What happens
Jerry Mason, a drugstore clerk in New York City in 1915, is persuaded by the gambler Herman Arnold to embezzle $1,800 from his employer's safe, and after Arnold is murdered Jerry is left with the stolen money and no way to return it. A customer named Ted Connolly, a newspaper columnist, is a regular buyer of a sleeping drug that Jerry fills for him. A mysterious man who comes in to buy a travel magazine appears to overhear Jerry's conversation with a stranger who offers to buy a murder. Jerry begins to fear what the man knows and what might happen next, while the strange visitor seems to be following him closely. The story is told in the Whistler series, and this part of the episode aired on April 23, 1945.
New York City, April 1915
Characters: Jerry Mason, Laurie Crane, Herman Arnold, Ted Townley, Mr. Thatcher, Inspector Hodges, Mr. Death
Listen for: The mysterious travel-magazine customer and the stranger who offers to buy a murder.
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.