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Nick Carter: Case of the Failing Eyes (EP1704) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: for today's episode of Nick Harder. The original air date
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  Speaker 1: August the twenty ninth of nineteen forty eight, and the
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  Speaker 1: title is the Case of the Failing Eyes.
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  Speaker 2: New Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for Chasing Dirt, presents
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  Speaker 2: Nick Carter, famous for Chasing Crime. Every week at this time,
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  Speaker 2: two great names are joined as New Postwar Old Dutch
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  Speaker 2: Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring
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  Speaker 2: characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter, Master Detectives.
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  Speaker 3: If you haven't noticed anything at all unusual, share, Oh
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  Speaker 3: nothing I can think of, mister CURDI not even some
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  Speaker 3: little thing that's out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 3: Probably the only thing I've seen different is that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of folks who never wore glasses are worm here.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, share if a lot of folks have
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  Speaker 3: suddenly taken to wearing glasses. That's right, mister Gurdon Sheriff,
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  Speaker 3: that's the answer I was looking for new glasses. Come on,
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  Speaker 3: come on, where the cats? A murderer? And there's no
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  Speaker 3: time to lose.
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  Speaker 2: And now the case of the Failing Eyes. Today's adventure
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  Speaker 2: starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, rought to you by
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  Speaker 2: New post war old Dutch Pleanser. This early summer morning,
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  Speaker 2: a cleek new card drives into the yard of a
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  Speaker 2: small farm in western Pennsylvania. A man of the woman
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  Speaker 2: get off briskly, carrying notebooks and sheets of official looking documents.
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  Speaker 2: They approached the tall old farmer, who was watching them curiously,
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  Speaker 2: and explained their business crisply. Good morning, says morning. I
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  Speaker 2: hope we're not intruding, permit us to introduce ourselves. My
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  Speaker 2: name's Lake, and this is this Ransom.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning morning, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: We're research experts for the Federal Foundation. Mister heard. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: mister Thomas, you've heard of the Federal Foundation. Of course. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the Federal Foundation is engaged in a nationwide survey of
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  Speaker 2: public health.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Lake and I are one of fifteen hundred teams
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  Speaker 4: of research scientists covering the entire country.
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  Speaker 2: So if you've gone half an hour to spare, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get our information as quickly as possible and move on. Ready, Alice,
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  Speaker 2: Yes it all right. Physical condition of farm excellence, drainage good.
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  Speaker 2: That's a chemical disposal plant back there, mister Thomas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it's so splendid. Electricity. Oh yes, yes, I
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  Speaker 2: see the wiring bottle, gas for cooking excellent, best conditions
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  Speaker 2: for maintenance of health, got it, Allas. But now your
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  Speaker 2: own condition is to Thomas age servant any recent operations
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  Speaker 2: or illnesses, no physical condition. The best I should say,
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  Speaker 2: I can say, one moment, what is it? Mind? If
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  Speaker 2: I take a close look at your eyes, mister Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: My eyes, hmmm, yes, I see you're having difficulty reading lately.
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  Speaker 2: Hermster Thomas, matter of fact, and do printed blur your
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  Speaker 2: eyes seemed dim tendency to squint headache sometimes, I'm yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's too bad. I'm sorry, mister Thomas. Alice, Yes, put
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  Speaker 2: down condition of eyes bad first stages of cataract, first
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  Speaker 2: stages of what cataract?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you mean mister Thomas is going blind?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sorry cataract. I'm mistakable symplem Oh, it's no
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  Speaker 2: laughing matter, mister Thomas. If you value your eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Houn you almost had me full for a minute. It's
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  Speaker 3: the same old racket, but with new trimmings.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Thomas, cheap little crook.
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  Speaker 3: You think you were handing out this line for.
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  Speaker 2: I was a detective for thirty years before I retired
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  Speaker 2: to this little place.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, let's get.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see you're rocket sended right now. We ain't got
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  Speaker 2: an eye doctor in a hundred miles, but we got
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  Speaker 2: a fine.
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  Speaker 3: Little jail down in.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Told you.
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  Speaker 3: What's the letter say, Patty?
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  Speaker 5: It says my.
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  Speaker 4: Dear mister Carter, in accordance with the old Wisha's I'm
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  Speaker 4: keeping you in touch with the news.
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  Speaker 5: About your old friend Fred Thomas. I'm very sorry to
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  Speaker 5: tell you that Fred is dead dead.
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  Speaker 4: He committed suicide on his farm sometime yesterday. A note
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  Speaker 4: was done which Fred stated that he had been depressed
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  Speaker 4: for some time owing to failure of his health, and
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  Speaker 4: that he had decided to get up the struggle.
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  Speaker 3: That's impossible.
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell you how sorry I am to give
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  Speaker 5: you this news. He was very sincerely water Bleaker attorney.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe it, Patsy said.
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  Speaker 5: Thomas was pretty close to seventy names.
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  Speaker 3: Fred could be one hundred and seventy. He'd never commit suicide.
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  Speaker 5: Well, some people when they helped fail.
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  Speaker 3: If Fred Thomas worked with my father. He was my
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  Speaker 3: father's friend and mine. Fred never gave up a fight.
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  Speaker 5: Never, Well, what do you think happened there?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to do anything until we've got facts
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  Speaker 3: to go on.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want me to write to the lawyer? Bleachers?
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  Speaker 3: No, got your bag packed. We're driving out to West
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  Speaker 3: Villa at once. All right, Sheriff Park in Flae. Mister,
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  Speaker 3: i'd like to talk to you. My name is Nick Carter,
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  Speaker 3: This is my secretary, Patsy Bourne. Hello, the detective fellow.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want to talk about, Fred Thomas? Nothing
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  Speaker 3: to talk about, Cass clothes. Well, Sheriff, I'm not exactly
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  Speaker 3: satisfied with the facts as they say. You're not. Eh No,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. I ain't not too bad. Look, lister Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a small police department here, not exactly fancy
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  Speaker 3: like you're a big city outfit. But we know our
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  Speaker 3: way around. I'm sure you do. If you've got any
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  Speaker 3: idea of making a big show down here, excuse me, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like to interrupt, but you don't understand. I've
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  Speaker 3: come down here to cooperate and help. There are any headlines,
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  Speaker 3: you can have them? Ah, look, Sheriff. Patsy and I
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  Speaker 3: just checked in at the Westville Hotel. But you mind
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  Speaker 3: calling the death clerk. Why should I do that? You
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  Speaker 3: prove that I'm sincere call him and ask him to
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  Speaker 3: read you the names of the people who just checked in.
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  Speaker 3: If that doesn't satisfy you, we'll get out of town.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're crazy, but just to get rid of you,
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  Speaker 3: I'll do it. Ellie, get me Sam Woods at the hotel. Yeah, damn,
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  Speaker 3: this is Joe part. I understand. A man and a
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  Speaker 3: woman just checked in. What's their name? Mister Nelson Crane
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  Speaker 3: and miss Paula brown Shoe shalesman. Well, well, well, thanks
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  Speaker 3: Sam Well, Sheriff. I guess maybe I made a mistake,
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  Speaker 3: mister Carter. I apologize you and miss Boone forget a sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: All I want to do is to find out what
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  Speaker 3: happened to my old Fred. I'll come on, come on,
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  Speaker 3: we'll go out to Fred's farm right now, and by heaven,
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  Speaker 3: if you weren't any headlines, I'll split them with you.
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  Speaker 3: This is where he was found, mister Carter, the day
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  Speaker 3: before yesterday, mister Poler, All right, old missus Jameson found
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  Speaker 3: his body. She used to clean up for him every
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  Speaker 3: few days.
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  Speaker 5: Oh then Fred lived alone.
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  Speaker 3: All alone. This bone. Here's the note we found on
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  Speaker 3: this Fredda was slumped in the chair right from front
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  Speaker 3: of the hood. My health is going fast. I'm seventy
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  Speaker 3: years old. Doesn't seem worth fighting anymore, Sheriff. This doesn't
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  Speaker 3: smell right. No, the notice printed, why wasn't it written?
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  Speaker 3: That bothered me too, But then I remembered Fred's eyes
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  Speaker 3: had been going back on him. Maybe, And how about
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  Speaker 3: the suicide to shoot himself? Yeah? The heart you checked
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  Speaker 3: the gun for prince Yeah, gun down at the courthouse
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  Speaker 3: but I've got photos with me. Yeah, I was showing
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  Speaker 3: to you it was a thirty eight automatic bullet. Checking
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  Speaker 3: the gun all right. We dusted the prince inside, knocked,
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  Speaker 3: found Fred's prince all over it, shot and cleared the crystal,
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  Speaker 3: everyone of them.
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  Speaker 4: You see, I think the Sheriff's right, mate, Fred must
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  Speaker 4: have committed suicide.
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  Speaker 3: No, Petty, these photographs prove I'm right. The fingerprints and
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  Speaker 3: that gun were placed there after Fred was killed. They
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  Speaker 3: were what the simple matter, Cheff. You know that all
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  Speaker 3: the killer had to do was take the dead man's
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  Speaker 3: hand wrap it around the gun.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, but what makes you so sure that's what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Because the prince are too clear and sharp, Patsy, especially
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  Speaker 3: when Fred supposed to have held the gun when he
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  Speaker 3: shot himself. Too clear. Yes, the recall of the gun
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  Speaker 3: and his dying hand would smudge the prince. It couldn't
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  Speaker 3: possibly be sharp. By having you right, I've been a fool.
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  Speaker 3: And the question now is who killed Fred Thomas and why?
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  Speaker 3: That's fine, Let's go back to your office, Sheriff and
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  Speaker 3: start thinking. Jeff, you say Fred has no way he's
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  Speaker 3: at all in Westville, not one. He was a fine man,
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  Speaker 3: and everyone liked it.
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  Speaker 4: And you also say he had nothing worth stealing, No,
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  Speaker 4: nothing wrong the stone.
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  Speaker 3: And it gets down to this, Fred must have come
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  Speaker 3: across something new, something bad here in Westville. Whatever that was,
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  Speaker 3: he was killed as a result. We've got to find
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  Speaker 3: what it was. Well, you name it, mister Carter, and
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  Speaker 3: will will find it. So Cheff, you're the man to
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  Speaker 3: call the turn now, I am ah. Well, have you
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  Speaker 3: noticed anything new or different or unusual about Westville recently?
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  Speaker 3: Suspicious strangers passing through new businesses? Anything? I can't think of, nothing,
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  Speaker 3: at least, nothing suspicious, not even some little thing that's
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  Speaker 3: thought of the ordinary. And the only thing I've noticed
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  Speaker 3: recently is that lots of folks who never wore glasses
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  Speaker 3: and wearing them. Now, wait, say lots of folks have
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  Speaker 3: suddenly taken to wearing glasses when never wore them before.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Why even though jam Small's got a pair?
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  Speaker 3: Why do you mention gem Small, particularly because he'd be
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  Speaker 3: the last fire I'd expect to see wearing glasses? Why
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  Speaker 3: wear them? I I wonder where Jim got damn spects were?
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  Speaker 4: They probably brought them at the oculus, same as anyone else.
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  Speaker 3: That's just the point, Miss Varne, there ain't no oculist
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  Speaker 3: in Westville. Well, if that's when anyone wants glasses, they
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  Speaker 3: drive the sixteen miles over to Garrett Town. Gem's then
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  Speaker 3: laid up for the last two months of the lane back.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't get.
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  Speaker 2: To gary Town neither he brought them by mail or not.
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  Speaker 3: Small. You want to see what he's flying for, Sriff,
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  Speaker 3: I think you've given me the answer. I was looking
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  Speaker 3: for a new glasson. I don't get you. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: ask Jim Small about it. There's just one chance in
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  Speaker 3: a hundred that this is something new that killed Fred Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Physical condition of farm excellent, best conditions for maintenance of health.
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  Speaker 2: Got an alice. Now about your own condition, mister Owenson,
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  Speaker 2: age four sixty five, recent operations or illnesses ten year ago?
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  Speaker 2: Get appendix taken note nothing serious than that. Now you're
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  Speaker 2: physical conditions. I'm the best I should say I should
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  Speaker 2: one moment.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Jerry?
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  Speaker 2: You mind if I take a close look at your eyes?
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  Speaker 2: Mister Olson, Yes, yes, I see you having difficulty reading lately.
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  Speaker 2: Prince Blaird, your eyes seemed dim, tendency to squint headaches
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you know that he is right. That's too bad.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, mister Olson. I've got bad news for you.
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  Speaker 2: Take this Alice's condition of eyes dangerous first stages of
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  Speaker 2: cataract cataract. Yes, you mean the go blind. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: but it looks as if you no, no, not blind,
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  Speaker 2: the kind of go blind. Oh, it's not as bad
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  Speaker 2: as all that, mister Olson. Mister you and lady, you
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  Speaker 2: scientific people from Federal Foundation. You know science, you know
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  Speaker 2: about eyes. Maybe maybe you tell me how affection up? Please? Well,
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  Speaker 2: there is a cure, mister Olson.
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  Speaker 5: You are tearing me.
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  Speaker 2: The Federal Foundation elixir. Alice, get a bottle. Now. This treatment,
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  Speaker 2: when taken with a special Foundation glasses, retards.
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  Speaker 5: The progress of cataract.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it's a difficult formula to prepare, mister Olson. It's
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  Speaker 2: rather expensive.
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  Speaker 5: How much uh?
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  Speaker 2: One undred dollars one? Yeah, sur price is too much
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  Speaker 2: for you? No, no, price too much to pay for
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  Speaker 2: age that you may here? They good money? From whose
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  Speaker 2: I get a pair of the Foundation glasses?
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  Speaker 6: Two when southwest twenty four miles and now parameter twenty
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  Speaker 6: nine point nine one.
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  Speaker 3: And four, pay the one again.
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  Speaker 2: She leaves you.
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  Speaker 6: You bring you a special warning. Sriff part in the
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  Speaker 6: pociation with Nick. Carter warns all citizens to be on
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  Speaker 6: the lookout for two crooks now working in the cataract
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  Speaker 6: reckets Ms Garnet.
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  Speaker 2: That's a right a man and a.
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  Speaker 6: Woman claiming to be representatives that the Federal Foundation are
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  Speaker 6: working through the farms and selling bogus church for imaginary
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  Speaker 6: cases of cataracts. Any information that there whereabouts should be
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  Speaker 6: borne directly to this station. A reward of one thousand
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  Speaker 6: dollars will be paid.
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  Speaker 2: Umny, I get the man, I get the more too. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: missus short, I want to call radio station right away.
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  Speaker 2: Sure I hear announce, but I think hiden rewards. You
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  Speaker 2: get radio station tick bleach. I think crooks is here
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  Speaker 2: on my farm. Now, many, it's that I take one
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars from me. Now I take one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: from them. I totally cut a roll of puties. By
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  Speaker 2: good work, Jerry, he's our call. Hang up that receiver quick, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: doing a jam. But there's one ray of sunshine. At
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  Speaker 2: least this big mouse didn't get through the neck. Carter,
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  Speaker 2: the two crooked stand over Olsen's body, and Nick is
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  Speaker 2: seventy miles away. We'll see what happens next in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment. Well, back to the case of the Failing Eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new
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  Speaker 2: post war old Dutch cleanser. It's four o'clock in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: heavy thunderclouds just slowly covering the sky as Nick's long
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  Speaker 2: black convertibles scorches down the roads, eating up the mile
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  Speaker 2: to Olsen's bark.
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  Speaker 3: How much further sheriff just mis boarne.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Nick, I keep thinking about that phone called
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  Speaker 5: the radio station. People kind of make fun of the
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  Speaker 5: way local phone.
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  Speaker 4: Operates in the country, gossip and listening to local conversation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but if that missus choke, you know, the local operator
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  Speaker 4: hadn't been in the habit of listening in or what
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  Speaker 4: people were saying, he wouldn't have been able to relay
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  Speaker 4: mister Olsen's message to us.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm still worried about Olsen's What do you think
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  Speaker 3: happened to him? But print the crook's overheard his call
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  Speaker 3: and shut him up. He's off, mister Carter. Here's Olsen's place.
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  Speaker 2: Golly, thank having that's over.
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  Speaker 3: Several miles, seventy two minutes. That's traveling is this is
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  Speaker 3: our head lar local? Please all right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So why I got it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, this is Nick Carton, Miss Patty Bourne head Lara.
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  Speaker 3: How's olcer? Mister LaRoy, don't let right? They know? Mister Cutter?
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  Speaker 3: How what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Seems like he is around nowhere? Ms Cutter, seems like
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  Speaker 2: he's disappeared.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Nick, We've checked the house, the barns, shedding, the
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  Speaker 3: chicken coops, all the buildings on the farm, and.
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  Speaker 2: He ain't many of them.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Cotter, he must be here somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, mister Lara. Suppose you have your
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  Speaker 3: men check the rest of the farm, search all the ditches, gullies,
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  Speaker 3: the brook, back of the orchard and so on. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we'll do that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Man.
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  Speaker 3: If Austin's murdered, and as a throne chance he was,
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  Speaker 3: the killer may have buried his body. To be on
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  Speaker 3: the lookout for fresh turned earth. We'll keep our eyes open,
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  Speaker 3: miss Cutters. Right, Sheriff, will you come out to the
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  Speaker 3: driveway that turns off the road. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Tire tread oh rained last night, just enough to make
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  Speaker 3: all the tire marks made today plainly visible. Ook here
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  Speaker 3: quite a massive tracks in this drive, mister Carr think
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  Speaker 3: you can make anything out of them? And maybe let's
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  Speaker 3: see This diamond pattern tread belongs to wet Laro's car,
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  Speaker 3: Miss India. Balloon is from Osin's truck.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how do you know that Nike?
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  Speaker 3: I checked him on the sheriff and his men were
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  Speaker 3: looking for Osen.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, so that's why I didn't go with them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and these are the marks of my tires, these
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  Speaker 3: triangular treads and from the other officer's car. Also the
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  Speaker 3: ones of the straight boarded band. Yes, those are from
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  Speaker 3: Tom Adams car and that accounts for all our cars. Right,
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  Speaker 3: How look, your Sheriff, here's one tire track unaccounted for.
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  Speaker 5: It's a half moon pattern.
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  Speaker 3: Funny looking too, and an easy pattern to identify. Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have another look at those pictures you took at
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  Speaker 3: the time of Fred Thomas's murder. Yeah, I'm right here
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  Speaker 3: you want, am I remember one in particular close up
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  Speaker 3: of the DA Here it.
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  Speaker 5: Is, it's the picture some tire marks. How'd you happen
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  Speaker 5: take that one, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, I'll tell you. I've been reading a book
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  Speaker 3: on deteking and it's said to never overlook a thing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh when I saw these marks and knew that there
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: wasn't Fred's car, I took the picture just in case
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: something might come up later, and it has sheriff look
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: closely at this shot.
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  Speaker 5: That's the same tread.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that same half moon pattern. And since that tread
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: appears in both places where we know the cataract crooks
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: have been at tender one up, it's the thread of
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: their car. I'll buy that. Now, what we do, well,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: this is mostly a backcountry district, bactically, all the roads
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: at dirt. Maybe we can follow this tire mark and
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: catch up with those crooks. Maybe if the rain holds off. Yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: gotta work, beast, want to beat the rain. Let's see
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: the tire marks here from the right are over the
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: left by those going out to the left. That means
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the once of the left are more recent. Then the
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: killers drove out and turned south on the road right,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: So let's get in my current follow the track.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: You really think you've got a chance, Nike, Yes, Betsy.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: If they stick to the dirt road, and if the
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: rain holds off, trade ahead and miss Garna straight ahead,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I can still make out the half moon cutter it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: turn to have been weaving in and out of the back road.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Probably hasn't marriage and get credits for that. How so
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: he throw up roadblocks in the ten miles circle right
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: after I spoke to him on the phone. Good man,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: it means our friends are running in circles trying to
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: find a place to break Thanks. Oh dog Garne smetter
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: shift the rain, start show what has we don't ever
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: take them before the next pork or cross run them
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: afraid they'll get away unless the roadblocks stop him. It's carna,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Look up their head.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Why there's smoke, black smoke?
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: What does that remind you of? Sheriff? I burn an
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: oil and gasolene them crooks. Couldn't a cracked up running away?
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Good day. We'll see in a moment.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Hold up, it's a.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Car down in the covert.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Come out, good grief.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Look at him pretty.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Well burned off the christ at least an hour ago. Yeah,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: watch your step pass all right? Hey, Look two bodies
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: inside badly burns. Looks like a man and a woman.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Oh two doors to dance churchlight on real fog, lights
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: of a bumper, last two numbers of license type five
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: nine not to kill his car without any questions. Yeah,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: it looks like that's cut him before a week. Give
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: me a hand of this job with the shirt force
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: it open. A man and a woman about all they
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: can say. Now I have to check further for identification.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: It looks like the remainiers of books and bottles here
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: in the backseat, and what's less a lot of spectacles too.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: I guess nobody'll ever driving this car again.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: You don't know that anybody in the water drive. The
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: two crooks don't need a car no more, not that
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: they're both dead. I wonder whether they are this water?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Do you mean, batsy? I've got a job for you.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: This case isn't finished yet. What you crazy, mister Carr.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Don't death finish The case depends on who's dead, Cheff,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I listen, both of you. Here's what I want to do.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Somewhere up there far.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Hi's getting the job and getting all mixed up. Make
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: sid to cover all these sad roads. But I don't
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: know where I've been and where I haven't. The John
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Rose twist and turn like a like a labyrinth. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: wish Nick were here.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I'd like to ask him whether, hey, hey, get off
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: the road you want to get knocked down.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Let's drove the door in the world's a gun, sister,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Get out of the car. I've been waiting two hours
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: for an easy mark to come along, and you're it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: The car belongs to me now, lady, you won't be
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: needing it anymore. Patsy stares at the wild eyed man,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: who fingers his revolver nervously and motions herround of Nick's car.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: We'll see what she does in just a moment. Now
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: for the conclusion of the Case of the Failing Eyes.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Today's adventure with Nick Carter rought to you by new
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: post war old Dutch cleanser. On the lonely country road,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Patsy crouches behind the wheel of Nick's convertible.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: The armed man who has.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Stopped the car, ships his gun to his left hand,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: reaches through the open door and grabs Patsy. Come on,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you heard me, get out. I'd just as soon let
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: you have an office a man, aren't you? How do
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: you know from the description? Here's it, lady. If you
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: ever had a chance, it's gone.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Come on. He can't help you.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Now, come on, let's get off the road.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I don't want them to find you right away. Just
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: a couple of hours in your cars all I need.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Don't be a pool sister. Yelling won't help none. It's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: fine enough. I'm not gonna waste time, says here, this
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Looking for that? It'd probably a bur and poison. You
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: heard your pappy.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's just my heart a boon. Start again.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I got all Thank you. I love trying
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to get out of pluggage compartment. Well, my friend, the
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: racket's finished, and you, dude, no names please. After all,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: I could call you a three time killer, swindler, thief
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: and all around crook, but I won't. I'll just call
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: you a jail bird. Feeling better enough, I guess so.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: But golly, I was scared stiff.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Nick, What even though we planned everything in that band?
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: I know?
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: But Nick, how did Jerry Lake get away with that
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: cataract racket?
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: How do you manage to scare people in the Falling Point?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Well, they only picked on the older folks, people who
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: were suffering from the natural short sightedness of old age.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: All he did was describe the symptoms of failing eyesight.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: And they thought he was describing the symptoms of cataracts.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: That's about it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: What a dirty wrecking.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Oh well another thing, Nick, Yeah, you say it was
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Olson's body that was burning Jerry Lake's car.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: That's right. You see, Jerry murdered the girl he worked with,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: left her body and Olson's body in the car when
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: he burned it. Yeah, he figured I'm making us think
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: he was the one who was who died in the
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: phony wreck that he could get clear.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Well, you said you knew it was a phony accident
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: because the car was still in low gears.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I shouldainly did. If the wreck had been on the
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: level and they had gone off the road while they
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: were driving along, the car would have been a high gear.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I didn't notice what Geared was in. I just saw
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: the dead body and that was that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: That's what most people think. They look, but they don't see.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: That's like Jerry Lake. What about Jerry He couldn't see
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: that when he put Red's fingerprints on the gun, he
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: was really putting the finger on himself. As a result,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: he's going to get well acquainted with the electric chair,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: which is as it should be. Well, Nick, what about
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the adventure that new post war old Dutch cleanser will
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: bring us next week. It's a story about women's fashions, Mike,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: women's fashions.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: They've always been a mystery to me. Don't tell me.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: On this case, they're more than a mystery. There are
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: calls for plenty of violence.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: You see, the.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Fashions were being stolen, and Mary Daniel said she knew
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: who was stealing them.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And when we went to see her, she walked out
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: of her apartment without saying a.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Word, and a moment later we found her murdered and
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: bedroom in that same apartment.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, wait, this is confusing enough without going any further,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: what do you call this adventure?
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Nick?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I call it the Case of the Quiet Roommate.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Nick. Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: time by the Cutter Heatacking Company. It is produced and
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Smith's Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Petsy. Today's
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is played
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any resemblance
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: is Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count, use new post
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: war old Dutch cleansers. This was a mutual broadcasting.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: System welcome back well a good step to ensure that
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Nick got cooperation with him registering anonymously or I should say,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: under a pseudonym. And we have heard episodes where Nick
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: has gone into a more rural community and has really
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: kind of run roughshod over the local law enforcement. But
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: clearly this was a case it was important for him
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to solve, and he wanted to be sure that just
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in case, he wouldn't be seen as stepping on toes
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: so that he would have a free hand to investigate it. Overall,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a very interesting tale bit of an inverted mystery, though
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: not entirely as we didn't know quite what had happened
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: with a few details. Though, I think his plan of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: killing the farmer and hoping that the police and Nick
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Carter would buy that it was him was a bit
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: far fetch because the farmer was missing and the farmer
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: definitely wasn't the one to do any sort of killing.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Still an interesting case, and this is a bit of
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a ongoing sort of scam that hit a lot of
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: rural areas, the Cataract scam. There was also phony stock
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and phony oil wells that often were concocted in big
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: cities to take advantage of people living in rural areas.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: And this is something that you will find a lot
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: of old time radio and even early television educating people
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: about these sort of scams that people concocted. Probably one
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: of the more prominent examples Lamon Abner. They did a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: cereal where everybody got roped into buying these sort of
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: glasses and were just stumbling around and able to see anything.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Were when they removed it, they saw fine and were
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: not quite have they thought that they were doing something
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: wrong by taking off the glasses. A very funny routine,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: but it also did serve to educate about this sort
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: of skim if people came down the road with that
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: sort of thing, all right, well, that will do it
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: for today. Join us back here next Thursday, another episode
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: of Nick Carter. Next Tuesday, the Crime Files of Flamond
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and tomorrow yours truly, Johnny Doller. In the meantime, send
• 30:32
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• 30:44
  Speaker 1: from Boise, Idaho, This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.