The Dead Laugh

Tonight your mystery playhouse invite you to listen to Ino Sanctum Mysteries. Come on up Mr. Host. This is your host to welcome you through the squeaking door. Around for a nice case of murder.

How caught you had. As you come to the right place because the characters on this program simply kill themselves to keep you in view. Why, only the other day we were accused of making murder our business.

But we wouldn't do that, friends. Oh, no. Because that would be mixing business with pleasure. And we consider it a pleasure to give some stook concerning a man, a woman, and a mermaids said that those who laughed last, loved that it never pays to get into a laughing contest with a girl.

But he's been in the grave for weeks. Yes. I can hear him laugh, mocking sound, haunts me. Same laugh I heard for the first time in the courtroom.

He had never laughed during all the weeks of the trial. Never even smiled. This day, when he came before me for sentencing. He found Gildib murder in the first degree. He had been before sentences imposed.

I killed Hicks. I'm willing to admit it now. But he was no good. just what he deserved and everybody knows it. I'm not a killer. I never committed a crime before. No, I asked now is a chance. John Spencer's consideration when it recommended life imprisonment. But to ignore that recommendation. That to allow one man to take the law into

his own hands is to encourage others to do likewise. All the right to recommend and sentence you to be hung by the neck until dead. Judge, please. I've got a girl we were going to be married. All I ask is to live so I can see her once in a while.