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Nick Carter: State’s Prison Evidence (EP1038) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to go ahead and get a listen to today's episode of Nick Carter. This
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episode is called State's Prison Evidence or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Midnight
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Murder. What's the matter? What is it another case for that's Detective.
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Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters, the detective
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who's ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick
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Carter, Master Detective, The Night's Curious Adventure, State's Prison Evidence, Nick
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Cotter and the Mystery of the Midnight Robbery. Why could you let me have
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a line? Certainly here you are swell night, isn't he? Indeed,
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it's a pleasure to walk on a night like this. Yeah, well thanks,
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I don't know. Good night. Yes, even in the big city
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like this, stars and justice. I wonder what's wrong with her? I
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beg your pardon. But is there anything I can do? I can I
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help you? Is something wrong? Murder? Who is it? My uncle?
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When did it happen? I don't know? Well? Where is he?
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Like in this big house right here? Yes? What's off? You
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shouldn't be out here in your night clothes, Chili, Come let me take
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it back to the house. Come on back to the house. Did you
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call police? No? I just saw him lying there in a pool of
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blood. Then I came out here to get help. Well, I'm Nick
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Carter, the detective. I'll be glad to help you if I can.
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How careful going up the steps? Okay, here we are. Now show
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me the library. He's in there. Oh, yes, I see dead?
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All right? Who found him? The housekeeper? She came in lately,
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saw a light still on in here. She looked in to see if
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he needed anything, and so then she called you. Yes, and you
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are. I'm Eljabo, his niece. I've lived here with him for the
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last five years since my mother died. I see, has anything been touched
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since the body was found? No, nobody's been in here at all.
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Good m shot through the head, close brained, looks as if he did
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it himself. No, no, here's the pistol that was used right beside
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him. Did you hear the shot? No? I sleep at the opposite
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end of the house. Oh, mister Carter, please find whoever killed my
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uncle? What makes you think he didn't kill himself. She wouldn't do a
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thing like that. I know it. Well, that's hardly evidence, miss
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Ella. Did you see this note? No? I know. Your uncle
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apparently left it propped up here in his desk, addressed to missus Sarah jar
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Bo, seven Dinner Street, City. You know what? Never heard of
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her? What does it say? Let's see, My dear madam, you've
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been a widow in fact ever since the hour following our marriage. But before
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daybreaks will be a widowing name. Also for I shall be dead. I've
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at last learned the truth. The one who told me right after our wedding
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ceremony that you were everything evil has at last confessed that you were really as
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good as I do you to be. It's too late for me to ask
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you to forgive me for the great wrong I have done you, so I'm
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taking this way of making quite amends. I can the upper drawer of my
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desk is my will sleaves everything to you, the repentant husband, enos Rbul.
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That's a remarkable document. Did you know anything about your uncle ever having
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been married? No, I never heard that before. Well, that note
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would seem to prove it was suicide. I know better. May I see
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that note? Of course? Here? I knew it, mister Carter.
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My uncle didn't kill himself, and he didn't write this note either. Isn't
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that your uncle's handwriting? It looks very much like it, but he didn't
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write it. Uncle didn't use this kind of pen. What do you mean?
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Uncle anes was very proud of his handwriting, and he never used anything
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but a special type of old fashioned steel tenning point. He has a very
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fine point. I see. Yes, this note was undroughtedly written with a
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stub point. Another thing, mister Carter, Uncle never wrote anywhere except at
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his desk here, and desk has been lot since yesterday morning. And I
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have the key. How long have you had it? I bowed it yesterday
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morning because I had some letters to write, and I've had it ever since.
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Was there another key to this desk? No? Uncle would never write
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anywhere else. You're quite a convincing detective, miss Ella. And if you're
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right, this can't be suicide in spite of the other evidence. I know
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I am right. Uncle would never have taken his own life. I believe
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you, and I'm just curious enough about this to do a little investigating myself.
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If I'm as good a detective as you are, I'll find your uncle's
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murderer in short order. You think this Missus Sarah Blake is the woman you
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want me, I'm not sure, Betsy. But when the maid told me
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that she never heard of Missus Sarah's Jarboul, but that Missus Sarah Blake lives
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here, I thought I better talk to her. She might be Missus Jarboul
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using her maiden name. Here she comes. Now you wish to speak to
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me, I'm looking for Missus sarah's Arboul. You know her, I do.
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I am Sarah Charbol. You are right. My name is Bill Peters.
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I'm a reporter. I'm writing a story on the sudden death of your
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husband, Eno Shiabo, the poor man. He died to make up to
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me for my years of heartbreak. Yes, I saw the note he left.
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Would you please tell me what had happened? Well? I met him
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one summer on the coast of Maine. We were married in the fall.
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He took a train for Boston. Along the way, he went into the
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smoking car to smoke a cigar. I never saw him again. My,
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that's terrible. Why didn't he come back? I only know that when the
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train reached the station, a messenger gave me five hundred dollars and a note.
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It said that he had learned I was not a good woman, that
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I should never see him again. But didn't you try to clear it up?
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No, if he believed it, I would never seek to persuade him.
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Otherwise, I've worked as a governess ever since. I see well,
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Thank you very much, missus Shabbo, come along. Goodbye, missus Yarbro.
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I hope you'll be happy now. Thank you and goodbye. She certainly
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got a tough brace, o passy. I was prepared to doubt everything she
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told me, but so I am inclined to believe her story, even if
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it does spoil my theory that she's part of an elaborate put up job.
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Which way are you going from here? I think I want me you let
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me have a life as far here you are. Thanks nice today, isn't
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yes, very pleasant? Thanks so long, So long, we'll come along.
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Wait a minute, I'd met that man somewhere before he asked me for
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I like just that same way. I wasn't. Of course, it was
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outside Jarbo's house last night, right after the murder. You mean you think
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he Watch a minute. I want to see if he yes, he's going
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into the house we just left right If he and missus Garbo know each other,
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the chances are her story is a pony. But I know what I
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know, Patty. But this changes things, Patsy. I want you to
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find out what you can about all Leo Sharbo's past, find out about that
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marriage, if ever was one. But first call Scubby and tell him to
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get here right away. Okay, that man leaves before Scubby gets here,
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I'll follow myself otherwise Scubby can tail him. But I've got to know where
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he goes and what he does right now. He's our one positive clue.
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Is it all right to talking here? Nick? The lobby of the Big
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hotel is probably the safest place in the world. Talking Scubby, We'll let
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you find out well. I followed him over to saloon over on Third Avenue.
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There was a fellow waiting there for him. I tried to hear what
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they talked about, but all I could get was the name Jarboul. Yeah,
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I heard that several times, I thought so, But just as I
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was really getting in closed, a couple of playing clothes cops came along and
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pinched him. Pinched him for well, it seems he broke out of State's
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prison three days ago. I heard the cops call him Barney McCoy. Barney
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McCoy, Yeah, jail bird from the state's prison. Pardon me, Scubby.
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I want to speak to the desk clerk for sure, Nick, But
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what do you have for o' clerk? I'd like to speak to the governor.
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Sweet please, Yes, what's carter? Use booth? No too out
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over there for Oh Nick, what in the world you want to talk to
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the governor for? Just haven't remember Scubby stopping at this very hotel for a
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few days I wanted to do meet Hello, mister Secreday. Well, this
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is Nick Carter. I'd like to speak to the governor a moment about me.
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Thank you, hello, Governor. This is Nick Carter. Fine,
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thanks, Governor. I want to go to State's prison. Oh no,
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not as a visitor. I want to go as a convy. Nick,
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are you not snow? I mean it? You can spare me five minutes.
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I think I can convince you. Thanks. I'll be right up.
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Hello. I asked you to meet me here at my office because I'm going
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to be out of town for a few days and I want to have everything
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straight before I leave. Has anything further happened? Nothing, mister Carter,
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except that missus Jabo has installed herself in the house as its mistress. She's
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very unpleasant to me. I know she'd like me to leave. You stay
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right there. Did the will leave anything to you? No, mister Carter,
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everything went to her. I can't understand it. I can, and
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will is forged. But the will is an uncle's handwriting, and both the
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witnesses to the will have identified their saying it just as genuine, and the
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will was found where the note said it would be. Nevertheless, I'm convinced
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the will's are fake. Betsy. What did you find Outau and Sarah Blake
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were married? Right enough? I found the regular little church on the south
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side. Sarah really is his wife or his will doesn't make sense, and
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neither does a suicide note was Yarbou didn't write. Maybe he did kill himself
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after all, mister Carter, maybe he just forgot about me. And I
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don't believe it. Ella, I don't either, And Ella, I'm going
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to prove I'm right, even if I even if I have to go to
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jail, I'll do it. Oh you're the new man. Yeah? What
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what's your name? Max Herbert? Where were born? Papolo? New York?
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Hold are in thirty three? Nationality? American? Married? Nope?
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Crime house breaking? Very well. The guard will take you to the photographers
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and then to the life. No, fellow, you've been here three days.
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How do you like working in this shoe shop? I don't like it?
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Not cut up for it? What are you in for? Second story
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job? What I got you for it? Cracking is safe? Miss four
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of us? Two of them got away, Me and McCoy was nailed.
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Cole McCoy. Hey, it wouldn't mean Bonnie McCoy, would you? Yeah?
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Yeah? You know him? Sure? Knowing? Well? Great guy?
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Sure is you know his wife? Yeah, there's a darn smart woman.
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Eddie is Addie. Yeah? I thought her name of Sarah. Oh
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No, his wife's Eddie. Sarah was assistant and that looks so much alike
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you couldn't tell one from the other. Yeah, well what became of Sarah?
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No, I no know. She married some rich guy for his money,
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but enough to flat. I don't know what happened after that. Paddy's
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still in town waiting for Mack to get on. He he did break out
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a few days ago. He just caught him and brought him back here.
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Yeah, and then they got him on the rock pile for trying to escape.
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Hey, cut out that talking, you guys, get back to work.
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Okay, Okay, So Bonnie and mc car is on the rock pile
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now, I rather think i'd like to be transferred to the rock pile myself.
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Hey, Bonnie, Yeah, hello, you've known me now for almost
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two weeks. Yeah, so what you know? I wouldn't give you a
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bump stir it, don't say what are you leaving up too? Nice?
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I'm working on a way to get out of here before I come up here.
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I heard you on the level. Like to let you in on it.
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Where did you ever hear of me outside this place? I'm a big
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town girl named Sarah. Tell me about you, Bud. You married her
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sister Eddie. You know Sarah sure about five six years ago. I haven't
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seen it since, so Sarah's in Europe. Now, when are you're planning
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on getting out of here? As soon as I get the necessary people lined
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up. If I had some dough, we could get out of here tomorrow.
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How much do you need? Have two hundred to start with? Okay,
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I'll have it for you tomorrow. Okay, Max, you get that
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stuff and we'll be out of here in two days. All right, you
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get five minutes to talk. Hey, Nick, why don't scubby I'm ex
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Herbert in here. Oh I'm sorry. I should have remembered. How in
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the world did you ever get in this place? The governor fixed it so
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that I was caught red handed rubbing the home of a friend of his.
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When they caught me, I had the family silver in one hand, of
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the family jewels in the other. It's easy. And now he arrange to
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me transferred to the gang where McCoy's working. Or have you found anything?
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Yes, and it's all circumstantial. But Bonnie McCoy and I are breaking out
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of here day after tomorrow, and I'm hoping to get some poof Then are
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you sure you're getting out of here? Yes? One of the keepers is
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working with us. I think this same keeper fixed McCoy's get away last time,
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and I also think from what I've heard that he may have helped in
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Jarbou's murderer. Yeah, I've learned positively that it was absent from the prison
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on leave that day. But isn't there danger if you're getting hurt if you
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try to break out of here? Of course there is. I have to
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take that chance. I've got to stick to McCoy. Don't worry, Scubby,
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I'll be all right. I hope we all set, McCoy all set,
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everything's fixed good. You see that delivery truck over there, Max,
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Yeah, well that's going to break down. I'm gonna tries to start.
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I get it. We don't have to help it get out of the yard
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here, right, listen, I was trying to start it. Now they
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got it, all said Shure. Mike's with us all the way, same
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as before. Hey, you were there. That's give us a hand with
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this truck. Okay, what's the matter. Motor will start. Have to
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give him a push, you do, get ahold of hand, Give him
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a start, okay, Mike, rest you guys get back to work,
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all right, get your shoulder behind it, Max, Okay, let's go
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all right? He again, Hey once more, come on, get it
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gone we go he So there's the motor starts. Jump on the truck,
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right, I got you. Okay yet there climb, I mean get down
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so I can't see you. Look. Bridge over the railroad tracks is just
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ahead. When we get over the tracks, be ready to jump you right
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with you? All right? Now, come on right behind your bonnie.
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Jump on the tenor of that engine. Blow us. No, okay,
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you all right, my coy. Yeah, come on, engineer, give
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her all the steam your guts. Don't stop to talk, you fireman.
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Feed the cold work. I don't want to use this gun unless I have
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to. Watch out maxim the outside wall of the prisoners just ahead. You're
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gonna duck. There's gonna be super right, my gooy All okay, so
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far there, Conas watch it look at poor Yeah. Well we're out of
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jail now and for good. It's good to see you back in your office
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again, mister Carr. It's good to be back here. I tell me,
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have you learned anything interesting since I list sawyer? I think so,
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mister Carter. Let's have it a few months ago, our housekeeper spent about
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a month visiting her son in California. Before she went, she put an
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ad in the paper for a temporary housekeeper. Several women answered the ad,
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and Missus Martin was given the job. She had light brown hair and wore
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dark glasses. I disliked her on Sidon, I'm sure she disliked me.
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When our housekeeper returned this, Missus Martin left and I never saw her again
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until the day my uncle was buried. And what do you mean? On
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that day she presented herself as my uncle's widow, your uncle's widow. Yes,
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mister Carter. When she first came to live in the house after the
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funeral, I thought there was something very familiar about her. But not until
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a few days ago did I suddenly realize that Missus jarbeaut was Missus Martin,
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with black, hairy instead of brown, and without her dark glasses. Ellock,
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I just swear to that. No, But some of her little mannerisms,
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certain tricks of speech, a funny way of walking, all make me
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positive that explains the mystery of how the fake will was forged. While Missus
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Martin was substituting for the housekeeper, she could have found out about the will,
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taken it out, had a new one forged, and then returned it.
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The night your uncle was murdered. The forced will was substituted for the
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original one on the desk drawer by using a duplicate key that had been prepared
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in advance. And it might interest you Nick to know that when Ella told
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me this the other day, I checked at the house where we first met
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Missus Jarbau. The woman there told me that Missus Jabau was away in a
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visit during the month that Missus Martin took the place of Ella's housekeeper. Good
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work. That settles at Betsy. Just a minute, mister Carter. There's
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another thing. You better know something else, Yes, mister Carter. Last
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evening a strange man came to the house. He and Missus Jabo were apparently
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old friends, because she called him leg Barney McCoy. She took him up
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to her room, where I heard them talking for a long time. I
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tried to hear what they were saying, but couldn't get close enough. But
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I did hear or him say it was time to get that girl out of
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the way for good. And then Missus Jarbou said that now that Mac was
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back. It was time to wind up the job. Well, Ella,
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if everything goes as I hope it will, we'll be the ones to wind
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up the job, not Missus Jarbou. Anything else you want me to do,
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Yes, make me aware of your home to morning at eleven o'clock we'll
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make our final arrangements. Then in the meantime, sit tight and keep your
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ears and eyes open, mister Carter, mister Carter, Yes, come into
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the living room here we can talk better. Sure, there's no one around,
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not now. That man Mac was here earlier, but he left quite
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a while ago. Missus Jarbou has gone up to her room. We can
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talk safely here, all right. Don't turn on my light. Maybe seen
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we can talk just as well in the dark. Whatever you say now,
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tell me, does Missus Garbou know you've ever seen this man Mac. No,
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I've kept out of the way whenever he's been around. Good. Do
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you know what he came here for this evening? There was talk about chloroform
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and poison, and then she told him the lawyer for the estate was here
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this afternoon and said that she would be in full legal possession of the estate
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in another few days. I see and then he said that if that was
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the case, it was the time to act before it was too late.
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Well, it's time for us to act too. I think we'd better quiet.
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Somebody's unlocking the door through which we came. Maybe they won't come in
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here. Who's in this room? I can't say in the dark, but
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I know you're there. Who's there? O? Are you none of your
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business? Speak up rawshooting? If you do, you'll never left to see
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another ding going on in here? Why isn't the light of this is javu?
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Hella? What are you? Bonny croi? You Max? Herbert?
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By all this? Holy? What are you doing here? Oh? You
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see Bonnie? Yeah, yeah, he's here because he loves me. Don't
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you know this man? As an ex convict, you ought to be serving
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a sentence in state's prison right now. Yes, I know that. That's
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why we had to meet like this, Bonnie? Is this true? Ella?
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Yes, missus, it is. Huh. Look here you you interviewed
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me a couple of weeks ago, said you were writing a store in your
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paper. You said then your name was Peters. Now you say it's Herbert.
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Well, my real name is Herbert Peters. Man. You see I
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had you. What are you doing here? I'm a night watchman on duty
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in this neighborhood. I saw this man come in here and followed him,
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recognized him as a suspicious character. Both lying. Get out of here,
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both of you immediately, and as for you, Ella, get upstairs at
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once. I'll deal with you later. That's all thanks I get for trying
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to protect your place against thieves. I will get out. Come on you
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go ahead, Bonnie, I'm coming good night, and see that you never
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come back, either of you and Max. Yeah, there's that story about
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you and the girls street. Why sure, Bonnie, wasn't your story on
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the level? Well tell you the truth. I was going to see if
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I could find a few things I could swipe and flat broke. You haven't
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got a few books on your heavy cheer, Bonnie. I can let you
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have a ten spot here. Geez, thanks pal. I won't forget you
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for this. Forget it. Sure we're lucky to get out of there,
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too easy. I thought the old name was going to have his pinch.
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You're under arrest bost of you, so don't try. You may go my
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army. You made me missing? Oh I got you anyway. You won't
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get away. You're going back to state's prison again, mister Max Herbert.
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You know my name, do yeah? I sure do, and I know
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yours Ben Lyon, But you know me, let me look at you gladly
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come over on the street line right, you know? Now? Well,
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Nick Carter, well I'll be well, gosh, I'm sorry, mister Carter,
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but a woman just called the station said she'd passed two escape confence in
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front of her house, and if we hurry, we could pick them up,
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even give us the names too. So now, Ben, listen to
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me. I'm on the trail of something big. Have a lieutenant and eight
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men meet me at twelve o'clock tomorrow night at the back of the yard bow
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place across the street where they won't be seen. Okay, be sure to
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tell them not to fail me, because I expect to capture the murderers of
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Venus your boat. All the men posted as we agreed, Scubby, Yes,
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Nick, outside and inside the house. They have orders to let anybody
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come up here and to let nobody go downstairs again. And we're ready for
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the finale in this case that you've got there, Nick, it's a new
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type of microphone, Patsy. I've attach it to the wall between this room
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and missus Jarbos room. Through the vibration of the wall, it'll pick up
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whatever is said in her room, and whatever is picked up is amplified so
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that it's loud enough for us to hear it. The amplifier also has a
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recording device, which makes a permanent record of the conversation on a wire tape.
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Gosh, what will they think of next? Quiet? Now listen,
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I'll turn it on. But I tell you a bond it we can't lose.
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In a few more days, the whole Jarbos tay will be mine legally,
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I know, Addy, But can you handle girl for a few days
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more? That's I can't. We'll give her what we gave the old man.
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Do we have to? If she's dead? We know she ain't gonna
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bother us better? And what the devil's that? How do I know?
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The housekeepers answering it? Hey, somebody's coming up here? Did you tell
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anybody? Who is anybody here? What are you doing here? That's a
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fine question to ask me. Come here because you sent for me? Who
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sent for you? You did? McCoy? You're crazy? I did nothing
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of the kind. I got your notes this morning it is what come to
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jarbou House tonight, but not before twelve. Everything okay, very important and
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it's signed Barney Listen. I never wrote that note. If it didn't,
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it means trouble for us. Somebody else knows about this business besides us three.
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You mean we're caught. We ain't caught yet, but we will be
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if we don't watch our step. Even now, he's afraid of this.
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I knew I should have kept you to me. Shut up your wretched up
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in jail yet. Well I'm going to be. I can feel it coming.
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Don't shut up, Michae. I'll bring you. You did the McCoy,
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you failed the shot that kills you. Man. I just have still
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that rye off. That's another of that. Let's go right with you,
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Nick, I can't wait you long. It hands up both of you.
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They're no funny business nice. What do you know, McCoy, Not Max,
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Nick Carr, Nick Connor. You ain't got nothing on us. Nick's
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got enough on you three to send you to the chair. That's McCoy.
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We know the whole plot from beginning to end. Tell him what we found
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out, Nick, What do you mean it means? I know that Sarah
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married Jarbou, and that's shortly afterwards she died, You, Eddie, her
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sister married McCoy. When Sarah died, you found her marriage certificate and decided
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to use her resemblance to her to get the old man's money. McCoy wasn't
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prison then, but you arranged with the guard Mike here to help McCoy escape.
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But the time was right then to pay Mike for his trouble. You
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cut him in on the deal. Then you, Eddie, got that temporary
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job here was a housekeeper, which was an unexpected break. While you were
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here, you had the fake will made. Then when all was ready,
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McCoy escaped as planned. Mike came with him, and between the three of
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you your chloroformed old Jarbou and then shot him in such a way that it
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looked like suicide. How do you know it wasn't suicide? A suicide note
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you left for the old man. Whoever Addy got to forge that whille for
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it in such an expert job that the witnesses recognized their own Forde signatures a
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genuine But whoever wrote that sue side note was so clumsy that he wrote it
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with a blunt pointed fountain pen instead of the sharp pointed steel pen that was
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the only pen jarbo ever used. That ain't proof, that's guessing. We've
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got plenty of proof, McCoy. And if that isn't enough to top it
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all off, the conversation in this room between you three crooks has been recorded
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in full for the past twenty minutes. And if that isn't practically a confession
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and good legal evidence in any court, my name isn't Nick Carter. This
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was another strange experience of Nick Carter, Master detective called State's Prison Evidence or
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Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Midnight Murder, another of the curious adventures
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of Nick Carter, which are brought to you regularly at the same time each
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week by w o R Mutual and Onic. What about our story for next
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week? Well, next week's story. He started off as a question of
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who stole the firm's funds, but it ended up by being the very perplexing
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question of who killed two men and caused the death of a third and not
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the least puzzling part of the case was to find out who fired the fatal
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bullet which started off the murders. Isn't that usually the most puzzling part of
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a murder story. Hell, yes it is. But in this case,
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the manner was killed was standing by my side in the corner of a large
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office building, and there was no one around at the time who could have
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fired the gun that killed him. I'm afraid I'm getting more mixed up all
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the time. That's exactly how we felt about it. But Nick cleared it
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all up in spite of everything, and we're going to tell you all about
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it next week. So long, so long, folks, and so long
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to you Nick and Patsy. See you next week. In the Strange Adventure
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You've just heard, Nick Carter was impersonated by Lown Clark, Patsy by Helen
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Choate, and Scubby by John Kine. Original music was played by Leu White.
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The entire production was written and directed by Jock McGregor. Next week,
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at the same time, another curious Experience of Nick Carter entitled an Angle on
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Murder for Nick Carter and the Mystery of a Good related bullet. This story
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is a copyrighted feature of Street and Smith Publications, incorporating the return of Nick
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Carter. Is produced in the studios of wor and It is broadcast over most
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of these stations every Monday evening at nine thirty Eastern wartime. This is mutual
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one welcome back. Well, another mystery. I will let legal experts in
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the audience comment on whether Nick's evidence would have been all valid in nineteen forty
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three. But this is kind of a typical thing you would see actually,
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to be honest, and one of the Nick Carter pulp novels. But overall,
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just a pretty fun, pretty fun story, and in caping with the
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type of stories I could imagine the you know, I've read some of the
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Nick Carter pulp stories that have become available online, and I could imagine this
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is something he would do, you know. And in some ways it's you
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know, two weeks without any real sort of pay, undercover in a prison.
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Yeah, that's the type of thing Nick Carter would do. So just
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just overall a very solid story. Well, we do now turn to some
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listener comments and feedback, and this comes from Patty who says that my husband
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Mike has a comment about the latest episode of Nick Carter. He's surprised that
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you do not mention that mintion Nick Bragg that his guns were were waterproof.
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His quote is that is not possible, especially for that day and age.
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The show did not explain where or how Nick Nick's guns were waterproof. The
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fact that Nick said that he had special guns is even more like the sixties
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Batman and the whole water tank prison you mentioned at the end of the show.
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We both thought it was a great episode with all the behind the scenes
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with the voodoo movie and the and the movie set we enjoyed. We both
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enjoy the suposed shows. Excuse me, especially Johnny Dollar and Nick Carter.
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Well, thanks so much, Patty Well. I will often reserve comments because
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I'm not necessarily a forensic expert, and that's why I love when the audience
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UH. When people in the audience, you know, we'll call the shows
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on things because I'll notice some things based on my life and expertise, but
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I won't notice everything, and that's a good call. I should note that
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the Saints a listener and the comment where they put it it got buried,
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so I apologize. I don't know who said it specifically, but he pointed
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out one of the writers for the quarter show was was also also wrote for
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UH for the for the Shadow, you know, which is another pulp classic,
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and that makes sense since both shows were on Mutual both shows were based
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on Street and Smith publications, and the Pope's come up with some odd things.
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You know, in the pulp magazines, you know, people like Nick
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Carter, people you know in The Shadow and Doc Savage, they always seem
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to just have their own, you know, special things and special rules that
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apply to them. And so that I think is the type of perspective that
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that writer's coming from. And I think we will probably see that sort of
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thing in Nick Carter. And so if I miss something and you're in touch
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with reality in a particular area where I'm perhaps not as skilled in all the
35:35
details of something, dropped me a line because I'd love to hear her.
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And you know, that's one of the great things about the show, just
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how we learn together. All right. Now, we have some additional comments.
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