 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 Brighton is 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 the numbers murders Or Nick Carter and the mystery of the wrong note In just a moment we'll hear how Nick Carter solved the mystery of the numbers murders But first a word about linux Just as American homemakers have found that chemtone the miracle wall finish is the modern way to new wall beauty So will you find the three great linux home Brighton's the modern way to keep your floors woodwork and furniture? sparkling and new in appearance or instance linux clear gloss this Transparent liquid dries to a hard durable lustrous finish that resists damage to your floors old enolium by hot grease boiling water Fruit acids even alcohol That's why linux clear gloss has been a household favorite for years If you haven't it on hand ask tomorrow for linux lin dash x linux clear gloss Yes, you'll find all three great linux home Brighton is at paint hardware and department stores everywhere And now for today's mysterious adventure with Nick Carter our story opens in a dingy little saloon on a back street So yeah, you're finally here today, buddy. Yeah, three years. I've been playing them numbers and doing nothing but lose but today Boy fifty thousand dollars. Which numbers was your playing Benny Duke Dawson's are lucky combs the Dukes He's a square shooter always pays off on the nose when you win. He's a great guy the Duke You think it's safe to go around telling everybody you want all that dough or something might happen to you before you get the Spend it. Oh, I ain't no fool butch I ain't told only a couple of my pals and the Duke could want me to tell him he likes to have the guys know He pays when he loses 50 grand All mine Gee, I can't believe it yet. Yeah, but as long as you got it in your pocket. It's easy to believe it Yeah, you're right there. Well, it's a long time. I gotta be getting on home Gotta tell the old lady. We're rich now Won't she be tickled so long Benny. Don't spend it all on the way home Spend it all. Hey, you can't spend that much dough without you do some thinking about it 50 grand That's as well guy ever. Let's just follow down. Well, when you got the winning ticket, you know, you got to go Oh It's you are glad to see you. How's the boy about your luck, honey when I congratulate you. Oh, yeah, thanks The best luck I've had in years got it with you. I suppose sure. I got it with me. You don't think I Hey, put down that gun you can't Thanks pal Which together with the evidence already set forth above proves conclusively that the man known Nick not so fast I can't keep up with you. What's the matter fancy? Cramps in your fingers. Oh, no, Nick. It's not there. We've been working on this report for over three hours without stopping I can't keep it up all day. All right, Patsy. Let's rest for a few minutes I wouldn't be so anxious to finish this report Nicholas Carter's office. Hello, Patsy. Is Nick there? Oh, yes, Lieutenant. Just a minute. Thanks. Hello, Riley What's on the royal mind this evening now Nick lay off the kid in a minute Just because you're called a mastermind in all the ill of journals in the city don't mean the time All right, all right, Riley. I withdraw my remark. What's wrong with the world now? Just a murder, Nick Just a murder nothing new about a murder, Riley. Why drag me in now, Nick? I'm asking you as a personal favor Will you give me a hand on this if we don't get this one solved and solved quick the commission is going to be down on It's like a ton of bricks. Well, what's the special about this particular murder? Meet me in front of seven five six Brown Lee Avenue as soon as you can and I'll tell you all about it What do you say? But Riley it's after 11 now. Can't I wait until tomorrow? Oh, Nick It can't we got to get to it right now. Will you meet me? All right. Meet you then five or ten minutes. Thanks, Nick I'll be seeing you so long so long we're going out. Yes, Betsy We're gonna have a look at somebody who's just suddenly and violently passed out of this world. Get your hat. Let's go There you are Nick, but how are you Patsy? Okay? Thanks with Anna. Where's the remains rally right over here Nick? Just the way my men found him. I See two shots right through the heart. Mm-hmm. Never knew what hit him Looks as if they might have come from a 45 right Nick All right, rally who is he and why should I care his name's Benny Smith? He's one of the characters that hang around the edge of the underworld no record But a great guy for playing the numbers been playing them since they were started and I think that's what killed him Oh now lieutenant. How could the numbers kill him? Well, Benny connected today Patsy. He won himself $50,000 and he had it on him when he started home. They tell me but he ain't got a cent of it now He's as clean as a whistle. Very interesting. I would be talked too much about his luck Well, where do I come in? Then he played Duke Dawson's numbers Nick and Duke's had two heavy winners this month Now both of them were killed in the same way before they got home and both of them lost their roles Now once could be a play and hold up but twice It's like a regular thing and I want to find out the killings like this has got to stop That's where you come in Nick. I need some of your fancy ideas on how to stop them Lucky Coombs runs the other numbers game, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, him and the Duke have been at each other's throats for the last six months Maybe lucky think this is a good way to persuade the public that if you win with the Duke You don't live to spend what you win It could be Nick and it could be a tool that the Duke needs the coin bad enough to want to get it back I'd hate to play any numbers game where I had to lose my life when I wanted the money There's no percentage in the numbers game from any point of view Patsy. It's a suckers game Well, Riley, what do you want me to start good for you, Nick? I knew you couldn't stay out of it But what do you say we go to call on the Duke and see what he's got to say for himself. Okay, Riley You drive on ahead. We'll follow you. We don't let the cops catch your speeding Never wasn't a place like this before Nick and you probably won't ever want to be again, Patsy He's a piano. The only music there is yes, but Steve Corey is a good piano player none better He not only is a good piano player. He also serves as a lookout for the Duke See how the piano is right at the foot of the stairs to the second floor Well, that's where the Duke's officers are and no one can get up there without Steve seeing. Oh He signals ahead with this piano Let the Duke know whether it's a friend or an enemy who's coming up Hey, how do you know so much about this place, Nick? Oh, I get around Riley now and then And I suppose it's Steve's signal that it's the wrong kind of company coming to call They get the wrong kind of reception. That's about it Patsy Hi Steve The Duke in What are you smoking that pipe of yours old cabbage leaves shoe leather tastes better smells like a deuce, whatever It is on come on Nick. We got to be moving right Which is his office here Nick? This one here. It's funny. Try the door. Maybe not in there. It must be He told us to come up. I can feel there's a light inside Maybe there's something wrong they let you have a look Dawson. I think we're better. Come on come on with me now Come on again Break it in Raleigh break it Are you hurt Raleigh? No, did he get you? No, what's going on in here? Nothing now Patsy you can come in you look there Nick Dead got right through the forehead. Is that the Duke? Yes, Patsy. That was the Duke Hey, look, that's where the killer went Nick through that window there Yeah, and down the fire escape Below there's a dozen ways. It could have gone. We've never seen if we'd only gotten in a little sooner Nick That wouldn't have made any difference Raleigh. I suppose not. He was out to get the Duke and he'd have gotten them anyway It was just as easy for the killer to get out on the fire escape and wait for us The good thing it was a poor shot. He would both be dead. I don't think so Patsy What do you mean? Look how high his bullets went up above the door there Oh, you think he was just trying to scare us Nick looks that way He could certainly shoot straighter than that now. We've got two murders to solve instead of one. Yes I'm beginning to get interested in this now Let's see what the Duke can tell us about this Duke had no weapons so he apparently wasn't expecting an attack Must have known the man who killed him. Hey, Nick. I thought the Duke didn't smoke. He didn't There's an awful lot of burned matches here in this ashtray for a guy who don't smoke And they're all burned pretty well down through and here's a cigarette butt It's a you adore. You adore? I never heard of that brand Nick. Very few people smoke them And lucky coombs is one of them lucky coombs then that maybe it doesn't let's not jump too fast I'll just take this butt and these matches along with me. They may come in handy before we're through Well, I better call headquarters and get some of the boys up here, right? While you take care of this end of it Patsy now go and call and lucky. Maybe he can tell us something about this Okay, Nick, but be careful that lucky's a tough, baby. I will I know how to handle him. Oh, Steve Did the Duke have many callers tonight? No, no How about lucky coombs? He wasn't over here was he? Yeah, he was Whatever nothing maybe By the way, you better get this crowd out of here The Duke's been murdered this place is going to be filled with cops reporters photographers fingerprint men and detectives in about 10 minutes Oh, do I did? Yeah So long see you Come on. That's it. Let's see what lucky has to say 11, please Well, this ought to put an end to the numbers racket in this town Nick for a while anyway with the Duke dead and lucky and Jim for his murder Maybe but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Oh That's just in the car. Oh too much outside may mean trouble. Be careful. Hey, go into some place flatfoot. Why yes Just a friendly visit. I want to see lucky a minute. Lucky's not receiving tonight Not cops anyways, I'm no cop. It's one a friendly talk with him. Well, you can't No, I Think I can yeah Well me and my buddy here is going to see that you don't we sure You got a search warrant. Have you? Oh, you want to see my search warrant to you? Well, here it is Well Nick seems to be having difficulty getting into See lucky does this mean lucky is the man who killed the Duke and what's Nick going to do about it? 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That's all Here I'll take it and just to be sure I'll take your pal gun to Now You'll both be good little boys. I won't tell lucky on you. Oh, lucky. What? Oh, hello, lucky I've enjoyed meeting your welcoming committee. Oh Sometimes their ambition gets the better of their common sense They told me it was you coming up Carter I would have advised them to let you in and say themselves a headache here your boy's pop gun Give them back to them after I go You can come out now, Patsy That's your daily dozen for this evening. I always enjoy watching you exercise. It does me so much good Can I do for you Carter? I suppose you know Benny Smith was killed tonight right after he collected the 50,000 He won and Duke Dawson's numbers game. Yeah. Yeah, I heard about that You don't think I had anything to do with that. Do you and did you also hear the Duke Dawson himself was murdered a little while later? Are you think you can pin that on me? We found one of your cigarettes half smoked in the astray on the Duke's desk lucky what and the Duke didn't smoke Not three people in the city smoke your brand How did your cigarette get in the Duke's astray? My cigarette, huh? You could easily be held for the murder on the evidence we have lucky But I suppose you have an alibi If so, let's have it. Well, uh, I Haven't been out of my apartment all evening No alibi, huh? Well, well, that's very interesting. No alibi and ashamed to admit it Then he must be the one easy fancy if you think I did it. Why don't you run me in no lucky? We're not going to run you in but you will stick around won't you just in case we need you for witness or something? Oh Nick, surely you're not gonna let him go. Why not? You will stick around lucky Yeah Yeah, I'll stick around Then let me know when you need me for something. Thanks. I will Well, good night lucky. Come on, Fassie. Let's be going Why so quiet Fassie? You haven't said a word since we left Lucky's. Well, I can't understand it Nick You have what looks like good reason to believe Lucky killed the Duke and you let him go Doesn't make sense to me. Why Fassie, it's all part of my plan. I Think I have the answer to both killings now and leaving Lucky loose is part of my way of proving it And I suppose that phone call you made after we left Lucky's was part of your plan too Right Fassie all part of my plan and did your phone call accomplish what you hoped it would? Indeed it did Fassie indeed it did. May I ask what it was? You may. Oh Nick Why don't you tell me what's going on? I don't get it at all I phoned a certain party to get a certain address and I got it. That's all you know who the killer is. I Think so. Well, who that unfortunately? I'm not prepared to divulge at this precise moment. Oh Nick Well, here we are here. We are where at the address I got on the phone It's a third house up there the rooming house and what do we do there? Now Patsy listen carefully what I tell you I'm going inside that house alone. Yes alone and as soon as I do now want you to go to the phone and the drugstore Across the street and phone Riley. You'll be back at headquarters by this time Tell him to come up here just as fast as he can. I may need him Tell him to bring some of his men in the hurry-up wagon, but not to use the siren When he gets here tell him to wait out here with you until I come out or if I don't come out Tell him to rush in after me just as soon as he hears gunshots Oh Nick, hadn't you better wait until he gets here before you go in there? Can't do it, Patsy I've got to get inside before the next visitor does. That's the important part of my plan Now you have it straight. I think so good. I'm counting on you Patsy. Don't fail me I wish me luck. I may need it Nick Carter Got a few questions. I'd like to ask you questions. Yes, I'm alone I see you're packing your suitcase Steve You weren't getting ready to leave town were you? What if I was? Ah, you shouldn't do that We might need your testimony in clearing up Duke Dawson's murder. Huh? You're the only witness we have to testify that Lucky Coombs called on the Duke just before he was murdered Yeah, that's just why I'm getting out I'm not staying here to be taken for a ride by Lucky's gorillas And that's what had happened to me If I said anything against him you won't be taken for a ride by Lucky's gunman, I'll guarantee you that I ain't taking no chances Yeah, got a match sure Thanks still smoking old cabbage leaves in that pipe of yours. I see Why don't you try to back her for a change? I shut up Ain't taking no more riding from you now from nobody Okay, Steve. Oh, do you mind if I keep this match you just used what? What do you want it for I think I can use it. Hey, what's going on here Carter? What can you use a brain match for for one thing I can use it to send you to jail to jail, huh? Yes for murder you won't send me to jail for murder that gun Steve. Yeah Didn't have to break my arm did you lucky for me you're shot in a hurry Otherwise you might have got me somewhere else and just in the fleshy part of my arm Now Let's see what's in that suitcase. Are you keep on say where you are Steve? I've got the gun now Sit on a chair I'll be quiet. Ah, huh Quite a nice roll of bills you have here at least $50,000 I should say by the size of the roll. Yeah, what's it to you was a nice racket you were working Steve Whenever the Duke paid off any big money, you knew who got the money laid for them and killed them Duke knew it was bad business to have his winners killed that way So somehow he must have gotten wise to you probably by having someone trail Benny someone or saw you kill him So he called you in to have a talk with you And you killed him I think so I didn't I didn't like he comes did it that's so Well, we'll see what lucky has to say when you tell him that He'll be here in a few minutes if I'm not mistaken. No, no, I couldn't kill me. He killed where you are. Stay where you are I'll stand behind the door Daddy double cross and that's enough lucky. Oh, drop that gun Is he did you kill him? No, I just shot him through the shoulder the shock knocked him out He'll live to go to the electric chair with you All right, it's all right. Everything's under control. Thank goodness. All right, Raleigh There you two murderers Steve in the chair and lucky on the floor who was them glory be yes, Raleigh Two of them you better get your handcuffs on them before they decide to run out on you and do just that I'll be fine friend Steve hold out your hands You lucky you can't help me. So I'll just put them on you when you're asleep And you'd be all right when you wake up. Well, then it was lucky Nick. Yes, Betsy Lucky and Steve together. Oh, this is a great day for the police department Two men killed and the two murderers caught Lieutenant are you giving all the credit to the police department? It seems to me No, no, no, of course not. I just meant to all right Raleigh. It's all right. My part of it's done Your precious police department can have all the glory if they want it Tell me about it. How did they do it in who killed who? Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. I'll meet you down at your office in half an hour and give you all the details and the evidence you need Right now. I want to get my arm fixed. Oh, Nick. You're hurt. Is it bad? Let me get a doctor quick No, it's not serious Betsy. It's just a flesh wound and it's rather painful I'd like to get her taken care of Come on Betsy. I guess you better have to drive. I'll see you later, Raleigh That feels better A good doctor is a wonderful thing when you need him and Dr. Sturges is as good a man as there is And now Mr. Carter, I want to hear all about it. Oh, Betsy Can't you wait until we get to Raleigh's office? I don't want to go through the story twice Nick Carter, if you don't give me all the details right here and now I'll stop this car and we won't move an inch until you decide to tell me what I want to know All right. All right. You're a hard woman, Miss Boone. I guess I'll have to give in Well, what do you want to know first? First? Where did Steve come into this? He did the killing. Then what about Lucky? Lucky was the man behind the throne, so to speak Lucky wanted to cut in on the Duke's customers, so he had the Duke's winners killed Steve, however, did the actual killing and got most of the money for his reward But when the Duke caught on to Steve, Steve killed him and double crossed Lucky How do you mean double crossed him? Steve planted one of Lucky's cigarettes in the Duke's ashtray He undoubtedly had some of them from being associated with Lucky So he just smoked one halfway down and left it where we'd be sure to find it Then who shot at you and Lieutenant Riley when you broke into the Duke's room earlier this evening? That was Steve But Nick Steve was downstairs playing the piano He was there when we left him, yes And he was there when we went back But in between he slipped out the back, up the fire escape, fired over our heads as we entered to make us think the killer was just leaving And then went back to his piano He thought he had a perfect alibi How did you know that it was Steve? By the matches and the ashtray How could they tell you anything? Patsy, how'd you light a cigarette? Here, here's a match, try it Okay Well, I suppose you'd light the match like this Light your cigarette And put out the match like this Exactly Now look at that match you just used Mm-hmm It's only slightly burned at the end Now look at this match Which I took from the ashtray Now that's burned almost all the way down Exactly It was used to light a pipe, not a cigarette And Steve's a pipe smoker He probably smoked as he talked to the Duke before he killed him, before we got there You see, Patsy, I knew the Duke was dead when we got there this evening If you knew Steve did the killings, how did you find out about Lucky? Well, I felt sure Steve wouldn't dare to do it without strong backing But there was no evidence against Lucky So that's why I went to him and told him about one of his cigarettes being left in the Duke's ashtray And that's also why I didn't want to take him in Oh, now I see I felt sure he'd go to see Steve and give himself away And he did Hey, Nick, I just realized what you said a minute ago You said you knew that the Duke was dead before you went upstairs to his office tonight Now how could you possibly know that? Very simple, Patsy Steve was the Duke's lookout man He used the piano as a signal The top key on the piano was wired to a buzzer that sounded in the Duke's room That meant someone was coming up But when we went up tonight, he didn't hit that note I watched him carefully And he didn't hit it because he knew there was no one alive to hear it He hit the wrong note I'll say he hit the wrong note In more ways than once How do you mean, Patsy? Well, considering that tonight you've solved three murders Ended the numbers racket and recovered the stolen money I'd say that Steve hit the wrong note when he tried to fool you In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you a preview of next week's exciting case But first, here's a thought for all of you homemakers Of course, you take pride in your home Of course, you want your folks to take pride in it, too And your husband, your family will sit up and take notice Of the bright new beauty Linux Cream Polish gives your treasured furniture For Linux Cream Polish is the modern way to protect the things in your home It quickly restores your furniture's attractiveness In one quick easy application And Linux Cream Polish drives to a hard finish That leaves no oily film to attract additional dust To make additional work It does away with fingerprints, helps to hide ugly scratches And after a few applications Provides a tabletop finish that will actually resist glass marks Best of all, Linux Cream Polish saves you one whole step in your cleaning day routine For Linux Cream Polish cleans as it polishes without tiresome rubbing So depend upon this modern easy shortcut to furniture beauty Linux Cream Polish Get it today and enjoy the extra time you save In case your dealer hasn't received his supply of the three great Linux home brightness He'll probably 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 And now Nick, how about next week's adventure? Well, Ken, the main ingredients of next week's story are a small boy and a slingshot Well, I didn't know you went in for cases of juvenile delinquency He doesn't unless you call it juvenile delinquency When an organized gang of thugs holds up an armored car Kills the guards and gets away with thousands of dollars of the bank's money Well, that's really big-time stuff But where did the small boy and the slingshot come into it? They were the means of my being able to catch the killers, get back the money and break up the gang And it gave Nick one of the most unpleasant and dangerous two hours he ever spent Well, I'll certainly look forward to hearing that Any further hints, Nick? No, that's all for now, Ken I'll tell you the rest next time I call the story the slingshot murders Or the mystery of the broken window So long So long, everybody And so long to you, Nick and Patsy We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next Sunday afternoon Next week at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Cotter, master detective Entitled The Slingshot Murder For Nick Cotter and the mystery of the broken window Nick Cotter, master detective, is a copyright feature of Street and Smith Publications Inc 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 Cotter adventures, Long 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 and ACME quality retail stores All over America and saying so long until next week This is Mutual