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Nick Carter: An Angle on Murder (EP1044) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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which is the ninth. All right, well, now it is time
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for us to listen to today's episode of Nick Carter. And after the show,
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I want to talk a little bit about Helen Choate, who plays Patsy.
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So let's go ahead and take a listen to Nick Carter in an angle
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on murder. What's the matter? What is it? Another case for Nick
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Cotter Detective? Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all man
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hunters, the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequal in the history of
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detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective Night's Curious Adventure, an angle on
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murder or Nick Carter and the mystery of the mutilated point and my crap,
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and I wound my fingers around her throat. I squeeze or windpipe? Tight?
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Tighter, tighter, it's the matter of Nick. Put the lights on,
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all right? And I said, I wanted to hear the recorded confession
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you made of that ned murderer who killed his wife. I didn't think i'd
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have to listen to it in the dark. Oh that's the way we got
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him to confess in the first place. Oh, I'll take it that six
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okay, Nick, Nick Carter's office, I like to talk to mister Nicholas
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Carter. This is Nick Carter speaking. Oh hello Nick, this is John
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Hammel of the banker's associates. Oh hello John, have you been Nick?
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I'm in trouble. I can't discuss it over the phone. How soon can
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you meet me on West Street around the corner from the Greystone building where my
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offices are. Please get there as fast as you can. All right,
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John, I'll be there in ten minutes. I can now. Scubby,
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you understand exactly what you're gonna do. Yeah, Nick, Okay, I'll
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see you later. I'm going to need in this corner, okay, Nick,
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I'll be saying, Hey, look at that car coming up the street,
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would you? Hey? Nick, wats out that cars? Hell?
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It right out up? Nick? Oh? Did he hit you? Nick?
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Are you all right? Yeah? I'm all right? Oh gee,
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that was close. It almost seemed like whoever was driving that car did that
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on purpose. It wouldn't be at all surprised, Kebby. I think somebody
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is interested in preventing me from keep you my appointment. Hey, look,
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maybe I better stay with you. Nick. Oh, I've got something else
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we do, Kebby. I got the number in that car, hopped onto
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the license view and find out who it belongs to. It then wait for
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me at the office. Oh, Nick, Hi, Sorry, I'm so
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hello John. I've been on this corner waiting for you for twenty minutes.
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Where have you been trying to get here without anyone seeing me? While the
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mystery? What's up? Waiting to Nick? Yeah? Get back in the
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store a really quick. Don't let him see us. Who was that somebody
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trailing you? I don't know. I never saw him before. Then?
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Why do I dot you? You haven't done anything wrong? Have you,
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No, Nick, absolutely nothing. Now listen, I don't want the police
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in on this just yet if I can help it. Thanking for him like
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mine can't stand any unnecessary notoriety. Yes, I know, John, But
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what just all about? Well, let me explain. I wanted to tell
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you out here where I can be sure no one will hear us. You
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see, Nick, several days ago, I discovered there's a serious shortage on
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our books. Somebody has been taking money from the accounts, and I'm most
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almost sure I know who it is. I've called him me to get my
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four partners. They're upstairs my office waiting for me right now to have a
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showdown before the stockholders find out. That's why I ask you to come over
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here. Nick. You may have to make an arrest to night or you
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don't want a detective John, you want a cat? No? No,
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no, you're wrong, Nick. I want you please come along. Oh,
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perhaps you get a way down the lobby while I go up and see
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if everything's all right. That is safe for you to No, No,
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Nick, there's no need for that. All I want to be in on
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the showdown. Come on anything you say, and if you really feel that
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something dangerous is in the wind to think I should grow up there first,
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look around and if everything's okay, let you know. No, No,
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I want to go up now and get it up with. Well you insist
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I do. Nick. Oh, I know it's pretty late, but I
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waited purposely till the offices were closed to avoid any publicity. This whole business
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requires the greatest secrecy of Oh, this is our phone, Nick, after
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you, John, Well, thank you? Kind of dark in this hallway,
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isn't it? Yes? The lighting isn't any too good here? But
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John, Johnny, you hurt bad? What's happened? Why isn't John quiet?
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Place quiet? Gentlemen? John Hamil is dead. John Hammier is dead.
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But that's terrible, terrible. How did it happen? That's what I
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want to know. You seem to know him. Who are you? I
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could ask you the same question, who are you? I'm Nick Carter,
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Nick Carter, the detective. Yes, oh well, my name's Tom Burdick.
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I'm one of Hamill's partners. And these are the others, mister Carter,
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I'm Amil Garrick, and miss Arthur Nelson and Alan carr Do you do
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mister Carter? Your cornish huh, yes, mister Carter, what do you
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know about this? Nothing? Nothing, I was in my office all the
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time. Oh that's not true, Cornish. I saw you go out in
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the hall just a few seconds before Hamilver was shot at right. Cornish,
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Yes, I did go out for a moment, but when the shot was
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fired, I was back in my office. But why question me? I
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don't to ask Burdick where he was? A Nelson Mcatrick. Well, I
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can easily explain where mister Nelson and I were. We were both together in
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my office the prying some papers for the night's meeting. That's right, mister
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Carter, I was with mister Garrick. Which of you men belong to?
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Which office? Where you can see the layout yourself? Mister Carter? They
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all open office L shaped. Carter first comes Nelson's office, then verdicts they're
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on the long leg of the L and on the corner at the end is
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Cornish's office directly in line with the Carter to the elevator, and Garrick's office
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is around the corner on the short leg of the L. That's right,
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ms out of sight of the elevator completely, isn't it sure? You can't
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even see the corridor from my office. So I see, then, Cornish,
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your office is the only one which faces the corridor. I'd like to
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have a look at it all right this way, this is my office,
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mister Catter, m peculiarity. Eh, let's see. Well, what are
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we here? In this umbrella? Stand a gun and it's been fired very
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recently, I should say, gentlemen, this was the murder weapon. That's
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mister Cornish's umbrella. Stand How you know about this? Cornish? I don't
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know anything about it, but that gun belongs to mister Cornish. That's right,
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mister Carter. I've seen it in his desk many times. I recognize
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that fancy handle. See what are you fellows trying to do? Sure,
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it's my gun, but I haven't seen it for three days. Someone stole
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it on my disk, mister Carter. Why didn't you report it to the
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police Because I didn't carry a permit for it. I I was afraid of
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getting in trouble. Cornish. I regret that. Appearances they're against you,
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right, I'll get turn you over to the police. You won't turn me
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off. The police have no lights. Turn those lights on? Some gaing
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the hall stop punishing, stop rushing. But you see, Patsy, I
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was right with Himmel when he was murdered. What I can't figure out was
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how he was shot when there was no one else in the hall. Willis.
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And here's something else. I heard, only one shot tired. My
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Cornish's gun had three empty shells. And the top of all off, here's
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the bullet that killed Hammel corner. Give it to me. Notice how it's
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all banged up? Yes, how did that happen? I wish I knew,
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Patsy. If I knew the answer to that, I think I knew
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the answer to this whole case. We find Cornish, I'll get it.
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Hello, Yes, this is Nick Karta. This is Allan Cornish. I
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suppose I'm a fool for calling what Conna, But I need help. I'm
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desperate and I can't go to the police. You've got to help me prove
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I didn't kill Hell. I had to run away, Cornish because I was
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scared. Thanky for me. You didn't hit me. I don't worry,
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Cornish. If I had really wanted to hit you, I would have Where
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are you now, I'll tell you, But you've got to promise to come
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alone. If you don't tell anything, I'll promise you is that I won't
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do anything to I have to have talk to you. I want you address
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eighteen thirteen Oak Street. Come on over, I'll be waiting for you.
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Okay, sit tight, I'll be there. You mean we'll be there.
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I'm sick of sitting around here. I'm going with you. Eighteen thirteen Oak
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Street. This is it, Betsy. Gosh, what a creepy looking place.
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Certainly not very attractive. Oh, come on, let's go in.
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Maybe he's not here? Said it be here? Wonder if well the door's
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open? Should we go in? We can't keep our date to the corner?
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You don't, gosh, it's dark in here, Nick, Do you
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suppose it could be a trap? Never can be quite sure, Patsy.
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Here's the door, stand behind me. Do you see anything in there?
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Nick? Well, I got my flashlight. Nope, looks deserted. I'll
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come on. Let's try another room. Jesus please gives me the jitters.
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Practically deserted. Maybe he's in here. Stand back, Betsy, No,
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nothing in there. Maybe he got scared after he called you and slipped away.
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I soon find out. There's another door over there. Look Nick,
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is that Yes, he's hanged himself. Oh Neck, I don't know why
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he came back to the office again tonight. Cornish is dead. I guess
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that closes the case. That's I'm not satisfied. When I talked to him
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on the phone, he certainly didn't sound like a man who was going to
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kill himself. When a man wants to prove himself innocent, he doesn't commit
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suicide. Now, Patsy, there's something about that hanging that's bothering me,
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and I can't lay my finger on it. You probably figured that was the
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best way out. Kick over the chair and end it all. Petsy,
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remind me to give you a raise? And what did I do? I
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got it. Look, Patsy Cornish was a short man. What Patsy Cornish
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couldn't have hanged himself? Why not? Don't you remember, Patsy The only
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furniture in that room was a bed, and Cornish was so short he never
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could read that noose from the bed where it was. Of course, Nick,
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the bed was on the other side of the room. That's sick Cornish
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was murdered. She eliminates him as a suspect. I agree he was killed
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by the same man who killed Hamil. But Nick, who I knew?
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Nick? Hi pantsy? Hell, that isn't the minting lane, Scubby?
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You find out anything about that car that Needla ran me down this afternoon?
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Oh? You bet? Nick? Good? But what a time I've been
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having laitly you hear what I have to tell you. I had to get
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the licensemissioner out of bed to get it, but oh boy, it was
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worth it. Hey, you know who that car belongs to? Tom Birdie,
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Hamil's parkner. Go to boy, Scubby. You get his addressed too,
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Yeah, some deserted neck of the woods out on Long Island. I
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got the address here somewhere. Fine, come on, Scubby, You and
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I going to pay him a visit. You know, Scubby. The more
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I think of it, the more it looks as if Tom Burdick might be
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mixed up in this some way. Oh I hope so, Nick. Otherwise
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we're using up a lot of gas in this Gilapia mind for nothing. Hey,
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have you noticed anything funny? Nick? You mean that car that's been
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trailing us for the last few minutes, that's it? What do you make
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of it? Nick? I don't know, Scubby, and I think we'll
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be finding out quickly enough the robe we're taking us. Better step on it.
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Okay, Nick, here we go. How are we doing? That's
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a good Scubby. They're still gaining on us. You get you any more
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gas, I'll try there. They still coming up, Yes, scubby and
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fast. That's stubby. They're shooting at us. You're telling me watch it,
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we're gonna come. Well, I've done all I can, Nick.
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This old bus won't go any faster. Let's try and know strick, Scubby,
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and you get close to us, slam on your brakes and full over
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to the side of the road. Yeah, they won't be expecting that.
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I may throw them completely off balance and spoil our aim. Okay, Nick,
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you say when now? Hell over? Oh boy, that was a
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close one. Hey you all right? Nick? Yeah, Well we won't
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see them anymore for a while yet, going scubby, we got to make
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up for lost time. Oh, Nick, I've got to hand it to
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you. You have the darnest way of getting into a cellar. We had
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to get into word ex house. Somehow, this cellar, with us quick
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entrance from the garage, looked like the safe way, especially with those two
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vicious looking dogs posted at both the front and back doors to the house.
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Are they sure? We're big ones too? I'd hate to meet one of
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them. Hey, where do you think this is going to lead us to?
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Nick? We should find a stairway going upstairs. Le's I'm very much
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mistaken. Yeah, yeah, here's one. All right, let's go up.
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Quite careful, all right, Nick, you lead the way. I'm
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with you. Here's the door. I hope it's open. No, turn
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it, it's locked. I'll soon fix that. There. Oh, it's
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Kebby. Come up. Oh wait, wait, wait, someone's coming to
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the room. Skebby get back. We can hear through the crack of the
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door. I'll leave it open a little. Oh, missus Berdick, I'm
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certainly glad you called me up. I'm only too happy to be here at
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a time like this. After all, we are practically neighbors, aren't we.
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Oh? I just had to talk to someone, mister Gerrick. I'm
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so worried about Tom. Those horrible things that have been happening at the office.
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What do you make of all this? Well, I wouldn't worry about
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it too much, missus Burdick. Tom can take care of himself if he
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has to. What do you mean mister Krick. No, nothing, nothing,
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but he has been acting rather strangely lately, That's just it. I'm
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so worried. I haven't seen or heard from him all day. He's never
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been so late coming home from the office. It's after eleven. Oh,
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there's really nothing to worry about, Missus Burdick, even in a case like
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this. Of course, it looks very peculiar for Tom to be missing his
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way, especially at this particular time. You don't think Tom had anything to
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do with all this sort of well, Missus Burdick, I like Tom very
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much. I would hate to think that Tom had anything to do with this
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murder. Of course, Kebby, we don't seem to be learning much this
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way. Might as well go in and let him know we're here. Sure,
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Nick, good evening, mister Gatt. Why mister Carter, what are
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you doing here? I just came along with one of my assistants, Scubby
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Wilson, to talk to mister Burdick. We came in this way because we
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didn't want to disturb the dogs. Really, who are you, oh,
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missus Burdick. This is mister Nick Carter. He's in charge of investigating Hamill's
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death. Mister Carter the detective. Some thing's happened to Tom, has it?
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I don't believe so, Missus Burdick. I just want to ask him
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a few questions when he arrives. Maybe that's why Tom hasn't come home.
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Maybe he's afraid. Maybe that's he Now wait, wait, I'll go look
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out the window to see if that's his car, Carter. I must warn
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you to be careful. Berdick's a dangerous man, Tom, Tom Nick Carter's
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here places, Missus Burdick. I'm away in that window. See you won't
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too many go that way, mister Bertick. How me please? That's just
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car, mister Connor. Look he's getting away. Let's get after him.
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Oh cry, I'll go with your Connor. Hurry. I want to know
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why you run you away? You want to hear my name. I hope
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this car youwers stays on the road. Credit. Don't worry about it,
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mister Greg honor right. I didn't want to say too much in front of
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Missus Berdie, but we've all been afraid of Bertie. All right, all
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right, let's gubby, let's keep you put on that throttle and keep after
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him. Oh boy, we sure made that one. On two wheels.
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Nick, I'm pushing this crate as fast as you'll go, but we don't
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seem to be getting any closer. And Carl, Bertie, since sure stepped
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long. Hang on and don't lose him. I'll be satisfied. And watch
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it. We're coming to a railroad crossing, so I see, well,
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maybe we can head him off now. If Berdick tries to beat that limited
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to the crossing, he's crazy. But Kyler, I think he's going to
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try to make him. You can't do it. He'll be killed. Oh,
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Nick, that nurse that just came out of the operating room is signaling
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you. She wants me to go into Bertie. You wait for me here
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scy okay, Nick, Oh Berdie Reddy hear me? Yes, Carter,
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I can hear you. Carter, I'm dang man. Yes, I know.
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I swear to you. I didn't kill Hamel or Cornish. And why
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did you try to run me down with your car this afternoon? Carter?
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I didn't do that. Oh, I know? Is it? For several
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hours this afternoon my car was seriously missing. Yeah. I didn't find it
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again until I start down this evening. Bertie, why did you run away
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from your home tonight, and your wife told you we were there. How
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about the securities we found on you after the wreck? Yeah, wasn't you?
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It was securities? I so, yes? Why did you take that
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so I couldn't keep him from stealing them? Ready? Who? Ready?
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Who's he? Go on? Office? But drawing desk? Something will lead
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you to? Yes, Bertick, who's the murderer? Oh Bredick? Oh,
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poor Chap, you've spoken sooner. You might have lived longer. Nick,
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How Nick? I got here as quick as I could. Have you
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found anything? Yet? I think so? Scobby Burdick wasn'tlying to me.
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I found this in the bottom drawer of the desk in the front office.
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Here a book. Well is that what Berdick meant? Just look at that
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title? Studies of various angles of bullets in flight? Also, what,
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Nick, Scubby, that's the way Hammer was killed. It all adds up
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perfectly. Now I know why I heard only one shot when I found three
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empty shells and the murder weapon. Three shots were fired, but two of
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them were fired at a different time from the third. Well, you know
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we're the other two bullets on? I do follow me out in the hall
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and I'll show you. Yeah, you see, Scubby. As soon as
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I found that book in the flight of bullets, I did a bit of
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looking around and I finally found them, or are they in the office here?
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No, Scubby, in the corridor right over there, in that dark
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corner, embedded in the wall beside the elevator shaft, about a half a
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dozen feet from where Hamil was killed. Oh what are they doing over there,
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Scubby? This was a very ingenious crime. And if you watch carefully,
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i'll show you just how ingenius it really was. How you noticed that
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Cornish's office is the only one facing the corridor leading from the elevator. Yeah,
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so when in order to shoot someone coming down the hall, the murderer,
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if we were in any office, but Cornishes would have to step from
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his office out into this corridor and be seen right. Yea, all right,
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But our murderer was very clever. I got the answer when I located
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the book, and when I found these embedded in the wall beside the elevator
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shaft, the two missing bullets right. Oh hey, they're all banged up
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precisely, just like the murder bullet. And that's what gave me the answer.
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You see, Scubby, the murderer never left his office. He stood
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inside the front office, the one around the corner on the lower leg of
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the L shaped corridor, and aimed at that steel pillar built into the wall
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over there. When the bullet hit the steel face of the pillar, it
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was deflected into Hammel's lungs. Look here, you see these marks in the
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face of the pillar here where? Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are
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the bullet marks. Oh well, gosh, Nick, that's fantastic. Here
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are you sure you're right? Positive? Don't you see? Scubby? That
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explains the other two shots that were fired. They weren't fired at Hamel,
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and they weren't fired at the time the murder was committed. They were practice
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shots used by the murderer to be sure he had the correct angle from which
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to shoot Hammel. Gosh, Nick, I've certainly got a hand it to
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you. That's but we still have to get the murderer. But how and
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who is it? I rather think that if we step back in the office
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and wait, we'll find out soon enough, Scubby, Oh what do you
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mean, Nick? I mean that whoever it is will be in this office
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within the next few minutes. Because after my discoveries, I made a couple
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of phone calls, and I invited the two remaining partners to meet me here
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sh here come someone now, Nomen Oh, hello, Gg. I got
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your phone call and I got here as fast as I could. Eric.
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Have you seen this book before, studies of various angles of bullets in flight?
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Why? Yes, now that I think of it, I think I
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have as it belonged to you. No, it doesn't, but I remember
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that one day when I was with mister Nelson, he stopped in front of
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a bookshop and looked at it rather closely, now that I think of it,
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Yes, I'm sure it was Nelson. Very interesting. I'll tell me,
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mister Gerrick, when the murder was committed. Are you positive that you
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and mister Nelson were in this office together? That's right, mister Carter.
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And you show me exactly where each of you stood at the time the shot
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was fired. Let me see. I was here facing the window, and
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Nelson was well standing right about here for the door. M m I see.
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Did you notice in which direction he was facing at the time, Yes,
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I remember this way, facing the garder. In other words, the
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way he was standing you could see him only in profile. That's right.
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There's no question. But that's holf was done. Scubby. The murderer planted
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himself in this office so that he could establish a strong alibi. He then
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took the gun from his pocket, unseen by the other person in the room,
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who could see him only in profile, and then fired it at that
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steel pillar. Then, as he ran into the corridor with arrest after Hamil
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was dead, he dropped the gun into the umbrellas and in front of Cornish's
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office. But Carter, do you mean that Nelson is the one? Gentlemen,
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did I hear my name mentioned? Yes, Nelson, you did.
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Why did you kill Hamel and Cornish? Please? Garret, don't be ridiculous?
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Oh, Nelson, does this book looked familiar to you? Eh?
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This book? Oh? No, I can't say that it does. You're
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sure you've never seen this book before, now that you mention it. I
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may have glanced at it in a bookshop at one time or another, But
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then I look over a lot of books I like to browse. I see,
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Nelson, see how you approve of this story of Hamil's murder. Yes,
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the killer knew of Cornish's criminal record, and he figured it could embezzle
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some of the firm's money and printed on an innocent man. Then, when
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he found out that Hamil was becoming suspicious and was having the account checked,
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he became panicky and afraid that it might not work out the way he had
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planned, so he decided to kill Hammel. Then, when he happened to
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overhear Hamil's conversation with me or with the telephone, he hurriedly borrowed Burdick's car
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without Burdick's knowledge and try to get rid of me. That's an interesting way
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out, mister Carter. Have you also a theory as to who the killer
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is? I have in the process of elimination. It has to be either
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you or mister Garrick, or an unknown. And I've already proved that I
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didn't do it. It must have been an unknown, then, mister Carter,
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I certainly didn't kill hammeler I had nothing to do with the murder,
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and the shot was fired. I was right here in this room with mister
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Garrick. He can testify to that he has already, mister Nelson. In
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fact, mister Carter, I was standing right here facing the window when the
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shot was fired. Oh no, that's where I was. Mister Carter standing
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there at the window. Please, Garrick, Please, you don't have to
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argue about it. I know who was at the window, and I know
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who fired the fatal shot. Scuby, take a look at the fly leaf
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of this book. What are they? Nick? He looked like the scribbles
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that some guys drowingly have nothing else to do. Oh doodles, they call
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him exactly. When I was looking through the various officers, I found some
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papers with these same doodling marks on them in one of the disks. And
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these marks were made by the murderer Gerk. I arrested you, mascubby,
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pick up the pieces. Oh boy, there's the murderer Garrick. He's also
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the man who tried to murder you and me last night. And they rode
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to Bertick's home. Yes, He'scubby. Berdick has his suspicions about Gerrick.
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That's why we found those securities on him. He took them so that they
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wouldn't founder Gerrek's hands. He suddenly found out that Grek was an unscrupulous crook,
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and that was the reason he ran. When Missus Burdick called him.
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He saw Garrick at the window and it was afraid of him. Well,
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Lock, I must say he had me fooled. But he said that Nelson
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was standing at the door of the office here when he was really there himself,
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yes, and telling us who was in this office. That clever murderer
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just reversed the positions in which he and mister Nelson were standing when the murder
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was committed. Once I saw the marks on that fly leaf, I knew
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who stood where, and that's why I had Nelson come up here to force
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Garrick's hand. Well, Nick, one weighs as good as another as long
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as you get results, and you always seem to do that. So you
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finally decided to come back, did you? Betsy? It's all over?
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Well, I think you can go home now. Wh I'm mister Carter.
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Are you sure you can spare me? Why not? You've been so busy
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on this case all night, mister Carter, you may not have noticed that
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it is now a new day and the good secretary is always on the job.
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The first thing in the morning, Shall I take a letter in,
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mister Carter? This was another strange experience of Nick Carter, master detective called
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While on this case was first brought to me, it seems a routine
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and none interesting that I practically turned it down. But it was far from
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routine once you got into it, wasn't it, Nick, Yes, indeed
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so far from it that I almost got myself bumped off investigating it. It's
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really the story of a man who thought he was so much cleverer than Nick
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that he could outwit him every time. I don't suppose he got away with
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it. No, he found he wasn't really so clever after all. Like
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practically every criminal I ever met, he gave himself away by being too clever.
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It sounds like an interesting tale, Nick, not only interesting but downright
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exciting. But more of that next week. So long, so long,
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and so long to you, Nick and Patsy. The strange adventure you've just
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welcome back. Well, another great Nick's hard story. And I love the
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setups here. They're very unique, some of the attractive shows while they're well
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performed. You have an idea. I've kind of heard this all before,
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but Nick Carter, I think there's definitely some great originality, particular in these
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early forties programs. All right, Well, I told you i'd tell you
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a little bit about Helen Choate, and I was blessed to be able to
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come up with an article from the Connecticut post because she actually lived to the
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Ripe old A one hundred and two from nineteen oh seven to twenty ten.
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In our earlier years, she really she started out in soap operas in the
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thirties. She had the lead the role of Bunny Wilson in Pretty Kitty Kelly,
33:16
and then just a lot of soaps were the main things that she was
33:23
credited for, but she transitioned into other roles. She translated Russian plays and
33:31
contributed to a variety of books. Perhaps her biggest claim to fame was that
33:38
she actually helped Alex Haley on editing Roots and also while Haley was kind of
33:50
struggling with economically, she helped give a loan of money give him some small
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jobs so that he could get that book published, And of course became that
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great television special and they had one story in here told by her friend Michael
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Manelo. Once Choate landed a big radio role, but she knew another girl
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who had auditioned for it too. This is from the Connecticut Post. The
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other actors had two children and was down on her look. So Choate approach
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the directors and asked them to give it her to her instead because she needed
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it more again, just a very classy woman, and what you know from
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everything we read, which wasn't a whole lot, just a very wonderful person.
34:38
She dropped out of college to pursue a radio career, and when on
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her one hundredth birthday she actually did get an honorary degree from the college because
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clearly had learned a lot through life experience that was really just vital, So
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really an amazing person. Helen's show. All right, Well, now we
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turn to listener comments and feedback. Brian emails in. I know you get
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occasional questions and criticism about your comments before and after each show, and about
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your delivery and accent. Much of it seems well intentioned, some not.
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I have only one request, don't change. I love to hear those magical
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words at the beginning of each podcast. Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old
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Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham.
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Your openings and closings, delivered in your own unique style, are almost enjoyables
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the old time radio programs keeping keep them coming. A long time listener,
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Well, Brian, Well, thanks so much, Brian, and truly appreciate
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it. Of course, we the only exception, of course, has been
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those few episodes. I think we did a couple from callis Spell, and
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if you listen back in the archives you may find one from even when Amucka
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Nevada and Mambe one or two from Reno. Well that was on the Old
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Time Dragon. It on the win ofmcking Rena, I'm sure. But on
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the accent front, my brother was actually going through a a course for learning
36:24
dialect written by someone in New York City and they said that the accent that
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he assumed to a family accent was Midwestern American farm I think was the accent.
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I'm not certain whether I fit into that mold or I break that mold
36:45
in my radio voice, but there you go. So that's an update on
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accent. Lese comments with her donation, no need to send me a premium
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York Sonora's voice is more than enough for me. It's the one thing I
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always listen to every day. Your fan lease in DC, Well, thanks
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so much, Lese. Then we have this email from Rachel, thank you
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so much for the Johnny Dollar podcast. Me and my husband really enjoy them,
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and our four month old really gets excited when she hears the intro music.
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When me and my husband were dating, we used to listen to Johnny
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Dollar radio shows together over the phone. It's really been great to get to
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listen to some new ones and old ones that give us fond memories. Thanks
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so much, Rachel, glad to facilitate that. Finally, a question from
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Albi regarding let George do It. Anyone know if the cross over episode from
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September nineteen forty seven, Sam Spade Visits George is in existence? Thanks?
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Well, I'll be with the proviso that many episodes are in existence but not
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in circulation because they're being held by collectors for whatever reason. I'm not aware
38:02
of that a copy of that in existence, and without that, it's kind
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of hard to say, you know what exactly the episode was about. Was
38:15
it truly a du joure crossover where Howard Duff came and the character Sam Spade
38:21
appeared, or was it some sort some sort of comedy or rip on it?
38:31
Or did Howard Duff appear but not actually a Spade. So I definitely
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would love to him find out what was in this episode, or at least
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get hold of the script. Unfortunately hasn't happened yet, but we'll definitely keep
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an eye out for it. All right, Well, that will do it
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for today's episode of Nick Carter. Join us back here tomorrow. We're going
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to go ahead and wrap up both the Planned Agent Matter and Crime for King
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on the Carter Brown Mysteries, So be sure and be listening. Then be
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