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Nick Carter: The Case of the Luminous Spots (EP1464) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Voise, Idaho. This
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  and you can support the show at support Great Detectives dot net. Well,
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  now it's time for this week's episode of Nick Carter. The original air date
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  is April twenty seventh of nineteen forty seven, and the Tunnel is the case
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  of the Luminous Spots in Crime. Every week at this time two great names
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  are joined as All Dutch Ventor brings you one of the most resourceful and daring
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  characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective Pats Again everyboy belonging
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  to the club into the gymnasium. Why what's up, Nick, I've got
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  to make a speech to one of them. To one then, why make
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  it to one hundred and twenty Because one of the boys knows the killer in
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  this case, and I don't know which boy. It is now the case
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  of the Luminous Spots. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old
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  Dutch cleanser. There's pandemonium in the gymnasium of the Downtown Boys Club, Nick
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  Carter's favorite charity. Or with one minute to go in the big basketball game
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  with Delaware House, Nick, boys are trailing by one point. Boys,
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  we can't let Delaware feta O Nike. Only ten seconds more, but it's
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  high Patsy, come on, Smokey Maid and both make it Smokey worse.
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  Nick, I miss Patsy, Smoky missed again, and that's the end of
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  the game. Well they took a linking. I'd sort of hope that Smokey
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  Beats can help us lake Delaware this he looked like a flash when he joined
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  the club last month. Oh well, don't look so sad, Nick,
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  Think how much worse Smoky baits feels Oh high, is Smoky? I've been
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  expecting you. Come in, Come in, nice little joke. You got
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  here fella place upstairs just to be a dance fall. This is the basement
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  costs us three bucks a month. Rent, Hey, who's the dame?
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  All right? That's Frand hollis a friend? This here, Smoky bakes,
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  Smoky, Hi a friend. Nice game you played tonight, thanks say,
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  which reminds me. Here's your dough, Smoky? What the five bucks nice
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  pay for just missing a few baskets now and then? Yeah, I'll say
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  so. We cleaned up pretty good on the bets too, made some nice
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  dough. Yeah, boy, this twenty five fields good in the pocket?
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  Bad? That's pin money, kid, peanuts. We could cut you in
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  on some real though. If you want to play ball, you mean throw
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  another game. Wake up, kid, wake up. Life ain't all basketball
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  games. If you're the kind of guy that's got nerve and brains and likes
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  plenty of excitement, you you could make plenty of though. Yeah, Jerry
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  and Jean from your club join up with Noonan last night. What do you
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  make a week? Noonan? Oh? Forty fifty bucks season? What do
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  you say, Smoky? I think maybe this is just what I've been looking
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  for. You can count me in noonan good, it's a deal. Meet
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  me here tomorrow Morning's seven thirty, Smoky, bring twenty newspapers and a screwdriver.
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  What's the paper's gotta do with it? Look, smoky, here's the
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  pitch. You and me is gonna make like we're newsboys in case we get
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  stopped. Oh, I get it. We make like we're on a delivery
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  rock. That's right, only we don't work for no pikers though, like
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  regular newsies do. There's apopping house and next bates. What do we do
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  here? Same as the last place? Ah? Now we use a different
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  technique in here. It's the first apartment on the right. Ring the bell,
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  You kidding? Ring? An Ice said? This is another of the
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  joints I've been casing. Like guy said, it's a cinch to look in
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  the first floor apartments and get the dope. The guy lives here alone,
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  goes to work every morning's seven. That's why you rang the bell. Yeah,
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  just to make sure he ain't in. Give me that screw driver,
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  a kid, I'm gonna show you a fancy way to open the locks.
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  I don't match. I want light. Okay, this guy keeps his dough
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  in the kitchen in a sugar can. He's just movie. How are you
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  kids doing nothing? Mester with just a livering papers? Or do you think
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  you're fooling mic Ice? How you're working at the lock of that screw driver.
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  There are a couple of sneak No, you're drunk it away, Sunny,
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  get your head off me, little tin hard casters you got us wrong,
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  mister w ain't crust? How's smoking it out of the way? Try
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  not to be funny, old What do you got in your hand there?
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  Mister God, I think I'll fall for that, sunny boy, I'll falling
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  for it. But good Grandpa, Likeick, what's the rush? Where are
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  we driving to? I got a telephone call from Matty Patsy insisted I drop
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  everything and hurry up to one twenty Amsterdam Avenue. Says my downtown boys club
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  is involved it he is? I don't know. Maddy wouldn't say, yea,
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  we are one twenty, come on right, oh? That he would
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  say it was that he discovered the murder. Murder hey that you Nick?
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  Yes, Maddy, it's a nasty case. Nick. Looks like one of
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  your boys is mixed up in it. I'd hate to believe that, Maddy,
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  Man. We'll look here. This corpse is Homer well Hand, janitor
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  of the building. Oh eh, quiet you boys, what are you quiet?
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  He was found dead about a half an hour ago, twenty two caliber
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  bullet right through the heart, in some kind of scrap before he was shot.
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  Nick, Yeah, I see the scratches on his hand. And look
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  what we found inside one hand a piece of wool torn from a sweater,
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  and on it a small silver pin with the initials dbc oh. Nick is
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  a Downtown Boys Club pin. Yes, I'm sorry to say, Well,
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  Nick, Maddie, I can't answer for every boy in the club. We've
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  got over one hundred members. One or two may be kind to do a
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  thing like this, But hey, who belongs to this screwdriver? Well?
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  I figured it was the janitor's, but I don't figure all these newspapers.
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  What happened is Zavius. Some boy came in here this morning carrying these newspapers,
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  probably the disguise himself as a newsboy. Eh, tried to jimmy open
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  the apartment door with the screw How can you tell? Screwdriver's brand new passy
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  and there are flakes of metal on the end of it that match the metal
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  of the door lock. See the fresh scratches and the brass. Holy smoke.
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  I didn't boy use matches for light. You can tell because there's several
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  burnt paper matches on the floor. Also the match book, which has probably
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  dropped to the scubble. That's right, and the janitor interrupted him. There
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  was a fight and then the murder. Typical case of juvenile delinquency. Nick,
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  we gotta get down to your club and pick this kid up right away,
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  Patty. There are more than a hundred kids in that club, but
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  it'll take a week to question every one and a month to check their alibis
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  with gotter work quicker than that. How can we neg the wolf from the
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  sweater? As your lead, Patsy, check the stores that sells sweaters.
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  It may be possible to trace the sale to the boy who's wearing it.
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  Uh huh. I also check the club. Someone may be able to identify
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  this weather day Right now, What are you gonna do? This match book
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  is my lead, Maddy. It's got the address of a candy store on
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  Sherman Avenue on it. The old Sherman dancehel you know the place, Yeah,
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  gang maybe upriating them around there they are, I'll find them. I
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  don't like cheap tin horn crooks, especially in my club. Close the door
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  smoking, okay, Noonan, Hi, Hi Jerry, hygiene frannate here?
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  Huh nope smoking? How'd you make out? Lousy? Are you kidding to
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  thirty three bucks in cash and some jewelry? You call it lousy. I
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  call murder lousy murder. Yeah, it's like I've been telling you, Noonan.
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  It's okay swiping a few books, but I don't go for killing.
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  I'm getting out of here right now, running out to squeal the papa nick
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  Catta. Huh like fun? You up? You need a little slugging around
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  the wise up out? Okay, you're talking enough to loan, but I
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  can take you anytime. Your wins bad noding. You're weak. Why didn't
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  you just play a little basket? Hey? Let it eat easy? You
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  not get headed like that smoke he's reaching first pet of Norman. Yeah,
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  I dropped him. You have squeal. I'm sure's anything. Look, you
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  guys gotta help me get rid of the body. Yeah, get rid of
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  it yourself. I'm getting out of here he too, and don't weave that
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  gun at us noon and only holds one shot. We'll be gone before you
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  can reload it. Here in on this killing, So remember that who we
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  were in with. We're getting out. Like Smokey said, bus is one
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  thing, but murder's something else. If you guys got we ain't gonna squeal
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  a loader. Don't worry about us, Just start worrying about smoking. You'll
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  do more talking dead than it ever done. Alive alone in the basement with
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  the body of Smoky Baits and begins working desperately to find a hiding place for
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  the corpse. We'll see what happens next in just a moment. All back
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  to the case of Aluminous Spots. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you
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  by all Dutch Glinter. An hour after the murder of Smoky Baits, Nick
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  and Mattie cautiously descend the steps leading to the basement of the Sherman Dance Hall.
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  This is the place the Candy starman told us about, Matty. Gang
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  of kids use it for club maybe, but it's empty now. I was
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  a smell of fresh cigarette smoke. Here. Hey, wait a minute,
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  there's water on the floor. It's pitch dark in here. I can't see
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  a thing. Look, Mattie, where I'm flashing my light? What the
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  rest of this place is a shambles? Somebody's been trying to scrub this part
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  of the floor. Why the spring house clean? And maybe I doubt it
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  that we'll find out. I'm going back to my car to get my put
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  of a lab kit. While I'm doing that, you get some policemen.
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  What what's the entrance of the seller? Tell them to let anyone in,
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  but not to let anyone out. When I come back, I may have
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  something interesting to show you already many Yeah? Sure, Hey, what's that
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  thing you got there? Spray gown filled with a derivative poloc acid? Let
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  come again, put out your flashlight and I'll show you something. Okay,
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  boy, it's blackest pitching here. Now watch well I spray this acid and
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  the wet spots where the floors again scrubbed. Yeah, hey, Nick,
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  there's blue spots appearing on the floor. Flower like phosphorous, don't they Yeah?
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  They burn just like a blue flame. That's what I expected, would
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  have it, Nick remorse, what's awehead? There has come on? Will
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  follow and see where they lead to see, I just keep spraying. The
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  spots keep on appearing. Yeah, sure, but what the thickens is the
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  stuff that's burning blood, Matty? Yep, did you say blood? That's
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  what I said. Calic acid is a recent discovery makes the heman and the
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  blood glow in the dark, even if it's been cleaned up. Yes,
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  enough, follow, it remains to react like this. Hey, Nick,
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  Look, the blood spots lead directly to that old ash pile. Yes,
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  that's the body buried under the ashes. There's a shovel matter, take a
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  look. Yeah, sure, as flash I can. I'll hold the flesh
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  for you. Okay, come on, come on, come on, Matti,
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  hurry, hurry, I am, I am. Wait a minute,
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  yep, but that good grief, Nick, it's a body. Yes,
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  we uncover his face. Oh good, Nick, you know who he is.
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  It's Smoky Baits, one of the kids in my downtown boys. Clud.
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  Oh that's too bad. Poor kids, shot through the heart, probably
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  by the same murderer that killed well Nick. He's wearing the sweater that matches
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  the piece of yarn found in Wellen's hand. Yeah, Nick, it's a
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  girl. Yeah, that's the light, so she can't see us. Yeah,
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  sure, but what much it comes close up? Flashed the light in
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  her face as hello, Oh, you're blinding me looking for someone who wants
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  to know. It's a Sergeant Mathison of the homicide Squad. I'm Nick Carter.
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  What's your name, fran Francis Hollis? Looking for someone to particular?
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  Miss Hollis. Well, that is a friend of mine. You wanted me
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  to meet her here, and her you usually refer to your girlfriends as fellows.
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  Oh sure, it's kind of a gang. What's the name of the
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  friend you're supposed to meet here, Sally Broh You usually meet her here.
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  No, I've never been here before, mister Carter, And you know nothing
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  about a gang of boys that hang out here. The gang. Oh no,
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  no, mister Carter. Oh you, Miss Hollis almost seventeen, it's
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  two o'clock. Why aren't you in school? Well, I had a study
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  period and I kind of slipped off. I guess Sally must have been playing
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  a trick on me. Yeah, look, you better go back to school,
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  miss Hollis. You might get into trouble. Yeah, sure, I
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  hate to get caught playing hockey, Maddy. Yeah, I have one of
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  the men follow that girl, okay, and tell them to let her see
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  she's being followed. Also tell him to make sure she goes to school.
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  I needs to wait and follow her home after school. Right in the meantime,
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  I'll do a little checking on her and then rush down to the club.
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  If Smoky Bates was mixed up with this gang, there's a chance to
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  some of my other boys maybe too, Okay, Between Francis Hollis and the
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  Downtown Boys Club, we ought to be able to pick up the killer.
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  Everybody here in the gym now, Patsy, Yes, I've rounded up every
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  last boy. Good. Let me have your attention a minute, Colors.
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  A few hours ago, Smokey Bates was murdered in the basement of the Sherman
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  Dance Hall. He was shot down like a dog, dragged to an ash
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  heap, and buried in dirt and rubbish. He was murdered by a killer
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  without decency, honor, or shame. Now it may be that some of
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  you here had been mixed up with this killer, And if you have,
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  I can understand why you saw a chance for some easy money, for excitement
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  and adventure. You figured the law wasn't your friend, It was just another
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  rival to compete with. You thought crime was a bigger, more thrilling game.
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  That's what smoke he thought. And I've told you what happened to him.
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  But crime isn't fun. It's dirty, mean, dangerous. How were
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  you? Whoever you are, I'd be ashamed and scared. Whoever it is
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  who's mixed up in this as a choice to make. He can come down
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  to my office and let me help him out of this jam. And believe
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  me and my word of honor, I'll do everything I can. Or he
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  can try to bluff his way out of it, but if he does,
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  Heaven help him. Cha. Oh, hello, Jerry, come on in,
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  Come in, Jean, we're the guys. Yeah, well, fellows,
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  I'm glad you came to me. You're in a bad mess. This
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  is the only way to work it out. Yeah, I guess you're right.
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  I guess it's like you said, mister Carter. We just started off
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  doing it for fun. But when he killed Smokey? Who killed Smoky Jane?
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  I can't tell you, mister Carter. I'll look, mister Carter.
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  We'll tell you everything we get. We'll pay back every nickel we swipe.
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  We'll do anything you say, but we can't squeal on this guy. We
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  gave him my word, we wouldn't, Okay, Jerry, that's the way
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  you feel. I'm not going to insist. I'll get him without your help.
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  But there's one thing I do insist on, Fellows, and it's not
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  going to be easy for you. You're going to the police. You're going
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  to confess everything you've done. You've got to take what's coming to you.
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  I understand, yes, mister Carter. Sure, mister Carter. Good boys,
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  And if it'll give you any satisfaction, Miss Bone and I are driving
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  to fran Hollis's home right now, and inside of an hour, the killer
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  of Smoky Bates is going to get what's coming to him. Nick, how
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  come you know where fran Hollis lives? A little check him before I went
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  back to the club, Patsy, Oh, Maddie should be here to meet
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  me by now. This is it the White Clapport house. How much does
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  Frand know about the murder's Nick? I don't think she knows anything. You
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  don't. She wouldn't have comparging into the basement if she did. But she
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  is mixed up with the gang. Maybe we can locate the killer through her.
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  Oh, there is Maddie standing in the doorway, and is he mad?
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  I'm in the house here, and for the love of Pete Hurriyett all
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  at all. I take it easy, Maddie. That bonehead cop let the
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  Hollis girl get away. Well, let's have him, Mattie. What happened?
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  He tailor back to school, then he tailed her home. Then then
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  about five minutes ago, a whole flock of girls trooped in here to see
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  her. A couple of minutes later, they all marched down and she went
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  with him, and my man didn't spot her. Oh us, she got
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  a hand it to her. She's a smart kid. Okay, okay,
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  so what what do we do now? I'll show you. I'll show you.
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  Come on over here to the telephone. Hey, wait a minute,
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  I'll come. You know where the phone was. I was here a little
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  while ago as an inspector for the phone company. Oh so that's the checking
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  up you were doing. Yes, so I figured family was smart enough to
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  spot the coffee put on her tail. That's why she came straight home from
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  school. Didn't she let you in the house? She did? Oh,
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  my man must have missed you too. Look sad. Why didn't I?
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  But look, how come she didn't spot your voice as belonging to the guy
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  she talked to in the basement of the Sherman dance hold because I used a
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  different voice. Why are you moving to dat board just so I can pick
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  this up? What's that thing? Looks like a small radio? Better than
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  that? I said. I was sure a friend would head for home,
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  and she did. She wanted to do some phoning in a hurry. Only
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  I got here before she had a chance to. And then what I set
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  this small wire recorder down here on the floor next to the telephone box.
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  So that's what that is? A wire recorder. Look, Nick, wire
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  tapping this out? It won't stand up in court anymore. This isn't wire
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  taping ready, it ain't. No, no, I don't have to attach
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  it to the phone. Said, you just laid this wire near the telephone
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  wire and it picks up what said over the telephone. That's right, Betsy,
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  we'll all be done. What do they think up next? I don't
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  know yet, Manny, you but didn't you see you leave the recorder?
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  I asked her to get me a drink of water, Patsy, and while
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  she was out of the room. I fixed it, and I'm sure she
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  made a phone called a minute after I left the house. Oh, let's
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  see what's happened. There were cops down and you cut. We were snooping
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  around and it's been a cop pony all afternoon. Honey, Why do the
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  racket cops down the basement? Hey, that ain't so good. Kill me?
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  What's up? Okay, Frenny, listen, I'm over at the Sherman
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  Killing Station. Yeah. I just acquired a car. Beat it over here
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  and I'll tell you what's doing after watching my house. Maybe use your brains.
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  You can figure a way to get out. Just hurry up over here.
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  So long. Hey, that's all there is said. Enough matter.
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  You stay here and cover the house. Patsy, come at me. There's
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  not a minute to lose. Nick and Patsy dash out of Frand Hollis's house,
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  hoping to meet her and Smokey Bates Killer in just a minute. We'll
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  see whether they left in time and how. For the conclusion of the case
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  of the Luminous Spots brought to you by all Dutch Glinter. At the curb
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  in front of the Sherman filling station, Joe Noman sits impatiently in a new
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  sedan. As he sees Francis Hollis approaching, he calls out softly, Bryan,
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  over here in the car, nobody followed me. Well kept you so
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  long. I'm gonna hurry. We told you. And before I've been followed
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  all afternoon, and I had to get rid of some kids and I had
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  to duck in it latter Alice to make sure nobody followed me here. Okay,
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  okay, the car, baby, I listen, Chid, the car
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  is taking you and me right out of town for good shot. I gotta
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  work fast, baby, So the explanations will have to keep. Now.
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  This is what you're gonna do. They can't. We budge into the filling
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  station. See, and as soon as we get inside, you pull a
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  faint. Just stop right under the floor. Out cool, you understand.
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  Yeah, but just do it, kid, that's all. Just do it.
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  Come on you want Yeah, I gotta have a set of new gassa.
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  I feel kind of funny with Antram. Give me your hand. Get
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  her off the floor. Okay, mister, you want to help, you
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  can reach you get over against the wall. Get the rod. He keeps
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  on the registered fran it'll shoot a lot better than this. Thinking twenty two,
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  I got grab the dough out of the registered to kid like. I
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  told your friend, we need that dome. We ain't got all day,
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  all right. I don't think this character is gonna spill anything that anybody.
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  You're gonna kill him? Why not? Then I won't get mixed up in
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  a killing. You're mixed up already, Baby, I knocked off Smoky Bates.
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  You kill stops. Why do you think the cops run your tail?
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  Are you with me? Or do you want to get over there against the
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  wall with him? Please let me out of here, please, Kate,
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  Baby, get over there. I'll knocked the bolt off, all right,
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  all right, take it eat your friend. Nobody's rich. I guess shot
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  the gun of your boyfriend's hand. That's all. Sorry. I couldn't get
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  her any sooner. It was soon enough to end the criminal career of mister
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  Noonan. Well, that's about all the risk of the case, Patsy.
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  They've got Noonan for two murders, and we've got him cold. Yeah,
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  but how did he kill Smoky? Him? Well? And Nick, one
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  of the reasons he held up the gas station was to get a revolver.
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  He had a small single shot pistol at fire as a twenty two caliber shell.
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  Would have preferred something better, though doubt but that was deadly enough at
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  close brain. Oh, well, if the case is finished, Nick,
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  where we're driving to this small Oh? The case isn't finish, Patsy,
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  as far as I'm concerned, has just started. What do you mean we're
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  getting out here? Come on? Oh? But this is the courthouse we're
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  headed for. I don't get it, Patsy. You and I are going
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  into that court and put up the fight of our lives for Jerry, Jean
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  and Fran Hollish. But Nick, what can you do? Get them suspended
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  sentences? I hope, and then we're really going to work on them at
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  the Downtown boys Club. You mean Fran a girl at the Downtown boys Club.
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  Oh, I forgot to tell you, Patsy. The boy's club is
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  opening a girl's luxiliary and you're running it. I'm running it now. See
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  here, Nick Cart, Patsy, if I do any arguing this morning,
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  I'm going to do it in court. Those kids aren't hardened criminals, and
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  I'm not counting this case a success unless I save them. Well, Nick,
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  can you tell us something about the adventure Old Dutch Cleanser is going to
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  bring us next week. Next week, we're going to meet a young war
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  veteran who is started to turn me into a detective college. Only he unfortunately
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  turned himself into a number one murder suspect. Nick got him out of it
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  by making him wear gloves, gloves and detective colleges. Sounds fascinating. What
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  do you call a story, Nick, I call it the Case of the
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  Missing Thumb. Nick carter Master Detective is presented each week at this time and
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  over these same stations by the Cuttyheat Packing Company, makers of All Dutch Cleanser.
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  Nick carter Master Detective, produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted
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  by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick, with
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  Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy Matt. He is played by Ed Latimer. Today's
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  script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is played by George Wright.
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  This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is
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  given a coincidental This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes count, use all
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  Dutch Glendon this is the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. Well, this
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  one episode of Nick Carter was probably one of the most topical stories that Nick
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  Carter uh did, dealing with the issue of juvenile delinquency, which was a
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  huge, huge concern after World War Two and after most wars there's typically an
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  increase of it, and mind to head it off in whatever Waste Possible was
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  something that was the focus of a lot of radio programs of the era.
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  It is good to have the whole idea of the Boys Club mentioned. It's
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  a statement, doesn't play more into a plot other than giving Nick a chance
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  to address juvenile delinquency. And now we turn to listener comments and feedback for
• 28:21
  a couple of thoughts on some older shows, and Christy says, I've been
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  catching off on shows that I think sound interesting and I've loved almost all of
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  them. The Abbots wasn't me, The wife annoyed me. Frank Race has
• 28:37
  been highly enjoyable and reminds me of the Clive Klustler books. The pairing seems
• 28:42
  a lot like Dick Pitt and Al Gordino. Wish there were more of them.
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  Well, Christy, I'm glad you enjoyed Frank Race, and I encourage
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  people who are newer to the program, particularly if you don't have the app,
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  to go to archives dot Greatdetectives dot nette and you can take a look
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  at our older programs and see what we have and what might interest you.
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  I'm probably not the best judge of which ones you should listen to, because
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  I like them all and I love most of them. So We've played a
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  wide variety and in the past and continue to. But thanks so much for
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