What happens
The Shadow, a mysterious crime fighter, becomes involved when Paul Gordon, a jobless man, is convicted of robbery and murder after unknowingly driving getaway men. Gordon's wife Grace receives money from a stranger, and Margot Lane, the Shadow's associate, works to prove his innocence. Gordon is sentenced to death in the electric chair, and the Shadow uses his mental powers to reconstruct the crime and recover the lost evidence. This is an episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast on September 26, 1937. The transcript is incomplete, and the cast is not named in it.
A city in the late 1930s, including a bank, a courtroom, a death house and a garage.
Characters: The Shadow, Margot Lane, Paul Gordon, Grace Gordon, Red, Lefty, Commissioner, Warden
Listen for: The Shadow's voice speaking to Gordon from the shadows as he reconstructs the crime in his mind.
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.