August 3, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
The Shadow knows.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Tomorrow at the close of the safternoon program, we have
a most distinguished guest, one of the special assistants, the
Attorney General of the United States, the Honorable Francis H.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Horran.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm sure you will all be anxious to hear what
he has to say, so be sure to listen. The shadow,
mysterious character who wids those in distress and helps the
forces of law and order is, in reality Lamont Cranston,
wealthy young man about town. Cranston's friend and companion, the
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lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to
whom the unseen voice belongs, the only one who knows
the true identity of that master of other people's minds.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The today's story Ghosts Can Kill.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Court will come to order.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Proceed, mister district Attorneys, your honor and gentlemen of the jury,
you have heard the evidence against this man, Ralph Gorman.
Three eyewitnesses of unimpeachable character.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Saw him commit the murder.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
He was caught at the scene of the murder with
a gun.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
In his hand.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
It is the duty of the.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Jury to convict him. Ralph Corman has been brought to
court seven times for serious crime. Care Ah, I admit
my client has been brought to court the past. He's
always furnished an unbreakable alibi and has been acquitted. Therefore,
I claim that this record is irrelevant.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Objection sustain very well.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That doesn't all to the state's case. In this instance,
the accused has no alibi. He is guilty of murder
an shoered. Therefore be said to the chair.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Order in the court.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think the question before the jury is a cream
cut issue. The defendant, Ralph Gorman, committed a peculiarly cold
blooded murder.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
There are no.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Halfway, Majors. Is either guilty or not guilty. I therefore
instruct the jury to return a verdict of acquittal or
first degree murder. The jury will retire to consider the verdict.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The presoner will cease to disturbance of plot. That's the matter.
I don't you like my music?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
This is a court of law, Gorman, while you were
awaiting the verdict of the jury.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You will please conduct yourself. But I'm more safely well, Margo.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I've seen many murder trials in my time, but I
have never seen one where the accused man played on
a mouth organ while waiting for the jury to scend
into the chair.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
The Mourdi isn't Gorman one of the toughest gangsters alive?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Yes, my estimation, Ralph Gorman is public enemy number one.
Mango jet.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
He's never been caught and said to prison Lamark. You
heard that in the testiment.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
He's been caught often enough, they've never been able to
convict him because he's always been able to furnish an
absolutely air tight alibi. It's time, for some unexplainable reason,
he has no alibi. So if there's any justice, he
should be put away for good.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Here comes the jury back in again.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So he didn't take long to come to a.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Decision after the evidence they had, they should.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Court will cut the water.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? We
have your honor.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
We find the accused, Ralph Gorman, guilty of murder and
the first degree.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Court woll cut water. The prisoner will stand.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Ralph Gorman, you have been proved a menace to society,
and society has passed judgment upon you, who have been
found guilty of wilful, deliberate murder in the first degree.
Have you at anything to say before sentences pronounced upon you?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I got something to say, very well, be brief. Society
passed judgment on me. Huh, Okay, Then if you're gonna
kill me, I'm gonna come back from the grave and
get even with society.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Empty threats will avail you nothing. Gorman.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Ah, you don't believe I can do it. Huh, all right,
I'll even tell you who I'm gonna get that will do.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I'm not going I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Get that big penance, say Rasca Bardon that's always giving
away money. I guess Bardon's what you'd call a pillar
of society. It then, just for fun, I'll kill that
young guy Frank Collins that just got engaged to that
social register name. I'll come back after death and.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Get both of them.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Colums and Bardon. You don't think I can do it,
but I can? An Why bourd Olf Gorman, I hereby
sendence you to be taken to the state's prison and
to there be executed in a manner provided by law.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
And may God have mercy on your soul.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Can when that's going on?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Driving?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Not being in prison with that.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
Shut off?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Listen, God make that guy come and top play a month.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
He's driving us whole nuts in here. What do you
think this is Cornegie Hall?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No, I don't think this is Cornegie Hall. That's the
death house. And you guys are unner just like me.
Oh coment, you guys, are you all get talentary?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Coming? You want to be allowed to.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Keep your mind talking into special paper.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You're gonna make trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I'll have you taken away from you.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
How about hot well you that's all the fun I get.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
He's driving us nuts.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh why are you caret buddy that part of me?
To night tomorrow ll be quiet alout here, quiet the great.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
This is common.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
You better keep quiet.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
The warden up be here in a minute.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The warden, Oh, I care for the Gordon. He can't
do anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And give me the hot seat.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
And he's throwing that anyhow.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You come to warden here heights Corman warden.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Here half from the governor Warden.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Yes, I'm afraid I've got bad news for you, Gorman.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Governor Roberts has we choose to do anything about your
kids and they're gonna blame me tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
I'm afraid so.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
H looks like society put the finger on me, just
like the judge said.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, okay, I want.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Him like I said, and caught well, then awake the
millionaire Oscar Bardon and Frank Collins are gonna be dead.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Don't talk like that, Garman yo.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
See.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And I think I'll get Governor Rabbits too while I'm
about it. That makes a nice trio, don't you think
Oscar Bardon, Frank Collins and Governor Rabbits. I'm gonna come
back from the graven killm oh three of them. Yeah,
society passed judgment on me. Huh, okay, I ain't kicking.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We'll see who laughs last making stupid threats?
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Going, do you any good? Gorman?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Stupid?
Speaker 10 (07:57):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Listen, hell await. Those guys are all gonna be lots
better than me.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Jump the water.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Tell him the time is up for a heavy plane
in my mouth, organ like this.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Xtra extra.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Hey, read all about it, wealth Calm, and he executed
Wealth Calm, and Prestons my mom m, the Martins, Brandon
Columns and Governor Robits before.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
He dies, Carman executed.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Hey, read all the foul Yes, the head.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Is there anything else you want me to do tonight,
mister Borton.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And before you go to all the curtains and turn
off the other headlights, tailor, Yes, when you stay here
in my study for a while, I was quiet.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
There's some things I want.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
To look over. Yes, mister Borton, you won't be disturbancer.
I think everyone else has gone to bed.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
There's a newspaper here, I haven't a chance to look
at one all day, right on your desk, sir, uh oh, yes, well,
good night Taylor, good night.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Oh. I advanced the headlines before getting down to work.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Let's see when the moves pushing the province merging relief
agencies gangster executed the mid grade into the medic scene
in the death House last night, Ralph Gorman sentences to
come back after death and murder the philanthropist tasket Ball
and Frank Collins, millionaire sportsman and governor Roberts and let's
see on the way of the chair.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Gorman warned his.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Intended victims that they would know of his presence by
hitting him play a mouth organ. These were his last words,
after which he was electrocuted. And his picture here, i'd say,
was a rather low mentality.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
The math organ. Well, that's a bizarre note. Oh, I wonder.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I can hear a mouth organ now now it
must be my imagination, That's how I.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
I could square I hear it again, seems to company
of the room.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Who opened that door. Why yore, you're.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Ralph Gorman, see me, mister Barton, this is impossible. I've
come back from the dead to keep my promise to society.
The mad go Satan never mad mister Barton goes preposterous,
will say about it's that bell because it ain't gonna
tell you no good.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
And that's one of them two mad agoe.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Well, Lama, as long as you just seem to be
walking me around the street seamlessly, you might at least
answer my questions.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What do you think of those threats trenchers made.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
By Ralph Gorman last night before he was executed. I
wouldn't give them the second thought. Six year old child
knows it's impossible to come back from the dead, and.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Peoples the port and murdered famous philanthrophers found in his
study shot today.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
The mad Yes, I hear it too, boy, give me
a paper, keep the change.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
There are you going?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I think this will bear a little investigating. See you later, Mogon.
I'm gonna drop in on the scene of the crime.
Friend Commissioner Weston should be there, Cardona, see.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Who that is.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Whoever it is, don't let him in this study of
mister Porton's until I get to questioning these people. Okay,
commission with funny was found. Mister Morton says, you know him.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Oh, yes, I know him. Tell him.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh wait a minute, he tries to be an amateur criminologist.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Let him come in.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I'll show him how the police department really works.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
All right, you can come in.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Thank you, Commissioner Weston. How do you do I just
happened to be passing by the Bordon House and I
thought you might see him.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Well, Cranston, you want to test all of your amateur
theories on crime, I suppose, always willing to try. Commissioner,
able to beat your brains out of this one. About
three hours ago Ascar Porten was he found at his
desk here with a nice round bullet hole in his
head and not a clue.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
I'm distressing, not a single clue.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Commissioner, Well, we have two clues, but they don't make sense.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Perhaps they don't make sense to the professional detective, but
an amateur on the intellectual side of crime might be
able to help you out.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Commissioner.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
What were the clues?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, first I asked the cop on the beat if
he'd seen any known crooks hanging around the building tonight,
and the dumb guy told me he hadn't seen any
except at one time during the afternoon. He thought he
got a glimpse of Ralph Gorman, and Ralph Gorman.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Is known to Preton Oscar Bordon I see, and the
other clue, Commissioner, the.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Other clothes, even swimmer. One of the maid says he
heard a mouth organ being played in mister Borden's study
about the time the murder must have been committed. Why
it all hinges together perfectly, Commissioner, don't you see Ralph
Gorman has threatened Oscar Borton. He plays the mouth organ,
and he'd been seen hanging around the house. Well he's
your murderer. Very pretty, fairy, Cranston, he only hit chase at.
Ralph Gorman was put to death last night at eleven
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o'clock in the electric chair at state prison.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Who he was?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, you should read the papers, you see. He's an
amateur criminaagist. You're not so hot after all, Franston.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Well have you saved Oscar Bordon's murder?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Oh not yet.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Well you're no better than I am, then, Commissioner Western.
If I were you, I'd put a god of large,
solid policemen around anyone Ralph Gorman might have had a
motive to kill.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh yeah, and then what then?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I'd look for the ghost of Ralph Gorman.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's s lucky you're.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Not praised, Commissioner. Are you gotta get out of here? Christon,
I've got important.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
What to do?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We continue with the second act of Ghosts can kill
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
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Speaker 2 (14:50):
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Speaker 12 (15:12):
Hello, Oh, I thought we were cut off, darling, but
now I tell you I'm all right.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
But I'm so worried. If if only I were in
town till.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I could be wik you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
What is there a worry about, Darling?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Why those threats that awful man Gorman made against old Dad.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That was just nonsense.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
I never even knew him, and decides he's dead.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Yes, but Oscar Borden was threatening too, and he's dead.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Oh no, Rue, Darling, Please stop worrying for my sake.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Nothing's gonna happen to me.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
I'm in my own apartment and I have no intention
of going out, so nothing can happen.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Now you go to sleep and get your beauty rest.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You know you've got to look your prettiest.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Broad waiting Tuesday, All right, DearS.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
At least i'll be with you by tomorrow. I'll be
down on eleven o'clock train in the morning.
Speaker 12 (15:50):
Oh that's wonderful, and I'll meet you at the station.
Good night, darling, Good night, cool Ruth. I don't know
why women gets the nervous of it.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I wonder who that could be.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Is this Frank Collins?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Who's this?
Speaker 12 (16:05):
This is the shadow on the shadow as I've heard
of you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I want to warn you, Collins, warn you against a death.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Who's death yours? And why should you be warning me?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Because if you're not very careful, you'll meet the same
fate as Oscar Borton and for the same reason.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Oh nonsense, got them on.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I would suggest that if you value your life, you
will apply without delay for police protection.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Look.
Speaker 12 (16:29):
I don't know who you wash, I don't know what
your game is, but I'm not afraid of you or
anybody else.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Have it your own way, mister Collins, have it your
own way.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Wait a minute, wait listen, hm, i't on. I wonder
what that was all about. It certainly wasn't a very
cheerful person to talk to. Maybe, yeah, maybe I'd better
get see. You know what's Commissioner Western's home number? Yeah,
I think I've got it in here some place. Oh yeah,
yeah here he is mean nine.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Nine nine.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
H oh, a phone can recalling at this hour?
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Now, where's that faller?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Hello, Commissioner Western speaking.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Commissioner, This is Frank Collins. I just received a threat.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Frank, Oh you did?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes, I was informed I'm about to meet Oscar Bordon's face.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
How are you on?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Over the telephone?
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Just about five.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
Minutes ago by a man who calls himself the shadows Shadow?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Is he mixed up on this?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
How should I know?
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Wait a minute, I thought for a minute I heard
a mouthorgan.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Playing math organ. Hell, that's just your nerves, Collins? Is
it all lo? No? Go lock it quick? All right?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Just a minute?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Good lord?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I can hear the mouthworking myself over the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Collins.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
You're too late, Collins, Colins, you should have locked that
job before you made the call.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's Ralph Coleman's voice.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
How are you have you heard of me? Collins? I'm
Ralph Gorman?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What off?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I only one more to go?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oprinter oprender opriter.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
This is this praise Commissioner Western, Get me headquarters hurry, operator, hurry, Lamon,
come in, Margot. I just heard that Frank.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Collins was murdered in his home last night.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Lamont, Yes, I've been reading the papers read.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
How could Ralph Gorman have come back from.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
The day to commit these murders, Margot?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Yesterday I would have said it was totally impossible. Today, Frankly,
I don't know this moment. I can't think of any
other hypothesis that would have come for the norn facts.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Then that means, Jimminy, what did you say? I nearly said, Jimminy.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Why did you say that, Jimminy?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I was just thinking, why does it mean anything? Gerlyn, No,
in this instance it may mean everything. This it gives
me a clue. Margot. Is your car outside?
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Yes, l Well, come on, we're going places. He'd be careful, Margot,
what how are you driving?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Told me a step on it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I thought you wanted to get to the Regal Hotel
in a hurry.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I do, but I'd like to get there all in
one piece.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
This is a fine time to tell me that. Incidentally,
why the Regal.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Hotel, Governor Roberts is staying there. It's addressing the Manufacturer's
dinner at the Colossus Club tonight. I'd like to be
sure he lives to make it.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Oh, Lamar, Now you're being mysterious again. Why shouldn't Governor Robins.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Live to make his speech?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Because I have reason to believe he's next on the
list marked for murder. I have an idea that if
any attempt is made on the Governor's life tonight, he'll
probably be tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
His hotel.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
You'll just pull up the curb, all right, I said,
up to the curb there, not over it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh, I think your heart.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
If I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Mistaken, sold somebody there before the night's over. We goodbyehem
I'll go, and thanks for the ride.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
This is a service entrance, Governor. Right through that door
there you will be on Mariene Street.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Good, thank you. That's what I told my car to
wait with Governor Roberts. Do you think this is wise?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Wise?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Latham?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Of course it's wise, but danger can the d I'm
going straight to the dinner at the Colossus Club alone
in my own car with.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
My own chauffeur.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Just as you say, sir, through this door to the street.
You said, porter, yes, sir, thank you. Now where's my car.
I told Henry to wait me.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh there he is to the Colossus Club.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Amy, Henry, this is the most preposterous thing I ever
heard of in my life.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
What's our police force.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Turning into the bunch of old women? Ralph Gorman.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Of course I couldn't pardon him. The man was guilty.
The certainly can't come back from the dead. Kenny, Henry,
all this.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Cockor bull story about playing a mouth organ.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
You don't bleep, Henry? What's making that noise? Henry? You
hear me?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Henry? What's the matter with you? This isn't the way
of the Colossus Club. You're heading for the river.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Stop the car, Henry, Ah, why you're not Henry, that's right,
I ain't Henry.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Governor.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Don't you remember me?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Ralph Gormon? Half Gorman?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh no, it's not possible, say me, don't you? And
you remember how I used to play the mouth organ
in the death house like this, Stop the car, Let
me out. I'll let you out right and ten feet
of water when we get to the rubber No, no,
let me out you and then let me out of
the chair. Did you, Governor?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I find remember?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Well you're crown.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Stop the car.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Stop it I say you killed.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Oh, you can't kill a dead man, can you.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Governor?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Oh, the old fool went croup by himself, scared of
death and save me.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I wouldn't be too sure of that. Goarman, Hey, what's that?
Governor Roberts is unharmed, He's only fainted.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
He has a weak heart.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Who is that?
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Where are you?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
You didn't know you had the shadow as a passenger?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
The shadow huh?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
And you can't hurt me. Even a shadow can't harm
a ghost.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But you're not a ghost, Gorman.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And that's what you think.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Don't you know that Ralph Gorman is dead?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Certainly, But you're not Ralph Gorman. You're his twin brother, Arthur.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh it is an ah. I went down to the
city records office and checked up on the birth certificate.
A very pretty little story. Your mother had twin boys
and concealed the fact from everyone. He brought you two
up deliberately for a life of crime. Very convenient, wasn't it, Arthur.
No matter what crime one of you committed, the other
was always seen somewhere else at the same time, to
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furnish a complete alibi.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yah, yeah, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
The Gorman, Ralph Gorman's twin brother. We hadn't got the
howl mixed up.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
They'd never convicted Ralph that last time.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Too bad, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
After all the trouble your mother had taken for years
to conceal the fact you were twins.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How did you get onto it?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
A friend of mine used the expression jimminy, and I
naturally connected that with geminy.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I don't get it.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
You wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Gemeny is the sign of the zodiac, which means the twins. Well, Arthur,
this is a very interesting discussion. But I think now
you've got to stop the car.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh yeah, what do you think? I am crazy? I
never gonna point me.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
That's a matter of opinion.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
All right, you got me, But I got you, shadow
got you where I want you. As the river right
ahead of us, I'm gonna drive over the impactment. I'll drowned,
but so are you. I'll drive right over the edge.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
None of this emergency breakworks.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
You want.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Duck.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You ran head on into the warehouse wall.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Let attack, I see stand back, please? Well how bout attack? Well,
I'll be a man in back. Is Governor Roberts. No,
he's all right, I think just painted Chuck.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Probably, Hey, Doc, how about the other guy?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The chauffa here is dead, Jad, It's too bad. See
his face looks familiar?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
What is it? You know?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Him?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
A dead guy in the chauffeur outfit is the living
image of a gunman called Ralph Gorman. Ralph Gorman. It
can't be Ralph Corman went.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
To the chair last week.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Well, if it ain't him, it's his twin brother.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
If only you'd been able to tell us that a
week or two, justice would have been served a great
deal more quickly.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
In a moment, we shall introduce our distinguished Gifts, one
of the Special assistants to the Attorney General of the
United States, the Honorable Francis H.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Horrince.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But first, here's John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert, with
some money saving hints on furnace care and attention.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Thank you, Ken Roberts, and good afternoon friends.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Last week I discussed the three factors which cause heat
to be lost up the chimney and how they can
be corrected. This afternoon, I want to tell you about
another common cause of wasted coal and heating inefficiency, namely
ash pitt loss ashpit loss means the unburned or partially
burned coal which falls through the grates into the ash pit.
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This loss is due simply to shaking the grates too
often and too vigorously. Don't shake the fire every time
you throw on fresh coal. Let that depend on the
weather outside. And when you shake the grates, stop immediately
when you see the first red glow in the ash pits.
If you think you are not getting full value for
your eating dollars, here's.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
What you do.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Call your neighborhood blue coal dealer. He'll be glad to
have a train. John Barkley heating expert inspect your furnace.
Remember there's no charge or obligation on your part, so
feel free to call on your blue coal dealer.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Now on behalf of our sponsors, the blue coal Dealers
the nation over. It gives me great pleasure to introduce
to you one of the special assistants to the Attorney
General of the United States, Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable
Francis H.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Horn.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Thank you, mister Roberts.
Speaker 13 (26:41):
I'm very happy to be here with you this afternoon
and to have the opportunity of speaking to the audience
of the Shadow Program. I am sure all law enforcement
bodies in the United States agree with me when I
say that constructive radio programs are are a very great
help in.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
The prevention of crime.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
I can't emphasize strongly enough how important it is to prove,
particularly to growing boys, the truth that crime in any
form does not pay.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Your program helps to bring this message to millions of people.
So keep up the good work.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We certainly shall, mister Horan, and thank you sir for
stopping in. It's been a great honor to have had
you with us. Today's program is based on a story
copyrighted by The Shadow magazine. All the characters and all
the places named are sucticious. Any similarity to persons living
or dead is purely coincidental. The Shadow magazine is now
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on sale at your local news staff.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The weed of crime, there's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
The Shadow knows
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
The Shadow knows.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Your local Blue Coal dealer presents the shadow. These half
hour dramatizations are designed to forcibly demonstrate to old and
young alike that crime does not pay. Before the Shadow's
adventure begins, a reminder to all homeowners, there's one sure
way to get extra quality, extra value, and complete heating comfort,
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and that's by ordering blue coal by name. Blue Coal's
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(01:10):
Ensure your family perfect heating comfort and satisfaction by ordering
blue coal by name. Call your nearest Blue Coal dealer.
Tomorrow at the close of the safternoon program, we have
a most distinguished guest, one of the special assistants, the
Attorney General of the United States, the Honorable Francis H.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Horran.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm sure you will all be anxious to hear what
he has to say, so be sure to listen. The shadow,
mysterious character who wids those in distress and helps the
forces of law and order is, in reality Lamont Cranston,
wealthy young man about town. Cranston's friend and companion, the
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lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to
whom the unseen voice belongs, the only one who knows
the true identity of that master of other people's minds.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The today's story Ghosts Can Kill.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Court will come to order.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Proceed, mister district Attorneys, your honor and gentlemen of the jury,
you have heard the evidence against this man, Ralph Gorman.
Three eyewitnesses of unimpeachable character.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Saw him commit the murder.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
He was caught at the scene of the murder with
a gun.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
In his hand.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
It is the duty of the.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Jury to convict him. Ralph Corman has been brought to
court seven times for serious crime. Care Ah, I admit
my client has been brought to court the past. He's
always furnished an unbreakable alibi and has been acquitted. Therefore,
I claim that this record is irrelevant.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Objection sustain very well.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That doesn't all to the state's case. In this instance,
the accused has no alibi. He is guilty of murder
an shoered. Therefore be said to the chair.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Order in the court.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think the question before the jury is a cream
cut issue. The defendant, Ralph Gorman, committed a peculiarly cold
blooded murder.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
There are no.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Halfway, Majors. Is either guilty or not guilty. I therefore
instruct the jury to return a verdict of acquittal or
first degree murder. The jury will retire to consider the verdict.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The presoner will cease to disturbance of plot. That's the matter.
I don't you like my music?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
This is a court of law, Gorman, while you were
awaiting the verdict of the jury.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You will please conduct yourself. But I'm more safely well, Margo.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I've seen many murder trials in my time, but I
have never seen one where the accused man played on
a mouth organ while waiting for the jury to scend
into the chair.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
The Mourdi isn't Gorman one of the toughest gangsters alive?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Yes, my estimation, Ralph Gorman is public enemy number one.
Mango jet.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
He's never been caught and said to prison Lamark. You
heard that in the testiment.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
He's been caught often enough, they've never been able to
convict him because he's always been able to furnish an
absolutely air tight alibi. It's time, for some unexplainable reason,
he has no alibi. So if there's any justice, he
should be put away for good.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Here comes the jury back in again.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So he didn't take long to come to a.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Decision after the evidence they had, they should.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Court will cut the water.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? We
have your honor.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
We find the accused, Ralph Gorman, guilty of murder and
the first degree.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Court woll cut water. The prisoner will stand.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Ralph Gorman, you have been proved a menace to society,
and society has passed judgment upon you, who have been
found guilty of wilful, deliberate murder in the first degree.
Have you at anything to say before sentences pronounced upon you?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I got something to say, very well, be brief. Society
passed judgment on me. Huh, Okay, Then if you're gonna
kill me, I'm gonna come back from the grave and
get even with society.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Empty threats will avail you nothing. Gorman.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Ah, you don't believe I can do it. Huh, all right,
I'll even tell you who I'm gonna get that will do.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I'm not going I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Get that big penance, say Rasca Bardon that's always giving
away money. I guess Bardon's what you'd call a pillar
of society. It then, just for fun, I'll kill that
young guy Frank Collins that just got engaged to that
social register name. I'll come back after death and.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Get both of them.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Colums and Bardon. You don't think I can do it,
but I can? An Why bourd Olf Gorman, I hereby
sendence you to be taken to the state's prison and
to there be executed in a manner provided by law.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
And may God have mercy on your soul.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Can when that's going on?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Driving?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Not being in prison with that.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
Shut off?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Listen, God make that guy come and top play a month.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
He's driving us whole nuts in here. What do you
think this is Cornegie Hall?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No, I don't think this is Cornegie Hall. That's the
death house. And you guys are unner just like me.
Oh coment, you guys, are you all get talentary?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Coming? You want to be allowed to.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Keep your mind talking into special paper.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You're gonna make trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I'll have you taken away from you.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
How about hot well you that's all the fun I get.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
He's driving us nuts.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh why are you caret buddy that part of me?
To night tomorrow ll be quiet alout here, quiet the great.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
This is common.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
You better keep quiet.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
The warden up be here in a minute.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The warden, Oh, I care for the Gordon. He can't
do anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And give me the hot seat.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
And he's throwing that anyhow.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You come to warden here heights Corman warden.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Here half from the governor Warden.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Yes, I'm afraid I've got bad news for you, Gorman.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Governor Roberts has we choose to do anything about your
kids and they're gonna blame me tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
I'm afraid so.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
H looks like society put the finger on me, just
like the judge said.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, okay, I want.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Him like I said, and caught well, then awake the
millionaire Oscar Bardon and Frank Collins are gonna be dead.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Don't talk like that, Garman yo.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
See.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And I think I'll get Governor Rabbits too while I'm
about it. That makes a nice trio, don't you think
Oscar Bardon, Frank Collins and Governor Rabbits. I'm gonna come
back from the graven killm oh three of them. Yeah,
society passed judgment on me. Huh, okay, I ain't kicking.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We'll see who laughs last making stupid threats?
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Going, do you any good? Gorman?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Stupid?
Speaker 10 (07:57):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Listen, hell await. Those guys are all gonna be lots
better than me.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Jump the water.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Tell him the time is up for a heavy plane
in my mouth, organ like this.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Xtra extra.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Hey, read all about it, wealth Calm, and he executed
Wealth Calm, and Prestons my mom m, the Martins, Brandon
Columns and Governor Robits before.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
He dies, Carman executed.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Hey, read all the foul Yes, the head.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Is there anything else you want me to do tonight,
mister Borton.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And before you go to all the curtains and turn
off the other headlights, tailor, Yes, when you stay here
in my study for a while, I was quiet.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
There's some things I want.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
To look over. Yes, mister Borton, you won't be disturbancer.
I think everyone else has gone to bed.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
There's a newspaper here, I haven't a chance to look
at one all day, right on your desk, sir, uh oh, yes, well,
good night Taylor, good night.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Oh. I advanced the headlines before getting down to work.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Let's see when the moves pushing the province merging relief
agencies gangster executed the mid grade into the medic scene
in the death House last night, Ralph Gorman sentences to
come back after death and murder the philanthropist tasket Ball
and Frank Collins, millionaire sportsman and governor Roberts and let's
see on the way of the chair.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Gorman warned his.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Intended victims that they would know of his presence by
hitting him play a mouth organ. These were his last words,
after which he was electrocuted. And his picture here, i'd say,
was a rather low mentality.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
The math organ. Well, that's a bizarre note. Oh, I wonder.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I can hear a mouth organ now now it
must be my imagination, That's how I.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
I could square I hear it again, seems to company
of the room.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Who opened that door. Why yore, you're.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Ralph Gorman, see me, mister Barton, this is impossible. I've
come back from the dead to keep my promise to society.
The mad go Satan never mad mister Barton goes preposterous,
will say about it's that bell because it ain't gonna
tell you no good.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
And that's one of them two mad agoe.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Well, Lama, as long as you just seem to be
walking me around the street seamlessly, you might at least
answer my questions.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What do you think of those threats trenchers made.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
By Ralph Gorman last night before he was executed. I
wouldn't give them the second thought. Six year old child
knows it's impossible to come back from the dead, and.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Peoples the port and murdered famous philanthrophers found in his
study shot today.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
The mad Yes, I hear it too, boy, give me
a paper, keep the change.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
There are you going?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I think this will bear a little investigating. See you later, Mogon.
I'm gonna drop in on the scene of the crime.
Friend Commissioner Weston should be there, Cardona, see.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Who that is.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Whoever it is, don't let him in this study of
mister Porton's until I get to questioning these people. Okay,
commission with funny was found. Mister Morton says, you know him.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Oh, yes, I know him. Tell him.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh wait a minute, he tries to be an amateur criminologist.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Let him come in.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I'll show him how the police department really works.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
All right, you can come in.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Thank you, Commissioner Weston. How do you do I just
happened to be passing by the Bordon House and I
thought you might see him.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Well, Cranston, you want to test all of your amateur
theories on crime, I suppose, always willing to try. Commissioner,
able to beat your brains out of this one. About
three hours ago Ascar Porten was he found at his
desk here with a nice round bullet hole in his
head and not a clue.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
I'm distressing, not a single clue.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Commissioner, Well, we have two clues, but they don't make sense.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Perhaps they don't make sense to the professional detective, but
an amateur on the intellectual side of crime might be
able to help you out.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Commissioner.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
What were the clues?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, first I asked the cop on the beat if
he'd seen any known crooks hanging around the building tonight,
and the dumb guy told me he hadn't seen any
except at one time during the afternoon. He thought he
got a glimpse of Ralph Gorman, and Ralph Gorman.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Is known to Preton Oscar Bordon I see, and the
other clue, Commissioner, the.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Other clothes, even swimmer. One of the maid says he
heard a mouth organ being played in mister Borden's study
about the time the murder must have been committed. Why
it all hinges together perfectly, Commissioner, don't you see Ralph
Gorman has threatened Oscar Borton. He plays the mouth organ,
and he'd been seen hanging around the house. Well he's
your murderer. Very pretty, fairy, Cranston, he only hit chase at.
Ralph Gorman was put to death last night at eleven
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o'clock in the electric chair at state prison.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Who he was?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, you should read the papers, you see. He's an
amateur criminaagist. You're not so hot after all, Franston.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Well have you saved Oscar Bordon's murder?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Oh not yet.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Well you're no better than I am, then, Commissioner Western.
If I were you, I'd put a god of large,
solid policemen around anyone Ralph Gorman might have had a
motive to kill.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh yeah, and then what then?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I'd look for the ghost of Ralph Gorman.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's s lucky you're.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Not praised, Commissioner. Are you gotta get out of here? Christon,
I've got important.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
What to do?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We continue with the second act of Ghosts can kill
in just a month. Homeowners, Would you like to stop
those tiresome trips to the cellar and keep furnace attention
down to a minimum, Well, then here's what you do.
Get in touch with your nearest Blue Coal dealer and
ask him about Blue Cole's autumnt a heat regulator. It's
a thermostat which is attached to the wall of your
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living or dining room that controls your furnace dampers automatically.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Just set the thermostat control.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Of the exact temperature you wish, and your Blue Coal
heat regulator will maintain that temperature day or night. You
know yourselves how costly and dangerous to health overheating the
house can be, but a heat regulator will insure you steady,
even warmth, which is most beneficial to the health of all.
What's more, by stopping this overheating of the house, a
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heat regulator will save you fuel, and saving fuel means
saving money. You can own one of these blue cold
heat regulators for only eighteen dollars and ninety five cents,
plus a small installation charge, and believe me, it will
pay for itself in the time and trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Of constant draft adjustment. It saves you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
So call your nearest blue coal dealer tomorrow. His name
is listed in the where to buy it section of
your classified telephone directory under the word blue Cold. Hello.
Speaker 12 (15:12):
Hello, Oh, I thought we were cut off, darling, but
now I tell you I'm all right.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
But I'm so worried. If if only I were in
town till.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I could be wik you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
What is there a worry about, Darling?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Why those threats that awful man Gorman made against old Dad.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That was just nonsense.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
I never even knew him, and decides he's dead.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Yes, but Oscar Borden was threatening too, and he's dead.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Oh no, Rue, Darling, Please stop worrying for my sake.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Nothing's gonna happen to me.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
I'm in my own apartment and I have no intention
of going out, so nothing can happen.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Now you go to sleep and get your beauty rest.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You know you've got to look your prettiest.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Broad waiting Tuesday, All right, DearS.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
At least i'll be with you by tomorrow. I'll be
down on eleven o'clock train in the morning.
Speaker 12 (15:50):
Oh that's wonderful, and I'll meet you at the station.
Good night, darling, Good night, cool Ruth. I don't know
why women gets the nervous of it.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I wonder who that could be.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Is this Frank Collins?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Who's this?
Speaker 12 (16:05):
This is the shadow on the shadow as I've heard
of you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I want to warn you, Collins, warn you against a death.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Who's death yours? And why should you be warning me?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Because if you're not very careful, you'll meet the same
fate as Oscar Borton and for the same reason.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Oh nonsense, got them on.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I would suggest that if you value your life, you
will apply without delay for police protection.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Look.
Speaker 12 (16:29):
I don't know who you wash, I don't know what
your game is, but I'm not afraid of you or
anybody else.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Have it your own way, mister Collins, have it your
own way.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Wait a minute, wait listen, hm, i't on. I wonder
what that was all about. It certainly wasn't a very
cheerful person to talk to. Maybe, yeah, maybe I'd better
get see. You know what's Commissioner Western's home number? Yeah,
I think I've got it in here some place. Oh yeah,
yeah here he is mean nine.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Nine nine.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
H oh, a phone can recalling at this hour?
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Now, where's that faller?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Hello, Commissioner Western speaking.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Commissioner, This is Frank Collins. I just received a threat.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Frank, Oh you did?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes, I was informed I'm about to meet Oscar Bordon's face.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
How are you on?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Over the telephone?
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Just about five.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
Minutes ago by a man who calls himself the shadows Shadow?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Is he mixed up on this?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
How should I know?
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Wait a minute, I thought for a minute I heard
a mouthorgan.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Playing math organ. Hell, that's just your nerves, Collins? Is
it all lo? No? Go lock it quick? All right?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Just a minute?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Good lord?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I can hear the mouthworking myself over the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Collins.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
You're too late, Collins, Colins, you should have locked that
job before you made the call.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's Ralph Coleman's voice.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
How are you have you heard of me? Collins? I'm
Ralph Gorman?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What off?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I only one more to go?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oprinter oprender opriter.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
This is this praise Commissioner Western, Get me headquarters hurry, operator, hurry, Lamon,
come in, Margot. I just heard that Frank.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Collins was murdered in his home last night.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Lamont, Yes, I've been reading the papers read.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
How could Ralph Gorman have come back from.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
The day to commit these murders, Margot?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Yesterday I would have said it was totally impossible. Today, Frankly,
I don't know this moment. I can't think of any
other hypothesis that would have come for the norn facts.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Then that means, Jimminy, what did you say? I nearly said, Jimminy.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Why did you say that, Jimminy?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I was just thinking, why does it mean anything? Gerlyn, No,
in this instance it may mean everything. This it gives
me a clue. Margot. Is your car outside?
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Yes, l Well, come on, we're going places. He'd be careful, Margot,
what how are you driving?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Told me a step on it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I thought you wanted to get to the Regal Hotel
in a hurry.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I do, but I'd like to get there all in
one piece.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
This is a fine time to tell me that. Incidentally,
why the Regal.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Hotel, Governor Roberts is staying there. It's addressing the Manufacturer's
dinner at the Colossus Club tonight. I'd like to be
sure he lives to make it.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Oh, Lamar, Now you're being mysterious again. Why shouldn't Governor Robins.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Live to make his speech?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Because I have reason to believe he's next on the
list marked for murder. I have an idea that if
any attempt is made on the Governor's life tonight, he'll
probably be tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
His hotel.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
You'll just pull up the curb, all right, I said,
up to the curb there, not over it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh, I think your heart.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
If I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Mistaken, sold somebody there before the night's over. We goodbyehem
I'll go, and thanks for the ride.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
This is a service entrance, Governor. Right through that door
there you will be on Mariene Street.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Good, thank you. That's what I told my car to
wait with Governor Roberts. Do you think this is wise?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Wise?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Latham?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Of course it's wise, but danger can the d I'm
going straight to the dinner at the Colossus Club alone
in my own car with.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
My own chauffeur.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Just as you say, sir, through this door to the street.
You said, porter, yes, sir, thank you. Now where's my car.
I told Henry to wait me.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh there he is to the Colossus Club.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Amy, Henry, this is the most preposterous thing I ever
heard of in my life.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
What's our police force.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Turning into the bunch of old women? Ralph Gorman.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Of course I couldn't pardon him. The man was guilty.
The certainly can't come back from the dead. Kenny, Henry,
all this.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Cockor bull story about playing a mouth organ.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
You don't bleep, Henry? What's making that noise? Henry? You
hear me?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Henry? What's the matter with you? This isn't the way
of the Colossus Club. You're heading for the river.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Stop the car, Henry, Ah, why you're not Henry, that's right,
I ain't Henry.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Governor.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Don't you remember me?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Ralph Gormon? Half Gorman?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh no, it's not possible, say me, don't you? And
you remember how I used to play the mouth organ
in the death house like this, Stop the car, Let
me out. I'll let you out right and ten feet
of water when we get to the rubber No, no,
let me out you and then let me out of
the chair. Did you, Governor?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I find remember?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Well you're crown.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Stop the car.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Stop it I say you killed.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Oh, you can't kill a dead man, can you.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Governor?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Oh, the old fool went croup by himself, scared of
death and save me.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I wouldn't be too sure of that. Goarman, Hey, what's that?
Governor Roberts is unharmed, He's only fainted.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
He has a weak heart.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Who is that?
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Where are you?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
You didn't know you had the shadow as a passenger?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
The shadow huh?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
And you can't hurt me. Even a shadow can't harm
a ghost.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But you're not a ghost, Gorman.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And that's what you think.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Don't you know that Ralph Gorman is dead?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Certainly, But you're not Ralph Gorman. You're his twin brother, Arthur.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh it is an ah. I went down to the
city records office and checked up on the birth certificate.
A very pretty little story. Your mother had twin boys
and concealed the fact from everyone. He brought you two
up deliberately for a life of crime. Very convenient, wasn't it, Arthur.
No matter what crime one of you committed, the other
was always seen somewhere else at the same time, to
(23:07):
furnish a complete alibi.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yah, yeah, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
The Gorman, Ralph Gorman's twin brother. We hadn't got the
howl mixed up.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
They'd never convicted Ralph that last time.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Too bad, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
After all the trouble your mother had taken for years
to conceal the fact you were twins.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How did you get onto it?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
A friend of mine used the expression jimminy, and I
naturally connected that with geminy.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I don't get it.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
You wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Gemeny is the sign of the zodiac, which means the twins. Well, Arthur,
this is a very interesting discussion. But I think now
you've got to stop the car.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh yeah, what do you think? I am crazy? I
never gonna point me.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
That's a matter of opinion.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
All right, you got me, But I got you, shadow
got you where I want you. As the river right
ahead of us, I'm gonna drive over the impactment. I'll drowned,
but so are you. I'll drive right over the edge.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
None of this emergency breakworks.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
You want.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Duck.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You ran head on into the warehouse wall.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Let attack, I see stand back, please? Well how bout attack? Well,
I'll be a man in back. Is Governor Roberts. No,
he's all right, I think just painted Chuck.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Probably, Hey, Doc, how about the other guy?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The chauffa here is dead, Jad, It's too bad. See
his face looks familiar?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
What is it? You know?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Him?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
A dead guy in the chauffeur outfit is the living
image of a gunman called Ralph Gorman. Ralph Gorman. It
can't be Ralph Corman went.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
To the chair last week.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Well, if it ain't him, it's his twin brother.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
If only you'd been able to tell us that a
week or two, justice would have been served a great
deal more quickly.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
In a moment, we shall introduce our distinguished Gifts, one
of the Special assistants to the Attorney General of the
United States, the Honorable Francis H.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Horrince.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But first, here's John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert, with
some money saving hints on furnace care and attention.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Thank you, Ken Roberts, and good afternoon friends.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Last week I discussed the three factors which cause heat
to be lost up the chimney and how they can
be corrected. This afternoon, I want to tell you about
another common cause of wasted coal and heating inefficiency, namely
ash pitt loss ashpit loss means the unburned or partially
burned coal which falls through the grates into the ash pit.
(25:40):
This loss is due simply to shaking the grates too
often and too vigorously. Don't shake the fire every time
you throw on fresh coal. Let that depend on the
weather outside. And when you shake the grates, stop immediately
when you see the first red glow in the ash pits.
If you think you are not getting full value for
your eating dollars, here's.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
What you do.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Call your neighborhood blue coal dealer. He'll be glad to
have a train. John Barkley heating expert inspect your furnace.
Remember there's no charge or obligation on your part, so
feel free to call on your blue coal dealer.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Now on behalf of our sponsors, the blue coal Dealers
the nation over. It gives me great pleasure to introduce
to you one of the special assistants to the Attorney
General of the United States, Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable
Francis H.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Horn.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Thank you, mister Roberts.
Speaker 13 (26:41):
I'm very happy to be here with you this afternoon
and to have the opportunity of speaking to the audience
of the Shadow Program. I am sure all law enforcement
bodies in the United States agree with me when I
say that constructive radio programs are are a very great
help in.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
The prevention of crime.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
I can't emphasize strongly enough how important it is to prove,
particularly to growing boys, the truth that crime in any
form does not pay.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Your program helps to bring this message to millions of people.
So keep up the good work.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We certainly shall, mister Horan, and thank you sir for
stopping in. It's been a great honor to have had
you with us. Today's program is based on a story
copyrighted by The Shadow magazine. All the characters and all
the places named are sucticious. Any similarity to persons living
or dead is purely coincidental. The Shadow magazine is now
(27:45):
on sale at your local news staff.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The weed of crime, there's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
The Shadow knows
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