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A guard at a museum is murdered and a valuable piece is stolen from the museum.
Original Air Date: May 27, 1945
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A guard at a museum is murdered and a valuable piece is stolen from the museum.
Original Air Date: May 27, 1945
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well, now we're going to bringyou another episode of Nick Carter that
was previously uncirculated. The original airdateon this one is May twenty seventh of
nineteen forty five, and this oneis The Museum Tragedy, The Linux Show
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starring Nick Carter, Master Detective,resented by ACME, America's great producer of
fine quality paints. This is thestory of a man known the world over
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as one of the most daring andresourceful characters in the history of detective fiction.
A man whose name has become asymbol of the triumph of right and
justice over the sinister forces of crimeand lawlessness. A man recognized as one
of the great masters of deduction.Nick Carter, Master Detective. Today's curious
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case, The Museum Tragedy, anotherexciting chapter dramatized from the life story of
Nick Carter. In just a moment, we'll hear how Nick Carter discovered the
solution to the mystery of the ShatteredWatch and learned the secret of how and
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now for today's strange case from thelife of Nick Carter. As we pick
up Nick and Patsy for today's story, we find them a Knicks car on
their way home. This is afine time to be getting home, Nick,
three o'clock in the morning. I'msorry, Patsy, I could have
got away any sooner, I wouldhave. You know how police chiefs are
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when I get talking the chief Bronsonwas no exception. Also, I thought
he was going over every case he'dever been up against. You know what
I think? No, but I'mhappy to know that you're doing. This
is no hour for FuMB jokes.New all right, fancy what do you
think. I think that Bronson wasjust trying to get a free course in
how to catch criminals according to themost up to date methods. He practically
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pumped you dry. No, Iknow it. There are times when you
can ye. I hope you haveyour police badge with you. This as
though we were pinched for speeding.Don't worry until you have to. Hey
you, yes, what's up?I was any trouble? Oh, I'll
say so. Could you stop atthe next telephone down the street and call
police headquarters. Tell them the centilmanup right away. What's the matter?
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The night watchman in the museum hasbeen murdered. Not Sam Hildred. Yeah
you know him, say I do. I've done him for years. How
did it happen? Must have beenshot by a burglar. I tried to
call headquarters from the museum, butthe cook cut the wires and I can't
use the phone. Will you putin a call for me? Certainly?
That's it. Take the carn't finda phone. Tell whoever's in charge to
send some men up here at once? Are you going to stay here?
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Yes? Maybe I can do somethingbefore they get here. Where we get
on the trailer better? She calledyou Nick? You ain't Nick Carter?
Are you? Yes? I amglory by. That's a break for sure.
Come inside, mister Carter and seeif you can help me find any
good clothes. I didn't take timeto look. Be right with you?
All right? That's a good join. Right, we'll have to go on
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the back door. Everything else islocked up. Okay. What's your name
of it? Bert, mister Carter? Or how'd you happen to find him?
Bert? Well? You see,this is my beat. I'm on
the park detail. When I getthrough at two o'clock, I generally stop
in and have a cup of teawith Sam Hildren, And that's what I
did tonight. Sam wasn't in hisoffice, so I waited for him,
thinking he was making his ROMs maybe, But when he didn't show up after
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about a half hour, I wentto look for him, and after I
looked about fifteen minutes, I foundhim with three bullet holes in him.
Three bullet holes. Yes, somebodyhad it in for him, all right?
Anything else? I looked around butcouldn't find a soul. The place
was deserted, and I went backto his office to use the phone,
but, as I said, thewires had been cut. I didn't want
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to leave here until somebody came,so I stopped the first car that went
by, and it happened to beyou. Well, let's go in and
see what we can find. Yeah, I must have left some clue somewhere.
They all do. Not a prettysight, is he? No?
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Three bullet holes are never pretty tolook at. No, this is rather
no. What's that? You noticethat two of the bullets got him right
near the heart, both apparently firedfrom a distance. Either one would have
killed him. Third shot got himin the abdomen, and that one was
fired from a close. Yeah,you can see where it burned his vest.
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That is a funny one. Youmust have wanted to be sure he
was dead. It looks as ifthere's a watch in this pocket where the
bullet went through. Yes, wellit smashed right through. It stopped it
at two twenty seven. That tellsus the time of the murder. All
right, that's one cloe we gotanyway, apparently, Well, if this
was done by burglar, something musthave been stolen. See if there's anything
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missing. I saw a broken displaycase when I was looking for sire mister
Carter all over here. Ah,yes, card says he's exhibit from the
Vandreese collection. Randivrees. Why he'sthe most famous collector of Egyptian relics in
the world. These things must bevery valuable. Can you see what's missing,
mister Carter? No, something missinghere in the center of the collection.
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But I didn't know what was there. We'll have to get the museums
curator to tell us that anything elsegone. I didn't see anything, but
I wouldn't know either. Well,let's have a look around, see if
we can find anything. Wow,not much good to us. I'm afraid
number has been filed off. Asfar as I can see, there are
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no prints on it. Well,maybe some show up in the laboratory.
Doubt it from the looks. Yeah, this is they're gone all right?
Three shots fired recently. Somebody's coming, mister Carter, this is very bad
for our reputation, Lieutenant Rawlings,all its faid for? Why is that
you nick right? First time?Raling? So they drag you out of
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bed? Did they see they did? You? Wish murderers would be more
consideration do their killing in the daytime. Nik, this is missus Tyner,
the curator of the museum rot hima lot to see what's missing? Oh,
mister Carter is just terrible. Sucha thing hasn't happened here in puny
years. Do you know what's beentaken? No? I left that for
you. Oh, your watchman isover here if you want to see him.
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Most of all heavens, the bendof Breese case is broken open,
the most valuable collection in our home. You can't riley then Gatar Scarab is
gone? Why is gone? Then? Gatar Scarab? It's almost priceless,
one of mister Bendi Brees's most valuablepieces. One of the few remaining Jews
in the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt,won by Princess Ahman Rahrsel oh, yes,
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very important collectors. Adam, wasn'tit who? Yes, yes,
only a collector would be interested.But it was priceless. No, how
can we ever explain to mister verycool bloody door fish more interested in how
he's got to explain the tip toend of reason? He isn't ha did
watchman Riley? These old fossils lifeand definitely very little They've almost been Italian
the past. Oh hello, Williams. Well what you got here? If
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you and mcloan go over everything,get fingerprints if you can, and get
plenty of pictures of the car.Yeah, yeah, we know, usual
stuff. You don't have to tellWe'll get busy then, did that badly?
Come with y? I am here, show me the body and let
me get back to base. Rightover there. See what you can tell
us? I always do, don'tI give me time, that's all.
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Take all the time you need,but hurry it up. Okay, okay.
Death was instant Chaney and here thethree bullets would have been fatal dead
between two three hours and say definitelyafter probe for the two bullets in his
chest. Yeah, that's right nearthe surface, fired close to the body.
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But you can go very deeps watchstopped the duck. I have a
watch here, took it out hispocket to examine it. No fingerprints it,
though, would you make of it? Not much yet? Always have
ideas running. Sometimes they're right,sometimes they're wrong. Well, let's hear
them. Oh no, I don'ttell I know whether they are right or
wrong. To spend the night hearingme. Oh hello, PASSI as a
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matter of fact that I've got allI can here, I think let's go.
Then. It's not getting any earlier, I know. Oh, good
night, Raley. I'll get intouch with you in the morning. In
the morning, what do you thinkit is now? Correction? Accepted that?
All right, Raley, I'll seeyou after breakfast. Okay, Nick,
but don't wait too long to eatthat breakfast. Good morning, Nick,
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Oh, good morning, Passion.Didn't expect you for hours yet.
Well, I wasn't going to sleeplate, but I was too curious to
find out about the murder. Thetrue professional instinct? What are you doing
that going through a file trying topick out all the crooks would be interested
in stealing the missing scare? Wouldthat be a special kind of cook definitely,
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Because there's only a very limited callfor such things, and the people
would have to know where he wasgoing to dispose of it before he showed
nice and only very few crooks butknow where to get bit of a scab
after they got hold of it,only a collector would be interested in buying
it. Have you found many names? Only three so far? Who are
just a minute through this last fatsNo? Yes, these three represent the
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most likely looking suspects. What arethe names Danny Milson, Jim Powell and
Jack Brugman. I don't think torecognize any of those names. No,
we've had no active connection with anyof them. Oh, Patsy, look
in the other file. Will yousee if you can find out where each
of these three would last heard of? Okay, Nick, what was that
first name? Danny Misson? He'sstole a rare old base out of Senator
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Jumps and tell him two years agoand it's now in States Britain. How
about Jim Powell, Yeah, he'sdoing time in Nevada for forgery and counterfeiting.
The sentences several years to run yet. And Jack Brogner he's wanted on
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the burglary charge by the Montana police. This is it six months ago?
I believe to be dead. Well, Brogner wasn't the killer type anywhere,
so I guess we can count himout. You can count the other two
out too, being as they're bothin jail. That remains to be seen.
Carl Riley ask him if he knowsanything about either Paul or Mirsman.
Okay, i'n't you any other clues? Nick, this seems to be guesswork.
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Eliminating suspects is never a guesswork.Patti out of the routine worked,
that solves many a case. Mymore spectacular means failed completely. Lieutenant,
this is Pattick. Indeed he's not. He's working on last night's murder.
We don't know yet. That's whatI called you about. Uh you know
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where either Danny Meerson or Jim Powellwould be now, I reckon show that
they're both imprisoned. Powell was injail last I knew. We've had no
words in the Countrary. Oh butDanny Myerson, who's let out a proud
two days ago. I'm got aminute, Nick, he is misson who's
let out in parole two days ago. That's so very interesting. Imagine it
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could be, Lieutenant, could be. But if I know, Nick,
he's not ready to say anything yet, will tell him to hurry up if
he don't. How to I hidand held the keys myself. You have
any clues, Lieutenant, well,of course we do well. Good for
you, Lieutenant. Now you letNick know when you catch the mid Why
God biden so Danny Mierson's creek again? Huh? He'll be needing money if
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I know him, and in twodays he could line up a customer for
the scab. You'd need money ina hurry, always with a snappy dresser.
Used to be known as a douHe couldn't buy any snapping office from
what the prison would give him whenhe left. But you've got nothing against
him dead. You can't have himpicked up on suspicion without something to go
on, true enough. But Ican call on him and see what he
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has to say if you can findhim. And I was used to stay
at the old Santley House. Andeven if you did do it, it's
probably be so sure. He leftno clues behind him, and I shouldn't
be surprised if we found him atthe Santley House. Now, col Ronnie,
I don't meet me there and havean arm Well, Jenny, you
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mind if we come in? What'sthis thought about this? A little visit?
You want to look over your appartment? Yeah? That a warrant is
said it? We sure have.What's the idea anyways? Really you're going
to invite us in? Or dowe have to knock you down and climb
over you? All right? Allright? And then Nick, you're invited
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you? Thanks? Here? Youa look around? Nick, keep an
eye on our friend Danny here,right, I was just dressing to go
out. You wouldn't mind if Idon't stop just because you're here, Not
at all, not at all,Just go right to your head as if
he was all alone. Thanks?What are you looking for? Just a
little thinking that disappeared last night?Yes? Or whatever it is, you
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won't find it here. Let's shoota snappy shirt you're wearing Danny? Did
he spins it? It? So? What? Nothing? Nothing? Did
he passy tied? True? Youmust be in the door. Look?
Can I wear a disy churning tiewithout the cop flaking cracks about it?
Who? Shoot? I was justthinking, John, do you find anything?
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Nick? Yeah? You're nuts,we are, but I'm not convinced
yet. Well, but he snappygether? What the world right man, aware
him. But why didn't you washyour face? My face? It's filthy,
dirty? Better wash it before yougo out? Oh what if there's
a little date there, I'll fixit late. I gotta go now.
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Why don't you walk it now?Danny? Why don't you let me alone?
I'll wash it when I'm getting ready. Danny, you're going to wash
your face before you leave this room? Oh all right, if you feel
that way about it. But Ican't see running well. Nick insists,
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in one hour. And now backto our story. Nick has just insisted
that Danny Meerson, suspected of themurder of the watchman at the museum,
wash his face. Danny grudgingly agrees. Suddenly I wonder, Danny, you
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have to learn shoot faster and traderthan that before you can hope you get
away with that kind of it.Make you shut my hand off. I
just shut the gun out of yourhand. You'll live. You go to
the chair. For what I'm murderingthe museum watchman. I'm stealing the acatara
scarab. I've never heard of it. He would hit me. You're okay,
Riley, Danny try to make itget a Wench daughter by knocking you
out. He didn't get Barty thedirty low down Stephen there, sound more
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like yourself. Now you hold agun running? Can you and him?
I'll say I can good if youare, I'm Danny. Will I see
why he didn't want to walk?Huh? You mean there really was a
reason why he objected to Huh.I'll say I was here, I I
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could pass Carl. Huh. Thiscarrat it looks more like a beetle to
me, but it is rob sacredEgyptian beetle. Where was it? Nick?
Right? Where I thought it wouldbe in the drain pipe and the
base and suspended by a thread,just about build a drain pipe down.
I knew that if he ran thewater. We might wonder why it didn't
run off as fast as it should, and he wasn't going to take that
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chance that it would help. WillJenny oh about that? Will you confess
to the killing? No? No, you can take me in for haven't
stolen goods in my possession. ButI don't know anything about any killing.
Besides, I got an alibi.So you got an alibi here where you're
coming down to headquarters with me andI'll let you tell me all about this
alibia yours. You still think thatDanny Meerson's I feel sure he did that.
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Whether we can prove it or notdepends on how strong is alibi is.
You can fake an alibi, that'spart to Danny. I feel sure
that's what Danny's done. You weren'tknown. Excuse me, Nick Carter's office,
he's Nicklavorite. That's where you findout Raley. Danny's alibai is water
technique. We can't beat it.The watchman was killed at two twenty seven.
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According to his watch in between twoand fifteen and two thirty, Danny
was in an all night drug storethree miles from the museum. Clerk remembers
some who remember the time positively,and to make it worse, the cap
on the beach tapt in there andtwo twenty and talked to him. The
cap knows Danny and squeers to thetime. Isn't possible, Riley, Danny
did I know it? But Ithink seems to me like several other people
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may be guilty as good as Danny. You'd say, there's no question about
the time, not too capping theCLC boards where he was there in the
drug store in twitch twenty last nightdrinking cart. I suppose the time Joan
on the watch when it stopped asa plan a jewelry that Danny did it.
The watch is wrong when the oldguy was shot. You know it?
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Yes, yes, I know it, Riley. But I believe that's
what happened, just the same wayto prove it don't mean nothing? All
right, Well, I'll find someway to prove it. We should looking,
but would make it fast, allright? All right? Hold on?
Did he say Danny's alibi is goodnyand they're tight alibi apparently, But
I don't believe it. Why areyou so sure he didn't? It could
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be in no patsa, he couldn't. But one thing he started swearing a
haad an alibi before he knew whatit was all about. Another thing,
the watchman was shot twice from adistance and one close too, And it
was a close up shot that wreckedto watch. You mean the watchman was
there, and that they killer setto watch ahead then shot him again so
as to establish his aliva. That'sexactly what I think happened. Try to
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tell that to a jury. Yeah, it would be pretty hard to believe
unless you know more about Krook thanmost juries do. How could you prove
a thing like that. I don'tknow, Betsy, but there must be
some way. Well if there isn'tit you'll find it. Well, I
hope, So I want to domy darndis anyway, Well, let's go
back to the museum. Maybe weoverlooked something there that'll give us the answer.
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Is there anything else you'd like tosee, mister Cutter, No,
No, I think not, misterStainer. I have grown over everything here
in the vicinity of the murder witha fine tooth comb, and you find
nothing that helps establish similitary's identity.No, nothing at all. No fingerprints
in the case with a vander reachcollection, no marks of any kind,
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anywhere. But you still feel surethat Danny is your house. Take my
reputation on it. You got tofind some way to break down as alibi.
Nick, Could you tie a liedetector on it? Oh? No,
that's Unfortunately too many people still believethat a lie detector is only a
makeshift and not real evidence. Theydo. They don't believe that a wiggly
line running across the chart can meananything. Definitely now, but we sand
it's no better than that. Andtake our sessmograph, for example, in
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the wiggly line that the pen onthe seismograph makes weaken tismograph? Yeah,
you have one here in the museum. Way, yes, we do.
Way, where is it the nextroom? Here? Just the other side
of the Egyptian exhibit? God,but why are you so interested in this,
doctor Steiner? That seismograph of yoursis going to prove Milson guilty of
the murder. Well, Nick,we're all here just as you wanted.
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What's up? Yes, mister Carter, I demand to know why my client,
mister Meerson, has been brought hereto Lieutenant Riley's office. Now,
he's admitted being a receiver of stolengoods, but he's guilty of nothing else.
All right, all right, misterRamberley, let's get right down to
the fact. He say your clientis guilty of nothing but receiving stolen good
I do, and I protest that. I'll do the talking now. You
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claim that Meerson could not have stolenthe scarab and murdered the watchman because at
the time the murder and pep wereapparently committed, he was engaged in conversation
with a policeman and a drug clerksome three miles from the museum. That's
right, absolutely right, and it'sa terrible out family. Did you notice
that I use the word apparently whenI spoke of the time the murder was
committed. Well, I did thatpurposely. A watchman's time piece was set
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ahead by Meerson to establish an alibifor himself. That's a lion ain't room.
Oh that's ridiculous. Not quite asridiculous as you might think. The
evidence I have here is unemotional,truthful and positive. It's a seismographic chart.
Oh what, and you will workin the name of the Far Sea
seismographic chart. I'll tell you inthe room next to the Egyptian collection is
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a seismograph huh as an instrument usedto detect earthquake tremors, and it's so
sensitive that will record even the slightestdisturbance. I have here the chart there
was made on the seismograph at themuseum last night. Oh all, this
is most irregulars OS murder, misterRamberley. Now, notice at twelve forty
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five there was a slight tremor ora trembling of the earth, you to
some distant earthquake. At one ohfive, five minutes past one, there
were two sharp eruptions in the immediatevicinity. The reason for them is not
definitely determined, but they could havebeen caused either by nearby blasting or by
the reports of a gun shot offin the next room, and there was
no blasting done last night. Ohget to the point, Cootter. My
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time is valuable. Human life isvaluable too. The next thing this shot
shows is that at once seventeen seventeenminutes past one, twelve minutes after the
first two shots, there was anothersharp report recording, and from then on
until fifteen minutes before six, theline as straight as a die, which
means simply that no shots were firedin the museum between one seventeen and five
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to forty five in the morning.Then that means if the watchman were shot
and killed at five minutes past one, Danny turned his watch ahead and shot
him again at seventeen minutes past one, which gave him plenty of time to
get to the brigs torn and setup his elibone. They passed. Wonderful,
it's as good as a line totake what that doesn't prove? Asy
your sambily They got me, ButDanny, it all happened just like they
said. It's like the scare.But the old guy caught me. As
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they came out of the rooms ata bump them off. I fixed the
watch to give me an alba.They cut me liquid that. Let's call
it a truth machine, Danny,because that's what it really is. It
tells the truth, and in thiscase, makes others tell the truth too.
A wonderful machine, Danny, Awonderful machine. In just a moment,
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isn't it? Yes? Can hereright? The last story next week is
further proof of that facts that Nick. It was a scientific explanation of why
the wound and the dead man's bodywas made the way it was that gave
me my first real clue to hismurder. And when the dead man just
walked into the office, sat downin a chair and died without saying a
word, well you can see howbadly we needed clues. What do you
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great detectives of Old Time Radio.Welcome back. A pretty solid episode and
I think told quite credibly. Asa rule, you know, either you
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have a bad lawyer or the policehave got you dead to ride, which
when all your lawyer can do istuck tied about this being highly irregular.
Now, I should note that thisdoes require some change to our view of
the Nick Carter series in terms ofthe airing order, because I actually previously
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had another episode listed as airing Maytwenty seventh, the Mystery of Hangman's Would.
However, the research from the OldTime Radio researchers actually pushes the date
for the previous episodes to this one. Back. The episode that I had
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on May twenty seventh, the HauntedRocking Chair, actually aired Me twentieth.
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on May thirteenth, and The VanishingLady, which I had on May six,
actually aired on April the twenty nine, so some updated research allowing us
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some more space four episodes. Now, of course, all of those episodes
listed off shows that there were quitea few Nick Carter episodes in nineteen forty
four in nineteen forty five, Sohere to four we've kind of bolstered the
circulating episodes of Nick Carter with moreepisodes where we already had quite a few
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in circulation. But next week wewill actually bring you an episode of Nick
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now for today's strange case from thelife of Nick Carter. As we pick
up Nick and Patsy for today's story, we find them a Knicks car on
their way home. This is afine time to be getting home, Nick,
three o'clock in the morning. I'msorry, Patsy, I could have
got away any sooner, I wouldhave. You know how police chiefs are
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when I get talking the chief Bronsonwas no exception. Also, I thought
he was going over every case he'dever been up against. You know what
I think? No, but I'mhappy to know that you're doing. This
is no hour for FuMB jokes.New all right, fancy what do you
think. I think that Bronson wasjust trying to get a free course in
how to catch criminals according to themost up to date methods. He practically
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pumped you dry. No, Iknow it. There are times when you
can ye. I hope you haveyour police badge with you. This as
though we were pinched for speeding.Don't worry until you have to. Hey
you, yes, what's up?I was any trouble? Oh, I'll
say so. Could you stop atthe next telephone down the street and call
police headquarters. Tell them the centilmanup right away. What's the matter?
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The night watchman in the museum hasbeen murdered. Not Sam Hildred. Yeah
you know him, say I do. I've done him for years. How
did it happen? Must have beenshot by a burglar. I tried to
call headquarters from the museum, butthe cook cut the wires and I can't
use the phone. Will you putin a call for me? Certainly?
That's it. Take the carn't finda phone. Tell whoever's in charge to
send some men up here at once? Are you going to stay here?
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Yes? Maybe I can do somethingbefore they get here. Where we get
on the trailer better? She calledyou Nick? You ain't Nick Carter?
Are you? Yes? I amglory by. That's a break for sure.
Come inside, mister Carter and seeif you can help me find any
good clothes. I didn't take timeto look. Be right with you?
All right? That's a good join. Right, we'll have to go on
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the back door. Everything else islocked up. Okay. What's your name
of it? Bert, mister Carter? Or how'd you happen to find him?
Bert? Well? You see,this is my beat. I'm on
the park detail. When I getthrough at two o'clock, I generally stop
in and have a cup of teawith Sam Hildren, And that's what I
did tonight. Sam wasn't in hisoffice, so I waited for him,
thinking he was making his ROMs maybe, But when he didn't show up after
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about a half hour, I wentto look for him, and after I
looked about fifteen minutes, I foundhim with three bullet holes in him.
Three bullet holes. Yes, somebodyhad it in for him, all right?
Anything else? I looked around butcouldn't find a soul. The place
was deserted, and I went backto his office to use the phone,
but, as I said, thewires had been cut. I didn't want
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to leave here until somebody came,so I stopped the first car that went
by, and it happened to beyou. Well, let's go in and
see what we can find. Yeah, I must have left some clue somewhere.
They all do. Not a prettysight, is he? No?
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Three bullet holes are never pretty tolook at. No, this is rather
no. What's that? You noticethat two of the bullets got him right
near the heart, both apparently firedfrom a distance. Either one would have
killed him. Third shot got himin the abdomen, and that one was
fired from a close. Yeah,you can see where it burned his vest.
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That is a funny one. Youmust have wanted to be sure he
was dead. It looks as ifthere's a watch in this pocket where the
bullet went through. Yes, wellit smashed right through. It stopped it
at two twenty seven. That tellsus the time of the murder. All
right, that's one cloe we gotanyway, apparently, Well, if this
was done by burglar, something musthave been stolen. See if there's anything
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missing. I saw a broken displaycase when I was looking for sire mister
Carter all over here. Ah,yes, card says he's exhibit from the
Vandreese collection. Randivrees. Why he'sthe most famous collector of Egyptian relics in
the world. These things must bevery valuable. Can you see what's missing,
mister Carter? No, something missinghere in the center of the collection.
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But I didn't know what was there. We'll have to get the museums
curator to tell us that anything elsegone. I didn't see anything, but
I wouldn't know either. Well,let's have a look around, see if
we can find anything. Wow,not much good to us. I'm afraid
number has been filed off. Asfar as I can see, there are
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no prints on it. Well,maybe some show up in the laboratory.
Doubt it from the looks. Yeah, this is they're gone all right?
Three shots fired recently. Somebody's coming, mister Carter, this is very bad
for our reputation, Lieutenant Rawlings,all its faid for? Why is that
you nick right? First time?Raling? So they drag you out of
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bed? Did they see they did? You? Wish murderers would be more
consideration do their killing in the daytime. Nik, this is missus Tyner,
the curator of the museum rot hima lot to see what's missing? Oh,
mister Carter is just terrible. Sucha thing hasn't happened here in puny
years. Do you know what's beentaken? No? I left that for
you. Oh, your watchman isover here if you want to see him.
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Most of all heavens, the bendof Breese case is broken open,
the most valuable collection in our home. You can't riley then Gatar Scarab is
gone? Why is gone? Then? Gatar Scarab? It's almost priceless,
one of mister Bendi Brees's most valuablepieces. One of the few remaining Jews
in the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt,won by Princess Ahman Rahrsel oh, yes,
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very important collectors. Adam, wasn'tit who? Yes, yes,
only a collector would be interested.But it was priceless. No, how
can we ever explain to mister verycool bloody door fish more interested in how
he's got to explain the tip toend of reason? He isn't ha did
watchman Riley? These old fossils lifeand definitely very little They've almost been Italian
the past. Oh hello, Williams. Well what you got here? If
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you and mcloan go over everything,get fingerprints if you can, and get
plenty of pictures of the car.Yeah, yeah, we know, usual
stuff. You don't have to tellWe'll get busy then, did that badly?
Come with y? I am here, show me the body and let
me get back to base. Rightover there. See what you can tell
us? I always do, don'tI give me time, that's all.
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Take all the time you need,but hurry it up. Okay, okay.
Death was instant Chaney and here thethree bullets would have been fatal dead
between two three hours and say definitelyafter probe for the two bullets in his
chest. Yeah, that's right nearthe surface, fired close to the body.
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But you can go very deeps watchstopped the duck. I have a
watch here, took it out hispocket to examine it. No fingerprints it,
though, would you make of it? Not much yet? Always have
ideas running. Sometimes they're right,sometimes they're wrong. Well, let's hear
them. Oh no, I don'ttell I know whether they are right or
wrong. To spend the night hearingme. Oh hello, PASSI as a
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matter of fact that I've got allI can here, I think let's go.
Then. It's not getting any earlier, I know. Oh, good
night, Raley. I'll get intouch with you in the morning. In
the morning, what do you thinkit is now? Correction? Accepted that?
All right, Raley, I'll seeyou after breakfast. Okay, Nick,
but don't wait too long to eatthat breakfast. Good morning, Nick,
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Oh, good morning, Passion.Didn't expect you for hours yet.
Well, I wasn't going to sleeplate, but I was too curious to
find out about the murder. Thetrue professional instinct? What are you doing
that going through a file trying topick out all the crooks would be interested
in stealing the missing scare? Wouldthat be a special kind of cook definitely,
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Because there's only a very limited callfor such things, and the people
would have to know where he wasgoing to dispose of it before he showed
nice and only very few crooks butknow where to get bit of a scab
after they got hold of it,only a collector would be interested in buying
it. Have you found many names? Only three so far? Who are
just a minute through this last fatsNo? Yes, these three represent the
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most likely looking suspects. What arethe names Danny Milson, Jim Powell and
Jack Brugman. I don't think torecognize any of those names. No,
we've had no active connection with anyof them. Oh, Patsy, look
in the other file. Will yousee if you can find out where each
of these three would last heard of? Okay, Nick, what was that
first name? Danny Misson? He'sstole a rare old base out of Senator
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Jumps and tell him two years agoand it's now in States Britain. How
about Jim Powell, Yeah, he'sdoing time in Nevada for forgery and counterfeiting.
The sentences several years to run yet. And Jack Brogner he's wanted on
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the burglary charge by the Montana police. This is it six months ago?
I believe to be dead. Well, Brogner wasn't the killer type anywhere,
so I guess we can count himout. You can count the other two
out too, being as they're bothin jail. That remains to be seen.
Carl Riley ask him if he knowsanything about either Paul or Mirsman.
Okay, i'n't you any other clues? Nick, this seems to be guesswork.
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Eliminating suspects is never a guesswork.Patti out of the routine worked,
that solves many a case. Mymore spectacular means failed completely. Lieutenant,
this is Pattick. Indeed he's not. He's working on last night's murder.
We don't know yet. That's whatI called you about. Uh you know
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where either Danny Meerson or Jim Powellwould be now, I reckon show that
they're both imprisoned. Powell was injail last I knew. We've had no
words in the Countrary. Oh butDanny Myerson, who's let out a proud
two days ago. I'm got aminute, Nick, he is misson who's
let out in parole two days ago. That's so very interesting. Imagine it
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could be, Lieutenant, could be. But if I know, Nick,
he's not ready to say anything yet, will tell him to hurry up if
he don't. How to I hidand held the keys myself. You have
any clues, Lieutenant, well,of course we do well. Good for
you, Lieutenant. Now you letNick know when you catch the mid Why
God biden so Danny Mierson's creek again? Huh? He'll be needing money if
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I know him, and in twodays he could line up a customer for
the scab. You'd need money ina hurry, always with a snappy dresser.
Used to be known as a douHe couldn't buy any snapping office from
what the prison would give him whenhe left. But you've got nothing against
him dead. You can't have himpicked up on suspicion without something to go
on, true enough. But Ican call on him and see what he
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has to say if you can findhim. And I was used to stay
at the old Santley House. Andeven if you did do it, it's
probably be so sure. He leftno clues behind him, and I shouldn't
be surprised if we found him atthe Santley House. Now, col Ronnie,
I don't meet me there and havean arm Well, Jenny, you
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mind if we come in? What'sthis thought about this? A little visit?
You want to look over your appartment? Yeah? That a warrant is
said it? We sure have.What's the idea anyways? Really you're going
to invite us in? Or dowe have to knock you down and climb
over you? All right? Allright? And then Nick, you're invited
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you? Thanks? Here? Youa look around? Nick, keep an
eye on our friend Danny here,right, I was just dressing to go
out. You wouldn't mind if Idon't stop just because you're here, Not
at all, not at all,Just go right to your head as if
he was all alone. Thanks?What are you looking for? Just a
little thinking that disappeared last night?Yes? Or whatever it is, you
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won't find it here. Let's shoota snappy shirt you're wearing Danny? Did
he spins it? It? So? What? Nothing? Nothing? Did
he passy tied? True? Youmust be in the door. Look?
Can I wear a disy churning tiewithout the cop flaking cracks about it?
Who? Shoot? I was justthinking, John, do you find anything?
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Nick? Yeah? You're nuts,we are, but I'm not convinced
yet. Well, but he snappygether? What the world right man, aware
him. But why didn't you washyour face? My face? It's filthy,
dirty? Better wash it before yougo out? Oh what if there's
a little date there, I'll fixit late. I gotta go now.
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Why don't you walk it now?Danny? Why don't you let me alone?
I'll wash it when I'm getting ready. Danny, you're going to wash
your face before you leave this room? Oh all right, if you feel
that way about it. But Ican't see running well. Nick insists,
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in one hour. And now backto our story. Nick has just insisted
that Danny Meerson, suspected of themurder of the watchman at the museum,
wash his face. Danny grudgingly agrees. Suddenly I wonder, Danny, you
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have to learn shoot faster and traderthan that before you can hope you get
away with that kind of it.Make you shut my hand off. I
just shut the gun out of yourhand. You'll live. You go to
the chair. For what I'm murderingthe museum watchman. I'm stealing the acatara
scarab. I've never heard of it. He would hit me. You're okay,
Riley, Danny try to make itget a Wench daughter by knocking you
out. He didn't get Barty thedirty low down Stephen there, sound more
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like yourself. Now you hold agun running? Can you and him?
I'll say I can good if youare, I'm Danny. Will I see
why he didn't want to walk?Huh? You mean there really was a
reason why he objected to Huh.I'll say I was here, I I
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could pass Carl. Huh. Thiscarrat it looks more like a beetle to
me, but it is rob sacredEgyptian beetle. Where was it? Nick?
Right? Where I thought it wouldbe in the drain pipe and the
base and suspended by a thread,just about build a drain pipe down.
I knew that if he ran thewater. We might wonder why it didn't
run off as fast as it should, and he wasn't going to take that
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chance that it would help. WillJenny oh about that? Will you confess
to the killing? No? No, you can take me in for haven't
stolen goods in my possession. ButI don't know anything about any killing.
Besides, I got an alibi.So you got an alibi here where you're
coming down to headquarters with me andI'll let you tell me all about this
alibia yours. You still think thatDanny Meerson's I feel sure he did that.
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Whether we can prove it or notdepends on how strong is alibi is.
You can fake an alibi, that'spart to Danny. I feel sure
that's what Danny's done. You weren'tknown. Excuse me, Nick Carter's office,
he's Nicklavorite. That's where you findout Raley. Danny's alibai is water
technique. We can't beat it.The watchman was killed at two twenty seven.
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According to his watch in between twoand fifteen and two thirty, Danny
was in an all night drug storethree miles from the museum. Clerk remembers
some who remember the time positively,and to make it worse, the cap
on the beach tapt in there andtwo twenty and talked to him. The
cap knows Danny and squeers to thetime. Isn't possible, Riley, Danny
did I know it? But Ithink seems to me like several other people
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may be guilty as good as Danny. You'd say, there's no question about
the time, not too capping theCLC boards where he was there in the
drug store in twitch twenty last nightdrinking cart. I suppose the time Joan
on the watch when it stopped asa plan a jewelry that Danny did it.
The watch is wrong when the oldguy was shot. You know it?
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Yes, yes, I know it, Riley. But I believe that's
what happened, just the same wayto prove it don't mean nothing? All
right, Well, I'll find someway to prove it. We should looking,
but would make it fast, allright? All right? Hold on?
Did he say Danny's alibi is goodnyand they're tight alibi apparently, But
I don't believe it. Why areyou so sure he didn't? It could
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be in no patsa, he couldn't. But one thing he started swearing a
haad an alibi before he knew whatit was all about. Another thing,
the watchman was shot twice from adistance and one close too, And it
was a close up shot that wreckedto watch. You mean the watchman was
there, and that they killer setto watch ahead then shot him again so
as to establish his aliva. That'sexactly what I think happened. Try to
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tell that to a jury. Yeah, it would be pretty hard to believe
unless you know more about Krook thanmost juries do. How could you prove
a thing like that. I don'tknow, Betsy, but there must be
some way. Well if there isn'tit you'll find it. Well, I
hope, So I want to domy darndis anyway, Well, let's go
back to the museum. Maybe weoverlooked something there that'll give us the answer.
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Is there anything else you'd like tosee, mister Cutter, No,
No, I think not, misterStainer. I have grown over everything here
in the vicinity of the murder witha fine tooth comb, and you find
nothing that helps establish similitary's identity.No, nothing at all. No fingerprints
in the case with a vander reachcollection, no marks of any kind,
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anywhere. But you still feel surethat Danny is your house. Take my
reputation on it. You got tofind some way to break down as alibi.
Nick, Could you tie a liedetector on it? Oh? No,
that's Unfortunately too many people still believethat a lie detector is only a
makeshift and not real evidence. Theydo. They don't believe that a wiggly
line running across the chart can meananything. Definitely now, but we sand
it's no better than that. Andtake our sessmograph, for example, in
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the wiggly line that the pen onthe seismograph makes weaken tismograph? Yeah,
you have one here in the museum. Way, yes, we do.
Way, where is it the nextroom? Here? Just the other side
of the Egyptian exhibit? God,but why are you so interested in this,
doctor Steiner? That seismograph of yoursis going to prove Milson guilty of
the murder. Well, Nick,we're all here just as you wanted.
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What's up? Yes, mister Carter, I demand to know why my client,
mister Meerson, has been brought hereto Lieutenant Riley's office. Now,
he's admitted being a receiver of stolengoods, but he's guilty of nothing else.
All right, all right, misterRamberley, let's get right down to
the fact. He say your clientis guilty of nothing but receiving stolen good
I do, and I protest that. I'll do the talking now. You
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claim that Meerson could not have stolenthe scarab and murdered the watchman because at
the time the murder and pep wereapparently committed, he was engaged in conversation
with a policeman and a drug clerksome three miles from the museum. That's
right, absolutely right, and it'sa terrible out family. Did you notice
that I use the word apparently whenI spoke of the time the murder was
committed. Well, I did thatpurposely. A watchman's time piece was set
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ahead by Meerson to establish an alibifor himself. That's a lion ain't room.
Oh that's ridiculous. Not quite asridiculous as you might think. The
evidence I have here is unemotional,truthful and positive. It's a seismographic chart.
Oh what, and you will workin the name of the Far Sea
seismographic chart. I'll tell you inthe room next to the Egyptian collection is
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a seismograph huh as an instrument usedto detect earthquake tremors, and it's so
sensitive that will record even the slightestdisturbance. I have here the chart there
was made on the seismograph at themuseum last night. Oh all, this
is most irregulars OS murder, misterRamberley. Now, notice at twelve forty
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five there was a slight tremor ora trembling of the earth, you to
some distant earthquake. At one ohfive, five minutes past one, there
were two sharp eruptions in the immediatevicinity. The reason for them is not
definitely determined, but they could havebeen caused either by nearby blasting or by
the reports of a gun shot offin the next room, and there was
no blasting done last night. Ohget to the point, Cootter. My
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time is valuable. Human life isvaluable too. The next thing this shot
shows is that at once seventeen seventeenminutes past one, twelve minutes after the
first two shots, there was anothersharp report recording, and from then on
until fifteen minutes before six, theline as straight as a die, which
means simply that no shots were firedin the museum between one seventeen and five
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to forty five in the morning.Then that means if the watchman were shot
and killed at five minutes past one, Danny turned his watch ahead and shot
him again at seventeen minutes past one, which gave him plenty of time to
get to the brigs torn and setup his elibone. They passed. Wonderful,
it's as good as a line totake what that doesn't prove? Asy
your sambily They got me, ButDanny, it all happened just like they
said. It's like the scare.But the old guy caught me. As
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they came out of the rooms ata bump them off. I fixed the
watch to give me an alba.They cut me liquid that. Let's call
it a truth machine, Danny,because that's what it really is. It
tells the truth, and in thiscase, makes others tell the truth too.
A wonderful machine, Danny, Awonderful machine. In just a moment,
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Nick and Passey will be back totell you about next week's story,
a story even more exciting than themuseum tragedy. You know, the things
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hear from Nick Carter himself. Youknow, Nick, science is wonderful,
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isn't it? Yes? Can hereright? The last story next week is
further proof of that facts that Nick. It was a scientific explanation of why
the wound and the dead man's bodywas made the way it was that gave
me my first real clue to hismurder. And when the dead man just
walked into the office, sat downin a chair and died without saying a
word, well you can see howbadly we needed clues. What do you
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call a story, Nick, Icall it short range murder. Nick Carter
Master Detective is copyrighted by Street andSmith Publications, Incorporated. Lon Clark is
starred as Nick, with Helen Choultas Patsy. Original music is played by
Lou White. Any resemblance in theseprograms to actual persons living or dead is
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purely coincidental. The entire program waswritten and directed by Jack McGregor. Nick
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This is the mutual broadcasting system.This is Andrew J. Graham, author
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of the web surface series Oh anda Mana's Wife. You're listening to the
great detectives of Old Time Radio.Welcome back. A pretty solid episode and
I think told quite credibly. Asa rule, you know, either you
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have a bad lawyer or the policehave got you dead to ride, which
when all your lawyer can do istuck tied about this being highly irregular.
Now, I should note that thisdoes require some change to our view of
the Nick Carter series in terms ofthe airing order, because I actually previously
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had another episode listed as airing Maytwenty seventh, the Mystery of Hangman's Would.
However, the research from the OldTime Radio researchers actually pushes the date
for the previous episodes to this one. Back. The episode that I had
(33:50):
on May twenty seventh, the HauntedRocking Chair, actually aired Me twentieth.
The Mystery of Hangman's Wood, whichI had on May twentieth, actually aired
on May thirteenth, and The VanishingLady, which I had on May six,
actually aired on April the twenty nine, so some updated research allowing us
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some more space four episodes. Now, of course, all of those episodes
listed off shows that there were quitea few Nick Carter episodes in nineteen forty
four in nineteen forty five, Sohere to four we've kind of bolstered the
circulating episodes of Nick Carter with moreepisodes where we already had quite a few
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in circulation. But next week wewill actually bring you an episode of Nick
Carter from a period where we actuallydidn't have any episodes at all in circulations,
So I'll tell you all about thatnext week. Join us back here
tomorrow for Rocky Jordan. In themeantime, send your comments to Box thirteen
at Great Detectives dot net, Becomeone of our friends on face book,
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