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Nick Carter: The Case of the Wandering Corpse (EP1584) · 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 Boise, Idaho. This
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  is your host, Adam Grant. If you have a comment, email it
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  fairly fun mystery and I would encourage you to pick up Slime Incorporated. Well,
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  now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter. This episode aired two
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  weeks after the previous one we had a lost episode. Original air date is
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  February fifteenth of nineteen forty eight, and the title is the Case of the
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  Wandering Corpse War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous park Chasing Dirt Present Nick Carter,
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  famous part chasing Crime. Every week at this time, two great names are
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  joined. As you postwar All Dutch Planter brings you one of the most resourceful
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  and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective Nick.
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  I tell you the kid did kill that cop. In all my years on
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  the force, I never saw a more open and shutcase. I was afraid
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  it was going to be like this, Mady. That's why I didn't want
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  to give his mother any home. Oh it's a shame. He's everything she
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  has in the world. That's the trouble, Passy. Every time you catch
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  a crook, some innocent person has to suffer. Well, I'm sorry for
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  his mother, sure, but I'm sorry for the dead man's widow too.
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  And I'm not going to rest till I see that cop killing little punk on
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  his way to the electric chair. Now for the case of the Wandering Corpse.
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  Today's adventure starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter. Lefty Adams was always a
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  bright boy, the type who learned quickly. At twelve, he learned to
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  steal bicycles, and that sent him to the state reformatory, where he learned
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  a lot more about crime from older boys. Now, at seventeen, Lefty
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  is convinced that only suckers work for a living. It's three o'clock in the
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  morning on the lower east side of the city. A lone customer from Milligan's
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  Bar and Grill is making his uncertain way homeward. As he passes a dark
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  doorway, a figure quickly steps in behind him, locks his arm around his
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  neck, and pulls him back into the shadow. Just keep quiet, Mackin.
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  You eaker to get hurt, I said, keep quiet, inn.
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  That's quite a roll you got there. Thanks. Look, I'm going to
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  kunk you one, but I'm soft hot and see I'm lamanai here, but
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  I got a rod. And if you let out one yip from coming back,
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  you're gonna be good. Yeah, yeah, okay, hell on,
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  suckl the dirty d I might have known you. He ain't gonna get me.
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  Rosha. I got far to go now if I can only they say
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  my boy left it shot that policeman, mister Carter. They say he didn't
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  murder. I stop crying, Adam, Nick. If he possibly can,
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  won't you Nick? I'd certainly liked you Passy if I could, but I
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  got no money. But I'm like, it takes twenty years. Isn't the
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  money, Missus Adams? The fact that Lefty ran away? Oh why wouldn't
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  he run away with every cop in town looking for him, ready to shoot
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  him on side? No, they wouldn't do that. Hurt too, that's
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  what the papers say. Maybe he's dying. Why did you come to me?
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  You knew Lefty when he was to go to your downtown boys club?
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  Yes, I did. Well, then you know he's a good boy,
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  No, Missus Adams, I don't. I don't think he's a really bad
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  boy. But he was always a little defined and suspicious. Well, that's
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  no crime. I know. I did what I could for him in the
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  short time he was a member of the club, but he didn't stay long
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  enough for me to straighten him out. He never meant any harm them other
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  boys he got mixed up with afterward. No, that's usually the way left
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  He has a pretty bad record, Missus Adams. Nick, why don't you
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  at least investigate? I'll be glad to, but if I start, I'll
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  have to go through with it. Whether he's innocent, or not. That's
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  all I want, mister Carter, because I know he didn't do it,
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  And of course, if I find where he's hiding, I'll have to turn
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  him over to the police. Well that's the only way, all right,
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  Then go ahead, Nick, I tell you the kid's guilty. In all
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  my years on the force, I never saw a more open and shut case.
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  Suck, Maddy, Will you tell me again just exactly what happened.
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  It's a simple case, Nick. Officer O'Malley caught this Left the Atoms rolling
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  a drunk. The kid ran and O'Malley warned him to stop, but he
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  didn't, so O'Malley fired and hit him too. Then the kid turned and
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  shot O'Malley with that homemade gun we found near the body. A homemade gun,
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  Sergeant, Yeah, Patsy. A lot of these young hoodlums make their
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  own out of scrap metal and stuff. And three people have identified the gun
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  that killed O'Malley as his. Any fingerprints sure all belonging to Left the Atoms.
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  There's almost positive proof. That's pretty strong evidence. And that's the only
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  part of it, Nick. The drunk got a good look at Lefty when
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  the kid ran under a street life, and he's identified his pictures. But
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  he didn't actually see Lefty fire the shot, did he well, Patsy,
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  considering the shape he was in, he ain't sure of anything except that the
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  kid was left the atoms. Matter of fact, he remembers hearing only one
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  shot, and though there were two, you mean because there was an empty
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  cartridge and O'Malley's revolver. Sure, And we know the kid was wounded because
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  there was blood on the pavement a half a block from O'Malley's body. We've
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  sent out warnings to all doctors to watch for a seventeen year old boy with
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  a bullet wound, probably in his left arm. But what makes you think
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  he was hit in his left arm? Because, Patsy the fingerprints on his
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  gun from his right hand. Uh huh, And Lefty is a self pool.
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  Oh, I see what you mean. Left arm must have been injured.
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  I'd have held the gun in his left hand. That's the way I
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  figured. Oh, I was afraid it was going to be like this.
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  That's why I didn't want to give left his mother any hope. It's a
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  shame she has so much faith in him. That's the trouble. Patsy every
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  time you catch a crook, some innocent person has to suffer. Well,
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  I'm sorry for his mother, sure, but i'm sorry for O'Malley's widow too.
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  And I'm not going to rest till I see that cop killing little punk
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  on his way to the electric chair. Well, here's O'Malley's stuff, Nick,
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  here's uniform, gone night stick, everything he had on him. Find
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  if I look it over? No, no, go right ahead, sergeant,
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  Yeah, Patsy, didn't you say that Officer O'Malley had been dead for
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  about an hour when he was found. Yeah. When the drunk heard the
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  shooting, he went for help, but he was so loopy it took him
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  a long time to find another officer. Then he got lost trying to find
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  the place again. I see, didn't anybody in the neighborhood hear the shot?
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  Well, you see, nobody uses that street much at night. There's
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  a factory along one side of the block, and the other side is all
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  little stores and things. Only one person lives in the whole block. Oh,
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  who's that? An old lady who lives in the back of a second
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  hand store she runs. She heard the shot but didn't pay any attention.
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  And Mary Yeah, didn't it rain shortly after midnight last night? Yeah,
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  for a while. I should think the street would have been wet, but
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  it was sort of. There's dust in the back of a Malley's uniform.
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  He must have ducked in the doorway to get out of the rain and lean
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  against a dirty wall. It could be well he didn't get it when he
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  fell because he was lying on his face. Nick, there's something else about
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  this coat. But O'Malley was shot on the left side of the chest.
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  There's also a blood stain on the right shoulder of the goat. That's right.
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  I wonder how that got there, search me. Do you think that
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  second blood stain means anything? Nick, Well, I don't suppose so,
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  but for the sake of the boy's mother, I'm not going to give up
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  until I know the reasons for everything. Well, come on, Patsy,
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  let's get on to Meats the street and give the scene of the crime the
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  once over. Here's the second hand star man he was talking about. Let's
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  go in for a minute. All right, Okay, we'll wait. Take
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  your time. Yeah, I love second hands to his knee. Look,
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  everything from jewelry to audmobile tired you pinking wolf is no job for a fat
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  woman. Well what can I do for you? My name's Connor, and
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  listen, miss Bowen, pleased to meet you. I'm sure hello. I
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  I asked some questions about the shooting that took place near here last night.
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  You heard the shots, didn't you? Yep? It woke me up.
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  The window was open wide because of the first paint smell of the room.
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  How many shots were there? Why? Pool? Was all? I heard?
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  You? Sure? There were only two, not just one? But
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  there was two, all right? Of course I didn't know it was guns.
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  I thought it was some car backfiring. What time was it? Did
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  you notice? Well, when the police was here, they told me it
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  was about three, But I didn't look at the clock when I heard the
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  shot, so well, I wouldn't know myself. Did you hear anything else?
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  Yeah? Yeah, I heard somebody run down the street right after that.
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  Huh. Well, thanks very much. Sorry we had to interrupt your
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  painting. Oh that's all right, don't mind a bit. All right,
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  Come on, Bessy, we have to make another stop in this neighborhood.
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  Where is that Nick? This won't be pleasant. We better stop in and
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  tell missus Adams what we learned from Maddie. This is the right block,
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  Nick, must be only a few houses farther on. Better get back in
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  the doorway quick, missus Adams. He just came out of that house down
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  the street. Nothing odd about the way she's acting, looking over her shoulder,
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  as if she were afraid of being followed. Let me see, are
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  you all right? She acts scared to death over those bundles she's kidding.
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  One of them must be clothed. She's also got something in a paper sack
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  that might be foold. Think she's getting into a cab. Oh, I
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  see a woman like missus Adams can't afford a cab except for something very important.
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  Yep, thanks all right, Patty, right way too far. Follow
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  that cap up ahead. It's a tip about in it for if you don't
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  lose it all mister, you can think about it that suffolk right now.
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  But I may be wrong, Patsy, but it looks to me as though
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  left to me and got in touch with his mother, and that she's taking
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  him food and clothing. But Nick, it would be awful to use that
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  poor woman as a means of finding her boy and turning him over to the
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  police. I know what, Patsy, But I said I was going to
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  follow through on this case, even if what I find sends left you to
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  the chair. Hey, mister, this stopping? Yeah, I see him.
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  Hold back for a minute. Up, Jay, you're the boss.
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  She's getting out and going into that old house. Nick, all right,
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  River that is out of the same house. Right. Maybe I shouldn't feel
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  this way, Nick, but I hope Lessie isn't there. I'd rather a
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  police court him than us. There's nothing to be sentimental about. I know.
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  Here's your ten spot driver and wait for us. Sure, mo on,
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  Patsy, let's see where I left. His mother goes. Here's the
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  room she wanted to do. Missus Adams. I hope you're wrong, Nick,
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  Miss Adams, what what do you want? It's Nick Carter. Let
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  me and missus Adams go away, please free what's the youth? Mom?
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  Oh, Kate, so you found me now. I hope you're satisfied he
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  didn't do it. Mister Carter. Couldn't have let you tell him he didn't
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  kill any about it. I'm sorry, Mom, I can't. I didn't
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  shoot that cop. Just like the papers the wound. Maybe we've been all
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  wrong. I left these heartbroken mothers sobs convulsively. Nick and the seventeen year
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  old criminal leave for headquarters. We'll see what happens in just a moment.
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  Now back to the case of a Wandering corpse Today's adventure with Nick Carter.
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  Lefty Adam has admitted killing Officer O'Malley, but Nick still wants to clear up
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  a few points. So after delivering Lefty to headquarters and waiting while a doctor
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  attended to Lefty's wound, he now questions Lefty in his cell, how are
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  you feeling, Lefty? Docts a fixture up? All right? Yeah?
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  Sure, I didn't expect to find you with a head wound. There wasn't
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  nothing. The bullet just creased me. From what I understand, it was
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  a pretty deep crease. Now, the fraction of an inch of the right
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  and you wouldn't be here. I couldn't. O'Malley is shot straighter. Why
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  couldn't it have been me instead of him? I never wanted to kill nobody?
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  And why did you carry a gun? All the other guys had a
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  knife for a roden. I wanted to show him I was tough too.
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  Fifty Were you mixed up with the gang? No, there's been a lot
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  of petty crime in your neighborhood lately, stick up, smugging, automobile stripped,
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  and I looked as though there might be some kind of organization behind it.
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  I don't know what you're talking about. All right, let's talk about
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  officer O'Malley. I said I shot him, didn't I? What more do
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  you want? There are a couple of things I don't understand. I ain't
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  say enough until I see my lawyer. They haven't appointed anyone to defend you
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  yet, have they? They don't have to. I'm getting JB. Fenton.
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  JB. Fenton, you find he costs a lot of money. Lefty,
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  I'll get the dough, all right. I got friends. See,
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  friends would be willing to put up five or ten thousand dollars maybe more?
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  Sure? Why not? Well, I didn't know you traveled in circles like
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  that. Look, mister Carter, will you leave me along? Please?
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  Ain't I got enough in my mind? I'm crying around out me knowing I
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  killed a guy. It's enough to drive a guy nuts without without having to
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  keep talking about it. All right, all right, left me. There's
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  a couple more questions, and I'll leave you're a left handed, aren't you
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  sure? What do you think they call me lefty for? And why did
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  you hold a gun on your right hand when you shadow Malley? I didn't.
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  I couldn't have. I couldn't hit nothing with my right hand, with
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  the fingerprints on that gun from your right hand, quin nagging at me when
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  you how do I know why I've done it? I shot him, but
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  I don't know how it happened. There was a million skyrockets going off inside
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  my head. You mean from the bullet wound. Yeah, I blacked out.
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  Maybe all I remember is him chasing me into the What are you going
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  to say? Nothing? Leave me alone, will you? I either want
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  to talk about it, left don't I killed a guy, didn't that?
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  That's all I know? Now get out of here and let me alone.
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  Just let me alone. Think I've been waiting here in this taxic for over
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  an hour. I thought you were never coming, no longer than I expected.
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  Patsy hold Downtown driver a corner of fourth and fifth. Right, did
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  you find out anything I found out? That's left is lying. He's lying
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  about what. I'm not sure. It's almost as if he were taking the
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  blame to protect somebody else what he wouldn't do that. I wouldn't think so
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  either, But that's the way it looks. Another thing it doesn't seem to
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  be the actual shooting is lying about. What is it? Then? Oh?
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  I don't know, Patsy, it doesn't make sense. There's something wrong
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  somewhere. Hey, mister, was that kid we brought down the clink,
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  the one that bumped the cop last night? Half? Yes, he's the
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  one. You know. What's a funny thing. I almost seen that,
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  frakus? What do you mean? You're almost what happened in my territory?
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  You know I picked you up only a couple of clocks from there. Yes,
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  I know? Well, Well, like I was saying, I drove
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  through the straight where the kid killed a cop about half an hour before and
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  half of about three thirty at once. What sure the papers in the CoP's
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  body was found about four o'clock and I went through the out half an hour
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  before you Sure you drove through that same block on Meetin Street this morning at
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  three thirty. Sure, I'm sure I picked up a fair right after that,
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  and I got it done in my book three thirty seven. Maybe your
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  watch was wrong, ah nuts, just ticking them, and he'd been off
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  two minutes in ten years. What are you so sorry about? Regard It
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  was four o'clock when they found the body, but the killing took place at
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  three. Ah, you are nuts. If that cop was laying dead in
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  the street, I'd have seen him, wouldn't I hang, You'll bet you
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  would. Turn around. Driver, we're going back to headquarters. But the
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  body must have been there at three point thirty, Nick. He was shot
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  at three, and corpses don't go wandering around while I'm waiting for somebody to
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  find them. That's why I'm taking another look at O'Malley's coat, Maddy.
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  I hope it'll tell us where the body really was, just because there's a
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  little dust on the back of it. Not entirely mad. He't take another
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  look at this stain on the right shoulder on Nick. We've talked about that
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  before. I admit it's a funny place for a blood stain when he was
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  shot on the other side. Look, you'll see that the bloodstain isn't dried
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  blood at all on this dark blue cloth. It's hard to tell the difference,
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  but that particular stain is paint. Many brown paint whoa if it ain't,
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  mister Carter and miss bowed again. Oh, come right in, thank
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  you. You're fixing the place up, missus tremmon. Yeah, like they
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  say, woman's work has never done you. All these shelves clear up to
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  the ceiling is nice all right, but oh they was never made to hold
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  a heavy junk that collects in the second hand store today. Are a carpenter
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  instead of the painter? Well, I just thought I'd putting a couple of
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  nails to hold him to the wall. You know, these shelves is ever
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  to pip over? It'd be worse than sippergeese closet. Where does all this
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  stuff come from? Well, people bring it in, sell up to me
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  like in any second hand store, boys like Lefty Adams. I don't get
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  you. Wonder what would happen, missus trimandt if the police checked your stock
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  against the list of watches and auto accessories and other things that have been stolen
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  in this neighborhood lately. Oh, if you're insinuate, I think they'd find
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  out that you've been acting as a receiver. Are stolen goods for a gang
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  of young hoodlands. You ain't got no rights? Talk to me like that.
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  Why else would Lefty Adams come here to hide when the police were after
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  him. He never did that, Oh yes he did, and you let
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  him in. An officer Omale was shot here in this door, not outside
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  on the street. He was not. I don't know anything about it.
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  You can't get away with it, missus Trimmitt. When O'Malley fell, the
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  back of his coat picked up dust from your floor. Oh that don't be.
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  Nothing could have got that dust any place if there was something else on
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  his coat, paint, the fresh paint you put on your walls only a
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  few hours before. I Oh, okay, I'll tell you the truth.
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  It did happen in here. When the kid come knocking on the door,
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  I thought he'd been in an accident, blood on his face and everything.
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  So well, naturally, I'll let him in. Go on. Then when
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  the cop come combusted in after room, though the boy grabbed a gun out
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  of his pocketing. He was very interesting story, Missus Trimmtt. But I
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  have a better version. Lefty came here because you were partners with ever a
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  young thief in the neighborhood buying the things they stole. I know they were
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  left He fainted as soon as you let him in. You were afraid of
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  Melle would know why he came to you, So when he followed Lefty inside,
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  you shot him with a boy's gun while Lefty himself was unconscious. I
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  ain't my fingerprints, it's on the gun. It's his. That'll prove who
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  does. How did you know there were any finnefgrants? Well, I'll tell
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  you how you know because after you killed Amelle, you wiped off the gun,
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  pressed it into left his hand, and when he came to told him
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  he'd done the killing. You can't prove that. You can't prove a thing.
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  Oh yes I can, because you made a very serious mistake. Missus
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  Trimmitt. You put the prince have Lefty's right hand on that gun. If
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  he'd actually done the shooting, he'd have used his left. I I well,
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  you see, mister Carr, you look at you push your hay ain't
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  hurt? Are you? No? No? Thanks to you. I got
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  a gun, sure I have for I push themselves over. Keep you too
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  busy long enough for me to get it. Now, mister just touss your
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  rod over to the opposite side of the room, all right, anything to
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  oblige a lady, I Remember you're still trapped in this door with us.
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  The factory across the street is changing shifts, and the street is full of
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  people. I think you can get through that crowd without being caught. Who
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  said I was leaving? Go on, both of you get to the back
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  of a store. Say what do you think you're doing well, dearie.
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  There's a seller to this joint that ought to be darn near sound proof.
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  We all three are going down there, but I'm the only one that's coming
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  back. Now get moving. At the point of a gun, Nick and
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  Patsy move slowly toward the door of the cellar, which Missus Trimtt intends to
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  be their grave. We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now for
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  the conclusion of the case of the Wandering Corpse, Today's adventure with Nick Carter.
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  Nick and Patsy are slowly walking toward the rear of Missus Trimmitt's second hand
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  store, with Missus Trimmitt right behind them a revolver in her hand. Nay,
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  once we get into that basement, we won't have a chance. You
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  can do something to distract your attention for a minute. Put off a whispering
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  and go on down those steps. Please don't rush us. I stood shut
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  up now, Oh I caught my e I'll give it to you my arm
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  the phone, all right, Patsy, I've got the gun. You pretty
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  right. You broke my arm. Knock me down the stair. That the
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  same Missus trimmontt But we'll see that you get the very best medical attention in
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  the prison hospital. Nick, what gave you the idea that missus Trimmitt killed
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  Officer o'mealy that taxi driver, Patsy huh when he said the body wasn't lying
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  in the street at three point thirty, half an hour after o'melly was shot.
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  As Matty said, a corpse just doesn't go wandering around. Yeah,
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  so I figured the killing must have taken place somewhere else. But what made
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  you decide had happened to missus Trimmitt's store because she was the only person who
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  lived in the block and therefore the only person who could have been there at
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  that time of night. So that's the only place left he could have found
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  shelter. That's right. And I also remember that other stain on o'melly's coat,
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  and the brown paint Missus Trimmot had been using on her walls. So
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  you checked and found was paint on the coat, right, and then everything
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  fell into place. All that junk in her store, the same type of
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  things that have been stolen in the neighborhood. Provided me with a reason why
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  Lefty might have thought she'd help him. Well, he went to her because
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  she was a well sort of partner in crime. Exactly assume that it was
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  easy to reconstruct the whole thing. I see. Lefty admitted that he'd passed
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  out and didn't remember shooting the officer. Then there was the fact that the
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  fingerprints and the gun were from his right hand that suggested a frame up.
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  I suppose missus Trimmtt dragged the body out into the street with Lefty's help.
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  Of course, she also bribed him into saying the murder happened out in the
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  street by promising to pay for the best lawyer in town in case he were
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  caught. So that's why I didn't want to bring her name into it.
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  By the way, what's going to happen to Lefty? Oh, I'm trying
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  to get him paroled to my custody. The new thing. Lefty has really
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  learned a lesson this time. I do stromised to go straight from now on,
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  and I believe him. Well, I'm glad for his mother's sake as
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  well as his own, so am I patsy. Oh. Incidentally, that
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  was a beautiful fall you took down those cellar steps. You should have been
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  a stunt girl for the movies. Well, thanks Nick, And that reminds
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  me I have a little expense account here. Oh what for for one dollar
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  and twenty five cents the price of one large sized bottle of Linien? And
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  now, Nick, will you tell us something about the adventure that new post
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  war old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week. Above, For
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  one thing, it's a case that really started thirteen hundred years ago in China
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  during the Tang dynasty, when two Chinese families started a feud over a dagger.
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  Must have been a very unusual weapon. It certainly was very unusual and
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  very deadly, as Nick and I almost discovered the hard way. Well,
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  it sounds like a case that promises lots of excitement, to say the least.
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  What do you call the adventure, Nick? I call it the case
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  of the quang lea Dagger. Nick Carter, Master Detective is presented each week
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  at this time by the Cutta Heat Packing Company. It is produced and directed
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  by Jack McGrath and is copyrighted by Streeden Smith Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is
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  featured as Patsy. Mattie was played by Ed Latimer. Today's script was written
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  by Jim Parsons. Original music is played by Henry Silvern. This program is
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  fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. And
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  don't forget to read the Nick Carter story on murderous guns in the current Black
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  Mask magazine. One of the popular fiction group, Bob Martin speaking, this
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  is the mutual Broadcasting system. Welcome back. Well, a very solid case.
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  I got a sense of deja vu, but we had not actually played
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  that episode. It was one that did air back when Lenux was the sponsor,
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  back in nineteen forty six, So this is one where there's a case
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  of most likely script preuse. But two years in radio is certainly a long
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  time. But we hadn't heard this one before, and I'm glad it had
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  a very good, solid opening and some nice clothes along the way to inform
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  the mystery, as well as just a few nice angles and that focus on
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  juvenile delinquency, which was often such a big thing with Nick Carter. We
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  even got to see Patsy save the day, though it was by falling.
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  Falling is a skill if you can do it right, that is no mean
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  feat. I respect anybody who can do that right. Because you couldn't count
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  on me at all to fall properly in an emergency. Probably one of those
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  skills I should work about at any rate that will do it for today.
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  Join us back here tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and then be
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  with us again next Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter. In the meantime,
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  host, Adam Graham signing off.