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The Shadow - "Poison Death" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On January thirtieth, nineteen thirty eight, the Mutual Broadcasting System
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  Speaker 1: carried the one hundred fifth broadcast of The Shadow, a
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  Speaker 1: thirty minute program sponsored by Blue Coal Orson Wells takes
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  Speaker 1: the dual role of Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with
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  Speaker 1: Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane and Ken Roberts at the
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  Speaker 1: announcer's microphone. In Poisoned Death, a wave of poisonings alarms
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  Speaker 1: an unnamed city As ransom messages bearing the Shadow's name
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  Speaker 1: bring Cranston and Lane into the case. Commissioner Weston and
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  Speaker 1: city officials face concern over the municipal water supply. The
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  Speaker 1: case places the city's sanitation system under close scrutiny. With
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  Speaker 1: the Shadow's reputation used in a criminal campaign, the investigation
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  Speaker 1: turns on finding the impostor. Here is the original broadcast
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  Speaker 1: Shadow No.
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  Speaker 2: Blue Coal presents the Shadow, the mystery man who strikes
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  Speaker 2: terror under the very hearts of Jobster's lawbreakers and criminals.
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  Speaker 2: Today the Poisoned Death. Today's exciting adventure with the Shadow
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  Speaker 2: will start in just a moment. But first I have
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  Speaker 2: an unusual free offer of great interest to all listers.
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  Speaker 2: a slave. Drop a postcard in the mail tonight for
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  Speaker 2: your free copy of How to Reduce the Cost of
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  Speaker 2: Eating your Home.
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  Speaker 3: Mercy Hospital Quick semiabulance to teature of your road.
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  Speaker 4: My children have poisoned time.
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  Speaker 5: Oh hi, hi, please.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor, doctor, what's wrong with my husband?
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  Speaker 6: He's been poisoned?
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  Speaker 4: Poisoned? Isn't there something you can do, some way of
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  Speaker 4: changing you know?
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, my dear, it's too late.
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  Speaker 7: What's this bill? Not a poison case?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the cause are coming in fastening.
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  Speaker 8: The can answer them now.
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  Speaker 4: Let's one will have to go to general.
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  Speaker 8: The emergency water is full.
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  Speaker 7: Not a cot left.
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  Speaker 4: The same thing in every hospital in town.
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  Speaker 2: They swamped all poison cases and nobody knows how they're
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  Speaker 2: getting it or what it is.
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  Speaker 9: Command Commissioner Western I came over as soon as I
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  Speaker 9: got to a message.
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  Speaker 8: Mister Mayor, Commissioner No, I said for you.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I hate to admit it, but we haven't won
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  Speaker 10: the single clue to go on. I've had the entire
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  Speaker 10: police force working on this poison epidemic for three days,
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  Speaker 10: and we're right where we started, from the.
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  Speaker 9: Verst ransom note to center the newspapers demanding a million
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  Speaker 9: dollars ransom or this city of over a million souls,
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  Speaker 9: and we wiped out poisoned.
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  Speaker 10: I thought it was a hoax, Mayor. It's a wild
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  Speaker 10: scheme of a crazed mind. It can't be anything else.
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  Speaker 8: I don't agree with you.
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  Speaker 9: The ransom note was signed the Shadow, the same shadow
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  Speaker 9: you claimed has helped yourself of.
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  Speaker 6: Any crimes, but it was never asked for reward a credit.
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  Speaker 8: I don't believe the Shadow sent that note, Mayor No.
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  Speaker 9: Then look at this photostatic copy of the original typewritten threat.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to the way it's worded.
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  Speaker 9: For years, the Shadow has smashed brackets, wiped out criminal syndicates,
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  Speaker 9: trapped murderers without reward, and now the.
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  Speaker 6: Time has come for a settlement. The Shadow is the
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  Speaker 6: city Midions.
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  Speaker 9: Now the city will pay the Shadow one million dollars
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  Speaker 9: of the hospitals will filled with the dying, and them
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  Speaker 9: alls who are filled to the dead.
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  Speaker 10: I'm still convinced that it isn't the real Shadow who's guilty.
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  Speaker 4: Who say that?
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  Speaker 9: Because the Shadow has helped you so much in the past,
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  Speaker 9: I all right present it, but it's up to you
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  Speaker 9: to get busy and find out who's responsible.
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  Speaker 8: That remains that no clues have been found.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've got to have action in doing everything I can.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe you'll have, but you are to together with this report.
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  Speaker 9: The hospitals are filled to the dying, The bog is
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  Speaker 9: filled of the dead, hundreds of innocent people freaken by
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  Speaker 9: a poison. The health department can't identify a poison which
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  Speaker 9: there seems to be no antidote.
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  Speaker 7: What is it?
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  Speaker 9: How is it being fed to the people? Find out
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  Speaker 9: or we'll get another police commissioner.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, this is Clide Burke of the classic Gronna. What
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  Speaker 7: is it?
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  Speaker 8: Burke?
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  Speaker 11: We just received another note signed by the Shadow.
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  Speaker 6: What this term?
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  Speaker 7: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 11: I can strike at random, but I can also single
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  Speaker 11: out any one of you for debts. To prove it,
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  Speaker 11: I am going to poison Dan Frankly, Commissioner of Sanitation.
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  Speaker 11: When you get this through them, Frankly will be dead.
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  Speaker 3: Then, Cranston, heavens you're back. Have you discovered who's poisoning
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  Speaker 3: all these people? Who's using your name? The name of
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  Speaker 3: the Shadow?
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  Speaker 8: Oh no, Margot, I've worked on is. Let know?
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  Speaker 4: Whatever is this man masquerading as the Shadow must be
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  Speaker 4: absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 8: Doubt about that, Margot.
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  Speaker 12: But it's the insanity of a genius, not of a
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  Speaker 12: money mad fool. What strange distorted mind could devise such
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  Speaker 12: a terrible scheme, Margot.
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  Speaker 8: We see that natal city again.
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  Speaker 12: You know, the one where we marked all the areas
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  Speaker 12: affected by this for so poisoning?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know were you are?
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  Speaker 8: You seen the cases of why they scattered all over
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  Speaker 8: the city.
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  Speaker 4: Have you any idea how these people were poisoned?
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  Speaker 3: Must have been put in food or milk or something.
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  Speaker 3: Have been so many poisonings it doesn't seem humanly possible.
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  Speaker 3: It could have been administered individual.
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  Speaker 12: No, they were poisoned in groups, and every house affected
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  Speaker 12: by the poison no one escaped. It wasn't poisoned milk.
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  Speaker 12: The newspapers checked on that, and it couldn't have been
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  Speaker 12: the food.
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  Speaker 4: The food those people late came from a hundred different stores.
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  Speaker 13: Wait a minute, Margo, just give me an idea.
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  Speaker 12: What's the one thing that all these people must have
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  Speaker 12: had at some time or another on the day they
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  Speaker 12: were poisoned.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean, Margo, I think I've got it. Water, Yes, water,
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  Speaker 8: that's it.
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  Speaker 4: How could that be?
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  Speaker 8: You don't know, Margaret, But that's the answer.
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  Speaker 13: I'm sure that that explains the grouping of the poison cases.
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  Speaker 13: Could have been done at the water meeting, introduced into
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  Speaker 13: the main pipe in the basement.
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  Speaker 4: Somewhere, so many different places. About somebody else, Margot.
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  Speaker 13: Who could temple with the water pipes in the basements
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  Speaker 13: of any building in the city and not arouse suspicion?
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  Speaker 4: Why only someone from the water company, the man who.
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  Speaker 12: Reads the meeting exactly, or someone posing as a representative
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  Speaker 12: of the water company.
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  Speaker 8: Margo, Come on, that's open the winter.
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  Speaker 4: Something else has happened a knifemare.
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  Speaker 9: Say you think Permissioner Salidation found poison.
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  Speaker 14: The honey upon it?
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  Speaker 15: Close the window, Margot, Why do you suppose Commissioner Brinkley
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  Speaker 15: with single, Margo, distorted mind, especially that of a brilliant man,
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  Speaker 15: very often move.
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  Speaker 12: Along a straight line from cause to effect. This case
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  Speaker 12: follows a line so simple and so straight that the
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  Speaker 12: police do not even suspect who he is.
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  Speaker 8: Margo.
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  Speaker 12: But in killing Brinkley, he deviated from his original purpose
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  Speaker 12: long enough to settle a grudge. This is that one
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  Speaker 12: mistake the greatest of criminals.
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  Speaker 4: Make you mean it's somebody whom Briley wrong.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, But Brinkley may never have wronged anybody, a man
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  Speaker 12: with a warped mind like this and imagined wrong and
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  Speaker 12: inspire revenge just the same.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's someone who worked under Brinkley, someone in the
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  Speaker 3: department's avocation.
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  Speaker 12: Margo, pieces of this crazy puzzler beginning to fit together.
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  Speaker 12: Where's yesterday's paper, the one with a photostaphic copy of
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  Speaker 12: the ransom note sent by the man masquerading under the
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  Speaker 12: name of the Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: I've sat it, along with all the other climic.
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  Speaker 8: For years.
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  Speaker 12: The Shadow has smashed brackets, wiped out criminal syndicates, trapped
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  Speaker 12: murderers without.
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  Speaker 8: War with this the letter E. It appears five, six,
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  Speaker 8: eight times.
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  Speaker 13: And every time it appears out of line. And look, ok,
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  Speaker 13: here the letter A is blood, Margot. It's like ABC,
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  Speaker 13: the obvious clue. We could only find that typewriter all.
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  Speaker 4: The typewriters in the city. It would be like looking
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  Speaker 4: for Nila in a haystack. Don't you suppose the police
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  Speaker 4: have considered that angle, tried to find that.
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  Speaker 12: Machine perhaps their habit, without first logically working out the
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  Speaker 12: problem as to the one place where that machine might be.
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  Speaker 8: They are wasting their time. The one places the Department
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  Speaker 8: the Sanitation.
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  Speaker 12: It's so logical as to be incredible.
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  Speaker 13: Come on, Margo, get your hat and coat. We've got
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  Speaker 13: work to do and there's no time to lose a month.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going to the Department of Sanitation at this
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  Speaker 4: odd and I'm not. I suppose you were caught.
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  Speaker 8: Don't worry, Margaret, the real shadow won't be caught. I
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  Speaker 8: need your help if we're going to try out all
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  Speaker 8: the typewriters in those offices.
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  Speaker 12: It's a job full of Mont Cranston and his assistant
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  Speaker 12: Margo Lane.
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  Speaker 3: If we're caught, how long a sentence can they give
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  Speaker 3: us for breaking into a public building.
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  Speaker 12: It's worth risking, and far better than sitting here building
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  Speaker 12: out theories and knocking them down again while this, this
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  Speaker 12: mad masquerader carries out his monstrous schemes of wholesale murder.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Margot, let's go.
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  Speaker 8: No, Margo, No, this isn't a machine.
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  Speaker 4: It's the last one in here.
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  Speaker 8: Let's try the next office.
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  Speaker 4: Be careful. That must be a watchman here in the
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  Speaker 4: building somewhere.
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  Speaker 8: He's down on the basement sweping. Make sure of that
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  Speaker 8: before I signal for you to come in.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like another exploded theory, Lamonde. We tried dozens
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  Speaker 3: of the machines, and none of them have the characteristics
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  Speaker 3: of the letters in those ransomware.
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  Speaker 8: We're not going to stop, and we've tried the more. Margo.
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  Speaker 4: There's the door there leading in the back part of
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  Speaker 4: this floor of the moment.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it says private office of Chief Chemist A. D.
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  Speaker 4: Gerber.
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  Speaker 8: Let's look in there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there's the machine.
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  Speaker 8: It's the only one in here. Try it, Margo. It's
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  Speaker 8: some paper.
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  Speaker 4: Glad to get out of this place.
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  Speaker 8: Not the same ways that sen for years.
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  Speaker 12: The shadow has smashed rackets, white man, wiped out criminal syndicates. Margo,
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  Speaker 12: be a blood, go and finish it. Trapped murderers without reward.
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  Speaker 12: Now the time has come for settlement.
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  Speaker 3: This is the machine, a type of warning notes of
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  Speaker 3: the papers the office of the city's chief chemist.
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  Speaker 4: In it might not have been Gerber. Other people could
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  Speaker 4: get to this machine and use it.
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  Speaker 8: Margo. Everything's beginning to fit together. M Who would know
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  Speaker 8: more about poisons than a chemist? You know? I felt
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  Speaker 8: all along?
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  Speaker 13: What was that someone in the next room.
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  Speaker 4: Turn your light over on the door, Lamot, there's lettering
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  Speaker 4: on it.
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  Speaker 8: Laboratory.
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  Speaker 4: Keep out. Who would be laboratory this time?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know. I'm going to find out.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe the man we're looking for them, Ugo.
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  Speaker 8: I think it'll be best if you get out of here,
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  Speaker 8: go back to the car.
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  Speaker 4: Wait one, please let me still hear you.
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  Speaker 16: Come out, and I might be able to help you.
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  Speaker 16: If it's that crazy, got to the car, wait for me.
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  Speaker 16: Lemont Cranston and Margo Laine about all they can. The
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  Speaker 16: time has come for me to be the shadow. The
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  Speaker 16: real shadow must open that door.
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  Speaker 2: The second part of the Shadows Adventure will continue in
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  Speaker 2: just a more In the meantime, let's talk about how
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  Speaker 2: to save money.
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  Speaker 2: use in American homes whose heating plants were designed to
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  Speaker 2: use anthracite, and to be sure of getting the best anthracite,
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  Speaker 2: continuous flow of uniform heat into the living quarters of
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  Speaker 2: completely to a fine powdery ash, and it is such
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  Speaker 2: a clean fuel to use. These are just a few
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons why sales of blue coal and Stroudsburg,
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  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania this winter are twenty two percent greater than last winter.
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  Speaker 2: Stroudsburg families have been using blue coal and increasing qualities.
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  Speaker 2: These are the families that not only enjoy more comfortable homes,
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  Speaker 2: in the where to buy it section of your classified
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  Speaker 2: telephone directory under the name Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 5: Nerves Nerves? Why should I be nervous? No one knows
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  Speaker 5: I'm here all alone. Who would suspect me? Gerber, the
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  Speaker 5: city chemist, I'll never tell them. They'll never know that
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  Speaker 5: Clear is dead. They make me Commissioner of Sanitation. I
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  Speaker 5: should have had the job when they gave it to him.
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  Speaker 5: I guess he knows it now, Gerber, bring me that report, Gerb,
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  Speaker 5: But why didn't you do this?
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  Speaker 7: Gurb?
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  Speaker 4: But why didn't you do that? Ging me like dirt?
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  Speaker 17: Oh that's over now, though over and done with? How
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  Speaker 17: that dog had opened forgotton to close? It's getting absent minded.
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  Speaker 17: Got to be more careful. Someone might come in. I'd
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  Speaker 17: ask me what I'm doing, what I'm making?
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  Speaker 7: What are you making?
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  Speaker 4: What was that? Who said that? Who laughed?
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  Speaker 7: The shadow spoke? The shadow laughed?
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  Speaker 4: Shadow?
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  Speaker 7: I am the shadow. You know my name.
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  Speaker 18: You've been using it as a cloak to cover your
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  Speaker 18: excursion into the realm of murder.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you can make yourself invisible, shadow?
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  Speaker 4: Or or are you hiding?
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  Speaker 8: I happen to.
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  Speaker 18: Be master of the ancient art of hypnotism, by which
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  Speaker 18: I can blind your eyes to my presence.
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  Speaker 5: But you are really here in this room physically?
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  Speaker 18: I mean yes, I opened that door, I walked into
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  Speaker 18: this room.
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  Speaker 6: I am here.
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  Speaker 7: Quite near you. Gerbert.
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  Speaker 4: How did you find me.
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  Speaker 18: By a process of elimination? Because you made one mistake
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  Speaker 18: in your admirable train of logic.
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  Speaker 4: A mistake.
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  Speaker 18: Yes, when you murdered Brinkley, the Commissioner of Sanitation, I
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  Speaker 18: knew it must be someone who had a grievance against him,
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  Speaker 18: real or imaginary.
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  Speaker 9: Real or imaginary. Oh, I see you think I am insane?
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  Speaker 4: Shadow.
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  Speaker 18: The sanity of a brilliant mind is not measured by
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  Speaker 18: ordinary standards.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: My coworkers know I'm will.
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  Speaker 5: They don't think I'm accentric because when anybody's around, I'm
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  Speaker 5: on my guard.
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  Speaker 7: What were you doing when I came in, Gerbert?
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  Speaker 4: Feeling this bottle?
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  Speaker 8: What is in that bottle? Gerbert?
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  Speaker 7: What is that crimson colored fluid?
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  Speaker 4: That is the poison?
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  Speaker 8: Shadow?
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  Speaker 5: I'm supposed to be analyzing the blood taken from my
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  Speaker 5: first batch of poison victims, but instead I've been making
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  Speaker 5: more poison. You see it's already Now.
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  Speaker 4: Would you like some shadow, I'll be glad to give
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  Speaker 4: it to you.
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  Speaker 18: What are you going to do with that bottle of poison, Gerbert,
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  Speaker 18: or are you afraid to tell me?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not afraid. You can't stop me. The devil
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  Speaker 4: himself couldn't stop me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to drive to one of our fashionable suburbs
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  Speaker 5: where all the important people of the city live.
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  Speaker 4: There's a high steel water tower there.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to climb that tower and pour this little
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  Speaker 5: bottle of poison through the trap door at the top.
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  Speaker 5: It will be diluted in the water, carry it into
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  Speaker 5: the homes of all those prominent people, and by tomorrow
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  Speaker 5: night they will all be dead.
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  Speaker 7: It's fortunate I found you in time. Time for what Shadow,
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  Speaker 7: and time to stop you.
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  Speaker 4: You can't stop me, Shadow.
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  Speaker 18: You're not going to leave this laboratory with that bottle
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  Speaker 18: of poison?
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  Speaker 4: Yes I am, and I'm going this minute, Shadow.
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  Speaker 5: You see this test, Yeah, it's filled with acid, acid
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  Speaker 5: that will burn you beyond recognition.
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  Speaker 7: You forget you can't see me.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, But the.
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  Speaker 5: Only way you can stop me is by physical means,
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  Speaker 5: with your body that seems to be not even a shadow.
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  Speaker 4: And to do that you must drop your cloak of invisibility.
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  Speaker 18: How do I know that isn't a blind to make
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  Speaker 18: myself become visible to you.
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  Speaker 4: It isn't a blind shadow. See I pour a little
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: on the floor.
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  Speaker 5: You see, we think what that would do to a
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: human flesh.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: And you say you are human?
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: Yes, I am human?
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Then I dare you to stop me. At the first
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: touch of your hands, I'll throw at you.
• 18:17
  Speaker 18: It's better that one man be injured and you should
• 18:21
  Speaker 18: kill another entire community. I'm willing to take that chance.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll see if you're as brave as your.
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: Sound shadow where you are. I'm leaving unless you stop
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: me physically.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: I am no alternative but to fight you man, So.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: You are human?
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Take this?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I warn you shadow, you will be burned beyond recognition
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: that as it will eat into you to the very bone.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: But by shadow, at last you much someone.
• 19:00
  Speaker 14: Who is your mat No, there's no one.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: To stop me putting the point and.
• 19:19
  Speaker 13: Margole, Yes, did you see a top power of the
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: little band come out of the sanitary building?
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Just now?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: He got in the car very going down the street.
• 19:27
  Speaker 13: You can still see the tame Follow Mago in Heaven's name,
• 19:29
  Speaker 13: don't lose him.
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: That's the man Gerber.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: He won't get away.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Is the first aid kit in the car.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's in the side pocket clothes. They're smoking. Then
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: your hands bleeding than my dear, what happened?
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: Said Margo acid. He was getting away with a bottle
• 19:42
  Speaker 13: of poison. I tried to stop him. He through the air,
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: face me, look at your face. I didn't get any
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: of my face and throw up my arm in time
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: it's all right out.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: Bandage my hands that I can't keep your eyes on
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: my car, Margo.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Far more important. Don't lose him.
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: He's heading for the suburbs this time. Gerber really means
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: his business, Margaret. We set the poison the whole community.
• 20:03
  Speaker 13: It's going to dump a bottle.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: Of the dead. Is stopping the water tower the mud.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're in terrible pain. I can see it. Let
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: me take care of you. Let me stop at the phone.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Who can call them, Mission of Weston.
• 20:12
  Speaker 14: Let me send out a general alarm.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: And pick this man.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: Now, Margaret, we have a job to do. We lose curve.
• 20:17
  Speaker 13: If we stopped, then the police wouldn't be any good.
• 20:19
  Speaker 13: We'll find out where he's going and then we can
• 20:22
  Speaker 13: call the police.
• 20:23
  Speaker 19: All right, the mat no vest I'll try not to
• 20:26
  Speaker 19: lose him.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: The mot is the pain any idea. You've got to
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: get to a doctor as quickly as possible. Infection might say, well.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Soon as I'll go.
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: Look, ye, I think uh, there's nearing his destinations.
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: He's taking that road.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Up the hill. If I remember correctly, the water tower
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: is at the top the moth.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: How will you stop him now, you with your bleeding hands.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: He's a powerful man, crazy with the strength of the mania.
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: I have got to do what I can to the
• 21:00
  Speaker 13: and keep putting that poison in the town so you
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: can get the police.
• 21:04
  Speaker 14: La Mark, How is he going to get the poison.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: In the tana?
• 21:06
  Speaker 13: There was a trap door on top of the tower,
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: the door they used when they clean the toe.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: That means you may have to climb that tower. Now
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: you can't up with your hand in that condition.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: It's snowing, there'll be ice on the rungs of the ladder,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: and in this window you're liable to slip and fall.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: I've got the chances.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Stop, mother, Stop, there's the water tower.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: There's a car the mask. Look at Gerber keeps starting
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: to climb the tower already.
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: Margo, go on, I'll get the police, hurry, tell them
• 21:33
  Speaker 13: to get someone to shut off the water in this
• 21:34
  Speaker 13: tower in case I fail.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Hurry, Margo, hurry, I'm going up there after it?
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: All right?
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Who is that the man you thought you'd left in
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: your laboratory, I'm blind with a.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, I thought I had you. We're all right. Keep
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: on hurrying me. We're a long way behind me by
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: the toll of your valls.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: Yes, And but you have the top. When you get
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: to the top.
• 22:06
  Speaker 20: And I can't come with you, yes, why by that
• 22:09
  Speaker 20: time I shall have poison the water.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Forget. The tramp door of the tank may be locked.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: It will be rusty and easy to break.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: It will take time, and I shall be gaining on you.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: You need to hurry turver and too many mate, with a.
• 22:24
  Speaker 20: Tumble it went on you. I heard it sizzling at
• 22:27
  Speaker 20: your flesh on my hands. And then you must be
• 22:32
  Speaker 20: suffering holding onto the ice covered.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: Ladder your supper once I read you all right.
• 22:36
  Speaker 20: Horry, Shadow, I'm on the top already. You will write, Shadows,
• 22:42
  Speaker 20: the trap door is locked, but that won't stop me.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I'm going to blown open with my revolver. The lock
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: is broken, Shadow, you'd better hurry up. And I'm now
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: now I'm opening the trap door. Shadow, Yeah, yeah, And
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I hear it, Gerber, but you'll never put the.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: Point in the water.
• 23:00
  Speaker 14: The bottle in my hand.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I'm pulling out the.
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: Stoppers and I'm here. Can knot get out of your hand?
• 23:06
  Speaker 13: Yah?
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you broke it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: You still the poison. You spoil my revenge.
• 23:15
  Speaker 14: You spoile it, but you'll pay for it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 20: You're leaving blood marks from the snow with your hands.
• 23:22
  Speaker 20: You can't get off the top of this tower. You
• 23:24
  Speaker 20: can't get past me to the ladder. I don't need
• 23:27
  Speaker 20: to see you to find you. The blood masks will
• 23:29
  Speaker 20: show me where you are.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: I'm waiting for you here on top of the tank.
• 23:34
  Speaker 20: I know you are, and you can't go any further,
• 23:37
  Speaker 20: but you'll slip and fall of the ground.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Hundreds of people below.
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: There.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I touched you, shadow until you squirm, very heavily, but
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I got you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 14: I've got a hold of you. You won't get away
• 23:51
  Speaker 14: from the shadow.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: And you won't get away from the police, and I'm coming.
• 24:00
  Speaker 20: You want the police, Yeah, before they get here, I'm
• 24:04
  Speaker 20: going to throw you off.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: The power show.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Minall off yourself. If you try to do that.
• 24:08
  Speaker 14: If I do, I pull you off with me.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Commissioner, what he's come to take you himself.
• 24:26
  Speaker 20: You'll never get me, you'll never take me alive.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Your your tramped, your tramped, and.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Listen to me, commissioned Wester. You never got mad.
• 24:46
  Speaker 14: Never I did it. I killed all those people. I
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: made you think it was a shadow can be killed.
• 24:56
  Speaker 14: I'm not afraid.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not afraid, because you're coming with the shadow.
• 25:00
  Speaker 14: Come on, shadow, come with me, Come away.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: He did he jumps or your light over there to
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the foot of the tower.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: See who it is.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: That's hard Man, the poisoner as the body. He must
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: be ted as a down here this No man could
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: fall that distance and live.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: Purt him overhere, Let's see his face.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: He's dead, all right, next broken where wife Herbert, Herbert,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the chief chemist of the sanitation departments, would ever have
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: fought him?
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: Man in his position, he was struggling with someone up
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: there on the top of the tower.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Where's the other man.
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: Around the base of the car. He's gonna find another body.
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: Look at the bushes. I suppose we turn missed him,
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: and I don't sit see a thing in these snow
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: flourries seeing the search side of round anything over there?
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Talking, no no sign? You don't see anybody here? Count
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: nobody over here. I don't know on this side.
• 25:53
  Speaker 18: Listen shadow, Yes, Commissioner Western the shadow. I am walking down,
• 26:10
  Speaker 18: and Commissioner, don't bother to search anymore. I am the
• 26:15
  Speaker 18: man Gerber was struggling with.
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: Up on the tower.
• 26:19
  Speaker 18: So you trapped Gerber, Yes, Commissioner, I trapped him. Gerber's
• 26:26
  Speaker 18: your man, the man who tried to poison the people
• 26:30
  Speaker 18: of this city into paying him a half a million dollars.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Well, you won't poison anymore, but the looks of.
• 26:36
  Speaker 18: Him, And now would you do something for me, Commissioner,
• 26:42
  Speaker 18: By all means, if you don't.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: Mind, Commissioner, I'd.
• 26:48
  Speaker 18: Like to publicly take the credit for solving this mystery.
• 26:54
  Speaker 18: Gerber committed his crimes in the name of a shadow,
• 27:00
  Speaker 18: and I I rather think the real shadow.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: Deserves to be vindicated.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Don't shoot, ladies and gentlemen, before the shadow leaves you.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Here's John Buckley, Blue Coals Heating Expert. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: mister Buckley, thank you. Ken Roberts, good evening friends.
• 27:26
  Speaker 21: At the beginning of this program, mister Roberts mentioned my
• 27:29
  Speaker 21: book How to Reduce the Cost of Heating your Home.
• 27:32
  Speaker 21: This book is free and I hope all of my
• 27:34
  Speaker 21: listeners will request to copy. For example, you've been told
• 27:39
  Speaker 21: blue coal is prepared in four sizes. Each size is
• 27:42
  Speaker 21: intended for use under definite conditions. If the firepot of
• 27:46
  Speaker 21: your furnace is less than sixteen inches in diameter, you
• 27:50
  Speaker 21: should use chestnut size coal. Egg or stove size coal
• 27:54
  Speaker 21: should only be used in larger firepots. The selection of
• 27:58
  Speaker 21: the proper sized blue coal for different sized furnaces is
• 28:02
  Speaker 21: fully explained on page four of my book Greater Economy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 21: Fewer trips to the furnace and more uniform heat are
• 28:08
  Speaker 21: obtained when you use the proper sized blue coal. Blue
• 28:12
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• 28:16
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• 28:18
  Speaker 21: that is why Blue Coal Dealer send John Barclay train
• 28:21
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• 28:26
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• 28:28
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• 28:30
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• 28:33
  Speaker 21: Heating your Home. Drop a postcard in the mail to
• 28:36
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• 28:39
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• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, mister Barclay, and homeowners, remember blue
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Coal plus John Barkley's service means better and more economical
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: heat for you than ever before. In the meantime, whether
• 28:58
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• 29:00
  Speaker 2: write to Blue Coal one twenty Broadway, New York City,
• 29:04
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• 29:10
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• 29:13
  Speaker 2: your Home. You have just heard a dramatized version of
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Shadow magazine. All the characters and all the places named
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: are tacticians, and the similarity to persons living or dead
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: is purely coincidental.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: The weed of crime, there's dickish.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: Crime does not pay.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: The Shadow known.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest Anthracite,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: will again present another thrilling adventure of the Shadow. Be
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: sure to listen, and be sure to burn blue coal,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the solid fuel for solid comfort.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Our time with the Shadow closes with Poisoned Death. Follow
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the Shadow for more classic broadcasts.