 Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all man hunters the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction Nick Carter master detective Presented by the three great linux home brightness linux clear gloss linux cream polish and linux self-polishing wax created by acme America's great producer of acme quality paints Today's curious adventure murder in the night Or Nick Carter and the mystery of the milkman's discovery In just a moment we'll hear how Nick Carter solved the mystery of the murder in the night But before we do listen to this Homemaking is an art and as a successful homemaker you know that the real achievement is keeping your home attractive That's why you use chemtone the miracle wall finish to give your walls renewed loveliness Now to keep floors, woodwork and furniture at their shining best it's the three great linux home brightness Linux clear gloss the durable supervarnish that dries to an elastic transparent surface which protects all wood and linoleum in your home Linux cream polish which cleans as it polishes leaving no oily film on your furniture And linux self-polishing wax which beautifies your floors with a satiny yet tough non-skimmy And linux self-polishing wax which beautifies your floors with a satiny yet tough non-skimmy finish that resists wear, water and dirt Get the three great linux home brightness at your hardware, paint or department store Your headquarters also for chemtone the miracle wall finish And now for today's mysterious adventure with Nick Carter Nick and Patsy are spending a short vacation at the home of Walter Summers Sheriff of a small county in upper New York state Peace reigns supreme over the Summers household as our story opens A peace which unfortunately is rudely shattered by Just a minute Sheriff Summers speaking Sheriff, this is Jed Peters Yes Jed, what do you want at this hour of the morning? Sheriff, I'm at the Parsons place, you know out on the edge of town? Yes, yes I know, what's the matter? Well I stopped in here a while back to deliver the Parsons their milk like I always do And when I got here I found Laura, Mrs. Parsons all tied up to a chair Well I asked her what had happened, she couldn't talk much But she said something about a man killing her husband and tying her up I looked and sure enough Mr. Parsons is dead Shot through the head, you better get out here right away Mr. Parsons murdered? Yes Sheriff, and Laura, Mrs. Parsons is in pretty bad shape You better hurry up All right Jed, I'll be right over as soon as I can Now don't touch a thing and don't let nobody else touch nothing I won't Goodbye Hey, what's all that about Walt? It's a big job didn't I? I'm sorry, no I ain't neither Because I'd had to wake anyhow What's so early in the morning? I can't be more than six o'clock Just quarter to six But murderers don't care what time it is Murderer? Yeah Oh don't tell me somebody killed somebody way up here in the country Yes, done it First time in sixteen years of being Sheriff I ever had a murder in this county I'm sure glad you're here Oh now look here Walt I came up here for a rest not to chase down a murderer You're a good chef You don't need me Sorry not but you're coming along just same Oh now Get up now before I pull the clothes off the bed And pour this pitcher of water over you All right, all right, all right I suppose there's no way out But you ought to be in charge Well if that's the way you want it That's all right with me Now hurry up and get some clothes on Well I tell the medical examiner To meet me at the Parsons place in fifteen minutes Surprise Patsy didn't want to get up and come along Well when I asked her she just said she'd see us later Said she wanted to get all the beauty sleep she could first Looks if she was going to get the vacation not you Don't fool yourself I'm going to say that this killing is solved in record time I have to prove I did it myself Anything for peace and quiet You know it's funny about the Parsonsist Young Henry Parsons and his wife A right pretty little girl she is too They come to town about two years ago Stayed at the hotel till they found a house that they liked It's a little bungalow Built right smack on the edge of the cliff Overlooking the river Follow that owns the bungalow He sort of took a liking to Henry and got him a job In the lumber mill He's been there ever since Good steady worker they tell me Did they have any enemies? Oh not so far as I know They never went out much but everybody liked him He was a real nice fella And if ever I saw two people in love with each other It was them two Yeah they were more lovers than married folks These ways more than most married folks that I've seen This is going to be pretty bad for her then Losing the man she loved Yeah sure right There that's the house Gray one with the smoke coming out of the chimney Oh I tell you it's going to be terrible Nick I'm dreading having to ask her any questions about it Uh you wouldn't want to Oh no no no not much I wouldn't I'm just a private in the rear rank today I thought you wouldn't Well this is it Might as well get over with us once again Come on let's go in The door's probably open Yes it is Doc Winslow I'd be here in just a few minutes now He only lives a few miles further from here and I do Morning Sheriff Doc you here already You must have flew over Well I left as soon as I got your message Well good for you I meet Mr. Nick Carter friend of mine Hello Mr. Carter Morning doctor Parsons is dead alright Shot right through the head He's there in the dining room Miss Parsons taking it pretty hard is she Terrible hard Sheriff I put her to bed in spare room Somebody gave her a real good sock in the jaw Judging by the looks I'd like to give her sedative But I knew you'd want to talk to her first So I've been waiting you got through Oh thanks Doc I knew I could count on you Say where's Jed? I don't see him around Well Jed felt that babies had to have their milk Murder or no murder So I told him to go ahead But to come back as soon as he could And I told him not to tell a soul What happened here Well that's something anyway I hope he minds what you told him Now look Sheriff you want to question Mrs. Parsons now or each Yes right now Doc come on Nick Right with you all Morning Miss Parsons I'm terrible sorry to hear about Henry Now can you tell me what happened I'll do my best Sheriff Good girl Now suppose you start right at the beginning And just tell us whatever you can I was asleep when I heard a loud noise It woke me up What kind of a noise I don't know just a loud noise Like an explosion Alright alright we know what you mean And then what I woke up I found that Henry Wasn't in bed beside me That scared me so I called him And then I started to get out of bed And I saw Yes Miss Parsons what was it you saw Henry on the Alright steady now take it easy And what did you do then Hit me on the chin that's all Mrs. Parsons Did you get a look at this man who hit you Could you tell us what he looked like The bus medium size The stockin Had an old clothes he hadn't shaved for several days With a scar across his forehead And down over his cheek Did you ever see him before No never Now suppose you go on with your story When I became conscious again I was gagged and tied up in one of the kitchen chairs The man said he was sorry he had to kill me But he couldn't take any chances on my telling the cops about it Did he have a gun Mrs. Parsons Yes I could see it in his pocket He said he couldn't shoot a woman And you a better way to do it And what did he do He turned on the gas Said that was an easy way to die And he left me Where'd he go then I heard him moving around in the dining room And I heard him climb out the window and shut it And he left the gas turned on Yes I almost died before Jed got here And turned it off And then Jed cut you loose Yes it seemed hours later Well that's about all she can tell us Well you better let it go Well thanks Mrs. Parsons That'll be all for now We'll let you know if we want to know anything else I'll send the dock in Thank you Doc you can put her to sleep now Wait for a while About time too Poor kid she's putting her all in Nick you heard it described that man that done it Oh yes why I know him You know him Not personally I don't mean But I know who he is He's been hanging around town for over a week now There's been two burglaries while he's been here too I've been going to arrest him on suspicion But now by gosh I got a real reason to arrest him Yes looks that way Well let's take a look at the body Yeah Doc said it was here in the dining room Yes there it is Must have just been coming out of the bedroom When he was shot Yeah never knew what hit him seems like Now look there Walt the center window What oh the catch is smashed So that's how he got in Yes Henry must have heard him in here Got up to see what was going on And the burglar shot him Put prints here on the windowsill too And I can see some prints down in the garden Under the window Well sir that's it a bit I'm going to find that tramp And I'm going to get a confession Now wait Walt wait you have to have more evidence Than a footprint to convict a man of murder But Mr Parsons can identify him easy Because she saw him Well suppose you go after him I'll stay here and see what else I can dig up In the way of evidence You don't want to go with me No it's better if we each work in a separate angle Your results quicker that way Okay Nick I'll get hold of my deputy And we'll find that murdering tramp in short order Just a minute Walt just a minute I heard someone just outside this door You mean somebody's listening I think so Let me open the door Well Jed what are you doing here Nothing Well Jed do you hear anything worth listening to I wasn't listening I just happened to be standing here Well if you wasn't listening I didn't know what to do All right let me handle it How does it happen your backs are soon Jed Got your milk all delivered Well just took the milk to houses where they got babies And I came back just like Doc told me to Of course You're telling anybody about the murder No Doc said not to Jed what time was it when you first heard Mrs Parsons morning When I set her milk on the back porch about Five o'clock Five o'clock But you didn't phone the sheriff until after five thirty What did you lead you Well I was untying Laura Mrs Parsons and trying to get her to Tell me what had happened I see Did you break in the front door or the back When you came in Neither one The back door was unlocked Oh the back door was unlocked So you just came in that way Well sure I did So what are you trying to do get me boiled up I'm not trying to do anything to your Jed I just want to get all the facts straight What else you want to know Suppose you tell us just what happened When you came in the back door Well Laura Mrs Parsons was Tired up in one of the chairs near the gas stove I smelled gas and she said whoever it was Turned it on to suffocator So I turned it off Guys she was almost out Then I cut the ropes that were holding her And I let her loose What else did she say She didn't say nothing much She was just about unconscious when I found her She talked about a man coming in And killing her husband and some other stuff I didn't get I see And what did you do then Well I took her into the spare room And I put her on the bed Then I called the sheriff That's all Jed I noticed you're pretty friendly With Mrs Parsons What do you mean by that By the way you call her Laura that's all Oh well you see She's been giving me grammar lessons For about an hour every day After my milk's delivered So I got to know her kind of well Mrs Parsons is very pretty isn't she You're darn right she is As well as look around the whole route You like her very much don't you Sure I do She's been awful good to me and I Well I just like her You in love with her Jed In love with her Of course not she's married You weren't so much in love with her That you'd be jealous of her husband One of them out of the way perhaps Hey look here You if you're trying to say it I killed Mr Parsons you can turn Shut up shut up Jed Nick's doing the talking here You're just answering questions Well he didn't think he could come around here Making cracks like that I didn't notice I'd call that a crack There's been considerable talk around town About how much time you've been spending With Mrs Parsons I never took no stock in it before But now I'd tell you there's nothing to it Sheriff We was just good friends that's all All right Jed that's all for now Well don't go anywhere But I ain't finished delivering my milk yet Listen if Nick says wait you wait I'll tell you when you can go Murder is a serious thing Well of all the thick head of dumb Clucked eye of his soul You think you'd really had anything to do with it Nick I certainly had the motive and the opportunity And afford to overlook any angle until we're sure For the present I suspect everywhere What in heaven's name is that? 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She's having hysterics She's had a big enough dose before, I guess Now she won't take nothing Here, let me hold her All right, now put the glass to her lips Maybe she'll take it That did it That'll keep her quiet Gosh, I thought she was being killed From the noise she was making You fellas find anything? Yes, sir We found the marks where the killer That is the fella we think must have killed him Broke in through the window in the dining room After him now Well, you be, Nick If I'm not here, I'll be at your place I'm going back and get Patsy as soon as I'm through here We came up here for a vacation, you know All right, Nick, I'll be seeing you Good luck with your hunting Well, Nick, how does it look so far? We know that a burglar entered the Parsons house last night And stole some silverware When I went back to look after Walt left I found the sideboard and the dining room was cleaned out You may have shot Parsons When Parsons surprised him taking the stuff What about Jed? Well, he certainly had the motive He loved Mrs. Parsons And he had the opportunity That of being on the spot at practice At the same time the murder took place Do you know when that was? Well, we got there about six He'd been dead roughly about an hour then Which one of the two do you think did it? I'm not ready to answer that yet, Patsy While I was looking over the scene of the crime After Walt left I found several little things that indicate There may be a third party involved A third party? Look out to that kid and that bike, Patsy Pull over, pull over Gosh, that was too close Kids would learn to watch where they're going When they're on the main highway Well, we missed him Yeah So it's all right this time Can you see the Parsons house in this road, Nick? No, the cliff's too steep How are you going to know where to look then? Before I left the house I hung one of my handkerchiefs in the clothesline Right at the edge of the cliff Oh, that's good I think we can see it from here Just ahead I'll watch for it Ah, yes, there it is Slow down a little Okay Now stop, right here Right Good thing you hung that handkerchief up there You'd never know there was a house there Now you know what you're looking for, don't you? Yes You don't think it could have gone across the road, do you? I doubt it, Patsy They're a trained baseball player to throw it that far No, it's somewhere between the road And the bottom of the cliff Now you look from here up that way And I look from here down I've got to find it if it's here We can't give up until we do Careful, Pete We don't want to warn him we're here Because he's a desperate character Everything those kids seen him coming this way, Sheriff Saves us a lot of hunting around See anything of that shack they told us about you? No, no, but it should be just ahead Take it easy now There it is, right there All right, now listen, Pete You stay out here in front Keep behind that big tree And fire your gun over the shack once in a while To keep his attention on you I'm going around back and creep up on him from that side And I'll get him before he knows I'm there, see But keep hid I don't want to lose deputy Okay, Sheriff, I'll watch him Want me to start firing now? No, let me get a head start So he won't see me Then start firing I'll signal you when Okay, good luck There's a signal Here goes Get your hands up We get you surrounded You can't go away Got him, Sheriff, you got him? Dog, nab it There ain't nobody here Patsy, been living there, Sheriff? Yeah, he's been here all right But he must have cleared out right after the murder Must have got scared and run for it Well, look, Sheriff Here's a fork under this whole piece of carpet Got a big initial pee on it Uh-huh, one of Parsons is likely Oh, this's our man, all right What now, Sheriff? We're going back to the office And send out an alarm for him He won't get fur before he's nabbed I'll see to that At your house, Walt We found the gun Is that the man you went after? He sure did Got him and the stuff he stole, too He was caught in the next town Trying to pawn some of that silver My deputy just brought him in What does he have to say? Oh, he says he found the silver In the woods near his shack Says he never was near the Parsons' house Well, we'll change his mind for him When we show him what we know Uh-huh Now, Walt, after I started thinking things over I went back to Parsons' place Found a couple of very interesting bits of evidence That I'd overlooked before Suppose you take the burglar out there I want Mrs. Parsons to identify him I'll meet you there in 15 minutes Okay, Nick, we'll be there Good I want to get back to my vacation Well, now that we're all here Doc, will you ask Mrs. Parsons to join us? I want her to identify this man She's feeling a little quieter now I'll get her Have I got to stick around here forever, Sheriff? I've got a job to do If I don't get back, I'll be fired If you don't stay away, there'll be trouble Now you sit down But I've got to get back Sit down There's some things I want to ask you As soon as Mrs. Parsons gets here Oh, Walt Take your prisoner over to the other side of the room So she won't see him once she first comes in All right, Nick Come on, you come on All right, quit shoveling I'm coming Mr. Carter Won't you make this as quick as you can? I don't feel I can stand much of this question We'll spare you all we can, Mrs. Parsons But there are certain things we have to know Won't you sit down here next to Patsy? Yes, here, Mrs. Parsons Let me help you All right But I... Ah! There! That's the man! He did it! He hit me and tied me up! Ah, you're nuts I may have shocked you But I never touched your old man If that settled it If you're the one that hit her You're the one that killed Henry We found you with the silverware on you And Mrs. Parsons here identifies you Now, are you going to admit that you did it? No, because I didn't I swiped the stuff maybe But I didn't cook nobody I just gave her a clout on the jaw to keep her quiet Uh-huh Well, Nick What you got to say now, are you satisfied? No, Walt, I'm not There are several things that don't match up here No, I don't know what's the matter with you, Nick But I know you'll do it the way you want to Anyway, so go ahead Now, you What time did you break into this house? About two o'clock Did you see either Mr. or Mrs. Parsons? I looked in and they were both asleep I didn't wake them up You did! You woke Henry and then... Please, Mrs. Parsons, please be quiet Nick knows what he's doing You just took what silver you could find And went out again, huh? Yeah The woman woke up and was going to stop me So I had to sock her one to keep her quiet And then I ducked out And that's all He's a lying, thieving murderer I don't think so, Walt But, Nick, listen... Now, let me finish, please Jed? What was Mrs. Parsons wearing when you found her this morning? Why, uh... She had a pink sort of house coat Lots of lace on her Yes Did she look pretty in it? She sure did Well, that don't mean I had any... Just answer my questions, please Mrs. Parsons Did you ever see this gun before? No, I never saw it before You sleep on two pillows, don't you? Yes And you never saw this gun before? No No, I didn't That's peculiar When I lifted the top pillow off your bed this morning I found a little hollow on the top of the bottom one And this gun just fits it That's a lie I had a... Mrs. Parsons, you like Jed? He's a nice boy But I... You like your husband better? Of course I loved Henry Yes You loved him so much You couldn't bear to have him leave you Isn't that true? I don't... What are you getting at, Nick? I don't get this Walt, Mrs. Parsons killed her husband I didn't I didn't It was that man Are you nuts? Are you crazy, Nick? Oh, I make you think she did it, Nick I think I know she did it As I see it, she woke up and heard the burglar in the dining room She'd already decided to kill Henry but hadn't decided how to do it And now the thought came to her that she could kill Henry and blame it on the burglar She'd undoubtedly seen the man around town and knew exactly what he looked like Remember that very excellent description she gave us, Walt? Well, sure, sure But I... Well, she never saw him that clearly by flashlight You're lying You can't prove any of this About five o'clock she got up took a gun from under her pillow went into the dining room and called Henry very excitedly When he rushed out of bed to see what was the matter she waited for him at the dining room door and shot him as he came through and she took off her nightdress and put on the pink house coat I found the nightdress with some spots of blood on it under the mattress on her bed You're lying I wore that house coat to bed last night I was cold Yes Was that house coat rubbled up when you saw it this morning? Why... Oh, gosh, it looked like new to me I thought so Mrs. Parsons, you went to the kitchen waited until a few minutes before you knew Jed was due to arrive Then you turned on the gas tied yourself in the chair as best you could and waited for Jed You knew there was no danger of your suffocating before Jed arrived and you knew that Jed was half in love with you already and that when he found you in that very feminine and attractive garment he'd never noticed that the knots which bound you were tied very clumsily and not very secure Oh, that's a lie! She was all tied up good and tied That's what she wanted you to think Well, why should she do it, Nick? Yes, Nick, what earthly reason would she have to do it? I didn't do it! Walt, remember when we approached the house this morning we saw smoke coming out of the chimney? Yes Well, and I remembered that smoke a little while ago I went down to have a look at the furnace I was curious whether there should be a fire going on a warm day like this and I found this a letter from Henry's real wife in the city saying that she was happy here at last decided to return to her and his son from whom he'd run away when he came here with Laura and there was the motive, plain enough Laura couldn't bear the thought of his leaving her there's a blow to her pride that he was tired of her so she killed him Her fingerprints around this gun we found if you want definite proof All right, I killed him and I'm glad he couldn't treat me that way but I'll never go to the chair I'll kill myself first! Better take her away, Walt and keep your eye on her murdered him ends at the murderer pay the penalty for his crime Gosh, Nick, I still can't believe it she was such a darn nice little girl Well, Nick, if she hadn't tried to burn that letter she might have gotten away with it Yes, Patsy that was what first led me to think she did it until I found that letter I could find no motive for her killing him and without the motive, nothing made sense but the furnace was so choked with the ashes that the papers she tried to burn just smoldered and where they smoke, you know Yes, I know where they smoke, Nick Carter solves the case with it In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you a preview of next week's exciting case A home that's truly lovely is a place folks want to be a place where there's fun and relaxation and real joy of living Your whole family takes pride in your home when you keep it looking attractive with the three great Linux home brightness Linux Cream Polish, for instance which cleans as it polishes gives your fine furniture a handsome luster drying to a hard surface that leaves no oily film to attract more dust, to make more work Yes, in one quick easy application Linux Cream Polish actually removes the cloudy accumulation of previous polish and dust banishes messy fingerprints and helps conceal ugly scratches For Linux Cream Polish cleans as it polishes without tiresome rubbing saving one whole step in your cleaning day routine So depend on this modern easy shortcut to furniture beauty Get all three great Linux home brightness at your dealers now Linux Clear Gloss Varnish Linux Cream Polish Linux Self Polishing Wax In case your dealer hasn't received his supply of the three great Linux home brightness he'll have them soon Ask him to save one or all of them for you Acme will see that he gets them and you get them as quickly as possible Now let's hear from Nick Carter himself How about next week's story, Nick? Can you give us a hint? In spite of the fact that the doctor said it was heart failure a young man felt so sure that his uncle had been murdered and arranged a midnight seance with a famous medium And had everyone who could have committed the murder there to see what went on And did the medium succeed in contacting the dead uncle? She claimed she did Everyone there thought they recognized his voice And did he accuse anyone of murdering him? That's where the story starts, Ken And that's where it's going to end for now Yes, yes, no more until next week So long So long, everybody And so long to you, Nick and Patsy We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next week Next week at this time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter, master detective entitled Unexpected Death or Nick Carter and the mystery of the seance murderer Nick Carter, master detective is a copyright feature of Street and Smith Publications Incorporated It is presented at this same time and over these same stations by the three great Linux home brightness Linux Clear Gloss Linux Cream Polish and Linux Self-Polishing Wax created by ACME America's great producer of ACME quality paints In the Nick Carter adventures, Lon Clark is starred as Nick Helen Chote is featured as Patsy Original music is played by Lou White The programs are written and directed by Jacques McGregor This is Ken Powell speaking for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America and saying, so long until next week This is Mutual