What happens
Lee Ryan, bored on a snowbound train to California, falls into conversation with a reporter in the club car. The reporter describes Jeff Larkin, a former convict believed to know where a hundred thousand dollars from a bank robbery is hidden. Later the train stops at Springdale, and Lee meets a young woman named Julie Clayton who was seen speaking with Larkin. The Whistler series, broadcast on the Signal Oil program, presents this story in the 1948 episode The Hangtree Affair, first aired on December 19, 1948.
A westbound train from Chicago to California, the town of Springdale, Denver, Los Angeles, and Silver City
Characters: Lee Ryan, Jeff Larkin, Julie Clayton, Lieutenant Knowles, Johnny Burgess, Noisy Nevins
Listen for: The conversation in the club car in which the reporter describes the hidden hundred thousand dollars, and the postcard Julie drops on the platform.
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.