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Nick Carter: Nine Hours to Live (EP1074) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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All right, well now we're going to take a listen to today's episode of
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Nick Carter Nine Hours to Live. Yes, it's another case for that most
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famous of all manhunters, the detective was ability of solving crime is unequaled in
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the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master Detective, The Night's Curious
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Adventure, Nine Hours to Live or Nick Carter and the Death House Mystery.
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And now a late news bulletin nine hours from now at the stroke of midnight,
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Johnny Waldron, the Blonde Face Killer, convicted of the murder of Missus
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Cornelia's feeling We'll go to the chair. Just thirty minutes ago, the condemned
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man made a last request. But Johnny Waldron did not ask for a sumptuous
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last veal in the tradition of the condemned, nor did he ask to see
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his nearest and dearest relative, his wife Laura. No, Johnny Waldron's request
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was from something much more dramatic. He has to see the great Detective Nick
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Carter. Now, just what this last minute conference means is anybody's guests,
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Perhaps a reprieve for Waldren, perhaps a clue as to what happened to the
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Fielding Jewels, which up to now have not even been found. At any
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rate, the Master Detective Nick Carter has consented to talk with Waldren and is
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probably at this very moment entering death House road. Keep tune to the station
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for further dramatic developments. Where you got him? He's a number one.
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We moved him to number one this morning. You see. It's as shorter
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ways to walk to the chair number one. See all ready to go?
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Yeah, the barber was in and shaved his head and legs about an hour
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ago. How are you taking it? Oh, there ain't been a peep
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out of them. Don't want nothing to eat, don't want a chaplain?
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Nothing at all. One of the request he's made is to see you.
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Funny time to ask to see a detective. Eh, if you don't mind
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my asking, mister Carter, what made a bike a shot like you decide
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to see him? Well, maybe I'm curious, you know, it's in
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his mind, go aft about a fellow's going to dine in a few hours.
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I don't believe that you've got any sympathy for a criminal, not you,
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not when a man's a killer. Yeh, here we are. Here's
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your company, Weldron. Oh, Hi, hello, Weldron, Oh cotton.
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You got five minutes? All right? God? Well, Johnny,
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Oh, so you did come? Gosh, I was afraid you wouldn't.
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Well, well, I saidmit. I was surprised when the warden called me
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and said you wanted to see me. Yeah, I imagine you were.
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Gee. It was sure and nice of you to come. I skipped the
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fromalities, Johnny, time's too short for chit chat. Come to the point
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that's on your mind, mister Carter. Do you think I'm guilty? Don't
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you? Well, didn't follow your case too closely, but you had a
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fair trial. You were found guilty. Or did you have me believe.
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I'd like to have you believe that that I'm innocent pretty late in the game
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to convince Johnny. Oh, I'm not looking for a last minute reprieve.
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That isn't what I asked you to come out here for. I got worried
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a little while ago that the governor refused my last request for a reprieve.
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I just made up my mind that I'd only be kidding myself if I hoped
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any longer. Why did you want to see me, Johnny, Mister Carter,
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I know I haven't got a chance. I'm I'm going to be gone
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and in just a few hours now. But I could go a lot easier
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if I thought that that maybe someday the war would know the truth, they'd
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know that that Johnny Walden was innocent. Johnny, if I thought you were
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innocent, I'd start the wheels turning right now to get your reprie. Oh
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wait, let me finish, mister Carter. I know you don't believe me.
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Nobody does. I guess I couldn't expect you to believe me after the
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way things went at the trial. But sitting here in death row waiting,
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the idea came to me that that maybe Nick Carter would show him someday,
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of course i'd be gone. But well, you see there there's Laura,
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my wife. She's going to keep on living and it'll be hard for her.
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I suppose she believes you're innocent. Oh, she's stuck by me.
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Swell. She's a wonderful woman and I don't want the word to look on
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her as the widow of a murderer. Mister Catter. All I'm asking is
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that after I'm gone, in your spare time, when you try to prove
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that they executed the wrong man, just for my wife's sake, Johnny,
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if your innocence, who do you think did rab the Fielding safe and kill
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missus Fielding? I don't know, mister Carter. There's nobody you even suspect,
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well the only one that No, No, I'm not going to accuse
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somebody I'm not sure of. I've only got a few more hours to live
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in I don't want me to do anything for you, Johnny. You better
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tell me everything you can about this. No. No, you'll find up
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for yourself once you start looking. I've got to have some kind of evidence
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to go on it. I don't have any cards were stacked so well against
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me. But go see Laura. She's never stopped working for me. Maybe
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she knows more by now, look here, that's the case. Why haven't
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you had a lawyer working for you right up to the last minute? Lawyers?
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I never had that kind of dough. Oh. A couple of shyeses
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came around thinking maybe I had the feeling jewels tucked away someplace when they found
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out they weren't going to get a cut, and they faded pretty fast.
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Even if you decided to do anything for you, mister Carter, I wouldn't
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be able to pay if your trouble. You'd have to do it just just
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as a favor to a dying man. You don't know where the jewels are
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on No, mister Carter, how could I know? I didn't do that
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job. Look you go see Laura. She'll tell you whatever she can.
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All right, time's out, mister Carter. All right, God well,
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Johnny, I'll look into your case. I don't suppose you believe me.
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I bet he's been telling you an innocent man who's being the center of the
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chair. Huh. He tells that to everybody. It ever occurred to your
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guard that he might be telling the truth. Why so good luck? Oh
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thanks for coming, mister Kata, and thanks for whatever you can do for
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me. Sir, I'd very much like to know what happened to those fielding
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jewels. M oh oh oh oh, yes, well maybe they'll turn up
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while you're investigating. Thanks, so I wonder, say, God, how
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long is it until eight hours? Johnny? Just eight hours more? Hello
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Nick Carter's office, Oh, batcha, this is Nick. Oh Nick,
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kay, heaven you called? This place is a madhouse. The office is
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filled with reporters. The newspaper and broadcasting companies have been telephoning. The District
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attorney has been trying to reach you. What's the trouble. They want to
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know if you're going to try to get a reprieve for Johnny Waldron. The
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DA said he'd stick around his office all evening, and he's contacted the governor
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and he'll be on tap ready reprieve. Well great, Heaven, I just
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talk to the fellow. I don't have any evidence none whatsoever. It's the
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matter with the DA. When Nick Carter goes to work on a case,
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even at the zero hour, it's something usually pop. I'll tell him to
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hang out to the hats a while and you, Pat Sig go up to
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the courthouse and get a transcript in the Walden trial. They got what you
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can out of our files about Waldron. I'm heading back from State's prison right
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away. Meet you in front of the office, all right, Nick,
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So we're going to have to work fast. They throw the switch at exactly
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seven hours and forty minutes. Waldron was really hired as a chauffeur, was
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brought out of the trial, and he ingratiated himself with the old lady every
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chance he got. Oh, you know, missus Feeling was an invalid.
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Waldron used to carry her up and downstairs and waited on her and all that
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sort of thing. Who's inside the house A great deal? Then then I
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see now, Oh, the gun was traced to Missus Feeling's step son,
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Tom Fielding, but the prints and the gun were Waldron's. Her step son
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lived there with her. Yes, it's just the two of them. Walden
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and all the other servants slept out and reported for work in the mornings at
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eight. One is the body found On a Thursday night at ten o'clock the
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library of the house. Tom Feeling came home from his club and founder the
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safe was open and the jewels and money gone. Of course, any of
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the servants as well as Tom Feeling might have known the combination of the safe.
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Missus Feeling often opened it in front of all of them. The defense
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hopped on that at the trial. But Waldron's prints on the gun and his
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alibi being so flimsy, cooked his goose. I see see that, Walter,
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strike you, Nick guilty. It's the evidence that tells the tale.
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In any case, Betsy, we could find the party who has the missing
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Fielding jewels. It would look pretty grim for that, I said, it
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wouldn't look good, that's sure, Oh Nick, Look at the time,
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five fifty. In six hours and ten minutes, an innocent man may be
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electrocuted on oh, Betsy, no innocent man will be electrocuted for a crime
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he didn't do well. My name's Nick Carter. And here's the first stop,
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Betsy. His old tenement house. Laura Waldron lives here. You're very
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nice to come to see me, especially today, Missus Waldron. This is
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my assistant, Patsy Bourne. How do you do miss Bourne? Hello,
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missus Waldron. Won't you to sit down here? Let me dust the chair?
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No, no, no, down that's perfectly all right. Since Johnny's
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been away, I haven't been as good a housekeeper as I used to be.
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I'm no heart for it anymore, Missus Walden. I came to see
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you because I know you went to see my husband. I heard on the
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radio. Yes, that's right. But it's too late to get Johnny off,
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isn't it. Besides, we don't have any money to pay a famous
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detective, Missus Walden. The only thing Nick Carter ever asks is that justice
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be done. Oh, Missus Walden, tell me about Johnny, his habits,
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what he likes, he doesn't like. Johnny's good, Mister Carter.
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See, I know he's innocent. Proof No, just my heart tells me
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he wouldn't kill anybody. But more than that, I know because he was
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with me at the time the police says she was killed. Prosecution. Yes,
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a wife's testimony doesn't come for much in court. Oh yet, how
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thankful I am that he was with me that night. But I know he's
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innocent. You understand what I mean, don't you, miss Bourne? You
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understand when I say the world can stand against your man if you know he's
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right and couldn't tu you, Missus Waldron. Isn't there any way at all
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it can be proved that your husband was home with you that night. No,
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no, you don't think of providing alibis for staying in your own home.
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It isn't much, I know, but it's ours. Tom Fielding is
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out to help me. Now, Johnny is gonna be dumb Feeling. You
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mean, the step son of the woman your husband's convicted of murdering. Yes,
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in what way is he offered to help you money? He knows Johnny
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isn't the murderer. His testimony in court didn't follow that line, Missus Warden,
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of course not. Mister Feeling had himself to protect. That's right.
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Nick Feeling was under suspicion. Just this afternoon he called me again, And
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where's the jewels? I said to him, If my Johnny did it,
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where's the jewels and the money? Would I be begging for work if Johnny
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had done it. You're working now, Missus Varden, day work, scrubbing
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up places where they don't ask too many questions. But I've noted the streets
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of this town from one into the other every day. John don't, missus
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Waldron, don't cry. Please, you have to exclude me. Thank god,
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I'm counting the minutes and seconds now, only a few more out,
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Johnny will because Missus Waldron, I'd like to ask you another question. No
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right, maybe Nick can say your husband yet, you know, Oh,
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if you only could, there wasn't time left for me to chase down every
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witness and question them. Tell me, Missus Waldon, whom do you suspect
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of robbing and murdering your husband's late employer? Oh? Oh, mister Carter,
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I have no proof against anyone. I didn't ask if you knew who
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murdered Missus Feeling. I only said whom do you suspect? But I have
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no right to suspect him? Right? What do you mean he's been so
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kind and offer to help Tom Feeling, that's who you think did it?
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Oh? I never dared think it out loud before he was a step son,
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you know. But she will love money. I'm not saying it did
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it, only only what you talked to him, mister Carter. All right,
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Well, I'll go right over to the Fielding House now. Oh,
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but you won't find him at home at this hour. And Carter, he's
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always at the club at this time, I know. For when Johnny used
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to drive for him. That's the old Hunt Club, isn't it. Yes,
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come on, Patti that sorry. Time's precious, Okay, goodbye and
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thank you, probably right here waiting and praying you'll find the guilty man in
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time to save Johnny. Nick, there's something puzzling you. What is it?
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Didn't you think missus Walden's story made sense? Well, it did and
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it didn't. But Nick, doesn't it seem a bit odd for Tom Feeling
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to offer him money? Yes? If that's true, well then her story
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does make sense. Patsy, It's not what missus Walburn said. That's about
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it. Something else, something else? What is it? Nick? I
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wish I knew at the simple It's something that doesn't get into the picture in
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the back of my mind somewhere, but I can't quite get the key to
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it. And if you ask me, Tom Feeling is the one who would
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straighten out a lot of things. And he's the man who're going to tackle
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right now. Oh, this Hunt Club's pretty swaky, good evening, sir,
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Can I park your car for you? Thanks to play? Still has
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down it? And pa oh, I beg your pardon, miss ladies.
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All permitted in the old Houn Club. I'm sorry. Well, that that's
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your out passing. I guess it does any better? Wait for me here?
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I guess I'll have to. Oh, Nick, it's eight fifteen,
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only three hours and twenty five minutes to go until midnight. Ring again,
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Nick Feeling. Wasn't it a club? So we've got to be home here?
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Uh? Your womanly intuition isn't working right to night, Betsy. Not
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a light in the whole house. I don't think anybody's home, mister Feeling.
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If you only knew how much time we've wasted looking for you, Well,
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Patsy, maybe we can uncover enough evidence without seeing mister Fielding face to
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face? What are you going to do? Little high class lock picking and
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the interest of Johnny Waldron and his wife Laura. That way, I command,
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and stay behind me. She gets talking here, Shut the door and
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out, use my flash. Where are we headed? For? The library?
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That's the room missus Feeling was killed in, wasn't it. Let's see
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these old houses. The library is usually back this way off the center of
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Do you think there's anybody beside us in the house? I hope not.
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You're here, said door. That's must be it. Yeah, this is
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the library. What are we looking for? All right? Now? I'm
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looking for Missus Fielding safe? Safe safe. Oh it's behind that portrait of
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her that was in the testimony. You're right, thanks, Bettie. I'll
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turn on that small lamp. Will you take a glance at the papers to
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the desk while I opened the safe? Say, Missus Fielding held her son
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and air down while she was living. He sent me making up for it.
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Now look at that flye cabinet. It's filled to the hair with pre
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war stuff. Oh, and look at this black market stuff. Have a
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gold tip cigarette that is going Yes, thank you, I will. How
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do you feel I Tom Fielding walked in here right now and caught you swiping
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his expensive cigure? Is only one Nick? And for that matter, how
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would you feel if mister Fielding so you were about to open his safe?
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Okay, yes, I guess hell and they shot into that window there.
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The bullet went right on the side of the desk here. Well, we
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better get out of here, Nick one minute, Betsy, and see what's
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in this safe. It's almost open. Now who do you think shot it
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is? Mister Fielding? Oh, Patsy, will you pick that bullet out?
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Of the desk. It'll be a handy piece of evidence. All right.
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So you're taking this attempt to murder us awful likely, Nick, I
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don't think it was murder, Betsy, not murder. No, you were
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standing by the wine cabinet, not four feet in the window, and I
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was a perfect target standing here. No, Betsy, I think you'll find
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somebody was just trying to scare us away. Oh well, I got the
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bullet out. Let's start at thirty two anyway, Patsy, Yes, okay,
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the missing juice, oh, Nick, yes, right here in the
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scene. Oh, Nick, that's wonderful. Hey, Patsy, what are
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you doing? I'm getting the deil on the phone for you. You've got
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the evidence of Johnny Walden's refree, Nick, Missus Waldron was telling the true
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put down that phone. Yes, Nick, I'll get my police headquarters first.
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I want a general alarm sign up for Tom Feeling. But Johnny Waldron,
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I still have two hours, Patsy. If Waldron's innocent, I'll prove
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it time to save him from the chair. Nick, why should you want
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to talk to missus Waldron again when you haven't asked for the reprieve? Only
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make her feel worse, something about it that doesn't add up for Patsy,
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and I've got to know what it is before I go any further. This
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is her doors y, Cardie. You're thinking on This case is beyond me.
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Oh, Patsy, it's hard to explain what. I don't know myself
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what the missing link is. How can I explain it to you? But
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you found the jewels. Tom Feeling had them in his safe. Why it's
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obvious, Nick, he didn't get along with his step mother and he Nick,
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what are you doing? Want to open missus Walden's door? Oh no,
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don't do that, Nick. I'm sure she's here. She's probably been
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crying and doesn't want to see anybody. Let me call her first, Missus
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Walter. Missus Walter. Sorry, Betty. We haven't any time to waste.
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Now. Let's see where's the light switch here? Right the door.
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Oh, she isn't here, so it seems Nick. Look here, there's
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a gold tip cigarette in this ashtray, the same kind we saw at Fielding's
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house. Let's have it, no lipstick on it, kind of pinched in
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there at the end. He's been here. I never would have believed it
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of him. Believe was it a man like Feeling would come to a place
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like this. A man like that wouldn't get his hands dirty putting them on
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the doorno say that again? What a man like Ceiling wouldn't dirty his hands
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on the doorknob of a place like I got it, Patsy, who just
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gave me the key I've been looking for. Come on, we've got to
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get back to the feelings, Operarya. There'll be another murder, you know,
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Patsy. There are times when having a siren on this car comes in
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handy and the night's one of them. Op time do you think the police
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woul pick Feeling up here? Do you think he bet his home? He's
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at home. I've got my bottom dollar on that. Do you know what
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time it is? I'm worrying about the time. And come on, all
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right with you? Places still die. There's a little light shining in the
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hallway. He's here, all right. Why don't you step Betsy, don't
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worry about me. I slipped the latch in the front door when we left.
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See if it's been bolded? Still open? Where do you think he
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is? Very probably that missus waterman open the door yet? Shot? Oh
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Nick, hurry, I am hurrying he's killing there. Oh, missus Water
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I was thank you can't. He was just going to shoot me. I
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got the gun away from him, shut him. But he was self defense.
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Anyone can see that. I'm so sorry. Human. He was worth
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it, it was worthy. Now, Johnny'll be safe. You won't have
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to die in the chair. Nick, you've only got seven minutes to call
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it. Seven minutes to twelve, mister Cotton, just a minute. You
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have a cigarette? A cigarette, right, thanks? Wait a minute til
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I get my whole out of my bed. Oh you do use a cigarette
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holder? I thought so take the time is getting awfully shot for your call
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to the DA. I'm not gonna make that call. I not gonna make
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it. No, Missus Waldon, there's a nice frame up you when your
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husband tried against Tom Feeling but it didn't work. Frame up, yes,
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Frame up you, and Johnny stays this whole thing to get him a last
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minute repriet. It's pretty clever. But you made a couple of mistakes.
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For example, this gold tips cigarette but I found in your apartment tonight.
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What about when I found this button in your apartment to all pinched in at
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the end from having been smoked in the holder. I knew you would lie
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about not having seen Tom Feeling these particular cigarettes I made to order for him.
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I didn't leave it there. I couldn't be sure of that until I
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found that you used a cigarette holder, and then I knew I was right.
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You did leave it here. Go on, prove it another thing,
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Patsy. Take a look at Missus Waldon's hands. My hands, are they
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beautiful? Beautifully manicure exactly? This is Walden to hands like yours. You
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don't scrubs for a living. That dingy apartment of yours is merely a front
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gune. Yes, And I know how I use this gun too, And
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I'm going to so sorry. Hey, Missus Walden, Betsy, Yes,
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take a look at Tom Feeling. See if you're still alive? Right,
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Nick, you haven't got anything on me. You can't get me, good
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one phenemenance quick? Okay? But Nick, can you prove this charge against
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missus Wolton? Can you be positive she and her husband framed Feeling? Not
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yet, Patsy, But I'm so sure I'm right that I'll risk my reputation
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on it. But Nick, as long as there's the slightest doubt about it,
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shouldn't you call the DA and give Johnny Walden the benefit of the doubt?
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No, Patsy, As far as I'm concerned, there's no doubt whatsoever.
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I'm so sure I'll even risk Johnny's life on it. Hello, Nick
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Carter's office. Oh, yes, lieutenant, Yes, yes it was he
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is I see? Well? Thank you, Lieutenant. Yes, I'll tell
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Nick goodbye. Is that the report from the police head Corners Pency? Yes,
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it was Lieutenant Riley. And you were right, Nick. That gun
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you took from missus Walder was registered in Johnny's name, and she lied about
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taking the gun away from feeling and shooting him in self defense. Feeling finger
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prints weren't on the gun anywhere, but hers were all over it. Did
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They checked with the bullet when you picked out of that desk and one that
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was fired of us? Yes, and it came from the same gun.
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Fine. What about feeling rally saying he's going to live. What's more,
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he regained consciousness long enough to make a statement. Good. Oh, Nick.
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That missus Walden was certainly clever. She was planning the jewels and feeling
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safe when he came in the room and caught her. So she yelled him
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at the point of her gun and knocked him up, found his wrists and
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ankles, gagged him and hit him away in another room. How did you
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know that, very simple, Bessy, the marks we had been tied was
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still in his wrists when I examined him, And also there was a bump
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on his head. Nick, you're always holding out on me? And one
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other thing. What made you think Feeling's life would be in danger way back
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when we were in missus Walden's apartment the second time? Sure, h Well,
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Patsy, After you inspired remark about hands, I suddenly realized what it
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was about missus Walden that puzzled me was her hands. I knew that with
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hands like hers, he couldn't be earning her living scrubbing floors, I see.
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And if she were lying about that, it was very probable she was
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lying about everything, and the whole thing was a plot to make look guilty.
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Why should that make you suddenly afraid that something might be going to happen
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to feel us? If she and Johnny were so anxious to get Johnny a
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reprieve that they were willing to give up the jewels to make it look as
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if feeling were really the guilty man. It was entirely possible that she might
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go further and kill Fielding and try to make it look as if he killed
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himself. But how would that have Johnny Waldron, Well, it was done
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right. It would look as if he were remorseful at having let Johnny take
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the blame. She almost got away with it, but she didn't because Nick
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arrived in the nick of time. You're a wonderful detective, mister Carter,
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and soul ladies and gentlemen. At midnight last night, Johnny Waldron went to
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the electric chair to pay for the crime of having murdered Missus Cornelius Fielding his
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dramatic last minute attempt to get a reprieved field Thanks to the quick action of
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that master Detective Nick Carter. In those few short hours that Carter was actually
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on the case, he found the missing jewels, uncovered a well laid plot
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between Johnny and his wife to pin the murder on Tom Fielding and save Fielding's
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life. Tom Fielding in the entire community or a diet a gretitude to Nick
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Carter. This has been another of the strange adventures of Nick Carter, Master
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Detective which are brought to you regularly at this time by a w R mutual.
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Well, Nick, what happens in your next week's story? I want
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to tell you the story of the time that I quite accidentally stumbled onto a
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terrible crime. Would be more correct, I stumbled onto evidence that a terrible
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crime had been committed. That doesn't sound like a very unusual thing for you
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to do, except for one little fact, mister Ridley. We didn't know
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where or when the crime had been committed, in spite of the fact that
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we heard the story of the murder from the victim's own lips. As a
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matter of fact, we even heard the murder committed, and we want us
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to do anything about it. If you're trying to make me curious about it,
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we are you're certainly succeeding. Well, it's as unusual a tale as
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I've had the pleasure of telling in a long while, I assure you.
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So until next week, So long and so long to you, Nick and
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Patsy. In the Strange Adventure you have just heard. Nick Carter was impersonated
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by Lon Clark, Patsy by Helen Choate. The story was written for Nick
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Carter by Bart Conray. Original music was played by Lou White. The entire
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production was under the direction of Jack McGregor. Next week, at the same
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time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter entitled Records of Death for
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Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Unclaimed Box. This story is a copyrighted
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feature of Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. The Return of Nick Carter is produced
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in the studios of WR and This broadcast over most of these stations every Saturday
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evening at seven o'clock Eastern wartime. And don't forget that the adventures of Nick's
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adopted son, Chick Carter are broadcast over most of these stations Mondays through Fridays
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at five point thirty pm Eastern wartime. This is mutual welcome back. When
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I first heard this episode, I was really stunned by the way it ended,
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and then I thought, you know, this is actually pretty good.
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The whole premise is probably one of the most cliched in both detective and crime
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fighting fiction, including superheroes, where the guilty man his only hours to live
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and our detective has to find the evidence that we'll save his life, and
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it always ends with the life being saved, with perhaps just minutes to spare.
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Now, there may have been some variations on this in recent years,
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but this has been kind of a classic trope. You you know, there
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were tons of radio episodes about it TV shows from the nineteen thirties to the
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nineteen eighties. Here they actually do something really different, and I like that.
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I like that it, you know, just surprised us with a very
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good twist from what you'd expect, because I think you sit and you listen
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to it, you are expecting one thing, and they just totally turn it
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around. So I think they deserve some credit for some inventiveness and creative creativity.
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And next week's episode is also another one of my favorite Nick Carter's,
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so I hope you'll be back for that one. But now we're on the
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listener comments and feedback, and we have a comment here from Dale who says,
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Hey, Adam, I just purchased the app and I'm enjoying it enormously.
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I found your podcast about two years ago, so I have all the
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enthusiasm. Well, thanks so much, Dale truly appreciate it and glad to
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have such a great archive for people to be able to go back and listen
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to. All right, well, that will conclude today's program. Join us
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back here tomorrow when we wrap up the Laird Douglas. Douglas of Heatherscope Matter
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and also the Doctor will be back another episode of Doctor Tim and then next
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Thursday, as I said, another really great episode of Nick Carter. I
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