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Nick Carter: Murder in the Night (EP1182) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter Murder in the
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Night. What's the matter? What is It's another case for Nick Carter,
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Murder in the Night or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Milkman's Discovery.
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Nick and Patsy are spending a short vacation at the home of Walter Summers,
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sheriff of a small county in Upper New York State. Peace reigns supreme over
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the Summer's household. As our story opens a piece which unfortunately is rudely shattered
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by all right, all right, just a minute, Sheriff Summer Speed,
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Sheriff, This is Jed Peters. Yes, Jed, Well what do you
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want at this out of the morning here if I'm at the Parsons place,
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you know, out on the edge of town. Yes, yes, I
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know. What's the matter. Well, I stopped you here a while back
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to deliver the Parsons or milk I can always do. And when I got
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here, I found Laura and missus Parsons all tied up to a chair.
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But I asked her what had happened. She couldn't talk much, but she
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said something about a man killing her husband and tying her up. Well I
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looked, and sure enough, mister Parsons is dead shot through the head.
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You better get out here right away. Mister Parson's murdered. Yes, sure,
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and Laura, missus Parsons, is in pretty bad shape. You better
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hurry up, all right, Jed, I'll be right over sunday. Can
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now. Don't touch a thing, and don't let nobody else touch nothing.
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I'm off, goodbye. Hey, what's all that about? Wald? Oh?
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I wake up? Didn't I? I'm sorry? No, I ain't
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neither, because i'd had to wake anyhow. What so early in the morning.
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I can't be more than six o'clock, just quarter two six, But
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murderers don't care what time did murderer? Oh, don't tell me. Somebody
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killed somebody way up here in the contrary, Yes, done it. First
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time in sixteen years of being sheriff, I ever had a murder in this
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county. I'm sure glad you're yep. Oh no, look here, Wald,
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I came up here for a rest, not to chase down a murderer.
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You're a good chef. You don't need me maybe, but you're coming
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along just the same. Now, get up now before I pull the clothes
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off the bed and pour this picture of water avera. All right, all
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right, all right, I suppose there's no way out, but you ought
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to be in charge. Well, if that's the way you want it,
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that's all right with me. Now hurry up and get some clothes on while
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I tell the medical examiner to meet me at the Parsons place in fifteen minutes.
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I'm surprised Patsy didn't want to get up and come along. Well.
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When I asked her, she just said you'd see us later. Said she
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wanted to get all the beauty sleep she could first looks if she was going
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to get the vacation not. You don't fool yourself. I'm going to say
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that this killing is solid in record time. I have to prove I did
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it myself. Anything for peace and quiet. You know what's funny about the
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Parsons is young Henry Parsons and his wife, a right pretty little girl.
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She is too. They come to town about two years ago, stayed at
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the hotel till they found the house like it's a little bungalow built right smack
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on the edge of the cliff overlooking the river. Follow the downs the bungalow.
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He took Alik in Henry and got him a job in the lumber mill.
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He's been there ever since goods did he work her? They tell me?
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Did they have any enemies? Oh? Not so firs. I know
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they never went out much, but everybody liked him. He was a real
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nice fellow. And if ever I saw two people in love with each other,
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it was them too. Yeah, there was more lovers than married folks,
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usways more than most married folks that I've seen. This is going to
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be pretty bad for her then losing the man you love. Yeah, you're
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right. Yeah, that's the house, a gray one with the smoke coming
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out of the chimney. Oh, I tell you it's going to be terrible,
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Nick, I'm dreading heaven to ask her any questions about it. Uh,
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you wouldn't wonder, Oh no, no, no, not much.
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I wouldn't. I'm just a private in the rear rank today. I thought
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you wouldn't. Well, this is it. Go with as soon as I
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can, come on, let's go in. Doors probably open, yes,
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Chi South Winslow. I'd be here in just a few minutes now. He
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only lives a few miles further from here, And I do warning share dog
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you here already you must have flew over. Well. I left soon as
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I got your message. I'll good for you. I meet mister Nick Carter,
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friend of mine. Hello, mister Carter. Morning. Dodor Parsons is
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dead, all right, shot right through the head. He's there in the
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dining room. And Miss Parson's taking it pretty hard? Is she terrible?
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Hard? Share? And I put her to bed in the spare room.
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Somebody gave her a real good shock in the jaw. Judging for the looks.
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I'd like to give her sedative, but I knew you'd want to talk
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to her first, so I've been waiting. You got through. Oh,
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thanks, Doc, I knew I could count on you. Say where's Jed?
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I don't see him around. Well, Jed felt the babies had to
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have their milk, murder or no murder. I told him to go ahead,
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but come back soon as he could. And I told him not to
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tell a soul what happened to here. Well that's something anyway. I hope
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he minds what you told him. I look sure if you're going to question
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missus Parsons now, yes, right now, Dot, come on, then
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money right with you? Walk in miss Passions. I'm terrible sorry to about
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Henry. How can you tell me what happened I'll do my best shirt.
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Now, suppose you start right at the beginning and just tell us whatever you
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can. I was asleep when I heard a loud noise. It woke me
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up. What kind of a noise? I don't know, just a loud
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noise. It's like an explosion, like all right, all right, we
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know what you mean. And then what woke up? Found that Henry?
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It wasn't in bed besides me. That scared me. So I called him
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answer and I started to get out of bed. Then I saw, I
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saw, asked miss Passion's what was it? You saw Henry on the floor
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right? Stay out taking? And what did you do? Then? I
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screamed? The man hit me on the chin. All missus Parsons, did
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you get a look at this man who hits you? Can you tell us
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what he looked like? But medium size, stuck him old clothes, he
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hadn't shaved for several days, with a scar across his part and down over
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his cheek. Did you ever see him before? Oh? Never? Well,
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support you go on with your story. When I became conscious to get
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I was gagged and tied up in one of the kitchen chairs. The man
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said he was sorry. He had to kill me, but he couldn't take
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any chances on my telling the cops about Did he have a gun, Missus
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Parsons, Yes, I could see it in his pocket. He said he
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couldn't shoot a woman and knew a better way to do it. And what
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did he do? He turned on the gas, so that was an easy
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way to die and he left me. Where did he go? Then?
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I heard him moving around in the dining room and I heard him climb out
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the window and shut it and he left the gas turned on. I almost
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died before Jed got you and turned it off, and then Jed cuts you
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loose. Yes, it seemed hours later that she can tell us well,
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thanks Ms Parsons. All for now, we let you know. If we
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want to know anything else, I'll send the dock in talk in putter sleep
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now about time too, poor kids, she's putting her all in. Nick,
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You heard her describe that man had done it? Why? Yes?
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Why I know him? You know him? Not personally, I don't mean,
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but I know who he is. Been hanging around town for over a
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week now. There's been two burglaries while he's been here too. I've been
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going to arrest him on suspicion. But now, by gosh, I got
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a real reason to arrest him. Yes, looks that way. Well let's
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take a look at the body. Yeah, Doc said was here in the
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dining room. Yes, that is m must have just been coming out of
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the bedroom when he was shot. Never knew what hit him, seems like
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I look there walk the center window. What oh, the catch is smashed?
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So that's how he got in Yes, mm hmm. Henry must have
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heard him in here, got up to see what was going on, and
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the burglars shut him. Footprints here on the window sill too, And I
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can see some princes down in the garden under the way. That's settled it.
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I'm going to find that tramp and I'm going to get a confession.
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Oh wait, well wait, you have to have more evidence than a footprint
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to convict a man of murder. But Miss Parsons can identify him easy because
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she saw him. I suppose you go after him. I'll stay here and
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see what else I can take up in the way of evidence. You don't
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want to go with me, No, it's better if we each work on
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a separate angle. Get results quicker that way. Okay, Nick, I'll
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get hold of my deputy and we'll find that murdering tramp in short order.
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Just a minute, just a minute, God, I heard someone just outside
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this door. I mean somebody's listening, I think, so let me open
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the door. Well, Jed, what are you doing here? Nothing?
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Well, Jed, do you hear anything worth listening to? I wasn't listening.
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I just happened to be standing here. Well, if you wasn't listening,
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I didn't know. Well, how does it happen in your back?
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So soon? Jed? Got your milk all delivered? Well, just took
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the milk to houses where they got babies, and I came back just like
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Doc told me to, of course, telling anybody about the murder. No,
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Doc said not to Jed. What time was it when you first heard
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missus Parsons morning? When I set her milk on the back porch, about
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five o'clock, five o'clock, But you didn't phone the sheriff until after five
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thirty? What you led you? Why I was untying Laura, missus Parsons,
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and trying to get her to tell me what ha happened? I see?
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Did you break in the front door or the back when you came in?
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Neither one. The back door was unlocked. Oh, the back door
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was unlocked, So you just came in that way? Well, sure I
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did. So were you trying to do get me balled up? I'm not
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trying to do anything to your Jed. I just want to get all the
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facts straight. Okay, what else you want to know? Suppose you tell
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us just what happened when you came in the back door. Well, Laura,
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Missus Parsons, was tried up in one of the chairs near the dove.
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I smelled gas and she said whoever it was, and turned it on
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to suffocat her, so I turned it off. God, she was almost
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out. Then I cut the ropes that were holding her and I let her
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loose. What else did she say? She didn't say nothing much. She's
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just about unconscious when I found her. She talked about a man coming in
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and killing her husband and some other stuff I didn't get I see, And
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what did you do then? Why? I took her into the spare room
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and I put her on a bed. Then I called the sheriff. That's
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all, Jed. I noticed you're pretty friendly with Missus Parston's. What do
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you mean by that? By the way, you call her Laura. That's
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all. Oh, well, you see, she's been giving me grammar lessons
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for about an hour every day after my milk's delivered, so I got to
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know her kind of well. Missus Parsons is very pretty, isn't she?
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Here? Dar right? She is as well to look around the whole route.
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You like her very much, don't do? Sure? I do.
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She's been awful good to me, and I well, I just like her.
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You were in love with her, Jed. In love with her,
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of course not. She's married. You weren't so much in love with her
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that you'd be jealous of her husband. Want I'm out of the way,
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Perhaps he look care you. If you're trying to say it I killed mister
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Parker, you can turn shut up, Jed. Nick's doing the talking here.
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You'll just answering question. Well, and they can come around here making
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cracks like that. I don't know I'd call that a crack. There's been
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considerable talk around town about how much time you've been spending with Ms Parsons.
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I never took no stock in it before, but now I tell you there's
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nothing to a share. We were just good friends, that's all all right,
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Jed that's all for now. I don't go anywhere, but I ain't
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finished. Children my milk here. Listen. If Nick says wait you wait,
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I'll tell you when you can go. Murder is a serious thing of
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all, A thick headed dumb cluck tires so jed really had anything to do
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with it, Nate. They certainly had the motive and the opportunity and afford
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to overlook any angle untill we sure for the present, I suspect everyone.
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Yeah, heaven name is that's missus Parsons. Maybe more trouble? Come on,
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come on, what new development is this? As something happened to missus
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the sheriff racing down the hall toward the room where Missus Parsons had been sleeping
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in the effort to find out why she was screaming mad Nick, Please,
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missus Parsons, take this to Mark. What's the trouble, Doc, She's
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having hysterics. I didn't leave her a big enough dose before. I guess
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now she won't take nothing here. Let me hold her all right now.
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Put the glass to her lips. Maybe she'll take it. Did that'll keep
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her quiet? Hey? Gosh. I thought she was being killed from the
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noise she was making. You follows fine anything, Yes, sir, we
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found the marks where the killer, that is, the fellow we think must
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kill him, broke in through the window in the dining room. I'm going
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out after him, now, will you be Nick? If I'm not here,
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I'll be at your place. I'm going back and get Patsy as soon
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as I'm through here. We came up here for a vacation. You know,
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all right, Nick, I'll be seeing you. Good luck with your
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hunting. Well neck, How does it look so far? We know that
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a burglar entered the Parsons house last night and staw some silverware. When I
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went back to look after Walt left, I found the sideboard and the dining
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room was cleaned out. You may have shot Parsons when Parsons surprised him taking
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the stuff. What about Jed Well, he certainly had the motive. He
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loved missus Parsons, and he had the opportunity that of being on the spot
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at practiced at the same time the murder took place. Do you know when
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that was Well, we got there about six. He'd been dead roughly about
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an hour. Then which one of the two do you think did it?
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I'm not ready to answer that yet, Patsy. When I was looking over
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the scene at the crime after Walt left, I found several little things that
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indicate there may be a third party involved. A third party? What do
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you mean, bike, Patsy, pull over? Pull over? Gosh,
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that was too close. Kids would learn to watch where they're going when they're
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on the main highway. Well, we missed him, so it's all right
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this time. Can you see the parson's house on this road? Nick,
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No, the cliff's too steep. How are you going to know where to
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look? Then? Before I left the house, I hung one of my
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handkerchiefs in the clothes line right at the edge of the cliff. Oh that's
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good. I think we can see it from here. Should be just ahead.
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I'll watch for Oh, yes, that is slow down a little okay,
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now stop right here, right sid thing you hung that handkerchief up there?
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You never know there was a house there. Now you know what you're
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looking for, don't you? Yes? You don't think it could have gone
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across the road, do you? I doubt it, Betsy. They could
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train baseball player to throw it. That fire no, it's somewhere between the
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road and the bottom of the cliff. Now you look them here up that
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way, and I look them here. We've got to find out if it's
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here. We can't give up until we do. Careful, Pete. We
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don't want to warn him we're here because he's a desperate carricter. But thing
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those kids seen him come in this way hereff saves us a lot of hunting
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around. See anything of that shack that told us about you. But he
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should be just ahead. Take it easy and right right there. All right
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now, Lester Pete, you stay out here in front, keep behind that
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big tree, and fire your gun over the shack once in a while.
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Keep his attention on you. I'm going round back and creep up on him
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from that side. Then i'll get him, for he knows I'm there,
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is he, but keep here. I don't want to lose Deputy. Okay,
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Sheriff, I'll watch him. Want me start firing now, No,
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let me get a head start so he won't see me. Then start firing.
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I'll signal you win. Okay, good luck, there's a signal here
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goes. Get your hands up. We got you surrounded. You can't get
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a sheriff got him? H neb it. There ain't nobody here. See
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been living there, sheriff. Yeah, he's been here all right, pretty
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much cleared out right after the murder. Let's got scared and run for it.
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Look, sheriff, here's a fork under this whole piece of carpet.
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God, big initial pee on it. Uh huh. One of the passions
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is likely. Oh this aman? All right? What now, sheriff,
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We're going back to the office and send out an alarm for him. You
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won't get furfore he's nabbed. I'll see to that. But where are you
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now? Nick? At your house? Wald? We found the gun,
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You got the man. You went after him? We sure did, got
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him and the stuff he stole too. He was got in the next town
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trying to pawn some of that soba. He just brought him in. What
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does he have to say? Oh, he says he found the silver in
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the woods. Yeah, he's shack. Says he never was near the parson's
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house. Well, we'll change his mind for him when we show him what
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we know. A while after I started thinking things over, I went back
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to Parsons place found a couple of very interesting bits of evidence. That i'd
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overlooked before. Suppose you take the burglar out there. I want missus Parsons
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to identify him. I'll meet you there in fifteen minutes. Okay, Nick,
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we'll be there. Good all. I want to get back to my
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vacation. Well, now that role here, doc, will you ask missus
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Parsons to join us? I wonder what identify this man? He's feeling a
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little quieter. Now I'll get here. Have I got to stick around here
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forever? Share if I got a job to do. If I don't get
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back, I'll be fine. I don't stay away, that'll be trouble now,
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you said, but I got to get back down. Some things I
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want to ask you as soon Assus Parsons gets here. Oh, well,
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take your prisoner over the other side of the room, so if you won't
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see him when she first comes in. All right, come on, you
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come on, all right, quit shoven, I'm coming, mister car Won't
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you make this as quick as you can? I don't feel I can stand
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much of this question. We'll spare you well, we can, missus Parsons,
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but there are certain things we're having to know. Won't you sit down
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here next to passy. Yes hear missus Parsons. Let me help you,
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all right, but right, that's the man. He did it. He
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hit me and TI me up. You're not I I me upset you,
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but I never touched your old man looks as if that settled it. If
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you're the one that hit her, you're the one that killed Henry. We
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found you with the silver were on you, and miss Parsons here identifies you.
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Now you're going to admit that you did it all because it doesn't I
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swiped the stuff maybe, but I didn't cook nobody. I just gave her
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a clot on the jaw to keep her quiet. Well, Nate, what
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you got to say? Now you're satisfied? No, older, I'm not.
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There's several things that don't match up here. I don't know what's the
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matter with you, Nate, but I know you'll do it the way you
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won't do anyway. She'll go ahead. Now, are you what time did
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you break into this house? About two o'clock? Did you see either mister
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or missus Parsons. I looked and they were both asleep. I didn't wake
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him up. You did? You woke Henry? And please, missus Parsons
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please be try it. Nick knows what he's doing. You just took what
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silver you could find and went out again. Huh. Yeah. A woman
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woke up and was gonna stop me, so I had to soccer one to
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keep her quiet, and I ducked out. That's all. He's a lion
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thieve in murdering. I don't think so well, but Nate less, let
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me finish, please, Jed, what was missus Parson's wearing when you found
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her this morning? Why? She had a pink sort of house coat,
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lots of lace on her Yes? Did she look pretty in it? She
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sure did, But that don't mean I had Let's answer my questions. Please,
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is this Parsons? Did you ever see this gun before? WHOA?
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I never saw it before. You sleep on two pillows, don't you?
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Yes? And you never saw this gun before? Oh I didn't. That's
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peculiar. When I lifted the top pillow off your bed this morning, I
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found a little hollow on the top of the bottom one, and this gun
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just fits it. That's a lie you like, Jed. He's a nice
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boy, but you liked your husband better. Of course I loved Henry.
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Yes, you loved him so much. You couldn't bear to have him leave
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you. Isn't that true? I don't wa are you getting at Nick?
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I don't get this, wal missus Parsons killed her husband. I didn't.
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I didn't do it. Was that man? Are you crazy? Nick?
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Or? What makes you think she did it? I think I know she
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did it as I see it. She woke up and heard the burglar in
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the dining room. She'd already decided to kill Henry, but hadn't decided how
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to do it. And now the thought came to her that she could kill
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Henry and blame it on the burglar. She'd undoubtedly seen the man around town
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and knew exactly what he looked like. Remember that very excellent description she gave
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us world, Well, sure sure she never saw him that clearly by flashlight.
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You're rye. You can't prove any got five o'clock. She got up,
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took a gun from under a pillow, went into the dining room,
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and called Henry very excitedly. When he rushed out of bed to see what
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was the matter, she waited for him at the dining room door and shot
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him as it came through. And she took off her night dress and put
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on the pink housecoat. I found the night dress with some spots of blood
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on it under the mattress on her bed. You lyeing, I wore that
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house got to bed last night. I was cold. I was that housecoat
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rumbled up when you saw it this morning? Why, poor guy? She
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looked like new to me, I thought so, missus Parsons. You went
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to the kitchen, waited until a few minutes before you knew Jed was due
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to arrive. Then you turned on the gas, tied yourself in the chairs
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best you could, and waited for Jed. You knew there was no danger
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of your suffocate hi before Jed arrived, and you knew that Jed was half
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in love with you already, and that when he found you in that very
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feminine, attractive garment, he'd never noticed that the nuts whitch bound you were
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tied very clumsily and not very secure back to life. She was all tied
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up good and TIC's what she wanted you to think. Why should she do
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it? Yes, Nick, what earthly reason would she have to do it?
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I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Eh. Remember when
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we approached the house this morning, we saw smoke out of the chimney.
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Yes, well, and I remembered that smoke. A little while ago,
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I went down to have a look at the furnace. I was curious whether
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it'd be a fire going on a warm day like this, And I found
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this a letter from Henry's real wife in the city, saying that she was
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happy he had at last decided to return to her and his son from whom
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he'd run away when he came here with Laura. And there was the motive
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plain enough. Laura couldn't bear the thought of his leaving her. There's the
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blow to her pride that he was tired of her, so she killed him.
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Her fingerprints around this gun we found. If you want definite proof,
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all right, I killed it, and I'm glad they couldn't treat me that
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way. But I never go to the chair. I'll kill myself first.
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Better take her away well and keep your eye on her. Murder Demman's at
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the murderer pay the penalty for his crime, guy sneak. I still can't
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believe it. She was such a darn nice little girl. I nik if
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she hadn't tried to burn that letter, she might have gotten away with it.
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Yes, Betsy, that was what first led me to think she did
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it. Until I found that letter, I could find no motive for her
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killing him. And without the motive, nothing made sense. But the furnace
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was so choked with the ashes that the papers she tried to burn just smoon
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it. And where there's smoke, you know as I know where there's smoke.
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Nick Carter solves the case with it. In just a moment, Nick
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from Nick Carter himself. How about next week's story, Nick, can you
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was heart failure, a young man felt so sure that his uncle had been
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murdered that he arranged a midnight Seans with the famous medium and had everyone who
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could have committed the murder there to see what went on And did the medium
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succeed in contacting the dead uncle? She claims she did. Everyone there thought
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they recognized his voice, and did he accuse anyone of murdering him? That's
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where the story's dot Kin, and that's where it's going to end for you.
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Yes, is no more until next week. So long, So long
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everybody, and so long to you Nick and Patsy. We'll be looking forward
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To be honest, the only person I didn't suspect other than of course,
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Nick and Patsy was the guy that they arrested, because that would be
30:56
just a total departure to have that type of person actually behind the crime.
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Well, now we turn to listener comments and feed back, and Joseph Allen
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left some comments regarding a Nick Carter collection he picked up and some of the
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SPSIC questions about the relationship between Scubby Wilson and Patsy Bowen because he heard an
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episode on that set that identified them as a couple. The one thing advantage
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that we have listening to the show is that we come on each episode together,
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so we get to see how the show develops. So I'm actually have
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not listened to Nick Carter beyond the episode we're currently playing, so we'll see
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how that works out later on in the show. But he comments, what
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makes Nick Carter an enduring detective is that he can work through the most perplexing
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cases despite being flummixed as to what happened and Nick Carter, and I think
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that does go back to the Nick Carter books. He was just very much
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a soul. He wasn't I think as brilliant as some of the other detectives,
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certainly not as smart as near a wolf or Father Brown, but he
32:16
was you couldn't determine. And he was also incredibly courageous and willing to press
32:25
through even the most difficult situations, and that I think is what makes Nick
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Carter such a great detective. Thanks so much for that comment, Joseph,
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And we also have a comment on podcast. Alley G. D Pine says,
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great show and great host. Well, thanks so much. Well,
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I will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow as we wrap
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up the Older Matter, and then join us back here on Thursday for another
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episode of Nick Carter. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen
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