What happens
Jeff Morna, a poor backwoods farmer who fears snakes, resents his neighbor Snake Doctor, a man who renders cottonmouth fat into oil and is not afraid of the reptiles. Morna has heard rumors that Snake Doctor keeps a large sum of money hidden in his cabin, and he begins to plot how to get it. The story unfolds along Cashair Creek in the southern mountains, drawn from Ervin S. Cobb's tale and adapted for radio by Fred Howard. Bill Conrad plays Jeff Morna, and Louis Van Ruten plays Snake Doctor. The episode aired on CBS as part of the Escape series on February 8, 1948.
Cashair Creek, a backwoods farming area in the southern mountains, with a cabin near the creek bottom land full of cottonmouth snakes.
Characters: Jeff Morna, Finney Morna, Kizzie Morna, Snake Doctor, Tip Bailey, Doc Bradshaw, Davis
Listen for: Listen for Jeff Morna's growing scheme to get Snake Doctor's hidden money, and for the menacing talk of snakes and rumors that build around Snake Doctor.
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.