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Nick Carter: The Case of the Martyred Rat (EP1614) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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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 is March the twenty eighth of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty eight, and this case of Nick Carter is entitled
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  Speaker 1: The Case of the Martyred Rat.
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  Speaker 2: And now the Case of the Martyred Rat. Darting lung
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  Speaker 2: trod as Nick Carter talk to you by New First
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  Speaker 2: all old Dutch traser. It's pastodnight, and beside a dot
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  Speaker 2: highway fifty miles west of the city, a young man
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  Speaker 2: stands in the driving rain, swaying weekly as he tries
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  Speaker 2: to flag down a passing car. His left arm hangs useless,
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  Speaker 2: the hand red with blood that drifts steadily from under
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  Speaker 2: the that's mother light. You want to ride up there? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I thought there wasn't anybody ever. Oh, Nicky's hurt, look
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  Speaker 2: at his hand.
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  Speaker 3: Let me help you with We'll get you to a
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  Speaker 3: doctor right away.
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  Speaker 4: Never mind the doctor, get me to the nearest policeation.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, what happened when you held up?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Three guys hijacked my truck? Shut me hike alight?
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  Speaker 6: Oh nichi, he passed out.
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  Speaker 2: Hello is this mister Henry Bartner the Barton Motor Freight Company.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: My name's Carter, mister Barton. I'm speaking for one of
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  Speaker 2: your drivers, Red Kennedy. He's read in trouble. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: asked her to let you know that the truck was
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  Speaker 2: hijacked to night, ten miles west of Elm City. Call
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  Speaker 2: it heaven. That truck was carrying a load worth a
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  Speaker 2: most thirty thousand dollars. How about Red? Is he all right?
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  Speaker 2: It's been shot, but it's only a pleasure. And the
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  Speaker 2: doctor said he's in pretty good shait. You tell that
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  Speaker 2: doctors that I want read to have the best of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you say your name was Connor Nick Corne.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're a detective, aren't you. Well, yeah, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: private investigator. All right, Then go to work, find out
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  Speaker 2: who held up my truck, get that cargo back, report
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  Speaker 2: to meet the ball afternoon. Wait a minute, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: said i'd take this kid. I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, I how about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll do it for red sake. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: seeing people hijacked. Fine, see went in my office at
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  Speaker 2: two o'clock sharp, good night, my back. What you're okay?
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  Speaker 7: Easy?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Ah, it's that's it. I'm thinking. Do you doing
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  Speaker 2: back a job today?
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  Speaker 6: High?
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  Speaker 2: Inca balling?
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  Speaker 6: I have the Armred, It's okay, Well you can't drive
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  Speaker 6: with it, can you? No?
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  Speaker 2: Driver, lady, I'm the superintendent. Last night was an emergency creek. Yeah, oh,
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  Speaker 2: lest I want you to meet mister Cotton and miss
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  Speaker 2: Dawn's let's gone. How do you do this is a
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  Speaker 2: guy that ought to have this hole in his arm
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  Speaker 2: instead of me. That was supposed to be his one
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  Speaker 2: last night. Oh how come it was? Well I I
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  Speaker 2: was sick and the boat has spread to take over
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  Speaker 2: for me. I see, lucky for you. Yeah, come on, folks,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it to the box's office. He's waiting for you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's cotta.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you find out so far? Not much, mister Barton.
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  Speaker 2: He did go out and take a look at the
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  Speaker 2: truck last night, but we couldn't tell anything from that.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean park half a mile off the
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  Speaker 2: main highway in the Seine Road. Yeah, that's where the
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  Speaker 2: hijackers made me drive so that they could load this
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  Speaker 2: stuff into their own truck. How about the tyre tracks
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  Speaker 2: two detectives locate criminals or things like that.
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  Speaker 8: Well not unless there are high attacks, mister Barton.
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  Speaker 2: You see there funny amount where the truck was parked,
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  Speaker 2: start a red play. But the rant had washed out
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  Speaker 2: and the wheel marks the might have been in other words,
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  Speaker 2: you haven't found out one plain thing. I'll see here,
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  Speaker 2: mister Barton. You can't expect miracle here. Go look and
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  Speaker 2: you give me a list of everything that was stolen
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  Speaker 2: last night. Yes, I've got it. Right here, cigarettes, nylons, shuldarwear,
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  Speaker 2: electric appliances, chemicals, and a lot of small stuff mm
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  Speaker 2: for those things could be easily disposed of.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, Red, what about Less? I think
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  Speaker 2: you can drive tonight? Your less is okay? Mister Black?
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  Speaker 6: Oh is that the driver who was sick last night?
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  Speaker 2: He was drunk? Send me back to Kiddery's boarding house
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  Speaker 2: to sleep it off. The he's Red take over the
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  Speaker 2: run ball, look for Less wasn't drunk. I told you
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  Speaker 2: that last night. I still liquorny ball. Right, so we
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  Speaker 2: had a drink maybe too. But he never done it before,
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  Speaker 2: did he? No, you better not do it again. It
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  Speaker 2: happened in for you. I'd have fired him on the spot. Well,
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  Speaker 2: mister Barton, I let you know it's in the I've
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  Speaker 2: got anything good and don't make it any later than
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  Speaker 2: the day after tomorrow.
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  Speaker 8: My brother's side in the carnex that truck stocking the driveway.
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  Speaker 2: I know we can't get out until someone moved it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe half an hour or try the other day, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that it goes around the building. I
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  Speaker 2: want to come out on the out of the side. Ally,
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  Speaker 2: this is a big old place I used to be
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  Speaker 2: a brewer in the old days. Makes an idea? Where
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  Speaker 2: house the truck are at?
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  Speaker 8: I hope this drive doesn't come to a dead end
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  Speaker 8: in the back of the building.
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  Speaker 2: All as good as I make this turn, okay, d
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  Speaker 2: broad go it right on out THEO. No, but what's
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  Speaker 2: the big idea? You're shooting?
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  Speaker 3: Oh a big game hotly.
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  Speaker 6: E street and swirming with great come on of the
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  Speaker 6: big grains from the old parts of the buildings. It's
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  Speaker 6: hard to do us no more.
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  Speaker 2: And you shoot him as they come out. That's the idea.
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  Speaker 2: You bet you.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Barton pays me Diamond Beach for sometimes you get
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  Speaker 6: ten or twelve one afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: How much does mister Barton pay for innocent fine standard?
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  Speaker 3: I'm real sorry if I scared you, man, but oh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a better introduce Michelle.
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  Speaker 2: But I am a miss Killery.
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  Speaker 6: I'm kind of cant take around here.
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  Speaker 2: Kittery and a connection with Keery's boarding house. You bet
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  Speaker 2: you my daughter Lord Ranges, and I bet you know
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  Speaker 2: let's gone. I want to mister Barton's driver.
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  Speaker 5: You bet you rooms with us.
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  Speaker 2: Lucky LETTI. He wasn't making his regular run last night,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't it? I suppose you heard that his truck was
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  Speaker 2: high decked. Yeah, you bet your funny thing too.
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  Speaker 6: Leach must have had any feeling something was goodns happened
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  Speaker 6: on that run.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that he was nervous and was
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  Speaker 2: jumping all day long? Oh you see he was dreams
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  Speaker 2: riding something. Yeah, yeah, he even started to drink in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the afternoon. This never done that since you.
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  Speaker 3: Know him, that's oh yeah, you bet you acted like
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  Speaker 3: he had to work at these go to work because
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  Speaker 3: he got you drunk and the boat wouldn't let him drive.
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  Speaker 2: So he stayed home safe something. Yeah, not sho.
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  Speaker 6: She we're right back to the saloon and started slugging
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  Speaker 6: him down again. Then all of a suddenly he jumped
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  Speaker 6: in his car and lit out lat out for where
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  Speaker 6: no telling, didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Get back to those daylight And what's that car?
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  Speaker 2: A mesh? Let's give me a dollar to wash it
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  Speaker 2: off for him today?
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  Speaker 6: Done this red clay?
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  Speaker 7: You ever? Did? She?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you bet your.
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  Speaker 6: Like you never got it off?
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  Speaker 2: Hit that road last night? Yes, that's I know. It's
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  Speaker 2: a man's get away. Where is your daughter's boarding house?
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  Speaker 6: When you get out of the streets, you just don't
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  Speaker 6: driving in she bout a half mile street, Gage and
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  Speaker 6: your left can't shine this shine.
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  Speaker 2: Out in front? Why because if any of that red
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  Speaker 2: Clay is still stuck under the fenders, I less his car.
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  Speaker 2: I want to compare it to some I took off
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  Speaker 2: a truck. He's likely to be a shame. Maybe not,
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  Speaker 2: But if they are, let's gone, everyone's going to have
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  Speaker 2: to do some pretty heavy explaining. I'll touch you him
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  Speaker 2: afraid it's true.
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  Speaker 8: Finish your analysis, nak.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Clay from the hijack trust and that's from Less.
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  Speaker 2: Garner's car had exactly the same chemical composition.
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  Speaker 8: Then they must have come to the same place, no
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  Speaker 8: question about it. But if Lace was in on the
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  Speaker 8: hold as me, do you think he's fake being drunk
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  Speaker 8: in order to get out of driving.
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  Speaker 2: Look passy the poet Less was approached by the hijackers
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  Speaker 2: and agreed to let them know when he be carrying
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  Speaker 2: a valuable load. Well, it might have arranged the fake holder.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, that could account for his nervousness that day.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And when Barkin refused to let him drive, Less
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  Speaker 2: would have had to get in touch with the mob
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  Speaker 2: then one of them that somebody else would be driving.
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  Speaker 8: And that might be how he got to play on
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  Speaker 8: his car, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, if we don't have any actual proof.
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  Speaker 8: Oh this minute, Nick chargers have a staty Bonne speaking.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to car. I want to write there. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you better take a baron. I want to hello. Think
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  Speaker 2: I have some news for you. Oh you do well,
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  Speaker 2: I've got some news for you. Another one of my
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  Speaker 2: tructures in hijacks.
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  Speaker 7: Another one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who was driving it? Let's Garner? Yes, how did
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  Speaker 2: you go? I'll tell you later. I don't let Garna
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  Speaker 2: get away. Don't worry. He won't get away good. The
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  Speaker 2: hijackers put a bullet through his head, so left Garner.
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  Speaker 2: The man Nick counted on to lead him to the
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  Speaker 2: hijackers has been killed. We'll see what happens in.
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  Speaker 6: Just the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to the case of the martyred rat. Today's
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  Speaker 2: adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post
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  Speaker 2: war old Dutch cleanser. It's now three o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Nick and Patsy have driven out to the scene of
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  Speaker 2: the hold up with mister Barton. State. Please are detouring
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  Speaker 2: traffic around the big truck still park beside the highway.
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  Speaker 2: The body of left, Garner slumped over the wheel. The
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  Speaker 2: angle of the wound pat Kid looked as though whoever
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  Speaker 2: killed Garner stood here on the running board. Yes, you
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  Speaker 2: must have happened without any otherwise, this wouldn't have just
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  Speaker 2: sat there behind the wheel. You're right, wasn't any fight
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  Speaker 2: playing cold blood and murder.
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  Speaker 3: Then you'll be taking another big loan poon, mister Barton.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I won't lose anything all my truck start fully
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  Speaker 2: and short against robbery. This cargo wasn't worth much anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Oh it wasn't now now the whole shipment consisted of
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  Speaker 2: the kit kitchen where toys, rat poison, cheap lamp, shaded
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  Speaker 2: dried fish, something verble. Well. I hope the hijackers were
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  Speaker 2: plenty disappointed. They weren't, though they went to the trouble
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  Speaker 2: of unloading this stuff even after they had saw.
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  Speaker 7: What it was.
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  Speaker 8: They must have been pretty dangerous too, right on a
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  Speaker 8: Disney highway like this.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they took the truck offer on the side road
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  Speaker 2: to unload it and then brought it by kid. No mit,
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  Speaker 2: the bartom life was killed here. The blood stan showed
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  Speaker 2: that his body hasn't been moved from behind the wheel.
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  Speaker 2: If you're all through, mist Kuda, we'd like to take
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  Speaker 2: the body into town. Okay, officer, thanks for your help.
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  Speaker 2: That's no, we're here for miscarda. Okay, Doc, you can
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  Speaker 2: take over now by the way. At Yeah, exactly what
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  Speaker 2: time was the body found?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Let me see you got it down here.
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  Speaker 6: Twelve forty five, twelve forty five, but you didn't notice
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  Speaker 6: I mister Barton until after one thirty.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't rful, lady.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to phone him, but there wasn't any answers.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I my Peanuckle club met last night and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't get home. So after one Peanut thought the club, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: come on, come on, let's get back to the car.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's a good idea. And I'm getting how long
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  Speaker 2: would it take to move the sort of load you
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  Speaker 2: had on this truck from one truck to another? At
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  Speaker 2: least half an hour? Why I'm trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what happened. Well, it's plain enough they made a big
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  Speaker 2: hole the first time, so they tried it again and
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  Speaker 2: then no, no, no, no, hijackers don't rob just any truck.
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  Speaker 2: They always have information about which trucks they're carrying. Valuable
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  Speaker 2: car goos this truck didn't have a valuable cargo, which
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  Speaker 2: proves mister Carter is wrong for the second time tonight,
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  Speaker 2: young lady. The second time, didn't you say that lest
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  Speaker 2: Connor was mich enough for the hijackers? I did well.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that they had to kill him to get
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  Speaker 2: the cargo prous You were wrong there too, Oh, mister Barkler.
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  Speaker 2: Hijackers didn't care less in order to get that worthless cargo.
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  Speaker 2: They thole the cargo in order to cover up his murder.
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  Speaker 3: You mean the less originally couldn't talk about the first
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  Speaker 3: rob xactly truck would hijack to make it look like
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  Speaker 3: another holder?
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're great. Who knew what was on that first
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  Speaker 2: truck and what Rudor was going to take? Let's do
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  Speaker 2: and let a superintendent do even before he took over
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  Speaker 2: a driver? What's that's all? What didn't anyone else know?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not, not even you? Yes, yes, of course I do.
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  Speaker 2: When we got back to town. Remind me to call
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  Speaker 2: the newspapers, called the newspapers, because you can locate all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of things to a newspaper. App Maybe if we advertise,
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  Speaker 2: we can locate a murderer. Hey, Mabel, listen, to this
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  Speaker 2: in the personal columns. Wanted the contact motorists who were
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  Speaker 2: driving west from Divers Springs Friday night between eleven thirty
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  Speaker 2: pm and one o'clock called, sorry, nine oh five, we
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  Speaker 2: were on that road about the Yeah, let me write
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  Speaker 2: that number down. Maybe I can help this guy out.
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  Speaker 2: Deaths happened. I'm trying to get information about a trailer
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  Speaker 2: truck that was parked just beyond the top of a
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  Speaker 2: long hill ten miles west of Dever Springs Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: Barton motor freight truck. Yes, did you see, I'll say
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  Speaker 2: I did. I got stuck behind it at the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of the hill and I had to go all the way.
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  Speaker 7: Up and low.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I remember the name. Do you remember
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  Speaker 2: what time that rose was to Handen?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: It.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I had the car radio
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  Speaker 2: on waiting for the twelve thirty news. It started just
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  Speaker 2: as I went around him at the top of the hill.
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  Speaker 2: Was there another truck on the hill at the same time?
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  Speaker 2: You no, just one other passenger car and me. We
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  Speaker 2: were both stuck behind the truck. You said there was
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  Speaker 2: another passenger car. Yeah, And you know there was something
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  Speaker 2: funny about that too. What was that well. I stopped
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  Speaker 2: about a mile farther on be course. I thought I
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  Speaker 2: had a flat. But neither the truck nor the other
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  Speaker 2: car ever did pass me.
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  Speaker 8: Well, neither the car turned off on the side row there.
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  Speaker 2: Alarming any on that stretch. What thought of a car
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  Speaker 2: was it?
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  Speaker 7: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Nah?
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  Speaker 5: It was behind me.
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  Speaker 2: All I could see was the headlights. And afterwards Mabel
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  Speaker 2: and I wondered what.
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  Speaker 7: Happened to it.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know what happened to it, mister Hammon,
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  Speaker 2: in fact of what you told me, I think I
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  Speaker 2: know the answer to a lot of things.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: What's the idea of exploring the place in this old warehouse?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I thought it might be interesting to see what's
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  Speaker 2: down here at the unute part of it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, but it's like a dungeon down here.
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  Speaker 2: I can take something right across my foot, probably a rat,
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  Speaker 2: a rat. Oh, dear, I thought we'd run it this unrest.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I wanted you to wear slacks, and you
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  Speaker 2: have you walking in the Oh, but honestly, this part
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  Speaker 2: of the building is alive with them. Here, let's see
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  Speaker 2: what's on the other side of this door.
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  Speaker 8: You seem to know exactly where you're going took.
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  Speaker 2: Right through the flash light. See those marks in the dusk.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well I'm following you. If you asked, mister Broughton,
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  Speaker 2: you probably would have sent somebody along to to clear
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  Speaker 2: the rafts out of the way. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: Barking or everybody else to know. We'd be snooping around
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  Speaker 2: this part of the building.
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  Speaker 3: And oh, here's another door.
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  Speaker 2: We go through that too. Mm hm, I musty in here.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It must have been used for storage rooms in the
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  Speaker 2: place with a brewery. Oh, Nick, it's another rat.
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  Speaker 7: Patsy.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: You insisted on coming alone, But.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, I still use.
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  Speaker 2: This room for storage.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Just full of box of them crank.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see what they are.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Cloud Bell's kitchen wear, ride herrings.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: A flame shape. That's the cargo that was supposed to
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: have been stuwn unless garn a truck and it wasn't
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: so at all. Say that again. Oh, my truck was
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: downloaded before I never left the warehouse. Good Trinity.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I always see a pocket act. You couldn't draw
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: up very fast wearing the heavy glove.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: My gunn is dame that you're right now. I wore
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: these gloves for protection against four footed rats. Read can
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: you you hijacked your own truck, Yes, then murdered his
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: own partner. That's shirt wasn't my partner. I gave Less
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: a chance to get in on the deal. But he
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: was a nice little boy that didn't believe in taking
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: things that didn't belong to them. You were saying that
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Less it wasn't next up in that pert robbery.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: It would have been a part.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: And let him drive that night, but he didn't really
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: want to be part of it. That's why he started breaking.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: But he was there that night the red play on
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: his car prood.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: He was there trying to stalk me out of it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: He said he was a peelings and my gut a nation.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Now that's how you got shot. There was a fight.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Now, I just left the jerk and sent him back
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: to his corn.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Then who shot you?
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I put that bullet hole in my arm myself just tonight.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Thow hold up looked like a McCaulay for thirty thousand
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: dollars cago it was worth.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: And then when you learned that Nick was suspicious of rest,
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: you chilled him.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Jolley's fish would have built everything if he'd been pinked.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: So I downloaded his truck, told him the schedule had
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: been changed and that he was to take up a
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: load in Pittsburgh.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: And when he left, I followed his truck, flagged it
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: down and got rid of him.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Beach weeds are getting rid of us, Red. No, No,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: anybody hears shots coming from this part of the building.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: You shouldn't. He could shoot off a cannon down here
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: without nobody hearing it outside. No, No, I got a
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: better idea.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, what is it?
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: You're going to get locked pins down here like action? No,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: wait a minute, read Sorry cod Hey, they'll come back
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: and see you again in a couple of years.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: What are we going to get away from the door?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I want to cry him.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: We can't.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: It work than you.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Well, let's don't mean a thing against the door like that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: But nobody knows he's here.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Nobody will come loving for it. We've got to break
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: out of here somehow.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: We can't break out, baby.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: If we yell out enough, somebody will hear. Usually, these
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: walls are over a footstick. No one can possibly hear us,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: No one.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: Can possibly.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Nick think it's like bringing it. Tom s.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: A eyes.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Locked in the Progostien basement room of the old brewery,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: unable to break out or make themselves heard. Nick and
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: patsy our face, but almost certain deaths. We'll see what
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: happens in just the mom Now for the conclusion of
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: the case of the Markered Rat, Today's adventure with Lick Carter,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: brought to you by a new post war old Dutch cleanser,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Red Kennedy, has left Nick and Petsy to die locked
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: in a small windowless basement room deep inside the old
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Roaring Now Nick examined the door with his flashlight. Okay,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: can you do anything with a lost Nick?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Me lock on this night?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Not even a keel? That's all on the other side.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Somebody you would come here?
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Another rat? They're all over Hey, rats, rats. Those rats
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: must come from somewhere, and these are brick walls. It
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: has to be a let me see, yeah, there it
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: is a grand pipe. Here, hold the flashlight.
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: When I moved some of these box cause you got
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: an idea how we can get said.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: This included a ship with the rat.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Let's shine a light on this box.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Sure sal rat poison. They die outside outside, Patty, and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the rat can get outside through the drain pipes. Oh,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: but what good of that? You was But when I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: was a kid, I used to make rabbit traps out
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: of a box. That's taking a piece of string, But
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: you promped the box up with a sting and tie
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the string to it. Then when the rabbit goes under
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the box after the base, you'll pull the string and
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the box falls down on top of it.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: I still don't see.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: If we can get some of these rats into a trap,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: maybe they'll get us out of the trap we're in.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Oh, Nick, what time four o'clock in the afternoon? The
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: in here twenty three hours? Hi?
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: I guess it is more hid it raid not? It
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: was such a nice game too. Time messages the legs
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: of those rats. Then living them eat the rat poison
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: into the drain pipe going it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: One or two of them must have got to the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: box is containing a poison. Said they always gone into
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the open air to die.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe they died nobody found.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Maybe listen, partner, I'd tell you Connor.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: When old English Kitty brought me that dead rat with
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: a message tied to its lady, I thought he was crazy.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I don't blame you, mister Barton. I gamble on the
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: chance that Kerry has either shoot or find one that
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: had a message tied to it. Well, it turned out
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: to be a good gamble. But why did you think
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you would find the stolen cargo what you did? Because
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: garner truck was seen climbing the hill at twelve thirty,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: just fifteen minutes before his body was found.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: And you tell us who had taken me thirty minutes
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: to unload the truck.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: That's why I figured that truck must have been empty
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: when it left the warehouse. I see then, when I
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: heard about the car that followed Garner up the hill,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: but no farther, I was pretty sure the driver of
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: it was the one who killed Conner. Why well, there
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: was nothing wrong with the truck, which meant that Gonner
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have stopped with being flagged up and by somebody
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: he knew, Yeah, you're right there. He wouldn't have stoped
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a stranger. It also had to be somebody who worked here,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: mister Barkin. Sure, otherwise the driver of that car wouldn't
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: have known the route and it wouldn't have had a
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: chance to unload the truck before it pulled out of here.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Well it could have been me, of course, I don't
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: think I didn't think of you. Oh you ridded you.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Of course I did, but I checked your alibi and
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: you didn't do very well in that keenoffl game, did
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: mister Bart.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: That's why you didn't care to talk about it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Well, Allay Rads confessed that the first car, well, the
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: one of us hijacked when he was driving, was getting
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: in an old barn nearby. You better stand out a
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: truck boy. I'll do that right away. Connor, I got
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to give you credit.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: You did a fine job.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Thanks is just one thing. Yeah, what's that?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: I still load the rest, but I feel kind of
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: sorry for the one that's got on a message through
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: We foightened.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: Him and then he saved our lives.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Well, he was a part and a good cause was born.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Will you bury him with honor? Yes?
• 23:00
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  Speaker 2: go to it, try and stop me. Well, folks, here
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  Speaker 2: announce winners of the last week's contest as soon as possible,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: so be sure to keep listening. And Nick, that reminds me,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: what are you having store for us next week? Something
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: really exciting, Mike. See, it all started when an East
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Indian maharaja lost a one hundred carrot diamond. Oh no,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: it really started when the movie produces on and disappears.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe so pantcy, but because of the diamond that we
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: found a dead body three thousand miles from where it
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: should have been. Hey, take it easy, this is getting
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: too rich for my blood. What do you call this story? Nick,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I call it the Case of the Star of Evil.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
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• 25:01
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• 25:11
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  Speaker 2: The future of twenty eight million American children is in peril.
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  Speaker 3: This means we must all work to.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Improve educational conditions, because the future of these children and
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• 25:45
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• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. I will say no rats were actually harmed
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in the Mad King of This radio program. A Nick's
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Plan definitely had some flaws, and the chief of which
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: is that they ended up trapped without food or water
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: for nearly a day because they didn't think to bring
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: any back up or tell anybody. They wouldn't have to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: tell anybody that they were suspicious about being involved in
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the thefts. But you know, you have Scubby and Waldo
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and Maddie all trusted aids and colleagues. Oh, Nick didn't
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: bother it at all. I did actually find the solution
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a little bit surprising, just because I had really thought
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: in the way that the show seemed to be going,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it looked like the owner was the one who was responsible.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But that was just a nice bit of misdirection on
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: their parts. So nicely do all right, Well, onto some
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback. Mike's says, I've always root for Waldo.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I really like Nick Carter all around though. In this
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: day of increasingly morally ambiguous heroes, Carter is a refreshing change,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and Michelle says love Nick Carter, well, thanks so much.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And I also do have a message regarding some potential
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: or some series we're going to get to eventually, I
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: should say, And Wayne says, I like your choices. I
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: really like Mystery as my hobby. It didn't take itself
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: too seriously. The cases are fun and the interactions between
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the leads are nice examples of poking fun in each
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: other and mutual respect. What we definitely have Mystery is
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: my hobby on the list, and we're going to get
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to it after we do Boston Blackie. However, Boston Blackie,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that one's gonna take quite a while to get through,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: about four years. And then we have a comment regarding
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Michael Shane. I like the Michael Shane episodes with Wally
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: over Jeff Chandler. The relationship between Mike and Phillis are delightful.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I feel that once Chandler took over, it was almost
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like listening to an episode of Philip Marlowe. Why and
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: an answer to that, it's important to note that, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we're going to be getting into Michael Shane in just
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a couple three months now that it wasn't as if
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the production office decided to make a change and lead.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: These are actually two different shows. Michael Shane that Wally
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Mayer start in was a show that aired over the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Mutual Network, whereas the Michael Shane that Jeff Chandler start
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in was a syndicated program, so there are two different programs.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I actually think that Shane is a bit more hard
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: boiled than than Philip Marlowe, but we'll get to that
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: when we get to Michael Shane. As I said in
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: just a few months, I asked, why wasn't the series
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: set in Miami instead of San Francisco or New Orleans.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Shane was actually based in Miami in the books, And
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the answer to that is that the Shane there was
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a sense over radio that certain cities were mysterious cities.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: They were good cities to have a mystery mystery series
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: sent in New York, Los Angele, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: And even though Michael Shane was the only one to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: do it in New Orleans, there were so many series
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that had one shown episodes in New Orleans. It was
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: viewed as a as a city of mystery, and so
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it just made sense for them to do it in
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: New Orleans. It just had to do with the city's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: reputation not quite being in the nineteen forties the type
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: of series where mystery series would be seen as successful.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: He also mentions murder by experts in Murder Clinic, we
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: have done episodes of Murder Clinic and we'll continue to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: do them, and also have a couple episodes of Murder
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: by Experts that we're looking at, but those are anthology
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: series and we generally don't go straight through them. We'll
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: dole them out a bit when we do our listener
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: support specials. So thanks so much for the email, Wayne,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: that will actually do it for today. We'll be back
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Jowler, and then join us
• 30:49
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