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- Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Radio Detective. Before we do get started, I do want to say today's programs brought to you by the financial support of our listeners, and I particularly want to thank Teres and Robert so much for your support. We'll send along access to the premium side, which we do with all donations of seven dollars or more, and you can support the show at support dot Great Detectives dot net, where you can also find a mailing address to mail in a donation. Full of instructions available there. All right, well, uh, today's episode of Nick Carter. We have several lost episodes for in fact to today's episode originally aired November the twenty third of nineteen forty seven, and the title is the Case of the Barefoot Banker. And I'll warn you in advance this is probably some of the lowest quality audio we've played on the program, so be sure and listen close. But here now is Nick Carter care of what's happened? So I found out too late to stop you. Uh what you read? You're going to tell me that you've had another period of temporary and sanity, aren't jib? That's right. I don't remember what happened, but when I came out of it, it's nice in my pocket. Yeah, I expected that those dangel Carter their blood. Now for the case of a barefoot banker to Day's Adventure starring Ron klok as Nick Carter bought you by a new post war all that's cleansing. It's four o'clock on a Monday afternoon, and Arthur Colby, portly dignified and respected, walks through the huge bronze doors of the Colby Trust Company and conscious to the curb where a uniform solfer opens the door of his lemonsine. I won't need the car, guest Jeff Marvin. I think I walk a few much before going home. Yes, mister Colby, don't close the car door, Yes, sir, I want to get in for a moment to take off my shoes. I'd beg pardon sis to take off my shoes. It's such a fine day, I think I walked therefore, mister Colby, bare Fulham Park Avenue. Yeah, good idea, isn't it. I can't imagine why I never thought of it before. But Arthur, why did you do such a thing? You were all people I don't know. I can't even remember it because like taking from a song, sleep to find myself in the street crowds laughing again you blame them, Yes, sister dear. In that newspaper photographer, I tried to smash his camera and you only succeeded in giving him a better picture that I need to hope for so im a fan page of every tabloid in to remind me of you with your homburg half like crowderesn't there so he's swinging that goehead and Caine at the camera. Here, Please don't get excited. We'll all forget that it never happened. Why don't you relax. Oh here, have a figurette one of those Turkish atrocities of yours. I was saying, I stick to my pipe. Now that's are we teenty these days? Monogram said direct a lesson. Yes, they're not paid for either. By the way, could you let me have a couple of hundred lornam Stone broke. I you're going to quick spunging on your system where how if you make me a decent allowance, it wouldn't be necessary, would use to explain it's going a great deal for you. I know, And he never let me forget it. Still, if you don't like living in my house, what I do? I do? It's very convenient to have a sister with a rich husband, even though he is a bad excent rick. I am not extended why I was trying to be polite. Most people would have said bombing, that's enough. Well, it's not as if this were the first crazy thing he'd done. How about the way he hides things all over the house and the time you put the fool fish in the wall face. If that isn't a sign of something not quite out of here, gets out of here very well. Also, you better watch out this or you may wake up some morning with your throat cut. No, I don't pay any attention to him. Maybe perhaps I am losing my mind. That's nonsense. You're only tired and nervous. What if during one of these mental blackouts I should harm you? Don't even think about it. Tomorrow we'll see doctor Henderson. Oh, so, what's the matter. There's something in the human doors, something buried in the tobacco, buried in the tobacco. Okay, it's my watch when I lost two days ago. Maybe you didn't put it there, darn. It might have been Richard telling you a joke. On No, no, no, you get it there myself. I remember, now. What's awful? Why? I don't know? Everyone helped me, Lona, I don't know. I should like to buy a knife. Is it a kitchen knife? I believe, yes, the kitchen knife to do nice? What kinds are what kimey pairing knife? Put your knife, carving knife? But your knife? Yes, a large put your knife, of course, now we have them a daious fice. A place doesn't matter, just so it has a sharp edge, a very sharp edge. See it bore my wife. And that was a knife they found under your pillow, mister cob Yes, I don't remember putting it there. I don't even remember buying it. And you want, mister protect your wife against what you might do in a thing to mister Colby, No, no, I told you all this, Carter, so that you understand the circumstance. What I want you to do is find the sum of money I mislaid during another of these spells. Oh how much money? Twenty thousand dollars? Wow, quart a bundle? Why did you lose it yesterday? Tell her if my bank said I drew a personal check for twenty thousand at about two thirty, and did you I examined the check this morning. It's nice to get you, all right, but you don't remember signing it. I don't remember anything from about two o'clock until I arrived home at five. Go on the banks. God saw me leave the building at Tree, But when I went to what I did I don't know. And you don't know whether you were robbed or lost the money or gave it away. I'm more inclined to think that I hid it somewhere. I do hype things lately. Well, I'll see what I can do. Frankly, I think there's only one thing that'll get your money right. Let's the blot smester Colby just playing shilluck. That's it. There's something wrong with Colvie story somewhere. What do you mean wrong? Ran true? I'm no psychiatrist, of course, but I've always understood these mental cases found of the definite patterns. Well, the pattern isn't right. Up until now, he's been hiding little things about the house. Twenty thousand dollars isn't a little thing not in my dictionary, O mine. But he didn't hide it in the house this time either. Yeah, that's one thing. This Jesus of buying a knife and hiding it completely outside the pattern. Do you think he's lying? I certainly doesn't make any sense that he should try to railroad himself into an asylum unless unless flatten, unless he's planning something big. And oh, this is just a build up so that he can plead temporary in sand. You mean something like murder, Well could be. Do you have a name of Kobe's Kansas, Yes, doctor Miles Henderson. He has an office in his home out in east. Try to get me in a format of doctor Henderson. Let's find out whether he thinks Kobe might be faking. Okay? Oh, and I asked him to have missus Kobe there too. Perhaps she can tell us how her husband acts during these so called periods of forgetfulness. Why did you ask me mister Carter has also done anything violence? Oh? No, no, no, missus Kobe, nothing like that. Yes, and just what is this all about? I'm coming to that, doctor Henderson. You see, mister Coby has retained me to recover some money he thinks he's hidden and forgotten about. That's so. How much money? Twenty thousand dollars? Who? Yes? Did he do it out of the bank during a period of amnesia? Yesterday? I afternoon, and he didn't have it when he got home. Why we're going to pay something, miss Coby? I no, no, I was surprised at all. You shouldn't be. I wondered that his condition was getting worse. We have cigars to cosy? Oh no, thank you, I believe I will. There were a large knives to use this as a guard cutter. Ooh, I don't think I picked it up in the Orient several years ago. Oh hey yeah, uh, doctor Henderson, you've been treating mister Corby for some time, haven't you to me? About two months? At first he complained of headaches, and that's a mindedness. Then he began to find his personal belongings in odd places. There's no recollection of putting them there. How about these periods of am media? They started three weeks ago, and they're getting progressively worse. At first he did silly things, but now his actions are becoming more ominous. But desying that butcher knife and hiding it under the pillow, you mean exactly for her own safety. I've been trying to be paid with Colby that her husband should be placed in an institution. And I can't believe that's necessary. I won't believe it, not until it's too late for Richard sent me about it too, until sometimes I think I'll go mad. And who's Richard, my younger brother, he lives with us. Well, I'm afraid Richard's right. He didn't do you know what he's thinking of, Doctor Mona, just an. I'm afraid I don't follow this. I love my brother, mister Carter, but I know it's form who thinks if Arthur we're in an asylum, I control out his money, I see. Huh. Tell me, doctor Henderson, have you ever observed a case quite like mister Colby's before in my own experience? No, but the pattern of behaviors, it's not really unusual. That's what I was really wondering about up to this point. Mister Colby's condition corresponds exactly to that of a French editor described by a doctor Bill held the Spider in his book Psychopathic Phenomena and Aberrations of the other case. That it's dark and developed in the same way sat By. That they are exactly similar. That's why I'm so positive mister Colby should be confined. Fine, what happened to the French editor? He murdered his best friend? Did you find out anything from your conversation with doctor Henderson yesterday? Mate? That's enough to make me even more curious. That's why he wanted to get me a book. It's called Psychopathic Phenomena and Aberrations by Wilhelm Speiger. Noah, I'm sorry, but I can't find that. If you asked where, I've called every publisher and books are in town. Nobody ever heard of it. I don't think there is such a book in that case, pa'ty get me the County Medical Association? I see, Thank you very much, doctor Wilson. What you saying? There is no such book, and I never was a doctor Wilhelm Spider. Not only that, the Medical Association has no record of any such person as doctor Miles Henderson. Har Carter, You've got to help something terrible, so I found not too late to stop you. What are you talking about? It's going to tell me that you've had another period of temporary insanity. Aren't here last night? I started to my club about eight, and I don't remember anymore until I awakened in my own room this morning. And during this so called period, I forgetfulness. What do you do? Murder your wife? Oh? No, Thank Heaven, Lona's all right. But what I found in my pocket this morning's doctor Henderson's paper knife. I thought on his desk yesterday afternoon. Yes, he must have been there last night. And these fames are the knife. They're blood. That's what I mean covering. They were afraid I killed the doctor. Well, instead of being part of Colby's planned to cover up a murder, the false doctor Miles Henderson, it appears, has himself become Colby's victims. We'll see what happens next in just a moment. Now back to the case of a barefoot banker. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought you by a new Polst War all that splendor. When Arthur Colby recovered from his latest period of amnesia, he found in his pocket a blood stained paper knife belonging to the man who called himself doctor Miles, Henderson's psychiatary, making Patsy have gone to Henderson's office in his suburban home to see what really happened. Well, he's been stabbed, all awesome, No wether's thought of a wound. It strains that Kobe doesn't have any blood stains on his clothing. Maybe he wearing something else. Lifetime possibly hum must have talked for quite a while before the killing took place. Huh, what makes the chainstow exactly? One of the doctor's out of the desk and another by the chair. At this end, it doesn't buy the Amma that that's madamis he's a cigarette ac So what Colby smokes the pipe and the doctor smokes cigar, But clearly cigarette stubs there aren't any. No, first, I thought Kobe was framing an alibi. Now I'm beginning to wonder whether someone isn't framing Colvid. I mean, Henderson might have been stabbed by someone else, someone who smokes cigarette exactly. Must have been something on huge about the cigarette. Otherwise, why would the stubs have been taken away? Maybe you can tell from the ashes there was there's a few shreds of tobacco, will take them down to the police laboratory for analysis. Is there anything else to be done here? I want to take a look at this filing together, labels, take history. If I can get the names of some of doctor Henderson's other patients, I'll tend to write them down for you. That won't be necessary. Patsy looks as if Colby was the only patient. Take doctor head you mean file? Not quite? Look what I found here? It's money, A lot of money, certainly is I think we found out what happened to Colby's twenty thousand dollars. I gave the twenty thousand dollars to doctor Henderson during my spell of amsia. I don't think it was anesium at the Colby or infanity either, got it? What are you diving here? Tell me? How did you happen to start going to Henderson? Way? Let him at the house one night. Who's going on there? Hold the big party? Many of the guests were strangers to me, friends of honors, friends of richards, and they go on go on. Well, Henderson mentioned being a doctor in the psychiatrist, so I told him about the headaches I've been having he suggested I come to see him the next day, and I did, And that's when your real trouble started, wasn't it? Yes, So headaches were the first symptoms. He said, what kind of treatment did he give you? Usual routine? I said, both had? I talked about my problems and he explained the hidden meetings and what I said, wasn't there ever anything else? Well? Sometimes he give me your sentatives first, and he tossed me until I fell asleepy, he said, he relaxed me for the actual treatment. Yes, after one of those treatments, you would pulled some ridiculous jount, wouldn't you. You trying to tell me the doctor was responsible for the spells I've been heavy, Klbe. He wasn't a doctor. He was a fake. And unless I'm mistaken, the reason for your peculiar actions was not infanity. You were hypnotized. This is a answer. My room is directly above. And if anybody had taken one of these cars out last night, you'd have heard it, wouldn't you, Marvin? Yes, I did you do that? One of the cars were gone last night? Yes? Miss it's the Kobe, because they're constable about eleven thirty and brought it back a couple hours later. According to the medical examin that's just about the time Henderson was killed. How do you know it was like the chlobe, Marvin, I know the sound of the Lewis it's quite different. Yeah, I didn't ask about the car. How did you know will we were driving it? Because it mister Colby's first look like you didn't actually see him by? Oh that's what I wanted to know. Thanks, mardon What now we're going after the house? Message or a little friendly conversation with a killer? Isn't this rather useless? Mister Carter? We all know what happened. My brother in law killed Henderson in a fit of temporary and santis. I still want to know whether anyone left the house last night at eleven thirty? Can you tell me, missus Colby? No, I'm afraid not. My room is in the east wing, too far away to hear. The fuck about you, mister Rains eleven thirty? I was sound asleep. I'm sorry. We can't be of more hill. Will anyone have a cigarette? Caught her bowen? He's a rather special if you like all, sister Tobacco. Oh no, thanks, I don't smoke. I wonder whether I may make a phone call. Of course, Richard will show you where it's cold. He is why you're making that car make I'm going to work on a variety of my own. What's got an idea of it? I never mind, But I may have a surprise for you. I hope Marvin doesn't come in the garage and catch me snooping around mister Colby's car. You might think I'm stealing it. There must be last the cor and if there are any stubs mos I saw cigarettes in it? Be kind Richard smoke. It'll prove who took this car out last night? Yeah, asked Tray. Oh Darling, it's empty, going, my dear, he is to me. I thought i'd like to watch the detective it work, so I followed you. Oh, well that is with the detective, not me. I yeah, I just wanted to see what I felt like to sit behind the wheel of such a beautiful car. Do you like it? Oh? It's wonderful. I how funny? What's funny? Three of your mirror? I can contrough the back winded perfectly. That's what rear of your mirrors are for, is yes, But mister Koby is tall if he's driven this car last night, for mirror wouldn't be adjusted to fit me. Get out of that car. So I was rough. It was rich, how clever of you was stolen. But I can't let you tell anyone got too ground. This is coy. Get down my room now nicely done. See as far as it's broken. Her hair would cover the brood. I'm assailed. You're meddling. This Car's an unfortunate accident, my dear, so foolish to start a motor and a closed garage. People die that way. And as missus Colby closes the garage door, Pasty lies unconscious behind the wheel of Arthur Colby's car, with the motor running. We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now for the conclusion of the base of a barefoot banker, today's adventure with Ms Carter, drop you by a new post war all that's scrimpy leading the motor of the husband's car running, with Pasty slumped unconscious behind the wheel. B Anest Colby closes a garage door and thought toward the house, mister Carter, for you you have come. I'd like to know that your brother did not kill Henderson. But my husband, Missus Dolby, and not your husband. There you killed him? I will thought or not? I don't think so, and you're not leaving me. Just get Missus Gorby, go my arm. You took your husband's car and went to see Henderson late last night, didn't you? No, I didn't. You called him about twenty thousand dollars. He told him your husband. I don't know what you're talking about. You pick up the paper and I came a dress, Sami, that's not true. It was awful you did it? Remember the blood, Missus Koby, the blood that stained your dress. No, I found that dress with a blood stains still on it. Oh my, I found ks for the confession, Missus Gorby. Perhaps we better drive down to headquarters. Now make it a It was a quick You didn't know anything. Oh yes I did, but I had no proof until you gave yourself away. Come on, let's go. No, come to the garage. I'm going to let you drive me to headquarters. I won't go in there, I right, Oh yes you will. Quite why I opened this garage war No, he's the motor of that car running. I don't know. Tell me, they say I can leave the hospital tomorrow, isn't that wonderful? Wonderful Ltrual lives after another couple of minutes in a garage, and you'd have been my late lamented secretary. Well, I'm sure glad you came along when you did. To tell me. How did you know Missus Colby killed the doctor. I knew because Richard smoked turkeys cigarette. But the laboratory analysis, of which reads at the back of one Henderson's astray, proved that they came from some ordinary popular brand. Oh and that eliminated char Colby smoked the pipe he was at n clear, so it had to be a wife. I don't follow that couldn't have been some completely unknown person. But you're forgetting that the knife was found in Colby's pocket, and outside of Richard or Colby himself, the only person who could have put it there was Missus Colby. Yes, yes, but this is behind all this, Disneys the plant to got control of Kolbe's money by having him put him in asylum as a homicidal maniac. That's why missus Colby hired Henderson, an explordial hypnotist mind you, to pose as a psychiatrist, and by putting Colby under hypnotic influence, Henderson could make him do peculiar things the next day and then forget all about him. He could and did after a few incidents like that, all before witnesses. Mind you, missus Kolby would have no trouble at all getting her husband put away a dangerous lunatic. Then Richard was completely innocent. He didn't know a thing about it. Huh. You know, the whole scheme might have worked out if Henderson hasn't got greedy and used hypnotism to make Colbe draw that twenty thousand out of the bank and bring it to him. Yes, that was a fatal error. I should say it was made missus Colby curious, So that's why she killed him. That was one reason. He also saw a perfect chance to get rid of the only person who knew were planned and at the same time put her husband in the asylum as a homicidal maniacs by putting the blame on him. What a dirty frame up. By the way, Peter, you'll get the note I do. Why because you caught the killer before I did, even if you didn't know it. Well, I hope I never catch another one. Catching criminals is awfully hard on the head. This welcome back. Well, it's nice to see Patsy solve it. I think Nick definitely made a mistake in jumping to conclusions Billy just kind of going on instinct. But I guess when you're Nick Carter, you've had enough success on that. But in this case, it did turn out that the man was innocent of wrongdoing and being framed, so very well set up. All right. 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