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Nick Carter: The Accidental Bullet, Parts One and Two (EP1644) · 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: dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, we turn now to
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  Speaker 1: the Nick Carter serial era. So we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: back in time about four years to nineteen forty four.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Carter began as a thirty minute program and back
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  Speaker 1: in April of nineteen forty three, and it stayed that
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  Speaker 1: way for fifty three weeks, and then in April nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty four it began its run as a five day
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  Speaker 1: a week cereal and that lasted from April seventeenth through
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  Speaker 1: September first, accounting for ninety eight episodes, and when we
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  Speaker 1: came to these in the course of doing the show,
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  Speaker 1: I just basically said, we don't have any of these episodes. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that was a good couple years ago, and since then
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  Speaker 1: some episodes have emerged. Of the ninety eight episodes, seven emerged.
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  Speaker 1: Three are from different scattered stories. It wouldn't be any
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  Speaker 1: good to listen to, but there's a six part serial,
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  Speaker 1: of which four are now in existence, and having listened
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  Speaker 1: to all of the existing episodes, I think the story
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  Speaker 1: is easily enough to follow. So we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and play part one in part two of The
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  Speaker 1: Accidental Bullet. The original air date June the twelfth and
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  Speaker 1: June the thirteenth of nineteen forty four. So here now
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  Speaker 1: is Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 2: Those Secretary of the Treggery, Henry Morgan, Paul Munie, French
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  Speaker 2: of Home, Walter Houston, Charles Lachman, Austin Wells, among us,
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  Speaker 2: will be heard on the Big Show that Stops the
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  Speaker 2: Fifth Wall on tonight at ten o'clock. You can hear
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  Speaker 2: this thing walk on show all the mutuals tonight at
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  Speaker 2: ten o'clock Eastern wartime.
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  Speaker 3: What the matter is the case for Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's the case for that most famous of all manhunters,
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  Speaker 2: the detective whose ability of solving crime is unequaled in
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  Speaker 2: the history of detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective. Continuing
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  Speaker 2: the curious adventure called the Accidental Bullet or Nick Carter
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  Speaker 2: and the Mystery of the Murdered Dog, where the mystery
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  Speaker 2: of the test tube murders finally solved. Nick Carter is
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  Speaker 2: taking it easy. He has no case to occupy his mind,
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  Speaker 2: and what's more, he hopes none will come along. It's
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  Speaker 2: ten o'clock in the morning and he's only arrived at
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  Speaker 2: his office.
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  Speaker 4: Nick came on you at almost ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 3: I just felt lazy this morning, and he calls, not
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  Speaker 3: a thing.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't anything a mail either.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll work in my lab this morning. When
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  Speaker 2: something comes up. I'm counting on you to keep me
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  Speaker 2: from being disturbed, and that it's something.
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  Speaker 3: Really important, I will Nick.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty sure, Nick Heirs must be catching there's only
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  Speaker 4: the mail man. It was just a minute. Yes, can
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  Speaker 4: I help you, young lady.
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  Speaker 2: I want to speak to mister Nicholas cut him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, won't you come Injrea, please sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Simon Agnew's my name, young lady. I used to
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  Speaker 2: know Nicholas father and I were old friends.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 2: No, I want to see Nicholas, you know what a
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  Speaker 2: smart boy. Maybe he'd detect him enough to tell me
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  Speaker 2: whom I did.
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  Speaker 3: Lord Nelson, who murdered Lord Nelson?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I said, young lady, Lord Nelson last night
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  Speaker 2: in my backyard with a bullet tight.
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  Speaker 4: Hair, died in your backyard. But mister Agnew, Lord Nelson
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  Speaker 4: was a famous British admiral who died of the batting.
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  Speaker 2: Lord Nelson is a bulldog too, young lady, my watchdog. No,
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  Speaker 2: he did murdered by some seeving rascal. I want to
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  Speaker 2: hire Nicholas cat Her to find the man who killed him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see well, mister Agnew, I'm afraid mister Crowder
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  Speaker 4: doesn't investigate the murder of dogs. You see, he's wrong
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  Speaker 4: nick this, mister Simon Agnew. He says you were the
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  Speaker 4: friend of your father.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, how are you, mister Ragna? Speaking of you often?
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  Speaker 2: What seems to be the trouble? I heard someone mention
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  Speaker 2: the word murder Lord Nelson Nicholas, Lord Nelson has been murdered.
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  Speaker 4: Lord Nelson was mister Agnes's watch dog. Nick I was
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  Speaker 4: just telling him that the dog murders there are a
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  Speaker 4: little out of your line.
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  Speaker 2: Murder is murder, young lady, whether it's a dog or men.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that right, Nicholas? I agree with you, mister Agnew,
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  Speaker 2: and are we glad to looking at the matter?
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  Speaker 3: For you?
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  Speaker 2: Where this is different?
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  Speaker 3: I have never tried to find the murderer of a
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  Speaker 3: dog before.
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  Speaker 2: May be very interesting case. I want the murder of
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  Speaker 2: punished to the full extent of the law. Nicholas. Well,
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  Speaker 2: mister Wagno, I can't make any promises, but I'll do
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  Speaker 2: my best. You want to go long passins, I sure do.
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  Speaker 4: There is no day to sit in an office, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, come on, then let's get started. Well, here we are, Nicholas,
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  Speaker 2: and here's where I live, I say, and I say,
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  Speaker 2: the cottage. You have a loan, he said for Lord Nelson. No,
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  Speaker 2: he's dead, but it's been so isolated. Don't you ever
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  Speaker 2: get lonely? He can't.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 2: I'm an inventor. I can't work if there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people around the bottom.
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  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I know, I'm not way myself. Well, let's get
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  Speaker 3: out and see what the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Come in this way, Nick, we'll go through the house.
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  Speaker 2: I see you have no neighbors near you, and here
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  Speaker 2: your house is two hundred yards away. What's this? I'm
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  Speaker 2: show you one of my little inventions.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of an invention to dagne especials?
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  Speaker 2: Burglarproof locked?
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  Speaker 4: But there isn't any lock on the door at all.
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  Speaker 4: There isn't even a door.
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  Speaker 2: Now that way. It's burglar proof. And just watch. All
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  Speaker 2: I need to do is to blow this whistle and
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  Speaker 2: the door opens. It's not you see the sound of
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  Speaker 2: the whistle operates an electric luck.
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  Speaker 3: It smart, heh come in, come in. It's a very
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  Speaker 3: clever device, mister Agnew It.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly is Olberger would have a dream of blowing a
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  Speaker 4: whistle to make a door open.
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  Speaker 2: And if he did, you'd give himself away at once.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't got something else here? The linders, you too, my silent.
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  Speaker 4: Secretary, A silent secretary.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's an automatic recording device that takes down everything
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  Speaker 2: a visitor says while he's in the house. I say,
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  Speaker 2: was it on the way he came in? Only it
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  Speaker 2: first and I cut it off I play it back
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  Speaker 2: for him, and you'll hear the first things you said
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  Speaker 2: when you came in.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very clever device, mister Agnew.
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  Speaker 4: It certainly is Olberger would have a dream of blowing
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  Speaker 4: a whistle to make a door open.
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  Speaker 2: That's when I cut it off. Yeah, Bradice is all
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  Speaker 2: hidden in the coat closet here. Never guess that, did you,
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  Speaker 2: Miss I certainly didn't, wonderful miss Dagner.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have many other inventions like this?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Dozens of them. That's what the burglar who killed Lord
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  Speaker 2: Nelson was. After I see you're sure it was a burglar?
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  Speaker 2: Then who else had killed and watch dog? And come along,
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you his body sin the kennel out back
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  Speaker 2: to the house. He's read this way. Haven't touched him
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  Speaker 2: right here by the back steps and made Lord Nelson
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  Speaker 2: laying inside stone dead.
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  Speaker 3: M m.
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  Speaker 2: Asked.
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  Speaker 3: The bullet entered his head while he was lying there asleep.
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  Speaker 3: At least he didn't suffer the.
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  Speaker 2: Finest watch dog. You could run the bucket head off
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  Speaker 2: if a stranger came near the house.
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  Speaker 3: And yet he was asleep when he was killed. What
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  Speaker 3: didn't mean I seem stranger didn't wake up? When the
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  Speaker 3: murderer entered the yard. It was thought of that, he said,
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  Speaker 3: a burglar killed him.
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  Speaker 2: Was your house robed last night?
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  Speaker 3: As director?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, he clints it wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Was there any sign of a burger even having tried
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 2: In they wasn't get at Nick, I don't believe Lord
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  Speaker 2: Nelson was killed by a burglar. But who did kill him?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know yet, mister Ragna. What's in that direction
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  Speaker 2: up there, up the hill and through those trees over there?
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  Speaker 2: Just a stone house and place anywhere near me? Anyone
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  Speaker 2: live in it? Named so many bough to get the
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  Speaker 2: whey to go through, something with club brazing. Not a
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  Speaker 2: hunting car by any chance. No, Nicholas knew hunting around
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  Speaker 2: here anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose you let me and Patsy look around for
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  Speaker 2: more clues. You can go on with your work in
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  Speaker 2: the meanwhile. Ah, right, Nicholas, But let me know what
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  Speaker 2: you find.
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  Speaker 3: I will.
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  Speaker 2: I want bet murder caught.
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  Speaker 4: In cold fellow must have been off he found of
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  Speaker 4: his dog.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, But Patsy, I don't believe Lord Nelson was killed intentionally?
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: Let's first look at this hole on the side of
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  Speaker 2: the kennel where the bullet went through. Would anyone have
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  Speaker 2: deliberately fired through the kendle to kill the dog?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, they wouldn't. They'd have run the risk.
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  Speaker 2: And and then again, if anyone had come into the yard,
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  Speaker 2: the dog would certainly have waked and barked.
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  Speaker 3: No, Patsy, the bullet that kill Lord Nelson came from
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  Speaker 3: some distance away.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, of course I can see that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it probably was a wild bullet, and
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  Speaker 2: judging from this hole in the kennel, it came from
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  Speaker 2: someplace up that hill.
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  Speaker 4: Then it must have been an accident.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: If that's true, then no one's to blame and the
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  Speaker 4: case is solved.
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily, Betsy, I have a funny hunch there's still
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  Speaker 2: a lot we don't know about this case.
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  Speaker 3: So before we come it closed, let's take a walk
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  Speaker 3: up that hill and see what we can find. This
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  Speaker 3: must be the house Agnew mentioned.
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  Speaker 4: Curious over all made of stone, looks like a miniature castle.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the style that was popular back in the eighties.
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  Speaker 3: I watched that loose step.
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  Speaker 4: Deserted or covered with ivy windows had shutters over them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Does I think I hear someone over there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Look over there on the terrace with.
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  Speaker 4: The man mopping up the top.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I look at him, scrub hello there, Oh are
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  Speaker 2: you what do you want? We're looking for the owner
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  Speaker 2: here round right. No, this is a social tolom Oh
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  Speaker 2: I see then as the manager around. Oh, mister Kent, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's insigne.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to speak to him for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'll go get him. Who wants Carter?
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  Speaker 3: Nick Carter?
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  Speaker 2: Nick Carter? Okay, just a moment, mister Carter.
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  Speaker 4: Let me acting suspicious of it, didn't he?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we rather took him by surprise.
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  Speaker 4: Nick. He wasn't mopping up the whole terrace. He's been
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  Speaker 4: working on justice. One small song.
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  Speaker 3: I probably just got started. Betcher, Maybe Petsy down the
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  Speaker 3: hill through the trees.
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  Speaker 4: Nice, you can just through the bat and Agnes Cotter's here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think the bullet that killed Lord Noltan kings?
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  Speaker 2: Mister Cotter, I'm how it can manager of the fifty
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  Speaker 2: two club. My assistant says, you want to see me, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: mister Kent, I hope you could give me some information information. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: did you hear a shot.
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  Speaker 3: Fire near this house anytime last night?
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  Speaker 2: A shot? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't you bill not name mister kit I didn't
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  Speaker 2: hear it, then, why you asked, mister Carton.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Agnew's dog was killed last night, and my second.
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  Speaker 2: Time means that a stray bullet struck a dog belonging
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  Speaker 2: to a neighbor of yours, and we just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: find out if it came from around here. No, we
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have not any guns around the place except for
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  Speaker 2: the ornamental old antiques in the game room. I see,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose this is bridge club.
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  Speaker 6: You're running in, uh cod club, mister Cotton, for a
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  Speaker 6: free well to do members who liked privacy, do we
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  Speaker 6: You're perfectly honest. They all like to get together for
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  Speaker 6: an occasional game of poker where they won't be disturbed.
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  Speaker 2: I see, Well, sorry to bother you, Oh not at all.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you better get back Betsy's.
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  Speaker 2: We're concerned.
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  Speaker 3: The case is closed.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, it couldn't be of more help quite all right.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Patty, these steps run even better than I am.
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  Speaker 4: Yet they were both lying. I'm sure of it.
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  Speaker 3: I think so too, But then why are we leaving?
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  Speaker 4: We haven't given up, have you.
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  Speaker 2: No, Patchy, I haven't. There's nothing more we can do here. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you can't prove they're lying without some kind of evidence.
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  Speaker 2: What I do now that the Simon agnews, I'll ask
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  Speaker 2: him to let me take the dog's body back to
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  Speaker 2: my office. I'm gonna dig out that bullet.
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  Speaker 3: And examine it.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think you can lend in the bullet?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't the faintest idea yet, Paty, but I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to find out.
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  Speaker 4: You need any help me?
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  Speaker 2: No, Fatchy won't take long to dig the bullet out.
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  Speaker 4: What in the world is the moose Canton that assistant
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  Speaker 4: of his and trying to cover up?
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  Speaker 2: Well, perhaps the bullet will give us a clue.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be right next is you're already next.
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  Speaker 2: Make it easy, sister.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't be wearing masks if we wanted you to
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  Speaker 3: know that.
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  Speaker 7: Sister, that's right, and these nice little guns will go
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  Speaker 7: off if you don't do just like we tell you.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want you want to see? Nick Carter?
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  Speaker 4: He's not here.
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  Speaker 2: You're lying. We saw both of you come in not
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  Speaker 2: more than a minute ago.
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  Speaker 3: There's the door over there, Jake, it's probably man. Now
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  Speaker 3: you're right, okay, sister, call Nick Carter to come out here.
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  Speaker 4: I won't do it.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe this will help you to change your mind. Yes, sister, Joe,
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  Speaker 8: come to that door with a gun when Carter comes
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  Speaker 8: out to see that the act nice? I guess you now, Sister,
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  Speaker 8: you call Carter, I won't.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're hurting me.
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  Speaker 2: He ain't even begun to hurt you. Honey, you like s.
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  Speaker 4: Nick nick?
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  Speaker 3: Take him up? Katta play nicer.
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  Speaker 2: I'll plug it.
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  Speaker 3: Eh, it's right.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't help calling you.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right. Well, what do your two thugs want?
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  Speaker 7: We want the body of that dog you just brought here, Carter,
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  Speaker 7: the body of the dog. Yeah, we're gonna get it.
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  Speaker 7: If we have to tell you, a boat just as dead.
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  Speaker 2: As a dog is. What do you know about that dog?
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  Speaker 3: And don't mind what we know. Suppose I refuse to
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  Speaker 3: tell you.
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  Speaker 5: Suppose I plugged this pretty secretary of yours. Let me
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: teach Cadder a little lesson Jacob. You'll make him more
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  Speaker 5: respectful of visitors after this.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up, Joe. Well, Connor, do we get the dog's
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  Speaker 2: body or do we get to practice our marksmanship on
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  Speaker 2: the dame here? All right?
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  Speaker 3: You win?
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  Speaker 2: Dogs are my laboratory that room there, yes, inside on
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  Speaker 2: the lab table. Take a look, Joe, right, just be
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  Speaker 2: a second. Better, be careful, Jake, you're heading for trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Who's running this little part of you?
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  Speaker 3: Or me?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just warning you. Well, don't bother you? Got it, Joe?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's in his box. He hadn't taken it out. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: and here's some rope I figure did knee let's.
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  Speaker 7: Say, yeah, that's the one. All right, big black bulldogs,
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  Speaker 7: very dead. Okay, we'll tie him up and then beat
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  Speaker 7: it out of here with a dog.
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  Speaker 4: Course, they certainly tied a tight nick. Have you been
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  Speaker 4: able to reach any.
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  Speaker 9: Of the not yet, No, Petsy, I can't seem to
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  Speaker 9: get any slack at all. But the arm of his
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  Speaker 9: chair is coming loose. I can only pull it out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now it's coming there.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, that is it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh good, Now to slide the rope off the arm
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  Speaker 3: of it. That's it. Now that gives me enough slack
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  Speaker 3: to work my arms out of this. And there Prest
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  Speaker 3: wants you talk to him a free men again. Now
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  Speaker 3: there's a second and I'll cut you loose.
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  Speaker 2: There, Hya, passy. I didn't take too long. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: Sak and Joe are already too far away for us
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: to catch them. They were those masks they were wearing.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I couldn't make out their features, but they're not important
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: and just a couple of hired thugs working for someone else.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Who in the world would hire two gunmen to steal
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: a dead body of a dog.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: That Patsy is something we've got to find out. I'm
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: sure if one thing my patent. It wasn't the dog
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: they wanted. It was a bullet that killed him.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: But that doesn't make any sin. But it was just
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: a stray bullet that killed Lord Nelion.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: That's what I think.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: What's happened proves conclusively it wasn't just a stray bullet.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: There was something very special about that bullet in some way.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: It was probably a clue to some crime we don't
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: know about.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: M our only clue now it's gone.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Perhaps not those two gunmen got away with Lord Nelson
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the bullet, but maybe they weren't quite as clever as
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: they thought.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Just before they came in, I took an X ray
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: picture of the dog's head. The X ray will show
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: us the bullet clearly. Maybe it'll tell us as much
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: as the bullet itself could.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: That's wonderful, nigg.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: It'll only take me a few minutes to develop the plate.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Then we'll see what we can learn from it. Here's
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the negative, Paty, I'll hold it up to the light.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: There there's a bullet. It shows up plainly.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's strange.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: What's the bullet?
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: It's no ordinary bullet.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Judging from this X ray, I'd say it was originally
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: a perfectly round bullet, but.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: No modern gunfire.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: A round bullet, I know, kind.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Of bullet our grandfathers used to use in their old
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: fashioned muzzle loading pistols.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: What on earth do you suppose it means?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: There's one way I may be able to find out.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: How's that by going down to headquarters and checking over
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Riley's records. If I find a bullet like this has
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: figured in any recent crime, I'll know there's some connection
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: between that crime, the fifty two club, and the death
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: of Simonik News watchdog.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Ear January is well.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Nick, have you a phone what you're looking for? Yet?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I haven't, and I've studied every crime on your record
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: for the last six months. Just what he is this
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: case you're working on, Nick? He must be an important one.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm investigating the death of the watchdog.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: A watchdog. Oh that's a hot one, Nick Carter, investigating
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the death of a dog. I assure you joking, Nick.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I am not.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I believe a crime has been committed that we don't
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: know about, and that the dog's death is our only clue.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Is no to a crime nobody knows about, Nigga, Are
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: you sure you're feeling our right life?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: This is no joking matter? Rally, I'm convinced. Oh here's Duck,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: what is it?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I first my report on young Danny Cassell's death. It
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: was an accidental life and accident. And I assure you
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: that myself, Duck Danny Casle dead, the millionaire playboy. Yeah,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: that's the one. Nick had a queer accident.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: It was too He was killed by an old fashioned duel.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: In pistols that he was cleaning. That's right, mister Carter,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: an old fashioned muzzle loader. You certain that was an accident?
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Why you certainly looked like one. But the body's downstairs
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in the morgue. If you'd like to examine it yourself,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I'd like to very much, Riley, I've found what I'm
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: looking for you, Arnick. It's Danny Caswall's body.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: And here's where the bullet entered his head, just below
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the right eye.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, I say his butler found him. Get in his
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: apartment this morning, Nick.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: He was sitting in an easy chair and he had
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: an old fashioned jewel and pistol in his lap that
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: he'd been cleaning.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: It must have gone off while he was been in ouvery,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and there were other old pistols around. The butler's had
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: a collected him and it certainly looked like accidental death.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: About what time did casual die? I made it somewhere
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: between three and five am, rather late to be cleaning
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: a collection of old weapons. It is a tethnic See.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Do you think maybe it wasn't an accident.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I'm positive it wasn't. Look at the powder burn around
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: this womb.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: What about it? Nick?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: If you look close, you'll see it was made by
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: modern smokeless powder.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Say that's right, mister Carter.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Here's a few grains of unburned powder, em bettered than
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the flesh.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: What are you kidding that? Nick?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Did you bring the pistol that killed Cassle with you?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Doctor?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yes? Here it is, miss carteron answer mm hm. An
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: old fashioned muzzle loading pistol made about a hundred years ago. Here,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: look at the burned powder traces just inside the muzzle of.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: The gun by George.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I see it now. The gun was loaded with old
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: fashioned black powder when it was fired, but the powder
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: burnwn Kaswle's body was made by modern smokeless powder exactly.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: That means the bullet that killed Kassle, it's old fashioned
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: brown lead bawler took from the wound, was fired from
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: several feet away, several feet but these powder burns is
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: then a modern pistol loaded where a black cocket was
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: fired very close to the body, so the blank would
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: leave a powder burn around the wound. Then the whole
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: thing was a plant. Nick, That's what I'm getting at.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Kaswele was killed with this pistol right enough, and whoever
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: killed him managed to get his body into his apartment
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and set the scene so the whole thing would look
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: like an accident. Mister Carter, I certainly hand it to you.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I was completely fooled. No, I know why someone was
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: so anxious to make sure I didn't get a look
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: at the bullet that kills I'm an agnus watchdog.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: That bullet would have matched up with this one that
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: killed Danny Castle.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: What does all this mean?
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: It means Danny Castle was killed out on the air
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the fifty two Club last night.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, but it's that caste to crime outside my territory.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I know it does, Riley, but it's not outside my territory.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna follow this case to a finish. Good luck
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to you, Unique. As soon as it's dark, I'm gonna
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: pick up Scubby and pay another visit to the fifty
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: two Club.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Nick, is that the fifty two Club very ahead of us?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: That's it? Gosh, it certainly looks mysterious in the moonlight,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: like a miniature castle. Yes, Patsy said almost the same
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: thing this morning. Patsy certainly was sorry you wouldn't let
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: her come with it tonight. I couldn't. Maybe danger under
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: the club seems deserted from here. Yeah, there is a
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: i'm a light showing.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, do you think that managed?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Your fellow Howard ken is run for it?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Me?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I was probably decided to play a love for a while. Anyway,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: here's the dross empty. There were anyone here? There sertin
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: to be a car around. Well, then we could have
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: driven straight up here instead of hiding the car down
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: in the wood peck. There never hurts to play safe, Kelly.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: H you're right, Nick, Not here's the terrace. Theyk it'll
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: be safe to use our flashlights. Now it's okay. Say
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: what is it?
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Me?
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: What are you shining your light on the terrace for
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: this morning? Camp's assistant was mopping this particular part of
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: the terrace and he ah, here we are.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is it?
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: The tiles have been mopped clean, but here's a stain
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: on this bit of moss between these two tiles.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. What made it?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Nick?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I don't miss my guess. Blood? Blood, ask Kelly.
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: I have a hunch this is the spot where Danny
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: Casull died last night, and I think it was murdering it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: Unless I'm very much mistaken, Scubby, it was deliberate and
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: cold blooded murder. Come on, I wanna get inside, shure right, Nick?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, here's a door. Oh it's a lot. Let's see
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: if one of my KEEO. No, not that one. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: can try. Uh you'll read alright, come on, He'kscubby. Shall
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I turn on the light? No, No, I don't wanna.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: There's that flashlight. Gosh, this is a big room. What
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: are the size of that fireplace there? Yes? Huge, isn't Yeah? He'scubby.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Look at those old guns in the wall above the fireplace.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: That's a second. I wanna have a closer look at boat.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: See, Nick, They all look as if they were a
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: hundred years old, most of them are.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Who care, scubby woo. There's nothing there, Nick, just two
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: empty bracket.
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: Exactly two brackets, just the right size to have held
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: the two dueling pistols that were found and Danny Taswoll's
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: apartment and the dusty outline over eats Brackett is the
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: same size and shape as those pistols. Gosh, Nick, that's right.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I can't prove it, jest Gubby, but I have a
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: hunch that Kaswell was here last night and was deliberately
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: loaded into a duel in which the two old dueling
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: pistols which used to be part of this collection were used.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: But certainly looks slightly Kaswell's opponent, whoever it was, killed Danny.
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: But Danny's bullet missed and went down the hill to
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: kill Simon Agnes's watchdog.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Who the good thing Agne asked you to investigate the
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: dog's death. Isn't it not for the man who killed Kaswell,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: it isn't he, Miscubby. Who did you hear anything? Then? No, Nick,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I didn't I heard a footstep in the next room.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Well maybe it was wrong.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I must do Shubby, watch out, we're pulling.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Nick and Scubby have apparently stumbled on a mystery far
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: stranger than Nick ever dreamed of. Old Simon Agnew asked
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: him to investigate the death of his watchdog, and what
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: has happened to them now in the strange and sinister
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: fifty two club, which they thought deserted. Listen tomorrow. The
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Strange Adventures of Nick Carter, Master Detective features Lon Clark
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: as Nick Carter. Patsy is played by Helen Choate. The
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: stories are written by Bob Arthur and David Cogan, and
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: original music is played by Lou White. Be sure to
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: listen tomorrow to the next episode of this exciting story
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and follow the further adventures of Nick Carter in the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: case entitled The Accidental Bullet Are Nick Carter and the
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Mystery of the Murdered Dog. The Return of Nick Carr,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: a copyright feature of Street and Smith's Publications Incorporated, is
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: presented by the Mutual Broadcasting System from the studios of
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: w R New York. The adventures of Nick's adopted son,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Chick Carter Boy Detectives are broadcast over most of these
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: stations Monday through Friday at five fifteen pm Eastern wartimes.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Nick's own show is presented over most of these stations
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: every evening, Monday through Friday at quarter past eight Eastern wartimes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: This is mutual.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: This is Andrew J.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Man and his Wife. You're listening to the great detectives
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: of Old time Radio.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. A lot squeeze in the episode, and a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: very exciting cliffhanger, so you want to find out what happens,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: so be sure and join us next week. For that.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: It's worth that while the Johnny Dollar serials were mostly
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: five parts with one six part nine nine parter, the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: length of Nick Carter serials were all over the places.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: There were a few five parters, but there were also
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: eight parters, nine parters, even a ten parter, as well
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: as a seven and a six, so the links were
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: not as consistent as they were with the Johnny Dollar story.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: But at any rate, we'll find out what's ahead for
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: us next next week, and then join us tomorrow for
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: an episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. In the meantime,
• 28:44
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• 28:49
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• 28:57
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• 29:01
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