What happens
Walter Stone, a man with a record of running from trouble, is arrested after striking and killing Fred Weatherby with his car. While being moved from the jail to escape a angry crowd, Stone takes a sheriff's car and a hostage, Doris Weatherby, the victim's granddaughter. Stone's flight leads him through a series of confrontations with highway patrolmen, a farmer named Jensen, and a doctor. The episode is part of The Whistler series, broadcast on the Signal Oil program, and it features Bill Forman in the title role of the narrator. The original air date is March 9, 1952.
A small town in Arizona and the surrounding countryside, including a jail, a courthouse, back roads, and a farmhouse.
Characters: Walter Stone, Doris Weatherby, Fred Weatherby, Jim, Jensen, Dr. Summers
Listen for: Stone's confrontation with the farmer Jensen and Dr. Summers, and the moment he decides how to deal with the people who have seen him.
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.