The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Shadow 011 - The Poison Death

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

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What evil lurks in the hearts of men. The shadow knows. Blue Cole presents the Shadow. The mystery man who strikes terror into the very hearts of shopsters, lawbreakers, and criminals. Today, the poison death. Today's exciting adventure with the Shadow will start in just a moment. But first, I have an unusual free offer of great interest to all listed. John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert, has written a book,

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Dying. Oh, hurry. Hurry, please. Hurry. Doctor. Doctor, what's wrong with my husband? He's been poisoned. Poisoned.

Isn't there something you can do? Some way of serious. No, I'm sorry, my dear. It's too late. Your husband is... Oh! What's this bill? The poison case?

Yes. The calls are coming in fast and then we get out to them. Well, that's one will have to go to general. The emergency ward is full. Cock left, the same thing in every hospital in town. They swaths, all poison cases. And nobody knows how they're getting it or what it is. Come in, Commissioner Weston.

Thanks. I keep over as soon as I got your message, Mr. Mayor. Hey on, Commissioner. You know why I said for you? Yes. And I hate to admit it, but we haven't one single clue to go on. I've had the entire police force working on this poison epidemic for three days, and we're right where we start.

And the first ransom of murder center newspapers demanding a million dollars' ransom or this city of over a million souls will be wiped out, poisoned. as a hopes. Mayor, it's a wild scheme of a crazed mind. It can't be anything else. I don't agree with you. The ransom note was signed the shadow. This same shadow you claim has helped you solve so many crimes, but it has never asked for reward or credit. I don't believe the shadow sent that note, Mayor. No. Then look at this photostatic copy of the original

Patrick and Threat. Listen to the way it's worded. For years, the shadow has smashed brackets, wiped out criminal syndicates, trapped murderers without reward. And now the time has come for a settlement. The shadow would save the city millions. Now the city will pay the shadow. One million dollars For the hospitals will be filled with the dying And the malls who would fill to the dead. I'm still convinced that it isn't the real shadow

Who's guilty? You say that because the shadow has hoped you so much in the past. I resent that, Mr. Mayor. All right, present it. But it's up to you to get busy and find out who's responsible. Fact remains that no clues have been found. Well, I've got to have action. I'm doing everything I can.

Maybe you are, but you're to do better. Look at this report. The hospitals are filled with the dying. The morgue is filled with the dead. When is the innocent people? Stricken by a poison the health department can't identify. A poison for which there seems to be no antidote. What is it?

How is it being fed to the people? Find out that we'll get another police commissioner. Just a minute, they'll phone. Hello? This is Clyde Berg of the Classic, Your Honor. What is it, Burke? We just received another note signed by the shadow. What does it?

Listen to this. I can strike it random, but I can also single out any one of you for death. To prove it, I am going to poison Dan Brinkley, Commissioner of Sanitation. When you get this through the mail, Brinkley will be dead. The Mon Prince, Hello, Margot. Oh, Kevin's your back.

Have you discovered this poor room all these people? Who's using your name, the name of the shadow? Oh, no, Marga. I've worked on his little bit of him. Whoever he is, this man masquerading as the shadow must be absolutely insane. He's no doubt about that, Margo, but it's the insanity of a genius, not of a money-mad fool. What strange, distorted mind could devise such a terrible scheme?

Margo, you see that map of the city again. You know the one where we marked all the errors affected by this source of poisoning? Yes, I know. Here you are, Lamont. You see?

The cases are widely scattered all over the city. Have you any idea how these people were poisoned? Must have been put in food or milk or something. There's been so many poisonings it doesn't seem really possible it could have been administered individually.

No, there were poisoning groups in every house affected by the poison and no one escaped. It wasn't poison milk, the newspapers checked on that, and it couldn't have been the food. No, the food those people ate came from a hundred different stores. Wait a minute, Margot. Just give me an idea. What's the one thing that all these people must have had at some time or another on the day they were poisoned?

What do you mean, Lamont? Margot, I think I've got it. Water. Yes, water, that's it. How could that be? I don't know, Margo, but that's the answer. I'm sure of it. That explains the grouping of the poison cases.

But how? Could have been done at the water, me too. introduced into the main pipe in the basement somewhere. There are many different places about somebody in the city? Mrs. Marga, who could tamper with the water pipes from the basements of any building in the city and not aroused suspicion? Why, well, someone from the water company is the man who reads the meter. Exactly, or someone posing as a representative of the water company.

Oh, sir. Margot, come on, let's open under something else this happens. Oh, Lamont, it's like a nightmare. What do you say? Mount Poisoned at the one is Let's see Let's see Read all about it

The show The window, Margot Remark, why do you support Commissioner Brinkley With single... Margo, Distorted mind, especially that of a brilliant man

Well, very often Move along a straight line From cause to effect This case follows a line so simple And so straight but the police do not even suspect who he is, Margo. But in killing Brinkley, he deviated from his original purpose long enough to settle a grudge.

This is that one mistake the greatest of criminals make. You mean it's somebody who commissioned Brinkley wrong? Yes. But Brinkley may never have wronged anybody. To a man with a warped mind like this and imagined wrongs and inspire revenge just the same. Maybe it's someone who worked under Brinkley, someone in the Department of Salatiation. Margo, the pieces of this... crazy puzzle are beginning to sit together.

It weren't yet to this paper, the one with a photostatic copy of the ransom note sent by a man masquerading under the name of the shadow. Oh, here it is, Levant. I kept it along with all the other clipping. Oh, you think. For years, the shadow has smashed brackets, wiped out criminal syndicates, trapped murderers without a... Margo. What is this? The letter E, it appears five, no... ... six, seven, seven, eight times, and...

every time it appears out of line and look yeah look here the letter A is blurred Margot it's like ABC the obvious clothes we could only find that typewriter The command out of all the typewriters in the city It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack

Don't you suppose the police have considered that angle Tried to find that machine Perhaps they have but without First logically working out the problem As to the one place where that machine might be They're wasting that time The one place is the Department of Sanitation It's so logical as to be incredible.

Come on, Margo. Get your hat and coat. We've got work to do and has no time to lose. But the Mont, you're not going to the Department of Sanitation at this hour than I. Why not? Well, suppose you were caught. Don't worry, Margot. The real shadow won't be caught.

I need your help if we're going to try out all the typewriters in those offices. It's a job for Lamont Cranston and his assistant, Margo Lane. But if you're caught, how long a sentence can they give us for breaking into a public building? It's worth risking and far better than sitting here, building us theories and knocking them down again while this... This mad masquerader carries out his monstrous schemes of wholesale murder. Come on, Margo, let's go. No, Margo. No, this isn't the machine.

No, it's the last one in here. Let's try the next office. Be careful of that crash light, you're Marl. Must be a watch from here in the building somewhere. He turned on the basement sweeping. He chose that before I signaled you to come in. It looks like another exploded theory, Lamont. We've tried dozens of machines,

and none of them have the characteristics of the letters in those ransomed. They're not going to stop until we've tried them all, Margot. There's a door. there leading to the back part of this floor in the morning. Yes, it says, private office of chief chemist A. D. Gerber. Let's look in there.

Yes, there's the only one in here. Try it, Margo. There's some paper. Yes. I'd be glad to get out of this, please. Not the same way, Margaret, that's it. For years, the shadow has smashed brackets. Well, now, it's still.

Not. White out criminal syndicates. Margo. A. B. B. B. B. B. LERD. Go on, finish it. Traped murderers without reward. Now the time has come. The settlement.

This is the machine that's type of warning notes to the papers. The office of the city's chief chemist. In Gurghers' office. It might not have been Gurdler. Other people could get to this machine and use it. Margo, everything's beginning to fit together. We would know more about poisons than a car. chemist.

You know, I felt all along. You light over on that door, Lamont. There's lettering on it. Laboratory. Keep out. Who would be in a laboratory at this time, star? Margo. I don't know.

I'm going to find out. Maybe the man we're looking for, Lerla. No, I think it would be best if you get out of here. Go back to the car. Wait for me. Oh, please, Lamont. Let me stay here if you come out, and I might be able to help you if it's that crazy man.

No, Margo. What if you can't wait for me? Mount Cranston and Margo Lane, but don't all they can. The time has come for me to do the shadow. The rural shadow must open that door. The second part of the shadow's adventure will continue in just a moment. In the meantime, let's talk about how to save money.

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No one knows. I'm here all alone. Too suspect me, Gerber, the city chemist. I'll never tell them. They'll never know that Brinkley is dead. They make me commissioner of sanitation. I should have had the job when they gave it to him. I guess he knows it now. Gerber, bring me that report.

Gerber, why didn't you do this? Gerber, why didn't you do that? Kid me like dirt! All that's over now, though. Over and done with. How did that door get open? Must have forgotten to close it. Must be getting up some mind. Yeah, got to be more careful.

Someone might come in. Might ask me what I'm doing, what I'm making. What are you making, Gerber? Really? What was that? Who said that? Who laughed? The shadow spoke, Gerber?

Shadow? Yes, Gerber. Hope to cover your excursions into the realm of murder. Oh, you can make yourself invisible, shadow. Or are you hiding? I happen to be master of the ancient art of hypnotism. I can blind your eyes to my presence. But you are really here in this room.

Physically, I mean... Yes, I opened that door. I walked into... How did you find me? By a process of elimination. because you made one mistake in your admirable train of logic. A mistake? Yes.

When you murdered Brinkley, the Commissioner of Sanitation, I knew it must be someone who had a grievance against him real or imaginary. Real or imaginary. Oh, I see. You think I am insane, shadow? The sanity of a brilliant mind is not measured by ordinary standards. Yes, that's it. My co-workers know I'm brilliant.

They don't think I'm accented because when they're never. everybody's around I'm on my guard. What were you doing when I came in, Gerber? Killing this bottle. What is in that bottle, Gerber? What is that crimson-colored fluid? That is the poison shadow. I'm supposed to be analyzing the blood taken to my first batch of poison victims.

But instead, I've been making more poison. You see? It's all ready now. Would you like some shadow? I'll be glad to give it. do you? What are you going to do with that bottle of poison, Gerber? I'm not afraid.

You can't stop me. That devil himself wouldn't stop me. Listen, I'm going to drive to one of our fashionable suburbs where all the important people of the city lives. There's a high-steel water tower there. I'm going to climb that power and pour this little bottle of poison through the trap door at the top.

It will be their uses in the water. carried into the homes of all those prominent people. And by tomorrow night, they will all be dead. It is fortunate I found you in time. It's time for what, Shadow? In time to stop you. Who can't stop me, Shadow? You're not going to leave this laboratory with that bottle of poison, Kerrbert?

Yes I am. And I'm going this middle, Shadow. You see this test? Yes. It's filled with acid. Acid that will burn you beyond recognition. You forget you can't see me. But the only way you can stop me is by physical means,

with your body that seems to be not even a shadow. And to do that, you must drop your cloak of invisibility. How do I know that isn't a blind to make myself become visible to you? Oh, it isn't a blind shadow. I pour a little on the floor. You see? Think what that would do to human flesh And you say you are human,

then I dare you to stop me. But the first touch of your hands, I'll throw it at you! It is better that one man be injured, entire community. I'm willing to take that... All right. We'll see if you're as brave as you sound, Shadow. Stop where you are. Oh!

I'm leaving unless you stop me physically. Then I have no alternative but to fight you, man to man. Come on me! Oh! Oh, you are human! human. You will be burned beyond recognition that putt it would eat in tune of the very bone. Goodbye, shadow. At last you've met someone who is your match. Now there's no one disrupting putting the poison in that water tower!

Let's Lamarce. Did you see a tall, powerfully built man come out of the sanitation building just now? Look, Lamont. He got in a car. Very good. Going down the street. You can still see the tailor. Follow me, Margot. And in heaven's name, don't lose him. That's the man, Gerber. He won't get away. In the car. Yes, it's inside pockets. Oh, Lamar, clothes. They're smoking.

Then your hands bleeding. Oh, then not an idea of what happened. Acid, Margo, acid. He was getting away with a bottle of poison. I tried to stop him. He slew the air. Oh, Lamar, your face. Let me look at your family.

I didn't get any of my face. I broke my own in time. It's all right. I'll banish my hands as best I can. Keep your eyes on my car, Margo. Far more important. Don't lose him. He's heading for the suburbs.

This time Gerber really means business. Marga, we set the poison the whole community. It's going to dump a bottle of that bit. It's stopped in a water tower. Oh, Vermont! Oh, you're in terrible pain. I can see it. Let me take care of you.

Let me stop at a phone booth and call Commissioner Weston. Don't you stand out of general alarm and pick this man. Now, Marga, we have a job to do. We'll lose, Gerber. If we stopped, then the police wouldn't be any good. We'll find out where he's going and then we can call the police. All right, Vermont. No best.

I'll try not to do you. You've got to get to a doctor as quickly as possible, possible infection might set him. I will as soon as... Argo, look. Yes. I think Gerber is nearing his destination. He's taking that road up the hill.

If I remember correctly, the water tower's at the top. Lamont, how will you stop him now? You with your bleeding hands. He's a powerful man. Crazy with the strength of a mania. I've got to do what I can to delay him. Keep them putting that poison on the tower until you can get the police. The police.

Lamarck, how is he going to get the poison on the table? He said there was a trap door on top of the tower. A door they use when they clean the tank. Oh, that means you may have to climb that tower. Now, you can't up with your hands in that condition. It's snowing. There'll be ice on the rungs of the ladder. And in this wind, you're liable to slip and fall.

I've got the chances. Stop, Marga, stop. At the water tower. There's the car. Lamont. Look, it's Ferber. He's starting to climb the tower already. Margot.

Go on, get the police. Hurry. Tell them to get someone to shut off the water in this tower in case I say, oh. Hurry, Margo, hurry! I'm going up that afternoon. All right, come on, I'll get you. But all right, keep on following me. You're a long way behind me by the sound of your voice.

Stop, when you get to the top, I shall catch up with you. Yes, by that time I shall have poisoned the water. You forget the transfer of the tank. They'll be lost. It will be rusty and easy to break. But it will take time that I shall be gaining on you. You need to hurry, curber? That's too bad you missed for a mate with an accident.

That is the comfort went on you. I heard it sizzling into your flesh. On my hands, that's all. Don't you want to see them? Then you must be suffering, holding onto the ice-covered ladder. Not as much as you'll suffer once I reach you. All right, Shadow. I'm on the top already.

Now, you are right, Shadow. The cat door is locked. But that won't stop me. I'm going to blow it open with my revolver. The lock is broken, Shadow. You'd better hurry up. I'm not far below your door. Now, Gerva.

Now I'm opening the trap door, Shadow. Yes, yes. I hear it, Gerber, but you'll never put the poison in the water. I have the bottle in my hand. I'm pulling out the stoppers. And I'm here to not... Fill the poison. You spoil my revenge.

He spoiled it. But you'll pay for it. You're leaving blood marks on the snow with your hands. You can't get off the top of this tower. You can't get past me to the ladder. I don't need to see you to find you. see you to find you, the blood marks will show me where you are. Come and get me, Gerber. I'm waiting for you here on top of the tank.

I know you are, and you can't go any further, or you'll slip and fall to the ground, hundred to feet below. Don't be so sure, Gerber. There. There! I touched you, Shadow. You squirm very cleverly. But I've got you.

I've got you. You won't get away from me, Shadow. And you won't get away from the police. You want to police? Yes. But before they get here, I'm going to throw you off the power shovel! You might fall off yourself if you try to do that. If I do, I'll pull you off with me.

He'll never get me. He'll never take me alive! He didn't get me. He didn't be struggling with somebody. I don't fight on him! Your heart, Gerber, you're trapped. Your trap is no escape, Grubber. Listen to me, Commissioner Wester. You never get me? Never. I did it. I killed all those people. I made you think it was a shadow. Get back, policeman. He's trying to jump. You'll be killed, Gutter. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid because you're coming with me, Shadow. Come on, Shadow. Come with me. Come with me. Come with me.

He jumped. Throw your light over there to the further tower. See who it is. That's our man, the poison. There's the body. He's dead of the taunt. Yes. No man could fall that distance and live. Turn him over. Let's see his face. He's dead, all right.

Knit's broken. Why is it? Clever. Curver! The cheap chemist of the sanitation department. Who would ever have thought a man in his position? He was struggling with someone up there on the top of the tower. Where's the other man?

He took around the base of the collar. He's even trying another body. Look in the bushes. I suppose we're curvin. There's a stooping in these snowflowers. Bring the search side around. side around. Anything over there, Sergeant? No. No. No. I don't see you. Here, sir. There's nobody over here here, sir. Listen.

A shadow. You trapped Burberry. Yes, Commissioner. Well, you won't poison any more by the looks of him. And now, would you do something for me, Commissioner? By all means. If you don't mind, Commissioner, I'd like to publicly take the credit for solving this mystery. Gerber committed his crimes in the name of the shadow. And I I rather think the real shadow

to be vindicated. Don't you? 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 fictitious. And the similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

The weed of bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The shadow knows. Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest anthracite, will again present another thrilling adventure of the shadow. Be sure to live. and be sure to burn blue coal. The solid fuel for solid comfort.