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The Shadow - "Murder by a Corpse" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Near Mason City, Claire Bentley tells Lamont Cranston and Margo
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Lane that a man believed dead has returned to kill her.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: That report sets the case in motion in the shadow.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Murder by a Corpse, episode 458. Heard on Mutual on
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: October 31st, 1948. Cranston and Lane follow the trail to
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Mount Cleardale Cemetery, an empty metal box, and the private
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Mancheck Sanitarium, where a distinctive shoe and stolen securities enter
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: the inquiry. Brett Morrison appears as Lamont Cranston and the Shadow,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane. Edward J. Adamson wrote
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: the script. And now, our story begins.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil.
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: Lurks in the hearts of men?
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Shadow knows.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: Motorists, you know what type of automobile accident often happens
• 1:27
  Speaker 4: at night on a good road in fair weather, which
• 1:30
  Speaker 4: may happen when your car is the only car in
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  Speaker 4: the vicinity, which is very likely to result in death
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: or crippling injuries to the driver.
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  Speaker 2: And which, unlike most accidents, has.
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: Usually tipped you off as to what may happen? The
• 1:43
  Speaker 4: answer to this question, given by the National Safety Council,
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: which is currently conducting.
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  Speaker 5: A campaign against night traffic accidents, is this.
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: The driver simply falls asleep at the wheel. And the
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: answer to this accident problem is simply this. Don't drive
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: while you're sleepy. If you must drive at night, stop
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: for some sleep when you feel.
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  Speaker 2: That drowsy spell coming on.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let this very violent type of accident sneak up
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  Speaker 4: on you in the dark. Don't let tragedy catch you
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  Speaker 4: asleep at the wheel. Drive carefully... And now, The Shadow.
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: The Shadow, who aids.
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  Speaker 4: The forces of law and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 4: wealthy young man about town. Years ago in the Orient,
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  Speaker 4: Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret, the hypnotic power
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him. Cranston's
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  Speaker 4: friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the only
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible
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  Speaker 4: shadow belongs. Today's drama, Murder by a Corpse. The doctor
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  Speaker 4: and the nurse walk through the white silence of the
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  Speaker 4: sanitarium corridor and stop before the door of room seven.
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  Speaker 4: The doctor peers through the small glass panel in the
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  Speaker 4: face of the door and nods to the attendant inside.
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  Speaker 4: The door is unlocked, opened, and the doctor and nurse
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  Speaker 4: walk in.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, Dr. Manchek. Good morning, Rossi. How's our new patient, Mr. Holden?
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  Speaker 5: We had a tough time with him in the ambulance
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  Speaker 5: last night. Dr. Adams had to give him a shot.
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  Speaker 7: Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Adams, reports on the case is on your desk, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Madsen.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I saw it, Miss Wagner.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holden, I'm Dr. Karl Manchak, chief of this institution.
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  Speaker 2: You're lying.
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  Speaker 6: You hear me?
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  Speaker 2: You're lying. You're lying.
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  Speaker 6: You're in with the rest of them. I'm not crazy.
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  Speaker 6: This is a trick. You're a spy like the rest
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  Speaker 6: of them.
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  Speaker 5: Same line all the time, Doc.
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  Speaker 6: You can't fool me with that doctor act. I know
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  Speaker 6: who you are. You're one of his spies, too. I know.
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  Speaker 5: Spies. Same talk all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Typical manic-depressive fear fantasy. Miss Wagner?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Tell Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Adams I wish to see him in my office. I'll
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  Speaker 8: be there when I finish examining the new patient.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Mansfield.
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  Speaker 6: You're lying. You're in with the rest of them. I'm
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  Speaker 6: not crazy. This is a trick. How was I, Doc?
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  Speaker 6: You were quite excellent, Eddie. I know who you are.
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  Speaker 6: You're all spies, all of you. How'd you like it, Sid?
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  Speaker 9: Terrific, Eddie.
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  Speaker 6: You were terrific. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask the Doc here.
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  Speaker 6: He'll tell you the Doc's an expert. He'll tell anybody
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  Speaker 6: that Eddie Holden blew his top. Severe paranoia, Eddie.
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  Speaker 9: See, Sid?
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  Speaker 6: Paranoia.
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  Speaker 2: Paranoia. That's what the experts say.
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  Speaker 6: So severe, they've got to watch me night and day.
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  Speaker 2: And who do they happen to pick out to do
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  Speaker 2: the watching?
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  Speaker 6: Nobody but Sid Rossi. Neat setup, huh?
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  Speaker 10: Doc, you worked it out like a man.
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  Speaker 6: Naturally, I specialize in cases like yours, Eddie. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 6: was a lucky day I made the contact with Sid.
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  Speaker 2: I won't forget you two for this.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you can be sure we'll keep your memory quite refreshed.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A $ 50, 000 bundle is something to remember, ain't it, Doc?
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  Speaker 6: Don't worry, he'll get you, Sheriff. The doctor, did the
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: telegram work? Perfectly. Fenty left on the 815 train. How
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  Speaker 6: about his wife, Claire? She remained, just as you said
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  Speaker 6: she would.
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  Speaker 5: Eddie, are you sure Claire knows where the bonds are ditched?
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  Speaker 6: Of course she knows. Well, everything set for tonight?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, all set. I let you out the fire door
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  Speaker 9: at the end of the hall. You just got to
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  Speaker 9: cut across the lawn to the rear gate.
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  Speaker 6: I'll see that the gate is left unlocked.
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  Speaker 5: I cover up for you here so as no one
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  Speaker 5: gets wise while you're out.
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  Speaker 6: The lead pipe said, Jenny. But remember, you must return
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  Speaker 6: before daylight.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, I'll be back. Now, uh, we're going, huh?
• 6:03
  Speaker 6: Here you are.
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  Speaker 9: Eddie, you didn't tell us how.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to handle that Bentley thing.
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  Speaker 6: It all depends.
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  Speaker 4: It all depends on how much Claire Bentley is afraid
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  Speaker 4: of a ghost.
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  Speaker 3: Eight-twenty.
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  Speaker 7: Ted and Earl will be awfully worried about us, Lamont.
• 6:33
  Speaker 7: We're over an hour late now.
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  Speaker 2: Margo, I don't know what made me turn onto this road.
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  Speaker 6: From now on, no more shortcuts. Don't look now, but
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  Speaker 6: your sense of direction is slipping.
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  Speaker 2: Margo, you're a front-seat driver. Oh, it's a new rainstorm
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  Speaker 2: that blows no road sign.
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  Speaker 6: Lamont, what are you.
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  Speaker 2: That fork in the road ahead, there's a signpost. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank heaven. Mason City, ten miles. That's to the right.
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  Speaker 2: Mount Cleardale Cemetery, two miles to the left. Margo, I
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: leave the choice to you.
• 7:00
  Speaker 6: To the right, of course.
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  Speaker 2: When we get to Mason City, we'll call Nora.
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  Speaker 6: Mark, that car coming down the road.
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  Speaker 2: Get it straight for us.
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  Speaker 6: I'd rather pull over.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, look out!
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  Speaker 6: Margo, are you all right? Yes.
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  Speaker 5: You sure?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just shaking. Come on, we'll see how they are
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: on the other car. I was lucky I was able
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  Speaker 2: to pull away in time, otherwise our destination would have
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: automatically been changed from Mason City to Mount Cleardale Cemetery.
• 7:27
  Speaker 7: Well, Lamar, look.
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  Speaker 2: It's a woman.
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  Speaker 6: Not conscious.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably just the socks. Here's her bag. She didn't
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: find any identification. She's coming to. Her driver's license is
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: in the bag.
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  Speaker 6: This is Claire Bentley, 14 Crown Street, Grandview.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs. Bentley.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs. Bentley.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 7:49
  Speaker 6: You were in an accident, Mrs. Bentley. Oh, please. Please,
• 7:54
  Speaker 6: you've got to save me from him. The ghost, he's
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  Speaker 6: going to kill me.
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  Speaker 2: He's come back from the.
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  Speaker 6: Dead and he's going to kill me.
• 7:58
  Speaker 5: You'd better get into a doctor's room.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not crazy.
• 8:00
  Speaker 6: You've got to believe me. I know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the backseat. Now, Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Bentley, you mustn't excite yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But I tell you, he's in the backseat. There's nothing
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  Speaker 2: back there, Mrs. Bentley, but a pick and shovel. Look.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Dad, the woods. The ghost, he's in the woods.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Margo.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, where are you going?
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: Into those woods. This is bad.
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  Speaker 6: It's a strange thing, but obviously not in the right mind.
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  Speaker 6: Neither am I, Margo. What?
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  Speaker 2: That lightning flashed a moment ago. I was seeing ghosts, too.
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  Speaker 6: It's not a sign of anything, Lamont.
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  Speaker 7: We've covered the woods all the way back to his tree.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised he got away. It was a very
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  Speaker 2: live ghost we're chasing.
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  Speaker 6: Live ghost?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look. The shoe. Where'd you find it? Near the stream.
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  Speaker 6: It fits some newly made footprints.
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  Speaker 2: I found. There's no lace in the shoe. Yes, I
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: wondered about that, too.
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  Speaker 6: I will look into the shoe later, after we have
• 9:00
  Speaker 6: a talk with Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Bentley.
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  Speaker 6: What is it, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we won't have that talk with Mrs. Bentley after all.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Margaret, over there on the road. Her car is gone.
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  Speaker 7: Your hunch was right, Lamont.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs. Bentley must be in the cemetery.
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  Speaker 2: That was her car parked outside. Yes, that pick and
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  Speaker 2: shovel of the rear of her car gave me the idea. Wait.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: What is it? Play off the crest of the hill. Mrs. Bentley.
• 9:36
  Speaker 6: You were right, Lamont.
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  Speaker 5: She's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. Shadows along this line of trees will cover us.
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  Speaker 6: As quietly as you can, Margo.
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  Speaker 3: We're almost to her. Hello, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Bentley.
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  Speaker 6: How did you get here?
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  Speaker 2: You didn't leave any forwarding address, so I followed a hunch.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Mrs. Bentley, let's have it. What's this all about?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, please.
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  Speaker 6: Please don't ask me.
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  Speaker 2: What is it you're trying to.
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  Speaker 6: bury? Nothing.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 6: Believe me. You're a difficult person to believe. Mark, look.
• 10:05
  Speaker 6: Behind her on the ground, that metal box. Yes. No.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 7: Don't touch that box.
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: Give it to me.
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: Please.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be glad to after I see what's in it.
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  Speaker 6: No. No, I beg you. Don't open it.
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  Speaker 8: Please don't.
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: Quick, Mark.
• 10:15
  Speaker 6: I'll get down.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's all the shooting for now, Margo.
• 10:24
  Speaker 6: Get up.
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: That shot, Lamont. Where did it come from?
• 10:28
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: But it hit its mark.
• 10:31
  Speaker 6: Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Benson.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: She's dead?
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: Very.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: But why was she killed?
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  Speaker 6: Probably because of this metal box and what's in it.
• 10:43
  Speaker 7: What could be in it?
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: Well, look.
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  Speaker 6: What's in there, Lamont? Let me see.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Nothing to see, Margo.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: What? Box is empty.
• 11:06
  Speaker 9: I got you a new shoe out of the supply room, Eddie.
• 11:08
  Speaker 9: Did they ask any questions when they gave it to you?
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  Speaker 9: Gave it to me, you crazy? I had to hook it. Man,
• 11:14
  Speaker 9: check's supposed to run this place.
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: On the up and up.
• 11:17
  Speaker 6: How'd you lose it, anyway?
• 11:19
  Speaker 10: I told you, when those two chased me into the woods,
• 11:21
  Speaker 10: that crab played it smart, but the next time.
• 11:25
  Speaker 5: Ah, it's Doc.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Sid.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Doc.
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: I see our patient has improved considerably in such a
• 11:35
  Speaker 6: short time.
• 11:35
  Speaker 8: The marvels of modern medical science.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about, Dad?
• 11:41
  Speaker 6: You're released from that sanitarium? Released? Of course, Sid, of course.
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: From all I can see, our patient is completely cured.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: Cured?
• 11:48
  Speaker 6: You have the bonds. There's nothing more for us to... Bonds?
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: Come on, Dad, come on. What are you giving us?
• 11:53
  Speaker 6: Well, didn't Eddie tell you, Sid?
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: The bonds.
• 11:56
  Speaker 6: The bonds for which he killed Claire Bentley. Killed her?
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: Claire's dead?
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: Now, Eddie....
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, hey, what goes on here?
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: You've given me, Doc.
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: See, then, I might ask you the same question, Eddie.
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  Speaker 2: According to the.
• 12:12
  Speaker 8: Morning papers, Sid, Claire Bentley was murdered last night at
• 12:15
  Speaker 8: Mount Cleardale Cemetery. The papers also told about a metal
• 12:19
  Speaker 8: box she had dug from a grave.
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  Speaker 6: The box was empty.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: The box? They were in that box?
• 12:25
  Speaker 6: Yes. That's what I surmised.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: Where are they, Eddie?
• 12:31
  Speaker 6: I don't know anything about it, Doc. Would I be
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: stupid enough to come back here if I did?
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: He's got something there, Doc.
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: Then you didn't kill her?
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: Are you crazy?
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: I just wanted to put a scare into her. I
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: wanted her to lead me to the hiding place.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: Doc.
• 12:46
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: You say she's dead.
• 12:50
  Speaker 6: I didn't kill her. Go ahead. Well, don't you see
• 12:53
  Speaker 6: something's wrong?
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: This is crazy.
• 12:55
  Speaker 6: If I didn't kill her, Doc, then who dead?
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: Who dead?
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: Dead.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: We'll return to the shadow in just a minute.
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: Somebody once said this in fun, but it was nearer
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: to the truth than he thought. The election polls, he said,
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: are places where you stand in line for a chance
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: to decide who will spend your money. It really amounts
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: to that, doesn't it? That and a great deal more.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: For not only do you stand in line for a
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: chance to decide who will spend your money, but who
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: will keep the peace or make war. And who will
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: make you a slave or keep you free. That's why
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: it's so important, this year more than ever, that you
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: give a lot of thought to your right to vote.
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: Make it your business to know more about the men
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: you vote for, and then let your common sense guide you.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: For if the wrong men guide our destiny, even our.
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  Speaker 2: Right to vote may be taken away. It happened in
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: other countries. It could easily happen here.
• 14:11
  Speaker 6: America.
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: from the tiniest village on up to the White House,
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: is built on the ballot and forced by the ballot.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: Let's keep it that way. Guard your freedom by using
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: your right to vote. For remember, freedom is everybody's job.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: In a moonlit cemetery in the presence of Margot and Lamont,
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Claire Bentley.
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  Speaker 6: Was murdered by an unseen killer.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Now Lamont and Margot are interviewing the dead woman's husband,
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Ralph Bentley.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Mr. Bentley, we realize the news of your wife's death
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: must have been a terrible shock to you. I... I
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: can't believe it.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: I just can't. We won't take up much of your time, Mr.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: Bentley.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Just a few questions. It's all right. There isn't much
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I can tell you, but I want to help all
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: I can. I can't understand.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Who could have done it?
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Claire had no enemies.
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: Not you know of.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Does the empty steel box mean anything to you, Mr.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Bentley?
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: No.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: When we first met your wife, she said her life
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: was threatened by a ghost. Someone who'd come back from
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: the dead.
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: I don't understand any of it. It's all so strange. Ghosts.
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: The wire I received.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: What wire? Telegram that came the night before last. It
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: was from my business agent. I was to meet him
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: at his hotel in Chicago last night. When I arrived
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: in Chicago, he told me he didn't send the wire.
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: Then Lamarck, Mr.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: Bentley, was tricked into leaving town.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: The reason's pretty obvious. Gave the killer a chance to
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: work on Hampton. Excuse me. Hello? Yes, he's here. Just
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: a moment.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: It's for you, Mr.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Cranston. Mr.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: Deegan.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I told him I'd be here. Hello, Steve.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: Fine.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, I see. Where is it? All right. Thanks very much, Steve.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Bentley, you've been very helpful. I wish I could have
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: told you more. If I think you can, I'll be
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: sure to call on you.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: Let's go, Margo.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Goodbye, Mr.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Bentley. Goodbye, Miss Lane.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: Lamont, why did we leave so quickly?
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: Aren't there more questions you wanted to ask Mr.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Ventress? There's lots more, but right now I'm more interested
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: in a place called the Manchek Sanitarium.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Manchek Sanitarium?
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Private mental hospital out on Western Avenue. I'd call with
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: some Steve Deegan, a friend of mine in the shoe business.
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: You had him check on that shoe we found in
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: the woods last night?
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: A quantity of the same type of shoe was recently
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: sold to the Manchek Sanitarium.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: Perhaps something interesting is.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Going on out there.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: Sid, I've been thinking about Claire's death. Something interesting.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Eddie.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: About Claire and the bonds. Manchek could have done it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: What?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Well, he was out all last night. You told me
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: so yourself.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: You mean the doc pulled a double cross on us?
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Possible.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Ah, go on.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: The doc knows better. He wouldn't cut any corners on
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Sid Rossi.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: It's worth thinking about, Sid. Yeah. Maybe I will think
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: about it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: What about tonight? Do you still want to go through
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: with it, Eddie?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I bet I do.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: I'm not finished yet, Sid. Not by a long shot.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: The supply room will check and call me right back, Mr.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Cranston.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: You're very helpful, Dr.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: Adams.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: You're sure this shoe is the sanitarium's property, Dr.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Adams?
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Cranston said when he found the shoe, it was without
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: a lace.
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: With our more serious cases, we are particularly careful that
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: nothing falls into their.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Hands which could be damaging to themselves or others.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. A shoelace could spell trouble in the
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: hands of violent patients.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Excuse me.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Adams? Oh, yes. Mm-hmm.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, Peters.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: That was the supply room clerk, Mr. Cranston.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: He reports a shoe like this, the same size, is
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: unaccounted for.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: And Lamont, that means the killer came from this sanitarium.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Get me Dr.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Mantrick, please.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Just a moment, Doctor. But I.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Please. I'd appreciate it if you'd keep our conversation a
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: secret for the time being. I'd like to work this
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: out my own way. Could you do me that favor?
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: All right, Mr.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Cranston. Anything you say.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I'll be in touch with you.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: You ready, Margo?
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Ready, yeah. Goodbye. Goodbye. Thanks, Doctor. What now, Lamont?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Now, Margo, I'm going to do some checking up on
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Claire Bentley's husband and go back and have a talk
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: with him.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: What makes you think he'll answer your question?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not asking the questions, Margo. I'm leaving that
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: to the shadow.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Who is it? Who's in this room? Who's laughing like that?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: It's the shadow, Bentley.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Shadow?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You're frightened, Bentley.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: What? Why are you here?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: A man with a clear conscience has no reason to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: be frightened.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: What?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: My conscience is clear.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Is it?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Have you told the truth about everything? About your wife's
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: first husband, for instance?
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: What?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: You didn't tell Cranston about Eddie Gleason and the $ 50, 000
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: in securities that were stolen from your firm three months ago.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: How did you know Claire was married to Gleeson?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: You didn't tell Cranston that Eddie Gleeson was killed when
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the warehouse he was hiding in exploded.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: That was all in the papers. The story was there
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: for anyone to read.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: That story is. But not the story later. The one
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: of your marriage to Eddie Gleeson's widow.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Claire didn't want anyone to know about it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: She was always afraid of Gleeson. Even after his death
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: and that explosion, he haunted her.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: That's why she was afraid of a ghost. It's the truth,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: I swear.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: It better be the truth, Bentley. If it isn't, you'll
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: regret it the next time the shadow returns.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Who is it?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Just a minute.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Hello, Bentley.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Hey.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Eddie. That's right, Bentley.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Eddie Gleeson. Only now it's Eddie Holden. No. You're dead. No,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: it's not you. You're dead.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: That's the way Claire took it, Bentley. Just like that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: I wanted to work on her first.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: That's why I sent you the wire.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: You sent it?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Claire.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: I thought she... I killed her because I... Go ahead, Bentley.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Finish it. You killed Claire because.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Thought it was a trick of Claire's to get me
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: out of town. I didn't go to Chicago.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I got off the train at the first stop and
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: came back.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: I took the bonds out of the box last month.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: I didn't tell Claire about it. And.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: And she was only trying to save them for me.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: I've been doing a little saving too, Bradley. Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: I was saving you for last. You thought you had
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: me finished in the explosion you set up, huh? But
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: I got out before it went off. And I'm here
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: to tell a story. Tell it to you.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Eddie, it wasn't my idea. No?
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: You and Claire were going to have a great time
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: with that $ 50, 000, weren't you?
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Weren't you? You can have the bonds, Eddie. You can
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: have them. Thanks, Bentley. I'll make sure to take them
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: after I finish with you. Eddie, don't do this. Don't
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: be a fool. If you kill me, you won't get
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: away with it. No?
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: I'm hiding out at a fancy institution, Bentley. And if
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: they do catch up with me, I get away with
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: this anyhow.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: I'm crazy. That's what the doc said. They don't hang crazy.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Men, Bentley. They just.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: They just let them sit around and laugh. Eddie, please!
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: You know I am laughing, Bentley. Don't do it, Eddie,
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: for heaven's sakes. Don't do it to me.
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: I'm laughing because what I'm going to do to you
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: is going to make me happy.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: This is going to make me happy as a lark.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Happy as a lark. Marco? Yes, Lamont? Bentley's dead. What?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I'm at his apartment now. I brought Commissioner Weston with me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: We found Bentley on the floor, shot to death.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Commissioner Weston? Why is he with you?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: With evidence I gave him, the commissioner was going to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: arrest Bentley for the murder of his wife. Margo, I
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: want you to stay at home and wait for me.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: What are you going to do, Lamar?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Among other things, track down a murderous corpse. Happy as
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: a lark.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: That's just how I felt, Doc, when I gave it
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: to Bentley.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: A lark.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: You should have heard him squeal for mercy. You should
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: have heard him. It was beautiful.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: These bonds are beautiful, too, Eddie.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Real pretty, Doc. Fifty thousand beautiful bucks.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: How about we make the split, then I get out
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: of here tomorrow, huh?
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: Eddie, you know I've been thinking this over. It's my
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: professional opinion that it would be unwise for you to
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: be released tomorrow.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: The doc's right, Eddie.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You're in a bad way, Eddie.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: You're much sicker than you realize.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Severe paranoia. Very severe.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Like the doc says, Eddie. You got a real bad.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Case of it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: What is this?
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: What are you two trying to pull? It's simple arithmetic, Eddie.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: 50,000 divided by two is much more attractive.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Than 50,000 divided by three.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Got it, Eddie?
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: The gun I'm holding is liable to go off. Go ahead, Doc.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: As I said before, Eddie, you're a very serious mental case.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, it's my practiced opinion that
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: you're incurably insane.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: With homicidal tendencies.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I'll get you.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: I'll get you both for this. See?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: There you are. Homicidal.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Real bad case. Eddie, we gotta keep you locked up
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: here all the time.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: The rest of your life.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Right here, in this room.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: You lousy, finagrant, double-crossing goons.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I won't let you get away with this. I'm not crazy. Now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: let me out of here.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Let me out.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: I tell you, let me out. A real homicidal maniac.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Too bad, eh, Sid?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: It's a shame.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Very amusing, isn't it, Dr. Manchek? Sid.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Doc, I hear a voice.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, Sid, a voice. The Shadow.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Shadow? Shadow.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Shadow, they were going to keep you here in this
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: room locked up for the rest of my life.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Don't listen to him.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: He's crazy.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: I'm not crazy, I tell you. It's a serious case.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Paranoia, I believe.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: He's not responsible. He's completely mad. I know what I'm saying.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: I'm a doctor.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: You mean you were a doctor, Manchek?
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Once?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Years ago, under the name of Stefan Kurtz?
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: What?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I know all about you. An Austrian psychiatrist who placed
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: money above medical ethics.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: The Doctor, Frank?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: You can stop acting, Sid. You know all about Manchek.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And I know about you, too. Sid Rossi, alias Sam Romar.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Small-time chiseler who found an easier way to fast money
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: by helping Manchek to use this sanitarium as a front
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: to shield fugitives from justice.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Now you can believe me. Now you know I'm not crazy.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: You help me get out of here, huh?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to help you, Eddie.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: See, Doc, I told you. I told you you wouldn't
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: get away with this.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: That's right. Not one of the three of you will
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: get away with it. Three? What?
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I heard everything that was said in here, including the
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: story you told to Manchac and Sid about how you
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: got the bonds and killed Bentley. And now all three
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: of you will pay for your crimes in full.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: I still don't understand what happened to Eddie Holden.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: In that explosion. Well, Eddie and his wife Claire worked
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: out a deal with Bentley to steal $ 50, 000 worth of
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: bonds by faking a warehouse explosion. Then Claire and Bentley
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: double-crossed Eddie, left him to die in the fire.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: But Eddie actually escaped and came back looking for the
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: money and revenge.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: And used the sanitarium as a hideout while he worked.
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: Very clever.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: But I still don't understand why Bentley killed his wife.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: When he received a fake telegram and then discovered her
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: burying that metal box in a cemetery, he thought she
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: was trying to steal the bonds from him.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: I see.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: And after all that, Manchek, Sid, and Eddie still asked
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: you to help them?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: They did, Margo, and I'm going to, but not in
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: the way they expected.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Ever complained about the way your country is being run?
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Ever objected to some of the laws?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Sure you have. We all have.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: It's part of the American scene to talk loud about
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: something we don't like.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Only trouble is, there's too much talking going on these days,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and it isn't all our own ideas. A lot of
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the ideas have been skillfully planted in our minds by
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: outside influences. You see, what's happening, people who are trying
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: to change our American way of life are doing it slyly,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: doing it in.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Such a way that we don't realize we're being tricked.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: But that's not all they're doing. They know that very
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: often when voting comes around, a lot of us are
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: too lazy or too busy to vote. And then they
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: have it where it really hurts. For their candidates, the
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: wrong men by American standards sometimes get elected. So let's
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: not let it happen anymore. This story is copyrighted by
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. All names and places are fictitious.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Listen again next week, same time, same station, when the
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: shadow will again demonstrate that the.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, we bring you another
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: strange and thrilling adventure in the Shadow's daring battle against
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: the forces of evil. The part of Lamont Cranston was
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: played by Brett Morrison.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Margo by Grace Matthews.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: This program came from New York.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Stay tuned now for Quick as a Flash. This is
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: This concludes our visit with the shadow in Murder by
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a Corpse. Follow the shadow for more classic broadcasts.