Speaker 1: The Avenger.
Speaker 2: The wrote to crime men at trapped that justice sets
crime does not pay. The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil,
is actually Jim Brannan, a famous biochemist. Through his numerous
scientific experiments, Brandon has perfected several inventions to aid him
and his persade against crime as the Avenger. Most remarkable
of these inventions is the highly secret diffusion capsule, which.
Speaker 1: Cloaks him in the black light of invisibility.
Speaker 2: Brand's assistance, the beautiful Fern Collier is the only one
who shares his secrets and knows that he is the
man the underworld fears as the Avenger.
Speaker 1: And now.
Speaker 2: The Avenger and murder hits the jackpot.
Speaker 3: The next operator, Operator, please don't cut me off, but
I'm still waiting for my party.
Speaker 1: He was busy on another wire. Operator.
Speaker 3: I can't leave this booth to get any change. Two
men are trailing me. This is a matter of life
and death. Operator Operator. I think I'm a crank, so
I just have to take a chance and get some change.
All right, gents outside match and that you have it.
It's back right now.
Speaker 1: Thank guy.
Speaker 3: The big guys waiting outside of his card go ahead.
Speaker 1: Thank What is this.
Speaker 3: Getting the cart j Justson in the back Tello, Judson,
Griff tell us Gorilla.
Speaker 2: If you don't sit here in the back with us, Hank,
Samuel drive, I'll say step on it, Sammy. Cut across
that back road the Keystone Meadows.
Speaker 4: Ow.
Speaker 5: Uh, what for you saying?
Speaker 4: Justsin So you're taking me to Keystone Meadows?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a nice desserted spot. I got to keep
you away from.
Speaker 1: Telephones, Justin.
Speaker 3: I didn't talk to anybody, Grif, honestly I didn't. That
secret service man was busy on another line.
Speaker 5: I know you didn't get to him, Judson.
Speaker 3: Hank would have blasted your right through the door of
your head. But you can't blame us if we don't
take any more chances with you. Well, I'm not going
to beg for mercy, Griff. I won't give you the
satisfaction you admit. You're all set the double crosses. It's
the only way out that I could see the latest
racket if yours forced my hand, I hadn't bargained for that.
Speaker 1: Now, who tipped you off? Judson?
Speaker 3: Nobody I tumbled on to you set up in the
factory today. It's too bad.
Speaker 2: It doesn't give me any choice, it's you or me.
Here's the place, Sammy, turn in here stop over there
near that clump of trees. Well, Judson, this is the
end of the line for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, get out.
Speaker 3: Jason.
Speaker 2: Might as well go through his clothes, Hank. If we
can make this look like robbery, so much the better.
Turn out the headlights, Sammy.
Speaker 3: I'll keep my flesh on him.
Speaker 1: He's well here all right, hurry it up, Hank. We
you haven't got all night. Okay, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 5: Then give it to him?
Speaker 3: Yes, Inspector, that's Max Judson, the real estate man. All right.
Speaker 1: Did you know him, Jim?
Speaker 3: Oh, you might say. We had a nodding acquaintance.
Speaker 2: He used to play tennis at my club. Well, what
makes you think this was a gang killing, Inspector? As
far as I know, Judson was always on the left.
Speaker 3: Well, people who live right don't often come to such
a bad end, Jim.
Speaker 1: Four bullets in the chest out in Keystone Metter.
Speaker 3: Yes, but he was robbed too, don't forget that.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it, Jim, this was a gang murder. Here.
Speaker 3: Take a look at this. We found it in his
left hand nickel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, according to the best tradition of the underworld
that nicol symbolizes the fate of a double crosser.
Speaker 3: I's here, Jim, you mind if I keep this nickel, Inspector.
I suppose you want it for your coin collection.
Speaker 2: Well, that's right, it's a buffalo nineteen twenty two. I
haven't got any of those.
Speaker 1: Okay, take it, And I don't suppose Judson's air sue.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Inspector. Well, where do you think we should start
on this? Gim oh?
Speaker 2: A lot of routine checking will have to be done first. Uh,
why don't you go to work on that?
Speaker 1: Now? What about you?
Speaker 3: I've got a punch that may lead us to the
motive for Judson's murder.
Speaker 2: I suppose you'll let me in on it. I'll need
a little time to work on it. Come around to
my lab at four o'clock this afternoon, inspector.
Speaker 3: Maybe i'll have something more definite by then.
Speaker 6: Here you having more nickels, Jim, Oh, good, put.
Speaker 3: Them down on the table here for you didn't get
the mixed up, did you? No?
Speaker 7: This pocket follows from the grocer, and bass from the
news dealer, and oh these are from the drugs dug
and all these world ones from the back.
Speaker 2: That brings our total up to five hundred. Now we
can go to work, Jim, I wish.
Speaker 6: You'd tell me what we're going to do with all
these nickels.
Speaker 3: We're going to give each one of them a chemical.
Speaker 6: Test, burn a chemical test.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think we'll find that a percentage of these
nickels are counterfeit.
Speaker 3: Hello, Inspector, you're right on time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hell, I hope you had better luck than I have.
Speaker 3: Jim, I haven't been able to get anywhere on Judson's death.
Speaker 6: Jim thinks you so, Inspector, Yes, what.
Speaker 1: Is your Jim?
Speaker 3: Counterfeit money?
Speaker 2: I think Judson's murder can be tied up with a
racket that specializes in counterfeit Nichols.
Speaker 1: Counterfeit Nichols.
Speaker 3: Why that couldn't be much of a racket, Jym, wouldn't
be worth it to.
Speaker 2: The contrary, Inspector, it would be a very smart racket,
and a very profitable one.
Speaker 1: H I figure that well.
Speaker 2: According to a little preliminary test we made this afternoon,
about one tenth of the nichols in circulation in this
neighborhood at least our counterfeit.
Speaker 1: Parl of that so I haven't the banks discovered it?
Speaker 2: Because these fake nichols are so well turned out it's
impossible to tell them from the real one. Well, here, inspector,
take a look at these two nichols. One is counterfeit
and one is good. Can you detect any difference?
Speaker 1: Ah, they look exactly the same.
Speaker 6: To me.
Speaker 2: They not only look the same, but they weigh the
same seventy seven point one sis.
Speaker 1: And how can you be sure they're fakes?
Speaker 2: I've given them a chemical test. H A nickel struck
at a government contains seventy five percent copper and twenty
five percent nickel. These countts contain lead for weight, zinc
for color, and powdered glass to give them a ring.
Well that's the reason they've been able to fool everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but where's the profit in a gym?
Speaker 3: Oh? About four and a half cents on each nickel.
Speaker 2: These fakes could be stamped out at a cost of
about half a cent piece.
Speaker 3: Say they were put out in large enough quantities, that
would add up to a sizeable rage, if I should
say so.
Speaker 2: When you realize there are two hundred and ninety five
million dollars worth of nickels in circulation, For instance, if
a counterfitter could supply just one percent of them, just
one percent for each a short period, he would stand
to clean up several million dollars.
Speaker 3: Of course, I think this racket is still.
Speaker 2: Localized, but unless we nip it in the butt, it
won't take too long for to expand.
Speaker 1: Well, any idea who might be behind it?
Speaker 2: Yes, that is I think I know who made these coins.
I want you to check on it for me with
who is it? An old fellow by the name of
Pop Wallers. He's a chronic counterfeiter, the kind that just
can't leave the business alone. And he's my father best
artist in the line. But the last I heard of
Poppy was stably toughed away in a federal contentiary. Well,
if Walters made these nickels, Jim, we'll find him. Give
me a couple of hours on this, Hello, Jerem, Inspector White. Oh, yes,
I got a line on Pop Waller's Jim.
Speaker 3: Good, It isn't so good.
Speaker 1: He was released from the federal pen eight months ago.
They figured he was too old.
Speaker 8: And feeble to do any more harm, so they sent
him to a rest home, Oh where abstain? But he
disappeared from the home three weeks after he arrived. I
guess that means he's back in operation, all right.
Speaker 2: Yes, and this time I don't think he's working alone.
He's probably hitched up with some local gang that has
the proper setup to unload the nickels. Anyway, Pop Waters
wasn't a killer.
Speaker 1: I'll put some of my best men on the job
right away, Jim. We'll be able to locate him.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go to work on the other angle.
Speaker 1: What other angle?
Speaker 3: The gang that's unloading the nickels? All right, Well, keep
in touch with me, Jim, so long.
Speaker 4: Inspector, you winning anything, Grip, Nope?
Speaker 1: And the suckers won't take much away from.
Speaker 3: This newbot machine, Hank.
Speaker 1: How much does it pay off?
Speaker 5: Only about twenty percent?
Speaker 3: Just enough to keep them coming. I am. I think
you're gonna run into some trouble installing them new machines, Grip,
what are you giving me? Customers will take him like them.
Speaker 1: Now we're in for some headaches, Griff.
Speaker 3: Now that Judson's gone, some of the customers that occupy
stores space he owned a stepping out of line.
Speaker 1: Oh how three of them.
Speaker 3: Head out of order signs on their slut machines today.
Speaker 1: Oh what did you do about it?
Speaker 3: I tore down the stignes and told them to lay off,
but it didn't scare them. Then Judson's dead and they
figured they can't be dispossessed. Now two of them had
a nerve to tell me to get the machines out
of the place.
Speaker 2: Well, we better go to work on this right away.
Those guys are dealing with Griff Katlin now, and I
guess it's about time I let them know who's boss.
They'll tell me to get the car out, Hank. Right,
I got a little job for you, two boys.
Speaker 3: Okay, Sammy, it's that store on the corner, close to
the sidewark and slow down.
Speaker 1: Right here. He's a present for you, mister Ballot. Okay it.
Speaker 3: And let's teach him. Next step is the tenth in
Maple SEMMI, we got another package to deliver.
Speaker 2: Well, there isn't much left of this store, Inspector. Were
there any customers inside when the bomb was thrown?
Speaker 1: A ballad the proprietor was the only casualty. Jim.
Speaker 3: Looks like we're right in the middle of an old
time gang war. We haven't been up against anything like
this in years idea.
Speaker 2: Jim, Yes, I think there's a definite connection between this
bombing and Max Judson's murder. Or hard you figure that
Judson owned several dozen corner stores in the city and
this was one of them.
Speaker 1: Protection ragged Maybe.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised, But I still can't figure out
where the counterfeit nickel fits into all this.
Speaker 3: We're up a blind alley on pop Warriors. The old
fellow seems to vanish in.
Speaker 1: The thin air.
Speaker 2: Keep your men working on an inspector meantime, friend, and
I will get busy on a little field work. Now
back to the Avenger and murder hits the jackpot.
Speaker 6: Oh god, Jim, we're losted.
Speaker 3: Jim, put another nickelin Ferns. I'll get some more.
Speaker 6: Change, all right. Oh, I don't think it's possible to
win on these slot machines, Jim.
Speaker 7: You're just wasting money on these things. So far, we've
put in over ten dollars worth of nickels and various
machines and only got two dollars back.
Speaker 2: That's about the average payoffer, and only the suckers expect
to win. Put one more nickel in it and then
we'll move on to the next door. Okay, Jim, I
won not the jackpot though.
Speaker 6: Oh help me gather up the nickels.
Speaker 2: Jim, Oh, that was a twenty nickel win. Fern here
put them in this pocket. I'm keeping that those we
won separated from the ones we got in change from
the straw keepers.
Speaker 6: I'm tired of these games, Jim. Can't we go home now?
Speaker 3: Not yet. We have three more stores to cover.
Speaker 2: Then we'll go back to the lab and find out
how many counterfeit nickels we've collected.
Speaker 6: Come on, have you finished with the test? Jim?
Speaker 2: Yes, Vernon eight out of ten of those nickels we
collected and the slot machine stores were counterfit.
Speaker 7: They're seeping into circulation through those stores, then, right, Jim.
Speaker 6: It doesn't seem possible that all those storekeepers could be crooked.
Speaker 3: It doesn't necessarily follow.
Speaker 7: That they are, But if they're hanging out fake nickels
for change, they must be.
Speaker 2: No, there's another angle to it. Those slot machines are
serviced by a follow by the name of Griff Kaplan.
Speaker 6: How did you find that out?
Speaker 3: One of those straw keepers admitted it. Griff's men deliver
the nickels each morning and the storekeeper pays for them
men bills.
Speaker 6: Well, now we're getting someplace.
Speaker 7: Old Pathdwarters' is probably working for Griff Catlan, who has
a perfect setup from boding.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
Speaker 6: Well, how did Max Judson fit into it?
Speaker 2: Johnson evidently forced his tenants to install the machines. He
probably made a deal with Griff Katlin to share on
the profits.
Speaker 6: Why should they kill him? Then?
Speaker 2: Maybe Judson didn't know anything about the counterfitting ankle. At
first thought it was a straight business proposition. Then somebody
made his slip and Judson got wise. He threatened to
have the law on Griff or maybe have the machines
taken out of his stores. So Griff had a murdered.
Speaker 6: Well, the case is solved him. Should I call the inspectors?
Speaker 2: Not yet, There's one piece missing in this puzzle. I
still have to find out how Griff Katherine manages to
get the lead and zinc for those phony nickels.
Speaker 6: Oh, how can we do that?
Speaker 2: Well, he must have a business in front of some
kind so that he can buy those metals without incurring suspicion.
We'll have to make a survey of the big factories
and check the metal situation in each one of them.
Speaker 3: The Wells Manufacturing Company is on the level fern.
Speaker 2: Production and purchases. Check here at the Highland Mills Progress
Coppery has a clean bill of health. You've been checked.
Western Plate where awful fern. Everything's in order at the
Garfield plant. That Novelty toy factory is the place we're
looking for fern.
Speaker 6: Oh good, I was beginning to give up. How can
you be sure, Jim?
Speaker 2: All their toys are made of plastic, But according to
the trucking report I have on them, they receive a
weekly chipment of lead and zinc.
Speaker 6: Well, did you see anything in there that looks suspicious?
Speaker 2: Yes, they manufacture toys all right, but their output is
very small in comparison to the size of the factory.
It's just possible that the counterfit does operated in the
basement because there's only one door leading down there from
the factory and it was bolted from the inside.
Speaker 6: Well, there's a big devil door there in the back.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's big enough to allow a good sized truck through.
Speaker 6: Well, what do you think we ought to do, Jim?
Speaker 3: It's my guess that the actual counterfiting goes on at
night when the factory's closed. We'll have to come back later.
This seaves to verify that.
Speaker 6: In the meantime, how about some dinner, Jim.
Speaker 7: I didn't say anything about skipping any lunch, but I'm famish, okay.
Speaker 3: How about a nice big steak with all the trimmings.
Speaker 6: Well, it looks as if your hunt was right, Jim.
Speaker 3: Yes, there are some lights in the basement. All right.
The shutter of that one window isn't tightly closed.
Speaker 6: Can you see anything? Jim?
Speaker 3: No, it is an open far enough.
Speaker 6: How do you plan on getting in?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I can, and they open that window easily enough.
Speaker 6: What do you want me to do, Jim?
Speaker 2: Go up to the drug store on the corner and
wait for me. If I don't join you there in
an hour, call the inspector.
Speaker 6: All right, Jim, do you think this is a job
for the Avenger?
Speaker 3: I don't know yet.
Speaker 4: Burn.
Speaker 2: I'll go in there and get the lay of the
land first. Now run along, it's time I went to work.
Speaker 3: Mm. Hello, hey, oh hello, say, I didn't hear you
come in, young feller. Who are you a friend of Grits? Oh?
Speaker 1: Hey, do I know your son? No?
Speaker 2: But I've heard a lot about you, pomp. You have
who from oh Griffin the boys? Johnson like you too?
Johnson don't think I know him. He was in business
with griff.
Speaker 3: Hey, come closest, Son, so I can get againder at you.
My eyes ain't what they used to be. Your guys
are okay? Pop? Those Nichols you're making are better than ever?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah they are, aren't they? I sure fooled them treasure guys,
didn't I all? So you did?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Pop Wall, this is through, they said, too old and
too feeble to do any harm here. I am turning
out better Nichols than the mint. No oh, popping through
yet not by a long shot. Why you'll be engraving
bills one of these days, Bob, not me. Nichols is
safer people in banks examined bills close with nobody's species
in Nichols. Why that's right. You make them pop and
griffelum load of them. That's the tickets. Son were branching
out already, you know that? Why No? I didn't?
Speaker 1: Sure he's Look.
Speaker 3: Look there's five thousand dollars worth of nickels over there,
right over there, ready to be tracked out to Avon
City tomorrow At that rate, you'll be a millionaire one
of these days, not me, when you get to be
my age. Many don't mean anything to you. All I
want is to stay out of jail and be left
alone to do my work with you.
Speaker 2: It's art for art's sake. Hey, that's said, send nothing,
Papa say. Wouldn't be easier to stamp out all the
nickels from one plate?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, that did give them all the
same date, and the banks would get wise to that
no time. For what dates do you cover? My specialty
is the buffalo nickels, Sam, so I ran most of
them from nineteen thirteen to nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 2: How did you manage to get all those plates made
so soon? You've only been out of the penitentiary eight months.
Speaker 3: Look, look, I'll tell you something. Yeah, listen to me
close Now. I had nearly all these plates buried, Sam.
All I had to do was dig them up and
go to work pretty smart. Say, pop, got a twenty
two nickel on you?
Speaker 1: No, on the head?
Speaker 3: A few of those? Well, what was that noise? I
guess that's Griff.
Speaker 1: He generally comes in around this time.
Speaker 3: This is a job for the avenger. Oh, Bob, everything's
going Oh fine, Griff, Fine.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna move you over to Avon City.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, Pop, Avon City went for things are getting hot
because that's all.
Speaker 3: Eh, that's too bad. Now say name treasury man. Ain't
on us already had ain't no not yet. Eh, that's good, Oh,
I say, Griff, Uh huh. This young fella has been here.
He's waiting to see you. What young fella, Mzee. It's
mighty funny. He's here a minute. The girls sitting right
on that stool talking to me. Hey, you're a looney Pop.
There's nobody here. It's lucky for you. There isn't.
Speaker 1: You can't make it out.
Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't have anybody meet me here. Nobody
but you and me and some of the boys know
what's going on.
Speaker 1: In this place.
Speaker 3: The Avenger, Grip, he's in on this little secret too,
The Avenger. I told you seventy was in here.
Speaker 1: Griff.
Speaker 4: You'll double cross me, Pop.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Gray Fire, I didn't let him in. No,
I didn't let him in.
Speaker 3: Honest, you double crossed yourself, Grip. When you murdered Judson.
Speaker 4: Griff, you didn't murder anybody, did you wear is he.
Speaker 2: I'll find the Avenger and plug him. Pull a lead
if it's the last thing I do. You're good at that,
but this isn't the night for it. My gun, the
Avenger knocked it out of your hand, Grip, pick it up,
Pop and cover him.
Speaker 3: Grip. Katlin has wanted for at least three murders, all right,
I don't hold with them that kills.
Speaker 4: Stick up your hands, Grip.
Speaker 3: And if you make one move toward Pop, the Avenger
will knock you out cold. Don't you worry. I'll wig
him he tries to get away. Avenger good.
Speaker 2: We won't have long to wait. Inspector White will be
here soon. He'll be glad to take Grip off your hands. Pop,
Whit boys will get you for this. Pop bad and
you two Avengers, save your breath, Grip. When the judge
gets through with you and you're a gang, a whole
lot of you won't be worth one.
Speaker 4: Of Top's date.
Speaker 6: Now, Will Jim tell me? Has Griff cat Linton says.
Speaker 2: No, fairly hasn't, But as a matter of fact, he
doesn't have to. We got the whole story out of
Hank and Pop.
Speaker 6: Murdered Judson just as you suspected.
Speaker 2: Well, he ordered Hank to do it, which is practically
the same thing.
Speaker 6: And he was behind those burnings too.
Speaker 2: I suppose, yes, that was his method of keeping his
customers in line.
Speaker 7: Well, Jim, I know you tumbled to the slot machine
angle because it was a possible way of unloading the
fake nickels. But what led you to suspect that the
nickel in Judson's hand was the counterfeit fern?
Speaker 2: That nickel in Judson's hand was a nineteen twenty two nickel. Well,
it just happens that the men didn't make any nickels
that year.
Speaker 6: They didn't Why not?
Speaker 2: There were plenty of nickels in circulation at that time,
so the men took a holiday and didn't coin a
single nickel.
Speaker 6: I guess top Water was older and feel than he thought.
Speaker 2: No, as a matter of fact, he'd only printed a
few of them when he discovered his mistake. But somehow
Judson got hold of one of them, and that's what
put him wise to the counterfeitting racket.
Speaker 3: Griff was operated through the slot machines.
Speaker 6: Oh my, it's almost three o'clock. I'll have to rep long.
Speaker 3: We'll say, what's in that petty case. You can hardly
lift it off the floor of Nickels.
Speaker 7: Jim, all the good ones you accumulated in our field work,
I'm going to unload them at the nearest bank.
Speaker 2: All characters names placed. Some plots used in the Avenger
program are fictitious. Any similarity to a person's living or
dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3: This is a thought, a thought, a thought.
Speaker 2: Remember listen for another adventurer, The Avenger