July 28, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Who knows what evil leks in the hearts of men.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Shadow knows.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Low coal presents the Shadow, a man of mystery who
strikes terror in the very souls of sharpsters, lawbreakers, and criminals.
All signs point to a severe winter. They prepare. If
you want to be sure of even the pendable helpful
heat in any kind of weather, insist on blue coals,
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America's finest anthracite mine from the fields of northern Pennsylvania,
the coal that has colored a harmless blue. The mind's
for your protection.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You can't everything.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You can't do it fall Gordon. Listen, I can't see anybody.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Who I am the Shadow.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Stop.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
We haven't much time. We must hurry, Gordon. You're in
the death house, charged with murder.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, I'm innocent. I'm innocent, but nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Take courage, Gordon. The Shadow knows. All right, now, got
just sit down.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I told Elbows, who set our coffee here in the library,
and she's gotta go on the terrace. Then I receive
a smile That frown is most unbecoming. Lamont, give it up,
Give what up, my dear drinking coffee.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I'm serious, Lamont Cranston.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
When I foolishly let you know that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Do you remember what you said?
Speaker 7 (02:13):
It will be exactly five years next week.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
If there's still so much to do, Margot, Would.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
They let somebody else do it? Don't you realize that
you can't keep on like this forever? Some one certain
to identify you and well net someone down.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Some one else is certain to kill you and hats
But until they do, aud Darling, stop frowning.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
I don't mean necessary to give up your work, Lamont,
but this other Let the shadow just disappear and come
oot openly you are and your organized forces of law
and police.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Won't you realize, Margo, that my entire usefulness to the
organized forces of law and police lies in my remaining
outside those forces, in remaining always the shadow. Would they
approve my methods? Would they believe in my science?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You would make them believe?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You could make them.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Approve, and in doing so reveal my seat grits, my knowledge,
reveal them, and eventually let them fall into the hands
of organized crime.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Hm. No, Margot, no one must ever know, no one
but you.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Why do you think I've devoted countless hours to investigating
electrical and chemical phenomena? Why do you think I went
to India, to to Egypt, China.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (03:19):
I studied in London, Paris and Vienna except to learn
the old mysteries that modern science has not yet rediscovered,
the natural magic modern psychology is beginning to understand, and well,
magic that wouldn't seem so natural. I studied and learned
for a purpose, my.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Dear, All right, lament, I realize all that. But now
now the entire underworld has but one objective to erase
the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
And to me that mean until they know what the
shadow is and who he is, what can they do?
Stop and think how many criminals are either dead or
in prison because of our activities.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, even now tonight, as.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
We sit quietly here, somewhere, an innocent human being may
be in desperate trouble. Somewhere, Perhaps there is a problem
that can never be solved except by the Shadow.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What did the doctor say, Grace?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
It was good and newsn't and bad too, I'm afraid, dear.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, whatever it was, dear, tell me well.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I he said the baby could be perfectly well again
within a year.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh, I thank god for that poor kid. She's had
a tough time. Well what else, Oh, this part isn't
so good, Paul.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
She'll need treatments during all that time, Paul.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Treatments cost money.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I know.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, you'll have to manage somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You didn't do a very good job marrying media. If
I can only get a job, I've got my health
and I've got brains, but no one seems to want
them out. They will, they've got to.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But just about down to rock bottom, and I raised
every cent I can on the house and car.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
There's anything left.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
You and I are still left, Paul, and we've got
to take care of Sally. She's our daughter, Paul, and
she's got to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Have her chim. She's going to have it somehow.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Tomorrow I'll start out and take anything I can.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Get, Darling.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Perhaps tomorrow things will break for us, Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
If only they don't break the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Come more bed, Okay over here, these two.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Excuse me?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But are you the boss here?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That's right, I'm looking for a job.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Nothing doing, buddy, I'll do anything, wait on table, wash dishes,
anything at all.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I don't need any more help.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, how about deliver things.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I've got a car.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oh, I don't deliver nothing.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I don't need you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I see all right?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Thanks? Hey, hey you but you calling to me? Yeah, Siddan,
I have a beer? No thanks, I I don't drink anyhow.
Sidan made a friend of mine. Name's Lefty. My name's
red clock on my head, you'll know why. Well, I'm
glad to meet you both. And Gordon's my name, Paul Gordon? Well,
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did do you want to talk to me about something?
We might might be able to help you out? Sounds
like you're looking for a job.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
You better I am.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I need one, you know, anybody that could use me?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Maybe you don't know you yet, so far as that goes,
I don't know you either. See read the guy smart?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, maybe too smart. Now look here, mister Gordon.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We need a car and we need somebody to drive
it for us.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You understand. Well, I've got a car and I can drive.
Is it a good car? Has it got speed? I'll
guarantee you updated.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
It's not there, it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I listen, kid, How about meeting us tomorrow morning at
nine o'clock?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
All right? Where?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, let's see we're going to I got it right
in front of the Uptown Bank.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We gotta go there first.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
They care should check well how about five dollars a day.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
That's so, but you'll.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Remember be there at nine o'clock or you don't get
no job. I don't worry, I'll be there.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I'll be there at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Everybody, you can't keep this car in front of the
bank all day.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
I just see that sign no parking.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm that parking opposite.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I'm waiting for a couple of men.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I'm working for them.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Hey, what's that sounds my shot in the bank.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
You gotta let me hear you into the car.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Come on, you start that much core, step on it.
But you can't do get gone, I would joke, don't
have it right.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Hould him on, I'll hold him.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Which i'd never shut that cup.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Can't to get to my speed?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Out of this car, Fella, she don't all she can't
shoot at that tie has read.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
List them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Try the windshield, say.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Let me out of this take the car.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
You'll think I'm in with you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's just what we're figuring on. Now Here comes a
curve after you.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Make that stop.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Get ready, but I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I'm just leaving the evidence.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
He's on the seat.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Pushy okay, goodbye? What okay?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Hey, wait you guys got leave me like this now.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Think I did it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Hey, come on back with you over in their hands.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Come on, get him up, all right, office, I haven't
got a gun.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I wasn't in this.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They made me drive the car, keep their hands up,
just the same A further car jally, okay, huge, I'll follow.
You might as well come clean on this. I haven't
done anything.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I tell you, I'm innocent.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Hey, suj I got it under the rear seat cushion
bag full of bills and a gun. That's the gun
that bumped off my buddy alloy. And you say you're inerting, Yes,
I am, well it'll take more than saying so they
keep you out of the electric chair. Honor in the court,
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and honor in the court, Old Gordon, The jury have
found you guilty of robbery under arms and secretary murder.
You've been shown you've had both motive and opportunity. The
prosecution is pile of a massive, incontrovertible evidence, and I
myself have no doubt if you'll give therefore in accordings
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for the law I directed to be taken from here
to the place from hence you came, and the lare
you be put to death in the manners stated by
the law. And may God have mercy on your shoulder.
Who bring that person before the cops? I I don't
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know where he is, your Honah. The lot came from
over there in that corner. Yes, yes, you're all over
there's no one in that color, only a shadow. Go
(10:37):
to please here, mother will be right here in the
next room.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Oh God, please help me, help me. I don't know
what to do. Yes, who is it?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
My name is Margot Lane.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I have a message for you, missus Gordon.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You're not a reporter, are you know? I'm a friend.
I've come to help.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh the then please come in. What is it you
want in Slane?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Missus Gordon, your husband has a friend who's going.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
To help him.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Here's a thousand dollars in cash. That's for you and
Sally a thousand. Who was it sent this to me?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
For that?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
But the message with it is not.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
To lose hope, and that there is hope for Paul.
Then the man who sent this to you never fails.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Who is he or that?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I can't tell you, but.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Miss Lane, you know him. Sometimes I wonder whether I
do I love him? That I wonder whether I know him.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
It's hard to tell whether I really know the man.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Or only his shadow.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, I left it the night.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The four guy goes to the chair.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's what he gets for being a sucker that has
not a clute.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It even points our weight, not even a prince.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We had gloves on all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
You had yourys up for a minute when you were
sitting next to 'em. Yeah, but uh, I didn't touch
the wheel.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Then we ain't left a clue, you think, so?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Who said that you left me?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I thought it was you.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
It was I. You cannot see me, and where are you?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I am here in the room, in the shadow. You
have pinned your crime on an innocent man. He shall
not suffer, but you will.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I don't know who you are were Yeah, but your
bluffing anyway, You got no evidence If we didn't leave
a clue.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Did leave a clue?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
A clue that will send you to the chair.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Where was it your life?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Wouldn't you like to believe that?
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Keep thinking about it, Keep thinking about.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
The clue that you forgot. Margo Lane.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Paul Gordon is in the death house and is to
die in the chair.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Tonight. I am going to him now.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
We can still save him.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Stand by four orders.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
In a few moments, we will return to the shadow.
But before we do, let me stress this one fact.
For home heating, anthracide is best, and America's finest anthracite
is blue coal. Anthracide is the helpful fuel. It gives steady,
uniform heat that helps prevent coals and cuts down doctor's bills.
Or with anthracite, there is no quick chilling of the house,
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such as you get with fuels of the on and
off type or with quick burning fuels that flare up
and burn out. Bear in mind that heating plants in
this part of the country were especially designed to burn anthracite.
So before that coal snap catches you unaware, call your
local blue coal dealer. You'll find his name listed and
the where to buy its section of your classified directory
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under the words blue coal. Call him tomorrow and order
a supply of America's finest anthracite.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What have you have you got any work from the governor?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm sorry, Gordon, the governor refuses to take any action.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I've got to go tonight at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
What time is it now?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Almost ten.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Is there anything I can do for you? No?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Thank you? Well very well.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Guards will move you to another side.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'll be back in a little while, wady Gordon, beest guy.
You just gonna move you to another's What does it matter?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Say? One year? Going to is near a.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Near to the chair?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Is an't it?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Alright? Let's gone.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Alright, Gordon, walk the left.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You'll be right here behind you.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
And locked the door into the preparation chamber of Pete.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, this is the second alright.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Going through Gordon watching Pete. I'll shut the door.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What's the use of all this trouble? What chance have
I got now?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
I'm afraid you haven't got much feller.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Uh, I wouldn't say that. What do you mean? Holy smokes?
But behind you, well, there are too bad. I hated
to do that, but if there wasn't any other way.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And you'll only be out for a while now, Gordon,
listen to me.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
There where are you? I can't see anymore?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Where have you gone back into the shadow?
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Now, Gordon, we haven't much time.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Listen to me. No crime is perfect.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
There's always somewhere a loose end. The only reason that
all crimes aren't solved is because there's.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Some one fact that someone knows and doesn't tell. And
sometimes they don't.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Tell because they don't know that they know. I told
everything I know, and court they wouldn't believe.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Me then, because you couldn't prove what you said.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We are going.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
After the proof now, you and I.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Huh, I'm going to think with your mind.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Don't try to understand.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Just do as I tell you.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I want you to concentrate, Gordon, fix your mind.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
On everything that happened.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
That they make mental pictures. I'll see what you see.
I try it now.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
No, No, Gordon, stop thinking about your wife and baby.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
How did you know I was thinking about thought in
your mind?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I see in my mind the pictures you creat in yours. Oh,
like television is or like mental telepathy or mind reading, hypnotism.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Whatever you choose. There's no time to talk.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Stop talking.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Think I will, I will. I'm thinking now.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
The picture is getting clearer.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That's better.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Go on the restaurant, the bar, Gordon.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Stop thinking about the electric chair. It blurs the picture.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'll try. I'll try. Uh, that's better.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
The car in front of the bank, Yes, I see it.
The policeman the crowd. Yes, wait a minute, the small
man with red hair, he was the one.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
You called red. Yes, yes, I see him, crooked nose,
short glasses. I know that man, he's red sloan. I
I it's hard to see.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
I know.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Think for your life, try hard.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yes, you started the car. The other lefty was in
front with you. Lefty LEFTI see him for me, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Uh, yes, a scar on his left cheek.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Why didn't you mention that in court? I I forgot
never mind concentrate. Yes, yes, left he couldn't keep you
covered with a gun and look back at the same time.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
What did he do?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
He reached up and twished it the rear humor.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Now we've got it.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
That's the loose end.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's where his thumb print will be.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Gordon, Now I can save you.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
You've told the truth. You didn't know, you knew.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You're a fool for coming in here again. This is
the place we picked up that kid that's burning the night.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
What do you want to come in here for?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
This is as good at place as any in it.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Hey, telephone for you left ere telephone.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Yeah maybe you never heard of it, but it's a
great invention.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
But nobody knows. I'm here.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Somebody knows because they're waiting on the phone for you.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's over there on the wall. Okay, I'll beat so
long letters.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Hello, Say what do you laughing at?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Who is this? Lefty?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Did you ever hear of the shadow?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Say what is this too.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Bad about young Gordon? Isn't it? Lefty? What do you
know about that? The shadow knows?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Who are you? What do you want? I want justice,
justice for Paul Gordon, Lefty, and I'm going.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
To get it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
But you ain't got no.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Perhaps there are some fingerprints, let's see.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
No, we had gloves on. It couldn't be no fingerprints.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Did you have gloves on all the time?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, sure I did.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
You're left handed.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Now listen carefully, leftie. When you were sitting in the
front seat of Gordon's car, your.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Gun was within your left hand.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Remember, say you ain't nobody?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Ay, it's just say, how do you know what.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Did you do with your right hand?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
My right hand?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
You took off your right glove, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No. Gosh, I'm going nuts.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And you couldn't see the car that was chasing you
because the angle of the rear view mirror was adjusted
for the driver, and you weren't driving. So do you
remember what you did?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
No? No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I didn't take it off.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Are you sure you didn't reach up with your pair
right hand and turn that rear view mirror?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Are you sure, Lefty?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Maybe I did that.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
If the police find that fingerprint, you'll burn Lefty just
the way Young Gordon's going to burn tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Goodbye, Lefty.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Wait a minute, we hung up? No, no, I won't burn.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He read read it said geblong. And I'm say, who
was the guy on?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I not?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Where's that car of Gordon's now in his garage?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I guess I heard his wife christ what.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I got a hunch there's some.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Fingerprints of mine in that car? Read? We got a
white more for there? Or maybe we'll burn that chair too.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Come on, let's go the commissioner.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
I'm sorry, miss Lane, but I don't see what we
can do.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
And I tell you, Paul Gordon is innocence. The men
who committed the crime are free.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Where did you get this information?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
So that I can't ted you, miss Lane.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Paul Gordon was convicted of murder by due processes of law.
Tonight he pays for his crime in the electric chair.
If the police listened to every crankle came in here
claiming you everything.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
They can't send an innocent man to the chair, they
can't do it, no, but they.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Can send it guilty man. And according to the evidence,
Paul Gordon is guilty.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Commissioner.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I suppose that afterwards, when it's too late, they discover
that Paul Gordon wasn't guilty after all. And suppose I
testify that the police refuse to listen.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
If it's within reason, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I want you to.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Send some men to that garage. I want you to
catch the guilty men and see that justice is done.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
One night.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
I'm frightened.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Brace up, Gordon. It won't be long.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Buddy might turn next.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Along fellow.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
All by.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
He promised to save me? Oh son, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It was a voice, just a voice. He said he'd
stand by steady, old man, hope lose your nerve, Gordon,
open it up, then, No, we'll go in there.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I didn't kill him. I didn't I tell you, he said.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He stand by. He's one way.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Only a few minutes more, just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Don't take me in there yet.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
No wait, please please, he said, please.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Wait easy, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Am I going on that door?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'm gone. It'll be too late for him.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
No way.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh where are you? Where is that?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Boys?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
When he goes, please come back?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Wait a minute minute?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Well what is it?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wharton? Wait?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
The governor's on the phone, he says, stop all of everything.
What the governor say? He wants to talk to you
on the phone, Warden, He says, don't electrocute this man.
They've got the other two guys in Gordon's garage trying
to rub out some fingerprints. One of them was shot
and died. But before he died, he spilled it all.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
This father didn't do it. It was a fine.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh thank god he got me in time, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Gordon.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Did you hear that? Yes, yes, I heard it. That
voice said he would. I'm free. You're not going to
electrocute me Warden, You're not. No, No, Gordon, the governor
saved you. Governor, No, who wasn't the governor? It was
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somebody else or something else.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
But what do you mean Gordon who saved you.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It was a voice, just a voice. I never really
saw him.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
He was only a shadow.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Before another adventure with the shadow draws to a close.
John Barclay, blue Coal's heating expert, would like to say
a few words. Mister Barclay, good evening friends. If you're
interested in having a more comfortable home this winter, be
sure to call your local Blue Coal dealer, for he's
more than a fuel dealer. He's an authority on modern
home heating. You see, for more than six years, I've
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trained servicemen for these Blue Coal dealers. These men, known
as John Barkley servicemen have added thousands of families like
yours to enjoy a greater degree of comfort and to
save heating dollars too. I'm going to read part of
a letter typical of many received from satisfied customers using
Blue Coal and John Barclay service. I quote in part
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the service rendered by your John Barclay servicemen has been
invaluable to me. We were burning a ton of coal
of wheat and having great difficulty in keeping our fire
going throughout the night. Your serviceman made me many helpful
suggestions regarding the proper way to regulate the furnace and
recommended the use of blue coal. We not only reduce
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the amount of fuel consumed to one half, but actually
got more heat.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Think of that, friends.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
In this case, a family cut their fuel.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Bill in half simply by following the advice of a
John Barclay serviceman whose services were given without charge.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now you don't have to buy a blue.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Coal to benefit from John Barclay service, no matter what
kind of fuel you are using or from whom you've
been buying. If you have any heating problems, consult the
blue coal dealer.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You'll be very glad to place his.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
John Barclay service man at your disposal to solve your problems.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
The story you have just heard is copyrighted by the
Shadow magazine. Real names are never used in these Shadow stories.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The weed of crime, there's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
The Shadow knows mon A to win bo
Who knows what evil leks in the hearts of men.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Shadow knows.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Low coal presents the Shadow, a man of mystery who
strikes terror in the very souls of sharpsters, lawbreakers, and criminals.
All signs point to a severe winter. They prepare. If
you want to be sure of even the pendable helpful
heat in any kind of weather, insist on blue coals,
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America's finest anthracite mine from the fields of northern Pennsylvania,
the coal that has colored a harmless blue. The mind's
for your protection.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You can't everything.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You can't do it fall Gordon. Listen, I can't see anybody.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Who I am the Shadow.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Stop.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
We haven't much time. We must hurry, Gordon. You're in
the death house, charged with murder.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, I'm innocent. I'm innocent, but nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Take courage, Gordon. The Shadow knows. All right, now, got
just sit down.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I told Elbows, who set our coffee here in the library,
and she's gotta go on the terrace. Then I receive
a smile That frown is most unbecoming. Lamont, give it up,
Give what up, my dear drinking coffee.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I'm serious, Lamont Cranston.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
When I foolishly let you know that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Do you remember what you said?
Speaker 7 (02:13):
It will be exactly five years next week.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
If there's still so much to do, Margot, Would.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
They let somebody else do it? Don't you realize that
you can't keep on like this forever? Some one certain
to identify you and well net someone down.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Some one else is certain to kill you and hats
But until they do, aud Darling, stop frowning.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
I don't mean necessary to give up your work, Lamont,
but this other Let the shadow just disappear and come
oot openly you are and your organized forces of law
and police.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Won't you realize, Margo, that my entire usefulness to the
organized forces of law and police lies in my remaining
outside those forces, in remaining always the shadow. Would they
approve my methods? Would they believe in my science?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You would make them believe?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You could make them.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Approve, and in doing so reveal my seat grits, my knowledge,
reveal them, and eventually let them fall into the hands
of organized crime.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Hm. No, Margot, no one must ever know, no one
but you.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Why do you think I've devoted countless hours to investigating
electrical and chemical phenomena? Why do you think I went
to India, to to Egypt, China.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (03:19):
I studied in London, Paris and Vienna except to learn
the old mysteries that modern science has not yet rediscovered,
the natural magic modern psychology is beginning to understand, and well,
magic that wouldn't seem so natural. I studied and learned
for a purpose, my.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Dear, All right, lament, I realize all that. But now
now the entire underworld has but one objective to erase
the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
And to me that mean until they know what the
shadow is and who he is, what can they do?
Stop and think how many criminals are either dead or
in prison because of our activities.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, even now tonight, as.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
We sit quietly here, somewhere, an innocent human being may
be in desperate trouble. Somewhere, Perhaps there is a problem
that can never be solved except by the Shadow.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What did the doctor say, Grace?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
It was good and newsn't and bad too, I'm afraid, dear.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, whatever it was, dear, tell me well.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I he said the baby could be perfectly well again
within a year.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh, I thank god for that poor kid. She's had
a tough time. Well what else, Oh, this part isn't
so good, Paul.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
She'll need treatments during all that time, Paul.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Treatments cost money.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I know.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, you'll have to manage somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You didn't do a very good job marrying media. If
I can only get a job, I've got my health
and I've got brains, but no one seems to want
them out. They will, they've got to.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But just about down to rock bottom, and I raised
every cent I can on the house and car.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
There's anything left.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
You and I are still left, Paul, and we've got
to take care of Sally. She's our daughter, Paul, and
she's got to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Have her chim. She's going to have it somehow.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Tomorrow I'll start out and take anything I can.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Get, Darling.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Perhaps tomorrow things will break for us, Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
If only they don't break the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Come more bed, Okay over here, these two.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Excuse me?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But are you the boss here?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That's right, I'm looking for a job.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Nothing doing, buddy, I'll do anything, wait on table, wash dishes,
anything at all.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I don't need any more help.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, how about deliver things.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I've got a car.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oh, I don't deliver nothing.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I don't need you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I see all right?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Thanks? Hey, hey you but you calling to me? Yeah, Siddan,
I have a beer? No thanks, I I don't drink anyhow.
Sidan made a friend of mine. Name's Lefty. My name's
red clock on my head, you'll know why. Well, I'm
glad to meet you both. And Gordon's my name, Paul Gordon? Well,
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did do you want to talk to me about something?
We might might be able to help you out? Sounds
like you're looking for a job.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
You better I am.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I need one, you know, anybody that could use me?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Maybe you don't know you yet, so far as that goes,
I don't know you either. See read the guy smart?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, maybe too smart. Now look here, mister Gordon.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We need a car and we need somebody to drive
it for us.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You understand. Well, I've got a car and I can drive.
Is it a good car? Has it got speed? I'll
guarantee you updated.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
It's not there, it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I listen, kid, How about meeting us tomorrow morning at
nine o'clock?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
All right? Where?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, let's see we're going to I got it right
in front of the Uptown Bank.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We gotta go there first.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
They care should check well how about five dollars a day.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
That's so, but you'll.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Remember be there at nine o'clock or you don't get
no job. I don't worry, I'll be there.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I'll be there at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Everybody, you can't keep this car in front of the
bank all day.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
I just see that sign no parking.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm that parking opposite.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I'm waiting for a couple of men.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I'm working for them.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Hey, what's that sounds my shot in the bank.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
You gotta let me hear you into the car.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Come on, you start that much core, step on it.
But you can't do get gone, I would joke, don't
have it right.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Hould him on, I'll hold him.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Which i'd never shut that cup.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Can't to get to my speed?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Out of this car, Fella, she don't all she can't
shoot at that tie has read.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
List them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Try the windshield, say.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Let me out of this take the car.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
You'll think I'm in with you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's just what we're figuring on. Now Here comes a
curve after you.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Make that stop.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Get ready, but I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I'm just leaving the evidence.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
He's on the seat.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Pushy okay, goodbye? What okay?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Hey, wait you guys got leave me like this now.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Think I did it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Hey, come on back with you over in their hands.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Come on, get him up, all right, office, I haven't
got a gun.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I wasn't in this.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They made me drive the car, keep their hands up,
just the same A further car jally, okay, huge, I'll follow.
You might as well come clean on this. I haven't
done anything.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I tell you, I'm innocent.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Hey, suj I got it under the rear seat cushion
bag full of bills and a gun. That's the gun
that bumped off my buddy alloy. And you say you're inerting, Yes,
I am, well it'll take more than saying so they
keep you out of the electric chair. Honor in the court,
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and honor in the court, Old Gordon, The jury have
found you guilty of robbery under arms and secretary murder.
You've been shown you've had both motive and opportunity. The
prosecution is pile of a massive, incontrovertible evidence, and I
myself have no doubt if you'll give therefore in accordings
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for the law I directed to be taken from here
to the place from hence you came, and the lare
you be put to death in the manners stated by
the law. And may God have mercy on your shoulder.
Who bring that person before the cops? I I don't
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know where he is, your Honah. The lot came from
over there in that corner. Yes, yes, you're all over
there's no one in that color, only a shadow. Go
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to please here, mother will be right here in the
next room.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Oh God, please help me, help me. I don't know
what to do. Yes, who is it?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
My name is Margot Lane.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I have a message for you, missus Gordon.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You're not a reporter, are you know? I'm a friend.
I've come to help.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh the then please come in. What is it you
want in Slane?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Missus Gordon, your husband has a friend who's going.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
To help him.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Here's a thousand dollars in cash. That's for you and
Sally a thousand. Who was it sent this to me?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
For that?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
But the message with it is not.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
To lose hope, and that there is hope for Paul.
Then the man who sent this to you never fails.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Who is he or that?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I can't tell you, but.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Miss Lane, you know him. Sometimes I wonder whether I
do I love him? That I wonder whether I know him.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
It's hard to tell whether I really know the man.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Or only his shadow.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, I left it the night.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The four guy goes to the chair.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's what he gets for being a sucker that has
not a clute.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It even points our weight, not even a prince.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We had gloves on all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
You had yourys up for a minute when you were
sitting next to 'em. Yeah, but uh, I didn't touch
the wheel.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Then we ain't left a clue, you think, so?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Who said that you left me?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I thought it was you.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
It was I. You cannot see me, and where are you?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I am here in the room, in the shadow. You
have pinned your crime on an innocent man. He shall
not suffer, but you will.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I don't know who you are were Yeah, but your
bluffing anyway, You got no evidence If we didn't leave
a clue.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Did leave a clue?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
A clue that will send you to the chair.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Where was it your life?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Wouldn't you like to believe that?
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Keep thinking about it, Keep thinking about.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
The clue that you forgot. Margo Lane.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Paul Gordon is in the death house and is to
die in the chair.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Tonight. I am going to him now.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
We can still save him.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Stand by four orders.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
In a few moments, we will return to the shadow.
But before we do, let me stress this one fact.
For home heating, anthracide is best, and America's finest anthracite
is blue coal. Anthracide is the helpful fuel. It gives steady,
uniform heat that helps prevent coals and cuts down doctor's bills.
Or with anthracite, there is no quick chilling of the house,
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such as you get with fuels of the on and
off type or with quick burning fuels that flare up
and burn out. Bear in mind that heating plants in
this part of the country were especially designed to burn anthracite.
So before that coal snap catches you unaware, call your
local blue coal dealer. You'll find his name listed and
the where to buy its section of your classified directory
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under the words blue coal. Call him tomorrow and order
a supply of America's finest anthracite.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What have you have you got any work from the governor?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm sorry, Gordon, the governor refuses to take any action.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I've got to go tonight at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
What time is it now?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Almost ten.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Is there anything I can do for you? No?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Thank you? Well very well.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Guards will move you to another side.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'll be back in a little while, wady Gordon, beest guy.
You just gonna move you to another's What does it matter?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Say? One year? Going to is near a.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Near to the chair?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Is an't it?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Alright? Let's gone.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Alright, Gordon, walk the left.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You'll be right here behind you.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
And locked the door into the preparation chamber of Pete.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, this is the second alright.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Going through Gordon watching Pete. I'll shut the door.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What's the use of all this trouble? What chance have
I got now?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
I'm afraid you haven't got much feller.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Uh, I wouldn't say that. What do you mean? Holy smokes?
But behind you, well, there are too bad. I hated
to do that, but if there wasn't any other way.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And you'll only be out for a while now, Gordon,
listen to me.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
There where are you? I can't see anymore?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Where have you gone back into the shadow?
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Now, Gordon, we haven't much time.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Listen to me. No crime is perfect.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
There's always somewhere a loose end. The only reason that
all crimes aren't solved is because there's.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Some one fact that someone knows and doesn't tell. And
sometimes they don't.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Tell because they don't know that they know. I told
everything I know, and court they wouldn't believe.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Me then, because you couldn't prove what you said.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We are going.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
After the proof now, you and I.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Huh, I'm going to think with your mind.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Don't try to understand.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Just do as I tell you.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I want you to concentrate, Gordon, fix your mind.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
On everything that happened.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
That they make mental pictures. I'll see what you see.
I try it now.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
No, No, Gordon, stop thinking about your wife and baby.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
How did you know I was thinking about thought in
your mind?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I see in my mind the pictures you creat in yours. Oh,
like television is or like mental telepathy or mind reading, hypnotism.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Whatever you choose. There's no time to talk.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Stop talking.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Think I will, I will. I'm thinking now.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
The picture is getting clearer.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That's better.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Go on the restaurant, the bar, Gordon.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Stop thinking about the electric chair. It blurs the picture.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'll try. I'll try. Uh, that's better.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
The car in front of the bank, Yes, I see it.
The policeman the crowd. Yes, wait a minute, the small
man with red hair, he was the one.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
You called red. Yes, yes, I see him, crooked nose,
short glasses. I know that man, he's red sloan. I
I it's hard to see.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
I know.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Think for your life, try hard.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yes, you started the car. The other lefty was in
front with you. Lefty LEFTI see him for me, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Uh, yes, a scar on his left cheek.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Why didn't you mention that in court? I I forgot
never mind concentrate. Yes, yes, left he couldn't keep you
covered with a gun and look back at the same time.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
What did he do?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
He reached up and twished it the rear humor.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Now we've got it.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
That's the loose end.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's where his thumb print will be.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Gordon, Now I can save you.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
You've told the truth. You didn't know, you knew.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You're a fool for coming in here again. This is
the place we picked up that kid that's burning the night.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
What do you want to come in here for?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
This is as good at place as any in it.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Hey, telephone for you left ere telephone.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Yeah maybe you never heard of it, but it's a
great invention.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
But nobody knows. I'm here.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Somebody knows because they're waiting on the phone for you.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's over there on the wall. Okay, I'll beat so
long letters.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Hello, Say what do you laughing at?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Who is this? Lefty?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Did you ever hear of the shadow?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Say what is this too.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Bad about young Gordon? Isn't it? Lefty? What do you
know about that? The shadow knows?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Who are you? What do you want? I want justice,
justice for Paul Gordon, Lefty, and I'm going.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
To get it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
But you ain't got no.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Perhaps there are some fingerprints, let's see.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
No, we had gloves on. It couldn't be no fingerprints.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Did you have gloves on all the time?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, sure I did.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
You're left handed.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Now listen carefully, leftie. When you were sitting in the
front seat of Gordon's car, your.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Gun was within your left hand.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Remember, say you ain't nobody?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Ay, it's just say, how do you know what.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Did you do with your right hand?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
My right hand?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
You took off your right glove, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No. Gosh, I'm going nuts.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And you couldn't see the car that was chasing you
because the angle of the rear view mirror was adjusted
for the driver, and you weren't driving. So do you
remember what you did?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
No? No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I didn't take it off.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Are you sure you didn't reach up with your pair
right hand and turn that rear view mirror?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Are you sure, Lefty?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Maybe I did that.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
If the police find that fingerprint, you'll burn Lefty just
the way Young Gordon's going to burn tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Goodbye, Lefty.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Wait a minute, we hung up? No, no, I won't burn.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He read read it said geblong. And I'm say, who
was the guy on?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I not?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Where's that car of Gordon's now in his garage?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I guess I heard his wife christ what.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I got a hunch there's some.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Fingerprints of mine in that car? Read? We got a
white more for there? Or maybe we'll burn that chair too.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Come on, let's go the commissioner.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
I'm sorry, miss Lane, but I don't see what we
can do.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
And I tell you, Paul Gordon is innocence. The men
who committed the crime are free.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Where did you get this information?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
So that I can't ted you, miss Lane.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Paul Gordon was convicted of murder by due processes of law.
Tonight he pays for his crime in the electric chair.
If the police listened to every crankle came in here
claiming you everything.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
They can't send an innocent man to the chair, they
can't do it, no, but they.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Can send it guilty man. And according to the evidence,
Paul Gordon is guilty.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Commissioner.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I suppose that afterwards, when it's too late, they discover
that Paul Gordon wasn't guilty after all. And suppose I
testify that the police refuse to listen.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
If it's within reason, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I want you to.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Send some men to that garage. I want you to
catch the guilty men and see that justice is done.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
One night.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
I'm frightened.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Brace up, Gordon. It won't be long.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Buddy might turn next.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Along fellow.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
All by.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
He promised to save me? Oh son, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It was a voice, just a voice. He said he'd
stand by steady, old man, hope lose your nerve, Gordon,
open it up, then, No, we'll go in there.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I didn't kill him. I didn't I tell you, he said.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He stand by. He's one way.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Only a few minutes more, just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Don't take me in there yet.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
No wait, please please, he said, please.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Wait easy, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Am I going on that door?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'm gone. It'll be too late for him.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
No way.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh where are you? Where is that?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Boys?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
When he goes, please come back?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Wait a minute minute?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Well what is it?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wharton? Wait?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
The governor's on the phone, he says, stop all of everything.
What the governor say? He wants to talk to you
on the phone, Warden, He says, don't electrocute this man.
They've got the other two guys in Gordon's garage trying
to rub out some fingerprints. One of them was shot
and died. But before he died, he spilled it all.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
This father didn't do it. It was a fine.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh thank god he got me in time, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Gordon.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Did you hear that? Yes, yes, I heard it. That
voice said he would. I'm free. You're not going to
electrocute me Warden, You're not. No, No, Gordon, the governor
saved you. Governor, No, who wasn't the governor? It was
(25:44):
somebody else or something else.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
But what do you mean Gordon who saved you.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It was a voice, just a voice. I never really
saw him.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
He was only a shadow.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Before another adventure with the shadow draws to a close.
John Barclay, blue Coal's heating expert, would like to say
a few words. Mister Barclay, good evening friends. If you're
interested in having a more comfortable home this winter, be
sure to call your local Blue Coal dealer, for he's
more than a fuel dealer. He's an authority on modern
home heating. You see, for more than six years, I've
(26:32):
trained servicemen for these Blue Coal dealers. These men, known
as John Barkley servicemen have added thousands of families like
yours to enjoy a greater degree of comfort and to
save heating dollars too. I'm going to read part of
a letter typical of many received from satisfied customers using
Blue Coal and John Barclay service. I quote in part
(26:53):
the service rendered by your John Barclay servicemen has been
invaluable to me. We were burning a ton of coal
of wheat and having great difficulty in keeping our fire
going throughout the night. Your serviceman made me many helpful
suggestions regarding the proper way to regulate the furnace and
recommended the use of blue coal. We not only reduce
(27:13):
the amount of fuel consumed to one half, but actually
got more heat.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Think of that, friends.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
In this case, a family cut their fuel.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Bill in half simply by following the advice of a
John Barclay serviceman whose services were given without charge.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now you don't have to buy a blue.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Coal to benefit from John Barclay service, no matter what
kind of fuel you are using or from whom you've
been buying. If you have any heating problems, consult the
blue coal dealer.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You'll be very glad to place his.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
John Barclay service man at your disposal to solve your problems.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
The story you have just heard is copyrighted by the
Shadow magazine. Real names are never used in these Shadow stories.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The weed of crime, there's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
The Shadow knows mon A to win bo
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