 88 plus. Hello? Call super 2848. That is all. New post war old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt presents Nick Carter famous for chasing crime. Each week at this time two great names are joined as new post war old Dutch cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction Nick Carter master detective I just don't like tramping around an old cemetery in the middle of careful. Smaller grave stones are hard to see you're telling me I almost broke my neck on Betsy look that headstone there what about it Nick but don't you see the name on it yes but so what make this grave holds the key to the whole mystery. Now the case of the graveyard gunman today's exciting adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser as our story opens the somber and quiet of Patsy Bowen's room is suddenly broken by the harsh urgent jangling of the telephone. Hello Patsy this is Nick Nick oh Nick it's two o'clock in the morning where are you down at the homicide bureau in Mattie's office what's happening remember Nate Benedict the guy who stole the Felix Garth jewels Nate Benedict why of course you help send him up about three years ago that's right well he escaped from the pan about 10 o'clock last night escaped yes I'll pick you up in 20 minutes Betsy I put Benedict in prison and I'm going to see that he goes back to do at the office Nick a couple of things I want to check up on the name and address of Nate Benedict's girlfriend for one I remember her name it was Kay Florian why yes that's it you think Benedict will try to contact her he might one thing we can be sure of he'll go after the fifty thousand dollars worth of jewels he hid somewhere yes I wonder where he hid them you're not the only one who wonders Betsy when Benedict refused to talk the insurance company had to pay off Felix Garth collected the full fifty thousand well here we are I've got my key right here Nick oh I'm still sleepy oh snap on the lights will you I've got them great Scott the place is a shambles oh Nick there's been a fight in here I certainly look that way and get a load of that filing cabinet somebody's forced it open have a look at my office right Nick your office been ransacked too someone must over there by your desk is a man lying on the floor and on the lights who is it wait I turn him over oh I don't know who he is Betsy there's no use asking him he's been murdered and that's how Nick he'll be right over oh thanks Betsy did you find anything on the body to identify him just a slip of paper in his pocket with an address on it nine ten nineteen ten nineteen will he'll drive what do you suppose he was after Nick whatever it was it was important enough for someone to follow him here and take it away from him after he put up a fight exactly my guess is that whoever killed him didn't mean to do it here in the office when the fight started there wasn't any choice Nick maybe we can find out what they wanted if we check our cross files against the files in the drawer that was forced open that'll tell us of a file folder is missing that's my girl good idea I'll read the names of the cross file and you check them against the folders in the drawer you ready Adams Albright Anderson Applegate Babcock banister Barton Benedict hold it Nick yeah that's it the file on Nate Benedict is missing and five hours ago Benedict escaped from prison that's no coincidence Betsy but why would he want our file card in his own case why would anyone want it the answer to that is somewhere on this cross file card you mean because it contains all the information we had on the original card the one that's missing yes has everything down to Benedict's family name his family name yes he changed his name years ago his father's name was Benedetto according to the cards strange what Nick the address written on that slip of paper I found on the dead man was 1019 willow Hill Drive you know who's addressed that is no who's Felix Garth's here a man Benedict stole the duels from a very same Pat see as soon as Maddie gets here to take over we're going to pay a call on Mr. Felix Garth sit down Mr. Carter miss Bowen thank you sorry to break in on you at this hour Mr. Garth but oh not at all Mr. Carter is a matter of fact I just heard of Nate Benedict's escape and was about to call you call me why about a visitor I had yesterday who was he Mr. Garth he wouldn't give me his name but he said he could find out where Benedict had hidden my jewels that's so yes and he offered to get them for me if I'd pay him $5,000 and you agree why not the insurance company is offering your award of $5,000 for the jewels what did this man look like Mr. Garth oh he was rather non-descript characters ball sandy hair warwick ray pinstripe suits Mr. Garth less than an hour ago we found that man in my office murdered murdered good heavens oh excuse me hello this is Sergeant Matherson of the homicide bureau is Nick Carter there yes just a moment for you Mr. Carter oh thanks hello it's maddy Nick we've identified the guy you found in your office who was he his name was Sammy Gates got out of the pen on parole last week what and that ain't all Nick the whole time Sammy was in the can his cellmate was our old pal Nate Benedict is Maddy gonna meet us at the Melbourne Arms Apartments Nick he said to be waiting out in front he wants to be there when we questioned Benedict's girl Kay Florian what does he expect to find out I don't know Petty far as I'm concerned the only question I want answered is what was on that file card that would have told Sammy Gates where the Felix Garth jewels are hidden you're sure that was why Gates was after the file that's the only way it adds up Gates was Benedict's cellmate in prison yeah evidently he learned enough from Benedict and know he could locate the jewels from something in our file and he tried to do it but Benedict wrote prison found Gates trailed him to our office and surprised him there and there was a fight and Gates was killed the way it looks at the moment Patsy well here's the Melbourne Arms Nick oh there's Maddy waiting for us oh hi Nick what's the word Maddy should we go in and talk to Kay Florian yeah I've been casing the joint a little her apartment's on the first floor right around the corner from the desk have this way follow me I take it you've had someone sure I planted a man out here as soon as I heard Benedict escaped but the dame hasn't bunched from a room oh here we are apartment 101 I'll not wait wait Maddy listen what I tell you I can't see you too dangerous she's talking to someone on the phone no no I tell you the police are watching me Maddy yeah Nick get out to the desk in the lobby and get that called traced hurry before she hangs up okay Nick I'm not trying to avoid you but you can't come here maybe I couldn't meet you somewhere later I think she's talking to Benedict Nick sounds like it I understand all right I'll call you later yes yes goodbye she's hung up Nick I hope Maddy had time to have a cold drink come on yeah the desk is right around here to the left keep your fingers crossed that call could lead us to Benedict oh there's the sergeant any luck Maddy and Nick the operator traced the call yeah it came from the caretakers cottage out at Wildwood Cemetery Wildwood Cemetery that's where Nick caught up with Benedict when he arrested him right Nick that was the place all right we've fought it out with him out there that's where the newspapers called him the graveyard gunman must be there again Nick I will soon find out Maddy I suggest you call headquarters get as many men as you can spare out to Wildwood immediately right Nick I'll have the cemetery completely surrounded in five minutes operator operator operator get me police headquarters and step on it hello headquarters this is Sergeant Matheson I want to what what is it many yeah yeah I got it okay I'll be right in well what do you know about that what's happening the state police cornered Nate Benedict a half hour ago there was a gun battle and Benedict was killed killed why did they find him that's what's the screwy Nick he was only five miles from the penitentiary when he was trapped he never got any father only five miles but that means he hasn't even been in town right that's he and that means that our theory is blown up in our faces Nate Benedict couldn't have murdered Sammy Gates momentarily stunned by the unexpected news of Nate Benedict's death Nick realized that what seemed to be an open and shut case is suddenly developed into a deep mystery and that he's dealing with a daring and desperate murderer we'll see what happens in just a moment now back to the case of the graveyard gunman today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a new post war old Dutch Clencher as we pick up our story Nick Patsy and Maddy have returned to Nick's office following the news of Nate Benedict's death a death that has turned the murder of Sammy Gates from what appeared to be a clear-cut case into a perplexing mystery hell with Benedict dead I admit I'm stymied Nick where do we go from here there's only one other lead Maddy yeah what's that Nick the fact that I first arrested Benedict out in Wildwood Cemetery and that tonight his girlfriend Kay Florian got a phone call from out there but we thought the call came from Benedict sure but now we know it couldn't have all right so who was it that's called well the sergeant traced the call to the caretakers cottage then wouldn't the caretaker be worth talking to oh come on oh Nick we're not going out to Wildwood Cemetery why not everything else in this case has turned out to be a dead end so why not try cemetery just don't like tramping around on a graveyard in the middle of a night and what's it getting this a caretaker isn't home is cottage is dark so why don't we blow because it may be back at any minute Maddy and I think it's worth hanging around for a while here let's go this way oh but need to be hard to see those smaller gravestones you're telling me I almost broke my name wait a minute what's the matter Nick what is it what are you looking at the headstone there the one my flash is on you see what I see just another headstone as far as I'm concerned look at the name Joseph Benedetta and not dead oh Nick that was the name on the crossfiled card what are you talking about Maddy Joseph Benedetta the man who's buried here was Nate Benedict's father is a well I'll be a monkey's uncle and hey look here behind the headstone hey fresh dirt somebody's been doing some digging here lately unless I miss my guests what they got out of that hole was Felix God's jewels of course that's what Sammy Gates was after in our files Nate Benedict's family name right Gates must have known that I arrested Benedict out here in this cemetery apparently he'd worm the information out of Benedict somehow that the jewels were buried behind his father's tombstone which means that to find the jewels all he had to do was to find out the right name of Benedict's father Nick that means that someone besides Benedict knew the jewels were buried here sure and whoever that someone is followed Gates to your office and killed him to keep him from finding out the name on this gravestone you may be right Maddy you're better I'm right and I'll lay you wards I know who it was Kay Florian's the only one it could have been Kay Florian or she was Nate's girlfriend well she's the only one day behind the stone shooting at us oh yeah well too can play that game shots were put behind those bushes over there Maddy right I'll smoke them out whoever it was I think you've scared him away oh Nick you all right fancy I get my heart out of my throat I will be it looks like we've got another graveyard gunman on our hands Nick come on let's take a look at those bushes careful Nick this is the spot right here no one's here now what is it there's a man standing right over there and stay there you are all of you don't move he's got a gun Nick what do you do here why you do all the shooting maybe you could answer that question brother but I'm not gun pile you're talking to the police police yeah yeah who are you my name is Otto I am caretaker of cemetery so you're the caretaker huh yeah I come home I hear shooting I run out here and of course you didn't do the shooting no no no I shoot no one all right all right take it easy you made a telephone call a couple of hours ago I believe called Miss Kay Florian at the Melbourne Arms Apartments why no I know called no we traced the phone call to your cottage wanted to see her but she wouldn't let you come to her apartment no on my father father okay if he won't talk we'll have to run him in come on Otto you're going down to headquarters no no no wait I I talk I tell you everything that's better you did call Miss Florian right yeah what about about the jewels the Felix Garth jewels yeah that's them Miss Florian has done huh what I tell you Nick go on Otto how do you know she has him last night she come here she dig them up I see her do it I didn't know who she was I go to Benedict trial three years ago I see her so after you saw her dig up the jewels you called her and demanded money to keep quiet about the fact that she had him is that it yeah yeah that's right you think he's telling the truth Nick hell is one way to find out Patsy how's that Sergeant I talk in the cave Florian like I wanted to do in the first place that's what we've got to do many all right then what are we waiting for let's go see the Florian dame for my dough she's got a murder to explain that's one thing you're overlooking Matty oh yeah what's that according to Otto Florian woman dug up the jewels last night so what time was it out of about 10 o'clock otherwise Matty before Sammy Gates was killed she already had the jewels what difference did it make to her whether Sammy found out where they were buried Nick's got a point Sergeant I don't see it if Gates hadn't found the jewels behind this gravestone it had gone after the Florian babe so she bumped him off not only to protect the jewels but to keep Gates and bumping her off it all adds up don't it maybe Matty maybe not we'll know after we hear her story let's go oh come on come on sister come on talk I'm telling you I got nothing to talk about we know you have the garth jewels miss Florian where are they I never heard of them you dug up the jewels from behind the gravestone and Wildwood cemetery between 9 and 10 o'clock last night who says Otto says he told us his story miss Florian how he tried to shake you down for some money to keep it quiet that you have the jewels like that dirty little double-cross all right all right will you talk now sister not much point in keeping quiet now is there okay okay you win I'll talk but plenty more than you're bargaining for what do you mean I'll tell you a story about those jewels it'll flaw you all right let's have it and remember just because I've got them that doesn't mean I kill Sammy Gates where are the rocks now in my bedroom under my mattress I'll get them if you want me to I'll go with you just to make sure you come back okay copper and no trick sister no way so what I was telling the truth after all me I rather thought he was passing what about K Florian you think she's lying about not killing Gates I don't know yet I did order that bedroom somebody slammed it shut Nick those were gunshots I came from the bedroom and doors locked Maddie Maddie oh Nick he doesn't answer stand back Betsy I'm gonna shoot out the love I did it careful Nick dark in there should be a light switch yes here it is oh Nick hey Maddie Maddie oh Nick he isn't no he wasn't shot he slugged and the Florian woman got away that of the door there must leave the kitchen and out the bag yeah Maddie Maddie what happened I don't know like I came in here the room was dark the door slam shut and then something hit me what about the shots shots Nick the jewels she said they were under the mattress I wonder she had time to get them let's see I'll lift the mattress I you seem fancy yep you're here Nick she didn't have a chance to tell you what's the matter over there on the other side of the bed next to the wall great skirt K Florian and she's dead silence Nick and Patsy stare at the lifeless body of K Florian in just a moment we'll bring you the conclusion of this adventure the conclusion of the case of the graveyard gunman today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a new post war old Dutch cleanser although he has finally found the Felix Garth jewels Nick is still faced with a task of tracking down the murderer of Sammy Gates and K Florian we pick up our story several hours after the Florian woman's death the door of Nick's office is just opening is Mr. Carter in this book oh Mr. Garth yes Nick's in his laboratory he called to tell me that he recovered my joy oh yes he has if you wait just a moment I'll tell him you're here thank you miss boy Nick Felix Garth is here good I'll see him right away ask him to come in will you right Mr. Garth will you step in here please thank you hello mr. Carter good morning mr. Garth well here are your long lost jewel mr. Carter I I don't know how to thank you for this you don't need to your insurance company will do that I believe they're all here except one of the larger pearls I have it in this glass why what a night that you put it in the glass of water for it isn't water mr. Garth it's a solution of acid acid yes acid you see the pearl just as round and firm as it was when I dropped it in the glass two hours ago you know what that means mr. Garth Stan right where you are both of you don't move this revolver is loaded and I have no qualms about killing we know that girl after what you did to Sammy Gates and Kay Florian you mean is Garth yes he's the murderer Betsy and the motives right here in my hand the pearl in this glass were genuine it had been dissolved by the acid but it's a phony like all the rest of Felix Garth's very clever you to discover that Carter they're the best limitations money could buy but hardly worth the fifty thousand you collected from the insurance company after they were stolen and make Benedict stole worthless jewels he did but he didn't know it no one in the world knew it but you did they got you killed Sammy Gates to keep him from finding out and you killed Kay Florian after she found out I had no intention of killing either of them but it was the only way you could keep the insurance company from nailing you for when Gates told you he could find the jewels you got panicky so you followed him here when he caught you spying on him and swung on you he killed him and you tried to do the same thing to was out in Wildwood cemetery it was Betsy he didn't know that Kay Florian had already dug up the jewels because Nate Benedict had tipped her off that he was going to break jail and needed money she learned they were phony when she tried to sell some of them you've got all the answers haven't you Carter most of them I even know that you went to Kay Florian's house to pay her to keep quiet he wouldn't have had to kill her if she hadn't been all set to tell us that the jewels were fake now this is all very interesting Carter but it's beside the point when I walk out of here I'll still be the only one alive who knows the truth a word of advice car when you do walk out don't forget to take the pearl in this glass mustn't leave a scrap of evidence give me that pearl be glad to here it is acid and all right now oh pick up his gun Betsy and keep it on him right I'll call Maddie and tell him to get a cell ready for a new tenant with a long term lease but Nick I still don't see whatever gave you the idea that the jewels were phony was the only thing it made sense Betsy I began to suspect it when Kay Florian said she'd tell us a story about them that with flora's remember yes but that didn't prove anything well it helped I'd already eliminated her as a suspect because she wouldn't have shot us out there in the graveyard she already had the jewels so why should she oh I see the person who was doing the shooting didn't note the jewels had already been taken out of the grave exactly so that automatically eliminated out who to there was nobody left but Garth who had any interest in the jewels he'd been paid off for them so he wouldn't kill to recover them but I realized that he might kill to keep them from being recovered because he wouldn't want the insurance company to know they weren't genuine but how did he hope to square with the insurance company even if he did get his hands on them oh that wouldn't have been hard Garth's made a lot of money since he collected that 50,000 he was broke when he sold the real jewels after having them insured but today he's rich he figured he'd pay back the insurance company and keep the phonies and no one would be the wiser I get it all now Nick except one thing why wasn't Garth horribly burned when you threw that acid in his face that's easy it wasn't burned because it wasn't acid what no nothing but water that's a water I didn't need acid to test that pearl one good look under my microscope was enough and why all that business about the pearl being an acid showmanship that's a purely showmanship when I threw that water in Garth's face he was so sure it was acid he raised his hands to his eyes and dropped his gun oh well for heaven's sake from the way he howl I thought sure he'd been burned I imagine he will be but I'm satisfied to leave the burning of Felix Garth to the proper authorities well Nick what about next week's adventure Bob next week's case I'll get it hello hey wait a minute wait a minute well Nick what's the matter there's a woman Bob all she said was call super 2848 by Nick that message was on my calendar pad this morning look Nick this is mighty mysterious all right but what about next week's show oh yes yes well Bob that's also very mysterious it's about a man who was killed in Florida and it was also killed two thousand miles away her master detective is presented each week at this time by the Cuddy he packing company it is produced and directed by jock McGregor and is copyrighted by street and Smith publications incorporated Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy Matty is played by Ed Latimer today's script was written by Ken Pettis and Lou Schofield original music is played by Henry Sylvain this program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental this is Bob Martin saying when minutes count use new pulse for old Dutch cleansers this 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