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Nick Carter: The Case of the Dictaphone Murder (EP1386) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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an announcement at the end of the show. Be sure and listen for now
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though it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter. The original air date was
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June fourth of nineteen forty six. The title is the Case of the Dictaphone
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Murder. What's the matter? What it is? The case for Nick Clutter,
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Maud you take you this? It's the Case of the Dictaphone Murder.
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Another case for that most famous of all net hunters, the detective whose ability
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at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter mass
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to Detective Nick should be here any minute. Mister Buckley told me on the
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phone that he'd be here at nine o'clock. That's why I came so early.
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It's only a few minutes after nine. Now, won't be long,
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you see. I've got a great good morning, Nick. Oh, good
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morning, mister Buckley, isn't it. Yes, mister Carter. When I
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met you after your lecture at the club the other evening, I said to
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myself, that's the man I'll go to. And I need help, and
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you need it now very much. I want you to thoroughly investigate Roger Denham,
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the man who's going to marry my daughter. What's he done. I
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don't know that he's done anything. I simply want to be sure that he's
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the right kind of man to be my son in law. Well, really,
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mister Buckley, I don't go in for that sort of thing at all.
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Oh, that's not the only reason. The Buckley Corporation is going to
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build a large new office building, and Roger Denham has been awarded the contract
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for the work. I want to know that he can carry it out successfully.
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The Buckley idea for the most part in crime and interest me. And
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I've made it my life work. What you're asking me to do does not
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interest me fur themore. I don't have the time for it. I see,
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Well, perhaps this so interested. It's an anonymous letter I received in
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the mail this morning. I don't put much stock in such things, but
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well, here it is. I here, Denim is married, has been
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for six years. His wife has now went our way to the Royal Arms
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Hotel. That will warn your daughter. Does that interest you, mister Carter?
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Not very much. Information like that can be checked. Two weeks lead
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to offer any problem. As far as I'm concerned, nothink mysterious about this
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note. It's typed on a decent grade of paper by a fairly good typewriter.
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Half of the letter l is missing because of a defective type bar,
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and there's no thread in it except one fact. Sorry, you won't act
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for me, mister Carter. And I suppose you Nick Carter's office, Patty
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barn speaking, Oh Nick Batt, Oh, yes here, just a minute,
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your next Dodger Mathison. We got you out of your office early,
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Maddy. What do you mean office? I've been there and now I'm up
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here at the Royal Arms. You're not busy, you might take a run
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over here. What's up? Murder guy named Roger Denham? You say Roger
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Denham? I did? Why? Friend of yours? Oh that's a coincidence,
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that's all, Carter, what's the story. I'm addie. He's been
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strangled at death. If you're not busy, right over what room three twelve?
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I wait for you, Nick, but make it snappy. I will
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so long to Carter. If something happened to Denham Buckley, why did you
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see him last yesterday evening? I called on him at the hotel to see
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if I could find out something about him personally. Why he's just been murdered?
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Murdered Denim? Yes, police are there in his room. Now let
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me have that letter again, of course here. Thanks top of the morning
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to you, Patty, Nick ke my brother to sit down, Walter.
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You and I are going out immediately. I'm going to look into a murderer.
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Hi Ddy, Well, Nick, you made good time. It's only
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nine thirty. Hello Buffalo Bill will if it ain't the terror of the police
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force him said, it's stuck. I you know I'm not stuck. Just
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thought Nick might like to have a look. See right, mad, what
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have you found so far? Oh there's the body Nick, right on the
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floor where we found it. He was strangled by some guy with an enormous
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pair of hands. He can still see the marks on his throat. Must
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have been a struggle the way the room is upset, but it wasn't robbery.
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Nothing is missing as far as we can tell. Any fingerprints, not
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not a one. Nate found a body when she came in to clean about
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nine o'clock. Corner says death occurred about eight thirty this morning, all night
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party or an early morning blowout. Now I checked with a room clerk and
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he says he saw no visitors this morning. But the telephone operator says,
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a guy named Johnny Casper call about seven forty five this morning. She said
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she knew his voice because he called so often before he came here, you
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know the way without asking of the desk. Yeah, said she wasn't listening,
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but she gathered from what she just happened to hear that Casper wanted to
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see downim right away. Well, we can look into that. When we
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ran room Prett, Well, he's mister Denham there who was calling mister Allen
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of the Buckley Corporate him and I can talk to him. To Denham?
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What do you want to talk to Denham about? Who are you? I'm
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sorry to say, you can't talk to Denham. He's just been murdered.
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Denham murdered? Did you say murdered? I did? What do you want
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to talk to him about? Why? I'm the chairman of the board for
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the Buckley Corporation and we've just awarded a contract of it's Dinnim for the construction
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of the Buckley Building and I wanted to make an appointment with him to settle
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a number of details. And you say he's unfortunately, yes, mister Allen,
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it's terribly unfortunate. Well goodbye, goodbye. Some fringer Deennim's nick business
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acquaintance apparently wanted to make a date with him. Virch a little lead for
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that. I'm thinking, here's something that's what does it? Maty? It's
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a piece of silk pocket off a shirt. I'd say found it clenched in
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Denham's fist. Must have been ripped off in the struggle. Oh, cuel
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By Gully. Now we can start investigating. It looks like it now evenly
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let me have this on our Look, Nick, that's the only real piece
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of evidence we got. I know it. I'll take care of it.
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Just want to find out what Mills made it and what they did with it.
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But Nick, look, why you look? I can do it faster
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than you can, Matry. You know that. Oh I suppose so?
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But I yeah, Wall, don't suppose you dig around and find out what
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meals this piece of silk came from. Shouldn't be difficult because there's a flaw
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here in the weave. Should make it edification easy. You better get going.
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Legwork always, leg works for Waldo. Good detective like me, and
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I ain't allowed to detect. A good detective follows ortis too. Don't forget
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that. Oh sure, sure I was young, Waldo. I'll see you
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at the office later. Well, I kind of guess there isn't much else
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here we can see. I'll just take a look around while i'm here.
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Looks as if somebody had been through it looking for something ways all upside down.
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Yeah that's what I thought. What are you suppose he was looking for?
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Maddy? You see this, this piece of wire sticking out under the
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closet door. No, what is it? Let's see, Hey, it
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goes up the closet war and through the ceiling. Mate still here, yeah,
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right outside? Hey may yes, Sam? Who lives in the room
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over this? Nobody, sir? It's empty? Or it was yesterday afternoon
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when I cleaned it up? About had pass four? That sounds suspicious in
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itself an empty hotel room these days, Royal lot, desk clerk, Please,
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desk clerk, this is Nick Carter on the murder of Denham, who
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has room for twelve? Missus Denham has an own, sir, Missus Denham,
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Yes, sir, why don't you come in? Just a few minutes
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ago? Denham reserved the room yesterday for friends, he said. When Missus
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Denham came in, I suppose he meant it for her, so I gave
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it to her. I called Denham to check but got no answer. What
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time was that? About five minutes from nine? You know anything about a
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wire in the closet of three twelve? A wire? A mister call her?
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Right? Don't that's all things, Maddie. I believe this wire is
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a part of the answer to this murder. Yeah, let's go up and
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have it. Hey, I came from upstairs me, said Dunham, come
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on, honey, hurry, NICKI disappeared somewhere, went down the fire escape
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and either got to the bottom or slipped into a room on the way down.
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Too bad, now, missus Deniman, suppose you tell me the whole
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story right from the beginning. Well, I got here this morning just before
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nine o'clock. The click said Roger had engaged this room for me, so
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I came up. I was too tired to unpack, so I just lay
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down on a bed for a few minutes. I didn't sleep because I had
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a queer feeling someone was watching me. Then, about fifteen minutes ago,
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I got up, washed and started down to get some breakfast. After I'd
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gone a few steps, I thought I'd forgotten my lipstick, so I came
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back for it and I opened the door. I saw a man in the
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room, just starting to climb out the window. I screamed, and he
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disappeared. Did you got a good look at him? No? I didn't.
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But he looked like a large man with big hands. I saw those,
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says Denim, hunters have happened. You were arrived here just this time.
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Way. I got an anonymous letter yesterday. Here it is thank you.
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Your husband has been out of the army for six weeks. He's staying
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here at the Royal Arms, pretends he's not married and is making big play
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for daughter ahead of Buckley Corporation and closers. Ticket from your town here,
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that'll come if you want to avoid trouble and the letter l on. They
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have prints, same type notes. What was that, mister Carter? Oh,
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well, nothing, go on with your story please. I didn't even
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know Roger was out of the army. The last I heard was two months
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ago when you wrote that he and his buddy Johnny Casper. Johnny Casper again,
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Yes, go ahead, Missus Denham. He said they were getting out
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any minute, and you let me know as soon as they did. But
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when this letter came, I thought, I, yes, I know,
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and that's all. Well, yes, I think. So. Do you
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mind if I have a look in your closet my closet one, No,
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not at all, as suddainly is, I'd take uphone machine. But there's
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the wire that comes up from Dan's face. He says what I rather expected.
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Maddy Denham was making a record of an interview we had with someone.
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But the record is gone. That's what the guy, Missus Denham saw was
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after Maybe he got it, Nick, this is Denham. How long were
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you out of his room? Just a few seconds, No longer. I
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went out and then came back almost at one. Then the man didn't get
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it. Maddie wouldn't have had time, but someone got it. That's the
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clue you ought to have, Nick, I bet it would tell the whole
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story, as there must have been something pretty incriminating at it to make him
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kill Denham. Did you say killed Denham? Oh no, I'm sorry,
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Missus Denham. I didn't realize you heard me. I'm very sorry, but
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it's true. Your husband was killed about an hour ago. Maddy. This
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machine the headquarters. See if the Red Prince Andrew Hill get Missus Denham's two
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destines, Nick, don't better take no chances. I've me got the serial
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number on the machine, so I can have Matcy check on it, and
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I'll be on my way. Get on your way away, nickuld see Johnny
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Casper. He looks like a good starting poet, you see, mister Carter.
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We were buddies in the service. I liked Roger, so when we
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got out I brought him back here with me. He'd been a contractor in
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a small town about one hundred miles north of here, and I thought perhaps
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we could go in business together. I'm a contractor too, you know,
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No I didn't. Oh, yes, I've done some pretty big things for
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young fellow. Well, anyway, I introduced Roger to mister Allen, the
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chairman of the board of the Buckley Corporation, and to Buckley himself. Then
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I took him up to Wallam's house one night. She's Buckley's daughter I was
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engaged to at the time. While I introduced him to her, what I
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heel? That guy turned out to be that's how do you mean? Gasper?
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Well, instead of bidding on the Buckley building with me as partners,
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he submitted a separate bit of his own, and he entertained Allen and never
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remember the board at parties, and he made a big play for my girl
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behind my back night for me every way he could. My pal. You
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say you were engaged to miss Buckley. You're not now, oh, I'll
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say not. Two days ago when I called her to make a date,
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she told me we were threw She was now engaged to Denham. So you
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have little reason to like denhim. I've never hated anybody in my life,
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the way I hated that man. Where were you this morning? About eight
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o'clock this morning? My why I was right here dead? Are sure you
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wander the Royal Arms talking to Denham? What in Heaven's name makes you answer
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my question? Casper? Were you at the Royal Arms? I know?
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I well, yes, I was too. Why should I deny it?
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I went down to tell Roger to lay off my girl. I'd tell his
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wife what was going on? And what did he say to that? He
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told me to go as far as I liked. He was on top and
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he was going to stay there in spite of the devil and me. You
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two have a fight with words, yes, but that's all. That's so
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mad. I left him and came back here to think. I see you
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have a typewriter, you min if I tried? Way? No thanks you
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Who wrote those anonymous letters to Buckley and a missus Denham? Yes I did.
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I'm not ashamed of doing it. I hated Denham enough to kill him,
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yes, but I didn't. I saw too much killing in the war.
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It's funny, isn't it. I bring my buddy back here to help
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him out, and he cheats me out of everything. I want underfits me
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on the Buckley job and even steals my girl. What a laugh. No,
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I didn't kill him, but I wish I had long ago I need,
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but I was referred to you, and then I'm glad you were.
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We don't get many in here like you, baby. I want to find
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out something about it. I'm the boy that can tell your baby anything you
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want to know. I have here this serial numbers, no book, Let's
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not talk about numbers. Let's talk about you. You're the number I'm in
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right now. Well, look, will you please listen? My listening to
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every word you say? Gorgeous, go ahead and talk. I want to
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find out about digital machine number two for eight seven four nine A y?
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Hey? Look, what are you doing Tonight's like chick working number two four
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eight seven four nine A y please? I bet you do? I mean
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rumba. How's about giving me a world tonight? Oh look, I want
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to find out about this. Well, baby, I'm trying to find out
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too. How lad are you working tonight? Huh? I don't know.
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I bet you're not working at all, just stalling me along to see how
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far I'll go. Well, I'll go a long way for you. Good
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looking. Oh will you please listen? Riv? How's about letting me call
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you when I get through the night together? Come on? What do you
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say? All right? Do win call me a Pennsylvania sixty eight six oh
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one as the texture had a baby. Now you're cooking on all four?
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Now what do you want to know? Play business? Sine two four eight
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seven four nine A y has been for the last forty eight hours? Well
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leave me look two four eight seven four nine A wys at least to a
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guy named Roger Denham yesterday afternoon. Not back yet? That makes you happy?
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Baby? You're heading the inclination to us. Thank you? Hey,
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you can't go like this. It's almost my launchwer, how's about putting on
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a pair of bibs together? Down to my place? You've got my phone
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number and my name and that's all you're going to get from me. Goodbye.
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Oh don't be like that gorgeous vaga floor. Oh there are you?
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Why, Patsy? I'm waiting for you to find anything? Nick? Do
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I look fascinating to you? Hey, Patsy, this is police headquarters.
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Remember, other men find me irresistible? Do you snap out of it?
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Patsy? Did you find out about the dictaphone. Huh oh, yes,
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at least Roger Dennon yesterday afternoon for forty eight hours. That checks, matty.
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Huh. He expected a visitor and one of the interview recorded. I
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wish I knew what was on that record. All I was starting to tell
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you when Patsy came in. Nick, there were two sets of fingerprints on
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that dictaphone, denhim's and somebody else's. The others don't check with any we
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gut they must be the murderers. When he got the record by the extra
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large Hey, they aren't Nick, They're small, so they couldn't have been
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his. Maybe they don't mean anything could have been on the machine. Ron
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Denham got it. Oh wala, how'd you make out? You asked me
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to find out about that there piece of silk? Out? Didn't you?
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I did well when you give or did I? McGlenn the job? He
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does it? He is, sir, And I had some job too,
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believe me, but I came through love of Michelaw stop talking and say something.
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I'm trying to, but to keep interrupting me. Waldo, what did
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you find? The silk was woven by the seasoned meals. Now they made
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up about a dozen shirts out of it, and then they discovered there was
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a fly in this stuck, so they chunked the rest and they sold them
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shirts to the Lionel Men's shop right here in town. Did you go there?
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No, I didn't. I thought maybe you would like to do some
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of the detecting yourself. Okay, okay, that's my next visit the Lionel
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Men's shop. Come on, Patsy, come on, this is Buckley speaking.
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This isn't it card? Mister Buckley, I find that you bought a
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dozen of white silk shirts from the Lionel shop a few months ago. Yes,
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I did. They offered me a special price. I recall, why
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did you keep them all yourself? Why no, I didn't. I got
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them just before Christmas, and I gave several of them away his presents.
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Could you tell me to whom you gave them? Well, let me see.
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I remember giving Allen three of them, and I kept five for myself,
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I think, and the others. Oh, yes, yes, my
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daughter Olim gave the rest to Johnny Casper so he'd have some when he got
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out of the army. They were going around together at that time. Nobody
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else got any I believe not. I can't swear it, of course.
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All right, thanks, sorry to bother you, goodbye, Nick. He
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kept some game Sam Dwellen and some to Casper. Casper coming back to him,
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don't we shame? So he certainly got a motive. But if he
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did it, where does the dictophone come in? Yes? I see what
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you mean. Who else is there? Alan? I suppose a better check
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on his whereabouts at the time of the killing this morning. Mustn't leave any
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stone unturned. Come on, no, mister Allen, isn't the home just
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now, mister Carter, can I do anything for you? Perhaps? What
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time did mister Allen get up this morning? At his usual hour? Sir?
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About nine thirty? Are you sure? Oh? Absolutely, sir.
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He came downstairs in his pajamas and dressing gown to ask me about a suit
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he couldn't find. It was at the cleaner. What time were you up
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this morning? I start work at eight o'clock regularly, sir. It's my
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heaby and you didn't see mister Ellen until nine? Very Why no, sir?
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May I why you're asking all these questions? You may, but I'm
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not going to answer just now? Thank you, Yes, sir, thank
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you, sir. Come on, Passy, let's try something else. Maybe
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I'll have more luck there. Well, Nick, you're going to check up
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on mister Buckley. Buckley, Yes, you've investigated two of the three men
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who got the silk shirts. You can't omit, Buckley, can you?
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I suppose you're right, Patsy, we can't afford to. Oh. I
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wish I had that record than I made. I would probably tell us the
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motive. Just now we are completely missing a motive. Well, Casper had
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one, but as you've said, that doesn't account for the record. Oh
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doesn't I wonder? Huh what is it? Nick? Wait? I want
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to call Maddie Wearing the Drug Show here, Okay, I'll be right back.
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All right, I'm aside Sergeant Madison Eddie. Nick, tell me,
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when you examined the Prince and the dictaphone, did you find any of the
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smaller prints lapping over Denham's prints? Why? Come to think of it again,
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Nick, some of the little prints were on top of Dunhams. What.
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Thanks, I'll see you later. Bye. What's going on? Nick?
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I think I know now where the missing dictaphone record is, Patsy.
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And when I get that, I should have the motive and the murderer.
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Let's go Nick, oh, Nick's for goodness sake, what did Jazz to
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speak to the chambermaid? Because I think she has the answer. What answer
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could she have? You'll see you're the chamber maid who found mister Denim's body
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this morning in room three twelve. Yit, I found him when I went
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in to clean the room. Did you go to room four twelve this morning?
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Well? I did, and I didn't, that's what do you mean?
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Well, you see, I cleaned the rooms that's faked in the afternoon.
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The deadline's five o'clock, so I got to get them cleaned before then.
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So I cleaned up four twelve yesterday like always. That's a tree ancient
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room. So this morning I opened four twelve to see if somebody's been in.
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But when I seen it, like I left it, I didn't go
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in. I see you went to the room at all this morning, Like
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I told you, I just looked in and see nobody's been in, so
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I locked it up again. You won't mind letting me take your fingerprints?
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Finger prints? What do you want them for? Yes, for the record,
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you're not scared. Are you scared? Why should I be scared,
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and you won't mind if I take your prince. No, I don't guess,
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So how do you do it? Just press your fingers on this little
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ink pad like this, Yeah, and pressed them on this pad like this.
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Yeah. The match, nick match match? What so you didn't go
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in room for twelve this month? I told you. I I know what
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you told. Men, I'll tell me the truth. You went to the
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door and you went in and you took a record off a tic theophone machine
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you found on the closet. Why going, mister, can you tell all
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that from my fingerprints? I can, so you better tell me the truth.
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All right, Well, here's what happened in this the Gospel Truth.
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I opened the door, like I said. Then just as I started to
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close it again, I heard a funny noise. I listened, and it
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comes from the closet. I looked and there was a funny machine there with
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one of them tricked kind of records on it, and you took it.
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Yeah. I didn't think it with steel, and I just wanted to see
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what was on it. So I had brought it down here and when I
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got a chance, I was going to play it on one of the machines
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in the office, but I've been too busy. Do you know that Denim
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was killed for that record? And if the murderer finds you've got it,
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now you're next. Ye. I wouldn't like that. I don't want to
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be killed. And you better get me the record right now. Sure,
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sure, mister, I got to hit in one of the cleaning closets.
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I'll get it for your honest you wait right here, We'll wait and then
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we'll play the record. Patsy, I've got to know what's on it.
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Bley Negg. Sorry to be late, Mitter Carter, but I got held
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up in traffic. It's quite all right, mister Buckley. Now that you're
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all here, Buckley, Allan Casper, and Sergeant Mathison, I'll tell you
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why I called you together. As you know, Roger Denham was murdered this
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morning in his hotel room, strangled. The only real clues we had were
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the prints of an unusually large hand on Denhim's throat and a silk shirt pocket
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evidently torn off during the struggle. We traced the shirts and found that each
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of you three men had one or more of those shirts. Casper has no
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alibi for the time of the killing Allen, According to his butler, has
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and Buckley, we don't know about If you'd ask me, I could have
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told you where I was. I'm sure you could, mister Buckley, right
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to the very minute, no doubt. So any one of you might have
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owned the shirt with the torn pocket. We had to get at it another
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way. Motive. Which of you had the strongest motive to kill Denim?
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Buckley and Ellen don't seem to have any reason, but Casper did. Now
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look here, Carter, are you trying to pin this on me? Set
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down, Casper and wait until I finish. I won't pin murder on anyone
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unless it belongs there. As I said, we needed a motive, but
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it was only late this afternoon. That chance, plus the rational and logical
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elimination of other possibilities, gave me the answer. I now have the motive,
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and with it the murderer. And what is it? Mister Carter?
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Yes, don't keep his waiting this way? Here it is Listen all right,
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Bessy, Hello, Wellen? What brings you out so early in the
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morning? I think you know, Dennim he stepped that machine. Give me
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that record. What's the trouble? Mister Allen? Stop that machine. You
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think that record? Now, I want thee gentlemen to hear what it says.
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Your up with a bullet. Put a bullet nowhere, mother, give
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me that. All right, gentlemen, Now that mister Allen is quiet again,
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i'd like you to hear the rest of this record. Got it again,
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Betsy? All right? Hello? Wellen? What brings you out so
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early in the morning? I think you know, DENNI don't matter who money,
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money, what money? Why o you son? Hey? What is
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this You're trying to kid me? No? No, indeed, I just
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don't understand. You've been on the contract for the construction of a new Buckleet
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building. Remember that's right. You're not the lowe b there and came in
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second. You're over fifty thousand dollars higher than the low bid. Right again,
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I reported to the board that I was convinced that the low bid it
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was not a CIPP to do this job and recommend it giving it to you
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in spite of your price. That's very decent. Ver you well decent.
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You'll promise me ten thousand dollars if I got you that contract. That's why
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I am here. I want half of that ten thousand dollars now before the
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contract is signed. Hey, Allan, and I never promised to pay you
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to give me that contract. I don't do business that way. Why you
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double crossing gip artist? You'll think me what you've promised you that contract,
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they'll never be signed. I promise you about the board of water to me,
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I'm my recommendation and never wanted to someone else. If I don't get
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what's coming to me, I boss that board and don't forget. They do
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what I say, and you're going to do what you say you want or
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else. That's the end. That's the most incredible thing I ever heard.
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So well, and you, Alan, would you got to tell us what
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happened after the record was shut off? Nothing left at once. May I
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see your shirt? No? Yes, open your pastor that's a good boy.
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Becky hasn't changed his shirt. His pocket's missing. I probably didn't even
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know what was gone on all the excitement of the murder. And if further
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proof is needed, I believe his hands will correspond to the marks on Denham's
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throat. I see you have unusually large hands, mister Allen, and Denham
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was a louse. He set the machine off and told me he'd been making
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a record of our conversation, said if I tried to collect what he'd promised
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me, take the record to Buckley. I knew that would ruin me,
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and so I killed him till you could find the record, till you could
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destroy it. I wouldn't have believed it possible. While you're right about one
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thing, You're through finished as far as I'm concerned, and as far as
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the state is concerned too. The chair will finish him. That's the case,
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gentlemen. Oh that's for me, Ni were you Patsy? Who is
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it? You know? I'll say, I do wait till he here's what
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I'm going to tell him. Oh, but I do wish somebody else would
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talk to me that way, just once in a while. Hello, Well,
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Nick, isn't it about time for you to give us a glimpse into
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next week's story? Why I shouldn't be surprised if you were right? Ken?
29:18
Well, I suppose you take over then, right? The ingredients of
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my story next week. First, a man who died of heart failure,
29:26
but who was really murdered. A will which was the will the old man
29:30
wrote, which proved to be not the will he wrote and a signature which
29:33
was forced by a person who wanted it known it had been for sounds like
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a fine collection of contradictions to me, what do you call it, Nick?
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I call it the Case of the Clumsy Forgeries. Nick Caught Her Master
29:52
Detective, which is produced and directed by Jack McGregor, is copyrighted by Street
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and Smith Publications Incorporated. Pictured stories of Nick Carter appear in every issue of
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the Shadow Comics. In the broadcasts of Nick Cotter Master Detective, Ron Clark
30:07
has starred as Nick. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Matty is played
30:11
by Ed Latimer, Waldo by Humphrey Davis. Original music is played by George
30:17
Wright. Script is by Jack McGregor and Peggy Mayer. Any resemblance in these
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programs to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual places is purely
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coincidental. Nick Carter Master Detective is presented over most of these mutual stations each
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week at this same time. This is Ken Paul saying, so long until
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next week. This program was heard in Canada through the facilities of the Canadian
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Broadcasting Corporation. Welcome Back, Will a suitably complex Nick Carter case nicely done,
30:59
and we're going to who turned to some listener comments and feedback before we
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get into an announcement here at the end of the show, and we have
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a comment first of all from Brian McGlenn, who writes, I was listening
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to the Nick Carter episode with the two old ladies and a payroll robbery.
31:19
It was the first time I heard the sidekick Waldo's full name. I had
31:25
to rewind a few times that even looked it up on the Internet. What
31:27
a joy to hear my own name on the radio. It's not a very
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popular name over here. Both my parents came here from Ireland. I always
31:36
enjoyed the Nick Carter episodes, and now I like them even more. Well,
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thanks so much, Brian. I'm glad you enjoy it, and we
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aim to please particularly longtime friends of the program. Aloma says that one of
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the best. And then we also received a email from a listener. Pretty
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simple email here. Hello from Oklahoma, says Meredith. Thanks so much for
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your commic. Meredith. Now those announcements, you're going to have a couple
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opportunities to meet me in person. I will well, if you're in the
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Treasure Valley area, I'll be at the Tree City Comic Con in Boise on
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October the seventeenth. Also on October the twenty third, I'll be at the
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Ontario Community Library open House in Ontario, Oregon from six to eight o'clock.
32:37
And that's in far eastern Oregon. And I was glad I called ahead because
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I think of Oregon as being on Pacific time, but it's actually in that
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little portion of Oregon that's in the Mountain time zone. So Tree City Comic
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Con on October eighth, seventeenth and Ontario Community Library on October twenty third.
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All right, well, that will do it for today. We will be
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back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Dowler, and join us back here next Thursday
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