The Shadow: Murder By Rescue 12/11/1938

0:00Welcome to Choice Classic Radio, where we bring to the greatest old-time radio shows. Like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, and thank you for donating at choiceclassicradio.com. What evil looks in the hearts of men, the shadow knows.

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2:00The shadow, the serious character who aids those in distress, is in reality Le Manscranston, wealthy young man about town. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs. Today's story, murder by rescue. This son of a repressor just sounds like an automobile motor, but I must have more speed. Tell it all, Alan. All right. Very useful to have some sounds that is a bell or automobile to operate on the mines to help create the hypnotic state. God, if you take my advice. I dear wife, who is the expert scientist in this family? I am. Yes, but when you go to get business, a crisis nephew of yours, Warren will be 21 another month. Yes, even though my training has deliberately kept him almost entiled, Warren will soon be of age. If he lives, Alan. And if he does, he gets all his father's estate and will be peppered in living on his charity.

3:00You promise we'd get that mother. We will, my dear. Warren, unfortunately, will meet with a... So we say an accident? But where and where? Who, my dear? The Claude. Are you sure the 656 of yours will work? Yes, yes, I've not been a professor of psychology over 20 years for nothing. This experiment will be the greatest I've ever done. You've seen how Warren reacts to our little pornograph record of the car when we played for him? Will your experiment show how once and train the human mind? Yes, train it to do anything, Alan. Even die. Yes. My dear, we are trustees of my nephew's estate. We have the use of the money until he's of age. Now, if you were gotten rid of, in an awkward manner, the police might ask questions. But this way, no one will know. I suppose you're right. I must see Warren now. I was at the pornograph. Quick, you mustn't see the record. Yes. Yes. Come in. Hello, Warren. Alan? How are you, Warren dear? Fine, Alan. Going for your walk, my dear? I hope you're just warmly enough.

4:00Oh, I'm fine. Let's say, Uncle, can I take Jigsalong? The poor person cooped up in his 10-o'-omb morning. May I take him out? I can't just go. So, Warren? You won't go far? No, just around the corner. Oh, but I am. That's alright. Well, I'll go get you. Be careful, Warren darling. Yes, Alan. Bye. Bye, Warren. Come on, Claude. Let's get this air out. Hold on, no, it's me. He's a better off-set. And we'll be better off when he is. All the mob this air is wonderful. It's so good to get away from the city and out in the open air. Yes, isn't it, Marzo? That's why I keep my country home open all year round. Your mother won't just lovely estate you're crossing now. I believe it belongs to Professor Mitchell and his family. Look, the mob. There's a boy coming across the lawn. Yes, well, Spain has a fine-looking dog he has with him. Hello, puppy. Can I tell her? Oh, my goodness. Don't get back me. Oh, so your name is James A. He's a grand dog. He certainly is. He's clever too.

5:01You see, my uncle's given him a special train. Oh, you're uncle? Yes. Oh, maybe I'd better introduce myself. I'm Warren Mitchell. How do you do? This is Miss Lane. My name is Crenshaw. How do you do? How do you do? How do you do? I said you're a quad. You're the best, alright? I didn't realize you were holding something when I said she can do it, don't you? Well, it's just a picture of me. A miniature of my mother when she was a little girl. Oh, how lovely. She has beautiful red hair. Yes, she did. She did. Oh, I'm sorry. I always keep the miniature with me so I can take it out and look at her. And it depends. And the parade we're on your property. Well, that's alright. Anyway, it isn't mine. At least not for another month. You see, my uncle, Professor Crenshaw, Mitchell. He handles my estate. And next month? Then I'll be 21 and I can tow my own affairs. That'll give Uncle Croad more time for his psychology. Oh, that's what he's expecting us. He'll say he's good at it too. Oh, if you'd like to see something he taught you, who? For you. Alright, look.

6:01First I ring this little bell. Like his box where he rings it. No, he was trying to see. Alright, boy, here's your candy. Oh, I see. Every time he hears the bell, he knows that he's going to get candy. The box till he gets it. Does it work every time? Oh, yes, what? Ahem, ahem, ahem. You are, Jigs. Candy coming up. Here, your uncle should be congratulated on a successful experiment. What? What? Here's Uncle Croad now. What? What are you doing with that bell? Why, I was just playing with Jigs, Uncle. You have Jigs very well-conditioned, Professor. Condition? What do you know about conditioning? Well, I'm not an authority like yourself, Professor, but I... I know that when you train an animal to react to sound, the way Jigs react to the bell. It's called conditioning. Oh. Could you do something like that with human beings, Professor? Why, I... When doesn't the experiment with humans? Come on, we better get back to the house. Alright, Uncle. Good day, sir. Good day. Madam, goodbye, Mr. Coyote. Goodbye. Good bye. Good bye. Good bye. Good bye. Good bye.

7:01Come on, Jigs. Jigs. Yes, young man. I think you will see me again. Why, Lemon, what is it? Nothing, Margot. Just a feeling. A feeling that Professor Mitchell has been waiting for. A feeling that Professor Mitchell in spite of his words might not stop at experimenting with people's lives. So, how far are you parking here at the band in the road? I'm waiting for someone, Margot. Young, war on Mitchell. War on Mitchell? Yes, Margot. I've been investigating the boy's habits. And every night about this time, he takes a walk around as a state. You want to see him, Lemon? Yes, and talk to him. Well, that is Uncle Aram. He's such an odd boy. He's so young for a day. But very nice. Look, Lemon. There's someone coming now, walking along the cattle road. There might be Warren for Salma Horn. War on.

8:01He's Warren, Mitchell. Yes. Lemon Crenston Warren. War on. Hello, Mr. Crenston. I'm Miss Lang. Uh, hop in Warren. We'll give you the toll. Get in, sir, with that's Warren. I'm Nezum and I'll ask for a hard thing. That's it. You'd like more? Well, I used to miss Lang. But what Warren? Well, it's funny, but I must be months now since I've ever written in the car. Uncle, where will he get strange ideas sometimes? Well, I see. Warren, how long have you lived with your uncle? Oh, my life. That is, since my mother died, we lived here, even in here. Yes, I remember. You should've set me up, sir, either. May I see that picture again, Warren? Sorry, sir. Uncle Crod sent it to a new frame. Warren, are you tired? No. Just a... ...loader. I... Warren.

9:01Warren. That's what. Did you know that? Hello. The Martin Riser, open. He's like a sleepwalk. It isn't sleep, Margot. The hypnotic spell. It's notic. But how? He was here in the car with us. No one hypnotized him. Nevertheless, he is hypnotized. I don't know what did it. But I intend to find out. That's the end of the road. Long ago, my mother... What did you think, Warren? Quite, Margot. You can't hear you. Listen. My mother... A little girl with bright red hair. What the hell? What did you think? He's repeating a story, Margot. That one, his mother was a little girl. Uh... The dangerous... ...then the road. A car. Margot, that's the car we were just parked on. A car came fast. Mother ran in front of it. But Cranford... ... jumped... ...saved her.

10:02I must do brave like Cranford. Save... ...little girl with red hair. Take a boy, Carpima. What are we going to do? We'll stop the car. See if we can wake him out of this. What? Oh, oh... Oh, now you all right? Why, yes, I am. I'm with the fallen in the tree. I remember getting into the car, but that's all. I see. Well, that was a silly thing to do. I apologize. That's all right, Warren. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night for the lift. And don't mention it. Good night, Miss Lane. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night for the train, boy. And his and Warren sport, Margot. Can't you see it? He was hypnotized by the car motor. By the motor? Yes. That's why he came right out of it when I turned off the engine. Somebody has trained Warren to react like that to the sound of a car. Train it. Yes, Margot. The way Professor Mitchell trained the dog jigs to react to the sound of a bell. Margot? Yes, I have. I have some reason for hypnotizing Warren like this.

11:02A reason that me interests the shadow. Yeah, yeah. Coming. Coming. Just a minute, please. Oh, it's you, Professor. Yes. Come in, Professor Mitchell. You learn. I am alone, always here, Professor. Nobody wants to buy dolls from other anymore. I make many. Many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make many dolls. I make small dolls. I make small dolls. I make small dolls. I make small dolls. Look at the corner. I make small doll. Look at the corners wa denmachine and see the corners. Look at the corners wa denmachine and see the corner. There are so many. Look at the corners wa denmachine and see the corner. Look at the corner. I make maybe you heard. Look at the corners wa denmachine and see how the inside wasui جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي جي. Look at the corners wa denmachine and see the anything. Perhaps it's another customer. Step in the back of the shop, please. Hurry up, Otto. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah? What is it? No one here? Oh, boy, trick. Holy boy, whatever you are.

12:02If I catch you, I tell your parents. Who are they, that old? Oh, just boys, things, old. Always telling my parents. This one, he don't pass. I can see him. Yes, where's the bell? The doll. Right here under the counter. Yes, he is not quite finished. You promised I would have it tonight. Oh, you will have, Professor Leather. I will bring it out your hull. Let me see it. Yeah, under the light. Yeah. Uh-huh. Is it not just like the picture of the little girl? Huh? Well, it's close enough. Same color red hair. The light. I hope your little girl likes the dance. My little girl? Ha. This doll is for a boy. A boy who's grown too big. Oh, what did you say? Just make sure I get it tonight. Another word, 21. Oh, no, no, no, no, Professor. Not one word. I'll pay you when you bring the doll. Yeah, for sure. Ah, yeah, a pavilion. Great right, Otto. Oh, my God, come on. Who? Who spoke? Where are you? I can't see anyone. You cannot see me because my mind will say you do not. I am in the shadow, Otto. What's wrong? Listen to me.

13:03You copied this doll from a picture, didn't you? A miniature? Didn't you? Yeah, but I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... Yeah, but I'm in no harm. A picture of a little girl with bright red hair. Yeah, the professor. He... He ordered this picture. Why Otto? Why? I... I don't know. And tonight you deliver it? Yeah. Very well, Otto. Deliver it. In that way, we may be able to discover just what Professor Mitchell is going to use it for. The professor has been very clever. I have an idea that he's planning a gastric crime. But he did not figure... of the shadows. Before we bring you act two of the shadows' adventure, attention, motorists. Do you realize the main cause of the thousands of auto accidents that happen every year?

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15:06Furthermore, don't forget this. With a road or wet or dry, Silver Towns at all times give you that other great Life Saver Dread tire feature, the famous Golden Fly Blowout Protection. Play safe. Get these Life Saver Dread for your car. There is no extra car. I'll go. Don't step into the moon as well. I'll go play the game and be watching some example of the moon. The whole house is dark, where it can't be not flat or leather. Yes, that's my phone. The first blow window is where young Warren thinks it. I'm going to seek the bottle. I know what's going on. At the mouth of the professor, I thought you were thinking of the old house. You won't see the shadow, Margot. Warren will probably be asleep. He is? I'll imitate the professor to learn what's happening. In the course of the professor? No. Warren's uncle has victimized him by hypnotism created by the use of a phonograph against the basis

16:10of a shadow, because it's also hypnotism. You wait here, Margot. I think the shadow can be professor Mitchell at its own game. I'll go. Warren, Warren, you're little girl. Warren, listen to me. You must do it, I say. Hey, you're little girl. Warren, listen to me. Do it, sexy as I say. Warren, I want to see you. Hey, you're little girl. You're little girl. Mind is completely controlled by professor Mitchell. Tatic experiment must run its course. Lord, I know I said it both. What I must have been talking to you, please. You need another piece like now. Put on the phonograph record. I want to rehearse the accident again. The accident will make us wealthy.

17:11Don't start the record until I signal to you. All right. Now, Warren, Warren, listen to me. Listen to me. When the clock strikes 12, you will dress and go to the bend in the road where your grandfather saved your mother when she was a little girl. A car comes down the road. A little girl with red hair. Your mother suddenly runs out in front of the movie car. Then you jump to save the little girl with bright red hair. Say, he's the little girl, Warren. You must. Hey, little girl with red hair. You must be brave, Warren, at the bend of the road. Then the road. Say, little girl. There is a car coming. Listen. Get the errands. Listen, Warren. Car coming.

18:11Car coming. Car coming. What do you see now? A little girl. My mother. In front of it. You jump to save her. You jump, Warren. Hey, I jump. I jump. What? What is it? What happened? Nothing, Warren. Nothing. You were having a nightmare. You're just a dream, Warren. You must go back to sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Well, let me see. My hypnotic heart, of the sound of a car, it will work perfectly. That Warren's screaming can walk up. I can't mind his screaming when the time comes, and he won't wake up. The mark is standing, the road.

19:12What are we doing here? I'll tell you, my mother. I put in wake, Warren, from the hypnotic cell, that the professor's experiment was run at the core. But the notice of the professor is why the planet is making a way with that young boy we should do something. Listen, my mother. I overheard the professor's plan in Warren's middle room. I bring this weight. He must break this hole that the professor has on him, once and for all. There's a car coming. Very little traffic, yes, will he? The car is very sound. What the hell? The car is getting out of here. I will amount it. It can't stop. Interesting, wasn't it? The mark how can you tell his lying at the roadside, hasn't it? No, I'll help you find it. Look closely, Margot. Well, do you see any red-haired child there? Why? Well, no, what's the tale of it? Don't be alarmed, Margot. The car carried the child away. I don't understand. Tell me, Margot. What did the child look like? A little girl with red hair. And an old-fashioned dress.

20:12Like the one in the miniature, young Warren Mitchell showed us, the picture of his mother? Yes, yes, that's true. Margot, what did you see the child do? Why? Yes, the car reached this. He came out of the darkness and ran in some of this. And if you'd been alone, you'd have crunched in front of the car to save her, wouldn't you? Well, yes, the mother. I tried to, but you stopped me. And you would have died, trying to save a red-headed doll. A doll? Yes, Margot. A doll made to look like the child Warren Mitchell had always heard about. Just as the car reached this bend on the road, the doll swung in front of the car like a child running across the road. I don't understand. The doll is hung like a puppet from a rod passing to the top of the car. The professor's wife pulled a rope attached to the rod in the doll's swung in front of the car. Then this was a trick to kill young metal? Of course. Young Warren walks here open. So when he's found dead here tomorrow morning, he'll blame a hidden run driver. Oh! And Professor Mitchell and his wife will be rich. Oh, that's heaven the plot's saying. Warren isn't safe yet, Margot. What do you mean? What we saw was just a rehearsal. That car will return to pass this spot again

21:14when the professor is sure that Warren is here. You mean Warren is coming here? Yes, Margot. He arrives from bed in a hypnotic state. Grace and Durdford are walking just as the clock strikes midnight. Listen, it's midnight now. And then, in the evening, well, time has gone, when the clock strikes fast. What? To the bend in the road? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? 大家好, Elizabeth brides a tail when I come in this couple of times. Is this a straggler door? There's no room for a girl so I planned to go out on a tour to space س wait miracles.

22:15What do you mean we don't need to go all the way forward? Dury. Oh, you silly old features. Had a relativesänd. And women grabbed Associate Judge. And then brought Garden Boy and Daniel Court. Yes, and sure he will. What do we do? Keep the boys from leaking in front of the car. I try to do it. No, mother. We must let Warren see the doll and tight rest with it. I would have kept Warren off from coming, but if the only way Warren can break the spell that comes to the start of him, he'll be. How dare they'll hum tough? That's exactly. They made it to the run a man's ankle. When Warren comes here in a hypnotic state, you must put these on him. But they're not that away from him. None of your careful. Remember these in the car. When he sees what he thinks is a red-haired child about to be killed in a pital leaf. If the angle's down, we can't move. I might crumble. Can't you put them on? No, ma'am. I've got work to do myself. It's here. A dummy. It's definitely like a man. Where did he come from? Soon as I learned the professor's exact plan,

23:15I broke down to the doll maker and got a convince him. The shadow was thrown in front of the moving car. Professor Mitchell will think it's Warren's body. I hope the plan works, Le Mans. The time's short. Get back, Ronald. Get it off him. Warren's coming. Listen. Then we move on. And wait. Wait for the car. The car. No, Marco. Put the answer coming. The red-haired child. You never notice him. I'll put the angle down. Good. Your work is done. No hiding it. I'll speak to them as the shadow. The car. The car is coming. Something nearer. Nearer. Be brave. Save the car. Look out! What? What happened? I tried to jump, but I fell. What's this chain on my ankle? The quiet Warren. Silence and watch. Who? Silence. Listen. Evan, let's scream. Did you hear Warren scream when we hit him? Who? Who yourself together? Let's get out. Make sure he's gone.

24:15Wait. We hit him squarely. He must be done for. Make sure. Then he move around. He says. This isn't Warren. What? He's a dummy. We've been tricked. Yes, Professor Mitchell. Face your nephew. He's alive and well. What? What is it? I thought I saw a little girl like that picture I have of my mother in front of your car. What is this, a doll? Warren, this thing is making it a mix of dolls like a real child running into danger. They hypnotize you. I thought you were the sound of the car. They meant to run you down and kill you when you need to save the child. They wanted to get your money. Warren, you must stop them. No, no. No, no, listen, Goldbeak. They have not a call on me, it's books. They'll never be able to harm you. Good for them. The car's out of control. But it hit us at the bank. Look out. All right. Warren, slide over the bank. Wait, Warren. You just have to go there. It must be dead. Dead? Yes. They were desperate with fear, blinded by the knowledge of their guilt. Fate took matters into her own hands. Improved again. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

25:15I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And improved again that the guilty shall be punished.

27:50Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the Shadow Magazine. All the characters and all the places named are fictitious. Any similarity to person's living or dead is purely coincidental. The Shadow Magazine is now on sale at your local newsstand. Let no man tempt you into crime. A crime is like a strangling serpent. It crushes him who feeds it most.

28:56Beware, let the serpent of crime unfair you in his falls. Remember, crime does not pay.