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dot net or every month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. But now
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it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter. The original air date March the
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fourteenth of nineteen forty eight, and the title is the Case of the Last
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Old Timer Winners. Yes, the winners in the second Big Jingle Contest will
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be announced today, So listen now. While New post war Old Dutch Cleanser,
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famous for chasing dirt, present Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime every
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week. At this time, two great names adjoined as New postwar Old Dutch
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Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction,
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Nick Carter, Master Detective Nick. I'm getting cramped hiding under the stask.
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Do you really think he's coming? Fifty dollars is pretty tempting fate,
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They sounded plenty interested over the phone. Look, we only had a light
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in here. Media Life, someone's forcing the window all type Bessy's I think
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that's our man. And now the Case of the Last Old Timer. Today's
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adventure starring Long Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by New postwar Old
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Dutch Cleanser. If you ask Waldo McGlenn, crime isn't what it used to
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be, No, sir, give Walldo the good old days when Nick's father,
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Sim Carter was one of the country's leading detectives and his right hand man
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was Wallo McGlenn. Those were the days when crime was crime. But today
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at Knick's office, Waldo's audience isn't very attentive because Nick is inspecting a new
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camera and Patsy is finishing some letters, but Waldo still holds forth on his
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favorite subject. Hey tell you, Nick boy, we had real criminals in
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them days. You didn't catch them fellows by using a microscope and a lie
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detector. No, Suria had to stand up anything else? Oh? I
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know, thanks, Patsy. You know where the fast lands like this,
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I couet down here, take pictures in the dark. Gone, Patsy.
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I wish you wouldn't interrupt me. No, I forget what I would saying.
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No, sir, you had to stand up and shoot it out,
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shoot first, next questions. That's the way we were. I did say
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all that will not hut anyway. But you were going to Oh I know
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that routine by heart, Waldo, I've heard it, so all right to
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laugh forehead, But you'll find out I'm right, and before long too.
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You know who got out of sing sing this week? No, Nitro Nelson,
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that's who, the king of the safe crackers. Oh yes, I
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heard my father talk about him. You're sure your old man and me shut
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it out with Nitro and his pal Dan Brinkley after they pulled that cod security
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job and killed the night watchman. Par I thought they got the chair for
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that, Waldo. Only Dan Brinkley was executed. Nitro testified against him and
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got off with a life sentence, and they were released in this week.
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Yep, paroled after seven twenty five years. So Nick, you better look
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out for the biggest crime wave this old town has seen for many a day.
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Well, I doubt whether Nitro is much of a menace anymore, wald
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No, boy must be past seventy. Well, so what he still knows
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more about cracking us safe than all these modern year biggs put together. And
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just give him a Flaska nitro glycery and here wo, those methods are out
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of date. Modern safs can't be cracked as easily as those old timers.
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Okay, okay, you just wait and see, all right, Waldo,
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I promised to call on you the very first time I got a case involving
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a blown safe. Nick Carter speaking hello. This is Corneus Jones of Jones,
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Fisher and Caroline. Oh yes, mister Jones, somebody broke into our
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offices here at the factory last night. Murder the night watchman got away with
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that payroll. Well, have you notified the police? Well, of course,
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but we'd like to have you on the case too. Would you help
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us out? Okay, I'll be out there thirty minutes, mister Jones blended.
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Oh, by the way, where was the money in a safe?
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Of course it was the stief got it by blowing the door of the state
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clear off its hinges. What did I chan you, nick boy? What
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did I change your one case? Doesn't make a crime wave? Walk just
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to see you have the camera, haven't I sure have? Well, here's
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mister Jones's office corner where a horse. I'll take two sets of this two
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S two model. I want to deliver as soon as possible. I'll have
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them for you inside of a week. Mister Jones Jones, I'm Nick cart
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come in, thank you. This is my secretary, Miss Bowen. Hello,
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mister Johnes, you do, and my assistant mister Waldo. Wellow wishes
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mc glenn. You meet mister Lewis at the Hercules Safe Company. Hercules Safe
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Company, you investigating the robbery to whom No, No, I'm a salesman,
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not a detective. I just sold mister Jones two of our latest models,
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one for the factory here and one for the downtown office. We should
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sold them to me before this thing happened last night. You can't see I
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didn't try, mister Jones. Pardon me, mister Jones. Would you mind
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showing me where the safe is? I'd like to take a few pictures,
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pictures. Yes, I'm testing a new camera with a special lens for a
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detailed work. Say that's quite a camera on, mister Carta. I mean
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I see it. Certainly help yourself. I've read about these, but this
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is the first one I've ever seen. Wow, f one four lens.
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That's unusual, Belly. I'd like to have one of these. Yeah,
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well, you get those move safes here by Saturday. I'll buy a roll
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of film notes. They'll be here. Mister Jones, Come on, cut
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up, I'll show you whether I took price. You can get all the
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pictures you want. We where's the safe, mister cutter. At least it's
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been over everything. Of course, that is an old fashioned safe, I'll
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say it is modern safe. Couldn't have been blown open so easily, think
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Muster. He's nitro glacieran too. See where he plugged up the cracks for
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soap let me take him. No, look me boy, Yeah, go
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ahead, Walter, go ahead. And mister Jones, where was the night
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Watchman's body found? We're just outside in the curtain. He was shut you
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janetor found him when he opened up this morning. Nick, boy, this
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is one of Nitro's jobs. If I ever saw one, Walder, you
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got Nael Nelson on the brain. I know what I'm talking about, Patsy.
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In the old days, we could recognize the work of every big time
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safe cracker in the business. Well, if you're right, Waller, we'll
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find out pretty soon. I see the police have been dusting for fingerprinss and
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it looks as though they've found plenty. Yeah, Allison's for through here.
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We'll go down to headquarters and check with Maddy. I'm waiting for a report
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on those fingerprints now, Nick, and when it gets here, you'll find
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out. I'm right, Matty. Oh yeah, this takes me back twenty
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five years. Nightro killed the night watchman on that job too. According to
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court records, his partner killed him. You could never make me believe that
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Dan Brinkley wasn't the killer type, but nightlose Warden did it. In the
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court believed him. No, were you with the trial wader shoe shoe?
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Nick I had to testify. Oh yeah, I remember how Sonny I felt
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for Dan's wife and kid when the judge passed the death said, this is
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funny. Why their faces keep sticking in my mind the way they do?
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Oh that's probably they report Nick Sergeant Mathison homicide. Yeah, uh, huh
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okay Peterson, thanks, old though, I gotta give you credit. Huh
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you sure call the turn this time? What you mean those were nightro and
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Nelson's fingerprints, Maddy, as plain as day? What did I tell you?
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In spite of his age, The old boy must be pretty spry to
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pull a job as neat as that one. And you, mark my words,
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this is only the beginning, Nick boy. You're up against a real
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crooked this time. Jna Tatsier doesn't seem possible. Three more safe robberiesn't five
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days, and all of them exactly like the first night Joe Nelson, Nick
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boy, Just like I told, I can't argue with you anymore. Waldo,
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I found his finger print on every safe. I can't even get a
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lead on him today. Niral left prison. He must have gone directly to
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some hideous I know, Patsy and now, but where where? You know?
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Ever since we saw that first safety blue, I've had a feeling that
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there's there's something I ought to remember. Something in my mind keeps going back
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to the courtroom twenty five years ago. When you remember what it is,
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let me know. Although he gave us the right stair the first time,
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maybe you can do it again. And mister Carter, when I opened up
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the office this morning, this is what I've found. H huh. A
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crack safe with the door blown right off its hind and almost forty thousand dollars
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in negotiable secure is gone. Where's the window open as it is now,
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mister Harris Here nothing's been touched, but Nick, this is the top floor.
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Whatever cracked that safe couldn't have got in through the window. Nobody could
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have lowered himself down from the roof with a rope. In fact, Miss
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Pawling, it's the only way he could have got by our watchman without being
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seen. That'll be quite a trick for a seventy five year old man,
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not for nightro Nelson. Nick, you know, if he'd only waited till
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next week, we'll have our new safe installed. I'll bet not even he
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could crack that. Hey, that's it? What is it? Nick?
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What does this look like to you? It's I'm not here on the floor
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in front of the safe. Why it looks like a bit of jelasin That's
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what I thought, sheelaton. I think we finally hear on something. Boy,
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I got it what I was trying to remember. But I ain't sure,
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So let me work it out on my own. Well, shouldn't you
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tell next of the two of you can work it out together. Nope,
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I got to do this myself. Just give me twenty four hours, Nick,
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and if I don't find Nitro's hideout, then I'll tell you. Okay,
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Well, oh all right, all right, Waller, but big care
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Sure, I'll be careful. But I caught that old son of a gun
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once and I can do it again. Matty flashed that enlargement of the fingerprints
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on the screen again. Will Okay, Nick, But what's the use It's
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exactly the same as the Prince of Nitros we have on file. Sure it
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is no question about it. I know, I know. But yeah,
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every world, every loop, every ridge is there? What's bothering, Younique?
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I'm looking for something that isn't there something that isn't there? Oh?
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Just a minute, Sergeant mathieson homicide. Where's that three four seven Hillside Road?
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Eh? How long ago? Okay, I'll run out and have a
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look. Yeah, I'll leave right away, okay, Thompson trouble. Yeah,
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somebody found a dead body in the cellar of an old house out on
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Hillside Road. You want to come along, Nick, All right, Matty,
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I can finish up here and we get back. Come on, Betty.
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The body down in the basement, sergeant this way. How did you
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happen to find it? Mister Wilkins, It was out in my backyard when
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I heard a shot. I lived in the next house down the road.
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Yeah. And then a minute later I saw somebody run out of here carrying
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a suitcase. He jumped into a car and beat it fast. So I
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came over to see what was up or the door unlocked? Yes, it
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was wide open. Well, I thought that was funny. So I kept
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looking around, and finally I found this dead man in the cellar. You
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didn't move him, did you know. I just looked from the top of
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the steps and I run and called you. This the basement door. Yeah,
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he right at the bottom of the steps. See there is good grief.
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It look right, Scott. It's wood At the foot of the cellistairs
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in a deserted cottage, Nick's whole friend and assistant, Waldo McGlynn, lies
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stretched out with a bullet hole in his chest. Now back to the case
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of the Last Old Timer. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by
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new post war old Dutch cleanser. Sergeant Matheson took Nick and Patsy with him
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to investigate her report that the body had been found in the basement of the
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cottage on Hillside Road, only to discover that the man who is shot is
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Nick's old friend and assistant, Waldo McGlynn. A few minutes later, Well,
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I managed to stop the bleeding. At least, I'm afraid he doesn't
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have much of a chance. He made. Won' let ambulance be here any
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minute. Down I suppose Warder was following that clue he spoke about when it
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too Probably I wish now i'd made him tell me just what it was.
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Even if he recovers, it'll be days before he can tell us what happened.
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And Nick, there's something over here. I'd like to show you if
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you can leave Waldo for a minute. All right, all right, Maddy,
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there's nothing more to be done until the ambulance arrives. Anyway, what
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I said here behind this partition, take a look, but there was a
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Yeah, four old fashioned safe at least one has the door blown up the
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hinges. What do you know, mister Wilkins? Yes, you know who
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lives in this cottage? Well, yes, I owned the place and about
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months ago I rendered it to an old man named triplet An old man,
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how old? Why? He must have been seventy seventy five, hard boiled
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old gentoo. But I felt like one of those gangsters in the movies.
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Yeah, see, Nick, it was Nitro. This is the height out
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we've been looking for. Well, how about those four saves, mister Wilkins.
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Did they belong to you too? Now I never saw him before.
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How well did you get to know this mister Triplett. Well I didn't get
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to know him at all. Back, jeez, I haven't even seen him
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since you rendered the place. Hey, Nick, I've been looking at those
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safes, eh. You know only three of them were blown open, the
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doors wide open on the fourth. But it's not damage. I noticed that
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too matter. Probably the fourth one was used to store the loot from the
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robberies. Why would he have four says and then blast three of them open?
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I was practicing, Patsy. He look attempts to get this first one
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open. It was still a clumsy job, yeah, but the technique was
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better on this next safe. He did a perfect job on the third one.
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I get it. After twenty five years in jail, the old man
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had to do a little practicing in order to get back his scale. Go
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over here, Maddie, Yeah, okay, butt dark in this corner.
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I did you find something else? Throw the light down here on the dirt
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floor. Okay, hey, you see what I mean. Yeah, the
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dirt isn't packed down as hard as it is, and the rest of the
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sell to get some men out here. Start digging right what porn? Nick
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wouldn't be surprised if they find the body of Nitron Nelson. I careful boy
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has left him out easy. Why that's mister Tripper, the old man who
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rented my house. Maybe he would mister Tripper to you, Wilkins, but
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he was Nitro Nelson to the police. But nickd can't be Nitrol. Look
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at the body at mys have been buried there for at least a week,
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perhaps even longer, Maddy, But it's still Nitril. That's impossible, Nick.
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Those robberies started less than a week ago, and you know Nitro did
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them. You found his fingerprints on every safe. Yeah, and fingerprints don't
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long. Well if they're not lying this time out of the only answer is
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that the robberies are committed by a ghost. And you don't believe in ghosts,
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do you? Nick, Please give with some answers. How did Nitro's
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fingerprints get on those safes after he was dead? Well, Patsy, you
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know what happens when you develop photographic films only in a general way? Why,
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Well, film is covered with a thin layer of sensitized gelatine. Yes,
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I know that much. Okay, Then when the film's put in a
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developer, the developer turns the exposed part of that gelatine black and it eats
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away the unexposed part. Go ahead, I'm still with you. I suppose
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a photograph of a fingerprint were printed on a very thick layer of that gelatine,
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and they were left in an extra strong developer until all the white spaces
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between the ridges were eaten. Away as deeply as they say, a thirty
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second of an inch. Why I suppose the black part the ridges of the
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fingerprint would stand out like a rubber stamp, exactly, Spatsy, like a
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rubber stamp made out of gelatin. And somebody took a photograph of Nitro's fingerprints
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and made one of those gelatin rubber stamp things out of it. Yes see,
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I began to wonder when I found that bit of gelatin on the floor
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by the safe in Harris's office. Must have broken off when he put the
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princes there. Then, when we enlarged the prints at headquarters, just know
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I was sure. Yes, you said you were looking for something that wasn't
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there. What did you mean, Patsy. There have pores in all human
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skin, but not in gelatine. No matter how much we enlarge those prints,
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there wasn't a single poor mark. That's why I'm sure the fingerprints were
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faked. All right, so we know Nitro didn't rob those safes, But
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who did? I want you to phone all the companies that have been robbed
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after we've made those calls. I think that'll give us the answer to your
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question. Hello, hello Lewis. Yes, this is Cornelius Jones of Jones
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Fish and Carowin. Oh, yes, mister Jones, how about those two
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safes I ordered from your company? Yes? Could you possibly deliver one of
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them this afternoon? I'm afraid not, mister Jones, but I've got over
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fifty thousand dollars in cash and securities here that just came in, and the
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banks are closed for the day. Now all we have is that old safe
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in our downtown office. I don't trust that anymore. I'm sorry, mister
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Jones. That old safe will have to do until tomorrow night. But before
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then I'll take care of everything. That's a promise me. Do you already
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think he's coming fifty dollars? It is pretty tempting bait and es he's founded
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by interested over the phone. We only had listen. Someone's forting the window
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aside, Betsy, I think that's our man. All right, don't move,
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I've got a gun on you. Who the gun on? Lights?
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Bets right? You're right he is, mister Lewis, Yes, that perhaps
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he'd rather recall mister Brinkley. So you know, do you? I do?
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Your father was Dan Brinkley, wasn't he? Yes, Dan Brinkley,
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the man Nitro Nelson sensed the electric chair for a killing he did himself.
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That's what Walder was trying to remember. Waler was at Brinkley's trial, and
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he recalled the resemblance between you and your father. Yeah, who's Waldo.
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He's next assistant, the man who trails you out of the cottage, the
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man you shot Brinkley and he may die. Well, what did you expect
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me to do? He ran down the stairs waving a gun and yelling for
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me to give up Shore. I shut him. Then I grabbed the stuff
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out of the safe and beat it. Well you're not going to beat it
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this time. I'm not. You think I'm going to the chair like my
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father did. You don't have any choice. No, Well, look at
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what I've got in my hand. What have you got in that bottle?
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Nitro glycerin' sister? You take a shot at me, Carter, and we'll
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all be blown into a million pieces. Oh, put that gun away.
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You won't get away even if I do. Brinkley, this whole place is
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surrounded. Is the end of the line for you? Okay, then it's
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the end of the line for all of us. With all his force,
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Brinkley hurls the bottle of nitroglycerin directly at Ncoln Patsy, preferring to die with
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them rather than be capturing. We'll see what happens in just a moment.
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Now for the conclusion of the case of the Last Old Timer. Today's adventure
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with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser. Nick
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and Patsy trapped George Brinkley as he was about to blow open the safe of
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Jones, Fisher and Caraway. But Brinkley holds a bottle of nitroglycerin above his
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head and says, OK, this is the end of the line for all
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of them on the grave. You, Brinkley, stop climpering. They're going
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to be any explosion, no petty. When they threw the bottle, I
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managed to catch it. We're still lucky I didn't explode. Oh brother,
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I never want to do that again. Hey do I Well, come on,
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Brinkley, I want you to meet an old friend of mine, Sergeant
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Mathieson of homicide. Nikki, are sure it's all right for us to see
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world today? The nurse that he was conscious and asking for it. Oh?
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Hell gosh, I'm glad to see you tell you save companies. He's
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Dan Brinkley's a new trail into that cottage on Hillside Road, misshot we know
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all about it. Wardough, we caught Brinkley last night. You'd how well
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to begin with, I couldn't believe a man Ncro's age could pull those jobs,
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pulling more. I figured those jobs were pulled by someone who knew where
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there were old fashioned safes that could be blown open by nitros out of date
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methods. So when two of the victims mentioned buying new safe nick, they
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did that a safe salesman trying to sell them new ones would know all this.
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And it didn't take long to find out that Brinkley or Lewis had called
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on all the Daniels. Sure, when I discovered the secret of the thorny
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fingerprints, I remembered Brinkley's interest in photography. Geography, How does that fall?
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We'll tell your later WARLDO after your field, Dad. It's enough right
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now to tell you that Brinkley's mother brought him up hating Nitro Nelson. So
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when Nitro got out of jail, Brinkley was there to meet him, and
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Nitro didn't recognize him. That's why he agreed to teach him his methods of
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safe cracking four thousand dollars, but after Brinkley learned the technique, he strangled
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the old man buried him in the cellar of the cottage. It wasn't night
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shore that blew them safe after all. Sorry to disappoint you, Waldo,
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And you can credit the younger generation for those jobs. And that's why you're
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good and so easy. In my day, you had to stand up and
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shoot it out, shoot first and ask questions afterwards. That's the way we
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were all one. Laugh well. And now the winners of the four nineteen
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forty eight super DeLux forty eight four Dorset ends in the second new post War
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Old Dutch Pleanser contest, which posed March sixth, stand aside, Mike,
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I'm doing the honors here, okay, Nick, go ahead, friends.
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It gives me great pleasure to announce that brand new nineteen forty eight poards were
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won by Missus M. T. Bird of sixteen Lexington Avenue, Needham Heights,
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ninety four, Massachusetts, Missus J. M. Bramlett of one eight
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D Long of two eight Northeast fourth Street, Galva, Illinois. And to
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these lucky people, let me say, may you have many happy hours of
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driving pleasure? Yes? And let me add to all these Ford and other
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prize winners, congratulations, and be sure to listen next week for more winners.
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But now, Nick, how about next week's adventure? Well, Mike,
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next week we're going to look for a piece of rope that's right when
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you can buy in any hardware store for a dollar or two. And yet
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two murders were committed because somebody wanted it, Yes, and after the killer
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got his hands on it, he didn't want it anymore, so he gave
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it away. Well, this all sounds very mysterious. What's the name of
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the story? Nick? I call it The Haste of the Magic Rope?
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Nick Carter, presented each week at this time by The Cutter Heea Packing Company,
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is produced and directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and Smith
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Publications, Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Ed Latimer played Matty,
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and Humphrey Davis played Waldo. Today's script was written by Jim Parsons.
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Original music is played by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any resemblance
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to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The Campfire Girls, the
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of old time radio with Adam Graham and now let's get back into the show.
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Welcome back, uh, Poor Waldo gets to the right place, quite
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a ways ahead of Nick, and even almost gets himself killed in the process
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and still gets made fun of it the end. I honestly do have some
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mixed feelings on this story. For one thing, I think that the true
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identity of the criminal was tipped early on with the new safes coming in that
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basically seemed pretty obvious that he would be the one involved. I also thought
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the resolution to the cliffhanger was really effie. It was certainly pretty interesting in
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a typical Nick Carter situation, but no cleverness or anything that's usually associated with
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these with these solutions, just basically Nick Carter using his amazing powers to stop
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this. So yeah, not one of my favorites. But again, I
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think a pretty interesting premise, and it was nice to see Waldo at least
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headed in the right direction throughout the story. All right, well, that
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will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny
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Doller, and then next Thursday it's another case with the Master Detective Nick Carter.
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In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot
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