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Nick Carter: The Witness Saw Nothing (EP1356) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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the triumph of right and justice over the sinister forces of crime and lawlessness.
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Nick Carter Master Detective Today's exciting adventure the life and death search for a man
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who didn't see a murder that was not yet discovered. The witness saw nothing.
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Jefferson Heights is a suburb of the city that's still half country. Only
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a few houses are sprinkled over the winding roads, and Lundee Lane is the
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lonesomest of all. There is a small white cottage at the end of Lundy
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Lane, and in it Missus Peter Grogan, a small, white haired lady
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is entertaining her first visitor in many days. Another cup of tea, Missus
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Dennis. No, no, I thank you kindly, Missus Grogan. Another
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crumpet? Maybe, no, thank you? I had five already that had
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sex, Missus Dennis. But then who counts, Missus Dennis. Would you
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believe you're the first visitor I had in two weeks and three days, but
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not the last, Missus Dennis. No, indeed, time was when the
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trip out to Lunde Lane was too much proble, isn't now a Missus Dennis.
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I don't know to what you're referring, Missus brow O. Why's the
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story in the newspaper yesterday about me? They called me lady miser of Londe
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Lane, all about how I don't trust that, and how I have fifty
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thousand dollars hidden in puts and hands and other similar places around the house.
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If you think for one moment I believe that story, Missus Grogan, them
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the reads, it will just like you, Missus Dennis, they'll I'll be
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visiting me now. Why, Missus Grogan, I never so much as thought
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of your money, And there ain't a word of it true, Missus Dennis.
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I made it all up there's only a trick of mine to relieve the
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loneness. Ah sure, I got that child of looking at the four walls
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with never a new face. Now there'll be plenty of faces coming to visitor.
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Missus Grogan, the lady miser of Lunde Lane. Well, lie never,
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I'm taking myself out of his house now, Missus Dennis, Oh sure
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you do not begrut. You're own reading your friends to believe you were rich,
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and all the time it's a lie. You will not be seen,
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you get, Missus Grogan. I assure you and them that do visit will
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be nothing better than no fortunate. I wish you well of them, Missus
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Grogan, goodbye. No, I wonder how many others saw the story in
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the paper. They'll all be coming sooner or later, I don't know.
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Nervous Wilson, just make like we're a couple of businessmen with a little proposition.
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Yeah, I get it. Look okay, case ring the bell,
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Yes, afternoon, ma'am. Could we speak to missus Grogan. You've got
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your wish, young man. Ss Grogan, Me and my friend got a
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little business proposition we want to talk over with you. Could we come in?
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Yes, sisters are always welcome. Young men, Come in, Come
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in. Yes, you're having a cup of tea when we talk business,
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eh, no doubt disregarding the money of mine. Your head about in the
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newspaper, Yes, ma'am, it's about the dough. But we can't stay
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for tea. Quick, Wilson, get up, Nice work, Wilson.
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You got that wire in your pocket? Yeah, gotta tied up. Stick
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a gag in the mouth. I'll start looking for the dough. Should it
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take us more in ten minutes to locate it and get out of here?
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Yeah? Ten minutes, he says, ten minutes. Cash. We've been
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looking through his place, behav and now I know the door ain't here.
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It's gotta be here, talking about it when we came in. Well,
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no it's here. We can't find it. This is no good cash,
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But waste no time. Come on back to the living room. We already
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been through it four times. You know this time we're gonna ask missus Grogan
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to find the dough for us. You ought to come to by now,
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Yeah, arise, are open, give me a sap. Listen, Missus
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Grogan, my friend's gonna take the gag out of your mouth. You see
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this sap in my hand. It's a leather bag full of steel. Shut
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you try to yell. You got slug in the head with it. Got
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that? Take the gag out, Wilson. Now, key, what do
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you want? Do you want the dough? Missus Grogan? The fifty grand
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you got statched away in this house? Where is it? I don't give
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me that. I've been lied to buy experts. Where's the dough? Where
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you got it? Hit? I tell you, I haven't any money.
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It's all a mistake. It's you. You're crazy. There isn't any money
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there. It's just a news. It's all a joke your video shop.
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And I will keep you quiet for an hour. You still it too hard?
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I did get killed it Yeah she's dead, ain't she? Well?
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She must have been pretty feeble at that little tap. I gave her croupter
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door. But again, what do we do? Keep quiet? Whoever it
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is will go away? Yeah, but maybe whoever sit the door heard her
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yelling. Look, I don't want to get caught. And he would that
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court such a mouth and keep quiet? Oh grogn you home? Didn't shut
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the door? You're dope? What do we do cas that guy might come
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in here? You went home. I'll take care of this. Stay back
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here, Wilson, I'm coming. Who is it, Ajax vacuum Planer salesman?
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Are you right? Well? You ah, I presume the lady of
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the house and no, I'm sorry, mister Well, I'm Albert Higgins,
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salesman for the Ajax's vacuum cleaner. Oh, here's my cards. We are
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conducting a door door demonstration campaign to acquit the public with our sensational new post
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war vacuum cleaner. Now, me and mister Higgins, I'm just a little
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busy right now. I wonder if you'd come back tomorrow at the same time
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my wife would be glad to see your machine. Why, certainly, mister
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Grogan, tomorrow at say four o'clock U five. Yeah, but he saw
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your kids. You get a good look at your face. Yeah, I
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never thought of that, Okay, Wilson. After we finished low Kate and
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the dough in this house, we'll spend tomorrow locate and mister Rowbert Higgins.
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He ain't gonna sell many more vacuum cleaners. The bullock removed in the room
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of the two fifty five forty five automatic slug of the type known as oh,
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except breaking here for Oh, it's hard, right, there's nothing to
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be afraid, Patty. I want you to be at mister Albert Higgins and
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his sister Barbara. This here's a serious problem. You got to pay your
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brains too, But we've got too much work to them. Just a couple
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of minutes, Dick, you please, all right, please to al miss
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Higgins, you too, mister Higgins, thank you. Now. What's the
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problem. Alberts haunted? What he is, mister Carton, Barbara, this
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is ridicul He's hanted, nick haunted paid deaths. I heard him arguing about
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it out in this chase, and I brought him in. Car. I
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think my sister's crazy. I don't want to bother you with all right,
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now, wait a minute. I started the beginning. Albert was almost killed
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three times today, But Barbara, they were natural accidents. They could happen
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to anyone. Who should tell me the whole story, mister Higgins, Oh,
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mister Corner, I was nearly killed three times today. Once in the
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morning, I was jostled on the subway platform and almost thrown in front of
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the true A second time, as I left my office at noon, I
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was standing at the curb waiting for the light to change, somebody pumped into
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me and almost knocked me in front of a passing call truck. And the
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third time, after lunch, when I was crossing the street, I was
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almost run over by a cab. That's all. And I say that three
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accidents like that are impossible in one day. Mister Carter, Why should anyone
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want to kill you? There isn't any reason for anyone to murder me.
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I haven't got any enemies. I lead a calm, peaceful life selling vacuum
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cleaners. It's just that barber's got too much imagination, she may bee.
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Did you notice anything funny about those accidents? Oh, not a thing.
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Subway platform was crowded. It could happen to anyone. The cab driver was
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just as scared as I was. Did he stop or he just kept on
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driving? To look at him? He was just an ordinary hackey gray hat,
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great cold, great cap, nor gray hat felt hat. H very
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interesting. Oh, mister Cotton. Now that we've bothered you enough for the
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day, I'll be going. I've got an appointment at four o'clock. Higgins,
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know what happened? Your sister was right. These weren't accidents. They
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were attempted murders. But why, for pet's sake? Why? I don't
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know. May you've got enemies you don't know about. Maybe you saw something
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you shouldn't have seen. Maybe you heard something. Why were you yesterday?
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I was making the rounds up in Jefferson Hives. I sell vacuum cleanness.
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He can't bet he saw something in Jefferson Heights. The only thing I saw
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was custom. All right, we won't argue about that now, Higgins.
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I want you to go home. Your sister you'll go with you. So,
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Wodo Wallow, you're the bodyguard. Why do I always get the dull
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jobs? You brought this case in? You work on it god, Higgins.
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But mister Catt Higgins, you must know something that someone doesn't want you
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to tell. That something may cost you your life unless I can prevent it.
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So go home and try to remember what it is. I'm going down
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the headquarters to see if I can find anything that might help your memory.
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Oh hello, Maddie, Oh hi, Nick's up. Tell me, Maddie,
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what's the news from Jefferson Heights? Why are you interested in Jefferson Heights?
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Right off the crime sheet first, then I'll explain. Okay, you
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want yesterday's reports, sir, Yes, let me see in Wood, Washington
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Heights, Harlem, Astoria have been pretty quiet all around. Nope, nothing
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for Jefferson Heights. Nothing, no tough. What makes what tough? Maddy.
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I'm involved in a peculiar case. The young man named Albert Higgins was
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up in Jefferson Heights yesterday. He must have seen or heard something he wasn't
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opposed to. Someone's trying to kill him. Yeah, who don't know.
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It's kind of a reverse murder, Eddie. I know the intended victim in
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advance, but I don't know the killer or the motivation. I hope maybe
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I could get a lead through the crime sheet. No crime in Jefferson,
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no crime reported from Jefferson. Beat it, Nick, if you think that
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aside, Sergeant Mathieson, Yeah, just a minute, it's for you,
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Nick, Buffalo Bill on the phone. Thanks, Yes, Well, you
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gotta come over to Higgins great right away. Why Albert Higgins is gone,
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He's disappeared. I tell you it happened like a thunderbolt, and like like,
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oh, I don't know how it happened. All right, all right,
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take it easy. Now, let's have the story. We took a
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cab home, mister Carter. Albert was pretty angry, but mister McGlynn here
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insisted he follow your orders. That I did, Nick boy. From when
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we got out of the taxi and started up to the apartment. Albert said
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he wanted to get some cigarettes, so you let him go alone. Uh,
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well he was this is the corner, Nickie. Yes, yes,
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I know you wouldn't Miss Higgins started up the stairs to this apartment. You
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didn't realize anything was wrong until you got up here. Albert wasn't following,
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so you ran back to the corner store right right, Nick, and he
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was gone. Did you ask the store man what happened to him? There
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wasn't a hole in the store, No one in the store. Let me
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have that phone. Oh oh, you've been pretty stupid, but Nick,
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how many stores have you ever seen with no one in them in the middle
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of the day, Nick, Patsy, Nick, get this and get it
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fast. Call the Ajax vacuum cleaner company. Tell them you must have a
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record of the calls Albert Higgins made yesterday. Who was a daughter door salesman.
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You must have filed a list of those calls. This morning. Right,
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I'll call you back in ten minutes. Let's get moving, Walda.
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We're going down to that store. But you need to realize Higgins has probably
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been hijacked by the men have been trying to kill him. We want to
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keep him alive. We've got to do it in minutes. Yeah, you
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see, Nick, this place is empty. I never thought to look in
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the back of the store. I did, so help me. There's not
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a holly all right, I'll take your word for it. How about behind
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the soda fartain behind? Yes, behind, Take a look, Dick,
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there's a body here. Yes, it's not cold, bruise his ear,
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nothing was come him up. Now listen to me, please, I'm Nick
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Carter. I can't take the time to be gentle with you because a man's
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life may depend on minutes. What a man was kidnapped from this store by
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someone who came in and slugged you. Did you see who it was?
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No? Backwards turned eyes. Saw that's too bad. Wait a minute,
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ook, here at the floor water You mean them beabies? They're not babies.
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That chills steel shot alls with a penny of the killers, bought the
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shot and fixed up a homemade blackjack and use that to knock this man cold.
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See that's right, Nikki, it must have broken open. I want
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to pick up some of that shot. Go down the wholesale munitions Districk and
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Fulton Street. Take that shot to every manufacturer, find out who made it
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into what retail stores it were sold. Nick, you're turning me into an
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errand by me, you find surgical instault that we're fighting for a man's life
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with no ammunition for our guns. We don't know who wants to kill him
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or why the smallest clothe may turn the balance. Ill got moving a right?
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I see? Oh oh my head. Now look my friend want to
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make a phone call and I'll have to leave you and I'll send a policeman
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into you on my way up. Nick Cardig's office, Patsy, Nick,
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what about that report? Oh Higgins made eleven calls yesterday in the Giffison Heights
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suburbs. Read them off backwards. Last calls. First, missus John Ankers
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the Bolton Road demonstrated vacuum cleaner from four thirty to five ps. Right.
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Next, this is Peter Broke in London Lane, not at home. Her
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husband made appointment for her for following day and fourth that must have been the
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date you wanted to keep to day next mister Ally, wait wait, hold,
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hold, was that Missus Peter Grogan thought the name was familiar. That's
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the old lady who was written up in the paper two days ago. That's
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right, Nick, the lady Miniger Blondie Lane. You say her husband talked
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to Higgins. That's what the report said. Something fishy right there, Patsy,
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I'm going up to missus Grogan's house. Stand by for a report from
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Waldock. Missus Grogan is a widow. There isn't any husband, m nothing,
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newspapers not wasting any time getting inside. So homicide Sergeant mathieson, Maddy,
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this is Nick. You better hustle up to Lundy Lane and Jefferson Heights
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Homer, Missus Peter Grogan, what I found that unreported Jefferson Heights crime.
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It's murder, Nick. I swear I'll never doubt your word again, even
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if you tell me I'm a murderer. This is fantastic, one of the
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nastiest roughness murders I've seen in a long time. Yeah, some cheap gins
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al must have read about missus Grogan's dough and try to grab it and slug
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it to death in the process. Look, Nick, where does Higgins committed
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the picture? Maddy? I figured it this way. Higgins came to the
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house while the killer was here. Yeah, in some way there he got
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in. I get it. The killer thought fast and played he was mister
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Grogan. He gave Higgins the brush off right, and then the killer was
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afraid Higgins might be able to identify him, so he tried to murder him.
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Yeah, it probably has by this time, Oh, Mary, I
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don't think so. Oh why not? Because if he'd wanted to kill Higgins,
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he wouldn't have kidnapped him. Why the kidnapped him? Killer was probably
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following him all day, so we must have seen Waldo bring him to my
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office. I get it, Nick. The killer wants to know how much
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you know. He's got Higgins someplace, and he's trying to sweat it out
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of me. And sooner or later, the killer is going to get tired
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of asking questions that Higgins don't know how to answer it, so he'll knock
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him off. Right. Have an idea how we can gain a little more
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time in the meanwhile, get your department working on that wire that was used
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to tie up missus Grogan sef you can trace it right, Nick, I'll
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meet you down at headquarters in the stolen car department in one hour. For
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Heaven's sake, how are you gonna keep me you're like this until you're ready
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to talk? Higgins got a right to treat me like this, keep me
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blindfolded, tied up, beating m Now? What did you tell Carter about
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the murder? What? Murder? I don't know anything about. I told
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you not to hand me that line of guff anymore. Higgins. You know
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plenty you're told Carter. I want to know what you're told. I swear
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I never told them anything. How could I don't know what. I'm getting
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a little tired of smacking you around, Higgins. You better spill it.
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What did you tell Carter? So now you're playing dumb? Huh? Okay,
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Higgins, I guess maybe I'm finished asking questions. Maybe i'd better fix
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it so you can play dumb forever? Is that you wasn't quit? Okay?
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I don't know what's the matter with you? Yeah, take a gand
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with these headlines tonight, Lady miser of Lundy Lane. Now, but Higgins
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key witness to murder disappears. Yeah, and he's gonna disappear for good.
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I made up my mind. We bump him, Wilson. We don't take
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chances. Oh no, you don't understand, Cash read the rest. In
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an interview today, Nick Carter revealed that Albert Higgins had identified the murderers George
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Spelvin's small time crooking racketeer. A police dragon has been set for Spelvin and
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also for his accuser. So that's what he told Carter. You see,
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we're in the clear. Cash. They can't put the finger on us.
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They're looking for the Spelvin character. Yeah. Yeah, Maybe you're right,
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Wilson. Maybe we better not not go off Higgins. Cash. Maybe if
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we bump him, we'll be killing our alibi. Let's just sit tight and
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see what happens. I'm doing that wire trace matting. Well, that's a
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good not so bad. Here's a list of twenty one retailers that sell the
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kind of wire used on This is Rubby. Thanks, Waldo. Finished the
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trace on the steel shot, Nick, He's got it right here, Nick,
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seventeen stores all that type of shot. Thanks. And I've got the
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list of the fourteen cars reported stolen for today. What stolen cars got to
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do with Higgins. It was almost killed by taxi Matty, and I know
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that taxi was stolen by the killer that was after him. I'm going to
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read this list of stolen cars out loud. I mentioned any neighborhood that's on
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any of the other lists. Let me hear it. You ready, Yeah?
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Go ahead. Checker cab stolen from corner of seventieth and Broadway. Uh
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Packered cab stolen from Bayon Park district. Checker cab stolen from Nelson Square district.
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I've got Nelson Square here, Nick, Yeah, I got one,
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Nick right here. Galvanized iron wire, two reels sold the Handley's Hardware Store,
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Nelson Square. Ten pounds number seven steal shot so to Adam's Sporting goes
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Nelson Square. Cab stolen from Nelson Square. Shot bought at Nelson Square.
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Why are the don missus Grogan from Nelson Square? Mattery. I think we've
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got our first break in this case. Gosh, Nick, you're right,
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the connections are too obvious to miss. Killers evidently using Nelson Square as a
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base of operations. Let's get up there fast. I think that's where we'll
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find Albert Higgins. I want to hope you find them alive. Hell,
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this is Nelson Square, Nick, no one. Let's see about twelve small
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apartment houses on the square, say about ten apartments in each, making one
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hundred and twenty. I figure the killer is hiding out in one of them,
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and he's got Higgins there. Okay, the question is which I don't
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know. We'll have to cover everyone. I hope we have enough time.
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But look how you're going to know it's the killer when you see him,
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Nick, I'm going to make them give him off away with Waldo's help.
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Oh what do I do? Nick? Take this business card? It's one
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of Higgins. Uh huh. I better go from door to door as Albert
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Higgins, vacuum planer sealsman. Ah, I get you, Nick. When
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he hits the killer, the crook will be so surprised he'll give himself away,
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right, especially in view of the fact that he's probably seen Walda already.
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Anybody. I'm ready, Nick, But I prefer action now. My
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old fudd is the forty four you sell vacuum cleaners. Leave the action to
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us. Hey, good evening, said Hey, Albert Higgins in the AHX
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vacuum cleaner company, he's the lady of the house in Fayer, Mass Okay
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A ninety nine wrong numbers, beginning to get this courage. Yeah, good
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heaven madam. Hey, Albert Higgins in the age X Vacuum Cleaner Company.
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My card back? Really that makes a hundred? Didn't and it must be
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crazy? But all right is his order? Yeahs next, good heavens.
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He is the lady of the house and I'm Albert Higgins of the age X
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Vacuum Cleaner Company. You're not saying it was me cards? All right,
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Albert Higgins of the age Ex Vacuum your card is like, Man, I've
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seen that muggy. You'rs not realist, right, Rod Wilson, this is
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a planet you had inside yo before the right blast drop that gun. You're
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coming on both size, mister reach fast, no tricks, step aside and
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we'll come in. I think I know this jef on Maddy. His name's
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Cash Hagen. Yeah, that's Wally Wilson inside a fine pair of thugs.
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Hey, you got nothing on us, Cutter, here's an invasion of privacy.
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If you ain't got a search warrant, did you bring a search warrant?
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Patsy No, Nick how unfortunate. And that means we'll have to find
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Albert Higgins here to justify this illegal injury. Where is a cash? Never
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heard of Albert Higgins in the bedroom, Maddy, nowhere in sight? Dick
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must be the kitchen, a bath, how about it? Waldo is not
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here? Nick? You killers murdered Higgins An Wilson. Never heard of this
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guy. He's got to be someplace and here. Hey, look, Nick,
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they might have bumped him morph and got rid of him already. I
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hate to believe it, Maddy. We'll never have a case against these mugs.
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If they did, they must have got rid of Nick. There's nobody
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else here in the apartment be stimied like this at the last. Nick,
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there is something wrong with his living room, now, Patsy, we'll look
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at it. It's lopsided. There's more wall on one side of the window
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and on the others, and there's more floor showing on one side of the
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rugman on the other. I's see, this is no time for interior declaration.
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Even the chandeliers off center. I'd say, wait a minute, wait
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a minute, that he's right, huh. Come over to the wall.
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Quit listen here. If you've got to wait a minute. This bookcase is
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high enough to conceal the door. Help me swing it away from the wall.
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Wald, All right, By heavens, you are right, Nick.
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It is a door in a false plaster wall, making a partition just big
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enough to conceal a man. Didn't tell it conor anything. I didn't tell
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him, all right, Higgins on the right, Take it easy. You
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don't have to lie anymore. You told Nick Carter play enough to execute Cash
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Hagen and Wally Wilson for murder. Nick, there's just one thing about this
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case that I don't understand. What's that I told the story about those so
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called accidents. How did you know they were attempted murders? Oh? That
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well? Remember, Higgins said, the cab driver looked like an ordinary hackey,
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Uh huh, in gray hat and gray coat. When I said gray
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cap, Albert said, no, gray hat, a felt hat. That
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was a tip off, how because no genuine cab driver wears a hat.
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All cab drivers in this city are required by law to wear caps, So
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obviously the driver was a pony. Well, you certainly put the lid on
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those thugs with that felt hat, mister Carter, I take my hat off
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to you. And now here's Nick Carter himself with an extra special announcement of
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interest to every one of you. This is the last time that the Adventures
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of Nick Carter will be brought to you on Sunday. Beginning Tuesday, March
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fifth, this program will be heard over most of these stations at eight o'clock
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in the evening, So put this down in your little black book. Starting
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on March fifth, that's one week from day after tomorrow, the Adventures of
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Nick Carter, Master Detective will be heard every Tuesday evening at eight o'clock.
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So be with us at that time and tell your friends about the change too,
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won't you. Now, Nick, can you tell us something about next
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week's story? Well? Can? Next week? I'm going to tell you
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about a brand new postwar racket that's robbing Americans of thousands of dollars and driving
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hundreds of Europeans to death. Nick found out about it when my janitor went
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to check at grocery order and disappeared. He was found murdered with his shoes
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full of rice. What's rice got to do with murder and racketeering? You
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will find out when you hear the case of the wholesale killer Nick Carter Master
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Detective, which is produced and directed by Jack McGregor, is copyrighted by Street
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and Smith Publications. In in corporated Ln Clark is starred as Nick. Charlotte
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31:07
Humphrey Davis. Original music is played by George Wright. Script is by Alfred
31:12
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purely coincidental. This is Ken Powell saying so long until Tuesday evening, March
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fifth, at eight pm Eastern Standard Time. This is the mutual broadcasting system
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Welcome back Well. One of the classic mistakes of murderers in the classic murder
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mystery is going after people who didn't know what they saw in the first place,
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And this episode illustrates that there were three lost episodes between last week's show
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Oh and this week's Those were the Corps Were Medals, The Case of the
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Blue Paper Hearts, and the Case of the Uninvited Client. This actually brought
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to an end the sponsored episodes of Nick Carter for Linux, and the series
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would return on March the fifth as a sustained program, and we will play
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one of those episodes, which actually revisits one of the best early Nick Carter
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episodes. But that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow
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with yours truly Johnny Doller, and next Thursday, be sure and join us
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