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The Shadow - "Ghosts Can Kill" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A condemned gangster makes a promise from the death house.
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  Speaker 1: Three prominent men will pay for sending him there. When
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: the sound of Ralph Gorman's mouth organ begins to accompany
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  Speaker 1: events that seem impossible, Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane take
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: up the investigation. This is The Shadow, Ghosts Can Kill,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: the 69th broadcast of the series, heard over mutual on
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  Speaker 1: January 15th, 1939. Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: the Shadow, with Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane. Jerry Devine
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: wrote the script. The case moves from the courtroom and
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  Speaker 1: prison to the homes and offices of the men named
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  Speaker 1: in Gorman's threat. And now, we return to the original broadcast.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: The End.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 5: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 2: Before today's adventure with the shadow begins, here's a safety
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: message of vital interest to every car owner. Once a
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: tread-worn tire starts to skid over a wet, slippery road,
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: trouble can happen in the wink of an eye. That's
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: why it's important to equip your car with a tire
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: that gives the quickest non-skid stop. It's the new Goodrich
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Safety Silvertown with the Lifesaver Tread that sweeps wet roads
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: so dry you can light a match on its track.
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: No wonder this new kind of tire will stop you quicker,
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  Speaker 2: straighter on a wet road than you've ever stopped before.
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  Speaker 6: For safety's sake, get Goodrich Safety Silvertown.
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  Speaker 2: The shadow, mysterious character who devotes his life to righting wrongs,
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  Speaker 2: protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty, is in reality
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  Speaker 2: Lamont Cranston. wealthy young man about town, student of science,
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  Speaker 2: and master of other people's minds. Using advanced methods that
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  Speaker 2: may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston
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  Speaker 2: is known to criminals and evildoers as the Shadow. Never seen,
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  Speaker 2: only heard, as haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost,
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  Speaker 2: as inevitable as a guilty conscience. Cranston's friend and companion,
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  Speaker 2: the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows
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  Speaker 2: to whom the unseen voice belongs. Today's story, Ghosts Can Kill.
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  Speaker 7: The court will come to order.
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  Speaker 8: Proceed, Mr. District Attorney.
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  Speaker 9: Your Honor and gentlemen of the jury. You have heard
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  Speaker 9: the evidence against this man, Ralph Gorman. Three eyewitnesses of
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  Speaker 9: unimpeachable character saw him commit the murder. He was caught
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  Speaker 9: at the scene of the murder with a gun in
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  Speaker 9: his hand. It is the duty of the jury to
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  Speaker 9: convict him. Ralph Gorman has been brought to court seven times.
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  Speaker 8: For serious crimes.
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  Speaker 3: I object.
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  Speaker 10: Although I admit my client has been brought to court
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  Speaker 10: in the past, he's always furnished an unbreakable alibi and
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  Speaker 10: has been acquitted.
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  Speaker 5: Therefore, I claim that this record is irrelevant.
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  Speaker 8: Objection sustained. Very well.
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  Speaker 9: That doesn't alter the state's case. In this instance, the
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  Speaker 9: accused has no alibi. He is guilty of murder and
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  Speaker 9: should therefore be sent to the chair.
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  Speaker 3: Order in the court.
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  Speaker 11: I think the question before the jury is a clean-cut issue.
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  Speaker 11: The defendant, Ralph Gorman, committed a peculiarly cold-blooded murder.
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  Speaker 8: There are no halfway measures. He is either guilty or
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  Speaker 8: not guilty.
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  Speaker 11: I therefore instruct the jury to return a verdict of
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  Speaker 11: acquittal or first-degree murder. The jury will retire to consider
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  Speaker 11: the verdict.
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  Speaker 6: The prisoner will cease his disturbance at once.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter? Don't you like my music?
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  Speaker 8: This is a court of law, Gorman.
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  Speaker 11: While you are awaiting the verdict of the jury, you
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  Speaker 11: will please conduct yourself in a more secretive manner.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Margo, I've seen many murder trials in my time.
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  Speaker 4: But I've never seen one where the accused man played
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  Speaker 4: on a mouth organ.
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  Speaker 12: while waiting for the jury to send him to the chair.
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  Speaker 13: Lamont, isn't Gorman one of the toughest gangsters alive?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. In my estimation, Ralph Gorman is public enemy number one, Margot.
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  Speaker 13: Yet he's never been caught and sent to prison, Lamont.
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  Speaker 13: You heard that in the testimony.
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  Speaker 12: He's been caught often enough. They've never been able to
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  Speaker 12: convict him.
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  Speaker 4: Because he's always been able to furnish an absolutely airtight alibi.
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  Speaker 4: This time, for some unexplainable reason, he has no alibi.
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  Speaker 12: So if there's any justice... He should be put away
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  Speaker 12: for good.
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  Speaker 13: Here comes the jury back in again. It certainly didn't
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  Speaker 13: take long to come to a decision.
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  Speaker 12: After the evidence they heard, they should.
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  Speaker 6: Court will come to order.
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  Speaker 8: Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?
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  Speaker 3: We have, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 5: We find the accused, Ralph Gorman, guilty of murder in
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  Speaker 5: the first degree.
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  Speaker 3: The court will come to order.
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  Speaker 8: The prisoner will stand. Ralph Gorman.
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  Speaker 11: You have been proved a menace to society, and society
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  Speaker 11: has passed judgment upon you. You have been found guilty
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  Speaker 11: of willful, deliberate murder in the first degree.
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  Speaker 8: Have you anything to say before a sentence.
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  Speaker 14: Is pronounced upon you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I got something to say.
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  Speaker 8: Very well.
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  Speaker 3: Be brief.
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  Speaker 6: Society passed judgment on me, huh?
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  Speaker 15: Okay, then if you're going to kill me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to come back from the grave and get
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  Speaker 5: even with society.
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  Speaker 8: Empty threats will avail you nothing, Gorman.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, you don't believe I can do it, huh?
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  Speaker 5: All right, I'll even tell you who I'm going to get.
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  Speaker 3: That will do. I'm not going.
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  Speaker 10: First, I'm going to get that big financier, Oscar Borden,
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  Speaker 10: that's always giving away money.
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  Speaker 5: I guess Borden's what you'd call a pillar of society,
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  Speaker 5: ain't he?
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  Speaker 8: Stop, Gordon.
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  Speaker 10: Then just for fun, I'll kill that young guy, Frank Collins,
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  Speaker 10: that just got engaged.
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  Speaker 6: To that social register dame.
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  Speaker 5: I'll come back after death and get both of them.
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  Speaker 5: Collins and Borden. Yeah, you don't think I can do it, huh?
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  Speaker 5: But I can.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I can.
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  Speaker 6: Quiet, quiet, and go on.
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  Speaker 11: South Gorman, I hereby sentence you to be taken to
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  Speaker 11: the state prison.
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  Speaker 8: And to there be executed... in a manner provided by law.
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  Speaker 8: And may God have mercy on your soul.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think this is Carnegie Hall. It's the
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  Speaker 5: death house. And you guys are in it just like me.
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  Speaker 11: Stop it!
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  Speaker 3: Stop it, you guys! Are you allowed to get solitary?
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  Speaker 15: Carmen, you've only been allowed to keep your mouth open
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  Speaker 15: as a special favor. If you're going to make trouble,
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  Speaker 15: I'll have to take it away from you.
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  Speaker 3: Have a heart, will you? That's all the fun I get.
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  Speaker 13: Fun? He's driving us nuts!
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  Speaker 5: Oh, why do you care, buddy?
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  Speaker 8: They're burning me tonight!
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow it'll be quiet around here!
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  Speaker 3: Quiet as the grave! Listen, Carmen, you'd better keep quiet.
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  Speaker 14: The warden will be here in a minute.
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  Speaker 5: The warden!
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  Speaker 10: What do I care for the warden? He can't do
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  Speaker 10: any more than give me the hot seat, and he's
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  Speaker 10: doing that anyhow.
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  Speaker 14: Here comes the warden now.
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  Speaker 8: What's all the disturbance in here, Gar? Hey, it's Gar,
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  Speaker 8: my warden.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, did you hear from the governor, warden?
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  Speaker 8: Yes. I'm afraid I've got bad news for you, Long.
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  Speaker 8: Governor Roberts has refused to do anything about your case.
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  Speaker 14: They're going to burn me tonight, huh?
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid so.
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  Speaker 6: Looks like society put the finger on me.
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  Speaker 3: Just like the judge said.
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  Speaker 13: Well, okay.
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  Speaker 3: I warned him.
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  Speaker 10: Like I said in court, within a week, the millionaire
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  Speaker 10: Oscar Borden and Frank Collins.
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  Speaker 3: Are going to be dead.
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  Speaker 6: Don't talk like that, Dorman.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see.
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  Speaker 5: And I think I'll get Governor Roberts, too, while I'm
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  Speaker 5: about it. That makes a nice trio, don't you think?
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  Speaker 5: Oscar Borden, Frank Collins, and Governor Roberts. I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: come back from the grave.
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  Speaker 3: And kill them.
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  Speaker 6: All three of them, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Society passed judgment on me, huh? Okay, I ain't kicking.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see who laughs last.
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  Speaker 6: Making stupid threats won't do you any good, Gorman.
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  Speaker 3: Stupid, huh?
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  Speaker 10: Listen, in a week, those guys are all going to
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  Speaker 10: be dead.
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  Speaker 3: Lots deader than me. Come along, Garfield.
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  Speaker 2: You better warn them.
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  Speaker 10: Tell them the time is up when they hear me
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  Speaker 10: playing on my mouth organ like this.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, read all about it.
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  Speaker 3: Ralph Goleman electrocuted.
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  Speaker 5: Ralph Goleman threatened the life.
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  Speaker 3: Of Oscar Morton.
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  Speaker 5: Frank Collins and Governor.
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  Speaker 3: Roberts before he dies. Goleman executed.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, read all about it.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything else.
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  Speaker 14: You want me to do tonight, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Borden?
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  Speaker 8: Before you go, door the curtains... and turn off the
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  Speaker 8: other headlights, Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to stay here in my study for a while.
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  Speaker 8: It's quiet. There's some things I want to look over.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 15: Borden.
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  Speaker 14: You won't be disturbed, sir. I think everyone else has
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  Speaker 14: gone to bed.
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  Speaker 8: Is the newspaper here? I haven't had a chance to
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  Speaker 8: look at one all day.
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  Speaker 6: Right on your desk, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes. Well, good night, Taylor.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Borden.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'll glance at the headlines before getting down to work.
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  Speaker 16: Let's see. Rebels pushing the province... Merging relief agencies. Gangster
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  Speaker 16: executed in the great incident. Medic seen in the death
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  Speaker 16: house last night. Ralph Gorman sentenced to come back after
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  Speaker 16: death and murder. The philanthropist, Oscar Borden, Frank Collins, millionaire sportsman,
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  Speaker 16: and Governor Roberts.
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  Speaker 8: Now, let's see.
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  Speaker 16: On the way to the chair, Gorman warned his intended
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  Speaker 16: victims that they would know of his presence.
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  Speaker 8: By hearing him play a mouth organ. These were his
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  Speaker 8: last words after which he was electrocuted.
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  Speaker 16: From his picture here, I'd say he was of rather
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  Speaker 16: low mentality.
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  Speaker 8: Mouth organ, now that's a bizarre note. Oh, I wonder.
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  Speaker 8: Wait a moment. I can hear a mouth organ now. No, no,
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  Speaker 8: it must be my imagination. That's odd. I... I could
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  Speaker 8: swear I hear it again. Seems to come from the
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  Speaker 8: other room.
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  Speaker 3: Who opened that door?
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  Speaker 8: Why, you're... you're out common.
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  Speaker 3: You see me, Mr. Borden?
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  Speaker 8: This is impossible.
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  Speaker 5: I've come back from the dead to keep my promise
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  Speaker 5: to society.
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  Speaker 3: You're mad. Ghosts ain't never mad, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Borden.
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  Speaker 5: Ghosts?
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  Speaker 3: Preposterous. We'll see about this. Don't touch that bell, because
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  Speaker 3: it ain't going to do you no good. Well, that's
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  Speaker 3: one of them.
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  Speaker 8: Two more to go.
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  Speaker 13: Well, Lamar, as long as you just seem to be
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  Speaker 13: walking me around with two shameless men, you might at
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  Speaker 13: least answer my question. What do you think of those threats?
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  Speaker 8: Threats?
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  Speaker 12: What threats, Margo?
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  Speaker 13: The threats made by Ralph Gorman last night before he
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  Speaker 13: was executed.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I wouldn't give them a second thought.
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  Speaker 4: Six-year-old child knows it's impossible to come back from the
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  Speaker 4: dead and murder people.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I hear it, too.
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  Speaker 8: Boy, give me a paper.
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  Speaker 12: Keep the change, son.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Taxi!
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  Speaker 6: Where are you going, Lamont?
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  Speaker 4: I think this will bear a little investigating. I'll see
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  Speaker 4: you later, Margo. I'm going to drop in on the
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  Speaker 4: scene of the crime. Our friend Commissioner Weston should be there.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, Cardona, see who that is. Whoever it is, don't
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  Speaker 15: let him in this study, Mr. Bordens, until I get
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  Speaker 15: to questioning these people.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Commissioner. Mr. Brown. Mr. Lamont Cranston, sir.
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  Speaker 6: He says you know him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, I know him.
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  Speaker 8: Tell him.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, wait a minute. He tries to be an amateur criminologist.
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  Speaker 15: Let him come in. I'll show him how the police
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  Speaker 15: department really works.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 14: All right, you can come in, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston. Thank you. Ah, Commissioner Weston. How do you do?
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  Speaker 12: I just happened to be passing by the Borden house,
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  Speaker 12: and I thought you might be here.
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  Speaker 15: Well, Cranston, you ought to test some of your amateur
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  Speaker 15: theories on crime, I suppose.
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  Speaker 12: Always willing to try, Commissioner?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you're liable to.
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  Speaker 6: Beat your brains out over this one.
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  Speaker 15: About three hours ago, Oscar Borden was found at his
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  Speaker 15: desk here with a nice round bullet hole in his
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  Speaker 15: head and not a clue.
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  Speaker 8: How distressing.
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  Speaker 12: Not a single clue, Commissioner?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we have two clues, but they don't make sense.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps they don't make sense to the professional detective, but
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  Speaker 4: an amateur on the intellectual side of crime might be
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  Speaker 4: able to help you out, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 12: What were the clues?
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  Speaker 15: Well, first I asked the cop on the beat if
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  Speaker 15: he'd seen any known crooks hanging.
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  Speaker 8: Around the building tonight. And?
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  Speaker 15: And the dumb guy told me he hadn't seen any,
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  Speaker 15: except at one time during the afternoon he thought he
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  Speaker 15: got a glimpse of Ralph Gorman. And Ralph Gorman is
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  Speaker 15: known to have threatened us to board him.
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  Speaker 8: I see.
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  Speaker 14: And the other clue, Commissioner?
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  Speaker 15: The other clue was even slimmer. One of the maids
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  Speaker 15: says she heard a mouth organ being played in Mr.
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  Speaker 15: Borden's study about the time the murder must have been committed.
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  Speaker 4: Why, it all hinges together perfectly, Commissioner, don't you see?
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  Speaker 4: Ralph Gorman has threatened Oscar Borden. He plays the mouth organ,
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  Speaker 4: and he's been seen hanging around the house. Why, he's
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  Speaker 4: your murderer.
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  Speaker 15: Very pretty theory, Cranston. The only hitch is that Ralph
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  Speaker 15: Gorman was put to death last night at 11 o'clock
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  Speaker 15: in the electric chair at State Prison.
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  Speaker 12: He was.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, you should read the papers. You see, as an
• 14:20
  Speaker 15: amateur criminologist, you're not so hot after.
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  Speaker 8: All, Cranston.
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  Speaker 12: Well, have you solved Oscar Borden's murder?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, not yet.
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  Speaker 12: Well, you're no better than I am, then.
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  Speaker 4: Commissioner Weston, if I were you, I'd put a guard
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  Speaker 4: of large, solid policemen around anyone Ralph Gorman might have
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  Speaker 4: had a.
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  Speaker 12: Motive to kill.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And then what?
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  Speaker 10: Then.
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  Speaker 12: I'd look for the ghost of Ralph Gorman.
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  Speaker 15: It's lucky you're not, police commissioner.
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  Speaker 7: Now, you'd better get out of here, Cranston. I've got
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: important work to do.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: While we're waiting for the second act to begin, here's
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: a thought I'd like to leave with you. There would
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: be far less wrongdoing in this world if those tempted
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: would heed the shadow's familiar slogan, crime does not pay. Yes,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: And there will be fewer accidents on our highways if
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: each and every motorist obeyed traffic laws.
• 15:18
  Speaker 14: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: Don't try to pass a car on a curve. Don't
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: pass a streetcar that has come to a stop. A
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: few seconds lost is better than a lifetime of regret.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Play safe.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: It pays.
• 15:38
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• 15:42
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• 15:45
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• 15:58
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• 16:00
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• 16:04
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• 16:07
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• 16:09
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• 16:46
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• 16:47
  Speaker 12: Hello.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, I thought we were cut off, darling, but now
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: I tell you, I'm all right.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, but Frank, I'm so worried.
• 16:52
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• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I could be with you.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: But what is there to worry about, darling?
• 16:56
  Speaker 13: Why, those threats that awful man Gorman made against you.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dad, that was just nonsense. I never even knew him,
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: besides he's dead.
• 17:03
  Speaker 13: Yes, but Oscar Borden was threatened, too.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: And he's dead.
• 17:06
  Speaker 14: Now, Ruth, darling, please stop worrying for my sake. Nothing's
• 17:09
  Speaker 14: going to happen to me.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: I'm in my own apartment, and I have no intention
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: of going out. So nothing can happen.
• 17:14
  Speaker 14: Now, you go to sleep and get your beauty rest.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: You know, you've got to look your prettiest for our wedding, Susie.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Oh, all right, dearest.
• 17:20
  Speaker 13: At least I'll be with you by tomorrow. I'll be
• 17:23
  Speaker 13: down on the 11 o'clock train in the morning.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's wonderful.
• 17:26
  Speaker 14: And I'll meet you at the station.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Good night, darling.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Good night.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Poor Ruth.
• 17:30
  Speaker 13: I don't know why.
• 17:31
  Speaker 14: Women get so nervous about.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: I wonder who that could be.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Is this Frank Collins?
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Yes, who's this?
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: This is the Shadow.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, the Shadow. If I've heard of you, what do
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: you want?
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: I want to warn you, Collins.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Warn you against a death.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Whose death?
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: Yours.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Then why should you be warning me?
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Because if you're not very careful, you'll meet the same
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: fate as Oscar Borden.
• 17:57
  Speaker 14: And for the same reason.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, nonsense.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Furthermore, I would suggest that if you value your life...
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: You will apply without delay for police protection.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Look, I don't know who you are, Shadow, or what
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: your game is. But I'm not afraid of you or
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: anybody else.
• 18:09
  Speaker 12: Have it your own way, Mr.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Collins.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Have it your own way.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Wait, listen.
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: Hmm.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: He hung up. I wonder what that was all about.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: He certainly wasn't a very cheerful person to talk to.
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: Maybe.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe I'd better get.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: You know, what's Commissioner Weston's home number?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I've got it in here someplace.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, here it is.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: Main 999. Oh, the phone. Who's going to be calling
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: at this hour? Now, where's that phone at? Hello, Commissioner
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: Weston speaking.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Commissioner, this is Frank Collins. I just received a threat.
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, you did?
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, I was informed I'm about to meet Oscar Borden's fate.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: How are you warned?
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Over the telephone just about five minutes ago by a
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: man who calls himself The Shadow.
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: The Shadow? Is he mixed up in this?
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: How should I know?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: What's the matter?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: I thought for a minute I heard a mouth organ play.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Mouth organ? Oh, that's just your nerves, Collins.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Is your door locked?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: No.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Go lock it quick.
• 19:24
  Speaker 12: All right, just a minute.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Good Lord.
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: I can hear the mouth organ myself over the phone.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Cullen. You're too late, Cullen. Cullen.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: You should have locked that door before you made the call.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Ralph Gorman, what?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Cullen.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Who are you?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe you heard me, Cullen. I'm Ralph Gorman.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Gorman.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Watch out.
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: Don't shoot.
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: Don't.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Now only one more to go.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Operator.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Operator.
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: Operator.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: Operator. This is Police Commissioner Weston. Get me headquarters.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Hurry, operator.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Hurry.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: Come in, Margo.
• 20:05
  Speaker 13: I just heard that Frank Collins was murdered in his
• 20:07
  Speaker 13: home last night, Lamont.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 20:09
  Speaker 14: I've been reading the papers.
• 20:10
  Speaker 13: It's crazy. How could Ralph Gorman have come back from
• 20:13
  Speaker 13: the dead to commit these murders?
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Margot, yesterday I would have said it was totally impossible.
• 20:19
  Speaker 14: Today, frankly, I don't know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 12: At this moment, I don't think.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Of any other hypothesis that would account for the known fact.
• 20:26
  Speaker 13: Then that means.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Jiminy.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: What did you say?
• 20:31
  Speaker 13: I nearly said Jiminy.
• 20:32
  Speaker 12: Why did you say that?
• 20:33
  Speaker 13: Jiminy, I don't know. I was just thinking. Why, does
• 20:36
  Speaker 13: it mean anything?
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: Ordinarily, no. In this instance, it may mean everything. At
• 20:40
  Speaker 12: least it gives me a clue. Margo, is your car outside?
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: Yes, Lamont.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: Well, come on.
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: We're going places. Be careful, Margot. Watch how you're driving.
• 20:55
  Speaker 13: You told me to step on it. I thought you
• 20:57
  Speaker 13: wanted to get to the Regal Hotel in a hurry.
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: I do, but I'd like to get there all in
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: one piece.
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: This is a fine time to tell me that. Incidentally,
• 21:04
  Speaker 13: why the Regal Hotel?
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Governor Roberts is staying there. He's addressing the manufacturer's dinner
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: at the Colossus Club tonight.
• 21:09
  Speaker 14: I'd like to.
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: Be sure he lives to make it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 13: Oh, Lamont, now you're being mysterious again. Why shouldn't Governor
• 21:15
  Speaker 13: Roberts live to make his peace?
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: Because I have reason to believe he's next on the
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: list marked for murder.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: I have an idea that if any attempt is made
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: on the governor's life tonight, it will probably be tonight.
• 21:24
  Speaker 12: Ah, here's the hotel. You'll just pull up the curb.
• 21:30
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: I said up to the curb, dear, not over it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 13: Oh, I think you're right.
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: If I'm not mistaken, so will somebody else before the
• 21:38
  Speaker 12: night's over. Goodbye, Margot, and thanks for the ride.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: This is the service entrance, Governor. Go right through that
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: door there. You'll be on Marine Street.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Good, thank you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: That's where I told my car to wait.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: Governor Roberts, do you think this is wise?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Wise, Latham? Of course it's wise. What danger can there be?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going straight to the dinner at the Colossus Club
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: alone in my own car with my own chauffeur.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: Just as you say, sir. Through this door to the street,
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: you said, Porter?
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Now, where's my car? I told Henry to wait.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Oh, there he is.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: To the Colossus Club, Henry.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Henry, this is the most preposterous thing I ever heard
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: of in my life.
• 22:35
  Speaker 14: What's our police force turning into?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: A bunch of old women? Ralph Gorman?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Of course I couldn't pardon him. The man was guilty.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: He certainly can't come back from the dead, can he, Henry?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: All this cock and bull story about playing a mouth organ,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: you don't believe. Henry, what's making that noise? Henry, did
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you hear me? Henry, what's the matter with you? This
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: isn't the way to the Colossus Club. You're heading for
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the river.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Stop the car. Henry, I... What?
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: You're not Henry.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: That's right, I ain't Henry, Governor. Don't you remember me,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Ralph Gorman? Ralph Gorman?
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: No.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: No, it's not possible. Well, you see me, don't you?
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: You remember how I used to play the mouth organ
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: in the death house?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Like this. Stop the car. Let me out.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I'll let you out, all right, in ten feet of
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: water when we get to the river.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: No, no. Let me out.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: You didn't let me out of the chair, did you, Governor?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I burned, remember? Well, you'll drown. Stop the car.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Stop it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I say you'll kill us both.
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: Can't kill a dead man, can you, Governor?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Ah, the old fool went and croaked by himself.
• 23:50
  Speaker 14: Scared to death. Ah, it saves me the trouble.
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: I wouldn't be too sure of that, Gorman.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: Governor Roberts is unharmed.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: He's only fainted.
• 24:03
  Speaker 12: He has a weak heart.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: Who's that?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Where are you?
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: You didn't know you had the shadow as a passenger.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, the shadow, huh?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Well, you can't hurt me. Even a shadow can't harm
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a ghost.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: But you're not a ghost, Gorman.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what you think.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Don't you know that Ralph Gorman is dead?
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Certainly.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: But you're not Ralph Gorman. You're his twin brother, Arthur.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: That's a lie. No, it isn't, Arthur.
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: I went down to the.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: City records office and checked up on the birth certificate.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: A very pretty little story. Your mother had twin boys
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: and concealed the fact from everyone. He brought you two
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: up deliberately for a life of crime. Very convenient, wasn't it, Arthur?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: No matter what crime one of you committed, the other
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: was always seen somewhere else at the same time. To
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: furnish a complete alibi.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm Arthur Gorman, Ralph Gorman's twin brother.
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: But if we hadn't got the owl mixed up, they'd
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: never have convicted Ralph that last time.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Too bad, wasn't it?
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: After all the trouble your mother had taken for years
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: to conceal the.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Fact you were twins. How did you get on to it?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Why, a friend of mine used the expression Gemini. And
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I naturally.
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: Connected that with Gemini.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: I don't get it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: You wouldn't.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Gemini is the sign of the zodiac, which means the twins. Well, Arthur,
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: this is a very interesting discussion. But I think now
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: you'd better stop the car.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah? What do you think I am, crazy? They're
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: never going to burn me.
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: That's a matter of opinion.
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: All right, you got me, but I got you, Shadow.
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: Got you where I want you. There's the river right
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: ahead of us. I'm going to drive over the embankment.
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: I'll drown, but so will you. I'll drive right over
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: the edge.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: None of this emergency brake works, you fool.
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: Oh, my Lord.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, what happened? Boy, look at that crash.
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: Those drunken drivers, they ought to be put in jail.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: She ran head on into the warehouse wall there, did
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: you see?
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: There's too many men.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Here's the doctor. Let me through.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: There you are, Doc.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: I see.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Stand back, please.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Well, how about it, Doc?
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll be... The man in back is Governor Roberts.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Governor Roberts?
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: Is he?
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:06
  Speaker 14: He's all right, I think.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: Just painted.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: Sucked, probably. Sucked? How about the other guy?
• 26:10
  Speaker 14: The chauffeur here is dead.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Dead? Too bad.
• 26:14
  Speaker 14: Say, his face looks familiar.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: What is it? You know him?
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Dead guy in a chauffeur outfit, is it? A living
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: image of a gunman called Ralph Gorman.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: Ralph Gorman?
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: It can't be. Ralph Gorman went to jail last week.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Well, if it ain't him, it's his twin brother.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: If only you'd been able to tell us that a
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: week ago. justice would have been served a great deal
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: more quickly. The End.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Shadow Magazine. All the characters and all the places named
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: purely coincidental. The Shadow Magazine is now on sale at
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: your local newsstand.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Let no man tempt you into crime. For crime is
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: like a strangling serpent. It crushes him who feeds it most. Beware,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: lest the serpent of crime ensnare you in his fall. Remember,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: crime does not pay. The Shadow knows.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: That was The Shadow in Ghosts Can Kill. Until our
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: next visit with Classic Radio, good night.