 New post war old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt present 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 resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction Nick Carter master detective Nick I'd like to know why you shut up like a clam ever since we had our soup Oh, I didn't mean to Patsy. I've been thinking. Oh, that's good. What about marriage? Marriage is the only way to solve a murder All for the case of the policy makers today's adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter Brought to you by a new post war old Dutch cleanser It's a beautiful afternoon early in November and along a section of deserted highway An open car moves toward the hills in the distance in the car are Harvey Craig a candidate for the state Senate in the coming elections And Julia Prentice is fiance of a few weeks Suddenly another car comes from behind Swear sharply to the right and cut them off Kind let me get out of him. I'll show you how no rough stuff Are you kidding this guy's a hit-and-run driver a killer? Maybe what's that? We saw the whole thing mister That man was on the road and you went right over and you kept on going we would Julia be calm He's better saying that I know what they're saying dear, and I'm going to let them prove it. We're going back Exactly the way you and Joe left him Harvey don't worry Julia that man on the road is a friend of theirs a co-partner But when I get through with it, he seems to be unconscious. I'll show you how unconscious he is Get up the act is over. Are you What's the matter Harvey This man is dead. Oh, no Well, mr. This other convention he wasn't a friend of ours You killed him cut it out pal. I ain't gonna get you out of a man's slaughter rat You murdered him and then you followed me from the city What's the idea? Who's paying you to do this to me panace? That's a laugh. What are you and Joe checking this guy for identification? Harvey we can't let these men get away with this. There must be some way of hey Let us down. I found the dead guy's pocket and insurance policy for 50 grand. I see Taken out by Frank Hudson. That must be the dead guy's name never mind that look and see who's the beneficiary? Yeah It's Harvey Craig What he's the guy that's running for the state Senate Harvey How does it happen that your name is on there and wait a minute? This guy's Harvey Craig. So that's the angle, huh murder frame up. It's tough your honor Well, Junior, this is it and the end of a career But why if you can prove that you don't know that man that that Frank Hudson maybe even But suppose I've been set up for the perfect wrap look bud We're a couple of reasonable guys You pay us the face value of that policy of 50 grand and we destroy the policy and forget what we saw Mm-hmm. We even make the corpse disappear. What do you say? Harvey you're not going to do it. I'm afraid I am Junior because if I don't Neither of us will live to tell the story. I see what you mean. Let's go back to town. I'll get the money You know what I'm Joe. Yeah, I'll say yeah and take care of the body And that's the whole story Nick I paid them because I was afraid of what they might do to Julia and me and because I wanted to get to your office As quickly as possible. Why didn't you go to the police Harvey? I promised Julia? I wouldn't it's matter of fact. She doesn't even know I'm here. I don't understand it Harvey The girl you're engaged to doesn't want you to go to the police I know it sounds odd Patsy, but you and Nick have never met Julia. She's proud She thinks I'm a sucker for having paid off it and she thinks the less I talk about it to anyone the better So you want us to keep mum? Yes, please. Why didn't you raise your voice when you got back to town? I was afraid of the bad publicity Nick a murder charge. Harvey. They wouldn't have dared to make it against you. Oh I wasn't thinking at the time Nick I want you to get them will you of course he will harvest I guess that settles that I've been put to work Thanks Nick. Oh, here's a description of Joe and Tom. I've written it down. Good for you every little thing helps Well, I've got to go now. I'll be at my campaign headquarters Nick if you didn't want me. Goodbye and good luck Poor Harvey Well Nick, what do you think I think this is all the earmarks of a murder racket for blackmail Wonder whom it's happened to before then you don't think this was the first time. Oh, it couldn't be Kang got operate so smooth. He must have had a lot of experience But where did they get the victims? Well, that's Harvey's typical. I'd say from who's who no patsy. I mean the victims they killed Harvey told us he never saw that frank Hudson before Yet that man had a policy naming Harvey as the beneficiary. Well, it could have been a phony It could have been But suppose it wasn't Who said Hudson up for it and how He had any old clothes any very old clothes Would you mind telling me what old not at all? I've got an idea that somewhere in the slums or along the waterfront There are operators pulling hopeless prospects out of the gutter and setting them up for the kill Well, you and I are going to be a couple of prospects Much longer. Yes, we've been to every waterfront diving town. Oh, patsy Oh Well, that's the detective business Oh go into your anger for being watched Oh Why did I ever marry you? You were gonna buy me a swell house and fur coats. I was going to be a grand lady Well, it's not my fault. My plans didn't work out. All I need is one real break one real break That's what I've been hearing for years. Well, I wish you'd break your neck Oh fuck lay off. Will you oh why did I ever marry you? No place to live no decent clothes to wear Well, maybe you think jobs go on trees. Maybe they do And what do you want? Tom's name Area trouble pounds none of your business You wouldn't talk so loud I couldn't help it. Henry. I'm so so fed up. Yeah, she's got a right to be She's hungry. She's got no place to live. Why don't you go take a walk? Maybe I got a job for you and a what you for you too, baby. But don't count on it I'm only outside guy. I got a boss. What kind of work will this be? I depends Oh, yes, I don't care what it is. Henry. You're going to work if it kills you. I'd go, mr. Tom I've been married for six years and you've done some traveling The hobo trail mr. Nicholas. Yes, sometimes Any man who would subject a woman to such a life? Well, I couldn't help it, mr. Bentley That breaks for all against me. How did you feel about that mrs. Nicholas? Oh, I couldn't leave Henry. Oh, that's devotion Well, I need a couple in my house Naturally, you've never been a butler mr. Nicholas. No, no, sir No, sir, that's better. I see you learn quickly You'll keep this place in order and you'll see that it's dusted. Yes, sir. And now mrs. Nicholas. Can you cook? Sure? I mean, yes, sir. Mr. Bentley. Good. My tastes are very simple. We'll get along Tom These people are going to stay in the room on the fourth floor. Okay. Ask Joe to prepare it for them Okay, uh, do we go with it? No, no, you wait here If you're wondering about my two men Tom and Joe, they Live here with me. I prefer them to dog. No, we weren't wondering mr. Bentley Good. You'll make the ideal butler Now there's one matter that must be settled before we begin our relationship Yeah, as you see, I have many valuables in this house rare paintings Antique vases so forth. Oh, you don't think we steal from you, mr. Bentley It's happened before my dear lady And so I have one strict policy in this establishment All my employees must be bonded. Ah, I see Do you object mr. Nicholas? Oh, no, no, no, it's all right with me. Uh, sir Yes, I'll have a forms here sometime tomorrow morning in the meantime Excuse me, Mr. Bentley. What is it Tom? Joe is on his way up the room You want me to show him where to go? They'll find it the fourth floor mr. Nicholas then turn to the left. Yes, sir Come along baby. Yes. I didn't do so bad. Did I mr. Bentley? Two instead of one. Yeah Why don't we give them the insurance business? We don't know anything about them, Tom A couple of hard luck bombs, that's all. I wonder The lady had clean fingernails Nick, I don't get it. What sureity company would bond a derelict or a couple of derelicts Patsy, we're not going to be bonded But mr. Bentley, it's only a gig for the last minute switch. Oh from bonding to insurance. Uh-huh Then when mr. Bentley starts talking about insurance. Yes, patsy I think I'll let some air into this room, but Nick in the frank Hudson policy harvey told us about Bentley wasn't the beneficiary. You're not in your toes tonight. Patsy Well, I'm only trying to put myself in the place of an intended victim. Don't try You're right in it, but I become suspicious of a policy that didn't make Bentley the beneficiary That's no use. Windows sealed shut It's what sealed it's glass barrier to the outside But why just in case someone should want to yell for help Oh, does that answer your questions about the policy? You mean The victims were forced they were if they became suspicious of Bentley But as long as they believed in him as a good Samaritan who could do no wrong Even when he made someone else the beneficiary even then Remember the people who signed those policies were hungry down and out Bentley was giving them May we come in? Of course. Uh, yes, sir. Thank you You stay here at the door time. You Joe. All right, mr. Bentley Well, my dear mr. And this is necklace don't look so surprised It's an old custom of mine when I'm welcoming new servants I've uh brought a bottle of wine for us for me too A rare sparkling burgundy. I want you to feel at home Permit me to do the honors For you, mrs. Nicholas Thank you, sir For you, mr. Nicholas And now one for me Raise your glasses, please A toast to my new servants mr. And mrs. Nicholas better known as nick Carter Did I startle you miss bone? How did you find out about us? Oh, my underground espionage system. I see Well, what are you going to do with us now? Kill you both, of course But not until I've made arrangements to convert you into cash And that my friends will be very soon Oh Bentley has found out nick and patsy and behind him are two men with guns We'll see what happens in just a moment back to the case of the policymakers today's adventure with nick Carter Brought to you by a new post war old dutch glanter It is several hours later and in bentley's luxurious library Nick and patsy are sitting near the desk surrounded by tom joe and bentley Yes, of course mr. Bradley all filled out and ready for the signature. Oh, thank you, don't give mr. Carter his Your application for insurance mr. Carter. You're asking for a quarter of a million Don't you rate me too high bentley? Oh, no, not too high for a man of your reputation and uh connections Is your application system? Yes Forgive us miss bowen, but we think you're worth only a hundred thousand dollars. I'm not worth anything to you You let me be the judge of that water Wow So jackson phillips is going to be my beneficiary. Why not? He's our city's leading banker Now miss bowen your beneficiary is mortimer evans the department store owner He knows you quite well personally and by your extensive charge account. It won't do you a bit of good bentley. We'll see Please sign these applications. You're not going to send our friends up for blackmail. Do a very harsh word mr. Carter Let me go to work on her mr. Bentley. Oh joe joe. You're much too temperamental Well, it's no dice. We don't get their signatures. This ain't like the other jobs we've done We're shooting for big dough now because I have their signatures in their own hand right We'll have them joe, but without your methods What's wrong with my methods? Oh, they're much too crude for present company I'm sure that mr. Carter and miss bowen will prefer my more scientific methods of persuasion Like a vault top floor vault. They were going to torture us nick if we hadn't signed Listen patsy. I'll let you in on a secret What I knew all the time we were going to sign those applications You did of course we had to sign them to get the goods unbentley in his gang No case without them. Oh, I see that now nick. I see Two o'clock Time to get out of this room and down to the library safe. Oh, that's going to be easy But with that window sealed and with joe parked in the hall just outside. It can be done Bentley and tom ought to be asleep by now I suppose they are we still can't get out take off your shoe. What your shoe take it off. We got a job for it. All right Now what do I do hobble around? Smack the heel of your shoe against that window pane and break it now look nick. I'd like to get some air too Right now I want to plant myself behind this door On that chair you've got there. No under it ready to bring it down on joe's head Okay, go ahead Well, patsy, see what I mean. Oh, you're full of tricks tonight, aren't you full of them? Now let's get down to the library and take out some reading matter Can't you get it open? I don't know It's been a long time since I opened a safe without knowing the combination. Well, have you got enough live? Yeah It's a lucky thing. We found this flashlight in Bentley's desk drawer Look at the size of it. Why it must be 10 inches long and it weighs close to There goes the bolt now for some quick research. You need help. Yeah, just bring the light closer. Yeah Ah Look patsy Policy blanks a stack of this Mr. Bentley had plans for a future didn't he? See what's in this drawer Are they there nick the applications we signed? Yes, here they are We'll make a bundle of all this evidence and then lock up the safe just in case We're not going back upstairs, nick. Of course not. We're calling the police That's much better Everyone's walking outside in the hole. It didn't close the door patsy. Why for god. They've seen the flashlight. They won't see us Let's get behind the turn in the flash craig. Yes. What's he doing in this house? He just died Oh Murdered unless I don't know what I'm talking about. Oh, don't you see it patsy see what this whole dirty business How did harvey crave get to this house? Who brought him? Someone turned the lights on so you finally figured it out. Mr. Nick Carter. What who's she? Yeah, julia prentice. Aren't you yes? I brought harvey here He shouldn't have told you what happened to us on the road. You killed him We had some wine honey harvey's glass had poison in it. Oh, they were you are carter Mr. Bentley wouldn't like me to shoot you. All right, judo You've got the heavy artillery and to think harvey can fitted her a friend so many people do Men particularly, huh? Man with a lot of money. Yes Your betley's contact woman you set up the blackmail victim and then you're in the car with him when the so-called hit and run takes place Of course The right place in the right time are very important in our business. How did you know we were in this house? We didn't see you. I saw you miss bowen and I recognize mr. Carter from his newspaper picture A peephole in the wall of your room upstairs Mrs. Nick, Nick, we never had a chance. Let's say you might have had one if you didn't have clean fingernails A bad habit miss bowen when your life depends on it Bentley phoned me in town. I came I saw and I couldn't believe my eyes Well, what happens now julia? There's a little room in the cellar. I'd like to have you see. Oh It's not much of a room, but it's escape proof and we want so much to see you again tomorrow That is when we'll meet you Time is it nick my watch isn't as luminous as it used to be but I should say there's about a quarter past one day night or Eternity after noon patsey Hey, you're not losing your nerve are you? I I never felt better in my life I'll bet we'll turn on your flashlight and you'll see After all we've only been down here since last night Well, why don't you turn it on can't Battery's dead afraid so Oh, no, no, no, listen, that's we'll never see daylight again They'll kill us before they take us out of here. No, they won't they can't but they will Oh patsey we've got to appear to be accidentally they can't run a car over us here They've got to take us out of the house and once we're not in the open Here, this may be a patsey now. Listen. Don't fight them. We don't want you to carry us out You go first um with the lantern right miss bedding you next Joe And don't know your garden. I'm not with him around boys. Ah Good afternoon, mr. Carter miss bone Julia told me you were very naughty last night. Oh, I hope we didn't put you to any inconvenience We make the punishment fit the crime Come here miss bone. I like it where I am. Oh me. We're going to have trouble Julia has an appointment to go driving this afternoon with Mortimer Evans your beneficiary You've got to be on the road miss bowen His turn will come later another day. We can't do everything at once, you know Listen ventley you take both of us so you don't take either of us very gallant mr. Carter Tom you take miss bowen outside. Okay now you don't Joe you heard what Tom said I'll get him off That tap with my gun makes me even for last night come along miss bowen you killed him up. Let me go Now now my dear won't do you a bit of good to struggle Julia has an appointment And you must help her keep this All for the conclusion of the case of the policy makers today's adventure with nick Carter Brought to you by a new post war old dutch cleanser It's 10 minutes later Patsy fainted and is lying on the sofa in the living room of ventley's house nearby ventley and julia Are discussing their plans with palm and joe over a roadmap, which is on the table Now this is the exact point in the road where you're to be Can we use the same road for a change mr. But listen to julia joe and don't ask so many questions The mortimer evans and i will pass that point about half past three Now what time do you have? I've got one thirty five Yeah, me too. We agree Well lucius i'm ready to leave for town I told mortimer i'd meet him at two o'clock. I'm going to be late Oh, not too late my dear 10 or 15 minutes for one as charming as you can it brother The only thing i see in you is a bookkeeping item frank on joe joe Get my car out of the garage. Yeah, sure Give me a cigarette lucius. There are times julia when you behave as if you're running this show I might as well be you couldn't get along without me. There are other women is well qualified That's going to cost you 15 percent more darling What another bookkeeping item i was going to talk to you about that later, but since you brought it up I want 45 percent from now on you can have the 25 percent i've been getting now wait a minute There's no use arguing. I tell you that crazy. Why am i interrupting something? Nick carter he's got a gun falling out among thieves, huh? Well, you won't have to worry about percentages anymore Or maybe you should worry about the percentages because from now on they're all against you operator Give me police headquarters Nick how did you do it? Perhaps is I came up from the cellar. That was joe walking toward the front door He went out like a light of course. I had to hit him. Oh, that's not what I mean Then I took his gun and made the grand entrance. They were like no no no you don't understand I mean, how did you get out of that cellar room? It was simple. I took the door off its hinges what with bentley's flashlight You mean you use that flashlight to unhinge the door. Mm-hmm It was heavy enough to drive the pins out of the hinges very neatly. What but I didn't hear Of course not I muffled the noise of my coat Honest nick when I saw you on the floor unconscious. I thought who I wasn't unconscious Oh, no, this is too much. Oh joe telegraphed that wallop I saw it coming and I rode with it the gun caught me in the back of the neck That's why you're driving the car why I'm All right, nick. I'm listening. There's no mystery to it. Patsy. I've just got a good stiff pain in the neck. That's all Can you tell us something about the story new post war old dutch cleansers going to bring us next week, nick? Well, bob next week we're going to meet a young contractor who helped us track a killer by trying to build a garage on an imaginary street And nick found the killer by listening to a talking typewriter talking typewriter imaginary streets It sounds fascinating. Uh, what do you call the story nick? I call it the case of the missing street Nick carter master detective is presented each week at this time by the cutahee packing company It is produced and directed by joc mcgregor and is copyrighted by street and smith publications incorporated Charlotte Manson is featured as patsy today's script was written by stedman coals Original music is played by henry silvern 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 you post war old dutch cleansers This is the mutual broadcasting system