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Nick Carter, Master Detective - "The Case of the Little Old Ladies" (1946) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A payroll robbery and a missing witness bring Nick Carter
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  Speaker 1: to a small house on the edge of town where
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  Speaker 1: two elderly women enter the investigation. From Mutual's sustaining run,
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  Speaker 1: this is Nick Carter, Master Detective, in episode 232, The
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  Speaker 1: Case of the Little Old Ladies, first heard April 23, 1946.
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  Speaker 1: Lon Clark stars as Nick Carter with Helen Choate, Ed Latimer,
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  Speaker 1: and John Kane. The script is by Jock McGregor. And now,
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: It's a case for Nick Carter, master detective.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters.
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  Speaker 4: The detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in
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  Speaker 4: the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 5: But, Mr. Sweet, that sort of thing is entirely out
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  Speaker 5: of my line.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I suppose it is, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Carter, but after all, you are our official investigator. All right,
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  Speaker 5: all right. I'll have one of my men take care
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  Speaker 5: of it. Now, tell me again what you want me
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  Speaker 5: to do.
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  Speaker 7: One of our clients is being sued as a result
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  Speaker 7: of an automobile accident in which a woman was very
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  Speaker 7: severely injured. Our client got the name of one witness,
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  Speaker 7: but another witness got away before he could find out
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  Speaker 7: who he was. Now, our client says he was a
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  Speaker 7: very tall, thin chap with red hair, probably in his
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  Speaker 7: late 20s. A bystander told him that he thought this
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  Speaker 7: man lived just a couple of blocks away.
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  Speaker 5: That's all we know about him.
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  Speaker 7: But his testimony is extremely important to us in our
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  Speaker 7: defense of the case.
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  Speaker 3: We must find him at once.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Mr. Sweet, we'll find him. Where was the collision?
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  Speaker 7: Corner of Bullisville Avenue and second place on the north side.
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  Speaker 5: And this red-haired young man lives a couple of blocks
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  Speaker 5: from there in some unknown direction?
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  Speaker 3: That's what we believe, Mr. Carter.
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  Speaker 5: All right, all right. I'll send Mr. McGlynn out at once.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. As soon as we have something definite, I'll
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  Speaker 5: let you know.
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  Speaker 8: So began a case the like of which had never
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  Speaker 8: been encountered by Nick Carter, master detective.
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  Speaker 4: A search for a missing witness seemed like a simple
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  Speaker 4: routine job. But Nick didn't know about the two old
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  Speaker 4: ladies who lived in the little house on the edge
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  Speaker 4: of town. You'll learn all about it in The Case
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  Speaker 4: of the Little Old Ladies.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't you say you don't know nobody was right here? No,
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Keep on trying.
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  Speaker 3: Of all the jobs for a great detective like me.
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  Speaker 3: Going from door to door looking for a guy who
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  Speaker 3: probably don't even exist. I never knew Nick Tafal for
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  Speaker 3: such a dumb stunt before. And he had to wish
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  Speaker 3: it on me. I don't know why I don't quit.
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  Speaker 3: 47 houses I've been to. Nobody ever seen a guy
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  Speaker 3: like I'm looking for. But I heard about every kind
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  Speaker 3: of fellow but the kind I want. Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Who is it, please?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. I wonder if you can tell me anything
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  Speaker 3: about a tall, thin young man about 26, 28 years
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  Speaker 3: old with red hair.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, let me see. I know almost everybody in
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  Speaker 2: this neighborhood. We've lived here a great many years.
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  Speaker 9: If you'll come in, I'll ask my sister if she.
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  Speaker 2: Recalls such a person. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Now, ma'am, I don't want to put you to no trouble.
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  Speaker 2: No trouble at all. We'll be glad to help you
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  Speaker 2: if we can. Do come in, please.
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  Speaker 3: Well, all right. Of course, I want to find this fellow,
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  Speaker 3: so if you can help.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you do.
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  Speaker 6: Edith?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Will you come here a minute, dear? What is it, Mary?
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  Speaker 2: Can I... Oh, Edith, this is Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Wildo McGlynn, ma'am. Chief assistant to Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. McGlynn. How do you do, Mr. McGlynn?
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  Speaker 5: How are you, ma'am?
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  Speaker 9: Mr. McGlynn says he's looking for a tall, thin young
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  Speaker 9: man with red hair.
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  Speaker 2: About 26 or 28 years old. Do we know such
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  Speaker 2: a man? Well, now let me see. There was James Bond.
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  Speaker 2: He used to live down the block next to Mosher's.
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  Speaker 2: But he moved away last year. Oh, his hair was
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  Speaker 2: really almost blonde, dear. Do you suppose he could mean
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  Speaker 2: Walter Castle? Sister, he must be nearer 35. I suppose
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  Speaker 2: you're right, Edith. How about young Ed Terrence? He lives
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  Speaker 2: over on the next block. treat. Oh, no, sister, he's short.
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  Speaker 9: Almost as short as Cousin Elmer is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, look, Lady, it's awful good of you to take
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  Speaker 3: all this trouble just to help me find this young man,
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  Speaker 3: but I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know what trouble at all, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: McGlynn.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't seem to be able to do it. Mary,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Mr. McGlynn would like a cigar while he's waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I'll get him one. They're in the box
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  Speaker 2: on the table behind him. No, don't get up, Mr. McGlynn.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it for you.
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  Speaker 3: I I hate to have you doing all this for me, ladies.
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  Speaker 5: If you'll just.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. McGlynn, don't move.
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  Speaker 2: Just sit where you are.
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  Speaker 3: What in the name of.
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  Speaker 9: This is a gun, you feel, on the back of
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  Speaker 9: your neck. And if you don't stay very quiet, it'll
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  Speaker 9: go off. And you'll never find this young man you're
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  Speaker 9: not looking for.
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  Speaker 3: Not looking for?
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  Speaker 2: Shall I tie him up now, Manny?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, eat it.
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  Speaker 9: Tie him up right in his chair so he won't
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  Speaker 9: have to move at all.
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  Speaker 2: And tight enough so he can't move. Very well, Mary.
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  Speaker 2: I brought the rope as we planned.
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  Speaker 3: But look here, ladies. I just want to find a fellow.
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  Speaker 2: You can't fool us, Mr. McGlynn. We know why you're here.
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  Speaker 2: You came here to try to trap us into a confession.
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  Speaker 2: But we were too smart for you. Now that you've
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  Speaker 2: found out where we live, we'll have to go away,
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  Speaker 2: of course. That's why we have to tie you up
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  Speaker 2: so you can't follow us. Oh, Mary, Bill isn't going
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  Speaker 2: to like this. He trusted us, and now look what
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  Speaker 2: has happened. We've failed him.
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  Speaker 9: I know it. I can't imagine how this man found out,
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  Speaker 9: but I'm afraid Bill will never forgive us, sister.
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  Speaker 3: What in the name of all that's holy are you
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  Speaker 3: dames talking about?
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  Speaker 2: You know well enough, Mr. McGlynn. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: ask us what we've done.
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  Speaker 9: If you didn't know, why are you here?
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  Speaker 2: There, now there. He can't get out of that, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: Look, ladies, Nick Carter ain't going to like this, not
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  Speaker 3: at all. He says I always get things balled up,
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  Speaker 3: and now he.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't you worry, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: McGlynn.
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  Speaker 2: He can't blame you. We're just too clever for you
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  Speaker 2: and your Mr. Carter. Come, sister, we must pack and...
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  Speaker 2: Is it that all good thieves say? Oh, yes. We
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  Speaker 2: must pack and scram.
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  Speaker 10: Scram.
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  Speaker 3: There you are, Waldo. Free as a bird. Oh, thanks,
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  Speaker 3: Cubby boy. Oh, dear, I can't move. I'm as stiff
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  Speaker 3: as a board. Ah, you'll be all right in a
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  Speaker 3: minute or two.
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  Speaker 5: Now, listen, Waldo. You say these two old ladies tied
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  Speaker 5: you up so as to give them time to move out? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's what they said, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: They thought I had the goods on them for something
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know nothing about.
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  Speaker 5: Couldn't you guess what that something was from what they said?
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  Speaker 3: Not a single guess could I give, Nick, boy. They
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  Speaker 3: was altogether too cagey for me. One of them said
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  Speaker 3: something about thieves, but that was all. Oh, by the way, Nick,
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  Speaker 3: I forgot to ask you. How did you happen to
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  Speaker 3: find me here? That was easy.
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  Speaker 11: Patsy told us what route you were planning to follow,
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  Speaker 11: and we followed you. You had called at the house
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  Speaker 11: on the left, but you never got to the one
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  Speaker 11: on the right. This house being empty, it was a
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  Speaker 11: good bet that you were here. Nick unlocked the door,
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  Speaker 11: and here you were, waiting for it.
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  Speaker 3: Waiting for you? And what else could I be doing
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  Speaker 3: but waiting? Oh, you and your bum jokes.
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  Speaker 5: Now, listen, both of you, listen. There's something going on
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  Speaker 5: here that's bigger than a lost witness. And I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to find out what it is.
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  Speaker 3: But what can we do, Nick? Waldo doesn't know what
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  Speaker 3: it's all about, and the old ladies have gone.
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  Speaker 5: So what do we have to go on? Nothing. We've
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  Speaker 5: got to find something. And the best place to start
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  Speaker 5: looking is right here in this house. So search every
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  Speaker 5: room thoroughly. Don't miss a thing. I'll get busy, both
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  Speaker 5: of you.
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  Speaker 2: And all you found was that burned paper?
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  Speaker 5: That's all, Patsy.
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  Speaker 3: And what good that is, I'm darned if I can see.
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  Speaker 3: When a piece of paper is burned as bad as
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  Speaker 3: that was, so you can't even see if it had
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  Speaker 3: writing on it or not, they give up.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, that's where science comes in, Waldo.
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  Speaker 3: If science can tell Nick what was on that paper,
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  Speaker 3: I'll take my hat off to it. Even old Sim
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  Speaker 3: Carter couldn't do that.
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  Speaker 11: The use of infrared light in reading the writing on
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  Speaker 11: a burned paper.
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  Speaker 6: Is one of the new developments that.
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  Speaker 5: Have come into.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Nick, did you find anything worthwhile?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe yes and maybe no. Fortunately, that burned paper we
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  Speaker 5: found on the ashtray was a good grade of paper
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  Speaker 5: and didn't crumble before I could look it over.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what'd you find, Nick?
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  Speaker 5: That piece of paper was really two separate pieces of paper.
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  Speaker 5: One was a wrapper off a bundle of bills, showing
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  Speaker 5: that the package was put up by the first mutual
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  Speaker 5: bank on Canal Street and had contained $ 100, probably in
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  Speaker 5: small bills. The other was part of a letter.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, what did it say?
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  Speaker 5: All I could make out was, Another month, dear ass,
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  Speaker 5: it'll be safe to use the money. So we... And
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  Speaker 5: that's all. That's not the help that is. Patsy, do
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  Speaker 5: we have any record of the first mutual bank being
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  Speaker 5: robbed in the last year or so?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'll see, Ned.
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  Speaker 5: The money this rapper was on obviously came straight from
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  Speaker 5: the bank.
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  Speaker 12: No, nothing on the first mutual at all.
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  Speaker 2: But the records show there was a.
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  Speaker 12: Payroll robbery about six months ago in which the payroll
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  Speaker 12: messenger was robbed of $ 153, 000 that came from that bank.
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  Speaker 5: What was the firm that was robbed?
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  Speaker 2: It was the.
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  Speaker 12: Brownson Industrial Corporation just across the river. You know, that
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  Speaker 12: big plant on Market Street.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Let's call on the Brownson Industrial Corporation. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to see this thing through to the end. You
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  Speaker 5: want to see me, mister? I do. You're the payroll messenger?
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  Speaker 5: It was robbed about six months ago. Who are you?
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  Speaker 6: This is Nick Carter. Tell him what you know about it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The guards that came with me from the bank left
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  Speaker 6: me at the side door of the office building, as usual,
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  Speaker 6: and I came along inside. There's a short corridor there,
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  Speaker 6: about ten feet long, with a turn at the end,
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  Speaker 6: leads into the general office. Well, I was just coming
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  Speaker 6: to the turn when a couple of old ladies.
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  Speaker 5: Stopped me and... Later, Walter, later. You say two old ladies?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: This couple of old ladies stopped me and asked me
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  Speaker 6: how to get to the metal shop.
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  Speaker 3: I stopped to tell them, when all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: I got a sack on the back of their head.
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  Speaker 3: Knocked me cold.
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  Speaker 5: Then what happened?
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  Speaker 3: How do I know? I was out cold.
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  Speaker 6: And when I came to, the assistant cashier was bending
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  Speaker 6: over me, trying to wake me up.
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  Speaker 3: My money bag was cut open. The money was gone.
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  Speaker 3: Every nickel of it.
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  Speaker 5: Did anyone else see these two old ladies around?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The gate man who let them in. They said he
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  Speaker 6: was coming to see their nephew, Walter Bascom, a clerk
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  Speaker 6: in the office here. So he let him go by
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  Speaker 6: without waiting for an okay. But Bascom never saw him.
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  Speaker 6: He says he ain't even got an aunt. And he
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  Speaker 6: didn't leave his desk all afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: Were they seen after the robbery?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, they was out of the gate before the alarm
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  Speaker 6: was give out. The gate man saw them go. Can
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  Speaker 6: you describe them? Well, they look like a couple of
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  Speaker 6: sweet little old ladies. Maybe like your pet grandmother. One
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  Speaker 6: was short and chubby. The other was about middle size,
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  Speaker 6: kind of slender-like.
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  Speaker 3: The same, Nick. The very same.
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  Speaker 5: You're sure of that, Waldo?
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  Speaker 3: There couldn't be no mistake, Nick.
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  Speaker 6: Look, you didn't find any clues as to who slugged you?
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  Speaker 6: No suspects at all?
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  Speaker 5: Nah, not a one.
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  Speaker 6: But it must have been somebody works in here. Couldn't
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  Speaker 6: have happened like it did no other way.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thanks. Well, so long. Well, Nick, looks as if
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  Speaker 5: this is as far as we go. No, Matty, there's
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  Speaker 5: just one more chance.
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  Speaker 10: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: I have the photograph I made of the piece of
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  Speaker 5: burned letter we found at the old lady's place.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: The writer was the thief, it seems very probable. And
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  Speaker 5: if he does work here, as that messenger seemed to think...
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  Speaker 5: We might compare the writing on the letter with samples
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  Speaker 5: of the writing of the employees in the plant.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, but, Nick, that would take forever. There are several
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  Speaker 2: thousand employees here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, them two dames would die of old age before
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  Speaker 6: we got that job done like, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Waldo?
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  Speaker 3: I just happen to remember. When them two old dames
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  Speaker 3: was tying me up, they kept talking about somebody named Bill.
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  Speaker 5: You sure of that?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, I'm sure. They said this Bill was going to
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  Speaker 3: be pretty sore at them for getting found out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Nick, this makes the search for the thief a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot easier.
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  Speaker 3: Why, sure.
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  Speaker 6: We just look at the handwriting of every guy in
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  Speaker 6: the plant named William. There may be a lot of them,
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  Speaker 6: but it'll be a whole lot easier than checking up
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  Speaker 6: on everybody who works here. Oh, Walter, it looks as
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  Speaker 6: if you remember that name just in time.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. The personnel manager ought to be able to
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  Speaker 5: dig up a specimen of this Bill's handwriting for us.
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  Speaker 5: Much as I regret to say it, It isn't this
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  Speaker 5: William either.
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  Speaker 6: You mean to say that out of 347 guys named
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  Speaker 6: William who signed these employment cards the personnel manager gave.
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  Speaker 5: Us, there ain't one that writes like the sample in
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  Speaker 5: the photograph? To the train's eye, there's not one of
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  Speaker 5: them that's the same.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, Nick, that means the whole theory that an employee
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  Speaker 12: stole the money is out the window.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that leaves us exactly nowhere.
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  Speaker 13: Nick!
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  Speaker 2: Nick!
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the guy's name ain't William at all. Bill could
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  Speaker 3: stand for some other name.
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  Speaker 5: Why, of course, Walter. That's the answer. It must be.
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  Speaker 5: His name was Wilbur or Wilford.
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  Speaker 3: Well, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get busy.
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  Speaker 12: We only have a few hundred more names to look through.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. This is it, all right.
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  Speaker 10: Who is it, Frank?
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  Speaker 5: Wilford Bergen. Works in the stockroom.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Brown, where's the stockroom? I'd like to talk to this Bergen.
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  Speaker 3: It's in the next building back of this one.
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  Speaker 5: You'll probably find him at his desk.
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  Speaker 3: It's just to the right of the door. Would you
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  Speaker 3: like to have me call him and tell him you
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  Speaker 3: want to see him?
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  Speaker 5: No, thanks. We don't want to warn him we're coming.
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  Speaker 5: We don't want him to get away before we have
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  Speaker 5: a talk with him.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, that job sure was a neat set-up. This Bergen
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  Speaker 6: watches the messenger, sees how he goes through this little
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  Speaker 6: corridor every time he comes back for the payroll, tells
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  Speaker 6: the old dames what to do, and it all works
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  Speaker 6: out just as slick as grief. Yes, the old lady
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  Speaker 6: stopped him in the right place and Bergen socked him.
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  Speaker 6: And they shielded him while he cut open the money bag.
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  Speaker 6: And they calmly went home, taking their money with them,
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  Speaker 6: probably in one of those shopping bags women carry.
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  Speaker 2: And Bergen went back to work, and that was that.
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  Speaker 6: And they're waiting until the money cools off so they
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: can spend it.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder where they hid it while they're waiting.
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  Speaker 5: I hope Bergen will answer that for us. There he is, Nick. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: Are you Wilfred Bergen? That's right. Bergen, this is Nick Carter.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: He wants to ask you a few questions.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Questions? About what?
• 15:43
  Speaker 11: Bergen.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: Where did you hide the money you got from the
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: payroll robbery six months ago? Why, I... I don't know
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: what you're talking about.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: No?
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: I think you do. You and your aunts knocked out
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: the messenger and stole the payroll amounting to $ 153, 000. Now,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: what did you do with it? You're crazy. I had
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: nothing to do with that. Better come clean, Bergen. We
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: got you dead to rights. You think you can make
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: me confess something I didn't do?
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: You're nuts.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Bergen, is this your employment card?
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: Yes, it is.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: What about it? Does this photograph show part of a
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: letter you wrote to your aunts recently?
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Let me see it.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Hey, come back here.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Stop or I'll shoot you.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Nick, he's falling down the stairs.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Come on, maybe he isn't hurt bad. You won't die, Bergen.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: You only got shot in the leg.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: My neck. My neck.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I can't move.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Let me see. You shot him in the leg, all right, Matty.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: But in falling downstairs, he broke his neck. Oh, Nick, no. Now, Bergen,
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: see here. I'm afraid you haven't long to live. Before
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: you go, tell me, where's the money? Isn't there something
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: we can do for a minute? I'm afraid not, Betsy. Bergen,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: where did you hide the money? I buried it where
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: you'll never find it. You might as well tell us
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: where you buried it, Bergen. We can get your ranch
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: to tell.
• 17:04
  Speaker 14: They'll never tell you. I did it alone. Find it
• 17:12
  Speaker 14: if you can. I stole.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: It.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: I can't have it. No one... Is he gone, Nick? Yes, Matty.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: He's dead.
• 17:31
  Speaker 12: And the secret of where he hid the money died
• 17:33
  Speaker 12: with him.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: Well, look, I ain't given up yet.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: If he buried it like he said, it's probably buried
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: somewhere around that house where his aunts lived. Now, I'm
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: going to have a gang start digging there bright and
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: early tomorrow morning.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Good luck to you, Matty. I'll drop in on you
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: later to see how you make out.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Hello, Sergeant. Having fun?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Hi, Matty. How are you making out?
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: As if I couldn't see for myself. Oh, I ain't
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: making out, Nick. We've been over this whole doggone lot
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: and not a sign of the money.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Well, apparently Bergen must have buried it outside the limits
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: of the property. Well, if he did, he can stay
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: there for all of me. Do you realize, Nick, that
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: this is the last street in this section? From here out,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: it's open country.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: And the darn stuff could be buried anywhere for the
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: next five miles. Matty, if I can tell you right
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: where to dig for the money, will you try it
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: once more? Nick Carter, you've been holding out on me again,
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: so help me out.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, I haven't been holding out on you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: That's to answer my question.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll try it once more. But look, if it
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: don't work, keep away from me next time I see you.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Okay, Manny. Meet me here in the morning about 10 o'clock.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: I may have something for you. So long.
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: So long, Sergeant. Uh, Nick, do you really have an idea?
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I do. I believe I can come back here tonight
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: and locate the exact spot for him.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Well, tell me, Nick, what's your plan?
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I'm going to get hold of an army officer I
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: know and have him help me.
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: Help you what?
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Locate the money.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Is that all you're going to tell me?
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: That's all for now. I like to surprise you, Patsy.
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: Oh, someday you'll tell me something and I'll surprise you.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I'll probably drop dead at your feet.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Sorry this is such a blind search, Lieutenant. But as
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I said, we have no idea where the money was buried.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's all right, Mr. Carter.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: I'm used to working like this.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Not too dark for you, is it? Oh, no, indeed.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: I've worked this gadget on darker nights than this and
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: got results.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I suppose we'll swing over this way for a change.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: We've pretty well covered the ground on that side. Okay, Mr. Carter.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Whatever you say. Over here, maybe?
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: If we don't find anything in this trip, I'm afraid we'll... Hey,
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: wait a minute. Found something? I think so.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, this is it, I'm sure. No question about it?
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: None at all.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: I'm certain that if you dig here, you'll find the money. Well,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: if the money's there, Matty will find it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: But we don't want your Matty to find it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Who are you?
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: We want to find it ourselves.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Of course we do. The money belongs to us.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Why, of course.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: The two old ladies have tied Waldo up and left
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: him in the house the other night. What brings you
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: back here now?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: The money, of course.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, how did you know we were out here?
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: We didn't, but we read in the late evening paper
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: last night that the killing of our nephew Bill had
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: solved the payroll robbery and that the case was closed.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: So we felt that it would be perfectly safe to
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: come back here and get our money. And when we did,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: we found you here.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: We've been watching you for a long time from behind
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: the trees.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. And now that you're here, how do you
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: propose to go about digging it up?
• 20:51
  Speaker 13: Oh, I'm sure we can persuade you to do that.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: For us, Mr. Carter.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: What makes you think so?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: This.
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: Hey.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: But I got a gun, Mr. Carter.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: We have two guns, one for each of us. And
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: we both know how to shoot very straight. Our dear
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: departed father taught us when we were girls.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Now look, ladies, you better let me have those guns
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: or somebody might get hurt.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to get hurt, Mr. Carter, if you start digging.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Now look here, a joke's a joke. This is getting too.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Carter, put your hands up over your head.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: You too, soldier. You put your hands up, too.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: What do we do, Mr.
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: Carter?
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: We don't do anything. We just.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Hey!
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: It went right past my ear.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: Are you putting your hands above your head now, mister?
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Now, see here, this is all very silly. I guess
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: we'd better do it. I'd rather be silly than dead.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: That's very wise of you.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, my hands are up.
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: You'd better see if either of them is carrying a.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Pistol, sister.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I read in a book that that's always the first
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: thing to do in such cases.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, please.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: The soldier doesn't have one.
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, look, Edith.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Mr. Carter has two pistols. Aren't they beautiful? Oh, put
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: them over by that stump, Mary, where they'll be safe. Now,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: will you start digging, Mr. Carter?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: I haven't a shovel.
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: I'll get you one. I remember seeing one in the
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: cellar of our house.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: It isn't a very good one, but.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You can use it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: You wait right there.
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: I'll be back.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: He'll wait for you, sister. Won't you, Mr. Carter?
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: It looks that way. But now look here, it's no good.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: The police will be here before I can possibly get
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: the hole deep enough to find the money. It's three
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: o'clock already.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, then I'm afraid that will mean you'll have to hurry, Mr.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Carter.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: We must have the money before the police come back.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: So you'd better take your coat off and get ready
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to dig real fast. Look, sister, the soldier has gone
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to sleep. Yes, poor dear. He must be all worn
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: out watching Mr. Carter work. Oh, what time is it?
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Seven-thirty.
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Oh, dear, I do hope we can find the money
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: before the police arrive. Mr.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Carter?
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: Yes? Please dig a little faster.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: It's getting late.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: No problem. No problem. That's it, all right. Well, at
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: least I have the satisfaction of knowing we found the
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: right place. A little after ten. Matty ought to be
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: here by now. Are you two still up there?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, we are.
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: So don't stop digging.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: We must get that box before the police arrive.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: I don't have to dig anymore. I found it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: You found it? Sister, sister, wake up.
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Carter's found the money for us. Isn't he nice?
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: He's found it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: Oh, what a lovely man he is.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Soldier, soldier.
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: Yes, yeah?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Will you help Mr.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: Carter get the box out of the hole, please?
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: You mean he's found it?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I found it. Oh, here it is. Can
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: you reach it?
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Just a little higher.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I've got it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 13: My, that isn't a very big box to hold all
• 24:34
  Speaker 13: that money, is it?
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: Why, I believe I.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Could carry that myself. Of course we can.
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: Here, soldier, I'll take it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Here you are.
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: Thank you. Now, please jump down into the hole with Mr.
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: Carter.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Do what?
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: Jump into the hole with Mr. Carter.
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: It's big enough to hold you both.
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: And I think we'll be gone by the time you
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: get out. The hole is over eight feet deep.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: You better do as she says, Lieutenant. You know how
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: loudly that gun of hers can speak.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Watch out. How do you do?
• 25:08
  Speaker 13: Oh, thank you both very much. Yes, thank you so much.
• 25:13
  Speaker 13: I hope we meet again sometime.
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: Goodbye. Goodbye.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, I hope this story never gets around. Nick Carter
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: and a lieutenant in the U.S. Engineers made prisoner by
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: two little old ladies.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: And two little old guns. You can't forget those. Well,
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: come on. Let's get out of here. Give me a boost,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: will you?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: And I'll haul you out. I rather think they won't
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: get very far.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so glad we found this money before those
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: horrid policemen got here. Oh, yes.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: We can go in the house and wrap it up
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: so no one will know what it is.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: Then we can go back to.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Our old home and live comfortably for the rest of
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: our days. Yes, dear. Oh, watch out for that first step.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: That'll be far enough.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Stand right where you are.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Where did you come from?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Watch out for them, Mattie. They're dangerous, I know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: What do you want with us, officer?
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: I want you and I want that box of money
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: you got there. And don't try reaching for your guns.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: It won't be healthy for you.
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: Oh, look, Sergeant, there comes Nick and that army man.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: What?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, dear, they must have gotten out of the hole.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: You mean Nick and the other guy was in the
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: hole where that box was?
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: We hoped they wouldn't get out till after we'd gone.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: That nice Mr. Carter dug the money up for us
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: all by himself.
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: Nick dug it up?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Well, I never.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, Mary, have you got the money?
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the money and the dames both, and they won't
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: get away from me, I can tell you.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Well, I gotta say one thing for old Sim Carter.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: He never let a couple of old dames get him
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: in a hole. He knew how to handle women, he did.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: What happened to all your science, Nick?
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: The science was on their side this time, in the
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: form of a couple of guns. And they could shoot them, too,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: believe me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Now, you both stopped razzing Nick. He did the best
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: he could, didn't you, Nick?
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Yes, Patsy, I did the best I could. I stalled
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: around with the digging until time for Maddie to show up.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Of course, if they hadn't been two old ladies, I
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: could have... Yeah, sure, sure, we know.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: If they hadn't been so weak, you could have overpowered
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: them both, single-handedly.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Hey, Nick, tell me, how'd you ever find where that
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: money was buried? Patsy said you were using some kind
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: of a trick device.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Just a mine detector, Waldo, same as they use in
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: the war to find hidden mines. The detector can find
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: hidden metal even when it's buried as deep as this
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: box was.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: How deep was it, Nick?
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Eight feet. And if you don't believe me, look at
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: these blisters. Nick, look.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: See that chap standing there watching us?
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Certainly I see him. What about him?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Red hair, tall, thin.
• 27:47
  Speaker 12: Must live in this neighborhood or he wouldn't be standing
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: there kibitzing. Isn't that the witness Waldo started out to find?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: You're right, Betsy. And as Maddie has the thieves and
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: the money, and we have our witness, we can consider
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: the case closed. Except for these blisters of money.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Nick, boy, your old father used to say, never be
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: ashamed of honest toil. Remember that, Nick. Never be ashamed
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: of honest toil, even if you do happen to be
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: doing it at the point of a gun.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Well, Nick, how about a few highlights on next week's show,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: just to whet our appetite?
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Good idea, Ken. My story next week is about a
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: man who was killed by a rifle shot, but the
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: bullet came from the wrong gun.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And the latter was too long.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: The which was what?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: The latter was too long. So what?
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: That's the story, together with the fact that the boys'
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: club met very late that night.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: That's enough. That's enough. What do you call this weird
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: combination of clues?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I call it the case of the wrong clue.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Nick Carter, Master Detective, which is produced and directed by
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: & Smith Publications, Incorporated.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Pictured stories of Nick Carter appear in every issue of
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: the Shadow Comics.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: In The Return of.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Nick Carter, Master Detective, Lorne Clark is starred as Nick,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy, Matty is played by
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Ed Latimer, Waldo by Humphrey Davis, and Scubby by John Cain.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Original music is played by George Wright. Script is by
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Jock McGregor. Any resemblance in these programs to actual persons,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: living or dead, or to actual places is is presented
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: over most of these stations each week at this same time.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: This is Ken Powell saying so long until next week.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: You have been listening to Nick Carter, master detective in
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the case of the little old ladies. This is Victor Sterling.
• 30:09
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• 30:13
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