Murder By The Dead
The Shadow · October 17, 1937 · 29 min · 3,176 words
The transcript of “Murder By The Dead”, an episode of The Shadow first broadcast October 17, 1937. 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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Who knows the best of the planet. A man of mystery, he's got terror in the heart of justice, law-written, and murder. This time, we hope, by almost all the time of the war, you might have been actually intentional in your heart.
In America's final death, and in the head of our people, our home is comfortable and helpful in war, all the law. But he told me that this part of the book, asked for it by the way, asked what room goes.
The coldest is colored upon the blue at the bottom for law protection. The majority of the month, Cranston, a wealthy young man about town. Years ago, in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret.
The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him. As Klatt's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
Tonight's episode, murder by the dead. Quarkle, come to order, the Quarkle, come to order. A prisoner will stand. Be diswitched. You've been found guilty of willful and deliberate murder after a fair and impartial trial.
Have you anything to say before sentence is pronounced upon you? Yeah. I got something to say. Well, be brief. Oh, I'll be brief, all right. I think you're going to kill me what you think.
I'll get you. Yes, you're up on the bench there, and I'll get that district attorney too. And just for good luck, I'll get the foreman of that crooked jury that railroaded me. Do you understand?
Perfectly the threats against the district attorney in the foreman of the jury will I am sure go as unnoticed as your threat against myself It is first I hereby send it to be taken from here to the place from once you came and that there you be executed in the manner provided by the law
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