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

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  Speaker 1: At the Black Rook Chess Club, Lamont Cranston and Margot
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  Speaker 1: Lane step into a murder investigation marked by rivalries among
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  Speaker 1: its members. From February twenty third, nineteen forty one. This
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  Speaker 1: is episode two hundred and sixteen of The Shadow. The
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  Speaker 1: Chess Club Murders heard on Mutual and sponsored by Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Johnstone is Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: Anderson as Margo Lane. Jerry Devine's story follows Cranston from
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  Speaker 1: the club to a newspaper proprietor and a manuscript called
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  Speaker 1: Murder on a Bet. As the case takes on new complications,
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  Speaker 1: and now our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Who loads? What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow loads?
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  Speaker 3: The running adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
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  Speaker 3: brought to you each week by the Blue Coal Dealers
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  Speaker 3: of America. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to
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  Speaker 3: old and young alike, that crime does not pay. Before
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  Speaker 3: the Shadow starts today's adventure, time out for a little
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  Speaker 3: memory test. How many of you remember this old rhyme?
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  Speaker 3: The north wind doth flow and we shall have snow?
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  Speaker 3: And what would you householders do?
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  Speaker 4: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Well, If you're wise, you'll be prepared for that emergency
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  Speaker 3: with a bin filled with blue coal. For blue coal
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  Speaker 3: gives you clean, radiant warmth that's not.
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  Speaker 2: To be sneezed at. Yes, there's less chance of head
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  Speaker 2: coals and chess coals alike.
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  Speaker 3: When your home is helpfully evinly heated with blue coal.
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  Speaker 3: Phone your neighborhood dealer tomorrow. He'll show you.
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  Speaker 2: The easy, economical way to heat your home. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law
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  Speaker 3: and order, is in reality the Monk Cranston, wealthy young
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  Speaker 3: man about town. As the Shadow, Cranston is gifted with
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  Speaker 3: hypnotic power to cloud man's mind so that they cannot
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  Speaker 3: see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane,
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  Speaker 3: is the only person who knows to whom the voice
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  Speaker 3: of the invisible Shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Today's Tory The chess Club murder Shreebee. Will you drop
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  Speaker 2: me off at the Black Rook Chess Club and then
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  Speaker 2: drive Miss Lane home? Chess Club?
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  Speaker 5: Chess Club Miss Lane home?
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  Speaker 4: Oh sure, shore, Miss Class.
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  Speaker 5: Why the hurry to get to this club, Lamart.
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  Speaker 2: I'm due there right now for a director's meeting.
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  Speaker 5: Mona Alla, Mas, that's the dullest thing I've ever heard of,
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  Speaker 5: a director's meeting at a chess club.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing dull about it. You see, there's quite a few
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  Speaker 2: going on down there. May split the club wide open.
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  Speaker 5: The trouble there. Did someone try to change the color
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  Speaker 5: of the square?
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, have your fun?
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  Speaker 5: Well what else could a chess club fude be avowed?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a long story, Margo. Hey, that's a class
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  Speaker 2: and hey, yes, Trev.
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  Speaker 5: Can you see that there no sign.
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  Speaker 4: On the evening stop felling? Look at it? All my
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  Speaker 4: light noses spelled out when I'm moving electric light.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've seen a Trevy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, ain't science fan passical?
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  Speaker 2: It certainly is. Well, by the way, Margo, that that
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  Speaker 2: innovation is the work of Raymond Packer, the publisher of
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  Speaker 2: the Star. He is one of my opponents in the
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  Speaker 2: chess club fude. He's the leader of the faction that one.
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  Speaker 5: Look, that sign is spelling out something about the chess club.
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  Speaker 2: So it is I slow down, Trev. Yes, yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: Judge Harold Walker, president of the Blackbrook Chess Club, was
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  Speaker 2: just this minute found in the library of the club
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  Speaker 2: murdered Trevy. Take me to the chess club at once.
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  Speaker 5: A month. Will you tell me why such an exclusive
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  Speaker 5: club's quartered in that dilapidated building.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they found a start of the club way down
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  Speaker 2: here by the waterfront years ago, when they and their
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  Speaker 2: careers were younger. O.
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  Speaker 5: Why haven't they ever moved?
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  Speaker 2: For sentimental reasons? It's one of the currents of friction
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  Speaker 2: that started the feud. The younger element wants a new
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  Speaker 2: modern clubhouse.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't blame them.
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  Speaker 2: I can hear, Margo. I guess the elevator's upstairs have
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  Speaker 2: to ring for it?
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  Speaker 5: Is that little wire cage in elevator shaft? Yes, it
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  Speaker 5: looks like one of those cash carriers that used to
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  Speaker 5: have in department stores.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, here he comes.
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  Speaker 5: Who runs it? Diamond Jim Brady.
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  Speaker 2: No, Margo and Lilian Russell is not our hot taker.
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  Speaker 4: Blame that dog.
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  Speaker 2: Probably in the elevator belonged Old Land is the operator. Evening,
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  Speaker 2: Mister Evening, Andy, Hello, man, Blankie Blacky Quaiet.
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  Speaker 4: It's all right man, he won't have me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm just not very friendly with strangers, Margot.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you heard about what happened mister Crampton.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I have Andy is commissioned Western upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: No, sir, the police haven't arrived yet. You see the
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  Speaker 4: body who was just found a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 5: But how did the news get out? We read a
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  Speaker 5: book and reporting them right own That news sign on
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  Speaker 5: the store building right.
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  Speaker 4: That was mister Packett's welcome man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how did Raymond Packer get the news out so fast?
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  Speaker 4: From his office upstairs in the club. He has a
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  Speaker 4: new fangled machine there that sends news right onto that sign.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see, go ahead into the elevator, quite blackie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, Andy, do they know who killed the judge?
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  Speaker 4: No, sir, and I don't think they're a the wheel.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 4: There are many hated judge Walker, many like me. You
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  Speaker 4: are glad that he's stayed.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't talk that way to the police if I
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  Speaker 2: were you, Andy, They might misunderstand.
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  Speaker 4: They can't pin anything on me. Watch your step, mister Clanston.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean, Andy, I mean getting out to
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  Speaker 4: the elevator.
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  Speaker 3: Ransom?
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  Speaker 2: Ransom? Oh hello Tanker, you are no miss Lane? Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: how I am. Where's the bunny in the library?
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Lathon, the medical examiner, was in the club and
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  Speaker 3: the judge was found dead. He's in there with him.
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  Speaker 2: Now, who discovered the murder? Flap it down? He found
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  Speaker 2: the judge seated in his usual chair. Bullet it pierce
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  Speaker 2: the temple? Obviously the killer used the silencer? Have you
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  Speaker 2: seen the corpsy? Sure? I even took pictures. That was
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  Speaker 2: very ethical.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, listen Krantz in his own of the stop well
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  Speaker 3: lit't I'm a newspaper man first last than always. Even
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  Speaker 3: though this is my club, my work is my first consideration.
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  Speaker 2: Where's Robert Dowd? Now in my office?
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  Speaker 3: Say you haven't seen my new setup here?
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  Speaker 2: Have you? You mean this news machine of yours?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, come on here, take a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Have you met rob it? Down? The playing Now? How
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  Speaker 2: do you do? How do you do, mister Doan? How
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  Speaker 2: do you do? Mister Quen? And I take a look
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  Speaker 2: at the setup, A wire service for from all the
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  Speaker 2: leading news agencies, A stock ticker and my pride and
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  Speaker 2: joy the news machines.
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  Speaker 5: I looks like a large tark pr.
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  Speaker 3: That's the baby I scooped the town with the murder starring.
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  Speaker 3: I typed it directly out of the news belt that
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  Speaker 3: encircles my building.
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  Speaker 2: Remarkable, And mister down, I understand you discovered Judge Walker's body. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's right. Do you know when he was last seen alive?
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  Speaker 2: Years about an hour ago. He's been playing chess with
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  Speaker 2: John Lord. I see he's launched inn in the club.
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  Speaker 2: I believe he is.
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  Speaker 3: He's not only in the club, but tomorrow morning he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be on the front page of my newspaper
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  Speaker 3: as well. Listen to my story for the morning edition.
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  Speaker 3: I had just dictated it into this machine.
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  Speaker 6: According to a statement made last night by Commissioner Weston,
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  Speaker 6: John Lord, who was the last person to see Jeddge
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  Speaker 6: Walker alive, will be held.
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  Speaker 2: For questioning by the police. Yes, Packer, you can't print
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  Speaker 2: a story like that. Why not miss it out? It's unfair.
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  Speaker 4: The Commissioner hasn't even arrived here yet.
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  Speaker 2: Why everyone in this club knows that Judge Walker and
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  Speaker 2: John Lord cordially hated each other, even though they still
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  Speaker 2: met over a chessboard. Does that justify your printing an
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  Speaker 2: accusation like that?
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  Speaker 3: It's news, isn't.
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  Speaker 4: It, Packa. You've got to crucify an old man just
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  Speaker 4: for an exclusive story.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm convinced that John Lord knows all about Judge
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  Speaker 3: Walker's death.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me. Oh, I know, Doctor Laython. Have you finished
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  Speaker 2: examining Judge Walker? Yes, Paca, what were you just saying
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  Speaker 2: about John Lord?
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  Speaker 3: I believe doctor Lathon that he's implicated in Judge Walker's death.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm afraid you're wrong. What do you mean, doctor
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  Speaker 2: John Lord, who has just found dead, stabbed through the heart.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that was a highly informative session of the month. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: two men murdered, and anyone of fifty club members could
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  Speaker 5: have committed the crime.
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  Speaker 2: Makes that fifty one? Margo? Why what do you mean,
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  Speaker 2: Old Andy? The elevator man is el that list?
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  Speaker 5: Maman? Do you seriously suspect Annie being the murderer?
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  Speaker 2: I can answer that, Mogo until later on this evening.
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  Speaker 5: What's going happen? Then?
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  Speaker 2: I'm planning to pay a call on the old Man.
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  Speaker 2: I shall visit him as the Shadow. Lackey, what's the mat?
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  Speaker 5: Boy?
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  Speaker 4: What is it? Why you grading be quiet?
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  Speaker 2: Blackie? What was that? Who laughed? I think you've heard
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  Speaker 2: of me? Old man?
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  Speaker 4: Who's speaking? I can you see anyone? I am called
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  Speaker 4: the Shadow, the Shadow, the man who is invisible?
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  Speaker 2: That's right?
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing here? Why? How you come to
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  Speaker 4: see me?
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  Speaker 2: I am seeking information? Information about the men who were
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  Speaker 2: murdered in the club upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Why how you come to me.
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  Speaker 2: Because I believe that you were implicated in the crime.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's not true.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't like Judge Walker, did you?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't. Judge Walker had tried many times to have
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  Speaker 4: me discharge from my job, was always bothering me. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I'd willingly have killed him if i'd had the nerve,
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  Speaker 4: but I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the police would believe that story?
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  Speaker 4: No? I guess not. But if I were the murderer,
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  Speaker 4: do you think of the taking John Lorren's life? Two?
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  Speaker 4: He was a fine man, a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way of proving that friendship.
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  Speaker 4: Now, look, mister Shadow, if you'll only believe me, perhaps
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  Speaker 4: I can be of help. Oh you've heard the expression
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  Speaker 4: dead men tell no tales. Yes, well, dead men do
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  Speaker 4: tell tales, mister Shadow. There's something in Judge Walker's passed
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  Speaker 4: that proofs they're saying, what do you mean? I can't
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  Speaker 4: tell anymore? It's up to you to learn the answer.
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  Speaker 2: See here, old man, If you're talking in riddles, just
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  Speaker 2: a divert suspicion from yourself, you're making a great mistake.
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  Speaker 2: I'm warning you right now until time the murderer of
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  Speaker 2: Judge Walker and John Lord will be brought to justice
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  Speaker 2: by the Shadow. More from the Shadow in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: But first, remember the old thing, an apple the day
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  Speaker 3: keeps the doctor away. Well, nowadays there's a new saying,
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  Speaker 3: the blue coal way keeps the doctor away. And that's
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  Speaker 3: not the least bit surprising either. For a blue coal
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  Speaker 3: is America's finest hard coal, specially prepared for low cost,
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  Speaker 3: convenient home heating. It distributes a steady flow of uniform,
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  Speaker 3: healthful heat from cellar to attics. Yes, and even burning
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  Speaker 3: long lasting blue coal fire in your furnace is your
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  Speaker 3: best safeguard against winter coal caused by drafty floors and
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  Speaker 3: chilly underheated rooms.
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  Speaker 2: So keep the doctor away, the blue coal away.
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  Speaker 3: And when you phone in your order, be sure to
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: ask your dealer about a blue coal heat regulator.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be happy to give.
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  Speaker 3: You a free demonstration of this efficient modern thermostat that
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: opens and closes dappers automatically and saves you money by
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: saving fuel. His name is listed in the where Tobias
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  Speaker 3: section of your classified telephone directory under the words blue coal,
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  Speaker 3: consider health, economy, and comfort phone your neighborhood, blue coal
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  Speaker 3: dealer tomorrow and now.
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  Speaker 2: We return to our drama. You stay in the shadow
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  Speaker 2: of this hedge until we reach the house Morrow.
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  Speaker 5: Is there anyone living here now, Lamon?
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe so, did walk ahead? No family live
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  Speaker 2: here alone?
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  Speaker 5: What if there's a watchman? What is it you're looking
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  Speaker 5: for here?
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  Speaker 2: Lamonth I the slightest idea, Margo, This whole thing may
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  Speaker 2: be a wild goose chase.
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  Speaker 5: Then we're here because old and it remarked that you
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  Speaker 5: should look for something in Judge Walker's.
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  Speaker 2: Pad exactly, and that's quite an assignment, believe me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Lamark, do you know anything about the house?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, I've been here several times. I'm looking for
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  Speaker 2: the Judge's study. That's where he kept all his private papers.
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  Speaker 2: What if you do quiet?
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  Speaker 5: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Look inside the room? Someone there? See the beams of
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  Speaker 2: a flashlight. Yes, you'd better wait out here, Margo. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going inside and confront our fellow marauder as the shadow. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is it? Who is that?
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  Speaker 5: Life?
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  Speaker 2: I did? Mister Packer, I don't see me?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, oh, I believe I know who is here.
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  Speaker 2: It's the shadow, isn't it. That's correct, mister Packer.
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  Speaker 3: I had a hunch you'd busting.
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  Speaker 2: On this case. Just what are you holding behind your backpacker?
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  Speaker 2: Why it's just a book, that's all a book. May
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  Speaker 2: I see it?
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  Speaker 5: Please?
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  Speaker 3: Why? What interest would you have in it?
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  Speaker 2: The same interest that you have, Packer? I believe that
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  Speaker 2: we came here seeking the same objective, and that objective
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  Speaker 2: can only be that book. Why is it so precious
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  Speaker 2: to you? It's just a book that I wanted to read.
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  Speaker 2: So you came here in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 2: to the house of a murdered man to borrow it?
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  Speaker 2: Is that it? Yes, that's my story. Can you think
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  Speaker 2: of a better one? A much better one? One that
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  Speaker 2: implicates you and the murders of Judge Walker and John Law?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, you're shooting in the dark now, Shadow?
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  Speaker 2: Then how else can you explain your presence here? Lion
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  Speaker 2: of duty?
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  Speaker 3: I am a newspaper man, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, yes, and I also know that you stop but
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  Speaker 2: nothing to manufacture a good story, even murder. You have
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  Speaker 2: a tough proving that, yes, but perhaps possessing that would help.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you can't have that now?
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  Speaker 2: Would I do? Have it? Mister Packer? And I intend
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  Speaker 2: to keep it.
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  Speaker 3: I see you think you're pretty clever, aduncter Shadow. Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me put you straight on one thing. Much that
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  Speaker 3: I didn't kill Judge Walker or John Lord either. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to beat you at your own game. I
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  Speaker 3: am going to discover them murder before you do. And
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  Speaker 3: when I do, I'll tell my readers just who I outwitted.
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  Speaker 2: To get the story he is. Good night, mister Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: You have to work fast, Packer, very fast. Mogo Boggle,
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  Speaker 2: are you out there? Yes?
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  Speaker 5: What is it? Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: I think I've discovered our clue. What is this book?
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  Speaker 2: I'll hand it down to you all right.
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  Speaker 5: Murder on a Debt by Harold Walker.
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  Speaker 2: That's Judge Walker, Monto. He wrote this book many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: a mystery novel. I suppose there's no tying it in
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  Speaker 2: with the Judge's death until we read its contents. One thing, though,
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  Speaker 2: Old and He may have been telling the truth when
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  Speaker 2: he said dead men do tell tales. And he is
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  Speaker 2: mister Packer in his office he did he work here?
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  Speaker 2: We are thank you Andy. Good evening, mister Cranston. Oh,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: good evening, Doctor Latham working for a game. No thanks,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to see Raymond Packer. Oh, he's in his office.
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  Speaker 2: I heard him talking into the dictaphone a while back.
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  Speaker 2: Anything turn up on the murders, Doctor, as the commissioner discovered,
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  Speaker 2: any clues, No, I'm afraid not. You know, as medical examinator,
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  Speaker 2: I've been on many medic caases, and usually the killer
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  Speaker 2: makes one mistake that gives him away. This chap seems
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  Speaker 2: to evolve the perfect crime. I wouldn't be too sure
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  Speaker 2: of that, doctor. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to see Packer. It sounds like pack is too hard
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  Speaker 2: at work. Perhaps I listen Dolton. Isn't he repeating the
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  Speaker 2: same phrase over and over? Yes? Sounds that right. That
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  Speaker 2: isn't Packer at all. It's his dictophone machine. What can
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  Speaker 2: be wrong? I don't know, but I think we should
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: find out Packer. Good Heaven jumped over the desk. Packer, Packer,
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid he is dead, mister Cram. Here's a stab
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  Speaker 2: wound through the heart, the same way John Lord was killed.
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  Speaker 2: No sign of the killer's weapon. Wait, doctulatum. I have
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  Speaker 2: an idea of that machine, that dictophone. He must have
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  Speaker 2: been speaking into it just before he died. Yes, let's
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  Speaker 2: play the record back. It may contain a clue. You're
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  Speaker 2: right now, let's see on the here's a cut right here.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the police have been furitolessly coming the town for
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  Speaker 6: the perpetrator the double murder at the chess club. Your
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  Speaker 6: editor has uncovered a flu that should lead to the
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  Speaker 6: solving of the crime.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is.
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  Speaker 6: I advise the police to learn the nature of the
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  Speaker 6: bet between Robert Dowd and the bet between.
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  Speaker 2: Robert that I wonder who the other person was, the
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: one he was about to mention. Yes, I have a feeling,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: doctor Latham that the unnamed person is the murderer. How
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: about Robert Dowden, He is mixed up in a tool.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I think it would be worth paying a call on
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: him at once. Yes, go ahead, I'll notify Western. Good
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: luck Cranston. Is mister Robert Dowd in his apartment? Lease,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I'll ring and find out.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I just remembered the court he's in.
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  Speaker 2: Another caller just left there. Oh well, thank you. Careful
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  Speaker 2: of your glass, mister Dowd. Who's there?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I think no one?
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Who are you? I believe you might know me as
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the shadow the shadow? Yes, yes, I know you, at
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: least my reputation. Then you know that I'm here to
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: learn about the double murder at the chess club. Why
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: do you visit me because you have been a party
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: to those murders. You're crazy. Perhaps I should remind you
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: of a certain bet that you made. Does that profess
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: your memory? Does it? No? No? I bet that employed
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: human lives as a stake. I have proof of this
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: cold blooded wager, mister doubt. I don't know what you're
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: talking about. Oh, I see you've been warned or remain silent,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: perhaps by the caller who was just here.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I had no caller.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: You're lying. Those two drinks on your desk, your visit
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a cigarette are still smoldering. This visitor was a man
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: you made the wager with, wasn't he. I'm not going
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: to stay a thing. I'd advise you to change your
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: mind on that score, because you yourself may be the
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: next victim.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: You are just getting You don't know what you're saying.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I'll prove to you that I do. You made a
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: bet with this person that he couldn't get away with murder.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: This plan of murder that your friend followed was taking
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: from a book that was written years ago by judge
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Walker a book called Murder on a Bet. So far,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: he's fond of the storyline. Exactly. You didn't know this,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: did you? No? No, Well for your information, Robert down.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: The next chapter in this bloody volume is one not
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: yet re enacted, but it deals with the killing of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the man who waged with the murderer. Now, will you
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: admit that you made this bet? Yes, yes, I I
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: did make it. But when I made it, I never
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: thought that you were serious.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I thought it was a joke. Believe me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Then, when the killing was started, I was afraid to
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: tell the police, afraid that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I would be.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I would be done for some other. My breath, I
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: can't get my breath that drink of yours. Something's been
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: put into with Yes, yes, that must be it your call?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: It did? That does silence you, mister dog, just as
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I said he would. I can't breathe Who was this
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: called a dog? Tell me who the murderer is?
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: All right? All right?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: He yes?
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Yes, don't don't. He's dead.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Come on, just one more fight to the chess club.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I wonder why Andy didn't answer.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: The elevator brother, That's what I want to find out.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Another chapter in the book has been played.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I hope not here. We are all right? Come on
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: in maggo come the light? Yes, Andy, Andy? Where are
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: you Andy? Why don't you? Oh? Margo, Margo? What what happened?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: I don't know? Hey, what's that?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Someone's just thrown a very bright light in our eyes?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Who's holding the flashlight?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I can't see beyond the beam of light? I wait
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: him in Maga. That's a hand reaching out into the light.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's holding out a piece of paper.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I believe we're supposed to take it. Is that right?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Is this a message for us to read?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: He doesn't want to play with this lam.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: But he's obligingly putting it in my lap. Well, listen
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: to this. MARKO, Your captor, who is covering you both
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: with a revolver, prefers to remain unknown for the present.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Watch this paper carefully. It is chemically treated. In just
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: a moment it will burst into flames that like.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: The paper they dropped from warplanes to cause incendiary fires.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: What the object in is you?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Listen to the rest of they shall find out. At
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the moment this paper ignites, a hundred such pieces of
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: paper will ignite in the basement of this building. A
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: few minutes after that the building will be a rowing inferno.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Mark, could such a thing happen?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm afraid so although I oh, oh, a murderer
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: is taking back his slip of paper.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Yes, and look look at hatfirst into flame.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yes. So, now our situation is this downstairs, at this
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: very moment, the building has caught fire. Soon the smoke
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: and flames will be swirling up the elevator shaft. And
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: we are being held in Raymond Packer's office by a
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: person who is not only our captor, but the perpetrator
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: of the Chess Club murders. Isn't that right, murderer? Oh,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: won't you at least speak to us?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I see one tap is no two taps? Yes? Is
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that right? Well tell me, murderer. You are the man
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: who bet you could get away with murder, aren't you.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You waged with Robert Dowd that no one could catch
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: you if you decided to kill, right, you'll followed the
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: pattern of Judge Walker's book, which ironically enough made him
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the first victim, and then you killed the others in
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the same pattern withy Lamont. Do you know, yes, I
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: believe I do. I believe that the murderer is doctor Latham.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Excellent deduction, mister Cranston, excellent, You made your discovery too late.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Com you smell of smoke.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, fires coming up the shadow. Flames will soon reach
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: this room here. Time is growing very short. I see,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: doctor Latham, that you have even chosen to reenact the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: final chapter. The killer is taking his own life in
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: a burning building.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: That's right choking me.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: What are you writing on that side? Prid A. Cranston?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Just my ABC's doctor nervous habit of mine. Whenever I'm
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: in a tight spot, I'll stop it. Do you wouldn't
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: begrudge a man who's about to die little pleasure, would
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: you have it? I say, oh, very well, that's father. Now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: how did you discover my identity, Grandsman. Well, Andy gave
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: me the first clue. He told me of overhearing a
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: discussion of the book Murder on a bed between you
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: and Judge Walker. I see that was very careless of me.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Old Andy has paid for his revelation.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: What do you mean it was.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Necessary for me to kill him too?
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Oh you're mad, doctor mad.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I was just following the plan of the book, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: that's why you took Robert Dodd's life too. Yes, Doud
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: is a very timid man. I was afraid he might
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: welch on our way to smoke. You have it much
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: longer to supper, young lady. Soon we shall all be
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: wrapped in flames. You might be mistaken about that doctor.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: How you recall telling me here earlier this evening that
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: a killer usually makes one mistake? Yes, but I haven't.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: How do you mean you have made a mistake, A
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: very simple mistake, as.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Simple as ABC.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I'm referring to the ABC's
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: that I wrote on this machine that you thought was
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: a typewriter, but in reality it's Raymond Packers news machine. No. Now, yes,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: and George Gill has been read by thousands of people
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: on that sign on the Star building. You and now
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I'll take the gun. Doctor here we are you You
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: think you'll kick me Down't you you think you'll gain
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the up ahead? I do. Listen you hear those tirens.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Help will soon be here. I won't get me. They
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: won't get me.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Your here?
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: What you doing?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Come back? Don't come back.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: We're going out the window.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Lamar Oh no, macle We're gonna get out of this trap.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: We better try to meet our rescuers halfway.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Leman to think that all those things could happen at
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: a chess club.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I always told you, dedn't I that it was a
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: very exciting game.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Exciting it's a killer.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: We'll hear from the Shadow again in just a moment,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: but first we present John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Mister Barclay, Thank.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: You, Ken Robertson good evening, friends. These are certainly busy
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: days for your neighborhood blue coal dealer. Yes, around this
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: time of year, he's really got his hands full. But
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: no matter how much he has to do, your blue
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: coal dealer is never too busy to give his personal
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: attention to your individual heating problem. You see, your friendly
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: blue coal dealer is different from an ordinary coal man
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: in most communities, he's an institution. His office is a
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: regular clearinghouse for free information on low cost home heating.
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: You'll find him pleasant to deal with too, And besides,
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: he's dependable even in.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: The worst weather.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Your blue coal dealer never falls down on the job.
• 28:06
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• 28:15
  Speaker 8: be of assistance by helping solve any heating problem for you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: His John Barkley trained serviceman will inspect your furnace and
• 28:23
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• 28:27
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• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Shadow magazine, but character's names, places and plot, authoricians, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: a similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Now,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: fresh from the records of King's County Court, will bring
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: you conclusive proof that crime does not Pay. Brooklyn, New York,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: February first, George Zight shoots and kills Irving alias Matty
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Muskowitz in barbershaw crime murder in the first degree.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Brooklyn, New York, February nineteenth. George Zeits sentenced fight County
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Judge Samuel S. Lebowitz to death in the electric chair
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: at State's Prison. During the week of March thirty first.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Crime does not Pay. The Shadow nos.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, The Blue Coal Dealers
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: of America bring you an adventure of the Shadow that
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: will amaze and astound you where it's daring dramatic action,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: So be sure to listen and be sure to phone
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: your friendly blue coal dealer for greater heating comfort at
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• 29:56
  Speaker 1: We close with the Shadow and the Chess Club murders.
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