What happens
Timothy Baker, a long-serving bookkeeper, works under the domineering John Waterbury, who forbids his son Bill from courting Baker's daughter, Jessie. Humiliated and angry, Baker finds a lockbox of cash in Waterbury's safe and takes the money, then considers how to get rid of his employer. Edward Arnold plays Baker in this episode of the radio series Suspense, first broadcast on October 13, 1949. The story continues beyond the portion of the transcript available here.
A business office and a family home in an unnamed city, 1949
Characters: Timothy Baker, John Waterbury, Jessie Baker, Bill Waterbury, Miss Jones, Peter Galloway
Listen for: Baker's growing resolve after the humiliation in Waterbury's office, and his discovery of the lockbox of cash in the safe
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.