 New post-war old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt presents 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 Resortful and daring characters in all detective fiction Nick Carter master detective But Nick that's fantastic no one would cooperate in his own murder Maybe fantastic patsy, but all the evidence points to it Then I don't believe the evidence. There's only one way to prove what really happened the method I hate to use why me because it puts an innocent person in danger We haven't any choice now. We've got to go through with it Now the case of the wrong mr. Right today's adventure starring long Clark is Nick Carter Brought to you by new post-war old Dutch cleanser Even though she's 79 years old and confined to a wheelchair old Mrs. Right still enjoys picnic and Since her two great-grand nephews John and Charles expect to inherit the right pharmaceutical company one day They're always willing to go along One day early last fall Charles wife Janet wheeled old Mrs. Right to the picnic grounds in its occluded corner of the estate and Stop the care near the edge of a cliff overhanging the river How's this aunt match your spine Janet? Oh, I've always loved this view looking down at the river like being on top of the world It is beautiful. Where are the boys? They went back into the woods looking for dead branches to build a fire with wine I know my shawl, but you might know he wouldn't be around when I need him I'll get it for you. I'll run. I need him. I'll get it for you aunt match. Thank you Janet. I'll be right back Still wish she'd married Johnny instead of Charles Well, this is a beautiful spot up here with the Sun's Johnny take your hand away from my eyes. I know it's you. Are you waiting me to Johnny Johnny? Charles Johnny Take your hand up my eyes. Oh Mrs. Right those two fishermen hadn't seen you fall in and got to you in time Well, they did are you sure you're well enough to talk Mrs. Right? Of course I am. But aunt match you know what dr. Maren said about your heart No pneumonia left this week may quit any time all the more reason this thing has to be settled now But aunt match I don't cut it. I sent for you to tell you someone has tried to murder me You mean someone deliberately pushed your wheelchair over the cliff Exactly, but that match no one was near that part of the estate But John and Charles and me and the boys were in the woods gathering firewood I know it wasn't you Janet That was a man's hand over my eyes and Johnny wouldn't hurt me. He loves his old and then you think it was your other nephew Charles I know it was and I want you to prove it. Mr. Carter. I'm afraid you're asking the impossible Mrs. Right Why don't you see this all happened three weeks ago even if there were any clues? They'd they'd be gone by now then investigate Charles. You'll find something. I'll be bound I don't understand you aunt match talking about your own nephew like this and in front of me his wife I just assume say it to his face Even as a boy Charles used to sneak lies steal money out of my purse I could see the difference between him and Johnny even then you've never given Charles a chance I put them both through the same school didn't I? Feigned them both to be chemists so they could take over the business together someday. Didn't I? And what happened Charles went into real estate with no more reason than that you're accusing him Who had mad you're being unfair? All right. I'll show you whether I'm unfair or not The cutter I want you to investigate both Charles and John very well Mrs. Right And let me know what you find out as soon as you can I will in the meantime be careful He won't try it again. I fixed that you fixed it. How? My lawyer was here this morning, and I changed my will you did what changed my will The way it stands now. I'm leaving everything to John mad. How could you maybe I'll change it back later But I want Charles to know that if anything happens to me before I do He won't get a red cent Soon Carter only been three days, isn't it? Well, that wasn't a great deal to find out and I she looked Mrs. Right you must be feeling a lot better I wouldn't be out of bed if I wasn't this is that mages 80th birthday We're getting ready to have a little party. I don't mind that Jonathan will be here, but Carter found out Well frankly Mrs. Right what I've learned doesn't prove a thing. I'll decide that Okay First of all your nephew John Wright seems to be pretty steady young fellow No bad habits or associates lives within his income save it regularly and so on I could have told you that What about cows? Well, Patsy can read that part of the report to you. Go ahead. That's right Nick Charles Wright credit rating very poor business heavily mortgaged Overdue loan at the first community bank several large personal loan I don't see any reason for parading Charles business difficulties. You're Janet. What else young lady three days before Mrs. Right's accident Charles Wright attended to consolidate his debts with a loan from the Halliday Trust Company Offering as security the fact that he was soon inherit half the estate of his aunt who was very ill and could not possibly live long Couldn't possibly live long. Well, he did his best to make you such a thing This is right. It'd be very unfair to condemn anyone on such flimsy evidence only confirms what I thought before Janet if you what? Janet if you want to live here with me, you're welcome But I want Charles to pack up and get out today that match your birthday party my mind made up Mrs. Wright is a favor to me go on downstairs Have your birthday party and don't say anything to either John or Charles until tomorrow sleep on it first Well, please that match try to be fair. Oh there cool that word fair again. All right. I won't say anything until tomorrow You love it and man come on open your present open this one first and that yes It's from Charles and me I can read the car Yeah, and I'm at this brooch Good-looking very pretty. Thank you Janet. You too, Charles. I'm glad your wife for that marriage I'll talk with your mouthful Charles. I should think three pieces of cake would be enough for you Anyway, I'm afraid my gift will look pretty sad after that and that Anyway Here it is with all my love. You know, I like it Johnny, whatever it is Well, I'm music box. It's beautiful Johnny open the lid How thoughtful of you, but where are my chocolates? You're what now stop feeding. You know, you always give me a box of those special Chocolates on my birthday. Well, you know, I have to order them from Switzerland and this year It just slipped my mind. Oh, I don't believe it. What's that? You're holding behind your back Can't fool you can I had mad here and many happy You know the doctor said no sweet for a while Janet give me those chocolate I Charles put that back those chocolates if I had mad now too late now. I only took one You ought to be ashamed Doesn't taste so high Hand me that box Janet before each the rest of them. Well, all right What Charles what's the matter then seconds of eating one of his aunt mages birthday chocolates Charles right collapses and even before Janet can reach her husband's side. He's dead We'll see what happens in just a moment now back to the case of the wrong mr. Right today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser An hour has passed and Sargent Matheson of the homicide squad is at the right mansion with Nick and Patsy Trying to arrive at the facts of Charles death a medical examiner says there must have been enough Solid night in that piece of candy to kill half a dozen men, but it couldn't have been the chocolate Sergeant stop pretending John. This is one thing you can't blame Charles for well I'm not trying to Had eaten that chocolate before she put Charles back in a will you'd have inherited everything That's what you wanted wasn't it? Do you say the chocolates couldn't have been poisoned because they arrived by registered mail from Switzerland only this afternoon? I didn't even have time to unwrap the package before I gave it to Aunt Wrapping's could have been taken off and put back again Of course they couldn't that's exactly what he did I did not if there was poison in those chocolate somebody else put it there Oh sure sure as a biochemist mr. Right you have access to cyanide don't you well? Yes, but so do lots of people and when Charles started to eat that chocolate you try to stop him didn't you I I don't remember I do you said put it back Charles those chocolates are for aunt man Well, I think we've heard enough come on young fella come on where to headquarters. Where do you think? I'm booking you for murder Nickel we have to wait here at the post office very long no no Maddie said he pulled ahead and get an okay for us to Look at that receipt good. Oh, here's the inquiry window over here. I hope the sergeant didn't forget the phone Hey, yes, sir. My name is Nick Carter. I came to see about a receipt for a registered package from the Switzerland Oh, yes, I have it right here The assistant postmaster said you'd be calling boy. Thanks Why Nick John right didn't sign for the chocolate the name seems to be Evette That's his right personal maid. Huh and look at the date Yesterday then John was lying. He had that package a whole day before the party. It looks that way But before we make up our minds, let's talk to a vet It is yesterday after noon I signed the what you call in the Certificate the receipt we've been the cell I signed him then I place the package on the old table Well, mr. John is sure to see him not a half hour have passed until I hear the voice of mr. John greeting Madam and I say to myself why he is home so early and why was he madam see? You have a headache but what about the package when I put the regular mail on the whole table about three o'clock The chocolates are gone Mr. Jean has picked them but you didn't see him do it notice you but the package is there when he come home It is gone after he passed through the whole So I know he has find it Isn't it funny Nick the smartest men make stupid mistakes when they try to commit a crime John left a trail of evidence a yard wide how about you're forgetting Patsy that if Mrs Right had eaten that chocolate there probably wouldn't have been any investigation you mean because of her weak heart sure Everyone would have assumed that death was due to heart failure. Well What now Nick? Let's get on the headquarters and see what the laboratory boys have found out Sorry to keep you waiting Nick that box of candy was more interesting than we thought how do you mean sergeant? Well first of all Patsy the poison must have been put in with a hypodermic needle The lab boys found marks like pinholes in the bottom of every chocolate nothing unusual about that Matty No, but what was unusual was the cyanide itself Nick in the lower layer. He used a solution so weak It wouldn't have killed anybody but a person with a bad heart like Mrs. Right Well, what do you mean in the lower layer? That's just it Patsy. He gave the top layer a solution ten times as strong enough to kill anybody That is interesting. Yeah, and that's not all there were some impurities in that cyanide Nick It'll be a cinch to prove where it came from once we locate the original supply. Yeah, sure Chemical analysis should take care of that. Yeah, but the most important thing of all was a fingerprint Who's fingerprint? I don't know yet Patsy, but I bet it's John's the chocolate must have got sore While it was holding it to put the poison in have you checked it against John's prints Yeah, the boys are doing that now Nick Matty, where was the chocolate with a fingerprint on it top or bottom layer the bottom? And that layer hadn't been touched until we got the box down here to the lab So he can't claim that it got there by accident after the box was open. Are you right about that? Can I go down to the lab and take a look at the chocolates myself? Sure you can Nick. What for? I'd like to find out why the top layer was given a double dose Sergeant Matheson was right Nick. All these chocolates have the same kind of little pinholes in the bottom No, not quite the same Patsy look at these chocolates from the top layer holes are larger and not quite so regular Well looks to me as though someone had put a second dose of cyanide in these and try to insert the needle in the holes left by the first one What? Yes, it does look that way. That's why the poison was stronger in the top layer Well, of course he decided that perhaps the weak solution wouldn't actually kill her So he gave the chocolates on top another dose with a stronger solution Perhaps But why insert the needle in exactly the same place? Why not? Look at the pattern on the bottom of each piece of candy The pinhole is right in the middle of that little dimple where you can hardly see it. It's a logical place to put the needle You know Patsy, I'm beginning to wonder whether that second dose of poison might not have been put in by somebody else What? You mean two different people had the same idea at almost the same time? Could be. And both of them tried to kill Mrs. Wright with the same kind of poison in the same box of chocolate? Oh, Nick that that's too much of a coincidence. Stranger things than that have happened Patsy Let's visit John Wright's laboratory. I want to find out if the cyanide really did come from there Here's the only bottle of cyanide we have, Mr. Carter But we don't use it because it's not a very good grade. Some kind of impurities in it I don't know exactly what. Impurities? Nick, do you remember what the sergeant said? Yeah, I know what you mean Patsy Must be an interesting job Mr. Jensen laboratory assistant to a biochemist. Oh the work's interesting enough You don't happen to be working for a slave driver like John Wright. Oh, uh, don't you like him? John's all right, I guess. You sure are a lot pleasanter working for Charles. You mean Charles used to be a chemist here, too? Oh, yes, before he went into real estate I was his assistant then and Janet worked with John then after John broke their engagement and Janet married Charles Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is getting complicated. Janet and John were engaged. Oh, yeah, but he changed his mind Everybody thinks she broke it off. I know different John. Just let us say that say we're feeling Then Charles was Janet's second choice. Yeah Have you seen either of them lately? Yes. They were both up one day last week talking over old times. I see Well, thanks for the information, Mr. Jensen. It's helped a lot Here's the report on that cyanide comparison test Nick. Okay, let's see it. Here you are both of them analyzed exactly the same Then the cyanide and the chocolates came from John Wright's laboratory. Not a doubt in the world Patsy How about the fingerprint of that chocolate? Ah, we drew a blank there Maybe belongs to somebody in the candy factory in Switzerland. Anyway, it's not John Wright's Could it belong to someone else in the right household? Well Patsy the fingerprint boys are checking that now But if that's just routine that print had to be made by either the Poisoner or somebody in Switzerland Nobody else had a chance to touch that bottom layer of candy. I'm beginning to get an idea ready. Huh pretty fantastic Sergeant Malthusen speaking. Oh Yeah, Barger is the report. Yeah, Patsy What? Archey you made a mistake. Oh, no, no, no, you must have yeah, but Okay Okay, Barger Whose friend was it sergeant Nick? Do you know who poisoned those chocolates? I think I do the same guy that ate one of them and died Charles Wright. So go on Nick. You're right It was his fingerprint. Oh But if Charles poisoned the chocolates he must have known what he was doing when he ate one of them Yeah, Nick Are you trying to tell me the guy committed suicide just so he could frame John for murder? No Maddie I think Charles Wright cooperated in his own murder. What? And I'm afraid by doing so He made it impossible for us to get one shred of evidence that will convict the real killer Well, do you know who it is, Nick? I think I do. There's only one way to prove it. How? Method I hate to use Maddie Because it may be pretty dangerous for an innocent person I've he said you wanted to see me at mad so I Wasn't the world are you doing with these two laundry hampers here in your room? Looking for something with a chocolate stain on it near Janet. You look through this hamper chocolate stain What do you mean? The chocolate was soft and whoever poisoned those candies must have got some of it on his fingers Be the most natural thing in the world or wipe them off on something without even thinking about it at mad It's John poison them you know that all right then if we find chocolate on one of his handkerchiefs that will prove it Oh, it's just a waste of time at man. Maybe but Did you find something no no I didn't find a thing and why are you looking so funny? I'm not Looking funny at all. I Janet would you run downstairs and ask Harvey to bring up some tea You're just making an excuse to get me out of the room. Aren't you at match? I know Janet Why should I why so you can make a telephone call to Nick Carter? Oh, what an idea Why should I want as you did find something in that clothes hamper? You're trying to hide? Why should I want as you did find something in that clothes hamper? You're trying to hide it on it One of my handkerchiefs and there is a smear of chocolate on it I was more careless than I thought and it was you you did poison that candy Of course I did but you knew that if I died everything would go to John That's why I took the candy away from you before you had a chance to eat any of it And that's why Charles grabbed the piece first We had a plant very carefully Charles knew about the poison. Yes He thought there was only a tiny bit of it enough to make him convincingly sick and Make you think that dear Johnny was trying to kill you Now I'm beginning to understand You thought that I blame Johnny for the other attempt to You thought I'd change my will and leave everything to Charles exactly darling But there was more poison in the chocolates than Charles thought Because after he finished preparing them I gave the top layer a second and stronger dose You love Charles. I hated him Greedy fool. I only married him because I thought he'd be rich someday and then you will Why do why did you kill him Janice? I saw that I'd get it all for myself and be rid of him at the same time With Charles dead and John convicted of his murder. Who could you leave it to but me? The poor sorrowing widow I didn't know anybody could be so evil. Well, you know now darling Anymore last words last word. Yes You're about to die of heart failure dear. No, you don't think I'll let you tell the police about finding that hand You do you wish I was just so if you don't blow from behind your back. No, don't please you won't struggle much Your heart won't last that long. Oh my gosh. Your heart won't last that long All I need to do is press the pillow over your face Oh We can ill Mrs. Wright hasn't the strength to defend herself against Janet's murderous attack We'll see what happens in just a moment for the conclusion of the case of the wrong mr. Wright today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser Helpless in her wheelchair Mrs. Wright struggles feebly against the suffocating pillow which Janet holds firmly over her face Ah They've been hiding in the closet listening. Are you all right, Mrs. Wright? Yes, I'm quite all right, mr. Carter It was such an interesting confession that I'm sure the jury will enjoy it as much as we did when you go on trial for murder Charles who pushed my wheelchair over that embankment wasn't it mr. Carter? That's what Janet told us at headquarters That was Charles own idea, but the poisoning scheme was Janet I began to see through the plan when we found Charles fingerprint on that chocolate and Obviously Janet had to be in on the scheme too Why because when we found out that the chocolates had been poisoned the second time with a stronger solution That made it pretty clear that somebody who knew what Charles had done was double-crossing it and Janet was the most logical Suspect I suppose so but we still didn't have any proof those things were only Circumstantial evidence. Well, you had the handkerchief with the chocolate stain Shall we tell her mr. Carter quite as well? There wasn't any chocolate stain fancy. There wasn't any but there was I saw it. I know Maddie and I put it there ourselves So that's why you went through all that rigmarole and let Mrs. Wright risk her life Oh, I wasn't worried knowing you were all there in the closet Anyway, it was worth it to prove that I wasn't wrong about Johnny Well now you can be satisfied that you put your faith in the right mr. Wright Well neck what sort of an adventure does new post war old Dutch cleanser half for us next week next week well for going after a young fellow I really like he was hiding out because of a murder committed back in 1939 and he admitted killing another man in 1948 and you liked him why Nick well if you asked me Ralph I think was because when Nick tried to keep him from getting away He threw Nick halfway across the room No, that's a fine basis for a lasting friendship with a murderer the matter of fact Ralph That was exactly what convinced me that he wasn't a murderer in spite of his own admission No, I still don't get it. But what do you call the adventure Nick? I call it the case of the forgetful killer Nick Carter master detective is presented each week at the same time by the cut a hay 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. Ed Latimer plays Matty today's script was written by Jim Parsons Original music is played by Henry Silver this program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental This is Ralph Camargo saying when minutes count use new post-war old Dutch cleanser The mutual broadcasting system