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of the radio network, Adventure and Mystery, classic series from Radio's Golden Path, in the Secrets of Scotland Yard. How do you do? This is Ty Brook. I was going to call this week's Facebook today the case of the Lucky Murderer, but that would be wrong.

If a man accused of murder is reprieved, then one has no right to call him a murderer. But in this case, guilty or not guilty, a reprieve might not have been forthcoming, for an element of luck quite unique in the case book history of Scott and God. I use the word luck, but it is not a favorite of mine. I don't like to think

that our lives are governed entirely by chance happening. One's efforts become reasonless. On the other hand, who has not experienced some inconsequential happening that has changed the whole course of their lives. Instead of luck, shall we call it fate. Alexander Campbell Mason, a young Scott, stood his trial for murder at the old bayley in the spring of 1903. Now whether it was luck or chance or fate or

whatever you care to call it, the fact that a shower of rain started on a certain day at a certain hour. Almost certainly saved him from the gallows. Another night of mass the ninth 1903.

It was a quiet evening at Stratton Yard and in the duty room attention was being concentrated on matters of far greater import than the mere solving of crime. Two fifty four affairs six a month for his not makes up and what let me see now 15 to 15 for 15 six or run of three speaking what's that where do you say yes yes I got that I come