September 29, 2025 • 29 mins
The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series that ran from 1943-1952. The program crossed over several genres, however, most episodes were mysteries - both natural and supernatural. Despite its long run, only 71 episodes were recovered. The Mysterious Traveler was written and directed by Robert Arthur and David Kogan. The series was also produced as a magazine and comic book.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced
and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cochin, and
starring tonight two of radio's foremost actors, Leon Janney and.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ralph Bell, and the Man who Tried to Save Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This is the Mysterious Chair for inviting you to.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Join me on another journey to the realm of the
strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,
that it will trill you a little.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
And chill you a lift.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
And be comfortable if you can, as we hear the
strange story that I call The Man who Tried to
Save Lincoln. February twelfth, of course, is Abraham Lincoln's birthday,
and next April fourteenth, is the anniversary of his death
(01:12):
at the hands of an assassin. For many people have
wondered what would have happened if Lincoln had.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Not died that night.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
My story tonight concerns two such people, and it begins
in a small laboratory in a college in Pennsylvania. A
heavy set, middle aged man is tinkering with a maze
of electronic.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Apparatus nineteen fourteen, nineteen thirteen, not in twelve, nineteen eleven,
nineteen ten, nineteen ten. The gage stops there, there's no
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penetration and accumulated ten. It is too great to overcome
less I use more power, and if I do, ah, ah,
just as I expected. The field called blew out thirty
nine years penetration and there I stick. Maybe if I
(02:19):
get a more powerful tube. Ah. Hello, Professor Hodges speaking,
Professor Hodges is miss Erskin, missus Erskin.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Oh, Professor Haddes, you've forgotten.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I have forgotten what missus Erskin my tea.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Professor.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Oh, it was very naughty of you, but I know
how abs amount of professors are, so I'll forgive you
if you come right over.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Oh, oh, yes, your tea. The truth is, missus Erskin.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm not gonna let you say no.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
The Dean is here, and some very attractive young women
and someone you surely want to meet I do.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh, yes, I'm Morrison.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
You know he just wrote that wonderful book If Lincoln
had lived, You must meet him?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Yes, is he any relation to former Professor Henry Morrison?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
It's done?
Speaker 8 (03:10):
Now you will come, won't you?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Right, away all right, missus Erkin, maybe I need some
social height to take the cobwebs out of my brain.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Oh, Professor Hodges, I'm so glad you could come, even
if I did have to remind you. And I want
you to meet Tom Morrison. This is Professor Hodges.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
How do you do things?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Glad to meet you, mister Morrison.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Mister Morrison is justin tell me about his book.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
If Lincoln had lived.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It is fascinating, It is simply fascinating.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
It is Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, but there's Lucy Johnson.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
I'm musty please you to just excuse.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Me because, oh Lucy, Lucy, I want to speak to you, dear.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I just wait.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Missus Erskin was telling me you're a physicist, Professor Hodges Electronics.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yes, that's my line. I've heard of your book, mister Morrison.
If Lincoln had lived, tell me what would have happened?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Well, as I was just telling missus Erskin, I think
tremendous things would have happened, such ass I think Abraham
Lincoln would have managed things so wisely that at the
end of the war between the States, the whole nation
would have recovered in ten years. H yes, go on,
there would have been no bitterness, and as a united nation,
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we'd have forged ahead much more quickly to take our
place as a world leader.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yes, I can see how that would be.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Why we'd have been so strong in nineteen fourteen, that
we'd have prevented World War One by our very threat
to intervene.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
That there wouldn't have been any World war.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
But certainly the chances against it would have been much greater.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Mister Morrison, Tom, I am glad I came here today.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I think you're the man I need need in what way.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I'm in the middle of a tremendous experiment. I need
a man with imagination. That's you. I need a man
I can trust you again, Professor, What is this experiment?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Tom?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I'll answer one question with another. How would you like
to step back through the pages of history to that
fatal night of April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five and save
Abraham Lincoln's life? Why these are the instruments I've been
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working with, Tom. They don't look like much, I guess,
but they work up to a point.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
That is so, that's what a time machine looks like.
I always wondered. Now I know.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Time machine, Tom. You've been reading HG. Wells you and
just about everybody else. I suppose think of a time
machine as an invention which could carry people back and
forth through time, like like an automobile carries them along
the road.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Right, Well, pretty much, I guess.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
In that sense a time machine is impossible, believe me.
But in another sense, everyone travels about in time constantly.
How do you mean, Tom, what happened on your seventh birthday?
My seventh birthday?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Why?
Speaker 8 (06:28):
I had a big party. You got a pony for
a present. Who rode that pony all over the lawn?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You see, Tom? Just now, you traveled backwards twenty five
years in time mentally.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Hmmm, saying say I did, didn't they? I think I
see what you're getting at. You can travel through time mentally,
if not physically.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
This machine here is just a refinement on that principle.
If I used you as a subject, Tom, and focused
it at some special date in history when I knew
people were present at this spot, Yes, the electronic circuits
would take your own brain waves, your memory pattern, your personality,
if you want to call it that, amplify it millions
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of times and push it back into the past, into
the mind of some person at that particular spot, at
that particular time.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You mean that my brain pattern would be impressed upon
the brain of some man living in the past.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Roughly speaking, Yes, you'd be able to think with his mind,
see with his eyes, here with his ears, and move
about in his body.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I see.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
There are difficulties. For instance, suppose your mind finds itself
inside the brain of a very strong willed individual. Yes,
you will probably be helpless, unable to influence his actions
in any way. You see, you will be dominated.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
See.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
On the other hand, an easy going or weak willed
person would be subject to your will.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Then you couldn't always be sure of just what would
happen when you made an excursion back into the past.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Unfortunately, no, but that can't be helped. There are other difficulties.
Right now, my main tube isn't big enough. I can't
achieve penetration further back than nineteen ten forty years. I
have a bigger tube coming that should extend the range
at least to one hundred years. But why do we
wait for it? Suppose we do a little experimenting. What
(08:36):
kind of experimenting, Professor tom Tomorrow, how would you like
to go on a little jaunt back to the year
nineteen twelve. Comfortable, Tom, you'll find professor. I've purposely arrange
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this chair so that you can see out the window.
You see the public lib across the street.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Yes, it was uh erected in nineteen twelve, wasn't it
the very year you're going to visit?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Did you know your mother was one of the first
librarians there.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Yes, it's it's family history that she met father when
he went in to get a book, he was so
bowled over he forgot the book.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
He also forgot to sign the library card in the
back of it. I have the very book right here,
The Life of Lincoln, the same book.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
It looks as if it hadn't been read in forty years.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
It hasn't. Here's the card. Here's the line where your
father should have signed his name perfectly blank.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Dad certainly must have been smitten.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's just the point, Tom. I know it's possible to
send your brain pattern back in time, But is it
possible for you to change anything that happened then?
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Could change anything? I hadn't thought of that. If the
past has happened, it's fixed, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
It ca be chame I think it can. That's what
we're going to test. Tom. I'm going to send you
back to that day your father met your mother. I'm
going to force your mental pattern into your father's mind.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Good Lord.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yes, you will see with his eyes, think with his mind,
move with his body. And Tom, you are going to
sign this library card. Sign the card right, You're going
back to noon July tenth, nineteen twelve. According to the
time stamp on this card, the book was delivered at
that exact moment.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
I see, And I'm to sign the library card that
never was signed. I'm to alter the path if you can.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Maybe you won't be able to, but try, Tom, Try
concentrate every power of your mind on it.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
I will. But but you have thee the book and
the card here. They're not in the library.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Ah, they are back in nineteen twelve.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Oh oh, of course I was forgetting ready. Yes, sit back, relax.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I'll attach the head piece there. I'll concentrate your mind
on the thought. Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve. Repeat it
over and over mentally. I understand it'll take a few seconds.
You may experience a period of dizziness. Be prepared for anything.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve, noon July ten, ninety twelve,
Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve, Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Mister Morrison, what is it?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Are you ill? H? I?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Uh? I felt dizzy dizzy for a moment. Well, well,
where where am I? What is it? The public library?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And I have the book you called for the Life
of Lincoln. Why are you staring at me so oddly?
Mister Morrison?
Speaker 8 (12:11):
You I I I've never never seen you before, have I?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Why?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
No, m I'm miss Andrews, the assistant librarian. I just
started work here today.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Miss Andrews. Is uh is this July ten, nineteen twelve, Well, yes, yes,
of course? Oh well what time is it?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
The clock is just striking noon?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Oh yes, yes of course. Why did I ask that?
I I know perfectly well.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It is.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
It's as if us if they were a voice in
my mind. It's odd.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Are you sure that you'll feel all right, mister Morrison?
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I of course I do, just a little diddy. That's
the effect of love at first sight. Mister Morrison. Oh,
I mean it, Miss Andrews, when you have lunch with
me now right away, so so we can talk. Why,
of course, I will thank you, Miss Andrews. Get your
hat at it. It is lunch time, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Why?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yes, why, yes, I believe it is, mister Martin. But uh,
but the book? Don't you want me to sign.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
It out for you? Bother?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The book?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Lincoln can wait? But uh, there's uh, there's something yeah,
and I'm trying to remember something. The uh the card? Yes,
I I have to sign the.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Card now if you don't wish the book?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yes, yes, but I I I do something kills me,
I must I. I I don't know why they give
me the card? Please?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yes, yes, of course?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
And uh a pen there you are now. I I'm
feeling busy again. I my name Tom? No, no, no,
not Tom, Henry. What's wrong with me? Henry Morris? And
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bear now? I I mister Morrison, mister Morrison. Can I
get you a gap the water?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Tom?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Here like this?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Thanks, professor, No, It's better. I I am over my busyness.
What happened?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Tell me?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Oh? There was a an instant of uh of busyness.
Then I I opened my eyes and uh, professor. I
was standing in the in the public library talking to
a young woman. The woman who was later to become
my own mother. Go on, Tom, Yes, it it was
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Moon July tenth, nineteen twelve. And I I I seemed
to be inside the mind of someone else, someone who
who went on talking and acting as if I didn't exist.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Of course, your metal pattern was being super imposed on
his mind, your father.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
To be Yes, Yes, I I I tried to make
him realize I was there. I exerted all my will power.
Then I I think he signed the library card. And
I'm not sure. Everything got far away in dark then,
and and I I was sitting here with you back
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in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
We'll known a moment if he did sign the card,
if you did change the past, Tom, I'll opened the book.
If the card was signed, the signature will be there.
Now have to be there.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Look, it's signed Henry Morrison, my father's signals.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Look he started to sign it, Tom, and then he
crossed out the Tom and wrote in Henry. That proves
your personality was dominant for a moment. We can do it, Tom.
We can reach back into the past and save the
life of Abraham Lincoln. Then change the whole.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Course of world history since eighteen sixty.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
As soon as the bigger tube gets here, will try
further test. Send you back further, Tom, How would you
like to be present to hear Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address? Hey,
you take care? Stepped away Footpa.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Sorry, sorry, I I felt dizzy. Well where am I?
Where are you?
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Are you crazy? His Gettysburg? Of course you ought to know.
You lived here all your life, Jesse Evans Quiet, the
prison's going to speak here in president prison.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Lincoln.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Of course, sh four score and seven years ago, our
forefathers brought forth.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
On this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
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can long endure.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We are met on a great battle field of that war.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field
as a final resting place for those who gave their
lives that that nation might. It is all together fitting
and proper that we do this. But in a larger sense, we.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Wow, professor. I saw him, I saw Lincoln, and I
heard him deliver the Gettysburg Address.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
And we've done it. We've achieved the penetration. End of
the time we need. We proved you can stay there
at least half an hour.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
It was terrific. There was There was a farmer named
Jesse Evans, a simple fellow. I was able to control
his actions without difficulty, and for thirty minutes I saw
Lincoln listen to him. Now, now I know I'm right.
If Lincoln had lived, we'd all have a better world today.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Tom will for Washington to morrow. We'll set up our
instruments and equipment in the Ford Theater itself where John
Wilkespooth shot Abraham Lincoln at about a quarter past ten
on the night of April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five. And
you will return to that fateful night and prevent the
shot from being fired. Well, everything seems to be working.
(19:24):
I was afraid the trip by truck might have jogged
the main tube.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
How still it is here, hushed, Listen to the silence, Professor.
It's as if not a single sound had been uttered
here since the night Lincoln was shot.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Well, Tom, considering this place as a museum now, and
maybe a million people have visited it.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Still the atmosphere of silence is here. Think of it, sir,
Through that doorway, Abraham Lincoln walked across those boards, up
those stairs, walked unknowing to his death, while John Wilkes's
booth lurked outside, a loaded pistol in his pocket.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Tom.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Now let's put our strategy. We have the place for
ourselves until tomorrow morning. Let's try to imagine this theater
as it was April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five. Let's figure
out just where everyone was so far as we know.
You tell me, Tom, you're the expert in this field.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
All right, professor. Now over there is the box office.
There the entrance. This was the auditorium, and there, of
course was the stage. Up there was the private box
in which Lincoln and his party sat.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I wish we could get the gadgets up there, but
we can't have to work from down here.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
At about nine o'clock in the evening, the President and
Missus Lincoln entered with two guests the place they had
already started. A ticket taker named Buckingham took their tickets,
and an usher led them to their box.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I see go on, tom.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
At about ten minutes past ten, John wilkes booth sauntered in.
He spoke to Buckingham. The ticket taker. Then he went
on upstairs toward Lincoln's box. In his pocket he carried
a brass derringer loaded with one shot.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And he struck almost immediately.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Yes, sir, the President had an armed guard, John F. Parker,
but Parker was criminally negligent. He left his post to
watch the play, left Lincoln unguarded. Booth slipped into the
President's box, fired one shot into Lincoln's head, leaped to
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the stage, and ladies get away now, Tom.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yes, sir, our experiments have proved definitely that your ability
to alto the past depends on the type of mind
into which the elector tronic pressure forces your own mental pattern.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
That's right. If I should hit a strong willed man,
I might not be able to control him at all.
A neutral or a weak willed type I can control
and force to act, and you must act.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Booth must be killed. You understand that.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Of course, if I just stopped him, he he might
strike again later.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Another danger is that we might send your mental pattern
into the mind of someone who did not know Booth
and would be unable to stop him in time. What
do you suggest, said, We have two possibilities. First, the
guard Parker, he was weak willed, and he was armed.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
He seems the most logical choice.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Unfortunately we don't know just where he was or part
of the evening. He left his post deny and wandered around,
and the pattern of pressure must be very carefully aimed.
Of course, if we missed him, don't tell him what
would happen. My choice is Buckingham the ticket taker. Bucking
the ticket taker is not ordinarily a man of shall
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we say, great mental achievements. You will probably be able
to control him. And remember he knew Boo and in
fact spoke to him.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
That's true. Also, we know almost exactly where he stood
the whole evening there there.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
By the entrance. All right, Tom, we will plan on
sending you back to April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five, into
the mind of mister Buckingham.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Now let's start getting ready.
Speaker 11 (23:37):
That's very man, it's very almost fell then a matter
of fella, you're drinking again? Oh well, am my, Well
this is Forge Theater, of course, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I'm all right, thanks, just dizzy for a minute. So
I'm there on this Ford Theater, the Knight of the
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You what's that? What about Lincoln? He's here tonight?
Speaker 8 (24:09):
You know, yes, yes, I know, Bobby Ford Sater, April thirteenth,
eighteen sixty five. We've done it, and I can't fail.
I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Quiet the plays going on? You know you mustn't disturb
the president.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
No, the president, Yes, the president. He mustn't be disturbed.
Oh no, I I'll see he's not disturbed.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You are acting an awful stranger, talking odd.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Well, who am I? Tell me? Who am I? He is?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
My name Buckingham, bucking that's such a good one. Tell
him Mary is his name? Buckingham? Can't be.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Your bucking hand you your Buckingham.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That's right, fellow. Say how much did you have to
drink tonight?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Nothing?
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Nothing, we missed somehow we missed. But it won't make
any difference, it won't.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
I'll find him.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Look, why don't you go in, find an empty seat
and sit down till you're all right?
Speaker 8 (25:30):
No, no, I can't sit down. Got to find someone
who Lincoln, Yes, President Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth. Got
to find them, save.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Harry, help me to hold him up. He's staggering.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You have to concentrate on Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
On booth.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Concentrate, there's no letter on his breath.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
He's hell better get him outside.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
No, No, I'm all right. It's it's ten after ten.
I have something important tend to life and death. Have
you seen booth John Wilkes booth the actors?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Have I seen booth? Yes?
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Yes, Ah, excuse me, Buckingham. I I've got to go
on in.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I have a very important engagement to keep. Yes, very important,
a matter of life and death.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, if you're sure you feel all right.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Go right ahead, Thank you, good light, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well that was a funny performance. If I hadn't smelled
his breath, i'd ha sworn he was drunk. Ah, he's
a funny one.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Never know what he's up to. Talk just now about
having an important engagement.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Jis bluff.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
You may be bound.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Do you suppose he's in his right mind?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Though?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Asking us if we'd seen John Wilkes Booth the actor,
when he's John Wilkes Booth.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
This is the mysterious traveler Again, did Tom and Professor
Hunt has succeeded? No, you have only to open your
history books and know they didn't. The pass can't be changed,
only the future, and it can be changed for.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Good or evil.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Now today by you, you, you, by all of us,
each working in his own way.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
What future are you working for? Why you think about it?
I'll tell you about next week's story, The Big Hand.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It's about two criminals who risk their lives in a
desperate gamble for a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
With danceness there ever.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Oh you have to get off here. I'm sorry, but
I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same train
every week at the same time.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You have just heard The Mysterious Traveler with a title
role played by Maurice Tarblin. In the cast were Leon Jenny,
Ralph Bell, miss Leslie Woods, and Raymond Edward Johnson. Original
music composed and played by Alpinelle. This is Bob Emeric speaking.
This is the world largest network, the Mutual Broadcasting System.
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced
and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cochin, and
starring tonight two of radio's foremost actors, Leon Janney and.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ralph Bell, and the Man who Tried to Save Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This is the Mysterious Chair for inviting you to.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Join me on another journey to the realm of the
strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,
that it will trill you a little.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
And chill you a lift.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
And be comfortable if you can, as we hear the
strange story that I call The Man who Tried to
Save Lincoln. February twelfth, of course, is Abraham Lincoln's birthday,
and next April fourteenth, is the anniversary of his death
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at the hands of an assassin. For many people have
wondered what would have happened if Lincoln had.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Not died that night.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
My story tonight concerns two such people, and it begins
in a small laboratory in a college in Pennsylvania. A
heavy set, middle aged man is tinkering with a maze
of electronic.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Apparatus nineteen fourteen, nineteen thirteen, not in twelve, nineteen eleven,
nineteen ten, nineteen ten. The gage stops there, there's no
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penetration and accumulated ten. It is too great to overcome
less I use more power, and if I do, ah, ah,
just as I expected. The field called blew out thirty
nine years penetration and there I stick. Maybe if I
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get a more powerful tube. Ah. Hello, Professor Hodges speaking,
Professor Hodges is miss Erskin, missus Erskin.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Oh, Professor Haddes, you've forgotten.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I have forgotten what missus Erskin my tea.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Professor.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Oh, it was very naughty of you, but I know
how abs amount of professors are, so I'll forgive you
if you come right over.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Oh, oh, yes, your tea. The truth is, missus Erskin.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm not gonna let you say no.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
The Dean is here, and some very attractive young women
and someone you surely want to meet I do.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh, yes, I'm Morrison.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
You know he just wrote that wonderful book If Lincoln
had lived, You must meet him?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Yes, is he any relation to former Professor Henry Morrison?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
It's done?
Speaker 8 (03:10):
Now you will come, won't you?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Right, away all right, missus Erkin, maybe I need some
social height to take the cobwebs out of my brain.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Oh, Professor Hodges, I'm so glad you could come, even
if I did have to remind you. And I want
you to meet Tom Morrison. This is Professor Hodges.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
How do you do things?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Glad to meet you, mister Morrison.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Mister Morrison is justin tell me about his book.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
If Lincoln had lived.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It is fascinating, It is simply fascinating.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
It is Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, but there's Lucy Johnson.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
I'm musty please you to just excuse.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Me because, oh Lucy, Lucy, I want to speak to you, dear.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I just wait.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Missus Erskin was telling me you're a physicist, Professor Hodges Electronics.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yes, that's my line. I've heard of your book, mister Morrison.
If Lincoln had lived, tell me what would have happened?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Well, as I was just telling missus Erskin, I think
tremendous things would have happened, such ass I think Abraham
Lincoln would have managed things so wisely that at the
end of the war between the States, the whole nation
would have recovered in ten years. H yes, go on,
there would have been no bitterness, and as a united nation,
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we'd have forged ahead much more quickly to take our
place as a world leader.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yes, I can see how that would be.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Why we'd have been so strong in nineteen fourteen, that
we'd have prevented World War One by our very threat
to intervene.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
That there wouldn't have been any World war.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
But certainly the chances against it would have been much greater.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Mister Morrison, Tom, I am glad I came here today.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I think you're the man I need need in what way.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I'm in the middle of a tremendous experiment. I need
a man with imagination. That's you. I need a man
I can trust you again, Professor, What is this experiment?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Tom?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I'll answer one question with another. How would you like
to step back through the pages of history to that
fatal night of April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five and save
Abraham Lincoln's life? Why these are the instruments I've been
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working with, Tom. They don't look like much, I guess,
but they work up to a point.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
That is so, that's what a time machine looks like.
I always wondered. Now I know.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Time machine, Tom. You've been reading HG. Wells you and
just about everybody else. I suppose think of a time
machine as an invention which could carry people back and
forth through time, like like an automobile carries them along
the road.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Right, Well, pretty much, I guess.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
In that sense a time machine is impossible, believe me.
But in another sense, everyone travels about in time constantly.
How do you mean, Tom, what happened on your seventh birthday?
My seventh birthday?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Why?
Speaker 8 (06:28):
I had a big party. You got a pony for
a present. Who rode that pony all over the lawn?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You see, Tom? Just now, you traveled backwards twenty five
years in time mentally.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Hmmm, saying say I did, didn't they? I think I
see what you're getting at. You can travel through time mentally,
if not physically.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
This machine here is just a refinement on that principle.
If I used you as a subject, Tom, and focused
it at some special date in history when I knew
people were present at this spot, Yes, the electronic circuits
would take your own brain waves, your memory pattern, your personality,
if you want to call it that, amplify it millions
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of times and push it back into the past, into
the mind of some person at that particular spot, at
that particular time.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You mean that my brain pattern would be impressed upon
the brain of some man living in the past.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Roughly speaking, Yes, you'd be able to think with his mind,
see with his eyes, here with his ears, and move
about in his body.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I see.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
There are difficulties. For instance, suppose your mind finds itself
inside the brain of a very strong willed individual. Yes,
you will probably be helpless, unable to influence his actions
in any way. You see, you will be dominated.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
See.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
On the other hand, an easy going or weak willed
person would be subject to your will.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Then you couldn't always be sure of just what would
happen when you made an excursion back into the past.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Unfortunately, no, but that can't be helped. There are other difficulties.
Right now, my main tube isn't big enough. I can't
achieve penetration further back than nineteen ten forty years. I
have a bigger tube coming that should extend the range
at least to one hundred years. But why do we
wait for it? Suppose we do a little experimenting. What
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kind of experimenting, Professor tom Tomorrow, how would you like
to go on a little jaunt back to the year
nineteen twelve. Comfortable, Tom, you'll find professor. I've purposely arrange
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this chair so that you can see out the window.
You see the public lib across the street.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Yes, it was uh erected in nineteen twelve, wasn't it
the very year you're going to visit?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Did you know your mother was one of the first
librarians there.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Yes, it's it's family history that she met father when
he went in to get a book, he was so
bowled over he forgot the book.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
He also forgot to sign the library card in the
back of it. I have the very book right here,
The Life of Lincoln, the same book.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
It looks as if it hadn't been read in forty years.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
It hasn't. Here's the card. Here's the line where your
father should have signed his name perfectly blank.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Dad certainly must have been smitten.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's just the point, Tom. I know it's possible to
send your brain pattern back in time, But is it
possible for you to change anything that happened then?
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Could change anything? I hadn't thought of that. If the
past has happened, it's fixed, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
It ca be chame I think it can. That's what
we're going to test. Tom. I'm going to send you
back to that day your father met your mother. I'm
going to force your mental pattern into your father's mind.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Good Lord.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yes, you will see with his eyes, think with his mind,
move with his body. And Tom, you are going to
sign this library card. Sign the card right, You're going
back to noon July tenth, nineteen twelve. According to the
time stamp on this card, the book was delivered at
that exact moment.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
I see, And I'm to sign the library card that
never was signed. I'm to alter the path if you can.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Maybe you won't be able to, but try, Tom, Try
concentrate every power of your mind on it.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
I will. But but you have thee the book and
the card here. They're not in the library.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Ah, they are back in nineteen twelve.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Oh oh, of course I was forgetting ready. Yes, sit back, relax.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I'll attach the head piece there. I'll concentrate your mind
on the thought. Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve. Repeat it
over and over mentally. I understand it'll take a few seconds.
You may experience a period of dizziness. Be prepared for anything.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve, noon July ten, ninety twelve,
Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve, Noon July tenth, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Mister Morrison, what is it?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Are you ill? H? I?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Uh? I felt dizzy dizzy for a moment. Well, well,
where where am I? What is it? The public library?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And I have the book you called for the Life
of Lincoln. Why are you staring at me so oddly?
Mister Morrison?
Speaker 8 (12:11):
You I I I've never never seen you before, have I?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Why?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
No, m I'm miss Andrews, the assistant librarian. I just
started work here today.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Miss Andrews. Is uh is this July ten, nineteen twelve, Well, yes, yes,
of course? Oh well what time is it?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
The clock is just striking noon?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Oh yes, yes of course. Why did I ask that?
I I know perfectly well.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It is.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
It's as if us if they were a voice in
my mind. It's odd.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Are you sure that you'll feel all right, mister Morrison?
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I of course I do, just a little diddy. That's
the effect of love at first sight. Mister Morrison. Oh,
I mean it, Miss Andrews, when you have lunch with
me now right away, so so we can talk. Why,
of course, I will thank you, Miss Andrews. Get your
hat at it. It is lunch time, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Why?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yes, why, yes, I believe it is, mister Martin. But uh,
but the book? Don't you want me to sign.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
It out for you? Bother?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The book?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Lincoln can wait? But uh, there's uh, there's something yeah,
and I'm trying to remember something. The uh the card? Yes,
I I have to sign the.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Card now if you don't wish the book?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yes, yes, but I I I do something kills me,
I must I. I I don't know why they give
me the card? Please?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yes, yes, of course?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
And uh a pen there you are now. I I'm
feeling busy again. I my name Tom? No, no, no,
not Tom, Henry. What's wrong with me? Henry Morris? And
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bear now? I I mister Morrison, mister Morrison. Can I
get you a gap the water?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Tom?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Here like this?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Thanks, professor, No, It's better. I I am over my busyness.
What happened?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Tell me?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Oh? There was a an instant of uh of busyness.
Then I I opened my eyes and uh, professor. I
was standing in the in the public library talking to
a young woman. The woman who was later to become
my own mother. Go on, Tom, Yes, it it was
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Moon July tenth, nineteen twelve. And I I I seemed
to be inside the mind of someone else, someone who
who went on talking and acting as if I didn't exist.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Of course, your metal pattern was being super imposed on
his mind, your father.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
To be Yes, Yes, I I I tried to make
him realize I was there. I exerted all my will power.
Then I I think he signed the library card. And
I'm not sure. Everything got far away in dark then,
and and I I was sitting here with you back
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in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
We'll known a moment if he did sign the card,
if you did change the past, Tom, I'll opened the book.
If the card was signed, the signature will be there.
Now have to be there.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Look, it's signed Henry Morrison, my father's signals.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Look he started to sign it, Tom, and then he
crossed out the Tom and wrote in Henry. That proves
your personality was dominant for a moment. We can do it, Tom.
We can reach back into the past and save the
life of Abraham Lincoln. Then change the whole.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Course of world history since eighteen sixty.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
As soon as the bigger tube gets here, will try
further test. Send you back further, Tom, How would you
like to be present to hear Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address? Hey,
you take care? Stepped away Footpa.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Sorry, sorry, I I felt dizzy. Well where am I?
Where are you?
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Are you crazy? His Gettysburg? Of course you ought to know.
You lived here all your life, Jesse Evans Quiet, the
prison's going to speak here in president prison.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Lincoln.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Of course, sh four score and seven years ago, our
forefathers brought forth.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
On this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
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can long endure.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We are met on a great battle field of that war.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field
as a final resting place for those who gave their
lives that that nation might. It is all together fitting
and proper that we do this. But in a larger sense, we.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Wow, professor. I saw him, I saw Lincoln, and I
heard him deliver the Gettysburg Address.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
And we've done it. We've achieved the penetration. End of
the time we need. We proved you can stay there
at least half an hour.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
It was terrific. There was There was a farmer named
Jesse Evans, a simple fellow. I was able to control
his actions without difficulty, and for thirty minutes I saw
Lincoln listen to him. Now, now I know I'm right.
If Lincoln had lived, we'd all have a better world today.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Tom will for Washington to morrow. We'll set up our
instruments and equipment in the Ford Theater itself where John
Wilkespooth shot Abraham Lincoln at about a quarter past ten
on the night of April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five. And
you will return to that fateful night and prevent the
shot from being fired. Well, everything seems to be working.
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I was afraid the trip by truck might have jogged
the main tube.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
How still it is here, hushed, Listen to the silence, Professor.
It's as if not a single sound had been uttered
here since the night Lincoln was shot.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Well, Tom, considering this place as a museum now, and
maybe a million people have visited it.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Still the atmosphere of silence is here. Think of it, sir,
Through that doorway, Abraham Lincoln walked across those boards, up
those stairs, walked unknowing to his death, while John Wilkes's
booth lurked outside, a loaded pistol in his pocket.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Tom.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Now let's put our strategy. We have the place for
ourselves until tomorrow morning. Let's try to imagine this theater
as it was April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five. Let's figure
out just where everyone was so far as we know.
You tell me, Tom, you're the expert in this field.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
All right, professor. Now over there is the box office.
There the entrance. This was the auditorium, and there, of
course was the stage. Up there was the private box
in which Lincoln and his party sat.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I wish we could get the gadgets up there, but
we can't have to work from down here.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
At about nine o'clock in the evening, the President and
Missus Lincoln entered with two guests the place they had
already started. A ticket taker named Buckingham took their tickets,
and an usher led them to their box.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I see go on, tom.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
At about ten minutes past ten, John wilkes booth sauntered in.
He spoke to Buckingham. The ticket taker. Then he went
on upstairs toward Lincoln's box. In his pocket he carried
a brass derringer loaded with one shot.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And he struck almost immediately.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Yes, sir, the President had an armed guard, John F. Parker,
but Parker was criminally negligent. He left his post to
watch the play, left Lincoln unguarded. Booth slipped into the
President's box, fired one shot into Lincoln's head, leaped to
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the stage, and ladies get away now, Tom.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yes, sir, our experiments have proved definitely that your ability
to alto the past depends on the type of mind
into which the elector tronic pressure forces your own mental pattern.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
That's right. If I should hit a strong willed man,
I might not be able to control him at all.
A neutral or a weak willed type I can control
and force to act, and you must act.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Booth must be killed. You understand that.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Of course, if I just stopped him, he he might
strike again later.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Another danger is that we might send your mental pattern
into the mind of someone who did not know Booth
and would be unable to stop him in time. What
do you suggest, said, We have two possibilities. First, the
guard Parker, he was weak willed, and he was armed.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
He seems the most logical choice.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Unfortunately we don't know just where he was or part
of the evening. He left his post deny and wandered around,
and the pattern of pressure must be very carefully aimed.
Of course, if we missed him, don't tell him what
would happen. My choice is Buckingham the ticket taker. Bucking
the ticket taker is not ordinarily a man of shall
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we say, great mental achievements. You will probably be able
to control him. And remember he knew Boo and in
fact spoke to him.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
That's true. Also, we know almost exactly where he stood
the whole evening there there.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
By the entrance. All right, Tom, we will plan on
sending you back to April thirteenth, eighteen sixty five, into
the mind of mister Buckingham.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Now let's start getting ready.
Speaker 11 (23:37):
That's very man, it's very almost fell then a matter
of fella, you're drinking again? Oh well, am my, Well
this is Forge Theater, of course, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I'm all right, thanks, just dizzy for a minute. So
I'm there on this Ford Theater, the Knight of the
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You what's that? What about Lincoln? He's here tonight?
Speaker 8 (24:09):
You know, yes, yes, I know, Bobby Ford Sater, April thirteenth,
eighteen sixty five. We've done it, and I can't fail.
I can't see it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Quiet the plays going on? You know you mustn't disturb
the president.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
No, the president, Yes, the president. He mustn't be disturbed.
Oh no, I I'll see he's not disturbed.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You are acting an awful stranger, talking odd.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Well, who am I? Tell me? Who am I? He is?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
My name Buckingham, bucking that's such a good one. Tell
him Mary is his name? Buckingham? Can't be.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Your bucking hand you your Buckingham.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That's right, fellow. Say how much did you have to
drink tonight?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Nothing?
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Nothing, we missed somehow we missed. But it won't make
any difference, it won't.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
I'll find him.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Look, why don't you go in, find an empty seat
and sit down till you're all right?
Speaker 8 (25:30):
No, no, I can't sit down. Got to find someone
who Lincoln, Yes, President Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth. Got
to find them, save.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Harry, help me to hold him up. He's staggering.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You have to concentrate on Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
On booth.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Concentrate, there's no letter on his breath.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
He's hell better get him outside.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
No, No, I'm all right. It's it's ten after ten.
I have something important tend to life and death. Have
you seen booth John Wilkes booth the actors?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Have I seen booth? Yes?
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Yes, Ah, excuse me, Buckingham. I I've got to go
on in.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I have a very important engagement to keep. Yes, very important,
a matter of life and death.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, if you're sure you feel all right.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Go right ahead, Thank you, good light, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well that was a funny performance. If I hadn't smelled
his breath, i'd ha sworn he was drunk. Ah, he's
a funny one.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Never know what he's up to. Talk just now about
having an important engagement.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Jis bluff.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
You may be bound.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Do you suppose he's in his right mind?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Though?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Asking us if we'd seen John Wilkes Booth the actor,
when he's John Wilkes Booth.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
This is the mysterious traveler Again, did Tom and Professor
Hunt has succeeded? No, you have only to open your
history books and know they didn't. The pass can't be changed,
only the future, and it can be changed for.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Good or evil.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Now today by you, you, you, by all of us,
each working in his own way.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
What future are you working for? Why you think about it?
I'll tell you about next week's story, The Big Hand.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It's about two criminals who risk their lives in a
desperate gamble for a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
With danceness there ever.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Oh you have to get off here. I'm sorry, but
I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same train
every week at the same time.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You have just heard The Mysterious Traveler with a title
role played by Maurice Tarblin. In the cast were Leon Jenny,
Ralph Bell, miss Leslie Woods, and Raymond Edward Johnson. Original
music composed and played by Alpinelle. This is Bob Emeric speaking.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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