The Clock and the Rope

directed by William Speer. This is the second in a special limited series of five Friday night performances of suspense at this hour. Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series, our stories calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment.

Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you Mr. Jackie Cooper star in the clock and the rope a radio play by Lewis Pollock we trust that with his tail we shall once again keep you in suspense would you like to hear the old story about the innocent man facing execution and his last minute attempts to get a pardon and how it feels when he doesn't

get it I like and tell you all about it because that's my story there's a couple different twists to it, of course, they're always our. For one thing, it happened to me. Now I keep away from people. I keep away from cities and buildings. Buildings with the cells, they call rooms and the doors that don't always open. I never button my collar.

You'll find out why. I earn my living as a guide for hunting parties. Me, who couldn't find my way across the city park. I never sleep indoors and I can't stand clocks. Most of all, I can't stand clocks. It happened so fast. I told him it wasn't murder. It was self-defense, involuntary self-defense, like putting up your arm to protect yourself. But it didn't work

out that way in court. That's the other different twist I told you about. They convicted me. They They sentenced me to be hanged. And they hanged me. Nightman, my job wasn't hard. And to me, interested.