November 2, 2025 • 25 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 (00:02):
New Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk, presents
Licked Carter, famous for chasing crime.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
At this time, two great names are joined as New
post war Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the
most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All Right, Nick, suppose he is the murderer. You can't
prove it. There isn't a shred of evidence.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That's what we've got to find. Passing.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
And if the proof is anywhere at all, let's hear
in this apartment.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Well, there's a closet or something over here.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Okay, you look in there while I go over these papers.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Don't try to chuggle, miss Bowen. This is a knife
I'm holding at your back now.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The Case of the Tattooed Cobra Today's adventurestarring Lon Clark
as Nick Carter, brought to you by New post War
Old Dutch Cleanser. Sergeant Matheson of the Homicide Squad is
one of Nick's best friends, but it isn't a social
call that brings Mattie to the office this morning.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Hey, Nick, you.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Remember telling me last year that somebody wanted you to
look for the heir to the Bristol estate. Oh, yes, Mary,
the administrator of the estate, mister Alvin Hammond, called me in.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
But I didn't take the case.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And you know why, Sergeant.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It made a trip to Europe and Nick didn't want
to go.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
Imagine Patsy.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You know I couldn't go at that time.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
And Nick Bristol's wife was a.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Polish girl, wasn't she.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, she was. When she divorced him twenty years ago,
she took her son back to Europe with her.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And that's the last anybody ever heard of them.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh no, no, no, not quite Patsy. Mister Hammond had
some French detectives working on the case. They reported that
the mother was dead and that the boy, Alex, supposedly
died in a concentration camp during the war.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
So who gets the money now?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Well, if Alex Bristol isn't found by the end of
this year, three million dollars goes to a distant relative
in this country named George Davison.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Uh. You don't happen to have a picture of Elick,
do you, Nick.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
But the French detector's got a good description of him
from a fellow prisoner in the concentration camp. Yeah, yeah,
I remember you're telling me that he's tall and slender,
with blonde hair and blue eyes, and he'd be twenty
eight years old.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Now, why, sergeant, what a memory?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
He's lost little finger on his left hand, and he's
got a tattoo mark on his right hand, a blue
and red cobrat twined around.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
The thumb, Ryan Man, You're terrific.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
How can you remember all that from a casual conversation
almost a year ago?
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
We fished him out of the East River this morning.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Dead.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Well, there's the body, Nick. It's Bristol, isn't it. It
certainly fits the description.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Just this is the sergeant described it, Nick, A red
and blue cobra trying around the right thumb.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
But there's one detail has been kept a secret. He
only told me because he expected me to take the case.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, what's that, Nick?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
If this is really Alec Bristol, the cobra should be
holding a shield in his mouth. It's his mother's family crest.
That was to be the final identification.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That's it, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yes, it's there all right?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So he didn't die in a concentration camp after all.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No haus to come to this country to get his inheritance.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
No, maybe so, but he didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Why what makes you think that many?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Why his clothes, Nick, they were cheap and shabby. He
wouldn't be dressed that way if he had three million bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Well, in that case, I think i'd like to have
a talk with mister George Davison.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Davison, oh, the guy who gets the money now that
Bristol's did.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, of course Davison may be perfectly innocent, but it
should be interesting to talk to a man with three
million motives for murder.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Jefferson will be here in a moment.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Card He's upstairs.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
In his room, so he's already moved uner the Bristol Hall, Lasa,
mister haven't why yeares?
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yes, he's administrative for the estate.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I saw no reason to let the house stand empty,
especially since I expected to turn the property over to
him at the end of this month. That is, I
did until I got a letter from Alick.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh you really hurt? From Alick Bristol.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Yes, last week, miss Bown, we've been running advertisements in
European newspapers fifteen different countries, hoping that Alik.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Was still alive. And he saw one of the ads.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yes, he was living in Myseles. He wrote that he
was taking the next boat for the state.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
What abray? The minute he gets here, someone stabs him
in the back and throws his body in the East River.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I can't understand why he didn't get in touch with
me as soon as the boat does.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I bet George Davison is glad that he didn't.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Yes, Oh, I like George well enough, but well, Martin
Bristol and I were lifelong friends, and I did hope
I could turn the estate over to his boy.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh, I say, Hammond, you didn't tell me we had guests.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Come in?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
George, come in, Miss Bowen, mister Carter, this is George Davison.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What do you hear?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
You do?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
What's everyone looking so serious about?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Don't tell me the long lost son and heir has
finally arrived?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Is George?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Alex has arrived? But he's dead dead?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I say not really.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Alec Bristol was murdered last night, mister Davison, murder.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Well the estate comes to me after all, eh, Yes,
I suppose it does.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
George? Well, who popped him off?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You know?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
That's what I'm trying to find her out. Mister Davison,
a medical examiner, says the murder took place sometime between
ten pm and two this morning.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Where were you at that time?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Where was I?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Why?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I went up to my room about nine.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
O'clock to read you remember, Hammond?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Did you go out again? Well, no, of course not.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
But but George, yes, mister Hammond. Nothing you started to
say something.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Only that I remember now that George did go upstairs early.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I see, mister Hammond. If Alec Bristol had sent you
a letter or a cablegram to tell you the exact
time of his arrival, could anyone else have.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Got hold of it before you did?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
I suppose so. Dobson leaves the mail on a table
in the entrance hall. Now is he here?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Carter?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Are you insinuating that I murdered Alec Bristol?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Not at all, mister Davidson. I'm merely collecting facts.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I big pardon, mister heaven? Where's Dobson? There's a gentleman
to see you so well? Who is it?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
A tall young lamb sir with blonde hair.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
He didn't ask what he looked like, Dobson. Didn't he
give you his name? Yes, sir, he said, his name
is Alec Bristol.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I do not understand. Why have you sent for the officer, because.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
We're investigating the murder of Alec Bristol.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
But that cannot be mister Carter. I am Elec Bristol
without accent.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Don't make me laugh.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I have been in.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Europe since I am seven years old. Almost I have
forgotten how to speak say English.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Maybe, But if you're Elec Bristol, who's that guy down
at the mall?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
I do not know, but surely mister Hammond will vouch
for me. Two weeks ago I write to tell him
I am coming.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
It's right, Sergeant.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
At least somebody wrote to me. Yeah, it might have
been that fellow we found on the river.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
No, no, no, it was I. The description in the
newspaper mast say that too, us.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I yeah, but that description fits the other man too.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
But the little finger, which I lose in the accident
of many years.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Ago, the tattoo on my thumb, those features apply to
him to including the family crest in the cobra's mouth.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
I I cannot believe it.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
It is fantastic.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I can figure it out easy enough. You read that
description in the paper, realized that it fitted you perfectly,
so you had that finger and thumb fixed up to
complete the identification. Then you hoped the boat for America,
expecting to collect three million bucks.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
You're forgetting one thing.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Why the family crest and the tattooed cobra's mouth. He
couldn't have got that out of the newspaper notices.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
It wasn't there.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Okay, okay, So maybe he knew Alec Bristol a long
time ago in Europe. He was familiar with the tattoo.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Mal Why must you assume that I am the impostor?
Why could it not be the ottoman?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Because you'd have a mighty good reason for bumping off
the real air.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
But whould want to kill a fake one? I do
not know.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
All I know is when my ship docked this morning
at ten o'clock, I get off the boat.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Oh I am a.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Minute, Wait a minute, you're going to tell me they
didn't send you to Elis Island.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Before they let you go.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Why should they do that, Sergeant? I am an American citizen.
My papers are all in order. The console at Marseille
checked them before he let me get on the boat.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Maddie.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Let's take him down to the pier. See if the
captain of the ship can identify him.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Yeah, and we'll stop off with the morgue too. Maybe
you'll recognize the other Alec Bristol.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Then may I return here?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You may if the captain of the boat knows you.
Otherwise you're gone to the city jail.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Well how about a captain you know him?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yes, sergeant, this man came over on my boat and
we didn't talk until ten o'clock this morning, so he
couldn't possibly have been in New York last night.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Well there's the body, mister Bristol.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Did you ever see that guy before?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
No, Sergeant, I am positive I'd never see that man
before in my life. Good afternoon, mister Bristol, Good afternoon.
(09:53):
H At Dobson. Yes, mister Bristol, you're coming please.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I thank you to Hammond phoned that everything was settled,
that I.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Should take my orders from user.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
That was kind of him.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
If there's a letter for you, sir, it came just
a few moments ago a letter from me, Yes, sir,
registered letter I signed for it.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Here, tissir.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
That how strange. I do not know anyone in this country.
A minute, Bristol, If that is your name, I'm mister Davison.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Till your identity is proved, I don't think you'd better
open any mail addressed to Alec Bristol.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
That mister Hammond disadministrator of my father's estate. And as
long as he is convinced that, well, Dubson, you get
mister Hammond on the phone please and ask him to
come out here at once.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Yes, sir, is anything wrong?
Speaker 8 (10:41):
If this letter is true, A great deal is wrong.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Maybe I know now why that man was killed? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Good on tono, mister Hammond.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Is mister Bristol in Dobson, Oh.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yes, sir, he's waiting for you in the library.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Sir Again, if we go in with you, old mister Hammond.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Oh not at all, Carter. In fact, I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Is something happened mister Hammond?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Apparently, Yes, Dobson says Alec found out something definite about
the murder.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Yes, sir, he was very upset about the common in Carter.
Is that why you're here? No?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I came to ask the names of the people Bristol
was living with Marseille. After all, the identity angle hasn't
been established for sure yet.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
I don't think there's any question that he's the real
Alec Bristol.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Here's the library, Eleck, Aleck.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Dobson, didn't you say mister Bristol was in here?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
He was?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Those French doors are open onto the terrace. Perhaps he's
out there.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I don't think so. Bessie, look over there hid a divan?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Why eat some men's feet cutter? Is it Alec?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
It's Aalik all right?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
And he's dead, dead, stabbed in the back, just as
the other one was.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Better call the police, Dobson.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Yes, I beg your pardon. No one answered the front door,
so since it was open, I thought, oh.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
You, where did you come from it?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
What's the idea of walking into other people's houses?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Where you say other people's houses? I did?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Unless I'm mistaken, this is my house, your house. Yes,
I am Alec Bristol.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
One apparent air to the Bristol Millions is in the
city Morgue. Another lies dead on the library floor, and
now a third, tall, slender, blonde young man has appeared
to claim the fortune. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the tattooed cobra.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new
(12:59):
post war well Dutch Plenzer Alec Bristol, heir to three
million dollars, can be positively identified only by a cobra
tattooed on his right thumber. But one man with the
secret tattoo has been found dead in the East River.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Another has been stabbed to.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Death in the library of the Bristol mansion. And now
a third stands in the doorway, introducing himself.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I beg your pardon. I'm Alec Bristol.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
You're but perhaps I should have advised you of my arrival.
But the plane arrived from Portugal only a short while ago.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
If you look at him, he's tall and black.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
All slender, blonde named Alec Bristol seemed to be a
dime a dozen today.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
May I see your left hand right?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Oh, the missing little finger of course.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Er how the right hand?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
You mean, the right thumb, don't you with the tattooed cobra?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There it's there, Nick, naturally in the shield is in
the cobra's love.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
My mother's family, Crest Carter.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I don't understand nobody knew about that, crist except.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
You and me and.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Who else, mister Hammond, well, George Davison. But three men
have shown up with that tattoo? How did they find out?
Who told them? The police will be here in a
few moments, sir, Thank you Dabson.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is mister Davison here? Why?
Speaker 9 (14:16):
No, sir, he lift half an hour ago, said he
was going into the city for dinner in the theater.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Did you say, mister Bristol, I mean the dead mister Bristol.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
After Davison left.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
No, sir, after I've phoned mister Hammond, I went back
to the pantry and stayed down.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Until you arrive.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
What do you mean the dead mister Bristol. Look, don't
you think someone should tell me what's going on?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Sure, I'll tell you who are here? I want you
to look at something behind the divan.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
There, Alec Alec.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You mean that's the real Alec Bristol there on the floor.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Yes, but I thought he was dead.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He is.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I mean five years ago in the concentration camp. They
took him away, and so.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That's how you found out about the tat too. You
knew Alec Bristol and the concentration camp. Yes, he was
my best friend friend, and you tried to steal his inheritance.
I tell you, they said he was dead. What difference
could it make to Alec? When I saw the notice
in the Lisbon papers with the description.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
He realized that it fits you as well as it
did him.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Huh, yes, except for the missing finger in the tattoo.
So I found a doctor who agreed to perform the
operation and keep his mouth shut.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
I got forged past you swindlers. How do I know
you didn't murder Alec?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
If he had killed Alec Bristol, seeing the body wouldn't
have shocked him into admitting that he was an impostor.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
But you're not going to let him go free.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
But police will take care of him. Man, I want
to talk to is George Davison?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Speaking of Davison Corta, There's something I didn't tell you
this morning about him.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I'm sure it doesn't mean anything, but I know you started.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
To say something and then lied out of it. Well,
perhaps you'd better tell the truth now. Well it's only
that Well.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
I knocked on George's door during the evening and he
didn't answer. Of course, he may have been asleep.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Or he may have been out of the house committing
a murderer.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Is that it?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, I don't believe it, but it's possible.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
The real Alec Bristol was going to tell mister Hammond
something about that first murder.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
That must be why he was killed. Do you know,
mister Carter, it might help if we could only find
that letter?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
What letter downson, A.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Registered letter that came from mister Bristol, sir, and that's
where he got the information he.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Wanted to tell mister Hammond.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
You know whether he brought that letter into the library, Yes, sir,
it was in his hand when he came in here.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
It isn't here now, no, sir, I've searched the room thoroughly.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Who else knew that he received that letter?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Why? No one except mister Davison to me, of course?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Uh Davison again, Yes, come on, passy, let's get back
to town. What's on your mind? Nick?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Just one thing, catching a murderer, and I don't think
it'll take very long now, Maddie, I want to do
three things. Yeah, why find Davison, learn the identity of
the man you fished out of the river and find
(17:07):
out who sent that registered letter. Yeah well, Nick, we
spotted Davison's car in a parking lot and I got
two men there waiting for him to come back.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
If he ever does, he'll come back.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Oh, Sergeant mathieson homicide. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Melally, it's.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
A guy who send to Tracey letter.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Nick good.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
A postal clerk went down and dug out the receipt.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Huh yeah, they get a pencil, Nick, I have one.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Okay, go ahead, Mallally, sent by William Jenkins, four forty
Winston Avenue.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Apartment five D. At that Pensyl got it? Okay, Mallalley,
good work.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah, thanks William Jenkins. That name mean anything to you, Nick, No,
but I think Patsy and I will go around afore
forty Winton Avenue and.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
See mister Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'm glad this is the last flight.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Cheer her up, Patsy, exercise to do you good.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I only hope Jenkins is home.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We'll know in a minute.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Oh, yes, here it is five D.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Evidently he's home too. The door's partly open.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
If he's home, why doesn't he answer?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I'll knock again, Nick.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
If Alec Bristol was killed so somebody could get that letter,
and Jenkins wrote it. The fact this door is open, Mike.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Mean, yeah, yes, Patsy, If Mike mean the killer got
here first, let's go in, right, nobody here?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, but look at this room. It's been turned upside down.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
It's been thoroughly searched, all right, but for what all
those papers on the floor.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, hm.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
There's a Social Security card made out to William Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And here's a letter post marks Chicago, which now would
a minute hurt his word.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Here's an Illinois Shauffer's license and look.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
At the picture on it.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Why, that's the first Alec Bristol, the man they found
in the river. Right, So William Jenkins was going to
pass himself off as Alec Bristol.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Obviously, And that brings up a very interesting point. What
don't you see, Patsy. This whole thing was planned months
in advance, so the amputation and the tattoo would have
time to heal. Of course, and last week the real
Alec Bristol wrote to Hammon and the deal was off.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That must have been a blow to Jenkins.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, but how did Jenkins know about the letter. And
another thing, The tattoo on Jenkins's thumb included the final detail,
the shield in the cobra's mouth.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
How could Jenkins have known about that?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
So the other impostor knew about it because he was
a friend of Bristol.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Jenkins wasn't Bristol looked at Jenkins's body and swore you
never seen him before. And no one else knew of
that shield except Davison, Hammond and me.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Do you think Davison and Jenkins were working together?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Not Davison, Patsy, Hammond and Jenkins, Hammond and Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
But by Nick, what would Hammond get out of it?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
If Alec Bristol weren't found by the end of this month,
Hammond would have to turn the estate over to Davison, naturally,
But if a fake Alec Bristol turned up, Hammond could
turn the estate over to him. Then he and Hammond
could divide three million dollars between them.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Of course, all Hammond.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Had to do is to find someone who answered the
general description, then arranged for the missing finger in the tattool.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But Nick, you haven't any proof, none at all.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
That's what We've got to find, something to show that
there was a connection between Hammond and Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
There might be something here in Jenkins's apartment, if Hammond
has already found it and destroyed it.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
From the looks of this room, I should say the
chances are good that he has it.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Is a closet or something over here. Maybe he overlooked that.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Okay, you take a look in there while I go
through these papers. More cavil Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Don't reach for your gun cutter unless you want the
young lady to die here Silver's boon.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I'm holding a knife at your back. Don't struggle, Petsy,
you heard her.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
I won't as long as you both do as I say. Okay, first,
toss your revolver over here.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
There.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
You are good. You're a sensible man.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh you were hiding in that closet all the time.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Uh, I had to.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
I came here to destroy the receipt for that registered letter,
Jenkins said to Alec.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
And before I could leave, you two arrived. What was
in that letter happened the whole story just as you
figured it out.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
And when I told Jenkins that the real Alec Bristol
had turned up and our deal was off, he threatened
to get even with me by telling Alec about it,
so I had to get rid of him.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
But you didn't know that Jenkins had already written Aleck
until Alec faced you with.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
A letter, and then you had to kill him too.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
That it quite right, mister Carter. Nobody saw me enter
the house or leave it afterwards, and when I came
back you were just arriving. It gave me the perfect alibi.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Well, well, what's next.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Don't think you can kill us too, not both of us,
of course not. I have enough cash hidden away to
get me out of the.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Country, and you're not going to say a word to
the authorities until I'm safely gone.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You save awfully sure of it.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I am, because I'm taking the young lady here with me, Hammond,
you can't take her if I leave her, Carter.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
I'll leave her dead, I promise you.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Then I'll get into the bedroom, Carter, I'm going to
lock you in there before I leave. You can't.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
You can't help him help miss Bullet and Carter.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
If I hear you trying to break out her call
for help before we're out of the building, I'll shove
this knife right through Miss Bowen's back.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Locked in the bedroom of William Jenkins's flat lick.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Hears Hammond leave with Patsy, and he knows that Hammond
won't hesitate to kill her if any attempt is made
at a rescue. We'll find out what happens in just
a moment. Now for the conclusion of the case of
the Tattooed Cobra, Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to
you my new post war old Dutch cleanser. Patsy slowly
(23:00):
down the stairs and out the front door of the
gloomy old tenement, conscious of the knife pressed against her
back and of the man who's ready to use it
if she attempts to break away, and on his tips and.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Across the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You're you're not going to kill me, are you?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I'm afraid I have to Oh please, m drop it.
You're breaking my arm. Crop it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Better?
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Why Patchy pick it up?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Got my gun off his pocket?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Here, Nick, But where did you, I mean how.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
When he locked me in the bedroom he overlook the
fact that the bedroom window opened on the fire escape
running down the front of the building.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
So I climbed down the.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Fire escape and waited on the first floor platform until
you walked across beneath me.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Then I jumped him.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
He was going to kill me.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Killing days are over by the nearest police call box, Bessy.
We'll hold him here until the police arrive.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So George Davison will get the estate after all.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yeah, he's the only relative left now, Nick, There's.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
One thing I still want to know. What if Hammond
planned to bring in a phony heir, why do you
try to hire you to find the real one?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Self protection, Patsy.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You see, if Alex Bristol really were alive, Hammond wanted
to know it before he went ahead.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
With the scheme.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, I can see that it would have been disastrous
for the real head to show up after Hammond had
produced a false one.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yes, Hammon might have got away with the first.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Murder because Davison seemed to be the only person with
a motor port.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
But one killing led to another.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Uh huh, and that led to me. I suppose he
figured the state could only make him pay for one murder,
no matter how many he committed.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Yes, but when Hammond goes to the chair, he'll find
that once is plenty.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
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Speaker 2 (25:07):
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Speaker 1 (25:10):
Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Ed Latimer plays Matty.
Today's script was written by Jim Parsons. Original music is
played by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any
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New Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk, presents
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Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
At this time, two great names are joined as New
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most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All Right, Nick, suppose he is the murderer. You can't
prove it. There isn't a shred of evidence.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That's what we've got to find. Passing.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
And if the proof is anywhere at all, let's hear
in this apartment.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Well, there's a closet or something over here.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Okay, you look in there while I go over these papers.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Don't try to chuggle, miss Bowen. This is a knife
I'm holding at your back now.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The Case of the Tattooed Cobra Today's adventurestarring Lon Clark
as Nick Carter, brought to you by New post War
Old Dutch Cleanser. Sergeant Matheson of the Homicide Squad is
one of Nick's best friends, but it isn't a social
call that brings Mattie to the office this morning.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Hey, Nick, you.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Remember telling me last year that somebody wanted you to
look for the heir to the Bristol estate. Oh, yes, Mary,
the administrator of the estate, mister Alvin Hammond, called me in.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
But I didn't take the case.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And you know why, Sergeant.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It made a trip to Europe and Nick didn't want
to go.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
Imagine Patsy.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You know I couldn't go at that time.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
And Nick Bristol's wife was a.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Polish girl, wasn't she.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, she was. When she divorced him twenty years ago,
she took her son back to Europe with her.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And that's the last anybody ever heard of them.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh no, no, no, not quite Patsy. Mister Hammond had
some French detectives working on the case. They reported that
the mother was dead and that the boy, Alex, supposedly
died in a concentration camp during the war.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
So who gets the money now?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Well, if Alex Bristol isn't found by the end of
this year, three million dollars goes to a distant relative
in this country named George Davison.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Uh. You don't happen to have a picture of Elick,
do you, Nick.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
But the French detector's got a good description of him
from a fellow prisoner in the concentration camp. Yeah, yeah,
I remember you're telling me that he's tall and slender,
with blonde hair and blue eyes, and he'd be twenty
eight years old.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Now, why, sergeant, what a memory?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
He's lost little finger on his left hand, and he's
got a tattoo mark on his right hand, a blue
and red cobrat twined around.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
The thumb, Ryan Man, You're terrific.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
How can you remember all that from a casual conversation
almost a year ago?
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
We fished him out of the East River this morning.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Dead.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Well, there's the body, Nick. It's Bristol, isn't it. It
certainly fits the description.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Just this is the sergeant described it, Nick, A red
and blue cobra trying around the right thumb.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
But there's one detail has been kept a secret. He
only told me because he expected me to take the case.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, what's that, Nick?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
If this is really Alec Bristol, the cobra should be
holding a shield in his mouth. It's his mother's family crest.
That was to be the final identification.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That's it, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yes, it's there all right?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So he didn't die in a concentration camp after all.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No haus to come to this country to get his inheritance.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
No, maybe so, but he didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Why what makes you think that many?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Why his clothes, Nick, they were cheap and shabby. He
wouldn't be dressed that way if he had three million bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Well, in that case, I think i'd like to have
a talk with mister George Davison.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Davison, oh, the guy who gets the money now that
Bristol's did.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, of course Davison may be perfectly innocent, but it
should be interesting to talk to a man with three
million motives for murder.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Jefferson will be here in a moment.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Card He's upstairs.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
In his room, so he's already moved uner the Bristol Hall, Lasa,
mister haven't why yeares?
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yes, he's administrative for the estate.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I saw no reason to let the house stand empty,
especially since I expected to turn the property over to
him at the end of this month. That is, I
did until I got a letter from Alick.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh you really hurt? From Alick Bristol.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Yes, last week, miss Bown, we've been running advertisements in
European newspapers fifteen different countries, hoping that Alik.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Was still alive. And he saw one of the ads.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yes, he was living in Myseles. He wrote that he
was taking the next boat for the state.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
What abray? The minute he gets here, someone stabs him
in the back and throws his body in the East River.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I can't understand why he didn't get in touch with
me as soon as the boat does.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I bet George Davison is glad that he didn't.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Yes, Oh, I like George well enough, but well, Martin
Bristol and I were lifelong friends, and I did hope
I could turn the estate over to his boy.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh, I say, Hammond, you didn't tell me we had guests.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Come in?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
George, come in, Miss Bowen, mister Carter, this is George Davison.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What do you hear?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
You do?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
What's everyone looking so serious about?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Don't tell me the long lost son and heir has
finally arrived?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Is George?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Alex has arrived? But he's dead dead?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I say not really.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Alec Bristol was murdered last night, mister Davison, murder.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Well the estate comes to me after all, eh, Yes,
I suppose it does.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
George? Well, who popped him off?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You know?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
That's what I'm trying to find her out. Mister Davison,
a medical examiner, says the murder took place sometime between
ten pm and two this morning.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Where were you at that time?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Where was I?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Why?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I went up to my room about nine.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
O'clock to read you remember, Hammond?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Did you go out again? Well, no, of course not.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
But but George, yes, mister Hammond. Nothing you started to
say something.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Only that I remember now that George did go upstairs early.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I see, mister Hammond. If Alec Bristol had sent you
a letter or a cablegram to tell you the exact
time of his arrival, could anyone else have.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Got hold of it before you did?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
I suppose so. Dobson leaves the mail on a table
in the entrance hall. Now is he here?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Carter?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Are you insinuating that I murdered Alec Bristol?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Not at all, mister Davidson. I'm merely collecting facts.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I big pardon, mister heaven? Where's Dobson? There's a gentleman
to see you so well? Who is it?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
A tall young lamb sir with blonde hair.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
He didn't ask what he looked like, Dobson. Didn't he
give you his name? Yes, sir, he said, his name
is Alec Bristol.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I do not understand. Why have you sent for the officer, because.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
We're investigating the murder of Alec Bristol.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
But that cannot be mister Carter. I am Elec Bristol
without accent.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Don't make me laugh.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I have been in.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Europe since I am seven years old. Almost I have
forgotten how to speak say English.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Maybe, But if you're Elec Bristol, who's that guy down
at the mall?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
I do not know, but surely mister Hammond will vouch
for me. Two weeks ago I write to tell him
I am coming.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
It's right, Sergeant.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
At least somebody wrote to me. Yeah, it might have
been that fellow we found on the river.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
No, no, no, it was I. The description in the
newspaper mast say that too, us.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I yeah, but that description fits the other man too.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
But the little finger, which I lose in the accident
of many years.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Ago, the tattoo on my thumb, those features apply to
him to including the family crest in the cobra's mouth.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
I I cannot believe it.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
It is fantastic.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I can figure it out easy enough. You read that
description in the paper, realized that it fitted you perfectly,
so you had that finger and thumb fixed up to
complete the identification. Then you hoped the boat for America,
expecting to collect three million bucks.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
You're forgetting one thing.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Why the family crest and the tattooed cobra's mouth. He
couldn't have got that out of the newspaper notices.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
It wasn't there.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Okay, okay, So maybe he knew Alec Bristol a long
time ago in Europe. He was familiar with the tattoo.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Mal Why must you assume that I am the impostor?
Why could it not be the ottoman?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Because you'd have a mighty good reason for bumping off
the real air.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
But whould want to kill a fake one? I do
not know.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
All I know is when my ship docked this morning
at ten o'clock, I get off the boat.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Oh I am a.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Minute, Wait a minute, you're going to tell me they
didn't send you to Elis Island.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Before they let you go.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Why should they do that, Sergeant? I am an American citizen.
My papers are all in order. The console at Marseille
checked them before he let me get on the boat.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Maddie.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Let's take him down to the pier. See if the
captain of the ship can identify him.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Yeah, and we'll stop off with the morgue too. Maybe
you'll recognize the other Alec Bristol.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Then may I return here?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You may if the captain of the boat knows you.
Otherwise you're gone to the city jail.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Well how about a captain you know him?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yes, sergeant, this man came over on my boat and
we didn't talk until ten o'clock this morning, so he
couldn't possibly have been in New York last night.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Well there's the body, mister Bristol.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Did you ever see that guy before?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
No, Sergeant, I am positive I'd never see that man
before in my life. Good afternoon, mister Bristol, Good afternoon.
(09:53):
H At Dobson. Yes, mister Bristol, you're coming please.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I thank you to Hammond phoned that everything was settled,
that I.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Should take my orders from user.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
That was kind of him.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
If there's a letter for you, sir, it came just
a few moments ago a letter from me, Yes, sir,
registered letter I signed for it.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Here, tissir.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
That how strange. I do not know anyone in this country.
A minute, Bristol, If that is your name, I'm mister Davison.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Till your identity is proved, I don't think you'd better
open any mail addressed to Alec Bristol.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
That mister Hammond disadministrator of my father's estate. And as
long as he is convinced that, well, Dubson, you get
mister Hammond on the phone please and ask him to
come out here at once.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Yes, sir, is anything wrong?
Speaker 8 (10:41):
If this letter is true, A great deal is wrong.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Maybe I know now why that man was killed? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Good on tono, mister Hammond.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Is mister Bristol in Dobson, Oh.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yes, sir, he's waiting for you in the library.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Sir Again, if we go in with you, old mister Hammond.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Oh not at all, Carter. In fact, I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Is something happened mister Hammond?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Apparently, Yes, Dobson says Alec found out something definite about
the murder.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Yes, sir, he was very upset about the common in Carter.
Is that why you're here? No?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I came to ask the names of the people Bristol
was living with Marseille. After all, the identity angle hasn't
been established for sure yet.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
I don't think there's any question that he's the real
Alec Bristol.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Here's the library, Eleck, Aleck.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Dobson, didn't you say mister Bristol was in here?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
He was?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Those French doors are open onto the terrace. Perhaps he's
out there.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I don't think so. Bessie, look over there hid a divan?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Why eat some men's feet cutter? Is it Alec?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
It's Aalik all right?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
And he's dead, dead, stabbed in the back, just as
the other one was.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Better call the police, Dobson.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Yes, I beg your pardon. No one answered the front door,
so since it was open, I thought, oh.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
You, where did you come from it?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
What's the idea of walking into other people's houses?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Where you say other people's houses? I did?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Unless I'm mistaken, this is my house, your house. Yes,
I am Alec Bristol.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
One apparent air to the Bristol Millions is in the
city Morgue. Another lies dead on the library floor, and
now a third, tall, slender, blonde young man has appeared
to claim the fortune. We'll see what happens in just
a moment. Now back to the case of the tattooed cobra.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new
(12:59):
post war well Dutch Plenzer Alec Bristol, heir to three
million dollars, can be positively identified only by a cobra
tattooed on his right thumber. But one man with the
secret tattoo has been found dead in the East River.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Another has been stabbed to.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Death in the library of the Bristol mansion. And now
a third stands in the doorway, introducing himself.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I beg your pardon. I'm Alec Bristol.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
You're but perhaps I should have advised you of my arrival.
But the plane arrived from Portugal only a short while ago.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
If you look at him, he's tall and black.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
All slender, blonde named Alec Bristol seemed to be a
dime a dozen today.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
May I see your left hand right?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Oh, the missing little finger of course.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Er how the right hand?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
You mean, the right thumb, don't you with the tattooed cobra?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There it's there, Nick, naturally in the shield is in
the cobra's love.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
My mother's family, Crest Carter.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I don't understand nobody knew about that, crist except.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
You and me and.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Who else, mister Hammond, well, George Davison. But three men
have shown up with that tattoo? How did they find out?
Who told them? The police will be here in a
few moments, sir, Thank you Dabson.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is mister Davison here? Why?
Speaker 9 (14:16):
No, sir, he lift half an hour ago, said he
was going into the city for dinner in the theater.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Did you say, mister Bristol, I mean the dead mister Bristol.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
After Davison left.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
No, sir, after I've phoned mister Hammond, I went back
to the pantry and stayed down.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Until you arrive.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
What do you mean the dead mister Bristol. Look, don't
you think someone should tell me what's going on?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Sure, I'll tell you who are here? I want you
to look at something behind the divan.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
There, Alec Alec.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You mean that's the real Alec Bristol there on the floor.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Yes, but I thought he was dead.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He is.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I mean five years ago in the concentration camp. They
took him away, and so.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That's how you found out about the tat too. You
knew Alec Bristol and the concentration camp. Yes, he was
my best friend friend, and you tried to steal his inheritance.
I tell you, they said he was dead. What difference
could it make to Alec? When I saw the notice
in the Lisbon papers with the description.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
He realized that it fits you as well as it
did him.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Huh, yes, except for the missing finger in the tattoo.
So I found a doctor who agreed to perform the
operation and keep his mouth shut.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
I got forged past you swindlers. How do I know
you didn't murder Alec?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
If he had killed Alec Bristol, seeing the body wouldn't
have shocked him into admitting that he was an impostor.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
But you're not going to let him go free.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
But police will take care of him. Man, I want
to talk to is George Davison?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Speaking of Davison Corta, There's something I didn't tell you
this morning about him.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I'm sure it doesn't mean anything, but I know you started.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
To say something and then lied out of it. Well,
perhaps you'd better tell the truth now. Well it's only
that Well.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
I knocked on George's door during the evening and he
didn't answer. Of course, he may have been asleep.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Or he may have been out of the house committing
a murderer.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Is that it?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, I don't believe it, but it's possible.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
The real Alec Bristol was going to tell mister Hammond
something about that first murder.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
That must be why he was killed. Do you know,
mister Carter, it might help if we could only find
that letter?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
What letter downson, A.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Registered letter that came from mister Bristol, sir, and that's
where he got the information he.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Wanted to tell mister Hammond.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
You know whether he brought that letter into the library, Yes, sir,
it was in his hand when he came in here.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
It isn't here now, no, sir, I've searched the room thoroughly.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Who else knew that he received that letter?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Why? No one except mister Davison to me, of course?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Uh Davison again, Yes, come on, passy, let's get back
to town. What's on your mind? Nick?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Just one thing, catching a murderer, and I don't think
it'll take very long now, Maddie, I want to do
three things. Yeah, why find Davison, learn the identity of
the man you fished out of the river and find
(17:07):
out who sent that registered letter. Yeah well, Nick, we
spotted Davison's car in a parking lot and I got
two men there waiting for him to come back.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
If he ever does, he'll come back.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Oh, Sergeant mathieson homicide. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Melally, it's.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
A guy who send to Tracey letter.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Nick good.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
A postal clerk went down and dug out the receipt.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Huh yeah, they get a pencil, Nick, I have one.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Okay, go ahead, Mallally, sent by William Jenkins, four forty
Winston Avenue.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Apartment five D. At that Pensyl got it? Okay, Mallalley,
good work.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah, thanks William Jenkins. That name mean anything to you, Nick, No,
but I think Patsy and I will go around afore
forty Winton Avenue and.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
See mister Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'm glad this is the last flight.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Cheer her up, Patsy, exercise to do you good.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I only hope Jenkins is home.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We'll know in a minute.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Oh, yes, here it is five D.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Evidently he's home too. The door's partly open.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
If he's home, why doesn't he answer?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I'll knock again, Nick.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
If Alec Bristol was killed so somebody could get that letter,
and Jenkins wrote it. The fact this door is open, Mike.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Mean, yeah, yes, Patsy, If Mike mean the killer got
here first, let's go in, right, nobody here?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, but look at this room. It's been turned upside down.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
It's been thoroughly searched, all right, but for what all
those papers on the floor.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, hm.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
There's a Social Security card made out to William Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And here's a letter post marks Chicago, which now would
a minute hurt his word.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Here's an Illinois Shauffer's license and look.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
At the picture on it.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Why, that's the first Alec Bristol, the man they found
in the river. Right, So William Jenkins was going to
pass himself off as Alec Bristol.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Obviously, And that brings up a very interesting point. What
don't you see, Patsy. This whole thing was planned months
in advance, so the amputation and the tattoo would have
time to heal. Of course, and last week the real
Alec Bristol wrote to Hammon and the deal was off.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That must have been a blow to Jenkins.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, but how did Jenkins know about the letter. And
another thing, The tattoo on Jenkins's thumb included the final detail,
the shield in the cobra's mouth.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
How could Jenkins have known about that?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
So the other impostor knew about it because he was
a friend of Bristol.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Jenkins wasn't Bristol looked at Jenkins's body and swore you
never seen him before. And no one else knew of
that shield except Davison, Hammond and me.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Do you think Davison and Jenkins were working together?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Not Davison, Patsy, Hammond and Jenkins, Hammond and Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
But by Nick, what would Hammond get out of it?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
If Alec Bristol weren't found by the end of this month,
Hammond would have to turn the estate over to Davison, naturally,
But if a fake Alec Bristol turned up, Hammond could
turn the estate over to him. Then he and Hammond
could divide three million dollars between them.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Of course, all Hammond.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Had to do is to find someone who answered the
general description, then arranged for the missing finger in the tattool.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But Nick, you haven't any proof, none at all.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
That's what We've got to find, something to show that
there was a connection between Hammond and Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
There might be something here in Jenkins's apartment, if Hammond
has already found it and destroyed it.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
From the looks of this room, I should say the
chances are good that he has it.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Is a closet or something over here. Maybe he overlooked that.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Okay, you take a look in there while I go
through these papers. More cavil Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Don't reach for your gun cutter unless you want the
young lady to die here Silver's boon.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I'm holding a knife at your back. Don't struggle, Petsy,
you heard her.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
I won't as long as you both do as I say. Okay, first,
toss your revolver over here.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
There.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
You are good. You're a sensible man.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh you were hiding in that closet all the time.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Uh, I had to.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
I came here to destroy the receipt for that registered letter,
Jenkins said to Alec.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
And before I could leave, you two arrived. What was
in that letter happened the whole story just as you
figured it out.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
And when I told Jenkins that the real Alec Bristol
had turned up and our deal was off, he threatened
to get even with me by telling Alec about it,
so I had to get rid of him.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
But you didn't know that Jenkins had already written Aleck
until Alec faced you with.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
A letter, and then you had to kill him too.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
That it quite right, mister Carter. Nobody saw me enter
the house or leave it afterwards, and when I came
back you were just arriving. It gave me the perfect alibi.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Well, well, what's next.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Don't think you can kill us too, not both of us,
of course not. I have enough cash hidden away to
get me out of the.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Country, and you're not going to say a word to
the authorities until I'm safely gone.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You save awfully sure of it.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I am, because I'm taking the young lady here with me, Hammond,
you can't take her if I leave her, Carter.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
I'll leave her dead, I promise you.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Then I'll get into the bedroom, Carter, I'm going to
lock you in there before I leave. You can't.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
You can't help him help miss Bullet and Carter.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
If I hear you trying to break out her call
for help before we're out of the building, I'll shove
this knife right through Miss Bowen's back.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Locked in the bedroom of William Jenkins's flat lick.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Hears Hammond leave with Patsy, and he knows that Hammond
won't hesitate to kill her if any attempt is made
at a rescue. We'll find out what happens in just
a moment. Now for the conclusion of the case of
the Tattooed Cobra, Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to
you my new post war old Dutch cleanser. Patsy slowly
(23:00):
down the stairs and out the front door of the
gloomy old tenement, conscious of the knife pressed against her
back and of the man who's ready to use it
if she attempts to break away, and on his tips and.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Across the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You're you're not going to kill me, are you?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I'm afraid I have to Oh please, m drop it.
You're breaking my arm. Crop it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Better?
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Why Patchy pick it up?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Got my gun off his pocket?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Here, Nick, But where did you, I mean how.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
When he locked me in the bedroom he overlook the
fact that the bedroom window opened on the fire escape
running down the front of the building.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
So I climbed down the.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Fire escape and waited on the first floor platform until
you walked across beneath me.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Then I jumped him.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
He was going to kill me.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Killing days are over by the nearest police call box, Bessy.
We'll hold him here until the police arrive.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So George Davison will get the estate after all.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yeah, he's the only relative left now, Nick, There's.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
One thing I still want to know. What if Hammond
planned to bring in a phony heir, why do you
try to hire you to find the real one?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Self protection, Patsy.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You see, if Alex Bristol really were alive, Hammond wanted
to know it before he went ahead.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
With the scheme.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, I can see that it would have been disastrous
for the real head to show up after Hammond had
produced a false one.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yes, Hammon might have got away with the first.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Murder because Davison seemed to be the only person with
a motor port.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
But one killing led to another.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Uh huh, and that led to me. I suppose he
figured the state could only make him pay for one murder,
no matter how many he committed.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Yes, but when Hammond goes to the chair, he'll find
that once is plenty.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Nick Carter mastered it effective is presented each week at
this time by the cut a heat Packing Company. It
is produced and directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
By Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Ed Latimer plays Matty.
Today's script was written by Jim Parsons. Original music is
played by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any
resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
This is Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count, use new
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