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Murders In Wax

The Shadow · July 24, 1938 · 23 min · 2,984 words

The transcript of “Murders In Wax”, an episode of The Shadow first broadcast July 24, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Shadow free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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a student of science and a master of other people's minds devotes his life to writing wrongs, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston is known to the underworld as the Shadow.

Never seen, only heard, as haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost, as inevitable as a guilty conscience. The Shadow's true identity is known only to his constant friend and aid, Margot Link. Today's story murders in West.

We invite you to step inside and use the illuminating and educational exhibits that are the features of our wax wax wax. See Bluebeard actually slaying his eight wives. She calls to last stand. She's a capture of George Keegan, public enemy, number one, and many other spreading, life like tableau.

The place of admission is only one dime. Ten cents. Our lecture is just starting. And if you hurry, hurry, hurry, you'll be just in time to witness the complete show on the inside. Step right up now. How many for the kids?

Two, please. All right, how many of you? All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you'll just step over here to the next platform, I shall describe to you the tales of the featured tableau of our exhibits.

Hey, they look like real people, don't they? Yeah, how did they make them? with what she this tableau is a dramatic reenactment of the capture of george kegan notorious gang chief of prohibition day but i would be arrested in the manner shown right here without you all recognize the figures of the brave men who personally led the

police squad who made the capture on the left the wax figure of our own mail luice our district attorney armstrong and right police commissioner west what do you hear when he was following George Keegan's arrest put an end to the wave of crime and lawlessness that gripped our city for a decade.

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