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Nick Carter: The Vanishing Postman (EP1326) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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it's time to get into today's program. This is an episode of Nick Carter,
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and there was one lost episode between last week and this, but today's
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episode original air date August twenty eighth, nineteen forty five is the Case of
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the Vanishing Postman, The Linox show starring Nick Carter, Master Detective, presented
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of a man known the world as one of the most daring and resourceful characters
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in the history of detective fiction. A man whose name has become a symbol
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of the triumph of right and justice over the sinister forces of crime and lawlessness.
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A man recognized as one of the great masters of deduction. Nick Carter,
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Master Detective. Today's exciting case, The Vanishing Postman, another exciting chapter
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dramatized from the life story of Nick Carter. In just a moment, we'll
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hear how Nick Carter investigated a baffling seven year old crime and solved a murder
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And now for today's exciting case from the life of Nick Cotter, rain
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has rolled in across the great city again today. The black skies thunder and
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crackle with lightning. The streets are glossy and slippery as glass. As Nick
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and Patsy drive homeward in the detective's powerful car. A torrent of rain beat
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against the windshield when suddenly get down. Oh all right, Patty, I
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guess god. I was scared. Lucky we went to this ally and we
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skidded off the street. Yes, and lucky. That pile of rubbish cushioned
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the crash might have had a bad cracker. Hey, wait a minute,
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what is it we smacked into that rubbish pile. We uncovered an old leather
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pouch lying underneath. See, hey, you'll get soaked. Nick, I's
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an old postman's bag. Passy found the pieces a bit here? Pas,
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Oh, Nick, come on back when there's mail in this bag. Letters.
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Oh that's a name printed on the strap. Ah, your draper,
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probably the name of the postman. Look at these letters, passis and postmark
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August nineteen thirty eight, nineteen thirty eight. Then you stag's been lying here
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seven years. Hey, ok, here, Passy, what Nick? The
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buckle from the strap has fallen to the pouch. There's a bit of metal
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wedge in the buckle looks like a lump of red. Well, it's shuld
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it happened to be a bullet. Let's get over to the post office at
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once. I'm afraid the explanation of this undelivered mail may be murdered. Ah,
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Patsy mystery. I found that postman Robert Draper vanished seven years ago,
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and that the police and postal authorities believe him to be guilty of theft because
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a registered parcel containing ten thousand dollars in securities also vanished at the same time.
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Oh, naked stolen theft. Can't account for that bullet we found wedge
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in the buckle and the pouch, Patsy, Oh no, no, I
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suppose not. For seven years Robert Draper stood convicted of theft. I'm going
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to find out whether he's guilty. But how are you going to dig up
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evidence in a case that happened seven years ago? Trying to get spassel permission
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from the postmaster to deliver this mail that should have been delivered seven years ago.
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Well, we've learned nothing so far in the first forty seven letters we've
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delivered. We're after a better luck here with a forty eighth. Yeah,
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are you Betty Barnes. I'm Nick Carter. This is my secretary, Patsy
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Bowen. Nick Carter. Oh, please come in, mister Carter. Thank
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you. I have a letter here for you, Miss Barnes, missus barn
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Oh, sorry, I have a letter that should have been delivered seven years
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ago, seven years ago. I better explain? Is he seven years ago?
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The postman who served this district disappeared. His name was Robert Draper.
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He's here, Betty Dan, he's about Pop. Well, he don't tell
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me that Draper was your father. Now look here, we fought that case
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seven years ago. There's no sense raking it up again and making out Betty's
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dad was a crook. Pop never stole. Why should he, He'd say,
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twelve thousand dollars. He had plenty of insurance. Twenty thousand dollars.
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By Barnes. Please, I'm not trying to convict your father all over again.
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I'm trying to find out what really happened. Why do you want to
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have to help me. I'm sorry, mister Carter. Now tell me what
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happened on that last day. Well, Pop left in the morning. You
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see, he lived with us, and he always used to drop in at
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home for lunch in the day he disappeared. He's just never showed up for
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lunch. When Dan came home that night, I sent him out or I
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went out to check up mister Carter. They said he never returned to the
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post office. And that's all we know. We never saw that again.
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I see, he said, Bonnes, you have a picture of your father.
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I might have. I'll get him. Warn honey, you know,
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mister Carter, it was on my birthday that Pop disappeared. Awesome, Missus
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barn here's one mister Carter. He's not in uniform, but it's the best
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we've got, taken a week before he disappeared. Thank you. I'll let
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you know how we make out. Oh yes, here's your seven year delayed
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letter, Missus Barnes. Oh oh, Dan, Look, it's a birthday
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card from Pop. It says, happy birthday, daughter, that wishes on
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this day my heart would always find your leader, so I would Miles a
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wedding. But Nick, we delivered seventeen medicines. We left Missus Barnes not
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one of the newest things. All right, Patsy, we're not doing badly
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at all. We've got a picture of Draper, and we know I had
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no motive for stealing those securities. Somebody else in this trailer letters will help
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us along further. Well, this one's for Ben Kramer, care of Kramer's
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garage one one eight Land Street. This is it. That's mister Kramer doesn't
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seem to be around. Wait a minute, I have voices back there.
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Come on, you already got back to double what? Just give me a
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break, Shelly, Please head against what do I collect? What's coming on?
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But I can't keep on paying. It's breaking my back. I'll break
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your back of the fight away cer, I give you the place before you
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took my dough one for ten a week. I can't do it, Shelley.
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I don't think it's true, gentlemen, but I'd like some information.
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Oh yeah, wise guys. Nick Carter's the name Nick Carter? Hey Kramer?
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No, no, Nick, what's going on? Lady? Nothing,
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I'll be going, Cramer, I'll see you later. What's going on here?
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Yes, mister Kramer has been caught in a loan shark racket, something
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pretty well known to the police, but something that can't be stopped until the
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victims are willing to give evidence. What was that one for ten they were
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talking about? The Kramer pays a dollar a week for every tenny borrowed,
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right, mister Kramer, I I don't want to talk about it, mister
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Carter. It ain't safe. If I could only just flay my hands on
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fifteen hundred dollars and get off from under. Mister Kramer, We've got a
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letter for you. It's seven years old. Seven years that don't make no
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sense. This letter was mailed to you but never delivered because something happened to
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the postman. Robert Draper remember him? Oh yes, yes, of course,
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a friendly little fellow, blue eyes, he had bald, wore a
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handlebar mustache, a handlebar mustag. Yeah, yeah, I even remember the
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day he scrammed Hackey, who used to keep his cab in my garage.
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He saw Draper, he drove him and another guy someplace as come on,
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where was it driven? Who was a man? Now? Now? Now
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leave me think, mister Carter. It was such a long time ago.
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I can't even rammer. I want to name and address of that cab driver?
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Well, letting I remember now it was make the killer, get Cramer's
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evidence. Killer, come away. Let's to get to a phone. Colin.
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That's quick, right, listen, can you hear me? Who drove
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with Draper in the cab? Oh? No? Where they drive? Shelley's
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falling out. We just met her father told me. Anything you say,
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Renny, that's that seven year old letter to me. Sadn't it? Sorry,
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mister van Kramer, Yes, sir, we are happy to inform you
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that your contribution has won second prize in our slogan contest and clothes. Please
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find money orders totaling fifteen hundred dollars. Hundred dollars mister Cremer needs to pay
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off. Mister Kramer doesn't need any money anymore. That's it. Oh,
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he's dead. Birthday greetings seven years old and now murder from a delayed mail
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shortcuts to household beauty. And now back to our story. Investigating the strange
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disappearance of Robert Draper, postman accused of absconding with registered securities. He was
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carrying Nick and Patsy pick up the trio of the old mystery by delivering mail
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found in the postman's abandoned pouch. Now we find them in the street after
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the sudden murder of one of their witnesses. What do we do now,
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Nick, wait for the homicide squad to arrive. Oh no, Sergeant Matheson'll
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only hold us up, call us material witnesses and all that. Now I
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want to get on with the kick. That's the Shelley Bowling alleys. No,
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not get Betsy. We have having enough evidence for a direct frontal attack
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on mister Shelley. Let's get onto the mail delivery. There are more clues
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waiting for us to pick them up. Who's next? A postcard address to
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mister Parker Flint's Homewood House. Homemwone house. That's the exclusive apartment house in
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the corner facing the river. Huh. Come on, let's see what mister
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Flint can tell us. Good afternoon, mister Flint. Your butler said we'd
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find you here in your aviary. Oh, good afternoon. You've got a
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charming place here, mister Flint. Here, shay, i'd like it.
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I suppose I look silly pottered around the glass house filled with a lot of
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birds. But will I like it? Let's step into my living room.
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We can talk better there. We won't keep you from your hobby long,
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mister Flint, Let me introduce myself. I'm Nick Carter. This is my
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secretary, Patsy Bourne. Get out of here, but your pardon. Get
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out of my house, and you'll just get this straight. I hate police.
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I'll have nothing to do with police anywhere, anytime. Now, get
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out. What on earth isn't wait? Patty Parker Flint thought that name sounded
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familiar? Yes, I remember Parker Flint, third, tried and convicted of
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second degree murder seven years ago. Oh you remember? You're so happened to
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remember that Parker Flint the third, my grandson is serving a life sentence in
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state prison. Right now, I do, and will your capable memory recollect
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that he was innocent, that he was convicted on clumsy, circumstantial evidence that
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would admit an idiot laugh for what do you mean? Young Flint claimed he
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was going to walk intour across the country. The murder of an enemy of
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Parkers was committed August thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty eight, in this city,
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and on that day he was fifty miles outside town, in the village
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Dame Sampson. The defense couldn't prove it, mister Flint, so they convicted
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it. Not because he was guilty, but because they hadn't anyone else.
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Make an example A screamed show. There's some the same justice for rich and
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poor lighte. Yeah, they made an example. All right, then you'll
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be interested in the case I'm working on, mister Flint. Another man runs
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the risk of unjust conviction. I'll have nothing to do with the police.
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Go on, get out, and Nick's not a police, mister Flint.
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Just as sometimes miscarries, men are wrongfully convicted and sentence as a human factor
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in law the camp aboard him. I made it my job to prevent that
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factor of human error as far as possible. I I'll help you with your
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case, mister Flint, but you've got to help me with mine. Eh,
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Well, what is your case? It's your own postman Robert drape graper
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ol. I remember him well, know him well. In fact, supposed
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to have disappeared about seven years ago. Suppose yes, he did disappeer,
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though I saw him around this neighborhood several weeks afterwards. Act this is suspicious
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though he is hiding, have his head wrapped up in a turban? A
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turban. Ah. Yeah. What's more, he seemed to be afraid of
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someone called Gray, seemed to see this gray everywhere. Gray, interesting,
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very interesting. Anything else it might help? Yeah, no, no,
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no, that's all. And now, mister Carter, about my case.
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I'm sorry I lost my temper. But you understand, don't you. Do
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you think you could offer any any, hope for anything. Yes, mister
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Flint, I can give you more than hope. I'll give you back your
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grandson. Oh, in the form of this postcard that should have been delivered
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seven years ago. A postcard from your grandson, sent from the village at
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Sampson, New York, post marked August thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty eight.
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It was Crewe, where he claimed he was. Congratulations, mister Flint.
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This is the one piece of evidence that'll free well Nick. How do
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we stand any closer to the vanishing postman? Yes, indeed, Patsy,
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mister Flint brought us a good deal closer. So that turbine, for one
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thing, it's very significant. And Raper's fear of someone called Gray even more
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so. But we haven't come across anyone named Gray. So far, hold
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everything, passy, here's our next up, residence of Miss Jennifer West.
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Miss West got a seven year old package coming to her. Well, let's
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hope we can trade it for information. Information mister Carter about our missing postman.
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Yes, well, I rarely don't know it. Excuse me? Hello,
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oh hello darling. No, no, you're wrong. It's the orphans
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benefit. No, no, the eight I put you down for a box.
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No, certainly you can't get out of a deer. It's a worthy
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cause. Yes, yes, all right, bye, No, no's see
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where were we? You were going to tell us what you remember about mister
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Draper's disappearance. Oh, but I don't know anything. I don't even remember
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him. Here's a photograph of him. M I'm sorry it isn't a bit
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familiar. But I have such a miserable memory for sages, and in my
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work these days, I see so many day in and day out, Child
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Welfare Association, the canteen in the City Hospital, City Hospital. Oh,
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I met the most interesting man there yesterday. He was in the psychiatric wing
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room three twenty. But Miss redw Strange deities mono chromatis and they call it,
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and he's so cheerful about it. Monochromatis. Oh, it's a technical
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name for blindness of some kind. Such a nice man. His name was,
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his name was? It was great, great, I heard, petty,
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thanks Amelian for your help, Miss West. And here's what reward.
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It's long overdue package, seven years overdue. Why that's Gary Wharton's handwriting.
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Once upon a time, Miss Burne, I thought Gary, and I might,
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oh, well you understand, yes, But he's so very shy and
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I oh, oh, look, my dear, it's it's flowers out a
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buch of flowers. No, they're not artificial. That's the bouquet of live
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forever flowers. And they're from Gary. Oh, here's a card, dearness,
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gin I've been wanting to ask this for a long time, never had
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the courage, No I have, will you all, Miss Webb is a
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proposal seven years ago, and he never knew I hadn't received. He thought,
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my silence Smith, Oh oh excuse me, please, let's get out
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of here, Bessie. I have an idea that for the first time today,
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Miss West's pawn is going to hear her say yes yes. So now
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we're head for Shelley's bowling Alley an it right? But why now, why
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don't we have to leapen to that man Gray, the one Draper was afraid
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of. You'll see here's where we stopped. Let's go Nick. What happened
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to the post Was he murdered by Shelley? Did Shelley murder Cramer tooth on?
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Ollie wanted busy play And there's our old friend, mister Shelley. Shelly
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man if we have a chat, Look, don't come fussy putting around my
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place. You got nothing on me. Cutter, Oh that's what you say.
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Bluff and I ain't gonna do no good. Don't try and tell me.
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Kramer Thorne, he knows better. Grammar can't talk. He was murdered.
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It was one murdered, shot to dead. You're a lying. He
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was murdered in an attempt to keep me from uncovering the secret of Robert Draper's
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disappearance. Draper the postman, This is a frame up Steelers Innocents. Jilly,
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I suppose you come over to the City hospital with us. Oh,
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simy hospital E. Now I know it's a frame. I heard one of
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your playing clothes. Then call in City Hospital this halfternoon finding out the visiting
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now is getting a beautiful framer all worked down, and so my own joy
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too. What's that? I ain't taking cards on this deal, Connor,
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I'm getting no nippy. He's running out. Aren't you gonna go after him?
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Petsy? What time it is? And they've got five minutes visiting ours
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stunts at eighth at the hospital? That's what are you talking about? I
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never thought he'd go that cart, Petsy. Come on, you've got to
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stop a visitor at the hospital tonight. His name is deaf. I'm not
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your fast, Nick. You can stop and rest. I've got to keep
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going. We're aw Where are we headed? The east wing of the hospital
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psychiatry. What time is it? Two minutes after? He may have enough
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time. Then we're going to see that name Gray. Are you yes?
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That West said he was room three twenty five. It is three fifteen,
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three seventeen, three nineteen. Here we are three twenty five. Yes,
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it is. He is in the card monochromatic blindness from card Layer. Hey,
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it's darkening here. I just sumped into one of those rolling tables.
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Lightning rolling table here, got a nigger be guns out only the beginning,
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Petcy, but the beginning of the don't, at least not without a ship.
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Got why steal Budgy, Yes, try and find the light. Probably
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loungs at the door. I've got him. Nick sitting on Dan Barnes right,
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Petsy. Dan Barnes, Robert Draper's son in law. Barnes is a
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thief who robbed Robert Draper's mail bag of ten thousand dollars worth of security seven
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years ago. These Barnes who took for himself the twelve thousand dollars which Draper
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had saved up before he disappeared, And it was Barnes who hoped to collect
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twenty thousand more in life insurance if Draper's they had lost seven full years,
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so we could be declared legally dead. But put that man in the bed's
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not the same man as in our picture. Whenevertheless, Petsy, that unconscious
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gentleman and near victim of suffocation at the hands of Dan Barnes, is our
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long lost postman, mister Robert Draper. In just a moment, Nick will
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Cotter himself. Nick, I still don't understand what happened to Draper seven years
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ago. As I see it, here's the story of paving. Seven years
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ago, Draper met his son in law Barnes, as usual to go home
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and have lunch with him. He probably confided in Barnes that he was carrying
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valuable securities in a registered letter. Barnes is the only man Draper would have
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told, since the postman's job is highly confidential, all right, right,
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they don't go around telling strangers what they carry, all right. And on
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some pretexture, rather, Barnes or Draper to the alley behind Shelley's place and
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shot him, and he took the securities from the bag and left. He
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thought he killed Draper, but the bullet only creased Draper's head, rendering him
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unconscious. Oh then what happened. Draper recovered consciousness, but it was badly
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wounded. The shock of the wound produced amnesia, and the wound itself produced
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a brain condition called on a chromatism, that's day blindness. The victim can
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only see at night. By day, he's frantically blind and can only see
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vague shades of gray. So that's what mister Flint meant. That's it,
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and that's what the turbane meant. Ah, it was Draper's bewildered attempt to
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bandage his head. For a few days, he wandered about days without memory,
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mumbling that he could only see gray. Finally he was picked up and
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taken to the hospital. Barnes, who must have seen him wandering around in
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a day's condition, realized he was safe so long as Draper's mind was gone
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and Draper was lost to the public, So he decided to let matters ride
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and wait, and then we came into the case. Only I can't understand
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one thing. Why didn't anybody identify the picture of Draper when you showed it?
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Because it wasn't Draper's picture. What I realized that when Kramer told me
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Draper had a mustache. Remember, Barnes was alarmed when he learned we were
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on the trails, and cleverly handed us a photo of another person, hoping
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it would throw us off the scent. Oh, then he followed us as
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we delivered the mail, waiting to see what would happen. And it was
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he who shot Kramer, just as Kramer was about to give us the information
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we wanted, and when it became evident we were tracking Draper down, his
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hand was forced and then he went to the hospital to try to murder him
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a second time, Right, Patsy. Unfortunately Barnes didn't realize that murder is
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bad medicine. It never cures anything, not when you're around Nick. Well,
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Nick, what's the story for next week? You remember the case of
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the frightened social director Patsy, the man who scattered torn newspaper in preparation for
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a paper chase and found Oh yes, I remember the next morning when the
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paper chase started, they found that one of the trails was made of torn
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ten dollar bills. What are you going to call a case? Nixt the
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factory of death? And now final word from Nick Cotter and a very important
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word too, can friends, Right now, there is no better thing you
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can do for the protection of America's future and your own and a buye United
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to keep America secure, help to prevent inflation, help in the transition from
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wartime to peace time by buying and keeping your war bonds until immature and by
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buying those all important victory bonds now. Nick Cotterer Master Detective, which is
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produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications,
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Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick. Charlotte Manson plays Patsy. Original
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music is played by George Wright. Script is by Alfred Bester, and then
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a resemblance in these programs to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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Nick Carter Master Detective is presented at this time and over these same stations each
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Linux dealers all over America and saying, so long until next week. This
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is the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. Well, isn't that the way
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of it? You know? If you or I we trash crash into a
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pile of trash, we're going to need to get a front in alignment and
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have our car vacuumed out. Nick Carter ends up in the middle of a
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mystery, and it was an interesting idea about undelivered mail having an impact on
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people's lives. Some of it wasn't particularly realistic, didn't ring true. I
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know they wanted to go for a real sense of irony with that guy getting
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fifteen hundred dollars in money orders that he needed just as he expired. But
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actually I know today that if somebody you issue somebody a money order, usually
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it's good for between ninety and one hundred and eighty days. While the rules
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might have been a little different back in nineteen forty five, I doubt a
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seven year old money order would be worth much. Was that one piece of
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evidence the postmark, the date on the postmark. Yeah, that doesn't actually
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prove a whole lot either. It could be indicative of something that he was
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in town, but he also could have been there the previous day and then
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hitchhiked back to go ahead and commit the murderer. Certainly it would have been
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an extra burden for the prosecution to prove and to address. Plus, the
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revelation of the husband as the perpetrator wasn't a big surprise because throughout this thing
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the husband was kind of acting, you know, throughout the interview, he
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was just unnaturally nervous. You'll really give him the game away. So I
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like the concept and some of the things that happened the story, but a
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little bit of the execution seemed to bit off for me. But at any
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rate, we do turn to listener comments and feedback, and this is received
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a comment regarding episode eight ninety eight, the Cases of Mister Ace the Key
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to a Booby Trap, and Wes says, it's very cool to hear George
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Raff as a radio detective that I've never heard of before. You do find
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some very interesting things. He points out, though the episode is dated in
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nineteen fifty seven, the plot is very like theeen forty eight film The Devil's
33:27
Cargo, not surprising. There were probably a lot of plots between B movies
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and radio that were awful similar. And the big thing that would make separate
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a good mead movie from a horrific B movie wasn't going to be so much
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the plot as it was the way you executed it. Did you talent with
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humor? Did you talent with a good style? So I would I wouldn't
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be surprised if they were crossover between these two programs. But thanks for sharing,
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and I definitely do That's something that I do pride myself on this show
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because we do get a lot of requests to do Richard Niman and things of
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that sort, and we're going to get into some of the more popular shows.
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But I like finding things that will entertain people that are obscure and different
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and things that they never would have heard of if they hadn't listened to the
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program. And so I'm glad you found the Cases of Mister Ace interesting,
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and I hope you'll find many of the other particularly rare programs we will find
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on this show from time to time to be to your liking. All right,
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Well, that'll do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with the
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Man with the action packed Expensive account, yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and
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then join us back here next Thursday for another episode and Nick Carter. In
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