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- 0:55it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter The Case of the Sixth Statue,
- 1:00the Linux Show starring Nick Corner, Master Detective, resented by ACME America's great
- 1:07producer of fine quality paints. This is the story of a man known the
- 1:23world over as one of the most daring and resourceful characters in the history of
- 1:29detective fiction. A man whose name has become a symbol of the triumph of
- 1:34right and justice over the sinister forces of crime and lawlessness. A man recognized
- 1:40as one of the great masters of deduction. Nick Conner, Master Detective.
- 1:53Today's exciting case the sixth Statue, another exciting chapter dramatized from the life stole
- 2:00Slorry off Nick Catter. In just a moment, we'll hear how Nick Carter
- 2:08investigated a strange plague called bronze disease that murdered two people and almost killed a
- 2:15third. And now for today's exciting case from the life of Nick Catter.
- 2:25The regular morning work in the old Browns door mansion at the corner of Fifth
- 2:29and Fourth begins with Nick's voluminous correspondence. Scores of letters arrive every day,
- 2:35official, semi official, friendly, threatening, and every once in a while
- 2:39a strange north arrives, like the one Patsy is reading to Nick. Now,
- 2:44Dear mister Nick Carter, you are a famous detective and would not know
- 2:50me as I am only a housemaid who is writing is terrible, But I
- 2:54have heard you will always help people if they are in trouble. I am
- 3:00taking the liberty to ask you, would you help me? It's the part
- 3:05of there is bad trouble in the house where I work. Mister Horace Allen's
- 3:09house on Park Avenue. There is is plague in the house, a bad
- 3:16sickness, and I think we will all die. Statues got sick first,
- 3:23and I know we will get it next. Please come and tell me what
- 3:28I should do and clothes. Please find money order to pay for your trouble,
- 3:32yours truly Navy Leaves. Oh, I really think this is touching it.
- 3:38Look here's the money order, five whole dollars speed considering Misleads baby a
- 3:45week wish you hadn't sent it. Let's see that letter? Yeah, Horace
- 3:51Allen, what that's the thing that we packer is? Twelve seventy park,
- 3:57very rich? Yes, that our mail last night, written in a great
- 4:01deal of hurry. Noticed the ink flot scene. Miss Leads seems rather frightened.
- 4:06What's all this about? Play? Here's the key line. Statues got
- 4:12sick first, and I know we will get it next. Statues got sick.
- 4:15But what's that means? I think we better drive the twelve seventy park
- 4:19and find rout right now. Oh, can't wait a s minute, Nick,
- 4:23We've got so much work to do here and well, missus. Navy
- 4:25Lee's trouble is probably a very vivid imagination forgotten I've been paid a retainer passing
- 4:30I'm not devoted to the interest of my client. Let's go see Maysie,
- 4:33even if we have to go in through the servants. Enterence, this is
- 4:48a pretty swank mansion for an next meatpacker, Nick Yes heard mister Allen's turn
- 4:54to art in his retirement. He collects. I wish you'd go back to
- 4:59meatpack for the duration. You can't eat statues and packers. Very funny.
- 5:08No one home. Two the servants in the house don't seem to be you're
- 5:13not going. God has been left the jar. Come on, oh,
- 5:17next, this is I've got a Peter and come on in side the rather
- 5:23one. You won't for a collector of art to leave the house door open
- 5:26when there's no one home. That's the library, that's Lena and your stuff
- 5:32here, painting statues. Make a look at those statues. The bronze ones.
- 5:40Yeah, you're greenish, imprusted, like they've got some kind of skin
- 5:44disease. But bronze spears too. And this bronze chest. I wonder how
- 5:50it looks in maybe this Yes, that's as if the plague has killed our
- 5:58client. As I'm very much mistaken. This body in the chest is that
- 6:01of Mazie Leads. I've been through most of the house, nick There isn't
- 6:16a soul around. What's happened anyway? Oh no, yet there's anything from
- 6:20the body mazy Leads all right? That about ten hours. It must have
- 6:25been strangled and placed in this chest, just after she mailed that letter to
- 6:28me. That's what. There's an odd thing about this murder. Look as
- 6:30if the killer had silver polish in his hands. Silver polish. Yes,
- 6:34there's a kind of white powder on Mazie's neck around the strangulation prints. Smells
- 6:40like silver polish, Nicky, you'd better notify the police. Why not,
- 6:44Patsy mazy Leeds paid me five dollars to take on her case. I didn't
- 6:47get her soon enough to save her life, but I am going to get
- 6:49a killer. This is a point of honor, something Sergeant Mathison wouldn't understand.
- 6:58I'd suggest you put that away. You might hurt someone. Answer my
- 7:01question, what are you doing in here? Who are you? I'm Nick
- 7:04Carter? This is my secretary, Patsy born Nick Carter. Yes, well,
- 7:10I'm Peter Craig Horace Allen's nephew. I was up on the top floor.
- 7:14Heard someone calling down here, so I came down. What's the matter?
- 7:17Mister Carter looked in the bronze chest, good Greek, Mazy. All
- 7:24right, Craig, I went some quick answers from Jude. Why I went
- 7:26to the house empty when we arrived? Where's your uncle? Where the servants?
- 7:29But there aren't any servants. They all quick yesterday except Mazie here.
- 7:32Uncle Horace rushed down to the employment agency this morning. That's that's why I'm
- 7:36alone in the house. I see if you didn't see Mazie leads this morning.
- 7:40No, I well, I generally stay in my rooms on the top
- 7:44floor. Uncle Horace just yelled up that he was going to the agency.
- 7:47What agency? The Sun Agency on Vanderbilt Street. I'm Mark Western, Craig,
- 7:51you know anything about bronze statues? No? Who sold these to your
- 7:56uncle? Send Janello Field, English dealer at the plaza. All right,
- 8:00you stay here, try and look at your uncle on the phone. Get
- 8:03them home. We're assling over to Seaerofield. I want to find out what
- 8:07sex statues have got to do with murder. Believe me, mister Carter,
- 8:20that man Ellen is an idiot, A fool, an artistic criminal. I
- 8:26should never have sold rare pieces to an ex meatpecker. Go on. Empty
- 8:31bronzes are as delicate as tropical fruits. Unless they cared for delicacy and understanding
- 8:37the second, statues can really become sick, yes and die. Bronze disease
- 8:43is a corrosion that eats a welder nipple. What sit into the crumbles?
- 8:48No one knows how it starts, no one knows how to stop it.
- 8:52Once it detects a collection, the infected pieces must be removed or the entire
- 8:56collection will die. And browns us has attacked Alan's collection. Who saw it?
- 9:01Didn't do the g crumbling pressed on the surface of the bronze, And
- 9:07unless he removed the infected pieces, his collection is doomed. But why did
- 9:11you call the artistic criminal? He has a half a million dollars with of
- 9:16items there. All the money in the world comes to pass one of those
- 9:20pieces ones it's lost. Don't you understand there's nothing more valuable than the work
- 9:24about Oh yes, there is mister Rafield, a human life. The sun
- 9:43implomenta doesn't look very busy. We're looking for mister Horace Allen not here he
- 9:52were here this morning, hearing gone, can't supply him with anything? Why
- 9:56not? Sleeping quarters are impossible? The chemist or something? You say,
- 10:01the nephew is a chemist, Yes, as a laboratory alongside the servants quarters.
- 10:07Terrible smells all day and all night. Well, chemists thought to know
- 10:11more about Brohn's disease than Craig seemed to see. Let's have a talk with
- 10:16that young man right now. Do you think Craig is lying perfectly? Possible?
- 10:39Hope mister Alan's back by this time with somebody to answer the door.
- 10:43At least Craig got answer, probably back upstairs and his laboratory. Well,
- 10:50he just my little pig patsy waiter all day on second Oh, anybody home
- 11:05a Craig to stay here? Run up to the top floor the rhyme.
- 11:11Haven't you noticed Allan has a neat little private elevator and sto oh, Debby,
- 11:18call you please. First floor dining room, sloping rooms, low rooms,
- 11:24second floor bedrooms, bedrooms and more bedrooms. Third floor hothouses, bedrooms
- 11:31and and more bedrooms. Fourth and top flaw servants quarters, and look look
- 11:37for it. It's crazy, yes, Fourth and top floor murder. First
- 11:52a murdered houseman, then a murdered chemist. How will Nick explain them and
- 11:58solve the mystery of the sixth at We will see in just a moment,
- 12:01and now back to our story. Investigating a strange complaint about six statues,
- 12:07Nick and Patsy entered the empty home of Horace Allen to discover Alan's housemaid,
- 12:13Maisie Leeds, murdered. Nick finds that Alan's artworks are suffering from a rare
- 12:16disease known as bronze disease, and also that Alan's nephew, Peter Craig,
- 12:22is an amateur chemist with a laboratory on the top floor of the house.
- 12:26When Nick and Patsy return to the house to question Craig, they find him
- 12:30murdered too. Now they're in the murdered man's laboratory examining his bun well.
- 12:35Nick after a chest with a bronze spear at evidence they went up a spears
- 12:41from Allan's collection is a powerful puss. Let's see the pick protruding from Craig's
- 12:48back an answer, See it's tinted with the same bronze disease, and that's
- 12:52hits some of the statues. Hello Craig didn't at once given the floor,
- 13:03Craig, you could try to write something you better? He was dying.
- 13:09M A L n Ah, what's this? I couldn't tell you? Yes,
- 13:15Nick, I got itial murder. The killers Maybe couldn't be Allen or
- 13:22all Field or that an agency. Maybe it was the old Hey, what's
- 13:28going on in this house? Where Nick? Guy? Sick? Time?
- 13:33Here? You don't think you do here? Our old friend Sargeant Craig Allen.
- 13:41Hey, mister all Glory, Oh we're real sorry, good afternoon,
- 13:48Mary, Nick Carder and company. I might have known. What did you
- 13:52do? Hey? Who's down on the floor in a Craig murder? Craig
- 13:56too, he's the guy that called me first, the girl downstairs, now
- 14:01him upstairs? What is there a massacre? I'll give it to patch Maddy,
- 14:05No, no, no, no explanations first, as you please,
- 14:07mister. Now, look, I warned you a thousand times when you get
- 14:11mixed up in murder cases to notify homicide. There's a law in this city.
- 14:16Don't you ever do anything but break the law? Yeah, like yeah,
- 14:22yeah, yeah, I know. But Nick, please, we've got
- 14:24lost too, and for us make it as easy as you can for us
- 14:28too, and Poston Mary, I'm going to help you in forth one today
- 14:31the law against first to be murdered. I'm on down to Allen's laboratory.
- 14:35Oh, that's exactly I why we stand in the case, medic. The
- 14:48murders are piet up some way. Wait, I have an idea how,
- 14:52but I'm not sure yet. Well, look what about the insurance angles.
- 14:56Maybe Allan's trying to room his own statues to to to do. I don't
- 15:01know that I could get more by selling him. Well, maybe Craig Ruin
- 15:03mispatues and killed him for revenge. Maybe, but I doubt it. That
- 15:09leaves out May. I'll forget her. She's just an action in this case.
- 15:13He's not an accident in this case, and he's not to be forgotten.
- 15:16Maybe you want to understand this, But in this case, I'm working
- 15:18for Mazy Leeds. I'm not working for you or the police, Fortsnete.
- 15:20I'm working for justice, justice for Mazie Lead. I think you're crazy.
- 15:26I see Patsy, I told you, glad to see you all here,
- 15:31And a fine lot of people who seem to believe I'm Mirallon. Oh yeah,
- 15:35yes, indeed, very easy man to work for. Yes, myself,
- 15:39my nephew in the house by house, few people, not too difficult
- 15:41day. I suppose the agency explain what's your a the housemaid dah where you
- 15:46pretty money? Mister Allan. Your housemaid is miss patsyd and my assistant was
- 15:50I am Nick carr Car I'm ready plot, mister Allan, no sense getting
- 15:54around the bush. Your mate Mazie Lead was strangle to death. Nephew Peter
- 16:00Craig was stabbed to death. But oh what helpened? Gamedy right? Thank
- 16:07you, thank you? All right. I didn't spare you because we have
- 16:11passed my time. Atter Allan, but keillerm me strike again. We've got
- 16:12to work fast. Oh why were you all day at the employment agencies trying
- 16:18to high a service? I like he stole Them's true. I had to
- 16:21have them in the house today. I have a very important guest coming arriving
- 16:25on the sixth Davy train from Washington s You can get the list of agencies
- 16:29admitter Allan attract the story later madic yo. Okay, Allan, I want
- 16:33to take one of your statues home at me, one of the diseased ones.
- 16:34I'm sorry, I can't commit that. Mister Cardon, my guest coming
- 16:38to mind. You had to mead the six statues anywhere, mister Allan said,
- 16:42so what really? Everything I know? I know, but I can't.
- 16:47My gift is a famous collector and wants to buy some of my pieces.
- 16:49I've got to show him all of them. I see. Well,
- 16:52in that case, we've got to work without your health. Come on,
- 16:56Patsy, we'll be in my lab if anything breaks. Maddy right by the
- 17:00way, mister Allen, that's the name of this famous collector who was visiting
- 17:03her tonight. Mormon lying, Roman, Headley, Lambs, burn Off,
- 17:19the bunch and Burner. I just realized what Alan said. A man coming
- 17:26up on the six thirty train from Washington Norman had the name n h L.
- 17:33M bronted a couple of trial, but the letters n h L that's
- 17:40his initials. MM. You're not listening finishing this analysis? Yeah, see
- 17:49this precipitate. Yes, that's the silver polish from Mazie leads throat. Is
- 17:56it silver posh something that came from Peter cray Lad A hand of that package
- 18:02I brought from Allen's house here, iphe you don't care about the initials.
- 18:08I'll bet lady's the killer. I bet he isn't even on the trapping.
- 18:12He's probably here already. Well, that's the steal the killed Gray. Right,
- 18:19that's stealing believes evidence. Oh golly, Sageant Matthison is going to be
- 18:23sore. Alan, would let me have example of a disease bronze rather steal
- 18:27it? I must cut a slaver of bronze off the tip of the steel.
- 18:32I'm gonna take a look at it under the microscope. Now you're destroying
- 18:34evidence. Oh, Nick, Nick, I don't like it. Not destroy
- 18:41I'm just digging off a shaving Yeah. Oh, let's see. Well what
- 18:52do you say, Jones? Yeah, if you have a look, I
- 18:57see this is a ice across the tip of the spear. I see the
- 19:03outer portion, those crystals all around the edges. Yes, a Malokai crystal.
- 19:08There was the presence of the Brown disease. What are you see inside
- 19:12for the core of the section. Just what is metal? Exactly? Am
- 19:18office? Brown's metal? Just pure uncrystallized bronze. And that miss bone breaks
- 19:23the case wide open? What I mean, I'll get it hello, speaking
- 19:32us it, here's a tip for you mentioned Nick if you want to find
- 19:36who killed Peter, pray watch the trip from the Sun Emploment Agency to get
- 19:41a line of this, I prayed, I don't follow you the flip from
- 19:45the Sun and Climate Agency. You'll find him at the Hotel Brighton. Now
- 19:48you'll tell your home kills tray. Uh, that's let me get that down
- 19:53hotel Brien. What about is that? I long enough? Do you know
- 20:00what to do? Good Bye? No, Patly, I couldn't hold him
- 20:03long enough. You got any kind of a trace? No? Sorry,
- 20:07well it doesn't matter. Get Madda on the phone, tell him we're poking
- 20:11him up and take him for a ride to the Hotel Brighton. Just tell
- 20:14him the killer will be at the other end of the ride, all right,
- 20:30Nate's never mind them a cials for stuff? Where are we going?
- 20:33Patsy told you matter? They made him murderer? Where didn't Patsy tell you
- 20:36that? Then we're drawn the wrong way. The right is downtown with Lily.
- 20:41You're driving uptown. That's right. Make the man on the phone.
- 20:44Man on the phone was wrong passing? Here we are and this is where
- 20:47we're going. What time is it? Six twenty five? That's some time
- 20:51come on. This is Pennsylvania station, right, and we're going to meet
- 20:55the Washington train. Do you mean to tell me the killer is this lame
- 20:59guy? How do we lame? I feel we're going to meet. We're
- 21:02not to move quickly. We're having much time. Don't later passing afraid they
- 21:04cut it rather fine. We've got to get to the lower level and be
- 21:07on the platform, and the train pulls in this way. If this is
- 21:10a wild goose chase, Nick LANs, you're wrong. You can say that
- 21:12made not until m down this ram right now. That Therson can train quick.
- 21:18You'll never get We've got you here. We pictures of light. You
- 21:22have to take him. Listen. He's a big man, quite stout.
- 21:23I the greatest beer looks like head with the seventh looks right now. We
- 21:26must have miss him. Now listen making This is no time for arguments made.
- 21:30We're not a locate lane. It seem to get off that drain.
- 21:32I'll stand by right, I'll take the center. We'll watch right, Maddy,
- 21:36you take a lemb okay, fat man, that will just do what
- 21:41I think its calm bullet ay. Here's car in front of us. Quick,
- 21:45Maddy forward, Wait it's a lamb so normal lane, Norman hardly Lane.
- 21:51Look what do you do? He's actually mad? Yes, I hold
- 21:57on him, right, I'll take him to the master's office, call away
- 22:00him from there. Well, this is quieter at least. Hey, why
- 22:18didn't you warn me it was going to be an assassination? Didn't know what
- 22:22was going to happen. I just put them in the candy all right,
- 22:25pretty well shaken up, and I knocked them out of the way of the
- 22:27bullets. That's a lot better than a shot through the heart. And mister
- 22:32Errowfield, you'd be gone to snoop or result, pull on my moneys,
- 22:37a dangerous little man and a veric cover actor, phony English move phony Taylor
- 22:41and art objects, including for me Broms certainly Patsy. That was the whole
- 22:47motivation. And mister Allen took up collecting objects of art. Arrowfield got hold
- 22:51of them and told them a lot of supposedly antique bronze masterpieces and unrealit free
- 22:55they were completely for me, being really modern copies of those masterpieces. And
- 23:00unless I'm wrong, that's the normal lane on many of the originals from which
- 23:03Allan's bronzes were copied, Well you kill what about that groom's disease? An
- 23:07Airfield learned that Lane was coming to see Allan's collection. He knew Lane would
- 23:11recognize many of Alan's bronze's as copies of items from his own collection. So
- 23:15Airfield, in order to force Allan to remove those forming pieces from his collection,
- 23:19he liberately infected them with a bronze disease. Or do you know?
- 23:23Allan refused to remove them in spite of the disease, so Arafield had to
- 23:26do the next best thing, kill Lane, otherwise he faced exposure as a
- 23:30dealer in fakes and forming pieces. The murder of Lane fortunately didn't succeed.
- 23:37The others did. And I am going to see that you pay for them,
- 23:41Marrawfield. I want to be sure that Mazie leads wherever she is now
- 23:45gets her four or five dollars worth. In just a moment, Nick will
- 23:56be back to give you the final details of today's glory and tell you how
- 24:00he knew Arrowfield was the poisoner of the sixth statue. And now let's hear
- 24:06from Nick Carter himself. Yes, I don't see why else you'll killed Navy
- 24:11leave because one Mazie returned from mailing her letter to me. She saw Aerofield
- 24:15in the collection room deliberately infecting the false antique bronze statues with the bronze disease.
- 24:21She was killed silence her. But how could Arrowfield poison statues well passy?
- 24:26As Alan's guide and mentor in a new business of collecting, Airfield had
- 24:29easy access to the house. He was able to steal in and infect those
- 24:33statues with chemicals he took from Craig's laboratory to be precise, with ammonium chloride.
- 24:38That's the corrosive agent that causes bronze disease. Oh and was that the
- 24:42paddy down a navy's make right? Some of it was on Airth's hands when
- 24:48he's stronger. Evidently, Craig remembered seeing Airfield in his lad taking the chemical
- 24:52So Airfield killed him. But those crags went. They wanted initial FACI.
- 25:00Craig tried to write the chemical symbol for ammonium chloride n H four c L.
- 25:06He ate the N and the H. He got as far as the
- 25:07first elbow stroke of poor and then dived. We thought he'd written NHL,
- 25:14which purely by coincidence happened to be Lane's initials. Oh, I see you
- 25:19said airfield's ground as before. How could you tell that a patch you remembered
- 25:25this afternoon of my lad We looked through the microscope at the piece of that
- 25:27spear that killed Craig. Well, really, ancient bronzes become heavily crystallized through
- 25:33the years, but the piece we examined was crystallized only around the outer surface,
- 25:40showing that it was passed quite recently. So where if you're trying to
- 25:45sidetrack in the bathroom course, and we could get it lay in the riding
- 25:48town. Yes, oh, what you were in foold on, not honeything
- 25:53passing. I've met thousands of crooks in my time, each one more clever
- 25:59than the next, and believe it or not, the only one they fooled
- 26:02the ends with themselves, Nick, What are you going to tell next place?
- 26:07Remember the time they drove south to investigate the mystery of a legendary giant
- 26:11called DMan, the earth Straker, whose footsteps apparently frightened the man the dead.
- 26:17The crews of the case were green rice grains on the dead man's hands
- 26:21and a drop of blood on a Bird, Right, what are you going
- 26:25to call the story? The Case of the Breeding Bubbling? Nick Carter Master
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- 27:30all over America and saying so on until next week. Welcome back. Well,
- 27:40a really good story with a lot of nice twist as to what was
- 27:45going on with these statues. This was I thought, a fairly enjoyable puzzle
- 27:48mystery. All right, Well that one, I'll mount do it for today.
- 27:52We'll be back tomorrow with yours truly. Johnny Dawler in the meantime,
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