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The Shadow - "The Diamond Murders" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as Margot
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Lane head the cast in tonight's visit to Eagle Field.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: It is the Shadow The Diamond Murders, broadcast by Mutual
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: on October eighth, nineteen thirty nine and listed as episode
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight. During a night game, visiting
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: pitchers are being killed by electrocution, even on the pitchers mound.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Before a crowd and police who can find no ready explanation.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Lamont and Margo investigate the ballpark and its personnel as
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: the case moves toward a reconstruction intended to reveal how
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: the murders are being accomplished. Jerry Devine wrote the script,
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  Speaker 1: now back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil works in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow Lord?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow, mysterious character who furthers the forces of law
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  Speaker 3: and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: about town. The Shadow uses his hypnotic power to cloud
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: men's minds so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person
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  Speaker 3: who knows to whom the unseen voice of the shadow
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  Speaker 3: belongs today's story. Murder in the ballpark.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Well, sports fans, here we are back at Eagle Field.
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  Speaker 4: They're no scoring this game so far.
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: You know, Whitey Brooks the pitcher. Is it that bad?
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: Hadn't better?
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: Now? There two and two Whitey, two balls and two stripes.
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: Here's the pitch. Whitey hits one out of the right field.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: It's the base hit. He's on his way now.
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  Speaker 3: Wait wait, Brooks is staggering with the baseline.
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  Speaker 4: Blood is running down his cheek.
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  Speaker 2: He's fallow.
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  Speaker 5: Extra Whitey Brooks hates how that murdered and bought Fike
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  Speaker 5: Xtray Xtray Brooks murdered and bought Bick.
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  Speaker 4: We are.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Andy, what are you doing here in that clubhouse?
• 2:49
  Speaker 6: You're supposed to be out warming up your pitch today?
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  Speaker 6: Look at him? He falls asleep ten minutes before the
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  Speaker 6: game time. Come on, wake got bandy, Andy, Andy, Handy here,
• 3:02
  Speaker 6: come here, somebody quick Handy Handy's dead.
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  Speaker 5: Act record murdered, Eagles Field, craftsmen five murdered and club
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  Speaker 5: I actual ring all about.
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  Speaker 2: I see at the foot of this aisle. Mrgo right
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  Speaker 2: on the third baseline.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, Oh, do you mind if we stand here a
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  Speaker 7: second the month. I've never seen anything like this a
• 3:40
  Speaker 7: night baseball game. Why those big archives make the feel
• 3:43
  Speaker 7: as bright as day. That's it's very impressive.
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  Speaker 4: Keep moving with your lady, you're blocking a view.
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  Speaker 8: Oh sorry, lead on, Lamon.
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  Speaker 7: All right, So you know I'm very curious to know
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  Speaker 7: why we've come to this game tonight.
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  Speaker 8: You promise you tell me when we got here.
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  Speaker 2: My interest happens to be professional. Oh you know that
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  Speaker 2: two killings have taken place at this ballpark within the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I remember reading that two noted pictures were mysteriously slain, and.
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  Speaker 2: It happened in this very stadium. One was an ace
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  Speaker 2: hurdler named Brooks. The other was a great picture by
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  Speaker 2: the name of Crossband.
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  Speaker 8: It's unbelievable. Why, well, somehow I never associate murder with baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Nevertheless, it has happened, and that's why we here tonight.
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  Speaker 7: I see, say Lamont at hunchback certainly can play baseball,
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  Speaker 7: right there's one out there on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, yes, that's Bogo, the mascot. He's been with
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  Speaker 2: the team for years. Good little ball player too. He
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  Speaker 2: always clowns for the customers during practice.
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  Speaker 8: Lamont. It says here in the program that.
• 4:43
  Speaker 7: Joe Roberts caught more flies than any other shortstop.
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  Speaker 8: What's a shortstop and what do you want to catch
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  Speaker 8: flies for?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Margo, with shortstops one of the players and a fly?
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  Speaker 8: Why know what a little fly is?
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  Speaker 2: Silly?
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  Speaker 8: But why did they call him a shortstop?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because I'll tell you later.
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  Speaker 4: Margaret, it came.
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  Speaker 8: Who are the players in blue?
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  Speaker 2: Those are the umpires, Darling.
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  Speaker 8: I won't say another word.
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  Speaker 1: Battery for the night escape for the Eagles, strag me,
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  Speaker 1: pitchy and provis sketchy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that's that's part of the game. You're
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  Speaker 2: never supposed to understand. The Enhuancer for.
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  Speaker 5: The Terriers, Marson, pitchy and boys fun catchy.
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  Speaker 7: I guess it's the thing to do the mood. Are
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  Speaker 7: you sure they can see to play under these lights?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they have all seasons. Now, what do you say, muggle?
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  Speaker 2: Let's watch the ball game, shall we?
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  Speaker 8: Who's the man in the center position.
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  Speaker 2: My darling. He's affectionately known as the pitcher and one
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  Speaker 2: of the best pitchers in the baseball game, I might add, ed, Marson.
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  Speaker 8: What's he twisting all around for?
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  Speaker 2: He's winding up for the first pitch, and here it
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  Speaker 2: comes for the lights have gone out the monk.
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  Speaker 8: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I don't like it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: tide muggle subdomant, and I don't understand.
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  Speaker 8: It'll be the lights back on again.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder, Margo look out in the center of the
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  Speaker 2: diamond Mars in the picture he stretched out on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: Here you going them on out on the field to see.
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  Speaker 2: What's happened to Martian?
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  Speaker 4: You went there, I couldn't see nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, don't move wom until we find out
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  Speaker 2: what's happening. Ed. You're right, he's out cold. He's more
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  Speaker 2: than not cold, gentlemen, he's dead. Well, corner, what's your verdict,
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  Speaker 2: Mission of Western? This man was electricuted.
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  Speaker 4: If we we'll start looking around out here on the infield,
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  Speaker 4: can I be of any help, Commissioner Western? Huh, oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's you Cranston. I thought I ordered this park empty.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we knew that rule didn't apply to oust mister
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  Speaker 7: Weston good evening?
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  Speaker 2: Was lad? Did the coroner Reginny verdict as ed? May?
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  Speaker 2: I ask what it was?
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  Speaker 4: The Department is not a libertor to devolves that information
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  Speaker 4: of present, Miss Granson.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see, it wouldn't have been electrocution with it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what makes you think that this little steel plate here
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  Speaker 2: beside the pictures rubbery right here? So that's away, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't touch it if I were you, until the
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  Speaker 2: wire is traced to its source.
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  Speaker 4: That's how it was done. Steel plates on his spike
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  Speaker 4: shoes made the contact necessary for the shock.
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  Speaker 8: Wasn't that clever of Lamont to find a commissioner?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, who do you suppose did it?
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  Speaker 4: Well? The department is not.
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  Speaker 8: At liberty to devolve that information at present. In other words,
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  Speaker 8: you don't know. Isn't that it?
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  Speaker 4: Not at all?
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to point out a few things to you Western.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed that all the deaths have occut on
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: the teams that are playing the Eagles? Yes? And all
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  Speaker 2: the victims were pictures, very excellent pictures, I might add.
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  Speaker 4: That's but what does that prove?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing conclusive? Just the lead, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: How I have a favor to ask of you people, Granson?
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  Speaker 2: And what's that?
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  Speaker 4: I don't want anyone to know that we were aware
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  Speaker 4: of how the victim died, So please keep it quiet,
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  Speaker 4: will you?
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  Speaker 2: Certain? Me, and now I have a favor to ask you. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to be present at headquarters tomorrow when you
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  Speaker 2: conduct your investigation.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, come in, Margot, A commissioner will be delighted to
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  Speaker 2: have you here. Write Commissioner Western.
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  Speaker 4: And by all means, come in, miss Lane.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Commissioner. Well have you found out anything?
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  Speaker 4: Oh afraid not any more of them out there, Murphy,
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  Speaker 4: just two Pixie Parker the picture and all help from
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  Speaker 4: the groundkeeper. Now I'm send Parker in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this will be very educational, Margo. Mister Pixie Parker
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  Speaker 2: is the original daf in this boy sort of a
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  Speaker 2: fugitive from one of those stories Ring Laudner used to.
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  Speaker 8: Write, wonderful a mon?
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  Speaker 4: How do you do? Come on in, Parker. This is
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  Speaker 4: miss Lane and mister Cranston. Oh, I'm very pleased to
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  Speaker 4: make your acquaintance.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks Pard, same here, Margot.
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  Speaker 4: Can you shed any light on our mystery pixing?
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  Speaker 9: Well, Commissioner, I am thinking while I am waiting outside
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  Speaker 9: that what happens last night is very much the same
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  Speaker 9: has happened to me when I'm having a twenty game
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  Speaker 9: win streak in Joyce City. How's that well as I
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  Speaker 9: am the sensation of the league, they are saving me
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  Speaker 9: for pitching night games exclusive on account of I am
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  Speaker 9: such a gay attraction.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but what's that to do with Marton's death? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I am reaching that point. I'll go on one night.
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  Speaker 9: I am pitching for Joyce City, steaming them in and
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  Speaker 9: my usual faithful style. When all of a sudden the
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  Speaker 9: lights is out, Yes, yes, go ahead. There is much
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  Speaker 9: nervousness and confuse. I don't and then all of a
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  Speaker 9: sudden the lights is on. It listen what then we
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  Speaker 9: went on with the game. That's all I see.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you Pixy, who've been a big hell? Oh that's okay.
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  Speaker 4: I send pop Hilton then, are sure?
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  Speaker 2: I am very happy to have made both your acquaintances.
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  Speaker 4: Likewise, that was very informative, and this old Hilton guy
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  Speaker 4: would be worse.
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  Speaker 2: Who is he?
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  Speaker 4: Commissioner the groundkeeper used to be a great pitcher of
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  Speaker 4: years ago, un till he stopped the baseball at the
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  Speaker 4: top of his head and a little bomby. Ever since
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  Speaker 4: I seen come in.
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  Speaker 2: You sent for me?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly this is miss Lane and mister Cranston. You
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  Speaker 4: probably like me to tell you about the murders, wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: you and you shed any light on them? Light light
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  Speaker 4: in darkness, there is light and in light darkness. Come on, Pop,
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  Speaker 4: start talking riddles? Do you or don't you know anything?
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  Speaker 10: Have you ever read Shelley, Commissioner, Western, I don't read
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  Speaker 10: the sport pages, as Shelley was a poet.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner, Oh, a very fine poet.
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  Speaker 10: Shelley once wrote the awful shadow of some unseen power floats,
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  Speaker 10: though unseen amongst us. That's what you're dealing with, Commissioner.
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: I'm dealing with a murder case, and I've wasted enough
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  Speaker 4: time on you.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be all Pop, well as you wish, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 4: Good day, an afternoon wasted not entirely What do you mean, Cston, Nothing,
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  Speaker 4: we'll be running long to come on, Margo right.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye, Commissioner. I'll send you over a copy of Shelley
• 11:04
  Speaker 7: if you like. I mean the poet, not the sports writer.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's mighty nice. Thanks, goodbye.
• 11:11
  Speaker 8: What do you mean the month that the afternoon was
• 11:12
  Speaker 8: not entirely wasted?
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: The old man, Pop, Hilton, he knows something, do you
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  Speaker 2: think so? I'm sure of it? And the shadow will
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  Speaker 2: pay a call on the old boy at the baseball
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  Speaker 2: park tonight.
• 11:34
  Speaker 8: The month.
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  Speaker 7: I can't believe that this ball bark is the same
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: place that was full of cheering spectators last night.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, he is rather here, he isn't it, Margot? Those
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: rows and rows of empty seats.
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  Speaker 8: Dessert is completely empty. It gives me the creeps. It
• 11:52
  Speaker 8: seemed almost haunted.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: Maybe it is haunted, Margo, haunted by the ghosts of
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: great players, the games they've played.
• 12:00
  Speaker 8: Lamond. Look, I'll there on the plane for her. You
• 12:02
  Speaker 8: can see at the moonlight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what is it?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know why it's moving.
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  Speaker 2: It's a man.
• 12:09
  Speaker 8: Wouldn't be one of your ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's old man Hilton, the ground keeper. He seems
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: to be very interested in something on the ground by
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  Speaker 2: the pictures.
• 12:18
  Speaker 8: Ma'm the steel plate that kill Morrison.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, you wait here, Miggle. I think the shadow should
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: know what Hilton's up to. You won't be frightened here
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: alone with you?
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  Speaker 11: No, No, go ahead, Lamon, I'll just sit down in
• 12:33
  Speaker 11: one of his empty seats.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was clever, fiendishly clever. I quite agree with you,
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: mister Hilton. Hey did I hear someone speak? I spoke?
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: Who are you? I am known here's the shadow.
• 12:58
  Speaker 10: Shadow, shadow will come out where I can see you.
• 13:02
  Speaker 10: I'm standing right beside you, Hilton, beside me. Huh no,
• 13:07
  Speaker 10: there's no one beside me. Oh it's my mind. Plane
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  Speaker 10: fix on me again.
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  Speaker 2: Your mind is not deceiving you, Hilton. I have merely
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  Speaker 2: clouded it so that you cannot see me. What do
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: you want? I was interested in your examination of that
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: steel plate. Oh, rather ingenious killing device, wouldn't you say?
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  Speaker 10: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Do you know anything about these deaths, Hildan?
• 13:32
  Speaker 10: Of course we almost know something about death. Death has
• 13:39
  Speaker 10: a thousand doors from life, yes, of course.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: And you know through which door Marson travel, don't you?
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: That's right? I do. Can you tell me who opened
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: that door for him? Well? I think I could. I
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: think I could come now, mister Hilton, I think it was. Uh.
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: You'll never find out now, mister Shadow, come.
• 14:09
  Speaker 8: Back, come back, the mother, the mother? You are right, yes,
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: But the old man, Hilton?
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Is he? Oh? My lord, he's dead. The bullet passed
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: his head before he could reveal what he knew.
• 14:22
  Speaker 8: Then you didn't learn anything?
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yes I did, Marco, and the murderer will learn
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: something too. What do you mean the killer Margo heard
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: my shadow, but I saw his. Yes, what are you
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: doing here?
• 14:55
  Speaker 8: Do you think I'd have missed this? The moth say,
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: isn't that uniform a little large for you?
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: No ribs?
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: Well, just what's the idea of you're putting on that
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: uniform and becoming a member of the Eagles Baseball sea.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: It's all in the line of duty, my suite. I
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: wanted to find out what goes on when they play
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  Speaker 2: a game, and the best way I could think of
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: was to join the team.
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: Are you going to be in the game?
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: Hardly?
• 15:15
  Speaker 8: Oh what a pity.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I had trouble enough getting permissioned to sit on the bench.
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: Well, why are they playing in this park today? It's
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: the matter with the stadium we went to before.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: They haven't used Eagle feels since the murders. Now, when
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: you excuse me there, I'm going down to the bench
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: and sit for the players.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: Okay, hold him on, Yes, it is a tailor down there.
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: Had him taken those trouts?
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, come on, I'll not got a few.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Didn't I meet you go out of police headquarters?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, you're a Pixie Parker, aren't you?
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Uh huh?
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: Are you might be becoming a member of this team
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: or sitting on the bench like this.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: No, Pixie, if your manager's permission, I'm visiting here today.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Oh you're like officitor.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, I cat it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Hey, Paul, go come here. I want you.
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: You should meet mister clans mister Clanston, and he's like
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: a bissity here today.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: How do you do stud Hello, Bog Bogo is our
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: bat boy. Oh, yes, I've seen him on the field.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: You're a good little ball player too, Bogo. Thanks, he
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: would be an even better ball player. For what's not
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: a connor? Here?
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Is hunchback?
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Got it?
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Pitchy Sally, you never know that.
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: Me and Bogo is pals, the way he gets sore
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: at me sometimes.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Would you No, I'm sure your pals?
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Hey?
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Fix?
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, get out there and warm up. You're pitching today?
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: No good? What do you mean? No good? I am
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: not working today. I am not in the mood. Now listen,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: pix E. I have spoken well. I am still the
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: manager of this team. And I figure out mister Dowett
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: what he'll work today. I'll have him out dead in
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: a few minutes. I'll listen.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: He'll pitch mister Dowt.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Heat better fine ball club where the manager has to
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: get the bat boy to convince the player to pitch. Bogo,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: I don't care what you say. You don't listen to me.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Look, get me now, who's the greatest pitcher in baseball? Police? Hot?
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Sami?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Hot Sami? I am you see all those people there
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: in the stands.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: They're here for just one reason to see the great
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Parker pitch.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: That's right to point them by you. You're going to
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: give him them money's work, don't you.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, their money's worth good.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Come on, let's go out and warm up.
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: Whatever you say, Boco, whatever you say.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Mister Stewart. Yeah, it's this Bogo, always influnce, talking like that.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the only one who can do anything with him.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Bogo is like a little god to him.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: That's strange.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of strange things in baseball, mister Cranston.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Would you excuse me a second thing?
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Sure?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks?
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, I know they want you to play after all.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: No, not be serious. I wish you do something for
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: me right away. But go up to the front office
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: and find out the home address of Pixie Parker.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Why, what's up?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: He's going to receive a visit this evening from the Shadow.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Mister Parker. Mister Parker, what, mister Parker, I'd like to
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: talk to you.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Where are you? I don't see nobody.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I'm right here in this room with you. No, don't
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: look around for me. I am invisible to your eyes.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: What is this spokes or something.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not a spook pixie. I'm a flesh and blood human,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: but I control your mind so that you can't see me.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Who are you?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Men? Call me the Shadow?
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: What do you want from me?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I'm seeking information information about your little friend Bogo Bogo.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: What's the matter with Bogo? He ain't done nothing.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You're wrong, Packer. Bogo has done plenty.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I mean that I have reason to believe that Bogo
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: is responsible for the murders in the ballpark.
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: Ah, you're crazy. Boco wouldn't hurt nobody.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: That's for your wrong Packer. Now tell me what is
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: this influence that he exerts over you. Influence, Yes, this
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: power to make you do just what he wants you to.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Well, he ain't got no power over me.
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: He just thinks I'm the greatest picture that ever was,
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: and the only time he ever gets saw is when
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: nobody agrees with that.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I see he's my power.
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: Why why just the other day he said he'd kill
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: any picture that people thought was better than me.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: He's kill anybody.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: No, oh no, no, he didn't mean nothing by that
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: to want it. You're no, he wouldn't hurte nobody. He's
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: just rooting for me, that's all. Why. Why if anything
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: was to happen to me, I think he died.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: We'll give him a chance to prove that to Night Parker,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: what do you mean you'll see, Parker, You'll see.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Mission no Westerns making Commissioner.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: This is the Shadow but you again. Yes, I'm sorry
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to bother you, but I believe that I have a
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: solution to your baseball murders.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: What you have? Who did them?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I can't say for sure yet.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Oh now, look, Shadow, I'm a busy man.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I adn't. You must believe me. Here's what I want
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you to do. Get every player that was in the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: game the other night up to Eagle Field right away. Why.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I want you to restage the game and the murder
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: justice in the cut before. But I happened to know
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: about that electric plate that killed mass.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: How did you find that?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Never mind. Here's an important detail. Don't allow Pixie Parker
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: to talk to anyone until I arrived.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Hey, who is supposed to be the police commission around here? Anyway?
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You are, of course, commissioner. See you at the ballpark?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Well all that Murphy Murphy, Yes, sir, I just got
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: an idea, head Commissioner. Call all the players who were
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: in that game the other night, get them up to
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: the park. Yes, sir, I think I figured out a
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: solution to the murders. Had good work, Chief, thank you.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: I wonder where that shadow is. I know what he
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: expects to find out here.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Commissioner, Western, is that right where you are?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Sorry to be late for the ball game?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: All right, Shadow, what do you want? What's this one
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: of your gay little pranks?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: No, Commissioner, this is a very serious matter. No one
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: knows I'm here, but you is that right?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Look, here's what I want you to do.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Now. Look, here's what I want you to do. Man,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: listen to the Commissioner that we're going to replay the
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: events leading up to the crime exactly as they happened
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: the other night. Everyone take his position in the field.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Please follow that. Now, you have a complete team out there,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Commissioner Western, that is, except for a pitcher. I don't
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: want someone standing for the late mister Marson too. Get
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Pixie Parking Okay, hey, Pixie, yeah, I'll be right with you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Well, good evening, Commissioned Western. Why didn't you tell me
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you're going to have this party? Margot and I wouldn't
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: want to miss this for the world. Here again, I grandson,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Miss Lay.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Not a very cordial reception, Commissioner. What are you doing
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: giving up your job in the police force and becoming
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: a baseball player.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I'll look at you two. I don't to hear you
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: can stay it, but keep quiet. This is a very
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: serious job.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: All right. We won't say your word.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Pixie Parker, Yes, sir, I'd like you to reenact Marson's
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: role in the game the other night. You mean I
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: should be standing in for a dead guy. There's no danger, Pixie.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Of course, if you're afraid.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Don't do it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Picks, Why poc you want them to think maybe I'm scared.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I don't care what that. They glad to hear someone else,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: but I want Parker to do it both. I ain't
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: doing it. I said, he's doing it and that goes
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I just that settles its Tempogo? Do you want to
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: should go out there?
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Now?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Has Pixy? Now? Okay, where are you going? Bogo? Well,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I've gone back to the clubhouse.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna watch my pal play at dead man.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: You'd better stay here?
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: What stay here? Bogo? Stick with him?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, what is if you guys can't kick me around?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Missus Stewart? Did you tell a man to put out
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: the flood lights? Touch as it did the other night?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: As commissioner get out there on the pitcher's mom Pixie, Okay,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I want you to wind up just the way Marson
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: did and we'll put the lights out.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Now, don't do it?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Pitty? Shut up? You ready? Parker? Pitchy? Pitchy know to
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: be electrocuted? How did you know he'd be electrical? At Bogan?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Why you felt were talking about it?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: No one knew how Marson died except myself and you, Bogo.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know what made me say ratis. I don't
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: I know what made you say it. You said it
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: because you murdered ed Marshall a lot? Then why didn't
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: want to Parker get out in the Pitcher's mouth and
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Why did you want to leave here? Because you wanted
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: to turn off the current so that Parker wouldn't be
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: electrict like marshmall No, and why why?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Perhaps I can tell you why, Commissioner, Because in Bogo's
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: own mind, he is Parker.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: You're crazy.
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: No.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: All your life you've wanted to be a great ball player,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: but you couldn't be, Bogo. You couldn't be because of
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: your handicap. When Parker came along, at last, you'd found
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: someone to whom you could transfer that desire, someone with
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a mind sufficiently childly to obey your wishes. You began
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to imagine that you were Parker. You are right, Bob,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: sure s Parker. Then your ego took hold. You became
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: jealous of anyone who's fame might out do yours, yours
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: and Parkers. And that jealous he made you murder White
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: he Brooks and the Crossman and ed.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Mar didn't I kill Alliver? That's through your simpleton.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I was the one who made you great. I was
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: you Parker without me or note of mean that question,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: there's your confession month.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: You were wonderful. He sounded just like a real detective.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Commissioner, I didn't mean to take over your job.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: The excitement must have gotten all right. Put the cups
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: on him, having call me. Look up, he's got a gun.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Done.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Move here you I'm getting out of this post.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Nanny, you can without hitting one of the players.
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: Put that kind away, commission I have to shoot him.
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: He's getting away. He start getting away. Give me that baseball. Yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: so I ain't no picture without him. I'll show him something,
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: you know. Look, that's the best strike I ever threw.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Go out and pick them up, mister Commissioner compliments the
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: Great Pixie Park.
• 25:18
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• 25:21
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• 25:24
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• 25:27
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• 25:31
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• 25:36
  Speaker 2: The Weed of Crime, Bear's Bitter Fruit. Crime does not
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: be the Shadow Lord.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: The Shadows.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: October eighth, nineteen thirty nine broadcast The Diamond Murders has
• 25:58
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