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Nick Carter investigates the case of a medium who is afraid of ghosts during the day and finds a corpse with an unwritten letter.
Original Air Date: July 29, 1945
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Nick Carter investigates the case of a medium who is afraid of ghosts during the day and finds a corpse with an unwritten letter.
Original Air Date: July 29, 1945
Remember the name http://johnnydollarair.com when you plan your travel.
Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net
Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (01:43):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter
The Case of the Unwritten Letter, The.
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Today's exciting case The Unwritten Letter, another exciting chapter dramatized
from the life story of Nick Cotter. In just a moment,
we'll hear how Nick Carter investigated the strange murder of
a man who died with a blank letter in his hand,
and captured a killer through an interview with a corpse.
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case from the life of Nick Carter. Breakfast is over
in the old Brownstone mansion at the corner of Fifth
and Fourth and Pat's seeing Nick or on their way
into the master detective study to begin the morning's work,
when suddenly, oh bother.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I might have known there wouldn't be any peace today.
Just we needed Nick Carter's office.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Miss Bowen, Sergeant Mattheson, I hope.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is a social cause, Sergeant, We've got a whole
morning's work ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, asked Nick, if you'd like to be interrupted me?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Sergeant Mathison wants a movie like I have your work interrupted?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Ask him for what?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
For what?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Sergeant, I don't think Nichol said over anything less than murder?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Ask him how I'd like to be haunted this morning?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Hated?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
That sounds interesting? Tell the porne Hello Manny Aha, gotcha? Hey, Nick,
I's all this about haunts. Some dame call up this
morning from an old law filling down on the village
twenty three Blaine Street.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
She claims she's being hotter. Not at night, mind you,
but during the day.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Ah, daytime goods. That's a new one.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, she claims they rumble at her all day long.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm just on my way down there.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
You want to come along or spooks that rumble by day?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
You bet ed you in front of the building in
twenty minutes, right right at your hat, Patsy and put
in the call for the car.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
You and I have a date with a ghost.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
This is a passy twenty three blinds.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Golly, what an ancient building this is? Which is Peter
Stevenson's building.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
That's Maddie coming down the street. Oh your morning, Nick,
morning Maddy going Hi. So Nick wouldn't settle for anything
less than murder?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I noticed you.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Beat me here.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I take it all back, sergeant.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Let's go in and meet the ghost who hasn't called you? Maddie.
Oh some day named Madam Syr. That's your name there
on the letterbox.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Madam Syr. Medium hell if that isn't the payoff a
medium afraid of ghosts and in the.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Daytime door's locked must be a bail button on a
Madam Sear's name plate ring its Okay, I will peace
better get in that past, Maddy. Put your shoulder against
the door.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Go shooting guncert together?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Nick, all right again, what's horse to doing? Careful, watch
out to the debris. Patsy man, money, This isn't.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Totally enough to be the color.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Said.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I wouldn't say up anything less than a murder Patsy.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
You were right as a man on these steps, and
he's been shot to death. All right, quiet everybody, please
quiet ut Maddy, I'm not ready to examine the people
(06:42):
in this building yet. And then we take him to
a room and kept there.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Right York, get him out of here. Listen, all right,
all of you get on, all right.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I just followed it there, follow you, okay, Nick, watch
the score. I shut this man's pockets. His name is
Joe Kane addrest and business unspecified. We shot through the
chest twice with a forty five caliber slug died instantly.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, what do those bruises and scratches on the face mean?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Nick Caine was killed somewhere on the stairs. He dropped
and rolled partway down.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Anything else.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Two clues, one fairly unpromising, the other there you are,
go ahead. He's got a racing sheet in his pocket,
schedule of some small race track and a town up state.
I've never heard of the place or the horse is listed.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Then again, Nick, we don't know too much about horse racing.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And the odd clue in Kine's hand was clutched a
large blue envelope right here. Apparently the reflex of death
made him hold tight. But what's hard about that one thing?
There's no address, stamp or mark on the envelope. There's
a sheet of paper inside, nothing written on it.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Well, for the love a piece.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Envelope without an address, the letter was nothing written on it.
But what does that mean?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Wish I knew. I've got a hunch. If we could
answer that question, we'd know who killed Joe Cain and why? Well,
we know what, Nick, It's got to be one of
the people in this building. We cover the front door.
No one came out while we were going in. That's right,
We've already checked the roof.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
It's sealed shut.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
No one went out that way, and the back door
is boldered on the inside, the windows all barred with
heavy grats. The killer's got to be one of the
people inside. Good work matting. What about them? Well, there
are three floors in this billin. Each one is occupied.
The first floor Madame Cyr, the ghost, fear.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
And medium, the one who called you yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
The second floor a guy named Charles Dower. Business has
yet unspecified. The top floor is how Trask. He's a printer, Madam,
Sir Charles Dower how Trash. Right, makes three plus the
janitor guy named Olsen, who was sweeping around the upper stairs.
I see. All right, let's go in and have a
talk with them, and York Scot him and Madame Cyr's studio.
(08:52):
You're going to question them separately, Nick, no altogether, right,
Sometimes when four witnesses gel in a community store, it's
easy to break them down later individually. All right, all
right now, quiet phones, quiet, please, Oh this is Nick Carter.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
He wants to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
We've all seen the dead man as any of you
ever seen him before, seen him alive, Either you have
prayed to answer or none of you has ever seen him. Now,
which is it?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Mister Wilson and you, yes, sir, ever seen the dead
man before?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
No, I don't see much of anybody in this building, sir.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
That is right, mister Carter. We are all quiet. We
all value our privacy. None of us PRIs into these
secrets of strangers. We do not think of those who
walk the stairs. We keep to ourselves.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Adam Sair, you telephoned to complain about ghosts this morning.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
It was a revelation from the other world.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I am ashamed of my first fere. I no longer complain.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
And press a guess printerer, low, press up on the top. Four.
I never seen the dead man before, mister Carnor, I.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
See hour, Yes, hello, aren't you bad luck? Charlie Dowers
served two terms in Atlanta, a specialist in card marking
and ten horn gambling rackets. Wonder his business was unspecified. Maddy, Hey,
what a memory you got, Nick, I've forgotten dour He's
been out of circulation five years. So here we are unknown.
(10:19):
Mister Kane, murdered on the steps of this building by
one of you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Four.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
All of you claim you never saw the man before,
and I have the problem of finding which one of
you is lying, not me all right.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Quiet, quiet, well, what's the program? Nick?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
All these people that stay inside the building. I want
to search for the murder weapons, although I doubt if
you'll find it in a no rap trap like this,
stay here hidden for one hundred years.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, we'll try.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I want the squad to check the history of the
building and every person in here.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
We'll do it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Patsy and I are going to take the car and
run up to Taunton. We're back in a few hours. Right, Oh,
I got a tornon because it's the home of the
Taunton race track. Joe Caine's tip sheet with the schedule
of today's races. Maybe we can find out something about
murder there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Just no a few minutes, Nicky that Joans had taught
in half a mile.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Why have you been so loum.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
All the way up here, Nick, I've been mulling over
the case.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Patsy, I don't like him.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Why don't you like about it?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
The whole thing is a phony, ring about it.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Three crooks are semi crooks, all operating in that building,
all probably lying as hard as they can. Yes, how
did Cain get into the building or was locked when
we tried it? Either he rang one of the bells,
which means that tenants were lying, or he had a key,
which means Olsen the janitor was lying.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That's true in.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
The second place. What about that blue envelope containing an
unwritten letter. Why was Kane.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Carrying but invisible ink? Maybe secret message.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Carried so that we jumped to that obvious conclusion. No, no, no,
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Patsy, Oh, slow down. Here's Taunton. We'll go through it
before we see it.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Seems pretty quiet for a racetrack, tom m I.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Haven't seen anything faintly resembling a track.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I better ask that youngster over there, hy Sonny, Yes,
your son, come on you mina?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Will you?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Sirs?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
What's on your mind? Which way to the racetrack?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
The witch?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The racetrack, the Taunton racetrack.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I don't know what you're talking about, lady, live here
alone all my life.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Here, take a look at this.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Taunton racetrack, Handy cabriy he mister, this is some kind
of a gag. Pay no track in taunt and we
never had a race in his town. You're being taken
for an awful ride by someone.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You're telling us this is weird.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Thanks Son. Let's get back to the city, Patty. True enough,
we've been taken for a ride. Believe me, it's carried
us miles closer to the solution of this case.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Nick, I wish you'd explain. Don't act so mysterious.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I'll explain soon, Patsy.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But I want to hear now.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
He will, just as soon as I've spoken to Maddie
and ask the janitor a few questions. Here we are
twenty three Blaine. I hope Maddy's inside.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Come on, Nick, sometimes you can be so aggravating.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Rations, Patsy, come on the side, Nick, for Pea's sake.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Am I glad you're back.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I got a fresh lead, Maddy, fresh lead, fresh trouble,
that's what I got. Well, I'll learn it out as
soon as I've spoken to Wilson the janitor. Oh, since
my trouble, Nick, He's just committed suicide.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
An unwritten letter, a non existent horse race, and now
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now back to our story. A complaint about a haunted
loft building brought Nick catter Patsy and Sergeant Mathieson down
to an ancient office building in time to hear, but
not witness, the murder of Joe Caine. Curious clue to
the murder was an unwritten letter in the dead man's
hand and the racetrack program for a non existent race.
Then the janitor of the building, Sergeant Mathison, announces suddenly
(15:51):
has committed suicide. Now Nick, Patsy and the sergeant examine
the dead body. Pretty careless of you, Maddy.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Oh honest, Nick, how was I to know?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I was down in the cellar with the squad looking
for the murder gun, when all of a sudden we
hear the shot. We never thought that you'll ride the
weapon in Olson's hand. Yes, I understand if I will
get your ten. This is a gun that killed Kane.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Why should Olsen kill himself?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I probably thought we were hot on his trail. Maybe,
but I'm not so sure Olsen did kill him though?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Too pat too convenience? I worked on thousands of cases, Maddie,
I never yet had to kill I give up so easily.
But it looks legit ate. Bullet wound in the right
temple gun in the right hand. I happen to know
Olson was right handed because I saw him sweeping.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Their powder burns around the wound. The gun was fired
a close range way the by losses, though it had
fallen naturally.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Maybe, but I doubt it. I'm going to take the
gun back to my lab for a quick check. Have
a man sent over the fingerprints with the entire crowding Maddy, right, Oh,
any of those reports come in yet about the building
and the people.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
I expect him any minute.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Wait here for me when you got him, that's say,
I'll be back in half an hour. Oh and by
the way, Maddie, Yes, Nick, how much would you like
to bet that Olson never was janitor of this building?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
All right, Patsy, there you are. Every print on this gun,
dusted and brought up and all up and sharp and
clear is crystal.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Now what now, compare?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Let's have that sheet Mattie sand over here. Thanks?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 10 (17:25):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I found it already, checking to make sure.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What don't be so mysterious?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Look for yourself, Betsy. Every print on this gun belongs
to Wilson. You can't miss it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yes, I see, Nick, Will, doesn't that prove suicide?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Think hard, Betsy. What happens when you shoot a forty
five automatic?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It fires a bullet?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
And then what happens to the gun?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Lay's in your hand?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I guess gently, quietly, without a press. Oh no, no,
it kicks exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
And would you explain why Olson's prince and the gun
are sharp and clear as crystal. Obviously, if he'd held
a gun and shot himself, his prince would have been
smudged and smeared by the recoil. But they aren't, nickh
You get it now. Olson was murdered by the same
person who killed Joe Caine, and the gun was white,
clean and carefully placed in Olson's hand.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That's why the princess are clear.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh, that just mixes the case up more than ever.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Oh no, Patsy, it's becoming clearer than ever. That's hustle
back to Maddie. I only hope there haven't been any
more murders while we we're gone, all.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Right, Maddy, we're back.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Oh Nick, Hey, Nick, you're fantastic. How did you know man.
How did you know about the murder? Oh no, no
about Olson. Reports just came in. You were right, he
was lying. He wasn't the janitor of this building. The
janitor of this place is a guy up on the corner.
He takes care of this whole row of building.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And everybody in here was lying when they accepted him
as the janitor.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I don't think so. This is a dark little place,
and the real janitor probably doesn't spend more than a
few minutes a week here.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, just about. They're all pretty careless.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
A few times he was seen wasn't enough to make
an impression. So when Olson said he was a janitor,
he was accepted. But the killer, the killer was lying naturally.
They wait a minute, Nick, how did Olson get in here? Oh?
Joe Cain let him in.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Joe Cain, the dead man.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yes, when probably a few seconds before we arrived, Olson
followed Cain into the building.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Uh huh. How did Cain get in?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Pretty sure? Kane let himself in?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
How with the key?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Nick, You sound as though you got the whole business
washed up and finished. Think I'm pretty.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Close to it. You know why Cain carried that blank letter?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I do?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And about the non existent horse race.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Yes, and why Olson killed himself. He was murdered and
I think I know why?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Then?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Would he please talk? One more little test?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Many and the murderill talking person?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
What's the test?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We've got three people in Madam Sear trasped the printer
and are the gambler? Yeah, all of them claim they
don't know Joe Caine. Well, one of them's lying, and
I want to find out which how. I'm going to
make some arrangement with Patsy and then we're going to
meet around Madame Sear's crystal globe, all of us.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Holy smoke, more ghost touff, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
The body of Joe Caine is going to walk into
the room and we'll see who recognizes him.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Oh, that's silly me.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
They all saw Kane's body.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
There's a tremendous difference between recognizing a living man and
a dead body, Patsy, totally disimilar. People look identical when
they're dead. We've had hundreds of cases of husbands identifying
dead strangers as their wives in the morgue and vice versa.
It's it's true, Patsy, I see Nix BOYT. Are those
suspects who really don't know. Kine will not recognize a
living imitation after having seen the body only once, but
(20:49):
those who knew.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Him, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Let's get moving.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We'll meet the dead body at seven tonight. All right, everybody,
all right by, we've gathered together in Madame sers studio
(21:15):
for a last attempt to solve this murder.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
You do well to trust the world of the medium,
mister Carter.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
It is capable of miracles far beyond your mere earthly efforts.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Quite I've requested Sergeant Mathieson to have present the only
surviving occupants of this building. That's the Trask, that's the
Dour and Madame sr. Of course, Miss Bow and my
secretary will act his witness. Sergeant Mathison will preside, and
I'll asked the question, will you all be seated?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Please?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Everybody down, folks, come on, I presume you work best
with the crystal in the dark. Madamiseeur is correct, please
mad right, thank you, And now Madamsieur, with your help,
we will try to recreate the murder scene in the
magic crystal.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
First, there must be silence.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
And silence you shall have.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
The crystal is cloudy tonight.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
There is much antagonism. In this room, the veil can
be parted only with difficulty.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Now the clouds begin to vanish from the glass.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I see faint.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Lights, faint palms swirling in the blackness. I see a figure.
It is a man. It is the dead one. He
walks through night, followed by shadows. There is one shadow
I see with a gun.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
So I did madiicine.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I hear it again, that the spirit's talking.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Did you hear it rolling in the running of the dead.
This is what made me a telephone this morning. Never
protect me, you hear it?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Joe away, Listen, someone's coming to the door. Which is
the other world coming to us?
Speaker 10 (23:09):
In the name of heaven.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Do not do nothing in here.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
It's Joe Caine, the dead Man.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yes, Joe Cain, or I thought he was killed, and
that ladies and gentlemen winds up to say, as in
our case, lights, Please Maddy.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
No excitement, Please quiet, The show's over, said madam.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Please be car It's not Joe Caine, mainly an actor
appropriately costumed, gun made up.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
They both recognized him. They were both flying Madam Syr
Mister Dr Prass never batter than eyelash.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
She told the truth, Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Patsy, And I might add it's because mister hall Trast
told the truth about not knowing Joe Caine that he'll
be executed.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
For his murder.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He'll know you don't brother, never cry, mister Trask, I
go an unusual record.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yes, Patsy, you were right. Trass told the truth. He
did not know Crane and Madam Cyr lied they knew him.
They'd seen him in the building frequently, but they didn't
know he ran the.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Globe print shop upstairs. We figured it'd be better to
say we never saw him before. Naturally, both of you
are afraid of the police. Try to keep clear of murder.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
By line, you didn't know that Joe Kane's racket was
printing forenty programs of non existent horse races, and that
I used these to induce innocent victims to book bets
with him, bets which he pocketed and disappeared with.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
You, all right, Connor Caine had a hot racket. We
heard about the door he was making. It was a
good thing, so.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Good that you and Osen decided to come up and
acquire a piece of his money, a big piece. Only
Olsen acquired nothing but death. And you've acquired a one
way trip to the chair.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
In just a few minutes, Nick will be back to
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from Nick Carter himself. Nick, I understand the motive for
Joe Kine's murder, But what about that unwritten letter?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
We'll get the picture again. Trask and Osen decided to
rob Joe Kine. They'd heard he was making a fortune
out of his racetrack fraud, and they wanted a piece
of it. But neither of them knew him. Though obviously,
they couldn't take a chance of Kin arriving in his
office while they were rifling the place, so Olson remained
downstairs to.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Watch while Trask went up to rob.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
But how could Olsen watch for Kaine if he didn't
know him.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
By a simple thugs trick, he placed a large blue
envelope in the Globe print Shop letterbox. All he had
to do was watch that.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
He knew whoever took the blue envelope out of.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
The letterbox would be Joe Kine.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
That's clever enough.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
When Kane arrived and picked up his letter, Olsen quickly
followed him into the building, first signaling upstairs on the
buzzer to Trask. Olsen followed and case Trask couldn't get
away in time, inevidently he couldn't write. Cain saw Trask
leaving his office, he pulled a gun, the forty five automatic.
Olsen closed in from behind. Cain was killed and rolled
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down the steps. I doubt if Trask ever got a
really good look at Kane. Then as we pounded on
the door below, they thought quickly. Trask pretended to be
the proprietor of the print shop. Olson grabbed a broom
and played janitor Golley. But later Trask realized Olson's pose
would be uncovered, so the first chance he had he
murdered his partner to keep him quiet. He tried to
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get rid of the gun by planning it as a
suicide weapon.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
But how about the ghost that Adam Sea thought she heard?
We heard them too, when he kidded her into staging
a seance.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Well, that's the strangest thing about the case.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
If it hadn't been for Madam sears ghost, we'd never
have entered the case and never have broken it. And
if it hadn't for the ghosts, there wouldn't have been
a case in the first place. Why not, Because Madame
Sears's ghost was a distant rumble of a new printing
machine Joe Caine had just had installed so we could
print more of his phony race sheets. I had an
officer turn it on to haunt seance.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, Nick, I hope you have as exciting as story
for us next week. What's it going to be?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, Can? Next week we're going to meet the champion
apple pie maker of the East, who, fortunately for me,
also happens to be an old friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
She came to complain that her landlord papered her walls
without her permission.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Unfortunately, when we arrived, we discovered that the paperhanger had
not only hung the wallpaper, he'd hung himself.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Sounds like a strange story. What do you call it?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Nick? The case of the Hanging Paperhanger? And now an
important message from Nick Connor. Remember what happened after World
War One, the inflation and the boom period, then the
crash and the worst depression has ever known.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Let's not permit that to happen again.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Let's resolve to buy only what we need, paying ration
points in full, paying no more than sealing price. Let's
resolve not to profiteer on our own services or produce,
and let's buy and keep war bonds to protect America's
future and our own.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Nick Carter Master Detective is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated.
Lon Clark is starred as Nick. Charlotte Manson plays Patsy.
Original music is played by George Wright. Any resemblance in
these programs to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
The entire production is under the direction of Jack McGregor.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
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Speaker 11 (30:42):
This is the mutual Broadcasting system.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Welcome back. Well, I like this episode. If nothing else,
it really got your thing in with all the clothes,
the medium, scared of ghosts, the unwritten letter, the uh
race which wasn't the janitor that wasn't so much stuff,
just a lot of fun in this episode.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Well, on to some listener comments and feedback. Brian had
a comment on the Haunted rocking Chair. He says, I
was disappointed with the ghost rocking chair episode. I totally
agree you're with your comments after that episode, I was
looking forward to it. The explanation of a cat rocking
the chair was so bad. I definitely agree. And I
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like this one too because the explanation here that it
was the printing press really ties into the solution, so
it really just kind of compleats the circle. This one
was just really nicely done. So I hope that you
enjoyed this. All right, Well, that will do it for today.
(32:05):
We will be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar,
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All right.
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Well, now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter
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into the master detective study to begin the morning's work,
when suddenly, oh bother.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I might have known there wouldn't be any peace today.
Just we needed Nick Carter's office.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Miss Bowen, Sergeant Mattheson, I hope.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is a social cause, Sergeant, We've got a whole
morning's work ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, asked Nick, if you'd like to be interrupted me?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Sergeant Mathison wants a movie like I have your work interrupted?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Ask him for what?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
For what?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Sergeant, I don't think Nichol said over anything less than murder?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Ask him how I'd like to be haunted this morning?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Hated?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
That sounds interesting? Tell the porne Hello Manny Aha, gotcha? Hey, Nick,
I's all this about haunts. Some dame call up this
morning from an old law filling down on the village
twenty three Blaine Street.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
She claims she's being hotter. Not at night, mind you,
but during the day.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Ah, daytime goods. That's a new one.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, she claims they rumble at her all day long.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm just on my way down there.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
You want to come along or spooks that rumble by day?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
You bet ed you in front of the building in
twenty minutes, right right at your hat, Patsy and put
in the call for the car.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
You and I have a date with a ghost.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
This is a passy twenty three blinds.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Golly, what an ancient building this is? Which is Peter
Stevenson's building.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
That's Maddie coming down the street. Oh your morning, Nick,
morning Maddy going Hi. So Nick wouldn't settle for anything
less than murder?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I noticed you.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Beat me here.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I take it all back, sergeant.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Let's go in and meet the ghost who hasn't called you? Maddie.
Oh some day named Madam Syr. That's your name there
on the letterbox.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Madam Syr. Medium hell if that isn't the payoff a
medium afraid of ghosts and in the.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Daytime door's locked must be a bail button on a
Madam Sear's name plate ring its Okay, I will peace
better get in that past, Maddy. Put your shoulder against
the door.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Go shooting guncert together?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Nick, all right again, what's horse to doing? Careful, watch
out to the debris. Patsy man, money, This isn't.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Totally enough to be the color.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Said.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I wouldn't say up anything less than a murder Patsy.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
You were right as a man on these steps, and
he's been shot to death. All right, quiet everybody, please
quiet ut Maddy, I'm not ready to examine the people
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in this building yet. And then we take him to
a room and kept there.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Right York, get him out of here. Listen, all right,
all of you get on, all right.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I just followed it there, follow you, okay, Nick, watch
the score. I shut this man's pockets. His name is
Joe Kane addrest and business unspecified. We shot through the
chest twice with a forty five caliber slug died instantly.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, what do those bruises and scratches on the face mean?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Nick Caine was killed somewhere on the stairs. He dropped
and rolled partway down.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Anything else.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Two clues, one fairly unpromising, the other there you are,
go ahead. He's got a racing sheet in his pocket,
schedule of some small race track and a town up state.
I've never heard of the place or the horse is listed.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Then again, Nick, we don't know too much about horse racing.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And the odd clue in Kine's hand was clutched a
large blue envelope right here. Apparently the reflex of death
made him hold tight. But what's hard about that one thing?
There's no address, stamp or mark on the envelope. There's
a sheet of paper inside, nothing written on it.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Well, for the love a piece.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Envelope without an address, the letter was nothing written on it.
But what does that mean?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Wish I knew. I've got a hunch. If we could
answer that question, we'd know who killed Joe Cain and why? Well,
we know what, Nick, It's got to be one of
the people in this building. We cover the front door.
No one came out while we were going in. That's right,
We've already checked the roof.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
It's sealed shut.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
No one went out that way, and the back door
is boldered on the inside, the windows all barred with
heavy grats. The killer's got to be one of the
people inside. Good work matting. What about them? Well, there
are three floors in this billin. Each one is occupied.
The first floor Madame Cyr, the ghost, fear.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
And medium, the one who called you yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
The second floor a guy named Charles Dower. Business has
yet unspecified. The top floor is how Trask. He's a printer, Madam,
Sir Charles Dower how Trash. Right, makes three plus the
janitor guy named Olsen, who was sweeping around the upper stairs.
I see. All right, let's go in and have a
talk with them, and York Scot him and Madame Cyr's studio.
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You're going to question them separately, Nick, no altogether, right,
Sometimes when four witnesses gel in a community store, it's
easy to break them down later individually. All right, all
right now, quiet phones, quiet, please, Oh this is Nick Carter.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
He wants to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
We've all seen the dead man as any of you
ever seen him before, seen him alive, Either you have
prayed to answer or none of you has ever seen him. Now,
which is it?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Mister Wilson and you, yes, sir, ever seen the dead
man before?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
No, I don't see much of anybody in this building, sir.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
That is right, mister Carter. We are all quiet. We
all value our privacy. None of us PRIs into these
secrets of strangers. We do not think of those who
walk the stairs. We keep to ourselves.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Adam Sair, you telephoned to complain about ghosts this morning.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
It was a revelation from the other world.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I am ashamed of my first fere. I no longer complain.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
And press a guess printerer, low, press up on the top. Four.
I never seen the dead man before, mister Carnor, I.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
See hour, Yes, hello, aren't you bad luck? Charlie Dowers
served two terms in Atlanta, a specialist in card marking
and ten horn gambling rackets. Wonder his business was unspecified. Maddy, Hey,
what a memory you got, Nick, I've forgotten dour He's
been out of circulation five years. So here we are unknown.
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Mister Kane, murdered on the steps of this building by
one of you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Four.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
All of you claim you never saw the man before,
and I have the problem of finding which one of
you is lying, not me all right.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Quiet, quiet, well, what's the program? Nick?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
All these people that stay inside the building. I want
to search for the murder weapons, although I doubt if
you'll find it in a no rap trap like this,
stay here hidden for one hundred years.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, we'll try.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I want the squad to check the history of the
building and every person in here.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
We'll do it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Patsy and I are going to take the car and
run up to Taunton. We're back in a few hours. Right, Oh,
I got a tornon because it's the home of the
Taunton race track. Joe Caine's tip sheet with the schedule
of today's races. Maybe we can find out something about
murder there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Just no a few minutes, Nicky that Joans had taught
in half a mile.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Why have you been so loum.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
All the way up here, Nick, I've been mulling over
the case.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Patsy, I don't like him.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Why don't you like about it?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
The whole thing is a phony, ring about it.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Three crooks are semi crooks, all operating in that building,
all probably lying as hard as they can. Yes, how
did Cain get into the building or was locked when
we tried it? Either he rang one of the bells,
which means that tenants were lying, or he had a key,
which means Olsen the janitor was lying.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That's true in.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
The second place. What about that blue envelope containing an
unwritten letter. Why was Kane.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Carrying but invisible ink? Maybe secret message.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Carried so that we jumped to that obvious conclusion. No, no, no,
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Patsy, Oh, slow down. Here's Taunton. We'll go through it
before we see it.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Seems pretty quiet for a racetrack, tom m I.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Haven't seen anything faintly resembling a track.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I better ask that youngster over there, hy Sonny, Yes,
your son, come on you mina?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Will you?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Sirs?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
What's on your mind? Which way to the racetrack?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
The witch?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The racetrack, the Taunton racetrack.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I don't know what you're talking about, lady, live here
alone all my life.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Here, take a look at this.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Taunton racetrack, Handy cabriy he mister, this is some kind
of a gag. Pay no track in taunt and we
never had a race in his town. You're being taken
for an awful ride by someone.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You're telling us this is weird.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Thanks Son. Let's get back to the city, Patty. True enough,
we've been taken for a ride. Believe me, it's carried
us miles closer to the solution of this case.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Nick, I wish you'd explain. Don't act so mysterious.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I'll explain soon, Patsy.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But I want to hear now.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
He will, just as soon as I've spoken to Maddie
and ask the janitor a few questions. Here we are
twenty three Blaine. I hope Maddy's inside.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Come on, Nick, sometimes you can be so aggravating.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Rations, Patsy, come on the side, Nick, for Pea's sake.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Am I glad you're back.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I got a fresh lead, Maddy, fresh lead, fresh trouble,
that's what I got. Well, I'll learn it out as
soon as I've spoken to Wilson the janitor. Oh, since
my trouble, Nick, He's just committed suicide.
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now back to our story. A complaint about a haunted
loft building brought Nick catter Patsy and Sergeant Mathieson down
to an ancient office building in time to hear, but
not witness, the murder of Joe Caine. Curious clue to
the murder was an unwritten letter in the dead man's
hand and the racetrack program for a non existent race.
Then the janitor of the building, Sergeant Mathison, announces suddenly
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has committed suicide. Now Nick, Patsy and the sergeant examine
the dead body. Pretty careless of you, Maddy.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Oh honest, Nick, how was I to know?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I was down in the cellar with the squad looking
for the murder gun, when all of a sudden we
hear the shot. We never thought that you'll ride the
weapon in Olson's hand. Yes, I understand if I will
get your ten. This is a gun that killed Kane.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Why should Olsen kill himself?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I probably thought we were hot on his trail. Maybe,
but I'm not so sure Olsen did kill him though?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Too pat too convenience? I worked on thousands of cases, Maddie,
I never yet had to kill I give up so easily.
But it looks legit ate. Bullet wound in the right
temple gun in the right hand. I happen to know
Olson was right handed because I saw him sweeping.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Their powder burns around the wound. The gun was fired
a close range way the by losses, though it had
fallen naturally.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Maybe, but I doubt it. I'm going to take the
gun back to my lab for a quick check. Have
a man sent over the fingerprints with the entire crowding Maddy, right, Oh,
any of those reports come in yet about the building
and the people.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
I expect him any minute.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Wait here for me when you got him, that's say,
I'll be back in half an hour. Oh and by
the way, Maddie, Yes, Nick, how much would you like
to bet that Olson never was janitor of this building?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
All right, Patsy, there you are. Every print on this gun,
dusted and brought up and all up and sharp and
clear is crystal.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Now what now, compare?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Let's have that sheet Mattie sand over here. Thanks?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 10 (17:25):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I found it already, checking to make sure.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What don't be so mysterious?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Look for yourself, Betsy. Every print on this gun belongs
to Wilson. You can't miss it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yes, I see, Nick, Will, doesn't that prove suicide?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Think hard, Betsy. What happens when you shoot a forty
five automatic?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It fires a bullet?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
And then what happens to the gun?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Lay's in your hand?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I guess gently, quietly, without a press. Oh no, no,
it kicks exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
And would you explain why Olson's prince and the gun
are sharp and clear as crystal. Obviously, if he'd held
a gun and shot himself, his prince would have been
smudged and smeared by the recoil. But they aren't, nickh
You get it now. Olson was murdered by the same
person who killed Joe Caine, and the gun was white,
clean and carefully placed in Olson's hand.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That's why the princess are clear.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh, that just mixes the case up more than ever.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Oh no, Patsy, it's becoming clearer than ever. That's hustle
back to Maddie. I only hope there haven't been any
more murders while we we're gone, all.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Right, Maddy, we're back.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Oh Nick, Hey, Nick, you're fantastic. How did you know man.
How did you know about the murder? Oh no, no
about Olson. Reports just came in. You were right, he
was lying. He wasn't the janitor of this building. The
janitor of this place is a guy up on the corner.
He takes care of this whole row of building.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And everybody in here was lying when they accepted him
as the janitor.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I don't think so. This is a dark little place,
and the real janitor probably doesn't spend more than a
few minutes a week here.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, just about. They're all pretty careless.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
A few times he was seen wasn't enough to make
an impression. So when Olson said he was a janitor,
he was accepted. But the killer, the killer was lying naturally.
They wait a minute, Nick, how did Olson get in here? Oh?
Joe Cain let him in.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Joe Cain, the dead man.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yes, when probably a few seconds before we arrived, Olson
followed Cain into the building.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Uh huh. How did Cain get in?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Pretty sure? Kane let himself in?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
How with the key?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Nick, You sound as though you got the whole business
washed up and finished. Think I'm pretty.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Close to it. You know why Cain carried that blank letter?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I do?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And about the non existent horse race.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Yes, and why Olson killed himself. He was murdered and
I think I know why?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Then?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Would he please talk? One more little test?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Many and the murderill talking person?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
What's the test?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We've got three people in Madam Sear trasped the printer
and are the gambler? Yeah, all of them claim they
don't know Joe Caine. Well, one of them's lying, and
I want to find out which how. I'm going to
make some arrangement with Patsy and then we're going to
meet around Madame Sear's crystal globe, all of us.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Holy smoke, more ghost touff, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
The body of Joe Caine is going to walk into
the room and we'll see who recognizes him.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Oh, that's silly me.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
They all saw Kane's body.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
There's a tremendous difference between recognizing a living man and
a dead body, Patsy, totally disimilar. People look identical when
they're dead. We've had hundreds of cases of husbands identifying
dead strangers as their wives in the morgue and vice versa.
It's it's true, Patsy, I see Nix BOYT. Are those
suspects who really don't know. Kine will not recognize a
living imitation after having seen the body only once, but
(20:49):
those who knew.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Him, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Let's get moving.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We'll meet the dead body at seven tonight. All right, everybody,
all right by, we've gathered together in Madame sers studio
(21:15):
for a last attempt to solve this murder.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
You do well to trust the world of the medium,
mister Carter.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
It is capable of miracles far beyond your mere earthly efforts.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Quite I've requested Sergeant Mathieson to have present the only
surviving occupants of this building. That's the Trask, that's the
Dour and Madame sr. Of course, Miss Bow and my
secretary will act his witness. Sergeant Mathison will preside, and
I'll asked the question, will you all be seated?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Please?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Everybody down, folks, come on, I presume you work best
with the crystal in the dark. Madamiseeur is correct, please
mad right, thank you, And now Madamsieur, with your help,
we will try to recreate the murder scene in the
magic crystal.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
First, there must be silence.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
And silence you shall have.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
The crystal is cloudy tonight.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
There is much antagonism. In this room, the veil can
be parted only with difficulty.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Now the clouds begin to vanish from the glass.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I see faint.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Lights, faint palms swirling in the blackness. I see a figure.
It is a man. It is the dead one. He
walks through night, followed by shadows. There is one shadow
I see with a gun.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
So I did madiicine.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I hear it again, that the spirit's talking.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Did you hear it rolling in the running of the dead.
This is what made me a telephone this morning. Never
protect me, you hear it?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Joe away, Listen, someone's coming to the door. Which is
the other world coming to us?
Speaker 10 (23:09):
In the name of heaven.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Do not do nothing in here.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
It's Joe Caine, the dead Man.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yes, Joe Cain, or I thought he was killed, and
that ladies and gentlemen winds up to say, as in
our case, lights, Please Maddy.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
No excitement, Please quiet, The show's over, said madam.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Please be car It's not Joe Caine, mainly an actor
appropriately costumed, gun made up.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
They both recognized him. They were both flying Madam Syr
Mister Dr Prass never batter than eyelash.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
She told the truth, Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Patsy, And I might add it's because mister hall Trast
told the truth about not knowing Joe Caine that he'll
be executed.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
For his murder.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He'll know you don't brother, never cry, mister Trask, I
go an unusual record.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yes, Patsy, you were right. Trass told the truth. He
did not know Crane and Madam Cyr lied they knew him.
They'd seen him in the building frequently, but they didn't
know he ran the.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Globe print shop upstairs. We figured it'd be better to
say we never saw him before. Naturally, both of you
are afraid of the police. Try to keep clear of murder.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
By line, you didn't know that Joe Kane's racket was
printing forenty programs of non existent horse races, and that
I used these to induce innocent victims to book bets
with him, bets which he pocketed and disappeared with.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
You, all right, Connor Caine had a hot racket. We
heard about the door he was making. It was a
good thing, so.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Good that you and Osen decided to come up and
acquire a piece of his money, a big piece. Only
Olsen acquired nothing but death. And you've acquired a one
way trip to the chair.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
In just a few minutes, Nick will be back to
give you the final details of today's story and tell
you why the murdered man carried an unwritten letter. Dust,
finger marks, and accumulated polish all are likely to make
furniture look dull and cloudy, so naturally, the first step
in furniture cares to remove thatdiness and then give your
furniture a beauty treatment with the finest polish you can find.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Linux cream Polish for fine furniture does the whole job
at once. Yes, that's right, Linux cream polish cleans as
it polishes. That means you cut the job in two
save half the time, half the work.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
That's why so many.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Thousands of modern American women are swinging to Linux cream polish,
which cares for household things the easy way. See that
your fine furniture keeps its good looks with Linux cream polish,
which restores its original gleaming beauty in one simple process.
Because Linux cream polish dries hard, it even cuts down
(25:40):
future work, for it leaves no oil on the surface
to attract more dust. So make it a point to
use Linux cream polish, which cleans as it polishes. You
will find all three great LINEX Home Brightness, Linux Cream Polish,
LINEX Self Polishing Wax and Linux Clear Gloss, the longer
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(26:01):
stores everywhere. And remember that your dealer is headquarters. Also
for Kem Tone, the miracle wall finish that brings quick
new sparkle to walls and ceilings. Kem Tone covers in
one coat, dries in one hour. And now let's hear
(26:21):
from Nick Carter himself. Nick, I understand the motive for
Joe Kine's murder, But what about that unwritten letter?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
We'll get the picture again. Trask and Osen decided to
rob Joe Kine. They'd heard he was making a fortune
out of his racetrack fraud, and they wanted a piece
of it. But neither of them knew him. Though obviously,
they couldn't take a chance of Kin arriving in his
office while they were rifling the place, so Olson remained
downstairs to.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Watch while Trask went up to rob.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
But how could Olsen watch for Kaine if he didn't
know him.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
By a simple thugs trick, he placed a large blue
envelope in the Globe print Shop letterbox. All he had
to do was watch that.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
He knew whoever took the blue envelope out of.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
The letterbox would be Joe Kine.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
That's clever enough.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
When Kane arrived and picked up his letter, Olsen quickly
followed him into the building, first signaling upstairs on the
buzzer to Trask. Olsen followed and case Trask couldn't get
away in time, inevidently he couldn't write. Cain saw Trask
leaving his office, he pulled a gun, the forty five automatic.
Olsen closed in from behind. Cain was killed and rolled
(27:22):
down the steps. I doubt if Trask ever got a
really good look at Kane. Then as we pounded on
the door below, they thought quickly. Trask pretended to be
the proprietor of the print shop. Olson grabbed a broom
and played janitor Golley. But later Trask realized Olson's pose
would be uncovered, so the first chance he had he
murdered his partner to keep him quiet. He tried to
(27:43):
get rid of the gun by planning it as a
suicide weapon.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
But how about the ghost that Adam Sea thought she heard?
We heard them too, when he kidded her into staging
a seance.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Well, that's the strangest thing about the case.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
If it hadn't been for Madam sears ghost, we'd never
have entered the case and never have broken it. And
if it hadn't for the ghosts, there wouldn't have been
a case in the first place. Why not, Because Madame
Sears's ghost was a distant rumble of a new printing
machine Joe Caine had just had installed so we could
print more of his phony race sheets. I had an
officer turn it on to haunt seance.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, Nick, I hope you have as exciting as story
for us next week. What's it going to be?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, Can? Next week we're going to meet the champion
apple pie maker of the East, who, fortunately for me,
also happens to be an old friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
She came to complain that her landlord papered her walls
without her permission.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Unfortunately, when we arrived, we discovered that the paperhanger had
not only hung the wallpaper, he'd hung himself.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Sounds like a strange story. What do you call it?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Nick? The case of the Hanging Paperhanger? And now an
important message from Nick Connor. Remember what happened after World
War One, the inflation and the boom period, then the
crash and the worst depression has ever known.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Let's not permit that to happen again.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Let's resolve to buy only what we need, paying ration
points in full, paying no more than sealing price. Let's
resolve not to profiteer on our own services or produce,
and let's buy and keep war bonds to protect America's
future and our own.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Nick Carter Master Detective is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated.
Lon Clark is starred as Nick. Charlotte Manson plays Patsy.
Original music is played by George Wright. Any resemblance in
these programs to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
The entire production is under the direction of Jack McGregor.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Nick car Her Master Detective is presented at this time
and over these same stations each week by the three
great Linux Home Brightness, Linux Self Polishing, Wax, Linux Cream Polish,
and Linux Cleared Glass created by ACME, America's great producer
of ACME Fine Quality Paints. This is Ken Paul speaking
(30:20):
for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America and
saying so long until next week.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
This is the mutual Broadcasting system.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Welcome back. Well, I like this episode. If nothing else,
it really got your thing in with all the clothes,
the medium, scared of ghosts, the unwritten letter, the uh
race which wasn't the janitor that wasn't so much stuff,
just a lot of fun in this episode.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Well, on to some listener comments and feedback. Brian had
a comment on the Haunted rocking Chair. He says, I
was disappointed with the ghost rocking chair episode. I totally
agree you're with your comments after that episode, I was
looking forward to it. The explanation of a cat rocking
the chair was so bad. I definitely agree. And I
(31:45):
like this one too because the explanation here that it
was the printing press really ties into the solution, so
it really just kind of compleats the circle. This one
was just really nicely done. So I hope that you
enjoyed this. All right, Well, that will do it for today.
(32:05):
We will be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar,
and join us back here next Thursday for another episode
of Nick Carter. In the meantime, send your comments to
Box thirteen at Great Detectives Dot net, follow us on Twitter,
Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook,
dot Com, Slash Radiodatactives from Boiseadaho. This is your host,
(32:27):
Adam Graham signing off.
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