 He tuned to this station for the latest news The Linux show starring Nick Carter master detective Presented by Acme America's great producer of fine quality paints This is the story of a man known the world over as one of the most daring and resourceful characters in the history of detective fiction a Man whose name has become a symbol of the triumph of right and justice Over the sinister forces of crime and lawlessness a man recognized as one of the great masters of deduction Nick Carter master detective Today's exciting case the sick statue another exciting chapter dramatized from the life story of Nick Carter In just a moment. We'll hear how Nick Carter investigated a strange plague called bronze disease that murdered two people and almost killed a third Who's the busiest homemaker? 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Nick Carter You are a famous detective and would not know me as I am only a housemaid Well, this writing is terrible, but I have heard you will always help people if they are in trouble So I am taking the liberty to ask you would you help me? Mr. Carter, there is bad trouble in the house where I work. Mr. Horace Allen's house on Park Avenue there is Plague in the house a bad sickness and I think we will all die The statue's got sick first, and I know we will get it next Please come and tell me what I should do In clothes, please find muddy order to pay for your trouble. Yours truly may be lead Oh, I really think this is touching Nick. Look here's the money order five whole dollars Generous fee considering miss leads probably earns only 20 a week Wish you hadn't sent it. Let's see that letter betsy here Horace Allen what that's the famous ex-meat packer, isn't it 1270 park? Very rich Yes Letter mail last night Written in a great deal of hurry notice the ink lots miss leads seems rather frightened. Oh, what's all this about plague? Now here's the key line Statues got sick first, and I know we will get it next statues got sick. But what's that mean? Think we better drive to 1270 park and find out right now Oh, can't wait a few minutes. Nick. We've got so much work to do here And well miss mazy leads trouble is probably a very vivid imagination forgotten. I've been paid a retainer fessy I'm now devoted to the interest of my client. Let's go see mazy Even if we have to go in through the servant's entrance Hmm, this is a pretty swank mansion for an ex-meat packer Nick Yes heard mr. Allen's turn to art and his retirement he collects Oh I wish he'd go back to meat packing for the duration. You can't eat statues and packers Very funny no one home should be servants in the house. I don't seem to be Oh nick, you're not going don't have to the door's been left to jar. Come on Oh nick This isn't right. I've got a feeder on fancy. Come on in Besides it's rather unusual for a collector of art to leave the house door open when there's no one home Well, there's the library. Let's go in Golly plenty of stuff here painting statues Nick look at those statues the bronze ones Yes, they're all greenish and crusted Like they've got some kind of skin disease those bronze spears too And this bronze chest Wonder how it looks inside. Maybe this Yes Looks as if the plague has killed our client as i'm very much mistaken. This body in the chest is that of mazy leads I've been through most of the house nick. There isn't a soul around What's happened anyway? I don't know yet learn anything from the body It's mazy leads. All right. I've got about 10 hours She must have been strangled and placed in this chest just after she mailed that letter to me Patsy, there's an odd thing about this murder Looks as if the killer had silver polish in his hands silver polish Yes, there's a kind of white powder on mazy's neck around the strangulation prints Smells like silver polish and nicky. You'd better notify the police. No, why not? Listen patsy Mazy leads paid me five dollars to take on her case I didn't get her soon enough to save her life, but I am going to get a killer This is a point of honor something sergeant mathison wouldn't understand What are you two doing here? Don't move either of you. I'd suggest you put that gun away. You might hurt someone answer my question What are you doing in here? Who are you? I'm nick carter. This is my secretary patsy bone nick carter. Yes Well, I'm peter craig horris allen's nephew. I was up on the top floor heard someone calling down here That was me. So I came down. What's the matter mr. Carter? Look in the bronze chest Good grief mazy All right craig. I want some quick answers from you. Why was the house empty when we arrived? Where's your uncle? Where are the servants? Well, there aren't any servants. They all quit yesterday except mazy here Uncle horris rushed down to the employment agency this morning. That's that's why i'm alone in the house I see If you didn't see mazy leads this morning. No, I Well, I generally stay in my rooms on the top floor Uncle horris just yelled up that he was going to the agency What agency the son agency on vanderbilt street one more question craig You know anything about bronze statues? No, who sold these to your uncle sent an arrow field English dealer at the plaza. All right You stay here try and locate your uncle on the phone and get him home We're hustling over to see arrow field. I want to find out what six statues have got to do with murder Believe me mr. Carter that man allen is an idiot a fool an artistic criminal I should never have sold rare pieces to an ex meat packer Go on antique bronzes are as delicate as tropical fruits unless they're cared for with delicacy and understanding they're sick and You mean statues can really become sick. Yes, and I Bronze disease is a corrosion that eats away the metal Brought sit until it crumbles No one knows how it starts. No one knows how to stop it Once it attacks a collection the infected pieces must be removed or the entire collection will die Garlic and bronze disease has attacked allen's collection You saw it, didn't you the green crumbling crust on the surface of the bronze End unless he removes the infected pieces. His collection is doomed. But why did you call him an artistic criminal? He has a half a million dollars worth of items there All the money in the world can't replace one of those pieces once it's lost Don't you understand? There's nothing more valuable than a work of art. Oh, yes, there is mr. Arrowfield A human life Ah here we are peppy the sun employment agency Doesn't look very busy. I'm sorry nothing available. We're looking for mr. Horace allen and not here It was here this morning here and gone can't supply him with anything. Why not sleeping quarters are impossible The nephew's a chemist or something Did you say the nephew's a chemist? Yes as a laboratory alongside the servants quarters terrible smells all day and all night Well chemist ought to know more about bronze disease than craig seemed to And see let's have a talk with that young man right now Here we are Nick do you think craig was lying don't know peppy perfectly possible I hope mr. allen's back by this time with somebody to answer the door At least craig ought to answer probably back upstairs in his laboratory Well nick just my little picklock that's it can't wait her all day one second. Hello anybody home Funny you told craig to stay here. Let's run up to the top floor but find them there walk Right, haven't you noticed allen has a neat little private elevator installed. Oh Step in call your floor, please First floor dining rooms smoking rooms lounge rooms Second floor bedrooms bedrooms and more bedrooms Third floor hot houses bedrooms and more bedrooms fourth and top floor servants quarters and Big look on the floor. It's craig. Yes fourth and top floor murder First a murdered housemaid then a murdered chemist How will nick explain them and solve the mystery of the six statues? 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What do you mean? Look here on the floor craig must have tried to write something in blood as he was dying. Yes says NHL NHL what's that Couldn't tell you yet. Nick. I've got it initials. He wrote the initials of the killer. Maybe Couldn't be allen or or arrow field or the sun agency Maybe it was one of the old servants. Hey, what's going on in this house? Where is everybody? What goes here nick? I think I hear you don't think you do here our old friend sergeant medicine Hey, anybody home craig allen. Hey, mr. allen. I Oh glory be i'm seeing things. Oh, we're real sergeant. Good afternoon matty nick carter and company I might have known what are you two? Hey, who's that on the floor peter craig murdered craig too. He's the guy that called me First the girl downstairs now him upstairs. What is this a massacre? I'll give you the facts matty No, no, no explanations first of your please mr. Carter. Here we go Now look I warned you a thousand times when you get mixed up in murder cases to notify homicide There's a law in this city. Don't you ever do anything but break the law? Yes. I solve matters You ought to know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I know but nick, please We've got laws to enforce make it as easy as you can for us to enforce them Matty i'm going to help you enforce one law today the law against first degree murder come on down to allen's laboratory So that's exactly where we stand in the case matty the murders are tied up some way with the bronze disease Yeah, I have an idea how but i'm not sure yet. Well, look, uh, what about the insurance angle? Maybe allen's trying to ruin his own statues to collect the dough Oh, no matty could get more by selling them. Well, maybe craig ruined the statues and allen killed him for revenge Maybe but I doubt it besides that leaves out mazy league. Oh, forget her. She's just an accident in this case She's not an accident in this case and she's not to be forgotten Matty you won't understand this but in this case i'm working for mazy leads. I'm not working for you or the police What's it? I'm working for justice Justice for mazy league. I think you're crazy. I see pass the auditorium Well, well, well, well, please to see you all here and a fine lot of people you seem to be I'm mr. Allen. Oh, yeah. Yes, indeed very easy man to wait for yes myself My nephew in the house big house few people not too difficult a I suppose the agency explains Mr. Allen, you're the housemaid a very pretty my dear very nice mr. Allen Your housemaid is miss patsy bow and my assistant. What I am nick car Nick car. I'm going to be blunt mr. Allen. No sense beating around the bush Your maid mazy leads was strangled to death Your nephew peter craig was stabbed to death. What? Oh Right Nick. Thank you. Uh, I'll be all right I didn't spare you because we're pressed for time mr. Allen. The killer may strike again. We've got to work fast Now, where were you all day at the employment agencies trying to hire servants a likely story. It's true I had to have them in the house today I have a very important guest coming arriving on the 630 train from washington says you You can get the list of agencies of mr. Allen to check the story later, matty Okay, I want to take one of your statues home with me one of the diseased one. I uh, I'm sorry I can't permit that mr. Carter my guest coming tonight, but you ought to remove the six statues anyway, mr. Allen Mr. Arafio said so what they'll infect everything I know I know but I can't my guest is a famous collector and wants to buy some of my pieces I've got to show him all of them. I see well in that case. We've got to work without your help Come on patsy. You'll be in my lab if anything breaks matty right. Oh by the way, mr. Allen What's the name of this famous collector who is visiting you tonight norman lane, uh, norman hadley lane Uh-oh patsy turn off the bunch and burn it with him, of course Nick I just realized what alan said. What's that patsy the man coming up on the 630 train from washington norman hadley lane mhl Founded a couple of museums a little file on him, but the letters nhl that is initials Oh nick you're not listening just finishing this analysis patsy Here See this precipitate. Yes, that's the Silver polish from mazy leads throat. Is it silver polish? No something that came from peter craig's lab I'll hand me that package. I brought the melons house Here I'll wrap this Nick you don't seem to care about the initials I'll bet lanes the killer. I bet he isn't even on the train. He's probably here already Huh, here we are Nick that's the spear that killed craig right, but that's stealing police evidence Oh golly. Sgt. Matheson's going to be sore Alan would let me have a sample of the disease bronze. We had to steal it Now let's cut a sliver of bronze off the tip of the spear And we'll take a look at it under the microscope now. You're destroying evidence. Oh nick. Nick. I don't like it not destroying I'm just ticking off the shaving Yeah Now let's see well Oh, what do you see germs? Yeah, unless you ever look You see This is a slice across the tip of the spear Now you see the outer portions those crystals all around the edges. Yes The malachite crystals shows the presence of the brown disease Now what do you see inside toward the core of the section? Just reddish metal exactly Immorphous bronze metal just pure uncrystallized bronze and that miss bone breaks the case wide open What what do you mean? Nick? I mean that oh, I'll get it Hello Nick Carter speaking. Who's this? Here's a tip for you, Mr. Nick Carter If you want to find who killed Peter Craig Watch the clerk from the son employment agency quick. Let's get a line on this gold tracer right uh freight I don't follow you the clerk from the son employment agency He'll find him at the hotel Brighton now. He'll tell you who killed Craig. Uh, just let me get that down will you? Hotel Brighton Well, what's that? I've talked long enough. You know what to do. Goodbye Oh, it's no use patchy. I couldn't hold him long enough You get any kind of a trace? No Sorry. Well, it doesn't matter get married on the phone Tell him we're booking him up and take him for a ride to the hotel Brighton Just tell him the killer will be at the other end of the ride All right, Nick never mind the misterio so stuff. Where are we going? Thought patsy told your marry to meet a murderer Where didn't patsy tell you that the hotel brighton then we're going the wrong way The brighton's downtown in the village you're driving uptown. That's right. Nick the man on the phone said the man on the phone was wrong Patsy here. We are this is where we're going What time is it 625? Uh, just in time come on This is pennsylvania station right and we're going to meet the washington train Do you mean to tell me the killer is this lane guy norman hadley lane? That's who we're going to meet You'll have to move quickly. We haven't much time. Oh, but maybe talk later. Patsy I'm afraid to cut it rather fine We've got to get to the lower level of be on the platform when the train pulls in this way If this is a wild goose chase nick on a major wrong you can say that maddie not until then down this ramp right Now that's the washington train quick. Oh, we'll never give him the crowds. We've got to here Here are pictures of lane. Yeah, you can't miss him. He's a big man quite stout Heavy grazed beer looks like it with the seven looks out now. We mustn't miss him now. Listen, this is no time for arguments maddie We've got to locate lane as soon as he gets off that train now stand by right i'll take the center you watch right Maddie you take a left. Okay, right track man. Edward the seven What a crowd. I think We're going to which car you hold it very his car in front of us quick maddie forward, right? It's a lane. It's a norman lane norman hadley lane get down get down. Nick, what are you doing? He's tackling Got him. Yes, I got him. All right. Hold on to him right? Let's take him to the station master's office You can call the wagon from there Well It's just quieter at least hey nick Why didn't you warn me it was going to be an assassination? Didn't know when it was going to happen. Oh, what about mr. Lane? Or just put him in a cabinet. All right. Pretty well shaken up when I knocked him out of the way the bullets That's a lot better than a shot through the heart. Oh, mr. Arrowfield. Oh, you dirty gumchoo snub or I'd like to Hold on to a maddie. He's a dangerous little man and a very clever actor Phony englishman phony dealer and art objects including phony bronzes phony bronzes Certainly passy. That was a whole motivation When mr. Allen took up collecting objects of art arrow field got hold of him and sold him a lot of supposedly antique bronze masterpieces But in reality, they were completely phony being merely modern copies of those masterpieces And unless i'm wrong, mr. Norman lane owned many of the originals from which allen's bronzes were copied Well, nick. What about that bronze disease when arrow field learned that lane was coming to see allen's collection He knew lane would recognize many of allen's bronzes as copies of items in his own collection So arrow field in order to force allen to remove those phony pieces from his collection He liberally infected them with a bronze disease What do you know allen refused to remove them in spite of the disease So arrow field had to do the next best thing kill lane Otherwise he faced exposure as a dealer in fakes and phony pieces The murder of lane fortunately didn't succeed the others did And i'm going to see that you pay for them arrow field I want to be sure that mazy leads whatever she is now. Yes, her full five dollars worth In just a moment nick will be back to give you the final details of today's story and tell you how he knew arrow field was the poisoner of the sick statue The whole year round it's a real job to keep your home bright and interesting That's why the three great linux home brightness are so important to help in your home making schedule Because they save so much time and work Take linux clear gloss for instance the modern brush on finish for all wood and linoleum surfaces Linux clear gloss is ideal for any surface you want to save Protecting for months against wear against dirt against spotting Warding off damage by hot grease boiling water fruit acids even alcohol And linux clear gloss lends such sparkling beauty beauty That's easy to maintain for the whisk of a damp cloth removes smudges from any linux clear gloss surface Linux clear gloss flows on easily too drying to a smooth lasting finish which protects for months So give you a linoleum floors and woodwork the gleaming luster the sturdy protection of linux clear gloss The finest in household finishes You'll find all three great linux home brightness linux clear gloss linux self polishing wax And linux cream polish for fine furniture at hardware paint and department stores everywhere And remember that your dealer is headquarters also for chemtone the miracle wall finish Chemtone covers in one coat dries in one hour Bringing bright new loveliness to your walls and ceilings in bedroom living room or hall And now let's hear from nick carter himself Nick I don't see why aero field killed mazy lee Because when mazy returned from mailing her letter to me she saw aero field in the collection room deliberately Infecting the false antique bronze statues with the bronze disease She was killed to silence her but how could aero field poison the statues? Well pat c as alan's guide and mentor in the new business of collecting aero field had easy access to the house He was able to steal in and infect those statues with chemicals He took from craig's laboratory to be precise with ammonium chloride. That's the corrosive agent that causes bronze disease Oh And was that the powder you found on mazy's neck right? Some of it was on aero field's hands when he strangled her evidently craig remembered seeing aero field in his lab taking the chemical so Aero field killed him but those initials craig wrote. Oh, they weren't initials fancy craig tried to write the chemical simul for ammonium chloride nh4 cl He wrote the n and the h and got as far as the first elbow stroke of four and then died We thought he'd written nhl which purely by coincidence Happened to be lane's initials. Oh, I see Well, nick you said aero field's bronzes were fools. How could you tell that? I've actually remembered this afternoon in my lab. You looked through the microscope at a piece of that spear that killed craig Yes Well, really ancient bronzes become heavily crystallized through the years But the piece we examined was crystallized only around the outer surface Showing that it was passed quite recently. So that's it Well, was aero field trying to sidetrack you with that phone call so he could get it lame when he arrived in town. Yes Oh Lucky you weren't fooled Only notes, honey thing patty I've met thousands of crooks in my time each one more clever than the next and believe it or not The only ones they fooled in the end with themselves Well, nick what story are you going to tell next week? Remember the time we drove south to investigate the mystery of a legendary giant called urdman the earth shaker Whose footsteps apparently frightened the man to death. Oh, yes The clues to the case were green rice grains on the dead man's hand and a drop of blood on a bird feather Right, what are you going to call the story? The case of the bleeding bobble ink Nick Cotter master detective is copyrighted by street and smith publications incorporated Lawn Clark is starred as nick charlotte menson plays patsy Script is by alfred bester and any resemblance in these programs to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental The entire production is under the direction of jock mcgregor Nick Cotter master detective is presented at this time and over these same stations each week by the three Great linux home brightness linux self polishing wax linux cream polish and linux clear gloss Created by akmi america's great producer of akmi fine quality paints This is ken paul speaking for the thousands of linux dealers all over america and saying so long until next week This is the mutual broadcasting system