What happens
Bathsheba Spooner, a Brookfield, Massachusetts woman in 1778, plots with her young lover Ezra Ross to have her husband Joshua Spooner killed. Two deserters, James Buchanan and William Brooks, are drawn into the scheme while drinking at Cooley's tavern, and they are sent to Mrs. Spooner's house. The episode is part of the Crime Classics series and aired on June 15, 1953, hosted by Thomas Highland. The story follows the events surrounding Joshua's disappearance and the investigation that followed in the town.
Brookfield, Massachusetts, 1778, during the Revolutionary War
Characters: Bathsheba Spooner, Joshua Spooner, Ezra Ross, James Buchanan, William Brooks, Thomas Highland, Dr. King, Mr. Cooley
Listen for: Listen for the conversation between Bathsheba and Ezra in her home, and the tavern scene where the deserters meet Joshua Spooner.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.