The Shadow 036- Shyster Payoff

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. The Shadow knows your local blue coal dealer presents the shadows. These half hour dramatizations are designed to forcibly demonstrate to old and young alike that crime does not pay. The shadows adventure begins in just a moment. But first, do you know exactly what the blue coloring on blue coal means? Well, that's the trademark of the Glen Olden Coal Company, the world ardges hard coal producer, and it's placed on their product blue coal to guarantee that you are getting a superior quality anthracite. So insist on blue coal. When you order anthracite for the coming winter. Your entire family. Will appreciate blue coal's greater heating comfort. You'll appreciate blue coal's greater heating economists. Call your dealer for your supply of blue coal tomorrow. The Shadow, mysterious character who weighs those in distress and helps the forces of law and order, is in reality, Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs the only one who knows the true identity of that master of other people's minds, the shadows. Today's stories, shister, pay off. Ooo, Mission Whiston, my taper wants to know what you're doing about this wave? And hold up, I hear your resigning commissioner. What about the man's statement? Right? Come on, let's you. Sorry, boys, I'll give you a statement. Okay, Commission. Sure, we're having a crime wave, but the police depot on is as good as you're finding any city we make arrest. The trouble is the District Attorney's office can't get convictions, but it is in the DA's fault of the work of his office is hampered by a political picture and a shaista lawyer. Let me coach you on that. How about paying the west who's the political players? Come on, come on, come on to give us some more. Holli boys, Hold what is this sergeant you call in your office? Mission Weston? Sorry, boys, that's all. See who is it the mayor? No, it's him again? Who you're talking about? Who's him? The shadow? The Shadow? If I haven't had enough troubles, all right, I'll talk to him. I'll call you if I need you. Yes, yeah, all right, Shadow, what is it this time? Good afternoon, Commissioner Western. Did you enjoy your conference with the gentlemen of the press. You know everything, don't you? You flatter me, Commissioner? All right, let's have it. Commissioner. Do my ears deceive me? Or did I really detect a note of shall we say welcome in your voice? Asten Shadow? I'll admit you have helped the police Department at times, and I'm willing to accept tips or help from you, just as I went from any other citizens. I think that you are a citizen and are interested. In law enforcement. Yes, Commissioner Western, I am a citizen and I am interested in law enforcement. I wish there were more like that. But you didn't call me to exchange compliments. What do you want? I called, Commissioner to make a. Deal, A deal for your self, Shadow. No, merely a deal whereby you will be ready to round up a criminal syndicate headed by Tigert, the notorious schist, lawyer Grogan the political fire and read Doyle of the gangster. You're a crazy Shadow. We know there are crooks, but we can't prove it. Suppose I could produce proof, I wouldn't arrest a combination like that without an iron clad case. I wouldn't last twenty four hours if the rap didn't stick. Then have my job. You'll have your iron clad case. Commissioner Western, wait until you hear from me, your honor, it is the court. I submit that the indictment against back Clan harry Dale is improperly drawn, and I therefore after the state's case be dis mean, your honor, the indictment against harry Dale is properly gone on the section seventy three of the. Fingal call. Got some more gentlemen, The jury will please retire when I hear your arguments on the point of law which. Is not within the problems of their deliberation. Hey, well, mister Tiget, was the prosecutor sat to the bar. I will hear your argument, says to the validity of his INDICTA L. Monk Crimpston, would you mind telling me why we've been following this lawyer. Rex Tigert, from court to court, watching. And clean case after case. Just my very lovely assistant Margo Lane, a cook's tour of the more unpleasant side of the legal profession. How do you like Tiget? Margo, you remind me of the snake. What are you doing now? Lamon Taggert is pulling another legal technicality, snatching another criminal from the hands of the law. How did we get away with this? The law, Margo is flexible, but this flexibility can be used by shyster lawyers like Tiget to provide loopholes. Order watch what happens now? Order sirens in the court with the prosecutor, I regret, I must agree with the arguments of contrue for the defense, mister Tiger protest, I proto to the customary given by the defense. And because of this technical. Error in the incitement, I must dismiss the case against Harry Dale and distard the jury. Lamont Taggert that apartment building. How much longer are we going to follow him around in the car? Now? I've got to follow Tiget. Watch every movie makes Margo, I promise, Commissioner Western and Mayor tight case. I'm getting proof of a vicious racket, a racket that forces innocent people into a life of crime. Where are you going? I'm going to follow Tigert into that apartment as the shadow. I have an idea Tigt is about to collect his fee for defending a recent client. Stay here, Margo, wait till I return. Why you come to my apartment? My brother not here, I'd rather not here. I tell you, I've given you every set. I have, every set I can raise for defending. Him, for saving your brother from the electric chair Dale. But my brother was innocent, Yes, but. The evidence was all against him. Your brother is alive free only because of my knowledge of the law. And you have said that testimony. Why you made me testify? Force me? You told me he was the only way to save my brother. Yes, yes, I did. You want him tried again on the evidence? I can arrange it, and I can have you arrested for perjury and to prison. Oh no, no, Please let me alone. Your brother need money. You need money. I can show you both how to make a lot of it quite easily. We won't do anything criminal. My plans are quite simple. You look like a girl accustomed to buying expensive jewels. You have only to go into jewelry shops and have to see certain gems when they are shown to you at bontee. Your fault. If your brother and others. Help me and take them away, and suppose we refuse you. Will go to prison for perjury and the electric chair will be waiting for your brother. That's a terrible night to be driving along, Sorry, Margol. Wherever Tiget goes, we go, Yes. Tigers, and I'm glad he was able to get doctor Lambert's role. I never did believe doctor Lambert was responsible for. That woman's death. Yes, Margo, I'm glad Lambert is out too, but I'm sorry for anyone Tiget helps. Do you think Tigert needs to force him into his crimes na too, Yes, Margo. The way he's done do Ruth Dale and her brother and many of us. People he's forcing in the crime must be helped. Why don't you talk to me? You to western. I'm not ready, Margo. It takes a lot of fine phrase to make a weather of evidence to catch a slippery eel like Tiget. Besides, there are others I'm out to get political fixer Grogan Red Doyle, the gangster. They're part of Tiger's crime syndicate. I'm not it's reading so hard, I can't see. Where are we outside the home of doctor John Lambert, late of Lyndate Prison, And look, stay on the driveway Tigert's car. What's the next moving on? Margo? You drive down the road, hy know Lamartin's way. I'm sorry, Margol. I know it's cold and wet, but I will be long. I have a notion, Bargo, that we'll drive away from here with an iron tad case for Commissioner Western. I wait, I a blackshell? Oh why did you get me out? Tigered? What good am I to myself to anybody? A doctor convicted of murder without a right to practice? Where can I go? The pro wall said, I can't leave the state. What can I do? The waters I'll be sent back to prison if I don't get a job. Why didn't you let me serve out my fendance? Why didn't you leave me alone? Easy? Take it easy, because I can use your doctor, Lambert. I have connections, friends who need a doctor that control. Who would trust me? Who can be trusted? Because you have reason to hate and fear the law as much as these connections of mine. But I've got to have a legitimate job or I've be sent back to prison. I arranged that, all right. What do I have to do? It's right in your line as a surgeon, you'll be ready day or night to treat gunshot wounds, remove bullets, perhaps grabbed skin, and change faces which have unfortunately found their way into the rogues gallery of the police. What's in it for me? Money? Money you'll need for that fresh start when your year's probation is over. You would let me go with my probations up a year from now. Sure that's fair enough, Just for one year, twelve. Months, then money and a chance. To get away far away. All right, I get, I'll do it. When do I start? I'm afraid that they'll have to wait until one of my connections gets hit. Meanwhile, he has two hundred as a retainer. Tell the probation bot you're working for me as an investigator, but keep away from my office. Just stay here and wait till a year from me. All right, all right, I understand, maybe a week if even if before you get a call. But when it comes, go where you are told. And keep your mouth shut, or you'll go back to the big house. For another stretch. That dog, doctor Lambert, a shyster lawyer, a shyst of doctors. You're in good company, John Lambert. Good comfort. I've got to stop talking to myself I'm not in solitary. I'm free. I'm not in prison anymore. What was that that voice? No, you're still in prison. You're not free, John Lambert. You'll never be free. I'll never let you go. Boy. It laughed, It spoke to me and answered me, Oh am, I losing my mind. Lambert. You're quite sane, but unless you listen to me, you're entering another kind of bondage. But what is his voice? It can't happen, it can't. There is more than a voice in this room. I am quite real, quite close to you, as close as Rex Tigert was a few moments ago. Hypnosis, Yes, hypnosis. I'm here in this room, but I've powdered your mind so that you cannot see me. Who are you? What do you want? John Lambert? Haven't you ever heard a certain name whispered through the dark cells of Lyndie Prison, A name associated with the unseen, A name criminals hate and fear the shadow. You are the shadow, yes, but you have. No reason to fear me. I believe you're an innocent man, unjustly convicted. The newspaper said I was innocent too, but I went to prison justice fame for seven long years now, Tigert has offered me money, then freedom after a year. What can you offer Shadow, a. Chance to be true to your profession, to yourself. I have no profession. I took that away from you, and they took my self respect too. I'm not doctor John Lambert, a surgeon. I'm ex con number two eight four seven, convicted murderer, all on parole because of a shyster daddy schister lawyer. There is no more doctor John Lambert. You're wrong. That was John Lambert speaking just now, crying out against this bargain you've made with Tiget, a swine who never kept a bargain in his life. Oh you're a right shadow. I can't go through with it. And yet if I don't, Taget will send me back. You know he can. He has influenced I too, have influence and power, Doctor Lambert. Doctor doctor Lambert. When seven years and anybody call me doctor without a sneer or a laugh? What would you give to regain your professional honor to escape Taget's funds? Don't Shadow, please, law can make amaze the law. It needs your help. Why shall I help the law it destroyed me? You can help put an end to criminal slavery such as tig It off as you and countless others, you can help wipe out a vicious racket that enslaves poor unfortunate more than the prison from which they were released. Prison bondage, Yes, that it's bondage. Don't freedom not hold. You'll never be free. You'll never have hope. Unless unless one shadow, unless. You help me put Tiget in his kind behind bars. All right, Shadow, I will, I'll do it. I'll do anything you say because I know I can trust you, even the when you sent the lingate the man. Who hate them. Pay you swear you never break your word. I'll keep my word, Doctor Lamberton. Tell me what you want me to do. Do nothing until Tiget's associates call you. Then go where they tell you what Before you go, I want you to phone a certain number. What number Shadow. It's written on the old prescription pad on. Your desk, and on the old prescription pad. Yes, doctor Lambert, on the prescription pad. See it there, old seven years year old with age. But that number will bring the shadow to you wherever you go, and it will mark the beginning of the road back for you and many others. If you do not fail me, if you do not fail the Shadow. In just a moment, we continue with the Shadows Gripping adventure. But first a warning to all homeowners. Despite the present warm spell, advance reports from meteorologists predict that theverest winter in eleven years, So there's no time like right now to order your supply of anthracite. 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Your dealer's name is listed in the red by it section of your classified telephone directory under the words blue coal, and be sure to ask your dealer about the blue coal heat regulator. It's a thermostat which controls your furnace dappers automatically and saves you all the time and. Trouble of constant furnace attention. It costs only eighteen dollars and ninety five cents plus pH nomenal installation charge. I believe this is the end of the trail, Margo. I hope thol the mob. When did jack A landed prone you about an hour ago? Tigers ordered him to go to the Old Empire Hotel. We're there along the beach, about three blocks from here. I slow the cartown, Margo. I thought every hotel out here was closed to the window. Yeah, so it makes an ideal headquarters for Tigert's mob. Why don't you let Commission of Western round the Upler mark You've done enough. No, Margo, I promise Western and air tight case. And I've got to be sure the whole outfit is caught with the goods before I give Western the word to close in. What makes you so sure this will be the finish? It's the logical time for the gang to be paid off, Margo. Those three big jewel robberies this week call unquestionably Tigart's gang. A girl going into the stores and asking to see certain valuable jet. All right, the description fitted perfectly. But why they call for doctor Lambert? The driver of the getaway car was shot, Margo. Are the two the one Lambert is treating him right now? Carefully? Doesn't have to take a bullet out of the Shadow. Let's stop right here. Yeah, it's just close enough now, Margot, Wait and keep the short wave tuned in on the bend. The Shadow always uses bone Western the minute I give the word, then go straight back to town and wait for me. If I don't hear from you, you'll still stay away from the Empire Hotel, Margot, Lane, that's an order times and I. Wish i'd never heard of the Shadow. Well, go on the mode and get this. Over with me. Cut off your eyes, shut tires. I don't want to bring. Please, please take it easy, Keep that guy quiet, give him up. That's what we're playing. Your man is delirious, Doyle, Why didn't you call me sooner? Bet? Ask how many questions? Where's tigers? Where's tigers there the next room? What do you care? Are you doing? You're tall and shut that guy up. Come on, let's get this slip. Take it out, Okay, Tiger, keep the sh on. I'm coming. I'm sorry for but I guess I'll have to put you under. Oh why doesn't the shadow come all here? Why doesn't he come? I am here, doctor Lambert, I've been here for several minutes. Shadow, Thank hevint. You found the place? Well, Tiger, then give them an hypoe if he can stand it, put him to sleep. I've already given it to him. But he should be in a hospital. He'll be on his way to a hospital in a few minutes. Those are many want out there. Shadow. Red Doyle is the actual leader of the gang, but Tigert gives the order. I don't know anything about Grougan. Grogan is the roughness of the lot. He's a political picks up without whom no big gang can operate. You're not going to tackle them alone. No, but we're going to hold him in the next room until the police can close in. Commission a Western is waiting for word from me. New handle a gun, Yes, yes, yes, this wounded man has gone under. He won't give us any trouble. Good quick, now take his gun over there on the table. All right, Shadow, it's loaded. Good now pocket that gun. Go in out of the room. Get us close to Tiger as you can. When I speak, Grab Tiger and shove that gun in his back. Don't let anyone get behind you. All right, Shadow, you haven't failed me so far, and I trust you. Now. Calling Margo Lane, Calling Margo Lane, born Western at the seventeenth pricing station. He is there already in waiting. Tell him just around and raid the Empire Hotel. Break into basement, Let no one escape, Let no one escape, Let us all. All right, tig it, the split us all figured out. Here's the payoffs sheet. All right. I'll stay up the towel stairs and get them out of here. Okay, come here, root Tale. Here's your cut. Fifty bucks. I know I won't take it. Fifty dollars. Fifty dollars returning criminals helping rob three jewelry stores. You got fifty thousand dollars worth of gyms. And you paper sent. I'll quit reading the papers. They always double a hole fifty dollars by helping you. Friends only paid us ten grand for the stuff. It was five im a regular boys who did the dirty work. A grand for Tigers, the springers if things went haywire, a grand the Brogan for a fixed destination. To get away. There's no other way. Take it and leave it. Only remember what I told you. The electric tair is still waiting for your brother here. Oh, I don't want the money, I don't care. Just let us out of the wait, Dame. All right, Dale, here's your. Cut one hundred. Fuck. Don't take it, Harry, don't better take your share. Dale. Next time I may have been able to spring you. No, my sister's right. I didn't want to get mixed up in this. You made me Tigers. I'm getting k out with Ruth. Don't try it. Nobody quit all right now beat it, Bunks going upstairs, and Grogan and I've got some things to talk over. What about tigers? Almost the bluff you, Lambert didn't see your standing behind me. Give the doctor Andrew dog the basement. As well as could be expected. Don't worry if. You lose him. He's that dumb bell anyhow, I'm on, Doyle, that's your target and make it down the business. Okay, okay, Grogan, come on, tell you you and your sister in Lamb. But beat it. Not so fast, gentleman. Just an unseen guess at the division of the spoil of crime. I gets there's only one guy that last like that, a guy nobody's even seen. A shadow, Yes, Tiger, the shadow, of course. He's come for a cut. Give it on. He's poisoned here. Get it cut the still like a don't Movember, what. Are you doing this? He killed me seeing that gun out you fool Doyle, Brogan healthy, hey, move you well done, careful Tiget Lambert you double crop Coyle. Oh your gun on the table? All right? Are you? Grogan? I don't carry a gun. Hurry hell touch Grogan, right miss til you Tiger all right, Brogan hasn't got a gun. Shadow, Tagon hasn't us. I don't move those tyrants. Mean Commissioner Wesson and the police are coming to the feast of the unholy free Shadow. I don't want to get mixed up with this gang tagant rings my parle and force me into it. Will you tell that to a grand Jory Dale. Yes, I'll testify. I'll testify against them, and my sister will too. Want your rooms. Yes, I'll tell the police everything. I'll tell them. Shadow, if you turn state's evidence, you'll both go free. I have commission a westerns promise. So you're working with permission a West. And they said, I've always worked for law and order. Gave away from those books on the table, Grogan and Sale. Pick up those books, hold on to them, give them the wesson when he gets here. You can't pay anything on me. Shadow. Your name is in those books. You're on the payroll. Grogan. Those books will send you up for twenty years. I don't move. They are dress the Western. Here's the gang's book. Thanks deal. I know all about you, all right, God to Lambert. If I got gun on the tiger's back, I. Know all about your sweat for this weapon. Well, but this isn't my old pain in the neck. Grogan a political. Figures, part of the gang. He's on the peril. He he's all right. Total put the cup on her red toil tiger, Progan, what a night was? You never pin anything on me? With them, They've gotta sice the breath for the trial tiger. All right, take him away, boys, Sergeant, Yes, take carried down and his sister Ruth and Mical Lamber to my office. If there's stay, musn't have to wait for me. There's a wounded man in the other room, Commissioner, he's badly hurt. Sergeant, get him in rushing to the hospital. All right, boys, take hello. Yes, Commissioner. Thanks, he certainly handled me an air tight case against three of the biggest crooks in the city. You'll keep your promise to help doctor Lambert Dale and the sister. You kept your promise. I'll keep mind. That's all I ask. You're a strange man, Shadow, That's all you ever asked, Old Jo. I was just a citizen interested in law enforcement, in seeing the innocent protected and the guilty punished. Goodbye, Commissioner, until we meet again. In just a moment, we have a surprise for you, a preview of next week's Fighting Shadow adventure. But first, here's John Bartley. Blue cold heating expert, with the more helpful information to all householders. Mister Barkler, Thank you, Ken Roberts, and good evening friends. Many people write in to tell me that they don't get the best heating results from the amount of coal they put on the fire. Well that may be caused by losing heat up the chimneys. Chimney loss is a common source of trouble and unnecessary waste of coal. However, it's an easy matter to remedy. The next time you fix the fire, move the handle of your turn damper that disk inside the smoke pipe one sixteenth of an inch toward the close. If the buyer continues to burn freely, turn it another sixteenth to the names. Repeat this operation until you move the turn damper as near as possible to the closed position. For the nearer the turn damper to the closed position, the smaller. The chimney laws. When you found the ideal adjustment, mark the position with a piece of chalk on the smoke pipe and leave your dampers there throughout the burning season. If you find you have any other particular heating problem, I'd suggest you call your blue coal dealer. He'll place a trained John Barkley heating serviceman at your disposal. You'll find him fully qualified to check over your furnace and show you how to get better heat at less cost. I thank you now a preview of next week's Shuttle stories Black Rock, mat and you too, what you're working for me? Now what I say? Go? Okay? By god, we get it. What's the gag? A big business executive like. Your Tian Croup, Shut up your toe and listen to me. Oh, here's this setup. I'm gonna steal or shall I say a choir, the entire profits two million dollars of my company. Oh boy, I get it, and then leave all the poor stockholders holding the bang. You take candy from a baby, wouldn't you? Don't worry you too, guys, You'll get your cut. Will innocent stockholders be robbed by an unscrupulous profit here or will the Shadow be able to protect them? Find out next week when you hear the Shadows Uist Adventure Black Crop. This program has been the dramatized version of one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in The Shadow magazine, now on sale at your local news stand. All the characters and all the places named are fictitious, and in similarity to persons living or dead, is purely coincidental. The weed of crime, there's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows. Next week, same time, same station. Blue Coal America's Finastantra site will again present the shadow. Be sure to listen, and be sure to burn blue coal, the solid fuel for solid comfort.