 New post-war old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt presents Nick Carter famous for chasing crime Every week at this time two great names are joined as new post-war old Dutch cleanser brings you one of the most Responsible and daring characters in all detective fiction Nick Carter master detective All the doors and windows, but don't you think we ought to check them just in case you're right Patsy I'm going to check them right now. Of course. I don't really believe this Indian But too late Yes, Patsy with a red arrow in her heart Now the case of the red arrow today's adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter Brought to you by new post-war old Dutch cleanser as Miss Harriet Hartwell removes the hairpin from her iron gray hair before going to bed It's a stern determined face that looks back at her from the mirror The face of a woman not easily frightened even by a sound heard often during the past few weeks in the historical Hartwell mansion Not again Where's that gun? Oh, yes, Abby says she saw him again here Gerald take the gun and look around He's come again Nevermind Lisa go back to bed I told you not to blow up that grave He'll keep coming back until one go back to bed Lisa unless you want me to look for a new housekeeper in the morning I'm going but remember I Want you now Abby you stop that blubbering right now Oh Let a dead Indian run me out of my own house. I should say now perhaps you only imagine You can't fight a ghost. Oh, can't I huh? Well, I'm going to make this particular ghost wish he'd never been born Oh For sure no miss Hartwell chasing ghost isn't exactly my line. Yeah, and it's a maybe would be interesting for a change Well, maybe you have something there Patrick. Tell me about the ghost anyway, miss Hartwell Well, the old Hartwell place is about 50 miles up the river I see and when my great-great-grandfather general absent the Hartwells built it back in 1815 The Indians around that section were pretty riled about it. Why well because they had a burial ground on the And they considered it sacred soil. I see now among the graves was that of red arrow one of their greatest chief Ah, and the Indians warned that his spirit would come back to avenge the insult and did it Well, something did because one morning the general was found dead in his bedroom with a red arrow in his heart I suppose the ghost has been appearing ever since. Well, no Not until I moved in three months ago You see for the past 30 years no one has lived in the house, but Lisa made the caretaker now She's my housekeeper, but I wonder why the big chief is on the warpath again after all these years Well, according to Lisa when I put in my rose garden. I accidentally had his grave plowed up Did you ever see the ghost yourself miss Hartwell? Well, yes one time But when I threw a brass inkwell at him ran into my bedroom and disappeared what happened there Well, I went right in after him But there was nobody there and all the doors and windows were locked but both your housekeeper miss Abby have seen it several times Is that right? Yes, we've all seen it except Gerald Gerald. That's the nephew who is visiting you last night Yes, he usually comes out the weekends that Gerald is the only close relative I have and he knows he'll get my money someday So he tried to keep on the good side of me miss Abby the relative too isn't she's a second cousin twice removed Both she and Gerald know I'm not leaving her much What do you think a private investigator can do against the ghost ghost my foot Someone's deliberately trying to frighten me and I want to know who it is and why they're doing it Well, I'll tell you what perhaps you know, I'll drive up there tonight stay a few days Good, but please don't tell the others who I am whatever you say, mr. Carter from now on It's a professor Carter miss Hartwell. I'm a scholar who's interested in psychic manifestations. Okay, very well a professor This is going to be interesting. Yes, that's it. But not only for us with a little luck I think we can make it plenty interesting for mr. Ghost Yes, there is definitely an aura about this house conducive to psychic phenomena Wouldn't you say so miss bone absolutely professor? Well It's 11 o'clock. I think I'll turn in. Yes. It's time. We all went to bed. Oh, did you take the dog out Abby? Oh, yeah Hannibal and I had a lovely walk in the garden. Did Lisa show you your room miss Bowen? Yes, thank you at the head of the stairs. Oh, your room is on the ground floor professor Carter I thought she'd prefer that. Well, that's very thoughtful of you Did I tell you that the ghost has never been seen upstairs? I know how very interesting Yes, that's why nobody but Aunt Harriet will sleep down here Well night all I'm going up to I don't like to walk through the hall alone Not after last night or mr. Nesbitt. Yes, you say that every time the ghost has appeared You made an immediate search and found all the doors and windows locked on the inside. Yes every time I Happen to be here on each case That's what I was thinking well good night good night and Good luck with your goat chasing. Good night Good night Miss Abby I think I'll retire too. Is there anything you need mr. Professor Carter. No, thank you miss. I will that's you and I'll see you for a while and watch for our friend the red skin Well, I just hope you catch him Good night Well Carter tells us But the fact that the ghost always appears on this floor and everybody but miss Harriet sleeps upstairs as a help Yes, you just told me to keep an eye on the front stairway and they aren't in the back stairs That's what I mean. They're all penned in even miss Harriet herself There's only one door to her room and I can see that from here. Oh, what do you think of her in this? Harriet oh, she's a great old girl. I'd hate to be that ghost. What's he get is it the way? I feel I Didn't see you come in. No you and the professor was talking Will you be wondering anything else before I go up to bed? No, thank you leader. Did you lock up? Yes, I tested every door and window not that it will do any good against him You've lived here a long time haven't you? Most of it all alone in this house just like it was my own and there wasn't never no trouble with him Till she moved him. You mean miss Harriet? I do Moving the furniture around things that ain't been changed in a hundred years Flowing up the burial ground. Yes, and everybody's like as if she was a queen. Don't you feel that way? Why don't you quit me leave this house? I got more right here than she has and I'll be here After she is gone. What makes you think miss Harriet will go leave her go chief red arrow will take care of that You mean the way he took care of old general Hartwell That ain't for me to say I'm going up now Good night Is a pleasant person to have around Wonder how far she'd go to get miss Harriet out of it. That's what I was thinking You know that this place must be worth a lot of money no collection of Indian relics alone or the finest I ever saw and if you see those things upstairs helmet suits of armor crossbows antique guns I mean the European collection. Uh-huh. Yeah, miss Harriet said they belong to her grandfather Most of them are museum pieces. I've been thinking something. It's not to change the subject Well, Lisa said she locked all the doors and windows. Oh, don't worry. I'm going to check them myself Oh No, it was your Aunt Harriet Harriet isn't the fainting type Yes, it was miss Abby the door's locked stand back. Let's see how to break it in You haven't anything to say about it Lisa Get her up my back With a red arrow to her heart a Red arrow symbol of the long dead Indian chief protrudes from the chest of the woman who dug up his grave a woman Who was alone in a room with every door and window shot. We'll see what happens in just a moment Now back to the case of the red arrow today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old Dutch Only a moment has passed since Nick broke into the locked bedroom to find miss Harriet lying on the floor with a red arrow in her heart There's only one door to this room and the killer didn't come in or leave that way. I've been watching that And the killer must still be in the room What's this door that's a closet? Nothing here, but a few dresses Walk through the wall you want to believe that Lisa go ahead, but I don't take any stock and go it not yet Anyway, really put that the car that's an odd remark for a man who says he's interested in psychic phenomena I'm a private investigator That's right miss Abby nothing must be touched until the police arrived. Well, you phone them. That's a question I You should have known those with the wrong tactics to use on Aunt Harriet this heavy No ghost did this leader and no human being could have gone out and locked the windows after him on the inside So it's someone who's in this house right now Why you don't mean one of us that's exactly what I mean And I'm making it my business to find out which one of you it is I Expect to find a secret panel in the wall must cut it But be sure they don't sound pretty solid You don't find those things in real life not nowadays miss Rowan, but this house is a hundred and thirty-three years old And serves my patty It doesn't seem to be any panel in these walls. You know Miss Carter Maybe what we ought to look for first is Yeah, well first there's Lisa. He's certainly resented Miss Harriet's being here. They all had more than that Except me even she might have hated this area couldn't have been too easy living here as a poor relation No, but you could always leave if you wanted to hear how about money miss Harriet was rich and miss Abby He thought she'd be the air. No sir miss Abby knew that practically all the money goes to the nephew Gerald Yes, yeah, and Gerald Nez bit is the only person in the house who never saw the ghost Even though he says he just happened to be here every time it showed up that does look suspicious. Yeah, but just now I'm interested in this arrow. Yeah Looks looks like a home-made job No stone-air ahead tied under new sheriff taped on sheriff and very neatly too I've seen that sort of tape before Nick press makers use it. You can get it at any dime store I know Patsy, but it's the way the tape is wound on that interest me. What a very distinctive design Yes Yes, miss Abby There they are miss Abby on the table. Oh, thank you. Mr. Carter. You don't really think it's one of us I'm afraid I do miss Abby, but we were all upstairs Miss Carter was trying to find a secret passage way in walls But didn't get nowhere. Oh, I'm sure that Here miss Abby You said you saw something Where Yes Maybe this is what we're looking for sure who are they mean Nick the walls in the room were solid but That sounds hollow there's some clothes hooks on the back of the closet wall. Maybe we pull one of them Not this one either A hidden stairway going upstairs so that's how the killer get in and out. Let's see what goes up to There's a narrow What's that? What's that play in the step a blacker an Indian headdress with fair White Patsy, let's go on up. Yeah No wonder we didn't see anybody using the front stairs. There's another door at the top. Yeah, who was it leader? There they were in another closet. Yeah, let me push these clothes out of the way and we'll go into the room These are men's clothes Well, do you want to know sonny boy? What do you mean? Well, you come up here. Wait There's but you were the first one to come upstairs just before the murder. Did you come directly to this room? Yes, why did anybody else come through here? No, of course. Oh, that does it young fella. You're under arrest for the murder of your aunt I Blamed if I know why you wanted me to come back out here this morning Nick Want to take a look at the outside of the house sure Now these are the windows to miss Harriet's room. Yes, what lethers room is on the other side of the house the back His abbey's windows are directly above here That's Nesbitt's room above and to the right. Well with differences to make we know he did it We got him safe in the county jail. Yeah, it won't hurt him to stay there for a day or two It'll throw the real killer off time that Nick Nesbitt's the killer Those hidden stairs are the only way into Miss Harriet's room. Yeah, that's right And nobody but Nesbitt could have used them at that time he admitted it right again So the arrow must have been shot from outside the house Locked windows not necessarily here look at this tree sheriff It's right in front of Miss Harriet's window not six feet away from them Well, if you think one of the women climbed on that trip much better crazy. That isn't what I'm driving out here Take a look at these marks on the inside of the place where forks about five feet from the ground That's funny Tree forks three ways And something's been pressed into the bark inside and forth. Yeah Something's been wedged firmly between those three forks and recently Jeff did you ever see a crossbow? A medieval weapon with a stock like a shotgun and a bow mounted crosswise on the front end Oh sure more powerful than an ordinary bow and it can be aimed more accurately. Well, yeah There's one in the collection upstairs after it's caught. You pulled a trigger to shoot the air. That's the weapon I mean Crossbow was wedged in the fork of this tree pointing into this hairy truth I wouldn't be surprised But easily be pulled loose from the tree forks and hauled into an upstairs window with a strong cord And a cord around the trigger could pull the trigger by remote control Well, maybe so but still couldn't shoot through clothes and locked window without breaking it You can't get away from that me. Maybe not sure but I'm doing my best What are you doing around out here cause I asked you the same question leave her isn't the time you were getting dinner I'm doing the washing Miss Abby always tends to the cooking on wash day. I see that girl You're brung with your health for her if you're interested looking for something we think I'm looking for my clothes But that's what somebody moved it. Wait a minute Close problem. That's a pole about seven feet long. Isn't it? Well, yeah used to prop up the clothes line and hold the clothes off the ground Here it is. Now how in the name of common sense did it get around here in the tall grass? Yeah, let me see that I've got the one that threw it out here. Never mind, letha. I'll catch that person for you. Come on sheriff. I've got the answer now If you have another big knife Miss Abby, I'll help you shred that cabbage I'm almost through Miss Bowie, but if you'd like to take a look at the soup I better get a long spoon to stir it with There's one in the drawer of the cabinet over there Thanks This one that's been mended? Yes, the handle came loose and I put some tape around it I am very good at fixing things Well, that's the same kind of tape that was used to make the arrow that What did you say? Well, the way this tape is wound around the spoon handle, that complicated way That's the same as what was on that arrow I wish you hadn't noticed that Miss Bowie Was you? You Miss Abby Yes Miss Bowie, it was I But you had no reason to kill her No reason? How would you like to be a poor relation? Always taking orders, watching her by the best of everything And having to get along with nothing yourself I made up my mind that I was going to have nice things too What? You killed her for the money? But surely you know that practically everything goes to Gerald Not if he's convicted of killing her, it doesn't The Lord doesn't let the murderer profit by his crime And I'm the only other relative Harriet had I'll get it all Maybe you would have, but now You won't tell on me Miss Bowie You won't ever tell Miss Abby, put down that knife Miss Abby, please Trapped in a corner of the old fashioned kitchen Patsy has no chance to get past Miss Abby As the old lady advances with a heavy knife in her hand We'll see what happens in just a moment And now the conclusion of the case of the red arrow Today's adventure with Nick Carter Brought to you by new post-war old Dutch cleanser In the kitchen of the historic Hartwell mansion Patsy is alone with a murderer A murderer with a heavy knife in her hand Who advances slowly as she says You won't tell on me Miss Bowie You won't ever tell Put down that knife No Miss Abby, please No! No, I'll kill you I hurt yourself Miss Bowie Pull away like that Alright, I've got the knife Sheriff Hold on Miss Abby Yeah, I will Nick, she did it She killed Miss Harriet I know Patsy The Sheriff and I were just coming in to arrest her And she wanted Geraldine to blend That's why the ghost never appeared unless he was here No, it was you who prayed it round Dressed up like an old cheap red arrow Wasn't Miss Abby? Very well, I'll admit it Got the idea when Lisa warned Harriet That the chief's ghost would come back for revenge And when I discovered that secret stairway I knew just how it could be done Yes, that stairway to Gerald's room Made it appear that he was the only person Who could have shot Miss Harriet from inside the house When actually, you shot her from outside the window But how could you do that? A crossbow Patsy Wedged in the fork of a tree outside the window Fired by pulling a string tried to the trigger Then quickly pulled up into Miss Abby's own room But I don't see how it works The arrow was aimed at the center of Miss Harriet's window When Miss Harriet opened the window for the night The light inside the room threw her shadow On the tree trunk outside And that's when Miss Abby pulled the string What a setup Hey, what if we hadn't found that secret stairway though Then there wouldn't have been no evidence against Geraldine You almost didn't find it, you idiot What? Even after I put the blanket and headdress On the stairs for you to discover So I had to pretend I saw something there So you'd look closer Well, Miss Abby I got a nice cell waiting for you down in my jail Awful sorry There ain't no secret panel for you to monkey with I guess you won't make out somehow Hey guys, still don't see how Miss Abby managed to close that window After shooting Miss Harriet with that arrow It was easy Patsy What? She merely leaned out of her own window And pushed it shut with a clothes crop A clothes crop? Yeah, she took it upstairs early in the evening And when she was finished with it She threw it out into the yard But Miss Harriet's window was locked Yeah, but remember when we broke into the room Just after Miss Harriet was killed It was Miss Abby who rushed to the window To see whether it was locked What? You mean she locked it then? She did Well, I'll be darned And right in front of us Oh, it was a clever scheme all right But why were you so sure that Gerald Hadn't come down that hidden stairway And murdered his aunt? Because I knew Miss Abby was lying When she pretended to see someone in the closet How did you know? Because if anyone had come into the closet From the hidden stairway The secret door would have creaked so loudly That we couldn't have missed hearing it She must have planned that murder for months in advance I'm sure she did But she lost her head when she tried to kill you Since she couldn't cover that up It would have been a bad mistake Well, I'll say Not only for her, but for me Thanks for not letting her make it, mate You're quite welcome, Betsy I'd hate to have to break in a new assistant What? Why you? Can you tell us something about the adventure New post-war old Dutch cleanser Is going to bring us next week, Nick? Indeed I can, Mike Next week we're going to meet a brand new version Of an old horse and buggy racket It was so streamlined that it murdered three people And the only clue to the solution was the fact That a lot of people suddenly started wearing new glasses Well, that certainly sounds interesting What do you call the adventure, Nick? I call it The Case of the Failing Eyes Nick Carter, master detective Presented each week at this time By the Carnegie Packing Company Is produced and directed by Jacques McGregor And is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated Charlotte Manson is featured as Betsy Today's script was written by Jim Parsons Original music is played by Henry Silverne This program is fictional And any resemblance to actual persons Living or dead is purely coincidental This is Michael Fitzmorris saying When minutes count, use new Post-war old Dutch cleanser This is the Mutual Broadcasting System