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Nick Carter: The Case of the Henpecked Husband (EP1626) · 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: now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter. The
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  Speaker 1: original air date April the eleventh of nineteen forty eight
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  Speaker 1: and the title is the Case of the Hin Packed Husband.
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  Speaker 2: Old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt. Present Nick Carter,
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  Speaker 2: famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time two
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  Speaker 2: great names are joined.
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  Speaker 3: Has new post war.
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  Speaker 2: Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful
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  Speaker 2: and daring characters in all detective fiction.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Mattie, you have a description of the killer, don't you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Scubby, and what a description? And every size man
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  Speaker 5: wearing a dark overcoat. Why I can pick up a
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  Speaker 5: dozen suspects on every corner with that description.
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  Speaker 6: That's going to be tough, all right, Maddy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know where the murdered man went last night,
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  Speaker 5: don't know whom he was with, don't even know where.
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  Speaker 6: He was killed.
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  Speaker 4: Aren't there any clues at all? Nick?
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  Speaker 6: Just one, Scubby and you're looking right at it. Yeah, fine, clue.
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  Speaker 5: That is a dead body with a knife in its back.
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  Speaker 3: And now the Case of the hen Pecked Husband.
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  Speaker 2: Today's adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought to
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  Speaker 2: you by New postwar old Dutch Cleanser. Professor Harold Thompson
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  Speaker 2: has never been inside a gambling house in all his
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  Speaker 2: fifty three years. His wife wouldn't allow it, but since
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  Speaker 2: reading about the game of Roulette and his encyclopedia, the
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  Speaker 2: professor is willing to risk missus Thompson's anger because he
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  Speaker 2: has a wonderful plan.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he's come to Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 7: I shall win twenty thousand dollars each evening, mister Carter,
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  Speaker 7: and then cease my activities.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 7: First, show me the establishments where this game is played. Second,
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  Speaker 7: ascertain whether the roulette wheedl is honest. And third, see
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  Speaker 7: that I'm not robbed of my winnings by some footbad.
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  Speaker 5: Professor, What makes you so sure there will be any winnings?
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  Speaker 7: Will from reading the article on roulette in my encyclopedia,
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  Speaker 7: I have avowed the system of wagering by which I
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  Speaker 7: can't possibly lose.
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  Speaker 5: Take my word for it, Professor, you can't possibly win,
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  Speaker 5: not over any period of time.
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  Speaker 7: Oh but you don't know my system. Here, let me
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  Speaker 7: have a piece of paper. Believe me, Professor Thompson, no
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  Speaker 7: system will be a roulette wheel. Ah, but it's quite
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  Speaker 7: simple to the mathematical mind. Now here we Oh, my
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  Speaker 7: fountain bin is dry?
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, Nick Carter speaking Sergeant Mathieson.
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  Speaker 5: Nick.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's on your mind, Maddy.
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  Speaker 5: How's about having dinner with me tonight? My wife's visiting
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  Speaker 5: her mother, and I hate eating alone. I sure, Maddie,
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  Speaker 5: good idea. Patsy's gone down a Cuba for a few days,
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  Speaker 5: so I'll probably be eating alone anyway. All right, then
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  Speaker 5: suppose you picked me up in my office about seven, Well,
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  Speaker 5: do see you?
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  Speaker 4: Then?
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  Speaker 8: So go along.
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  Speaker 7: I filled my pen from your inquell mister Carta. I
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  Speaker 7: hope you don't mind.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, of course not.
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  Speaker 7: No. I have withdrawn twenty five hundred dollars from my
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  Speaker 7: savings account, and I'm ready to begin operations.
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  Speaker 8: Do you want to help me or not?
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  Speaker 4: I do not.
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  Speaker 6: All I want to do is to keep you from
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  Speaker 6: throwing your money away.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, mister Carta. In that case, I shall proceed
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  Speaker 7: without you.
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  Speaker 9: Gooday, no, heydais.
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  Speaker 6: Take a look at the little old guy at the
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  Speaker 6: roulette table.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, he's doing all right, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, look, maybe I ought to go over and get acquainted.
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  Speaker 5: Huh yeah, feed him a couple of drinks and keep
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  Speaker 5: him playing till the house gets those chips back. I
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  Speaker 5: don't want him leaving here with that kind of dough.
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  Speaker 6: Number four fly.
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  Speaker 10: Why you're lucky for you want again?
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  Speaker 8: But of course I intended to. I was standing right
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  Speaker 8: behind you. Maybe I've brought your luck.
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  Speaker 4: Huh.
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  Speaker 8: Today is my birthday?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 7: Really you must give me your address so that I
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  Speaker 7: can send you some flowers.
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  Speaker 8: Flowers? Are you here?
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  Speaker 4: I have brought you a.
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  Speaker 5: Drink, I say, bets, ladies and gentlemen, the cocktail.
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  Speaker 8: But I mustn't.
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  Speaker 7: My wife never allows me to take in toxican. I'll
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  Speaker 7: go on.
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  Speaker 8: It won't hurt you.
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  Speaker 7: So you've got a lot of chips there. He's my
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  Speaker 7: winnings amount to twenty two thousand dollars. And whey, how
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  Speaker 7: can I exchange them for money?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 8: Mean you're quitting?
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  Speaker 7: Oh I must it's long after midnight. I don't do
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  Speaker 7: what my wife will say.
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  Speaker 6: Not you can when you're winning.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, be a sport.
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  Speaker 7: Since I have an extra two thousand dollars, I shall.
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  Speaker 8: Read you it on the number thirty three.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, wait a minute, you can't get two brands on
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  Speaker 7: a number one. Hundreds of limits all right, MAXI, but boss,
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  Speaker 7: the numbers pay thirty five to one was run on
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  Speaker 7: this place. Okay, okay, it's your funeral, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: That's all.
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  Speaker 8: I'm more bets. Thank you, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Beal harried voe, mister bean.
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  Speaker 7: Actually I'm throwing away this two thousand dollars. Usually I
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  Speaker 7: don't wish to win more than twenty thousand. Tonight and
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  Speaker 7: number thirty three.
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  Speaker 3: Hey you won again?
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  Speaker 8: How extremely fortunate?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, another seventy grand MAXI clods.
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  Speaker 6: It up everything no more played a night.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, Boss Herold, I've got ninety thousand bucks coming.
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  Speaker 8: What are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna pay it. Come on back to my office, Sport.
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  Speaker 5: We'll have a few drinks to celebrate your good luck,
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  Speaker 5: and I'll curse in your chips.
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  Speaker 8: Imagine me winning all this money? Evage whom I? Who am? I?
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  Speaker 7: Come on?
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  Speaker 6: Tells me you'll be all right when you get in
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  Speaker 6: the car.
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  Speaker 7: He's all right now, Maxine, I should have been home
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  Speaker 7: long long ago.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe you'd like to stop for another drink before you
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  Speaker 8: go home?
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  Speaker 7: Her prof Oh no, Miss Kilmore looks I might become
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  Speaker 7: a gipsy in my wife.
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  Speaker 6: She don't like drinking.
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  Speaker 8: My wife doesn't like anything.
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  Speaker 7: My wife doesn't like anybody except her brother Wilfred. Of
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  Speaker 7: course he's been visiting us for nine years.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I am.
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  Speaker 7: Here's a boss's car. Rough, let's blow comfortable, piling very well?
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  Speaker 7: I should drive no, I'm driving sharming.
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  Speaker 8: You sit in the middle.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, where do you live from?
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  Speaker 8: From far away in the suburbs, he's Maxie.
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  Speaker 10: It's going to be too windy driving out there with
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  Speaker 10: a car all open like this.
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  Speaker 8: You better put the top of on you nuts.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 8: I assure you that I am quite capable of driving.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, pop, bab your hat.
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  Speaker 8: What's too late?
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  Speaker 10: It's gone?
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  Speaker 8: Whoso it is, Willie? If you will let me, Hie,
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  Speaker 8: you said, still, I'll get.
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  Speaker 7: It, thank you, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 6: Now let me fro.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 10: You don't want to get behind the wheel?
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  Speaker 4: Maxi's coming back?
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  Speaker 10: Pop, turn around, go back from Naxi Johmpson never turns back.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 8: I was thinking of my wife. If she could see
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  Speaker 8: me now with you, miss Gilmore, she'd murdered me.
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  Speaker 6: Oh got it, Missy.
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  Speaker 4: Away, I am in house things.
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  Speaker 6: Why hello, Scubby? Long time? No see he's.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty busy, Nick. But the newspaper is hitting a new load.
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  Speaker 6: Just now, what you mean?
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  Speaker 5: There's no story worthy of the attention of a hot
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  Speaker 5: shot reporter like Scobby Wilson, not a thing.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I dropped in to see if you had
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  Speaker 4: any hot tips.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, not a thing, skeby.
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  Speaker 4: They wears Patsy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh taking a little vacation in Cuba. And do I
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  Speaker 5: miss her?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I can't imagine. Do you want me to type that
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  Speaker 4: for you? Uh?
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  Speaker 6: No, thanks? Not finished?
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  Speaker 5: No excuse me. Nick Carter speaking morning, Nick Maddie. Hi,
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  Speaker 5: am Maddie. You remember the little guy who wanted to
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  Speaker 5: play roulette, the one you told me about at dinner last.
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  Speaker 6: Night, Professor Thompson? Yeah, yeah, yeah, what about him?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm on my way out to his house in Eastview.
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  Speaker 8: I thought you'd like to come along, or what's happening?
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  Speaker 5: The prof was found in a ditch north of the
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  Speaker 5: city about eight o'clock this.
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  Speaker 8: Morning, Nick stabbed in the back.
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  Speaker 5: When did you see your husband last, Missus Thompson?
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  Speaker 8: He left immediately after dinner last night. And is your name,
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  Speaker 8: missus Thompson?
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  Speaker 10: Well look here, never mind, Wilfred dear, I feel strong
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  Speaker 10: enough to talk now.
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  Speaker 5: Don't excite yourself, Hannah. Remember your indigestion.
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  Speaker 6: All right now, Missus Tomper. You know I.
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  Speaker 10: Suffered terribly from nervous indigestion last night. When Harold wasn't
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  Speaker 10: home by midnight.
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  Speaker 6: I was so furious. Oh worried, Hannah, Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 10: Worried, said poor brother Wilfred had to get out of
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  Speaker 10: bed and phone the doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Missus Thompson, do you know where your husband went last night?
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  Speaker 5: I do not.
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  Speaker 10: Some dinner of iniquity, no doubt.
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  Speaker 6: What makes you say that no.
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  Speaker 10: Respectable place would keep a man out after midnight?
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  Speaker 8: You're right, Hannah, when the.
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  Speaker 10: Doctor left it one thirsty I told brother to lock
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  Speaker 10: the front door and vote it well.
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  Speaker 5: The medical examiner says, Professor Thompson was killed at least
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  Speaker 5: an hour later than that, and.
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  Speaker 6: We found him clear on the other side of town.
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  Speaker 8: Did you say he'd been robbed? That's right, as pockets
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  Speaker 8: were turned inside out.
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  Speaker 4: If his pockets were empty, Maddy, how did you identify
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  Speaker 4: the body so quickly?
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  Speaker 5: His initials were in his hatband scubby, and the inside
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  Speaker 5: pocket his overcoat had been overlooked. His notebook and a
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  Speaker 5: letter were there.
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  Speaker 10: I can't imagine why anyone would want to rob Harold
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  Speaker 10: and I were allowed him to carry more than five
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  Speaker 10: dollars in cash.
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  Speaker 4: According to what he told Nick, Missus Thompson, he had
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  Speaker 4: just drawn twenty five hundred dollars in the bank.
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  Speaker 8: He wouldn't dare Now, Hannah, don't excite yourself.
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  Speaker 10: And only last week he objected when I spent fifty
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  Speaker 10: dollars to get brother a new suit.
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  Speaker 8: Well, my dear, you know Harold never liked me. Can't
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  Speaker 8: Wilford buy his own clothes.
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  Speaker 10: Wilfred is temporarily out of employment the cutter. Did my
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  Speaker 10: husband mention why he drew that money out of the bank.
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  Speaker 5: I think he intended to play roulette with at missus Thompson.
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  Speaker 8: That's what she was.
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  Speaker 10: Doing, gambling, frying his money away and then getting himself chilled.
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  Speaker 5: There's always the insurance, Hannah. I will sit, of course,
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  Speaker 5: ten thousand dollars, and in a case like this, we'll
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  Speaker 5: be able to collect double indemnity too.
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  Speaker 8: Isn't that right, mister Cotton?
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  Speaker 10: You will have to settle that for the insurance company
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  Speaker 10: twenty thousand dollars. Well, brother, dear, I guess everything is
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  Speaker 10: all right after all?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, where are we driving to?
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  Speaker 6: An address?
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  Speaker 5: I found in the professor's notebook Apartment nine B one
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  Speaker 5: seventy six men arm.
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  Speaker 6: On the street.
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  Speaker 5: But he had a couple of dozen addresses in that book.
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  Speaker 5: Why pick this one who lives there?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, Maddy.
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  Speaker 5: There wasn't any name, but the address was written in
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  Speaker 5: blue ink, and everything else in the notebook wasn't black ink.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think the blue ink means something? Nick?
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  Speaker 1: I do?
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  Speaker 8: Scubby?
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  Speaker 11: See the professor field as Fountain.
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  Speaker 5: Pen in my office late yesterday afternoon with blue ink,
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  Speaker 5: which makes you think.
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  Speaker 6: He wrote down this address after he met you. That's
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  Speaker 6: the way I figure it. And there may be someone
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  Speaker 6: who was with him last night.
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  Speaker 4: Well one seventy six should be in this block.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's building on the rights, the only one that
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  Speaker 5: looks like an apartment house.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I can't see the number, but there's a guy walking
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  Speaker 5: over here that ought to be able to tell us, Hey.
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  Speaker 8: You follow sure made good time?
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  Speaker 6: Is this one seventy six?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? You're the police, ain't I am but one man
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  Speaker 5: and I'll take care up where we're looking for an
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  Speaker 5: apartment nine B.
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  Speaker 6: You're right, no one the one that sent for you
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  Speaker 6: what you sent for the police?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the superintendent of the apartment as it was
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  Speaker 5: me that found a body.
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  Speaker 8: What body?
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  Speaker 7: Daisy Gilmore is of course, like I said over the phone,
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  Speaker 7: she'd been lighted.
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  Speaker 2: And so the address and the dead Professor's notebook had
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  Speaker 2: led not to a solution of the case, as Nick hoped,
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  Speaker 2: but to another murderer. We'll see what happens in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment. Now back to the case of the hen
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  Speaker 2: pecked husband. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you
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  Speaker 2: by new post war old Dutch cleanser. As Nick examines
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  Speaker 2: the lifeless body of Daisy Gilmore, Matty questions the building
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  Speaker 2: superintendent of Daisy's apartment house.
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  Speaker 5: It's just the way she was, and I found her
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  Speaker 5: about fifteen minutes ago. I seen right away she was dead,
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  Speaker 5: So I call the cops. Yeah, and what business did
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  Speaker 5: you have in this apartment?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I come ind to clean up, like I always do
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  Speaker 5: on Saturday afternoons. I get five bucks for it.
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  Speaker 6: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 5: How long do you think she's been dead, Nick?
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  Speaker 6: Least eight or ten hours? Matty, she was stabbed, wasn't
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  Speaker 6: she just like the professor?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, judging from the wound, I'd say it could have
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  Speaker 5: been the same knife. Yeah. Then I'll bet he was
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  Speaker 5: killed here too. It was inside someplace. What makes you
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  Speaker 5: think that many?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: I forgot you and Nick didn't see the body of
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  Speaker 5: the professor. Well, the knife didn't go through his overcoat?
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  Speaker 5: What they put that on him after he was dead?
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  Speaker 6: Hey?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, could miss Kilmore have been killed at four point
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  Speaker 7: thirty this morning?
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  Speaker 6: Might have been done that long ago.
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  Speaker 7: Why, well, I seen a guy coming down the stairs
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  Speaker 7: from this floor about four point thirty or maybe it
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  Speaker 7: was closer to five.
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  Speaker 6: They say he was coming down the stairs.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought it was funny. He didn't take the elevator,
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  Speaker 7: and I bet that's why. I bet he just killed
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  Speaker 7: her and he didn't want anybody to see him.
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  Speaker 6: Would you recognize the Manica saw him again?
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  Speaker 8: Sure, he was about my size and he wore a
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  Speaker 8: doc over coat.
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  Speaker 6: That's a swell description. Wow, look you what were you
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  Speaker 6: doing prowling around at four point thirty in the am?
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  Speaker 7: Mister Wagner on the floor below this couldn't find this
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  Speaker 7: key when he come home.
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  Speaker 6: See, so I had to get up and let him in. Look.
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  Speaker 8: Do you know whether miss Gilmore was acquainted with a
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  Speaker 8: Professor Thompson?
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  Speaker 6: No, but they might be able to tell you the
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  Speaker 6: sixty club where she was. What the sixty club?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, that's a gambling joint.
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  Speaker 6: Sure it is Harry Beal's place.
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  Speaker 8: And the professor was going to play Roulette last night.
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  Speaker 8: Sounds like a definite lead.
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  Speaker 6: Maddie.
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  Speaker 5: Look, Nick, I don't want to leave here until the
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  Speaker 5: medical examiner and the fingerprint boys come.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe you'd like to go over and talk to.
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  Speaker 5: Bill hih I certain they would, And right now, come on, Scubby. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm Harry Bale.
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  Speaker 6: What about it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to find out whether a Professor Harold Thompson
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: was in your club last night. Hey, Maxie, the guy
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: wants to know.
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  Speaker 8: We saw the prof last night as he kitting.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: And you do remember him. I wish I could forget him.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: He cleaned out the joint.
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  Speaker 4: You mean the professor won?
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: He took ninety thousand bucks away from me. That's oh,
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  Speaker 5: and in cash.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be darned that Roulette system of his work.
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  Speaker 7: Look, mister, there ain't any roulette system that works. The
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: prof won in spite of his system.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I get for running a honest toil. Never
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: again believe me. And you say the Professor had ninety
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: thousand dollars in cash, when it gets.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: In my cash.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: Not only that, he took my car and my girl,
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Daisy Gilmore.
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: That's a oh.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: So maybe you were jealous her of the prop don't
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: make me laugh.
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  Speaker 7: Look, if Daisy would have held a prop's hand, even
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: it'd have faded.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: How did he happened to take your car? Hey?
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I told Maxie here to drive him home, to be
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: sure he got this safe.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, especially since he was slightly plastered and Daisy was
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: going along.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: So I thought, jerk, lets him get away from him
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: by time? Did all this happen about two him? What's
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: going to do all the questions?
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Wasn't long after that the professor was robbed and murdered?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: You mean somebody knocked him up?
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Yes, somebody who knew he had that money? You knew
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: about it?
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Be you?
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: And so did you? Maxi?
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: Hi? What are you picking on us for? What about
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: she was with him?
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: We want both of you knew that too.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Maybe you expected her to get the money away from him.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Maybe that's why one of you was waiting at her
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: apartment when you got home, waiting with a knife.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: Huh what did you say?
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: You mean Daisy got a two? She's dead?
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: She sure is, and you too got a lot of
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: explaining to them.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Well, look, you can't pin anything on me. I was
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: still there at the club at four thirty.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I got a dozen witnesses.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: What makes you so sure Daisy wasn't killed after four thirty?
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Well, I look here, Harry, the superintendent of her apartment building.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: So a man leaving between.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Four thirty and five, And he says he'd recognize that
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: man if he saw him again. Maybe you'd better come
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: down the headquarters and let him take a look at you.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: All right, all right? So I was when I close
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: up the joint, I hopped the cab the Daisy's place.
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: When I walked in, she was already dead.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: So that's your story. Eh, well, Harry.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I think they'll want to hear that at headquarters too. Okay,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I'm not afraid to go down there.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Mac.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: She get me my hat?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Isn't that it on the desk there, besides.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: You gay nineties model?
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Not much that belongs to the prop What then? Sure
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: that's how he got away from me. His hat blew off,
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: and when I got out of the car to get
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: it for him, he drove off.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: And left me. So that's what's happened. Come on, Scully,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: we got work to do.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Hi, Gop, I thought you was hauling me in. Haul
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: yourself in, Harry. I'm going after the real killer.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: This is Ampson. Did your husband own a car.
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: Yes, but I didn't let him drive it.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: I always felt much safer with brother Wilfrid at the wheel.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Where's the car now?
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: Wilfred took it down to the Holloway Garage to have
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: the oil changed.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Oh he did?
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: Huh, yes, I thought the drives might clear my head
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: after that drug the doctor gave me.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: You've had the doctor again today.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: No, he gave me something awfully strong last night. He said,
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: I'm going to give you enough of this so that
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: we can both.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: Get some sleep.
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: He doesn't night being called.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: Out at night.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Just one more questions, Thompson. How many hats did the
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: professor have?
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: He had two?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Why where are they now?
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: Well, he was wearing one of them when he was killed.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: The others on the whole tree.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Right, No, it isn't Quick's gone. He must have lost.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: It's that beautiful three dollar hat of all.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Never mind about that. Now, how do I get to
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: the Holloway Garage.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: It's down on the street about six blocks.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: You're going to see my brother, not only going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: see your brother, missus Thompson.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: I'm going to ask.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Him some very pointed questions.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Look, Nick, you're not really sure that Wilford killed the professor, Ayn,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I'm positive, Scubby, Okay, but why now?
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: The professor lost his hat at the sixty' club, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: yet he was wearing his other hat when he was
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: found dead.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: That proves he got home safely.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: But suppose he went out again. Oh no, not him, Scobby.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Not at three o'clock in the morning. Beside, the front
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: door was locked and bolded. Missus Thompson was in a
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: heavy sleep induced by a drug. So Wilfred must have
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: let the professor went.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: To the house. Sure he killed him. He got the
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: overcoat and the second hat off the hall tree, put
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: them on the body, and then drove to the other
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: side of town and dumped it in the ditch.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: Sure thought he'd make it look like a hold up.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: You think Wilfrid also knocked off Daisy.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: I'm sure of it. The wounds in both bodies were
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: made by the same kind of knight won he got
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: from the kitchen.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Oh but Nick, how could he know about righting out there?
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Later? Here's the Halloween crown does the head?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Hey, did you notice that car that just came out
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: of the garage?
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Nick, Yes, and brother Wilfred was driving it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: His sister must have pulled ahead to warn him.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: I should have expected that, now, got it?
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Hey, do you think that we can catch him.
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: Unless that buzz of his can make better.
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: Than ninety miles an hour. I can hold on, scubby,
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: We're gaining on him.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I don't want to belong now.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Oh brother, Hey, you weren't kidding when you said hold on?
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Can't you even go down on the curbs? Howe? If
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I want to catch this guy, we'll take it easy.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: We're almost nuptial now, looks gob you're gonna pull up
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: alongside of him.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: If you want me to yell at him to put over,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: I would want to do any good, you know what?
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: Don't we want? I'm sure?
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: But he can marks him over.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: To the side of the road. Well, he's not slowing up, Manny,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: and I'll cried him some more. Pay Nick, look out.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: He's cutting into a sort of a pet nickwasher.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: At high speed.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: The killer swerves his car directly into Nick's, and with
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: a crash, both autos leave the highway.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now for
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the conclusion of.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: The case of the hen pecked Husband, Today's adventure with
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Nick Carter brought to you by a new post war
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: old Dutch cleanser. Driving at high speed, Nick Carter tried
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to stop an escaping killer by forcing his car to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the side of the road, but the killer, realizing he's
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: been trapped, smashed his car into Nick's with a crash.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Both cars left the road. It's now a few moments later.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, brother, Oh was that in narrow escape?
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: You hurt?
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Scubby?
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: I don't think so. Oh, my joints seemed to work. Okay,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: how about you?
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Huh, nothing serious, I guess you know.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: For a minute there, I thought we were going to
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: turn over it going lucky.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: We didn't down lucky. I had good breaks. I might
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: used to slow down a little before he hit us
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: on Holy cow loo, Good brother, Wilfrid's car.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: There's our wreck for you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Huh.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: The way he's wrapped around that tree, it's a wonder
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: if he's not dead.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Try opening the door, Scubby.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Okay, no, no, selp, it's jam but good that case,
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: we'll have to bust the window.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Want to hold him out that way? And tho good,
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna give this rock let her go. Oh well,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: listen to that, brother, Wilfrid's still alive.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: I'm glad to say, give me a hand, Scubby and
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: we'll get him out.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: Yea, I should think, Oh skip it.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Wilfrid, save your strength.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I'm dying.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: I'm dying, and Maddy's just dying for a little conversation
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: with you. Come on, let's go down to headquarters.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: What's the doctor say, Maddie?
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: No bones broken, plenty of bruises and the possible concussion.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Will know limitely, So wheer we're out all dead after
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: what happened?
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Now you can come in, Sergeant Doc says no concussion.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: You can talk to him if you want to. Brother,
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: I sure do. Come on, Nick, you two Scoby.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'd like to know what in Heaven's name was
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: the idea of chasing me and liking my car. Now,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: if you think you want Wilford instead of asking questions,
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: suppose you answer so well? I tell you, when the
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: professor came home last night and told you that he
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: had won ninety thousand dollars, you killed him, didn't.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: It, Sargeant? That's ridiculous now it went.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: You want both at the door and let the professor
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: in when he came home last night, I've told, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: you killed him?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: What the knight?
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: You got from the kitchen, and you put the Professor's
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: hat and coat on the dead body and took it
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: out in the suburbs and dumped it in a ditch.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: Now are you hire the money carter?
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: You can't prove a word of that. How we can, Wilfrid.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: You can't even prove Harold came home after being in
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: that gambling day. No, when the professor was found, he
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: was wearing a hat that he had left on the
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: hall wreck, and the hat and the hall wreck of
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: his home when he went up for the evening, Heavertheless,
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: you didn't know that he left the hat he was
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: wearing at the club.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Did you?
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: He left his hat at the he did, And with
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: missus Thompson asleep under the influence of the opiate, you
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: were the only one who's gotta let him in because
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: the door was bolted, all right, I did kill him,
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: the old tight wad. Come on, Wilfrid wears the money
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: in his shoe box in my closet. And look, how
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: did you find out about Daisy? I saw her sitting
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: in the car when I let Harold in, and knowing
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: she could swear that he got home safely.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: You had to get rid of it. Well, so you
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: asked the prop.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: About it, and he told you everything, even gave you
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: her address, which he had written down in his notebook.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: All right, if you know everything, why ask me?
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: We just like you to hear you tell it. That's
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: all so long for.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Now, brother, We'll have a confession ready for you to
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: sign in.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: A little while.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Oh Nick, do you still have that notebook, the one
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: with the Professor's roulette system in it? Well, I was
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: just thinking i'd sort of like to copy down the.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: System he figured out to beat the.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Game, scubby, Are you nuts?
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: No?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: If he could win ninety grand with it? Why I
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: don't see why I can't.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: You want to know better?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Whenever the professor wont he won in Spider of his system,
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: not because of it?
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, sure, Nick, you're right, But I'll bet I
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: can write a swell story on it for the Sunday Paper.
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• 26:00
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