September 1, 2025 • 29 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is it another case for detective?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
Today's curious adventure Ready for murder on Nick Carter and
the Mystery of the Dead Scottie.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
In just a moment, we'll hear how the dead Scottie
dog helped Nick Carter solve the mystery if the Ames farm,
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Nick Carter. As our story opens, we find Nick and
Patsy just entering the hotel room of John Names, a
young friend of Nick's.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Hello Nick, Patsy, Hello John, glad to see you, come
on here. Thanks, better see you again.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh Nick, look at that darling Scottie on the bed.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Had back, Get down off that bed.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I know, so cute on the pillow.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I've never been able to break McTavish with the habit.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
By the way, this is Chief Danis, the local police.
Nick Carter and Patsy Bowen. Chief can let's get down
to business. Chief Denis and I have just come from
my Aunt Mary's funeral. As you know, the coroner's verdict
was that Mount Mary killed herself with aconite. But I
don't believe it. Why not John, First because she wasn't
suicide kind. Second because if she wanted to kill herself
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she would have used poisoned. She was more familiar with
She was a gardener, knew all about nicotine, sulfate and
knights make and so on. Nothing very positive there.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Well, it's Connor. How about this SAMs. John's grandfather, Henry Eames,
passed on at.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The age of eighty three four years ago. Three of
the years have died.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Typhoid killed Prying last year, Phil was shot in a
hunting accident two years ago, and now Mary dies of
acon eyed poists.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
But the Purcells keep right on running the farm the
way they always have. Who are the Percell Adam and
Paul Purcell were first employed as fine managers by my
grandfather each successive owner since fans kept them on. So
far everything seems quite open and above board, yes, But.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Each time one of the last three Angels has died,
the word murder has been whispered.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
All over town.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But why I don't get.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Not just a feeling, no prove at all, But the
rumor persists that the purse sales know more about than
they can let off. And as a medical student, I
can say that the chances of three healthy people dying
off like that one after another, purely as a coincidence,
is less than one in a hundred. There's any question
about your grandfather's death being natural? No, none at all.
Now about Phil, he shot himself in the chest while
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out hunting with a Purcell, and it was.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
His gun with all his finger plings on it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I see. And how about Frank's death, died in bed
of noth pypoid, nothing to show it wasn't on the level,
not a thing, mister Carter. Uh huh, Well, I'll tell
me about your Aunt Mary's death. Anything wrong there, well,
nothing you can put your finger on. So here the fact,
And I want to say that they've been checked and
proven in every detail. I tried Mint to Carter. What
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journal tell you is nothing but prak All right, let's
have Aunt Mary lived alone in the big house. The
Purcells and Lizzie Gregg, their hired girl, lived in the
tenant house. Lizzie took care of the big house and
got the meals for Aunt Mary, but she didn't sleep
there well, this particular morning, Lizzie walked over to the
Big House at seven in the morning, called my aunt,
got no answer and investigated. My aunt was in bed dead.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And it snowed that night before all night, and the
tracks we found when we got there polled, pulled, mind
you that no one within the house that night with
his aunt and the.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Poet Morton shows she died a Vaconie poisoning. Yeah, some
minute dose fatal and positive, just enough to kill her.
Who where did you get to zacon Night and really
use it for a hard condition? For years kept the
bottle in the Big House in the kitchen cabinet.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Oh, I see the bottle was found on his van's
bedside table with her fingerprints priinally showing on top of Lizzies.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But it couldn't be an accident because zach and Night
is neither olderless nor tasteless and couldn't be taken without
knowing it. And the poison was administered to my aunt
threw her mouth.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I certainly looked like suicide to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Me, except for one thing, Patty, who is that a
person going to commit suicide would pour themselves out a
good sizeable portion of the poison they intended to use,
not just barely enough to kill them. She wouldn't know
enough to do that if she didn't leave any suicide
note either.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
But if it wasn't suicide, and if she couldn't have
taken it by accident, and if nobody could have forced
it on her without her knowing it was being done,
where does.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That leave you, exactly? Fatty? It proved just one thing
in my mind. It proves a cold blooded, deliberate murder,
carefully planned and executed. I don't know how it was done,
but it was the same. Goes fulfilled that and Franks
and I'll bet the purse cells are the murder are
the accomplices. They stand to gain a nice income from
the farm, which goes to them if the last air dies.
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They've been planning this for years. They planned it so
carefully that the evidence proves them not guilty every time.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Let him per Sale.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Where did you come from?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I not, but there was so much talk and nobody
heard me.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So I come in, John.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I heard what you said. Well, I met at every word.
How do you happen to be here? Pirsell?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I heard Jennan was coming down here to meet Chief
donas and you, mister Carter, I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Why, so I followed.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Him, sits by on me now, young man, not to spy,
to resign Paul and Lazier against the idea. I'm the
elder brother. And what I say goes.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You mean you'll all move off the farm just that
I'm writing now, Bester persl and then every word I said,
just now, and I'm not taking back a word of it.
But you can't resign. And I can't let you go
because if they go now, it means either they're quitting
under fire or I'm afraid to live in the farm
with them. Side. I need fire managers, and the Purcel's
the best managers I know. I think you're right. John. Well,
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how do you feel about it, mister Purcell?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I don't know, but I well, I guess I can
stand it if he can. All right, we'll put the
food on your table, clean your house, run your farm.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But that's all. We won't have nothing to do with
you or you with us. I understand, and I agree.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'll be getting the law.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Quiet Mac and get down off my bed. Come on,
can't get out.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
You're going back to the farm tonight, in miss.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Range, yes, especially in view of what you have happened.
You still think Purcelle's guilty, Yes.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I did.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Adam wanted to resign, either because he was afraid or
because he wanted to establish an alibi, because if I
should be killed while the Purcells weren't living on the farm,
they'd be cleared of all of death. No. No, I'm
going back there and prove that the Purcells actually did
what I think they did. Well, Max, this seems to
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be the kitchen. There's nobody here? Yes, there isn't that
rocking chair?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
How do you do you got your dog at the house?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, because Max always lived with me in my room.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Where's your sleep?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The master bedroom?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Of course, good best room in the house. The time
you want breast.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
About eight o'clock. I'd like eggs, bacon and coffee.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Use up a time, young man. I'll finish the meals.
Good night.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, yes, Max, I was probably living. That's the way
they wanted. Okay, come on, let's have a look at
our house. So this is the master bedroom. Gosh, Max,
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so but mean she's beautiful. Hey, get down off that bed.
Mag You've got to turn over a new leaf in
this house. Lizzie won't have you sleeping on beds. I know. Oh,
all right, stay there for nowsh I wonder what the
whole house smelts so strongly of alcohol. Smells like a
boss bombs here in the bedroom. Swell, well, hello, come,
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I I thought i'd called and see how you're making out. Gosh, Nick,
it's good to hear your voice. This is a grand
old house, but it's so quiet you can cut it
with a knife. Any new ideas yet, yes, one or two? Nick,
I'd like to have you get me a permet to
exhume Frank Ames's body and autopsy the remains. If our
cynical poisoning was wrongly diagnosed as typhoid, I can still
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be checked. All right down, I'll bring the permit out
of me when I come tomorrow. Oh, by the way,
if the purse fells, it has the farm. Why would
Lizzie come in? She wouldn't. There's no interest in in
it all. She wouldn't get touch a dollar of it. Why, Oh,
just wondered. I understand Lizzie and Paul were talking of
getting married about five years ago, but nothing came of it.
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I agree, all right, I'll free about eleven in the.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Morning, all right, and I.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Nex, Come on, Mac, I'm gonna have to get off
the bed now because I'm getting in it myself. Lizzie,
that was the best breakfast I ever ate, and I
mean it.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yes, never you do. I know when I'm being made
fun of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And Lizzie, I wonder if you could manage to get
rid of that barrel of alcohol. I saw him a
seller this this morning. I can smell it all over
the house.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yes, let me speak to Paul, young man. I've been
trying to get rid of that barrel.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
O winter it leaps, Yes, it certainly does.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You'll have to get Paul to get rid of it.
And he's real Southern.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
He's where's Paul now? Plowing? Of course?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Where's this fun of you?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thanks Lizzie. See if I can find him? Yeah, Paul,
come over here, and I please what you want?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm papa busy young man.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I want to see where Phil was killed. Oh, right
over there it was. We was at the grouse.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I climbed to the wire here and he went over
the fence there, shoved his gun to ahead of him,
start hit that rock and bang got him in the chest.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
See thanks, you might if I get back to the
plow and we're behind now, No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You and Adam certainly keep this place in beautiful shape.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
We aimed run down when Adam and me was hired,
But now everything's up to snuff, and no aims ever
put his hand to it yet.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think I'll roam around, see what there is to see.
Haven't been here since I was a kid. Come on, Max, Hey, Mac,
look at the time. But the Clark must be Nick
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blowing for us. Come on, we'll go back to the catalane.
Ought to be the quickest way to the hawk. Gosh,
this Cataline's a beautiful job. Almost two hundred yards straight
from the barn. Out of the fields of the cars
are put out, the pasture fenced on both sides with
five strands of barbed wires, each one of them the
sight of a banjo strings that Mac is a model fence.
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If I ever saw, Yes, Mac, I see him. It's
Nick all right, he's got Patty with him. I'm going
on the top if I can jump that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So the series of accidents is continuing John's first day
on the farm, and already death runs to meet him.
Can this murderer set up be solved in time to
save John? From being killed.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We'll see in just a moment.
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And now back to our story. As we left John,
he was in a narrow lane hem's in on.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Both sides with high barbed wire, trying to escape a
mad rush of a bull charging down on him from
the farm. It is now a few minutes later.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
We'll get your John. No, all right, I never saw
such a pretty Oh thing is huge the time of
that fan, I.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Can't understand it. The food couldn't break out of his pen.
Somebody must have left the gate to the pen on latch.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It doesn't matter now, No damage was done.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I told you that to get away Sundays told you
the pen that No, you men knew it all.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What are you doing here? Listen, get back to the
house where.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You belong, and down here to tell the young man's
that company that he's found out for yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yes, I found him. Well, John, we'll go somewhere and talk.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Who won't be disturbed there? Nobody will bothers here, Nick Good.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
At first, John, I got the permit to exsume your
uncle's body. I brought the undertaker alonger dig it up
and take it back to town. Good. Second, I got
hold of your uncle phil shotgun, the one that killed him.
I examined it pretty closely. Find anything interesting I did.
I found evidence. It seems to bear out your feeling
that his death may not have been the accident they
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claim it was.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
His house reachs of alcohol.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Don Yes, there's a barrel of the stuff in the cellar.
For some reason, it smells up the whole place.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Come in, young man, you'll leave this baran tonight. Otherwise
you're going to get yourself killed, killed by whom. Maybe
I don't know, and maybe I do. I seen the
hand in the arm that pushed the bolt on the
bullpen gate open. That ball was loose, deliberate.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If you know who did it, you want to speak
up to prevent further tragedy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I only recognize the sleeve of the shirt, so it's tootamite.
But they could have got their shirts mixed up. So
I ain't saying now you heat what I take a
young man, get out and get quick.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Hum She could have been more positive in her identification.
I wonder how positive she really is.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Maybe she doesn't know herself.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Maybe, but I'm beginning to get an idea. You mean,
you can see an end of this riddle. No, but
I think I begin to see where we're headed, and
it's not pretty well. I've got work to do right now.
See you tonight, John, And in the meantime, be careful.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
He well, Nick Carter.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Speaking Hello, Nick. I know I'm going to see you tonight.
But since you've been gone, something's happened. I think you
ought to know.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Job? Both Adam and Paul have come to me secretly
at different times, and each one has told me that
he saw his brother unlatch the gate to the bull's pen.
You mean they each and use the other, yes, Nate,
Well very interesting. Oh by the way, job and if
hops here in your uncle Frank's body shows our cenical
poison and fatal quantities, no question, but what it was murdered?
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But who did it make? Who did it?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I suppose you get all three of the first cells
in the big house at ten in the morning.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'll need them pelletic clean up the details.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Tell them I've found out something conclusive, but don't tell
them what may make one of them come through with
a confession. Maybe all right, mat ten in the morning,
five jobs and watch your help to knife.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Operator emergency I'm poisoned. Get me a doctor quick, and
then get Nick Carter at the hotel. I got that,
get a doctor, then called Nick. Seems as if you
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and Nick got here off.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
A fast that when Nick's in a hurry, he doesn't
waste any time getting prices.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You know what you were poisoned with? Young? Yes, it
was Zach and Night, all right. I know that. I
can't figure out how I got it.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Proces is very low.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We've got to make it pick up. Do you know how?
Of course she does that? She's practically if nurse. It's lucky.
There's nobody here on a farm I can trust here.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Drink this John, It will stimulate your heart, and you
better walk up and down.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I just heard her in the extension in trone that
John was poisoned. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
It's too all right?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You only know what you heard on the phone for sure.
What else? How is he?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
We don't know yet.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I'd rather taking the poison in Moan's stomach than he
should get it. I never dreamed of any killing or note,
and he was being done lack.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Will you get me Paul.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Too, Paul poisoned?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
If you could let me have some of that stuff
you're using for John, ma'am, I'll go ten to Paul.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Well, of course here you.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Come in letty almost to poisoned.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
You in himself, John, that's the only ancest and that
means Paul did all those other things too.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I took nothing since dinner. That was much too long
ago to wait it all this time to take effect.
That is impossible. Eaten nothing and drunk nothing since seven
o'clock it's two forty in the morning.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Then what in the world of it?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
If that's the doctor Patsy rushing to paw okay, almost
talk before he dies. He's got to clear this thing up. John.
Did you say you had no nothing to eat or
drink for the last seven or eight hours? That's right, Nick,
The same as Aunt Mary's case, exactly. She was poisoned
without knowing how it was done. So is I The
answer to one is the answer to both. And Paul's
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killing himself looks as if he were that answer, although
I can't figure out how he could have done it. John,
I'd like to have a look at your room. Feeling
strong enough?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Yeah, sure, Nick, let's do it now, Nick, do.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You think it? And Mac get off that bed? Am
Hi that's funny. Usually, Nick, he's dead, don't touch him?
Why not?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Look?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
John, His head's on the pillow in the same place
yours would be if you were in bed. Yes, so
what you slept on that pillow and almost died. Max
sleeps there and does die. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
I'm afraid not. What should it mean? Aconite was poured
in the pillow case before you went to bed?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Remember? Aconite is so powerful it can be absorbed through
the skin, particularly the thin, damp, mucous membrane of the lips.
That's right, Nick, the person sleeping on that pillow with
aconites pilled on it and poison himself in a couple
of hours because you were restless, you got up before
the dose was fatal. But Mac, with his very bad
habit of sleeping on your pillow and sleeping very soundly,
slept there once too often. But Nick, quite a nice
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smell it. What does aconite smell like with alcohol? Right?
Of course the house reeks of alcohol, naturally, I never
smell it. That alcohol smell is part of the plot.
John who? Nick? Who? Let's get everybody together and talk
it over. Maybe that way we'll get along faster. So
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up to now we've got this much settled. I found
that the safety catch and the shotgun that killed Phil
two years ago had been pampered with, so it is
no good. Lizzie swears she saw Paul fooling around the
gun just before the accident, and autopsy proved that Frank
was killed by a mixture of ours and nick and
boron which Lizzie and Adam both say Paul was trying
out as a new spray for bean beetles. The bull
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was let out of his pen on purpose, unquestionably to
kill John Eames. Lizzie says she recognized the torn sleeve
of Paul's shirt on the arm she saw slip the latch.
Adam agreed with her. Unfortunately, Paul died without saying anything,
so we don't know his side of the story, but
we do know he told John that Adam did it.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I don't need to hear no more of mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I'm packing up, getting out of here now tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I'll help you pack, Adam. I know where your things are.
I ain't leaving you.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
He ain't a persel. Lizzie can't say to ask you
to share my troubles.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
But I want to, Adam. I've always looked after you.
You think I've got stop now.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Lizzie you real kind, but I can't allow it. I
can take care of herself, Adam. If I were you,
I wouldn't refuse Lizzie like that. Uh, she's in love
with you. She ain't neither. This is an old maid.
That's where you're wrong, and that's where everybody went wrong.
Lizzie is in love with you. That's how all this
came to happen.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Nick, You aren't making any sense now.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yes, I am Betsy. Lizzie hated Paul for not marrying
her that time they re engaged. Now she's going to
love Adam, and she wanted him to have the farm
because she thought that was what he wanted more than
anything else in the world. So she tried to kill
off the Airs one after another and throw the blame
on Paul. Put the safety catch on Phil's gone, the
poison that killed Frank, Oh John. Any farm woman knows
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enough to do those things. And she killed your aunt
Marry the same way she tried to kill you. No
trace of aconite was found on your aunt's pillow because
Lizzie changed the pillow case before calling for help. You'd
have changed yours too if things had gone right, But
she didn't have time. And every once in a while
she's filled a little alcohol out of the barrel in
the cellar to keep the house smelling of it. But
that's not proof, Meck, No, it isn't. But I'm willing
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to bet that if you look, you will find she
just changed Paul's pillowcase. And I don't doubt you'll find
that pillowcase still smelling of aconite somewhere in the house
where the fur sails live, and that will be proved.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
You don't need to look.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Pause.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I've done it, all of it, just like you say.
It was easy. You all sit dumb, just like old
Ben never thought a woman could do anything for you
but cook and sew letting.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The ball out of his pan. You couldn't have done that,
oh couldn't.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I look at my hands, they looked just like a man.
I put one of Paul's shirts under my skirt when
I went out to the barn and slipped it over
my arm when I opened the boat. Nobody knowed it
was me. Even them as saw me do it didn't know.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
How did you know, Meck? It had to be that way.
There was no other answer that would fit all the facts.
As I gathered the men. The exact method used and
the motive behind it were the things I had to
find out before I could act O. Lizzy almost beat
me to it this last time. I didn't think she
was ready to act so quickly. Gosh, Nick, I hate
to think of having to turn her over to the police.
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I've been here, I've grown fond of Lizzie.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You won't have to feel sorry for me, young man.
I do thing instead of talking about him and YO
with John. I took the rest of the ap night
in a bottle. I just leave me be. I'll die
without now. Help for many of you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you
a preview of next week's exciting case.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
But first, a word to the ladies.
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do you plan to tell us about next week?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
A scientist and inventor whose home was on the coast,
was found in his laboratory one morning with a bullet
hole through his foret much.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
To my regret because we were supposed to be vacationing
up there, not capturing murderers.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Well, I suppose murderers have to be captured no matter
what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yes, Ken, And this time I was intrigued by the
killing because the only clue that had any value was
a piece of rope, a kind of rope that none
of us had ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
And there was a thundershower at midnight too, which helped
to put the finger on the killer.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Sounds interesting, guess I'll listen. What's the title of your story?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I call it Crime at Cold Harbor.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Or the Mystery of the Murdered Scientists.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And that's all for now. Detales next week, so long,
So long everybody, and so long to both of you.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
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Today's curious adventure Ready for murder on Nick Carter and
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Nick Carter. As our story opens, we find Nick and
Patsy just entering the hotel room of John Names, a
young friend of Nick's.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Hello Nick, Patsy, Hello John, glad to see you, come
on here. Thanks, better see you again.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Oh Nick, look at that darling Scottie on the bed.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Had back, Get down off that bed.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I know, so cute on the pillow.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I've never been able to break McTavish with the habit.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
By the way, this is Chief Danis, the local police.
Nick Carter and Patsy Bowen. Chief can let's get down
to business. Chief Denis and I have just come from
my Aunt Mary's funeral. As you know, the coroner's verdict
was that Mount Mary killed herself with aconite. But I
don't believe it. Why not John, First because she wasn't
suicide kind. Second because if she wanted to kill herself
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she would have used poisoned. She was more familiar with
She was a gardener, knew all about nicotine, sulfate and
knights make and so on. Nothing very positive there.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Well, it's Connor. How about this SAMs. John's grandfather, Henry Eames,
passed on at.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The age of eighty three four years ago. Three of
the years have died.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Typhoid killed Prying last year, Phil was shot in a
hunting accident two years ago, and now Mary dies of
acon eyed poists.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
But the Purcells keep right on running the farm the
way they always have. Who are the Percell Adam and
Paul Purcell were first employed as fine managers by my
grandfather each successive owner since fans kept them on. So
far everything seems quite open and above board, yes, But.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Each time one of the last three Angels has died,
the word murder has been whispered.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
All over town.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But why I don't get.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Not just a feeling, no prove at all, But the
rumor persists that the purse sales know more about than
they can let off. And as a medical student, I
can say that the chances of three healthy people dying
off like that one after another, purely as a coincidence,
is less than one in a hundred. There's any question
about your grandfather's death being natural? No, none at all.
Now about Phil, he shot himself in the chest while
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out hunting with a Purcell, and it was.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
His gun with all his finger plings on it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I see. And how about Frank's death, died in bed
of noth pypoid, nothing to show it wasn't on the level,
not a thing, mister Carter. Uh huh, Well, I'll tell
me about your Aunt Mary's death. Anything wrong there, well,
nothing you can put your finger on. So here the fact,
And I want to say that they've been checked and
proven in every detail. I tried Mint to Carter. What
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journal tell you is nothing but prak All right, let's
have Aunt Mary lived alone in the big house. The
Purcells and Lizzie Gregg, their hired girl, lived in the
tenant house. Lizzie took care of the big house and
got the meals for Aunt Mary, but she didn't sleep
there well, this particular morning, Lizzie walked over to the
Big House at seven in the morning, called my aunt,
got no answer and investigated. My aunt was in bed dead.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And it snowed that night before all night, and the
tracks we found when we got there polled, pulled, mind
you that no one within the house that night with
his aunt and the.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Poet Morton shows she died a Vaconie poisoning. Yeah, some
minute dose fatal and positive, just enough to kill her.
Who where did you get to zacon Night and really
use it for a hard condition? For years kept the
bottle in the Big House in the kitchen cabinet.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Oh, I see the bottle was found on his van's
bedside table with her fingerprints priinally showing on top of Lizzies.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But it couldn't be an accident because zach and Night
is neither olderless nor tasteless and couldn't be taken without
knowing it. And the poison was administered to my aunt
threw her mouth.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I certainly looked like suicide to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Me, except for one thing, Patty, who is that a
person going to commit suicide would pour themselves out a
good sizeable portion of the poison they intended to use,
not just barely enough to kill them. She wouldn't know
enough to do that if she didn't leave any suicide
note either.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
But if it wasn't suicide, and if she couldn't have
taken it by accident, and if nobody could have forced
it on her without her knowing it was being done,
where does.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That leave you, exactly? Fatty? It proved just one thing
in my mind. It proves a cold blooded, deliberate murder,
carefully planned and executed. I don't know how it was done,
but it was the same. Goes fulfilled that and Franks
and I'll bet the purse cells are the murder are
the accomplices. They stand to gain a nice income from
the farm, which goes to them if the last air dies.
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They've been planning this for years. They planned it so
carefully that the evidence proves them not guilty every time.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Let him per Sale.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Where did you come from?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I not, but there was so much talk and nobody
heard me.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So I come in, John.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I heard what you said. Well, I met at every word.
How do you happen to be here? Pirsell?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I heard Jennan was coming down here to meet Chief
donas and you, mister Carter, I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Why, so I followed.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Him, sits by on me now, young man, not to spy,
to resign Paul and Lazier against the idea. I'm the
elder brother. And what I say goes.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You mean you'll all move off the farm just that
I'm writing now, Bester persl and then every word I said,
just now, and I'm not taking back a word of it.
But you can't resign. And I can't let you go
because if they go now, it means either they're quitting
under fire or I'm afraid to live in the farm
with them. Side. I need fire managers, and the Purcel's
the best managers I know. I think you're right. John. Well,
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how do you feel about it, mister Purcell?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I don't know, but I well, I guess I can
stand it if he can. All right, we'll put the
food on your table, clean your house, run your farm.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But that's all. We won't have nothing to do with
you or you with us. I understand, and I agree.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'll be getting the law.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Quiet Mac and get down off my bed. Come on,
can't get out.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
You're going back to the farm tonight, in miss.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Range, yes, especially in view of what you have happened.
You still think Purcelle's guilty, Yes.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I did.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Adam wanted to resign, either because he was afraid or
because he wanted to establish an alibi, because if I
should be killed while the Purcells weren't living on the farm,
they'd be cleared of all of death. No. No, I'm
going back there and prove that the Purcells actually did
what I think they did. Well, Max, this seems to
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be the kitchen. There's nobody here? Yes, there isn't that
rocking chair?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
How do you do you got your dog at the house?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, because Max always lived with me in my room.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Where's your sleep?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The master bedroom?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Of course, good best room in the house. The time
you want breast.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
About eight o'clock. I'd like eggs, bacon and coffee.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Use up a time, young man. I'll finish the meals.
Good night.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, yes, Max, I was probably living. That's the way
they wanted. Okay, come on, let's have a look at
our house. So this is the master bedroom. Gosh, Max,
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so but mean she's beautiful. Hey, get down off that bed.
Mag You've got to turn over a new leaf in
this house. Lizzie won't have you sleeping on beds. I know. Oh,
all right, stay there for nowsh I wonder what the
whole house smelts so strongly of alcohol. Smells like a
boss bombs here in the bedroom. Swell, well, hello, come,
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I I thought i'd called and see how you're making out. Gosh, Nick,
it's good to hear your voice. This is a grand
old house, but it's so quiet you can cut it
with a knife. Any new ideas yet, yes, one or two? Nick,
I'd like to have you get me a permet to
exhume Frank Ames's body and autopsy the remains. If our
cynical poisoning was wrongly diagnosed as typhoid, I can still
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be checked. All right down, I'll bring the permit out
of me when I come tomorrow. Oh, by the way,
if the purse fells, it has the farm. Why would
Lizzie come in? She wouldn't. There's no interest in in
it all. She wouldn't get touch a dollar of it. Why, Oh,
just wondered. I understand Lizzie and Paul were talking of
getting married about five years ago, but nothing came of it.
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I agree, all right, I'll free about eleven in the.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Morning, all right, and I.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Nex, Come on, Mac, I'm gonna have to get off
the bed now because I'm getting in it myself. Lizzie,
that was the best breakfast I ever ate, and I
mean it.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yes, never you do. I know when I'm being made
fun of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And Lizzie, I wonder if you could manage to get
rid of that barrel of alcohol. I saw him a
seller this this morning. I can smell it all over
the house.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yes, let me speak to Paul, young man. I've been
trying to get rid of that barrel.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
O winter it leaps, Yes, it certainly does.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You'll have to get Paul to get rid of it.
And he's real Southern.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
He's where's Paul now? Plowing? Of course?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Where's this fun of you?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thanks Lizzie. See if I can find him? Yeah, Paul,
come over here, and I please what you want?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm papa busy young man.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I want to see where Phil was killed. Oh, right
over there it was. We was at the grouse.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I climbed to the wire here and he went over
the fence there, shoved his gun to ahead of him,
start hit that rock and bang got him in the chest.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
See thanks, you might if I get back to the
plow and we're behind now, No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You and Adam certainly keep this place in beautiful shape.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
We aimed run down when Adam and me was hired,
But now everything's up to snuff, and no aims ever
put his hand to it yet.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think I'll roam around, see what there is to see.
Haven't been here since I was a kid. Come on, Max, Hey, Mac,
look at the time. But the Clark must be Nick
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blowing for us. Come on, we'll go back to the catalane.
Ought to be the quickest way to the hawk. Gosh,
this Cataline's a beautiful job. Almost two hundred yards straight
from the barn. Out of the fields of the cars
are put out, the pasture fenced on both sides with
five strands of barbed wires, each one of them the
sight of a banjo strings that Mac is a model fence.
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If I ever saw, Yes, Mac, I see him. It's
Nick all right, he's got Patty with him. I'm going
on the top if I can jump that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So the series of accidents is continuing John's first day
on the farm, and already death runs to meet him.
Can this murderer set up be solved in time to
save John? From being killed.
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We'll see in just a moment.
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And now back to our story. As we left John,
he was in a narrow lane hem's in on.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Both sides with high barbed wire, trying to escape a
mad rush of a bull charging down on him from
the farm. It is now a few minutes later.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
We'll get your John. No, all right, I never saw
such a pretty Oh thing is huge the time of
that fan, I.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Can't understand it. The food couldn't break out of his pen.
Somebody must have left the gate to the pen on latch.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It doesn't matter now, No damage was done.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I told you that to get away Sundays told you
the pen that No, you men knew it all.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What are you doing here? Listen, get back to the
house where.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You belong, and down here to tell the young man's
that company that he's found out for yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yes, I found him. Well, John, we'll go somewhere and talk.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Who won't be disturbed there? Nobody will bothers here, Nick Good.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
At first, John, I got the permit to exsume your
uncle's body. I brought the undertaker alonger dig it up
and take it back to town. Good. Second, I got
hold of your uncle phil shotgun, the one that killed him.
I examined it pretty closely. Find anything interesting I did.
I found evidence. It seems to bear out your feeling
that his death may not have been the accident they
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claim it was.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
His house reachs of alcohol.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Don Yes, there's a barrel of the stuff in the cellar.
For some reason, it smells up the whole place.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Come in, young man, you'll leave this baran tonight. Otherwise
you're going to get yourself killed, killed by whom. Maybe
I don't know, and maybe I do. I seen the
hand in the arm that pushed the bolt on the
bullpen gate open. That ball was loose, deliberate.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If you know who did it, you want to speak
up to prevent further tragedy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I only recognize the sleeve of the shirt, so it's tootamite.
But they could have got their shirts mixed up. So
I ain't saying now you heat what I take a
young man, get out and get quick.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Hum She could have been more positive in her identification.
I wonder how positive she really is.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Maybe she doesn't know herself.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Maybe, but I'm beginning to get an idea. You mean,
you can see an end of this riddle. No, but
I think I begin to see where we're headed, and
it's not pretty well. I've got work to do right now.
See you tonight, John, And in the meantime, be careful.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
He well, Nick Carter.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Speaking Hello, Nick. I know I'm going to see you tonight.
But since you've been gone, something's happened. I think you
ought to know.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Job? Both Adam and Paul have come to me secretly
at different times, and each one has told me that
he saw his brother unlatch the gate to the bull's pen.
You mean they each and use the other, yes, Nate,
Well very interesting. Oh by the way, job and if
hops here in your uncle Frank's body shows our cenical
poison and fatal quantities, no question, but what it was murdered?
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But who did it make? Who did it?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I suppose you get all three of the first cells
in the big house at ten in the morning.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'll need them pelletic clean up the details.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Tell them I've found out something conclusive, but don't tell
them what may make one of them come through with
a confession. Maybe all right, mat ten in the morning,
five jobs and watch your help to knife.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Operator emergency I'm poisoned. Get me a doctor quick, and
then get Nick Carter at the hotel. I got that,
get a doctor, then called Nick. Seems as if you
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and Nick got here off.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
A fast that when Nick's in a hurry, he doesn't
waste any time getting prices.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You know what you were poisoned with? Young? Yes, it
was Zach and Night, all right. I know that. I
can't figure out how I got it.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Proces is very low.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We've got to make it pick up. Do you know how?
Of course she does that? She's practically if nurse. It's lucky.
There's nobody here on a farm I can trust here.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Drink this John, It will stimulate your heart, and you
better walk up and down.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I just heard her in the extension in trone that
John was poisoned. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
It's too all right?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You only know what you heard on the phone for sure.
What else? How is he?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
We don't know yet.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I'd rather taking the poison in Moan's stomach than he
should get it. I never dreamed of any killing or note,
and he was being done lack.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Will you get me Paul.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Too, Paul poisoned?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
If you could let me have some of that stuff
you're using for John, ma'am, I'll go ten to Paul.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Well, of course here you.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Come in letty almost to poisoned.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
You in himself, John, that's the only ancest and that
means Paul did all those other things too.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I took nothing since dinner. That was much too long
ago to wait it all this time to take effect.
That is impossible. Eaten nothing and drunk nothing since seven
o'clock it's two forty in the morning.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Then what in the world of it?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
If that's the doctor Patsy rushing to paw okay, almost
talk before he dies. He's got to clear this thing up. John.
Did you say you had no nothing to eat or
drink for the last seven or eight hours? That's right, Nick,
The same as Aunt Mary's case, exactly. She was poisoned
without knowing how it was done. So is I The
answer to one is the answer to both. And Paul's
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killing himself looks as if he were that answer, although
I can't figure out how he could have done it. John,
I'd like to have a look at your room. Feeling
strong enough?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Yeah, sure, Nick, let's do it now, Nick, do.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You think it? And Mac get off that bed? Am
Hi that's funny. Usually, Nick, he's dead, don't touch him?
Why not?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Look?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
John, His head's on the pillow in the same place
yours would be if you were in bed. Yes, so
what you slept on that pillow and almost died. Max
sleeps there and does die. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
I'm afraid not. What should it mean? Aconite was poured
in the pillow case before you went to bed?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Remember? Aconite is so powerful it can be absorbed through
the skin, particularly the thin, damp, mucous membrane of the lips.
That's right, Nick, the person sleeping on that pillow with
aconites pilled on it and poison himself in a couple
of hours because you were restless, you got up before
the dose was fatal. But Mac, with his very bad
habit of sleeping on your pillow and sleeping very soundly,
slept there once too often. But Nick, quite a nice
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smell it. What does aconite smell like with alcohol? Right?
Of course the house reeks of alcohol, naturally, I never
smell it. That alcohol smell is part of the plot.
John who? Nick? Who? Let's get everybody together and talk
it over. Maybe that way we'll get along faster. So
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up to now we've got this much settled. I found
that the safety catch and the shotgun that killed Phil
two years ago had been pampered with, so it is
no good. Lizzie swears she saw Paul fooling around the
gun just before the accident, and autopsy proved that Frank
was killed by a mixture of ours and nick and
boron which Lizzie and Adam both say Paul was trying
out as a new spray for bean beetles. The bull
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was let out of his pen on purpose, unquestionably to
kill John Eames. Lizzie says she recognized the torn sleeve
of Paul's shirt on the arm she saw slip the latch.
Adam agreed with her. Unfortunately, Paul died without saying anything,
so we don't know his side of the story, but
we do know he told John that Adam did it.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I don't need to hear no more of mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I'm packing up, getting out of here now tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I'll help you pack, Adam. I know where your things are.
I ain't leaving you.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
He ain't a persel. Lizzie can't say to ask you
to share my troubles.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
But I want to, Adam. I've always looked after you.
You think I've got stop now.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Lizzie you real kind, but I can't allow it. I
can take care of herself, Adam. If I were you,
I wouldn't refuse Lizzie like that. Uh, she's in love
with you. She ain't neither. This is an old maid.
That's where you're wrong, and that's where everybody went wrong.
Lizzie is in love with you. That's how all this
came to happen.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Nick, You aren't making any sense now.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yes, I am Betsy. Lizzie hated Paul for not marrying
her that time they re engaged. Now she's going to
love Adam, and she wanted him to have the farm
because she thought that was what he wanted more than
anything else in the world. So she tried to kill
off the Airs one after another and throw the blame
on Paul. Put the safety catch on Phil's gone, the
poison that killed Frank, Oh John. Any farm woman knows
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enough to do those things. And she killed your aunt
Marry the same way she tried to kill you. No
trace of aconite was found on your aunt's pillow because
Lizzie changed the pillow case before calling for help. You'd
have changed yours too if things had gone right, But
she didn't have time. And every once in a while
she's filled a little alcohol out of the barrel in
the cellar to keep the house smelling of it. But
that's not proof, Meck, No, it isn't. But I'm willing
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to bet that if you look, you will find she
just changed Paul's pillowcase. And I don't doubt you'll find
that pillowcase still smelling of aconite somewhere in the house
where the fur sails live, and that will be proved.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
You don't need to look.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Pause.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I've done it, all of it, just like you say.
It was easy. You all sit dumb, just like old
Ben never thought a woman could do anything for you
but cook and sew letting.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The ball out of his pan. You couldn't have done that,
oh couldn't.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I look at my hands, they looked just like a man.
I put one of Paul's shirts under my skirt when
I went out to the barn and slipped it over
my arm when I opened the boat. Nobody knowed it
was me. Even them as saw me do it didn't know.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
How did you know, Meck? It had to be that way.
There was no other answer that would fit all the facts.
As I gathered the men. The exact method used and
the motive behind it were the things I had to
find out before I could act O. Lizzy almost beat
me to it this last time. I didn't think she
was ready to act so quickly. Gosh, Nick, I hate
to think of having to turn her over to the police.
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I've been here, I've grown fond of Lizzie.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You won't have to feel sorry for me, young man.
I do thing instead of talking about him and YO
with John. I took the rest of the ap night
in a bottle. I just leave me be. I'll die
without now. Help for many of you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you
a preview of next week's exciting case.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
But first, a word to the ladies.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
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who visits it. It's a real achievement to keep your
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Nick Carter himself. Well Neck, what new and exciting adventure
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do you plan to tell us about next week?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
A scientist and inventor whose home was on the coast,
was found in his laboratory one morning with a bullet
hole through his foret much.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
To my regret because we were supposed to be vacationing
up there, not capturing murderers.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Well, I suppose murderers have to be captured no matter
what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yes, Ken, And this time I was intrigued by the
killing because the only clue that had any value was
a piece of rope, a kind of rope that none
of us had ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
And there was a thundershower at midnight too, which helped
to put the finger on the killer.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Sounds interesting, guess I'll listen. What's the title of your story?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I call it Crime at Cold Harbor.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Or the Mystery of the Murdered Scientists.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And that's all for now. Detales next week, so long,
So long everybody, and so long to both of you.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We'll be expecting to hear from you again next week
as usual. Next week, at the same time, listen to
another curious experience of Nick Carter Master Detective entitled.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Crime mccold Harbor for Nick Carter and the Mystery of
the Murdered Scientist.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Nick Carter, Master Detective is featured in Street and Smith magazines.
Long Clark is starred as Nick, with Helen Shaunt as Patsy.
Original music is played by Lou White, and the programs
are written and directed by Jack McGregor.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Nick Carter.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
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long until next week.
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