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  Speaker 1: At a Circus Waxworks Museum, a figure in a tableau
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  Speaker 1: depicting the arrest of gangster George Keegan is discovered to
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  Speaker 1: be a murder victim. The discovery sends Lamont, Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane from the museum into a state prison related investigation,
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  Speaker 1: as people connected with Keegan's conviction face a campaign of revenge.
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  Speaker 1: On May fifteenth, nineteen thirty eight, Mutual carried this b F.
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  Speaker 1: Goodrich summer run broadcast episode one hundred twenty of The
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  Speaker 1: Shadow Murders in Wax starring Orson Wells as Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 1: Margo Stevenson as Margot Lane, and Ken Roberts at the
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  Speaker 1: announcer's microphone. Now back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil leks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: a student of science, and a master of other people's minds,
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  Speaker 4: punishing the guilty using advanced methods that may ultimately become
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  Speaker 4: available to all law enforcement agencies. Cranston is known to
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  Speaker 4: the underworld as the Shadow, never seen, only heard as haunting,
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  Speaker 4: to superstitious minds, as a ghost, as inevitable as a
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  Speaker 4: guilty conscience. The Shadow's true identity is known only to
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  Speaker 4: his constant friend and aid, Margot Lane. Today's story murders
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  Speaker 4: in wax.
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  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to step inside and
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  Speaker 5: view the illuminating and educational exhibits that are the features
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  Speaker 5: of our waxbax. See blue Beard actually slaying his eight wives,
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  Speaker 5: See Customs Last Stand, See the Capture of George Keegan,
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  Speaker 5: Public Enemy MBA one, and many other threading lifelike tableaux.
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  Speaker 5: The price of admission is only one time ten. Our
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  Speaker 5: lecture is just starting, and if you hurry, hurry, hurry,
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  Speaker 5: you'll be just in time to witness the complete show
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  Speaker 5: on the inside. Step right up now, how many for
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  Speaker 5: the too pleas a.
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  Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, If you'll just step over here on
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  Speaker 6: the next platform, I shall describe to you the tails
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  Speaker 6: of the feature tableau of our exhibits.
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  Speaker 3: Say they look like real people, don't they?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: How did they make them?
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  Speaker 3: With work?
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  Speaker 4: This tableau is a dramatic reenactment of the capture of
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  Speaker 4: George Keegan, a notorious gang chief of Prohibition day. He
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  Speaker 4: was arrested in the manner shown right here.
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  Speaker 6: No doubt you all recognize the figures of the brave
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  Speaker 6: men who personally led the police squad who made the capture.
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  Speaker 6: On the left, the wax figure of our own Mayor
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  Speaker 6: Lewis Center, our District Attorney Armstrong and right Police Commissioner Western.
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  Speaker 6: Why dear when George Keagan's arrest put an end to
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  Speaker 6: the wave of crime and law lessness that gripped our
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  Speaker 6: city for a decade. He is now imprisoned in the
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  Speaker 6: state penitentiary for the rest of his natural life.
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  Speaker 8: She the girl on the table, sure looks lifelike. Ask
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  Speaker 8: them who she is?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, hey, cap, who's that girl? Just coming to that brother?
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  Speaker 6: A little lady seated in the chair was Keegan's gun
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  Speaker 6: mall at Na Kelly. She was with him in the
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  Speaker 6: High House at the time on the raid. Hey, the
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  Speaker 6: wax figure fell.
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  Speaker 3: Off the chair.
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  Speaker 6: They don't get excited, folks. It's only a wax figure.
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  Speaker 6: I set it up again, and holy catch, it's it's
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  Speaker 6: real body, a dead body, a dead body of Ethna Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, Kelly, how she gets it's.
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  Speaker 9: Even murder, mysteriously murdered.
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  Speaker 3: It's the found straining. Read all about the waxword.
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  Speaker 10: The mind. You do roll beautifully, but if you don't
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  Speaker 10: pull a trifle harder on that right, or we'll hit
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  Speaker 10: that rock.
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  Speaker 11: Sorry, there we are a little rusty on navigation. Margaret,
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  Speaker 11: this is my first rowboat bench in the park this spring.
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  Speaker 10: I'm really enjoying it. I need a little fresh air
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  Speaker 10: and sunshine after that experience of the waxworks yesterday, that
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  Speaker 10: was pretty terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ever happened to go to that place, Margaret.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I was showing the town to my cousin Jane
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  Speaker 10: from upstate. We passed the Waxworks museum and she insisted
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  Speaker 10: on going in. She'd never seen a chamber of horror, and.
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  Speaker 3: She saw more horror than she bargained for.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, and so did I. I'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 3: Just what was that wax tableau?
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  Speaker 8: Like?
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  Speaker 10: It was set in a replica of a finnished room
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  Speaker 10: in the houseware Keegan was captured. Yes, the figures of
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  Speaker 10: Mayor Lewis, District Attorney Armstrong, and Police Commissioner Western were
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  Speaker 10: grouped about Keegan and Edna Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: Does anyone notice the figure of the kellyger was actually
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  Speaker 3: she until it fell from the chair.
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  Speaker 10: No, the wax figures were so lifelike. No one's respect.
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  Speaker 3: I see I owed the island. Well, that'd be nice.
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  Speaker 10: Lamont. Whom do you think killed Edna Kelly?
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  Speaker 11: Well, she was a gunman's girl, and always the obvious suspects,
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  Speaker 11: her lover's enemies, or even members of his gang who
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  Speaker 11: might be more comfortable with her out of the way.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think it was either of these.
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  Speaker 11: Why Lamar, don't that strike you that the substitution of
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  Speaker 11: the girl's body as the waxwork in such a spectacular fashion.
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  Speaker 11: May they have some deeper significance than the mere bizarre effects?
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  Speaker 10: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 11: Must have been the girl's connection with the other people
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  Speaker 11: represented in that group I've motivated the murder and bringing
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  Speaker 11: her body there.
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  Speaker 10: I don't quite understand.
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  Speaker 11: My deductions are correct, that taking of Edna Kelly's life
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  Speaker 11: is only the first of a series of vengeful murders.
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  Speaker 10: But the mond if that's true, isn't there anything you
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  Speaker 10: can do to fo stalls?
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  Speaker 11: Perhaps I only knew a little more. I only knew
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  Speaker 11: whether killer plans to strike next.
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  Speaker 10: Surely the shadow can find that out your help, Margol,
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  Speaker 10: Perhaps you can.
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  Speaker 6: I'll find a bunch of detectives I've got in this department.
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  Speaker 6: You call yourselves a homicide squad.
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  Speaker 3: That's a laugh.
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  Speaker 6: But Commissioner Western, we've combed this city, logan. Have you
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  Speaker 6: checked on the story of the museum proprietor. Commissioner, you
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  Speaker 6: talk to him yourself. Have you verified his statements? Yes,
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  Speaker 6: Chief the solid the murderer entered the Waxworks Museum by
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  Speaker 6: a back door. It was found Jimmy Happy to put
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  Speaker 6: ed Ma Kelly's body in a tableau. He took the
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  Speaker 6: wax image of her outside and buried under some trash
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  Speaker 6: in the alley. Did you go over the image for
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  Speaker 6: fingerprints put on it? Yeah, but we couldn't find anything
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  Speaker 6: about the face. Oh yeah, commissioner. A funny thing. The
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  Speaker 6: face of the wax dummy had been slashed with a
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  Speaker 6: knife across the left cheek. Why didn't you tell me
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  Speaker 6: that before? You know what that means as well as
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  Speaker 6: I do. That's right, that's the Mocophe squealer. But it
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  Speaker 6: couldn't put any mob stuff. The probation report shows that
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  Speaker 6: ed Na Kelly has been going straight since Kegan was
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  Speaker 6: sent away.
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  Speaker 3: He asked me, I think it was a Luna ticket done.
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  Speaker 6: No, same guy had set a dead girl's body up
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  Speaker 6: for exhibition and that Waxworks joint.
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  Speaker 3: No, it looks to me like one of them love things.
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  Speaker 3: Some guy caring a torch for Kelly. You're both wrong.
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  Speaker 6: It was no lunatic that committed that murder, and Edna
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  Speaker 6: Kelly hasn't gone out with anyone since Keegan started his stretch.
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  Speaker 6: Then Edna Kelly was murdered for vengeance by someone who
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  Speaker 6: wanted to settle a score with a lover, George Keegan.
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  Speaker 6: Heagan can't be reached in the big house, so they
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  Speaker 6: take it out on the girl. And what about the
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  Speaker 6: mark of the squealer on the face of the wax figure?
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  Speaker 6: What ties right in? That was the murderer's way of
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  Speaker 6: telling Keegan what he thought of him. Keegan has saved
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  Speaker 6: his neck by squealing on a dozen guys. Say that's right?
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  Speaker 3: Of course? Is right?
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  Speaker 6: For on first thing in the morning, I want you
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  Speaker 6: and Hogan to conduct a general roundup of every known
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  Speaker 6: enemy of George Keegan.
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  Speaker 7: That won't do any good, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: It's the shadow. Don't don't trouble to find him. Why
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  Speaker 3: are you here, shadow to wait.
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  Speaker 7: You in capturing the murderer?
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  Speaker 3: Ender Kelly, What do you know about the case.
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  Speaker 7: That you shouldn't be wasting your men's time rounding up
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  Speaker 7: possible suspects while the real assassin is left free to
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  Speaker 7: strike his next blow.
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  Speaker 3: Now see here, Shadow, don't tell me how to run
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  Speaker 3: my department.
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  Speaker 7: Hold on Western. I have every reason to suspect that
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  Speaker 7: the placing of the Kelly girls body in the wax
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  Speaker 7: tableau was intended as a warning of other deaths to follow.
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  Speaker 3: Other deaths. You think there's going to be more killing?
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  Speaker 3: The quiet Hogan. Tell me what you mean, Shadow.
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  Speaker 7: I mean that the other people represented in that wax
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  Speaker 7: tableau are in danger of being killed too. They're the mayor,
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  Speaker 7: the district attorney, and you yourself, Commissioner Western.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds preposterous, not at all.
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  Speaker 7: My advice is, did you act quickly? One of you
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  Speaker 7: may be at this moment, immin.
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  Speaker 3: Apperil come come Shadow.
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  Speaker 6: What possible motives could the murderer of the girl have
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  Speaker 6: for wishing to kill us as well?
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  Speaker 3: I think that you're excuse me, Hello.
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  Speaker 12: Missus Armstrong, the district Attorney's wife wants to talk to Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Yes, missus Armstrong, this is Commissioner Western.
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  Speaker 8: Commissioner, I'm dreadfully worried about John.
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  Speaker 3: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 8: Well, shortly after dinner he went out, said he might
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  Speaker 8: take a walk. Several hours passed, he didn't return. I
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  Speaker 8: must have fallen asleep, and when I woke up a
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  Speaker 8: few minutes ago, he still hadn't come back. Oh, this
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  Speaker 8: isn't like john, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: What time is it now?
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  Speaker 8: It's after two am.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now don't be alarm, missus. Arms wrong.
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  Speaker 6: He's probably detained somewhere on business. I'll try to locate
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  Speaker 6: him for you and call you back. Oh, thank you,
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  Speaker 6: district attorney. Disappear disappeared, shame.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Commissioner Western, you think shadow that? Yes, Commissioner, I
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  Speaker 7: fear that the killer has struck again.
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  Speaker 3: Can't be.
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  Speaker 7: If I were you, I would go to the Wexworth
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  Speaker 7: Museum at once, may arrive in time to stop this
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  Speaker 7: murderer from completing his monstrous work.
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  Speaker 6: Well, here's the wax museum, Commissioner Western. Sergeant takes them
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  Speaker 6: in around to guard the back door. Sir, don't know
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  Speaker 6: is anyone any keys in this place?
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  Speaker 3: Now? I say, we'll have to force the lock. All right,
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  Speaker 3: go to it? Okay, all right, now, where's the lights?
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  Speaker 7: Witch?
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  Speaker 3: Never mind that? Here's your flash lights? Okay? Hey, kind
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  Speaker 3: of scary in here, aint it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: It gives you the creeps? And what's that where that
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  Speaker 6: guy over there? It's got a night don't shoot you fool.
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  Speaker 6: That's one of the wax dummies. Where is this Keegan tableau?
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  Speaker 6: It's right over here on the lap. Oh so that's it. Well,
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  Speaker 6: I guess nothing's happened yet, cheap doesn't look like anything's
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  Speaker 6: been disturbed. That's the wax dummy of District Attorney Armstrong,
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  Speaker 6: sitting down on a chair.
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  Speaker 3: Sitting down.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, it seems to me his dummy was tanning up
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  Speaker 6: the last time he was here.
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  Speaker 3: What give me a lift up on the platform, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you like it? Maybe? I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Ye, the light over here, good, heavens it's Armstrong?
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  Speaker 3: Is it really?
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  Speaker 10: Distant?
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  Speaker 3: Attorney Armstrong's dead? Murder? And he was brought here just
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  Speaker 3: like a shadow sitting.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, just as I said, gentlemen, I'm sorry that I
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  Speaker 7: couldn't have warned you earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Who did this thing? Shadow? You know who did it?
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  Speaker 7: I'm not sure. With your cooperation, Commissioner Weston, together we
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  Speaker 7: may bring about his downfall. I am positive now, but
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  Speaker 7: either you or Mail Lewis he's the next victim. Not
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  Speaker 7: to go God yourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Well, i'll attend to that, all right.
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  Speaker 7: You'll hear from me soon, Commissioner. The shadow finds out
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  Speaker 7: who the killer is, he will be brought to justice.
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  Speaker 11: I think it's quite evident now, Margot, even the Commissioner
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  Speaker 11: Western that the killers aimed to do away with everyone
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  Speaker 11: concerned in that tableau.
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  Speaker 10: Then, Lamont, you mean the mayor, the commissioner, and Keegan Is.
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  Speaker 10: They're the only ones left exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see I should take a right.
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  Speaker 10: Turn here, Laman, do you believe these murders are the
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  Speaker 10: work of a madner all?
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  Speaker 11: I think that whoever is behind all this is quite sane, Margot,
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  Speaker 11: quite insane.
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  Speaker 10: What makes you say that there's.
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  Speaker 11: Some important civic figures in that group. Their removal would
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  Speaker 11: be highly advantageous to a political rival.
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  Speaker 10: But surely political rivalry wouldn't be sufficient motive for But
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  Speaker 10: he's horrible crime, I wonder. And besides the girl Edna Kelly,
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  Speaker 10: how would she fit into that picture?
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  Speaker 3: That's but we're driving up here to find out.
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  Speaker 10: As a prison now a cheerful the king spot.
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  Speaker 3: I'll drive you up to the gate and met you out.
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  Speaker 3: I shan't go in with you.
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  Speaker 10: Why not?
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  Speaker 11: The Wharton mister Driscoll has never been a particular admirer
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  Speaker 11: of mine, feeling which I reciprocate. Why Lamon Well, I
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  Speaker 11: had occasion to expose the graft written conditions in this
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  Speaker 11: prisoner a few years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Naturally, that didn't make me too popular with Here we
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  Speaker 3: are now, Remember when I told you I think so.
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  Speaker 10: I'm a reporter from the Daily Globe, and I've for
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  Speaker 10: an interview with Edna Kelly's sweetheart, Kegan, and when I
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  Speaker 10: see him, I'll try to find out from him. Please
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  Speaker 10: tell me something, mister Keighan. The readers of the Daily
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  Speaker 10: Globe of send us thousands of letters expressing their interest
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  Speaker 10: in your reaction to the tragic death of Miss Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't got nothing to say about it.
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  Speaker 10: Do you believe that the killing was executed by one
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  Speaker 10: of your enemies? I wouldn't know you loved ed Nick Kelly,
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  Speaker 10: didn't you?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what are you giving up with the Lonely Hearts column?
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  Speaker 10: No? No, you see, pay off that love stuff, mister Keighan.
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  Speaker 10: I was sent up here by my paper to get
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  Speaker 10: a human interest story from you. And after all, well
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  Speaker 10: you you were fond of miss Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: She was your girl.
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  Speaker 13: By girl. Oh no, I'll tell you what in the
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  Speaker 13: Kelly was. She was as shame as any other day. See,
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  Speaker 13: she was a double crosser. I thought, Wait a.
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  Speaker 3: Minute, Wait a minute. That didn't mean it. Don't write
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  Speaker 3: nothing like I just said. There are you get a
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  Speaker 3: little screwy sometimes.
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  Speaker 10: When I think about what happened, I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Just don't write nothing, will you?
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  Speaker 10: No? No? But but what about this theory that she
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  Speaker 10: was laying by one of your enemies, mister Keathan.
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  Speaker 8: I tell you.
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  Speaker 10: Lamani fled up so suddenly when I asked him if
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: he really loved her, I was scared of that.
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  Speaker 3: He called a double crosser. Eh, yeah, but.
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  Speaker 10: He regretted it. The next second he asked me to
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  Speaker 10: be sure and not write anything about it.
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  Speaker 3: It's the most interesting Margon, thank you for your excellent work.
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  Speaker 10: But has what I told you helped you unravel any greatly? Well?
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: What happened now, I think is there are many more
• 19:04
  Speaker 11: interesting facts to be learned there at prison. Yes, this evening,
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: the shadow shall pare call on his old friend Warden Riscal.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Come in. Can I see you for a minute?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Warden?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: What's the trouble carry? Well, it's about Keegan. Well what
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: about him?
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Well, I put him in solitary like you told me. Yes, yes,
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: that was this morning. I'd done that, he carry What
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: are you trying to tell me? Well, you ain't had
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: no food for the last three meals, so I was
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: wondering if something should be done to make a eat.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: He just lays quiet on his bunk.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: I thought, I told you that no one was to
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: go near Keigan sell without my orders. Well, I thought,
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: if he wasn't hurry, If you just perform your duties
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: as guard around here and let the warden do the thinking,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: everything will be satisfied.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, Warden, Sure and leave Keegan alone. Yeah, yes,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Good night, Wardon, close that door after you.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: Yes, oh.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Hello, yes, oh yes, man? Or did he get away?
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: All right? Good? Yeah? Uh?
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: Well get him back here before daylight, no matter what happens. Yeah, okay,
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: tell him. I hope he does a good job, right yeah?
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Yeahh goodbye.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: You seem to be quite amused. Warn't driss school?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Huh? Who's that?
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Won't you share your little joke with me?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Carry? Are you outside that door? Is that you're talking? Carry?
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: If this is your idea? Something funny?
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: This is not Carrie?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Well? Who are you?
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: I am the Shadow?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: The Shadow?
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Well why are you here? What do you want with me?
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: Came in when Carrie left. I overheard your phone conversation, driscool.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: It's very interesting, really, Yes, I'm more than curious to
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: know who you were talking about, Alice and Shadow? What
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: business have you wouldn't have been George Keegan? Oh I
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: see here. I have had enough a wat warden. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: wouldn't advise you to leave until we've finished our conversation.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Oh what do you after? Shadow?
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I am seeking the murderer of Edna Kelley and district
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Attorney Armstrong.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Oh why look here?
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Because this is where he is to be found.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Who do you mean?
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: George Keegan?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Kegan. Oh, let's be Postilos hawkut.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: A man in prison for the rest of his life
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: suddenly commit too mur business city fifty miles away.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Very simple, Warden, he just go there?
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Are you infarrying that Keegan has escaped?
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Oh no, nothing as crude as that. But if he
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: were allowed to, shall we say, take a leave of
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: absence for a night?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Keagan? Has I left these buildings?
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Where is he now in his Oh no he isn't.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: I investigated before I came here. His cell is empty.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Oh yes, yes, that's right. I forgot. He's in solitary confinement.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: You mean his cut is stuffed with pillows to make
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: it appear as if he were in solitary confinement.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Now that's not true.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you where George Keegan is. He's on his
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: way to the city right now, to add another link
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: to his chain of cold blooded murders. He's gone there
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: with your full knowledge and concern. No, it would be
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: a great political advantage for you to have the district
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: Attorney Armstrong, the Mayor Lewis, and Commissioner Western out of
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: the way, wouldn't it, Wharten.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Or you don't know what you're talking about.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: An easy thing to prey upon the susceptible jealousies of
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: a man like Keegan until you goaded him into carrying
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: out your evil wishes.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Now you can never approve what you're saying.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: I haven't time to right now, Wharten the lives of
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: the Mayor and the Commissioner at stake. I'm able to
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: stop Keegan. I shall present more than enough proof necessary
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: to implicate you to the District Attorney's office in the morning.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: So you'd better think hard and fast, won't riscal.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Margo Lane Calling Margo Lane telephone Police Commissioner Western immediately.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: There's no time to lose. Tell him that tonight both
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: he and the mayor in great danger.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Even now it may be too late, they do have
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: time to follow up my instructions.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: Tell them that they follow my instructions.
• 23:52
  Speaker 13: All right, mister Mayor, stay sitting at that desk can
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: keep you back to me. I got a gun here.
• 23:57
  Speaker 13: Don't turn around.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 24:02
  Speaker 13: I'm George Keegan. Remember me, You was one of the
• 24:06
  Speaker 13: heroes that made the pinch when I was picked up.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: You must remember, boy.
• 24:13
  Speaker 13: They even got a little statue were you and me
• 24:15
  Speaker 13: down at the wax Museum.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Now, do you know.
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: You'd better know, mister Mayor, because I'm sending you down
• 24:26
  Speaker 13: personally to take that statue's place.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Well, why don't you just say something? Are you scared
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: that to her?
• 24:37
  Speaker 13: Where's all that fancy gabb that your hand out? At
• 24:40
  Speaker 13: Banquet's a meeting? Come on, speak up? Come on, no
• 24:45
  Speaker 13: matter what you speak up? Will you all right? Then
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: you get yours just the same. Looks like I just
• 24:57
  Speaker 13: brought about a special election. No, mister Mayor, I'll just
• 25:03
  Speaker 13: take this corpse of yours down at the museum and then.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Hey, let's just is there nobody? The dummy your plant?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: But you've gotten your targets mixed, haven't you? Keeking?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Who's that?
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: Aren't you surprised to find yourself shooting into wack? Dummy?
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Come on out in the open.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Who are you? I'm right here with you. I am
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: your shadow.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And man cannot fully talk? What are your copper?
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: No, just your personal nemesis, Kegan. I'd advise you to
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: drop that gun. Got a chance loaded on him, Commissioner Western.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Pumping your hands kick call me, let's got away from him.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: This is your waxworks murderer. Commissioner, thank you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Shattle here, guys say you got nothing on me? How
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: did you get out of jail?
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: I flow out the wind with the help of what
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: and Drisco di Briscoll aid you and least.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Descal, wasn't it.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Who's that?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Ah?
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: I see you've caught him. Good work, Commissioner, Oh Warden,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: just go what brings you here? This man Keegan escaped
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: from my prison tonight? And I learned that his purpose
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: in leaving was to make good a threat he'd made
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: on the life of our mayor.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Hey, when is this boloni you're throwing out?
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: Warden?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Ye're quiet? You I just landed that this isn't the
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: first time he's got out either.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: A very good story, Warden. Only I think that George
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Keegan could tell us a different work.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Shadow you here?
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: Yes? And I sort of expected you'd come to Warden.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: What's this all about? Shadow?
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: And hats Kegan can explain that to you? Commissioner?
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: How about that mess?
• 26:40
  Speaker 13: And I no squill a sea? But that Warden ain't
• 26:43
  Speaker 13: telling the truth and that one better. That's all I
• 26:46
  Speaker 13: got to say, Hey, Commissioner, what is this all about?
• 26:49
  Speaker 13: Am I being placed under suspicion? Here in the testimony
• 26:51
  Speaker 13: of a shallow.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Stune minute, Warden, what are you holding back? Keegan?
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: I can answer that for you, Commissioner, Western Keegan is
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: shielding the warden is the real instigator of the WAXWORX murders.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: That's a lie.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: He wanted you all the way, Commissioner, so he employed
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Keegan as his instrument of murder.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Don't listen to him, Shadow.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: At first, he had to give Keegan sufficient incentive to
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: perform these crimes, so he went to work on his emotions,
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: his jealousy. He told Keegan that his girl, Edna Kelly,
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: had been double crossing him right along. Hegan, This was
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: a lie.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: What do you mean? She was on a leveone, absolutely white.
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: Go on, go and roll in pain, just like getting
• 27:38
  Speaker 13: her done before she died.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: That's right, try to talk. That's what she done too.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: And I left that. I left that. I left that.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: That's what I take him away.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: Dead, Commissioner. Well perhaps that's for the best. Oh Shadow,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: you're still there, Yes, Commissioner. I want to thank you
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: heartily for this night's work.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: I seek no credit, Commissioner, However, I have a suggestion
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: for you. What's that The Wax Museum decides to create
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: a new tableau depicting this present event might be wise
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: for you to arrange to be excluded from it. Give
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: people ideas.
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: You have been listening to a dramatized version of one
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: of the many copyroted stories which appear in the Shadow magazine.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: The Weed of Crime. There's bitter food, Crime does not pay.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows all.
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: The characters and all the places named are fictitious. Any
• 29:03
  Speaker 12: similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You've just heard the Shadow in Murders and Wax. Follow
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the Shadow for more classic broadcasts.