 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 you 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 tell you the kid did kill that cop in all my years on the force I never saw a more open and shut case. I was afraid it was going to be like this matty That's why I didn't want to give his mother any hope with the shame He's everything she has in the world That's the trouble Patsy every time you catch a crook some innocent person has to suffer Well, I'm sorry for his mother sure But I'm sorry for the dead man's widow too and I'm not going to rest till I see that cop killing little punk on His way to the electric chair Now for the case of the wandering corpse today's adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter Lefty Adams was always a bright boy the type who learned quickly at 12 He learned to steal bicycles and that sent him to the state reformatory where he learned a lot more about crime from older boys Now at 17 lefty is convinced that only suckers work for a living It's three o'clock in the morning on the lower east side of the city a lone customer from Milligan's bar and grill is making his uncertain way Homeward as he passes a dark doorway a figure quickly steps in behind him locks his arm around his neck and pulls him back into the shadow Just keep quiet Mac and you ain't gonna get hurt That's quite a roll you got there Thanks Now look how to conk you one, but I'm soft hearted see I'm laminar here But I got a rod and if you let out one you I'm coming back You're gonna be good Okay The dirty rat I might have known He ain't gonna get me I got far to go now if I can only Say my boy lefty shot that policeman. Mr. Carter. They say he's a murderer Stop crying Adam Nick will help you if he possibly can't won't you Nick? I'd certainly like to pass you like could But I got no money, but I'll work if it takes 20 years It isn't the money Mrs. Adams the fact that lefty ran away Oh, I wouldn't he run away with every cop in town looking for him ready to shoot him on so no They wouldn't do that That's what the papers say Why did you come to me you knew lefty when he used to go to your downtown boys club Yes, I did and you know he's a good boy. No, Mrs. Adams. I don't I don't think he's a really bad boy But he was always a little defiant and suspicious. That's no crime I know I did what I could for him at the short time He was a member of the club, but he didn't stay long enough for me to straighten him out He never meant any harm. It is them them older boys. He got mixed up with afterwards Yeah, that's usually the way lefty has a pretty bad record Mrs. Adams. Nick. Why don't you at least investigate? I'll be glad to but If I start I'll have to go through with it whether he's innocent or not Well, that's all I want mr. Carter because I know he didn't do it And of course if I find where he's hiding I'll have to turn him over to the police Well, that's the only way all right then go ahead Nick I tell you the kids guilty and all my years on the force I never saw a more open and shut case look Maddie will you tell me again just exactly what happened? It's a simple case Nick officer O'Malley caught this lefty Adams rolling a drunk the kid ran and O'Malley warned him to stop But he didn't so O'Malley fired and hit him to then the kid turned and shot O'Malley with that Homemade gun we found near the body a homemade gun sergeant. Yeah, Pat see a lot of these young hoodlums Make their own out of scrap metal and stuff and three people have identified the gun that killed O'Malley as his any fingerprints Sure all belonging to lefty Adams That's almost positive proof. That's pretty strong evidence And that's only part of it Nick the drunk got a good look at lefty when the kid ran under a street light And he's identified his picture, but he didn't actually see lefty fire the shot did he well Pat see considering the shape he was in he ain't sure of anything except that the kid was lefty Adams Matter of fact, he remembers hearing only one shot and we know there were two you mean because there was an empty cartridge and O'Malley's revolver sure and we know the kid was wounded because there was blood on the pavement a half a block from O'Malley's body We've sent out warnings to all doctors to watch for a 17-year-old boy with a bullet wound probably in his left arm But what makes you think he was hit in his left arm because Pat see the fingerprints on his gun are from his right hand Uh-huh, and lefty is a southpaw. Oh, I see what you mean Left arm must have been injured. I'd have held the gun in his left hand. That's the way I figured Oh, I was afraid it was going to be like this That's why I didn't want to give lefty's mother any hope. Oh, it's a shame. She has so much faith in him That's a trouble Pat see every time you catch a crook some innocent person has to suffer Well, I'm sorry for his mother sure But I'm sorry for O'Malley's widow too, and I'm not going to rest till I see that cop killing little punk on his way To the electric chair Well, here's O'Malley stuff Nick his uniform gun Night stick Everything he had on him mind if I look it over. No, no, go right ahead Sargent. Yeah, that's it. Didn't you say that officer O'Malley had been dead for about an hour when he was found? Yeah, when the drunk heard the shooting he went for help But he was so loopy it took him a long time to find another officer then he got lost trying to find the place again I see Didn't anybody in the neighborhood hear the shock? Well, you see nobody uses that street much at night There's a factory along one side of the block and the other side is all little stores and things only one person lives in the whole block Oh, who's that an old lady who lives in the back of a second-hand store. She runs she heard the shot But didn't pay any attention. Hey, Mary. Yeah, didn't it rain shortly after midnight last night? Yeah for a while. I should think the street would have been wet. It was sort of why there's dust in the back of a Mally's uniform. He must have ducked in the doorway to get out of the rain and lean against a dirty wall Yeah, it could be well. He didn't get it when he fell because he was lying on his face Nick There's something else about this coat. What oh, Mally was shot in the left side of the chest There's also a blood stain on the right shoulder of the goat say that's right Wonder how that got there. So it's me. Do you think that second blood stain means anything Nick? Well, I don't suppose so but for the sake of the boys mother I'm not going to give up until I know the reasons for everything. Well, come on pass you Let's get on a meet-up street and give the scene of the crime the once over Here's the second-hand storm and he was talking about let's go in for a minute. All right Okay, we'll wait Take your time. Oh gee, I love second-hand stories me look everything from jewelry to automobile tires Paint walls do job for a fat woman Well What can I do for you? My name's Carter. This is miss Boone. Please to meet you. I'm sure hello What are some questions about the shooting that took place near here last night? You heard the shots into yep They woke me up a window was open wide because of the fresh paint smell in the room. How many shots were there? Why? Who was all I heard sure there were only two not just one. Well, there was two. All right, of course I didn't know it was guns. I thought it was some car backfiring. What time was it? Did you notice? Well when the police was here that told me it was about three But I didn't look at the clock when I heard the shot. So well, I wouldn't know myself. Did you hear anything else? Yeah Yeah, I heard somebody run down the street right after that Well, thanks very much. Sorry. We had to interrupt your painting. Oh, that's all right. Don't mind a bit All right, come on, Betsy. We have to make another stop in this neighborhood. Where's that Nick? This won't be pleasant. We better stop in and tell Mrs. Adams what we learned from Maddie This is the right block Nick must be only a few houses farther on Betsy get back in the doorway quick What's the matter? Mrs. Adams. He just came out of that house down the street. So what? Something odd about the way she's acting Looking over her shoulder as if she were afraid of being followed. Let me see You're right. She acts scared to death. Look at those bundles. She's caring One of them must be closed She's also got something in a paper sack. That might be food Thanks. She's getting into a cab. No, I see Woman like Mrs. Adams can't afford a cab except for something very important. Come on. Yep Taxi Get in right where to fight follow that cab up ahead. There's a tech spot in it for you if you don't lose it Mr. You can say goodbye to that soft fuck right now Maybe wrong Patsy, but it looks to me as though lefty may have gotten touch with his mother and that she's taking him food and clothing It would be awful to use that poor woman as a means of Finding her boy and turning him over to the police. I know it Patsy But I said I was going to follow through on this case even if what I find sends left it to the chair Hey, Mr. They're stopping. Yeah, I see them hold back for a minute. Okay, you're the boss She's getting out and going into that old house. All right, driver. Let us out of the same house, right? Maybe I shouldn't feel this way Nick, but I hope lefty isn't there I'd rather the police court and then us murders nothing to be sentimental about I know It's a 10-spot driver and wait for us. Sure. Come on. Patsy. Let's see where lefty's mother goes The room she wanted to Mrs. Adams. I hope you're wrong me Mrs. Adams, what it's Nick Carter Let me in Mrs. Adams What's the use mom? Okay, so you found me now. I hope you're satisfied. He didn't do it. Mr. Carter He couldn't have left you telling me didn't kill anybody. I'm sorry mom. I can't I didn't shoot that cop Just like the papers Look at the wound So did I maybe we've been all wrong While lefty's heartbroken mother sobs convulsively Nick and the 17 year old criminal leave for headquarters We'll see what happens in just a moment I'll back to the case of a wandering corpse today's adventure with Nick Carter Lefty Adams has admitted killing officer O'Malley, but Nick still wants to clear up a few points So after delivering lefty to headquarters and waiting while a doctor attended to lefty's wound in our questions lefty in his cell How are you feeling lefty doctor fix you up all right? Yeah, sure. I didn't expect to find you where the head wound Oh, it wasn't nothing the bullet just creased me. Come on. I understand. It was a pretty deep crease Now the fraction of an inch to the right and you wouldn't be here I couldn't know Maly a shot straighter. Why couldn't it have been me instead of him? I never wanted to kill nobody and why did you carry a gun? All the other guys had a knife or a rod and I wanted to show him. I was tough, too Lefty were you mixed up with the gang? No There's been a lot of petty crime in your neighborhood lately stick up smugging automobile stripped And it looks as though there might be some kind of organization behind it. I don't know what you're talking about all right Let's talk about officer O'Malley. I said I shot him didn't I what more do you want? There are a couple of things I don't understand. I ain't saying nothing till I see my lawyer Haven't appointed anyone to defend you yet. Have they they don't have to I'm getting JB Fenton JB Fenton You'll find he cost a lot of money lefty. I'll get the dough. All right. I got friends. See friends I'd be willing to put up five or ten thousand dollars. Maybe more Sure, why not? Well, I didn't know you traveled in circles like that. Look, mr. Carter. Will you leave me alone, please ain't I got enough on my mind? Mom crying her eyes out me knowing I killed a guy Enough to drive a guy nuts without without having to keep talking about it. All right. All right, let me There's a couple of more questions, and I'll leave You're a left-handed aren't you? Yeah, sure. What do you think they call me lefty for and why did you hold the gun in your Right hand when you shot O'Malley? I Didn't I Couldn't have I couldn't hit nothing with my right hand at the fingerprints on that gunner from your right hand Quit nagging at me. Will you how do I know why I've done it? I shot him But I don't know how it happened. There was a million skyrockets going off inside my head You mean from the bullet wound. Yeah, I blacked out maybe all I remember is him chasing me into the What are you going to say? nothing Leave me alone. Will you I don't want to talk about it But lefty listen to me. I told you I killed the guy didn't I that's all I know now get out of here and let me alone Just let me alone Nick I've been waiting here in this taxi for over an hour I thought you were never coming took longer than I expected Betsy. Oh downtown driver corner of fourth and fifth, right? Did you find out anything found out that lefty is lying he's lying about what I'm not sure It's almost as if he were taking the blame to protect somebody else. He wouldn't do that I wouldn't think so either but that's the way it looks another thing It doesn't seem to be the actual shooting is lying about what is it then? Oh, I don't know Patsy It doesn't make sense. There's something wrong somewhere. Hey mister was that kid? We brought down the clink the one the one that bumped the cop last night. Yes, he's the one Hey, you know, it's a funny thing. I almost seen that Frank is what do you mean? You're almost I would happen in my territory, you know I picked you up only a couple of blocks from there. Yes, I know well like I was saying I Drown through the street with a kid to look up about half an hour before it happened about 3 30 it was what sure The papers at the cops body was found about four o'clock, and I went through there not half an hour before You sure you drove through that same block on meet some street this morning at 3 30. Sure. I'm sure I Picked up a fair right after that and I got it down on my book Three thirty seven maybe your watch was wrong. I'm not just taking a minute and off two minutes in ten years What are you so suck about you're going? It was four o'clock when they found the body that the killing took place at three Ah, you are nuts if that cop was laying dead in the street. I'd have seen him wouldn't I ha I bet you would turn around driver We're going back to headquarters But the body must have been there at 3 30 Nick He was shot at three and corpses don't go wandering around while they're waiting for somebody to find them That's why I'm taking another look at O'Malley's coat, Maddie I hope it'll tell us where the body really was just because there's a little dust on the back of it not entirely Maddie take another look at this stain on the right shoulder. Oh Nick We've talked about that before I Admit it's a funny place for a blood stain when he was shot on the other side I take a closer look you'll see that the blood stain isn't dried blood at all Well on this dark blue cloth. It's hard to tell the difference, but that particular stain is paint Maddie brown paint Carter is born again. Oh come right in. Thank you still fixing the place up, Mrs. Tremont Yeah, oh like they say woman's work has never done You know these shelves clear up to the ceiling is nice All right, but all they was never made to hold a heavy junk that collects in a second-hand store So today you're a carpenter instead of a painter. Well, I just thought I put in a couple of nails to hold them to the wall You know these shelves are there ever to tip over it'd be worse than pepper begui's closet Oh Where does all this stuff come from? Well, people bring it in sell it to me like in any second-hand store boys like lefty Adams I I don't get you wonder what would happen, Mrs. Tremont if the police checked your stock against the list of watches and auto accessories And other things that have been stolen in this neighborhood lately Oh, if you're insinuating you think they'd find out that you've been acting as a receiver of stolen goods for a gang of young hoodlums You ain't got no right to talk to me like that Why else would lefty Adams come here to hide when the police were after him? He never did that. Oh, yes He did and you let him in an officer O'Malley was shot here in this store not outside on the street He was not I don't know anything about it You can't get away with it, Mrs. Tremont when O'Malley fell the back of his coat picked up dust from your floor Oh, that don't be nothing could have got that dust any place But there was something else on his coat paint the fresh paint you put on your walls only a few hours before I Oh Okay, I'll tell you the truth. It did happen in here when the kid come knocking on the door I thought he'd been in an accident a lot on his face and everything so well naturally. I'll let him in Go on then when the cop come combusted in after him the the boy grabbed a gun out of his pocket and Oh, it was all very interesting story, Mrs. Tremont, but I have a better version Lefty came here because you were partners with ever young thief in the neighborhood buying the things they stole how do I know they Finish Lefty fainted as soon as you let him in you were afraid O'Malley would know why he came to you So when he followed lefty inside you shot him with a boy's gun while lefty himself was unconscious I ain't my fingerprints. It's on the gun. It's his that'll prove who does how did you know there were any finocrates? Well, I I'll tell you how you know Because after you killed O'Malley you wiped off the gun pressed it into lefty's hand and when he came to told him He'd done the killing you can't prove that you can't prove a thing Oh, yes, I can because you made a very serious mistake, Mrs. Tremont You put the prints of lefty's right hand on that gun if he'd actually done the shooting he'd have used his left. I I Well, you see, mr. Carver Yeah, ain't hurt are you no no thanks to you Nick she's got a gun sure I have so I push them shelves over Keep you too busy long enough for me to get it Now mr. Just push your ride over to the opposite side of the room. All right anything to oblige a lady But remember you're still trapped in this door with us The factory across the street is changing shifts and the street is full of people Think you can get through that crowd without being caught who said I was leaving Go on both of you get to the back of the store. Hey, what do you think you're doing? Well, dearie, there's a seller to this joint that ought to be darn your soundproof We all three are going down there, but I'm the only one that's coming back Now get moving At the point of a gun Nick and Patsy move slowly toward the door of the cellar which Mrs. Tremont intends to be their grave We'll see what happens in just a moment Now for the conclusion of the case of the wandering corpse today's adventure with Nick Carter Nick and Patsy are slowly walking toward the rear of Mrs. Tremont's second-hand store with Mrs. Tremont right behind them a revolver in her hand Nick once we get into that basement We won't have a chance you can do something to distract your attention for a minute Cut off a whisper and go on down those steps. Please don't rush us and have you ready me. I said shut up No Oh All right, Patsy, I've got the gun you dirty rat You broke my arm not gonna be down them stairs. Oh, that's a shame But we'll see that you get the very best medical attention in the prison hospital What gave you the idea that Mrs. Tremont killed Officer O'Malley that taxi driver Patsy Huh when he said the body wasn't lying in the street at 3 30 half an hour after O'Malley was shot as Maddie said a corpse just doesn't go wandering around Yeah, so I figured the killing must have taken place somewhere else But what made you decide it happened in Mrs. Tremont store because she was the only person who lived in the block and Therefore the only person who could have been there at that time of night So that's the only place left he could have found shelter That's right And I also remember that other stain on O'Malley's coat and the brown paint Mrs. Tremont had been using on her wall so you checked and found it was paint on the coat Right, and then everything fell into place all that junk in her store the same type of things that have been stolen in the neighborhood Provided me with a reason why lefty might have thought she'd help him Well, he went to her because she was a well sort of partner in crime exactly And if we assume that it was easy to reconstruct the whole thing I see lefty admitted that he passed out and didn't remember shooting the officer Then there was a fact that the fingerprints on the gun were from his right hands That's suggested a frame up. I suppose Mrs. Tremont dragged the body out into the street with lefty's help Of course She also bribed him into saying the murder happened out in the street by promising to pay for the best lawyer in town in Case he were caught so that's why he didn't want to bring her name into it by the way What's going to happen to lefty? Oh, I'm trying to get him parole to my custody. Oh Then you think lefty has really learned a lesson this time. I do It's promised to go straight from now on and I believe him. Well, I'm glad for his mother's sake as well as his own So am I Patsy? Oh? Incidentally, that was a beautiful fall you took down those seller steps. You should have been a stop girl for the movies Well, thanks, Nick and that reminds me I have a little expense account here. Oh What for for $1.25 the price of one large size bottle of liniment And now Nick will you tell us something about the adventure that you post war old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week Well Bob for one thing It's a case that really started 1300 years ago in China during the Tang dynasty when two Chinese families Started a feud over a dagger must have been a very unusual weapon It certainly was very unusual and very deadly as Nick and I almost discovered the hard way Well, it sounds like a case that promises lots of excitement to say the least What do you call the adventure Nick? I call it the case of the Kwong Lee dagger Nick Carter master detective is presented each week at this time by the Cuddy heat packing company It is produced and directed by John McGregor and is copyrighted by street and Smith publications incorporated Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy Matty was played by Ed Latimer today's script was written by Jim Parsons Original music is played by Henry Sylvain This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental And don't forget to read the Nick Carter story on murderous guns in the current black mask magazine One of the popular fiction group Bob Martin speaking This is the mutual broadcasting system