The Shadow 017 - The Silent Avenger

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One twenty Broadway, New York City, or to Blue Coal in care of this station stand for your free. Copy of The Shadow Magazine. Tonight, Joseph Wrecker, you have been duly tried by a jury and found guilty of murder in the first degree. You now appear in the caught that sentence may be passed upon you. But before I pronounce sentence, have you anything to say? Yeah? I have. Before you pass sentence on me, I'm gonna pass sentence on you. You'll Judge Wilson. I'm Sloan, the prosecuting attorney, and those twelve good and true SAPs, and a jury and one more, maybe the guy that really trapped me in the first place. The only guys smart enough they tep me. The shadow that will. Do Joseph Brecker. Do you have nothing to say in your own behalf? This is in my own behalf, and you'd better lesson all of it. I know I'm on my way to that death house, to the chair, but I'm worn on you. For every day I sent in that death house. One of you will be killed, starting with the foreman. Of the jury. You'll die that day I burned. The Brecker. By the power vested in me by the people of this state, I hereby order you to be taken to the State Penitentiary, there to be delivered it over to the water I whn on a certain day determined by this court, you said in a manner prescribed by law. But you do that, and may God have mercy on your soul. Or the journey. All right, come on bear the court outside, well. It's the sheer block. Might tell you how can break your killer Holdiery, the. D judge, Wilson, even the Governor. I tell you he's great. Yeah, you reckers ganger. Oh Denner in jail. But if you're right in this card room and I'll be seen. I hate to have anybody like that. Let's get out of him. That's very starting to inspire such awe and fear. Lamon, he says, its disadvantage Margot. Unfortunately, the mystress surrounding the shadow inspires fear and terror, and the innocent as well as the guilty. The unknown is so often associated with evil. There's no help for it. The shadow must remain the shadow, no. Matter what do you mean as you think it's just block. I wish I did, Margot, meaning Lamont Cranston is going to be done. The shadows cloak and call on Drew Bricker. In prison, your brother to see your breaker. Okay, hello Danny Ojo. You got five minutes, but I make the most of it. That is here from the stage. Time to take you bye bye to the big house. I'll be back, all right. Come on in, Denny, sit down a bunk. I'm gonna talk to him. Wait much time. Hey, it's like a cage where they keep animal time. Joey off that, Danny, Okay, don't get sure. Sit down. He will listen to what I gotta say. And they can they kidd. You, Joe. Yeah, but they're gonna pay for every last one of them. You know who they are, don't you. I've told you over and over again. Yeah, Joe, you told me and you know what you to do. You remember everything I told you, don't you, Danny? Yeah, yeah, Joe, I remember. I won't forget when the newspapers say they put you in the death house. I kill one of them. That's right, Danny. And don't forget these people I told you about the judge, the jewelry, that prosecuting attorney of the same ones the drafted you into. The army sent you over to France. But she gets shell shock, so it's time. For you to remember things. Sure. I won't forget. Hey, Well, it hurt much when they kill you, Joe. That okay, Okay. I just want to know. You'll just keep your mind in a jury and Judge Wilson, maybe even the governor. You'll get him all Anny. Yeah, yeah, Joe, there won't no one hit him. Ha, that's that's stuffed. Anny. Or I'll just one more thing. The guy that may get after you. He's smarter than the cups. He's the one that really got me. You got to keep away from him. Don't give him a chance to find you. How can I do that? I got to keep away from home. Don't go near a flatter the old lady. Butmro worry if I don't come home. No, No, he won't, Danny. He'll know you've got things to do, all right, Joe. What about the fella I can't see? Is he dead like all my buddies in the war, the ones that talk to me in the dark. No, No, Denny, this guy's different. He ain't dead. He's alive. You can hear his voice, only you can't see him. But if you ever hear his voice, you'll know he's near you, somewhere in the shadows. Yeah, if he talks to me, I'll fix him, Josh. But not the way you're going to get the others, Danny, Because you can't see him. See now. Look you know those old hand grenades you have at home? Yeah, well, I want you to carry a couple with you if this guy ever find you, if he tries to stop, you're paying him off. For killing me. You'll just pull the pin of her hand grenade and throw it where you think his voice is coming from. That'll get him, all right, Joe. But how'll I know? One at him? You'll know? All right, Denny, here's a queer kind of laugh, and he calls himself the shadow. Alright, record times up? Come on you, okall so long, Jenny. Don't you forget anything? So long? Joe. I wouldn't forget. I wouldn't forget nothing yet, so long, Come on up. There, food dupe. They'll do it all right, they'll fix him, every last one of em. A fight burned. Who's that? I heard somebody? But there's somebody in there. Hey, God, are you surprised to find me here? Joe? Recor shadow? Oh you weren't expecting me? And yet prisons are filled with the shadows, Shadows in the minds of men walking in. The shadow of death itself. What do you want? Do you put me here? Somebody in the chairway. Can't you let me alone because your career of murder is not over? Because I know you mean to carry out the threat you made in court. Yeah yeah, And you can't stop me, Shadow. I can because you're going to tell me how the jury, the prosecuting attorney, and Judge Wilson not going to be killed. Yeah. Crazy, I'm not telling you anything, Shadow, I'm not afraid of you anymore. I got nothing to lose. You are telling me breaker, Yeah, you see, I can read your mind. One thought is racing through your mind. Now it's mirrored in your eyes, etched on your brain. A lion trying to trick me into telling you. All right, I'll tell you what you're thinking about. Your thinking of a man? He yeahs strangely, he's shell shut wrong, am I right? Oh? No, stop it. This man is very close to you. I've got it. He's your brother. His name is let's see, Danny, Danny. Isn't it? No, no, go away, leave me alone. That even now, your brother Danny is hurrying home to get a high powered rifle out of a crunk. That's through a rifle equipped with telescopic sights and a silencer. You're thinking of Danny's medals for marksmanship, his decorations for valors. A sniper. A sniper so cunning he could hide in an open battlefield, think his enemies off at long range and not be seen. That's all I need to know, Breca, all I need to know. Now, you're crazy. You're just guessing. All right, I suppose he is. You won't find him, you won't stop him. Shadow, What's what's the matter with you? What do you think you're talking to him? It's a shadow, he's here in the prisoner. Well, don't let that worry your breaker. There's plenty of shadows where you're going. Come on, Deputy's awake and you're heading for the last mile. Look, mister Hanson, every one of your euros in danger. You shouldn't be here on the street. This death threat may seem like a lot of hooey to you, but I've been assigned to guard you. If anything happens, I will send me back to pounding a beat. Well, I'm sorry, Inspector, but I've got my business to attend to and I can't hide in my office. Hanson. What's the matter of man? What's the matter for that man? What's going on? Here, keep back back. Who are you freg homicides? God, this man has been shot. You're crazy. I didn't have a shot gaither did I. It's just the same. He's got a bullet right between the eyes. Looks like Joe Brecker is keeping his word the mom. Can't you do something? Can't you find any Breaker? No? No, Marguerie. He got away. He hasn't been near his mother's home since his brother Joe went to the death house. Rest me doing anywhere the Breaker? John, I've got to find Danny Breaker. He's some player hiding somewhere, waiting to strike again. I've got to find him. There's money, mister hare. I a good Heaven's Missus Adams? What are you doing out in the street. I thought the police had detectives watching every one of you jors that was on the Breaker case. They've done a detective stain at my house. But I had had something beginning, and I took down lot. Than I haven't candy, he's your course. You can you just huh money with the name. Why don't you send Tim? We got on the police, get a doctor. Missus has been shot for him. Afraid she's dead. Yes, the killer is struck again, Judge Wilson. Yes, we judge, don't you think it would be well safer with the killer is still at large if you had those window curtains closed. That's not necessary. His apartment's on the twentieth floor where I know you're, honor. But just the same, all answers. Hello, Yes, Judge Wilson is right here, you're, excellency. The governor's on the wires here he. Hello, Yes, Governor, Yes, of course you couldn't commute Joe Breaker's sentence. If you did a thing like that, even to save the rest of the jury. There'd be no more law and order. But look, Governor, don't you think the wise reader cancel your engagement? Arrived in the parade. Tomorrow's in an open carn a perfect target. And that's musson, Governor. Governor, Judge Wilson has just been shot. He's dead. The shadow will continue with this adventure in just a moment. In the meantime, here is. A message of particular importance to families throughout. This area who supply their own heat. We are now in a period of the year when all fuels are put to their severest test. 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Coal this winter in the Middle Atlantic and New Inland States show an increase of ten point four percent over sales for the same period a year ago. So take a tip from these blue coal families for better, more economical heat, switch to blue coal tomorrow. Ask for it by name, order a trial. Ton from your nearest blue coal dealer, whose name will be found on the where to buy it section of your classified telephone directory under the name blue Coat. Good work, Mago. How about the monk take you along to get here and help you out of the calm. I was waiting for your call 'em on, no matter of thank I've been waiting for days. Where's you then? What are you doing the same thing the entire police force the city has been doing. Margo, chasing a will of the whisp? Are you sure it's killed? Records? Brother, Yes, it doesn't even any doubt of it. But the police can't find him, and I am the single. Clue to go on. What do you know about him? Looked up his record? He was shell shocked during the war in France. He was an expert marksman, a sniper. Society had trained. Him to kill men. They told him they were enemies, that he should kill them off now with a shell shocked mine, and he's remembering what society taught him to kill. Yeah, and another thing, But. The people who've been through that experience, life is cheap w If. These cool people he's shot and killed the Jeers and the judge. They were only doing their duty there An. Yes, individually, they're innocent, Margo. Individually, we're all innocent and yet all guilty because this Danny, Joe Brecker's brother, is a product of our own folly, teaching men to kill in time of war, yet expecting them to respect life in time of peace. Well, mart, why did you want me to meet through here? Oh? I I want you to do something for me, Margot. I want you to go into that brownstone house out of there. Joe Brecker's mother lives in the basement. Yeah, Joey's scheduled to die. At five o'clock. It's exactly ten. Minutes from now. Alright, Lamark, I'll do it. What would you do? I'll do with you, Margo. It's the shadow, the feeling Danny may come to his mother tonight. Either just before or just after his brother dies. Hurry rest than ten minutes. There's the house, ring the bell. What you like? Tell her that I'm a report, Yes. But don't try to make her answer question. Why here? Someone coming in? Yes? What do you want missus Becker? I'd like to speak to you. May I come in? I don't care you can come in if you want to. Doesn't matter, Nothing matters anymore, nothing will ever matter again. I know you've been through a terrible ordeal these pastages, is Becker, How could you know what I've been through? How could anyone know? My one son and murderer and the other one? Goodness only knows what? Where Squander? Sorry? If there's anything I can do. In three minutes they'll be killing my son Joe. There's nothing anyone can do. It is brother Daniel. Oh, I'm so worried about him. Why doesn't he come? O? Why doesn't it from home? A? Yeah, Oh i'd come. Joe said I shouldn't, but I had to come. I know you'd want me home? And I. Wat's Joe been making me do? I'd just been doing what Joe told me to do for him. My? Who's that girl there? What she doing here? Wh why she She's just a friend, Danny, just a friend. Come just sit with me. She won't tell nobody up in here, will she? No? No, Danny, she won't tell anyone. My They gonna kill Joe in a few minutes, five o'clock. And then I gotta go out and do one more thing for Joe. Look at al Mu's time. Oh no, no, Dan, you know who you You can't. I won't let you let me man on me. I gotta do what Joe told me. I gotta keep my words to Joe. No, Danny, listen to me. I know I know who's been killing those people, shooting them. Oh, you've got to give yourself out, Danny. They won't hurt you. They didn't know you, didn't know what you were doing. Five o'clock. It's time. It's time. Five o'clock. Joe's dead. Now. I gotta go back to the tower and do the last thing. Joe want to be the do for any she's turning up. You'll keep out of this. Joe told me to do this. I gotta. I can still hear her voice telling me to do it. Now you'll hear a boy telling you not do Danny voice. I know you gotta shutow and. For your own take your mother. Take Danny. I told me what to do with you. You know you'll find me. That's why I got this hand. Nay a. Fire intended. I'm gonna pull it out off Danny. In the morning, a wife came from there in a car. Yo told me to throw the. Grenad Oh my sha, all right, I managed to pick up the grenade and throw it through the window to the court. Court exploded. Thank you. I don't mind saying that's the closest call he ever had. The How long have you been here in your office? What happened? Were you able to trail Danny. To his hiding plane. No. By the time I got to the street after that hand grenade episode, he disappeared. Haven't you any idea where he went? But that you mentioned might be No. I've been working on this in large matter of the midtown section, trying to find some tall building, some tower Danny Brecker that used to hide to pick off the governor. Then he said something about his tower. It must be somewhere along the line of March Today's parade. Lamont Margo. That's the Wardmon tower. But they didn't finish. They stopped working it. It's nothing but a. Steel a better place for a shop shooter like Danny Breker. No work going on there, just the watchmen down on the street level. And I'll go it's the long. Chimes, but it may be the answer. Come on a minute to lose. My car downstairs and mon, I'll drive you over there. But what if he isn't there? What is he somewhere else waiting to stray. That kids, Margot, I'm afraid we will have a new governor of the States. Just a couple of minutes, now, Joe, just a couple of minutes, and the governor's kin will come along. And then I'll do the last thing he asked me to do. Joe. When velocity zero range three hundred yards, he'll die. Quit, Joe, like you died. And the Governor's coming. Not Joe, that's his automobile with all the flags on it. That's him sitting in the back with all those fellas around him. That I can pick him out. I won't miss Joe, Danny, Danny Brecker, listen to me. What was that who said that? Who laughed like that? Don't you recognize the shadow, Danny Joe said? He said the hand goodnaid would fix you. See, Danny, your brother was wrong. Put down that rifle. Danny Brecker, How did you find me way up here? How did you know I was hiding up here among these still good is just like I used to hide in. The trees in the water. That doesn't matter, Danny Brecker. All that matters is that you must not kill any more people. But I got to just one more, Shadow, just one more the governor down there in the car. I promise Joe, you will. Never keep that commerce. Put down that rifle. Put it down, Danny, play it down on that feel good and crawl back to the catwalk. All right, all right, I'll put it down. I'll put it down. Where are you, Shadow, I still got another grenade. Talk to me, Shadow, say something so I can tell. Where you are. Crawl back to the catwalk, Danna, crawl back to the catwalk, I said, Now, Now, I won't. I won't. You can't make me go there and get me if you. Want me sure, I don't want to have to do that, Danna. Don't you come near me. Shadow. Don't you touch me. If you do, I'll dropped his. Hands and aid I throw it down on my roll. Those papers, I've kill a dozen, Tell them, bah, I pull a pin. I'll throw it. Danny picking at me. Hold that handgrenate, Dnnay, hold it tight, Danny Brecker. See your fingers tighten about it. Your mind, don't bathe mine? Do you hear me, Danny? Danny hold it? Don't throw that hand grenade hold it, hold it, Fay, don't throw it, don't drop it. Don't drop it, Danny. Don't drop it, Danny, don't drop it, Danny. All right? Yes, Commissioner wister hype Pard life fell into the street, got right in front of the Governor's car. No one was hurt. This is the thirtieth floor. This is where the bomb went off, blew the guy to pieces. Good heavens, he must have had a time bomb went off too quick. Any idea who it was? Yeah? They found an identification card and some newspaper clippings in his pocket, and what was left of him. It was Danny Breaker, Jill Becker's brother. H Well, I guess that's that on sports. Will ever know what really happened? Anyway? There's one consolation. Look as if the shadow fell down on this case just as badly as we did. Not quite Commissioner with him. Oh so you got here in time to take credit for this a shadow. There is no credit, no glory in the death of Danny Brecker, Commissioner with him. He was a victim, a human instrument. Of destruction fashioned by mankind. But teaches men to kill their enemies in time of war, it expects them to forget the murderous art. In time of peace, Danny Brecker with an enemy of society, a killer, but only. Because you and I. And countless thousands made him. One, Oh Commissioner, There is no glory in. This for you, or the Shadow, or for any man. You have just heard a dramatized version of one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow magazine. All the characters and all the places named are tacticians. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidence. As you so evil, so shall you grind, not ay a shadow nose. Next week, same time, same station. Blue Coal America's final standra site again presents another thrilling adventure of the Shadow. Be sure to listen, and be sure to burn blue coal, a solid fuel for solid comfort. This is the mutual