted it so badly he'd be
sure to answer by return mail. Yeah, I see what
you mean, Gibbs. You remember told us Worth had written
Missus Gordon asking her to sell him the antique bullshield.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Uh huh, so she knew he wanted a bull.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Gibbs knew it Worth knew it, and the person who
handled Missus Gordon's correspondence knew it.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
In other words, Albert Farmer.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But that still wasn't proof.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's why I had to use an elaborate psychological third
degree on Albert in order to trick him into confessing.
He used Rama to confuse us, So I used Rama
to confuse him.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Well, then, Nick, does Rama really have any supernatural powers?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Of course not, Alfred was simply using him for camouflage.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Rama's just a clever faker who thought up this death
prayer racket about a year ago.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
But if Rama's a fake, what happened to Albert there tonight?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That Betsy was psychology, not magic psychology?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Surebert Farmer came to the Temple of Thought feeling a
good bluff his way through anything that happened, but fear
finally caught up with him. You mean that even though
he knew Rama was a phony, he started to think,
all that incantation.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Will only might work.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Maybe in any case, Farmer began to feel trapped. He
got uneasy, nervous, his blood pressure went.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Up, and then when you started to give him the
business and the heat was really out, he couldn't take it.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Any longer broke out nicole sweat and then made a
slip after that.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Getting a confession out of.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Him was duck soup.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Nick I got the hand it to you. You sure
figured out a new way of turning the heat on
a killer.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Nick Carter, Master Detective Well Patsy at last, I know
the name of the killer, how he murdered his victims,
and why.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Well, then let's go. Let's go where Why, let's go
arrest him? Of course, not so fast, Passy. There's still
one slight hitch, hitch, what is it?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I know all these things, but I can't prove an
earned one of them. And now the case of the
Salesman of Death.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Today's Exciting Adventures starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought
to you by New Ghost War Old Dutch Cleanser. As
our story opens, Nick Carter is just completing a telephone
conversation with a would be client.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I understand, Missus Gordon, but yes, but if you don't,
all right, Missus Gordon, I'll come out right away that
Betsy was the rich Missus Benjamin.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Gordon of Park Avenue on Newport.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Oh, you mean the one who gives so much mind
of charity is mixed up in the East Bay Boys Club.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's the one.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
What's with her?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Seems someone wrote her threatening letters, So get your hat.
She's waiting for us.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I've already got it, Nick, But just watch this mysterious
someone threaten Missus Gordon with anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Apparently someone is trying to kill her. By prayer.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh, my de power is too great for the mind
of mortal to know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I pray you grant.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The book knocked in to the woman, Missus Benjamin Gordon.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Lie.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Oh, come in, mister Carter. Missus Gordon is expecting you.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
I'm Albert Farmer, Missus Gordon's secretary, and.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
This is miss Bowen, my assistant. How do you do,
miss Bowl?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
How do you do in here?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Please?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sorry?
Speaker 8 (02:42):
I dropped my cane.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I got it, thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
I turned my ankle last week and I'm still clumsy
with this cane here bogstor please thank you, Missus Gordon.
Here's mister Carter and his assistant, Miss Bowen.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
How do you do, Missus Gordon?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
See Andy? I told you he'll be alive in kicking
when mister Carter got here.
Speaker 9 (03:02):
Be quiet, Blake. This is my nephew, Blake Gordon. Mister Carter,
he's lazy and impertinent. Pay no attention to him.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, Andy, you'll know mister Carter will suspect me instantly.
I'm the only one who has any reason to want
your bed. I'm the only one who inherits anything except
those charities of yours.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
That's enough, Blake. Well, mister Carter, you certainly took your time.
I could have been dead before you got here.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The time seem longer because you're so upset, Missus Gordon.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Of course I'm upset.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
How over the phone you mentioned the letter, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
A hearted letter. Give it to him now that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Here it is, mister Carter, Thank you, mmmm cheap alope,
a rest and a type right now.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But it has a return address. People are right threatening.
Letters don't usually give their addresses.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh they don't. Temple of Thought five one three eight
Second Avenue.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
That's the worst slum district in the city.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
What in the world is the Temple of Thought?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh no, let's see what the letter said.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Huh. Dear missus Gordon, I am happy to inform you
that the boon of death has been requested for. You
have begun to pray for your release from life. In
accordance with the ancient ritual. I advise you to put
your affairs in order so that you may enter into
the peace of eternity with a free mind. Sign Rama
High Priest, are the temple of Thought.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, I've seen threatening letters before, but this certainly beats
them all.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
I feel shorts from the crank, don't you agree, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Not necessarily, mister Farmer, Lord, it certainly is worded curiously.
My theory is that Williams the chauffeurs behind this andy.
Remember when you discharge him last week he threatened to
kill you.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
We're not interested in your theories, Blake, mister Kater. You
must catch this RAMA person and lock him up immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
All right, I'll call him right away and see what
he's up to. Have you notified the police?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
The police no lying entirely on you, Albert. Yes, Missus Gordon,
go upstairs and make sure there are no crowd is
looking about. And I'm going up and lock myself in
my room until this RAMA person is still.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I don't think you're in any real danger, Missus Gordon. Well,
I can't do any harm. To take the cautions.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Then I'm going upstairs, Blake. You will see mister Carter
and miss Bowman to the.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Door right over you. I hope you can ease the
old girl's mind. You see here Bach is worse than
her bite. Why she's getting away. She's falling downstairs. She
fell all the way to the foot of the stairs.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
She is moving, Nick, what's happened to missus Gordon?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
She fell down the stairs, Missus Carter?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Is she sorry? Mister Gordon, but your aunt is dead.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Now. Look, Nick, I've been in the homicide bureau for
ten years and I've never heard of anyone getting prayed
to death. That's strictly screwball stuff, I know, Madam. But
just the same two hours after she received that letter,
Missus Gordon died. But accidentally, Nick. Any of them maid
and Blake Gordon, the nephew, swear they saw her fall
down the stairs break her neck when nobody was nearer.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
That's true, I know, But in her.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Secretary was upstairs, swear there's no one in the upper
hole or even so. Okay, it was an accident. She fainted,
her had a heart. It's Maddie, did you notice that,
according to the coroner's report, there was a curious bruise
on her body, a small round bruise directly over the
solar plexus. So what Naturally she bruised herself falling downstairs,
but she fell back. Why listen, Nick, all right? Will anyway?
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I fought you'd want to question this Rama with me.
That's why I left Patsy at the office and stop
buy for you. Of course I want to talk to him,
But I still say, you don't kill people by praying
them to death. Well, no answer. Maybe mister Rama has
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beat it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I doubt it. Let's try to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Okay, Hey, you ain't even lot.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I suppose we see what a Temple of Thought looks like.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
A Oh brother, what a joint?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You can say that again.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
They're all aloft, all fixed up with red velvet curtains
and funny looking idols.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Somebody certainly likes the oriental incense.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You wish to see, Rama, High Priest of the Temple
of Thought that, Hey, where did you come from.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
From behind the kittens?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I was meditating and could not answer your.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Not you Rama, I am Rama, and you are the police.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
What you have come to question me about the death
of missus Benjamin Gordon. Hey, how do you know she's dead?
Ain't ben announced yet? The spirit's arranged for me to
be informed. It was I who killed her. Oh, you're
admitting it. I am not admitting it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I am steating it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Then you're confessing to murder. Now you're being ridiculous. It
is not yet the crime to pray for someone to die. There, Mary,
I thank you for real life in the obvious. We're
not here to charge you with murder. We want information.
Rama has no secret. And suppose you explain what you're
up to and fast. I am an Oriental mystic. It happens.
I know a rare and ancient Eastern prayer that frequently
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brings death within a very short time. Do you mean
you're in the business of selling death? Yes, but quite legally.
Well of all, there are many people who desire someone's death, Sure,
but they come to me and pay what they can.
I provide the death prayer. I need no guarantee, but
if death does not occur within one year, I refund
the money. It is a simple business transaction.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
How many times have you been successful to date? More
than you will believe.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I will give the names of six persons who I
have provided with death.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You may check them for yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You're die right. We will suppose you tell us who
it was that ordered Missus Gordon's death.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I do not know, or do you mean you don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The order came by mail with five hundred dollar bills
in flows five hundred and not was composed of words
cliped from newspapers and simply asked me to pray for
the death of Missus Gordon. So you prayed and she dies.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So the transaction is closed. Boy, you were a pardon hello, Yes,
this is drama speaking. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I was sure you would be satisfied. I understand. Goodbye. Hey,
who was that that gentleman? Was a client who ordered
Missus Gordon's death? He said that he had highly pleased
with my services and is sending me an order for
a second death prayer tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Well, apparently Nick has encountered a new and baffling method
of murder. We'll find out more about it in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the salesman
of death. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you
by new post war old Dutch cleanser. It is the
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morning after the mysterious death of Missus Benjamin Gordon. Nick
and Patsy at the office are trying to puzzle out
the truth of the case.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Nick, could Ramer have had anything to do with Missus
Gordon's death or was it just one of those horrible
coincidences that she fell.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Down the stairs?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The answer is no to both questions.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Patsy, Well, do you suppose Missus Gordon's nephew and that
mate Annie are lying when they say they saw a
fall down the stairs and that nobody was anywhere nearer?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well could be so far? Blake Gordon is the only
person we know who hasn't motive.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, he gets one hundred thousand dollars in the old
lady's will.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And he needs it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
He gets more, except that the rest of her money
goes to charity.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
True, Say how about that show for Williams Missus Gordon
fired last week?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Or we're checking at him?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Oh, just the same.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I can't help believing that Rama may have some kind
of strange power.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yes, he's in the face of it. Rama's powers are
very convincing. Only I am not convinced.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Well, yesterday he said his client was going to order
another death prayer and if somebody else dies now, then
we'll know Rama's on the level.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I hope we can see to it that no one
else does die.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Maddie's gonna let me know if he gets a report
from anybody who.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Nick, Hey, what the devil's the matter? Maddy?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Come on, Nick, I got a squad car outside, just
had a phone call from all Hire and worse that
devil Ramas started praying him to death him worse.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He's one of the richest men in the city, Maddy.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I better for him first, Oh for the lover heavened
why to tell him around the way and wanted to
be careful.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Wen't only take a minute?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Well, okay, but make it fast. Not Rama. Guys probably
praying for him to die right this moment. Yeah, I
am hello, Hello, I'd like to speak to mister Worth. Please.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I'm sorry, but that is impossible.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But this is Nick Carter speaking.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
I'm sorry, mister Carter, but mister Worth cannot come to
the phone.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
He died five minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Ah, look gives you say that after mister Worth read
that letter from the High Priest, Drama, he phoned Sergeant
Matheson and then stayed in his library with you on
guard outside that right, yes, sir, and no one came
near him.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
No, sir, not a soul.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Mister Worth was very much upset at reading about the
death of Missus Gordon, and he was taking no chances.
Did he know Missus Gordon? Oh, yes, sir. The two
of them founded the East Bay Boys Club. Mister Worth
was chairman of the board of governors and Missus Gordon
was treasurer.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I see.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
In fact, they had an appointment to meet only today
to look into its affairs.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
They were very disturbed about something.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, well that's got nothing to do with the fact
that they got killed.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Now that's and that's a fast that's a fast manic.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
This East Bay Boys Club seems to be a link
between Worth and Missus Gordon. They want a genuine like
we found for sure. But Lenni Musters had deaths must
be tied together somehow. Maybe it's through this boys Club.
I don't see how they could be nick I yet.
But yips, you didn't leave the house for a single minute.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Just long enough to slip outdoors and mail a letter
for mister Worth.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
But I wasn't gone more than a minute or so.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What was the letter you mailed?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Why this morning. Along with the letter from this drama.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
Person, mister Worth also received a letter from a mister
Smith in Raleigh, North Carolina, offering to sell him a
rare early American glass bowl at a very good price.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Mister Worth's.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Was very keen on early American glassware, so I've heard
go on please Well, he'd.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Been searching for just such a ball for years.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
In fact, only last month he wrote Missus Gordon, who
also collects glassware, asking her to sell him the bowl
she owns. She refused, So you see, he was delighted
to learn that one was for sale. And while he
was waiting for you, he made out his check, sealed in.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The self addressed envelope. Mister Smith enclosed and sent me
out to post it immediately.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
You did, And when I returned, mister Worth was perfectly
all right.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
But five minutes later he cried out. I rushed in.
There he was sloped across his desk.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Did yips, I'd like to see the envelope? The letter
from this mister Smith arrived in.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yes, mister Carr thought to be right here, Yes, here
it yees, Maddie, look at this return addresses Raleigh, North Carolina.
This envelope was postmark right here in the city and
it's up phony. Yes, Mary, a very deadly for me
unless I miss my guess. Whatever killed hiram Worth is
in the US mail and we can't get it back.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Hi, Bessy, Well you look pleased with yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I am last time making some progress, such as why
discovered that the finances of the Bay Boys Club are
in bad shape?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Really this man and.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
My guess about hiram Worth's death has been proved correct.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
He was killed by poison usilage and the flap of
that letter he sealed just before he died.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
But Nick, how did you get hold of that letter?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Fortunately, Hiramworth was a very methodical man.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He put his return address on the envelope when he
sealed it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Oh, so when the post office couldn't deliver it back
to the fake address written on it, it came right back.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Here right And an analysis showed that there was enough
poison in the muculage and the flap that killed three men.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yeah, but who sent the letter, Nick Rama?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I'd guess the man who hired Rama didn't trust Rama's
powers any more than I do, and decided to help them.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Out a little.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Uh huh. Have you any idea who he is?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Logically only one person could have done it all.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
But logic isn't proved.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh it isn't. I haven't any proof yet. That means
we'll have to make him trap.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Himself, trap himself, huh.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I have a plan in mind, pretty elaborate, but if
it works, we'll be able to wash the whole case
up tonight.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh that'll be swett.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And as I first stepped Patsy, we're going to call
on mister High Priest.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Ramah, it is mister Cutter and his attractive assistant, Please
to enter the temple of thought.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
What's that wreckage you're playing?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It is the ritual drum, which signals the unseen power
that I command, the powers of death.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
You mean you're praying somebody else to death? Now?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It is so this morning my new plan wrote in closing,
still a third order.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And I will ask you this new victim is to
be you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
May Indeed, I were just about to inform you the
drums of death, mister Cutter are beating for you.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So now Nick himself is to be prayed to death.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And when the High Priest rama begins his strange spell,
something fatal always happens. We'll find out how Nick evades
the deadly fate that has already overtaken at least two
victims in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And now for the.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Conclusion of the case of the Salesman of Death to
Day's Nick Carter Adventure, brought to you by new post
war old Dutch cleanser. It is evening, and at Nick's request,
every one connected with the case, including Sergeant Matheson, has gathered.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
At the Temple of Thought. Uneasily.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
They sit in a circle in the dimly lighted room,
while Rama, the mysterious high Priest, stands aloof in flowing
robes and a fantastic turban stray.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Quiet everyone, clease quiet, please, sir. I know you're all
wondering why I've asked you to come here. The answer
is that one of you is responsible for the deaths
of Missus Gordon and mister Worth.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Rama's help. We're going to punish that person.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Before we begin.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I want to be sure you're all here of your
own free will.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
First.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Missus Gordon's nephew, Blake Gordon b Helme. It's Carter.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
I haven't been so intrigued in.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Years as his Gardon's maid. Annie.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I said i'd come, and I'm here, but I don't
like this place.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It scares me. We won't belong Annie Albert Parmer, Missus
Gordon's secretary.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I'm here voluntarily, Mister Carter, glad to help out if
I can.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And Gibbs, mister Worth's vallot.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
I'm here because you asked me, mister Carter.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
I don't like it, but if it will help avenge
mister Worth's death, I'll stay.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And last Williams, miss Gordon's farmer chauffeur.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Shure, I'm here my own free will. I shut off
my mouth when the old lady fired me, but I
never touched the old battle axe. I'm here to see
I ain't frayed.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Then we can get going.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
One person here tonight use the strange and mysterious powers
of Rama to bring death to two people. It's only
simple justice that we should use Rama's mystic powers to
bring punishment to that person who it seems cannot be
touched by the law. Hey, look, Nick, silence, please Rama, Rama,
is that your service again? The prayer of punishment for
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the one who paid you to bring death to missus
Gordon and mister Worth.
Speaker 12 (19:14):
Drama will invoke the inch and rd deal by fire,
used for ten times ten thousand years to make the
guilty known to his fellows. Slowly, the blood in the
guilty one's veins will come to a boil.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He will feel his skin and.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Fire heath will envelop him, and if he does not speak,
he will die screaming in mass milk.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
You can't be serious about this, mister Carton, really know
that sounds absurd, Hey, Nick, for the.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Love of my silence, praise everyone. I'm perfectly serious, as
the guilty person will discover. When the incantation begins to work,
Rama begin, All mighty power is beyond the gnawing of
mere mottles. Your servant calls down your deal by fire
upon the one who has will the guests of others.
(20:02):
I begin the first drum of the fire ritual. Y.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I'm enjoying the music, but nothing seems to be happening.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I'm afraid I want to go home.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Hey, you gotta let me out of here. Those drums
have given me the willis mister Cotton.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
I can't stand it much longer.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I can't silence everyone.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
This is all just a trick.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Of some kind. Stop those drums and let us out
of here. Why, mister farmer, you're perspiring badly, your face
is flushed. You're feeling too warm.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
No, of course not so.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
You're trying some kind of trick, and I've had enough.
Stop those drums, I.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Said, Rama, stop the drums, turn out the lights.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Drama here than the bees.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But the spill cannot be stopped.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Mister Farmer, Your face is streaming with perspiration. Your skin
is as red as fire. You sure you don't feel
it's uncomfortably warm? What if I do? You can't fool me.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
You're up to some hopeless cocus pocus.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I you poison me.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You're trying to pin this whole thing on me, but.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You can't do it. You haven't had a thing to
heat a drink since you came here. You haven't been poisoned.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
You've turned the heat on in here. You're all of
some kind of a plos.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No one else is suffering from the heat now, mister Farmer.
Rama's spell is working and nothing can stop it, nothing
but a confession by the guilty person. Lie.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Rama is just a fake.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
I looked him up.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I know just how big a fake he is.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And why do you feel as if you were on fire?
Your skin is burning hot? That proves rama spells are
no trickery. No, I've used Rama to fool you all
from the beginning, but you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Can't use him to fool me.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I won't be pricked into confession.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
I won't be.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
But you haven't confessed Farmer.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Okay, Maddie put the handcuffs on him. Now listen, Nick,
I want a few facts out, are you?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
And so do I?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Facts?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Well, you both heard Albert Farmer's confession after we realize
he'd given himself away.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And you know how he killed missus Gordon.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, yeah, sure. He hid behind the drapers at the
head of the stairs, and when she got within a
couple of steps to the top, he jabbed the end
of his cane against her solar plexes as hard as
he could. She fell head over heels down the stairs
and broken neck.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And she was in such a position that her nephew
and maid, who were downstairs couldn't see the cans.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
That's what made it look like an accident.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, that's that.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And you already know how Farmer killed Worth with a
poison envelope and you also know the motive behind both murders.
We sure Albert said they were going to investigate the
affairs of the East Bay Boys Club.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, but what did he have to do with the
boys club?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I think for a minute Missus Garden was treasurer of
the charity. Okay, but what a woman as old as
missus Gordon do the actual work herself?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Why?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Of course not. She'd give a job to someone else,
and the natural person for her to pick would be
her secretary.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Then Albert handled all the money she and Worth contributed, right,
and he managed to steal about thirty thousand dollars, as
I discovered by checking the books.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
But Nick, why were you so sure Albert was guilty.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Because of that fake letter to mister Worth.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It had to be sent by someone who knew Worth
wanted a bull such as the one described in the letter,
and also knew he wanted it so badly he'd be
sure to answer by return mail. Yeah, I see what
you mean, Gibbs. You remember told us Worth had written
Missus Gordon asking her to sell him the antique bullshield.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Uh huh, so she knew he wanted a bull.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Gibbs knew it Worth knew it, and the person who
handled Missus Gordon's correspondence knew it.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
In other words, Albert Farmer.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But that still wasn't proof.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's why I had to use an elaborate psychological third
degree on Albert in order to trick him into confessing.
He used Rama to confuse us, So I used Rama
to confuse him.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Well, then, Nick, does Rama really have any supernatural powers?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Of course not, Alfred was simply using him for camouflage.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Rama's just a clever faker who thought up this death
prayer racket about a year ago.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
But if Rama's a fake, what happened to Albert there tonight?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That Betsy was psychology, not magic psychology?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Surebert Farmer came to the Temple of Thought feeling a
good bluff his way through anything that happened, but fear
finally caught up with him. You mean that even though
he knew Rama was a phony, he started to think,
all that incantation.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Will only might work.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Maybe in any case, Farmer began to feel trapped. He
got uneasy, nervous, his blood pressure went.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Up, and then when you started to give him the
business and the heat was really out, he couldn't take it.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Any longer broke out nicole sweat and then made a
slip after that.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Getting a confession out of.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Him was duck soup.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Nick I got the hand it to you. You sure
figured out a new way of turning the heat on
a killer.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
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