 The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler Written, produced and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cokart and featuring tonight's two of Radio's most distinguished personalities Stato Sortega and Richard Cokart in No Grave Can Hold Me This is The Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey a little around the boost train yet the terrifying I hope you will enjoy the trip and it will bring you a little as we travel tonight into the world of shadows of which no man may return and we learn the story of one who does return it's a story I call No Grave Can Hold Me My story starts in a court of law where a man is on trial for his life the courtroom is tense for the jury is out deciding the prisoner's fate but the prisoner himself a tall man with glossy black hair and piercing eyes sits calmly with his lawyer his daughter Nora and his son-in-law Harry Wilson waiting for the fateful verdict Father I think the jury is coming you know they say it's a bad sign the majority is out for such a short while you need not to worry either of you I shall be free I certainly hope so Randolph but all you know you did admit you killed Clemens because he insulted me he called me a mount of anchor charlatan a trickster he called the great Randolph a faker so he died there they come oh father I'm frightened I'm taking you places in the jury box now I look awfully grim I repeat have no fear for me foreman of the jury has the jury reached a verdict and has your honor what is the verdict we find independent guilty as charged of murder in the first grade oh no no no I found you guilty fools they too think that I'm an imposter a trickster they shall learn different if I die so shall they the prisoner will rise father you stand up the prisoner will rise very well I'll stand up so that they will recognize my face again when they see it suddenly in the night and know that death has come to claim them max million Randolph you have been found guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree it is the sentence of this court that you shall suffer the punishment of death on the night of June 6 at midnight and may god have mercy on your soul thank you god miller you can change for only five minutes yes all right god hello Randolph good evening harry I see that my god miller managed to get you in to see me yes he did time is so short that well I know is almost midnight and at midnight I die but god miller has become a good friend I knew he'd arrange it noran I saw the governor this afternoon he he refused to do a thing it does not matter what is death but a new garment for the soul to wear nor is waiting outside you said you didn't want to see you tonight that is as I wished you were my assistant you were very close you and I and now there is a last promise you must make to me anything Randolph when you receive my body the empty husk of the great Randolph bury it in a vault with a bronze door which faces east a vault facing east here's a court the door must be locked with a padlock of bronze but it must be possible to open it from the inside but without using a key Randolph you the coffin must be locked shut as well but I must be able to open it from the inside friend I'll show you not serious I never joke all this and one thing more promise all right I I promise when I am buried beneath my head must rest a notebook bearing the names and addresses of the 12 jurymen who found me guilty of the prosecuting attorney and of the judge but why Randolph so that I'm in a way to seek my vengeance upon them the vengeance I have sworn which must be executed before my soul can sleep oh Randolph that's madness you disbelieve so do they but in my studies I have learned many things and one of them is how to reach back from behind the dark curtain of death all right time is up sir thank you menor goodbye harry just tell me one more thing is the full moon shining tonight yes it's a full moon tonight good and each time hereafter that it shines one of my enemies will join me in death and so the great Randolph went to his execution and was buried according to his instructions after a few days his case was forgotten forgotten by all but harry wilson his son-in-law well as the first month passed and the full moon again shone in the windows of his apartment a strange restlessness possessed harry harry what's wrong with you no I'm sorry norah but tonight the night of the full moon and I'm nervous I can't help it oh darling you're not worrying about father are you about his threat yes I am oh but that's absurd poor father toward the end I'm afraid he was suffering from delusions and he was more than just an ordinary man he wasn't entirely sane no maybe not but he was so sure of himself so certain and those instructions for the way he was to be buried oh of course I am just being foolish why don't you go out and walk for a while harry it'll help calm me all right all right I will you want to come along it's a nice night no I think I'll stay here and read all right I'll be back in an hour so dear if nothing happens tonight I'll I'll know that Randolph is just putting on an act another man was also walking in the moonlight of a beautiful july evening this one was short and stout he was trolling homework from a small poker party with his friends when in the dark shadows cast by the trees along the edge of the park a tall figure stepped directly into his path just a moment Adam who are you what do you want just to talk to you I don't want to talk to you get out of my way so fast my friend look again say what is this a hold up no Adams it is not to hold and why are you threatening me with that gun why'd you got that scar coming in face because my face has changed in the month since I was executed and buried it's rather frightening now what are you saying why are you anyway you're beginning to recognize my voice aren't you you know who I am you just don't want to admit it to yourself that's great Randolph whom you was forming of the jury caused to be executed oh no that's not possible no one could come back from the dead no ordinary man but the great Randolph has now no I don't believe it there's a trick of some kind and is this a trick Adam is it is it he's out for a walk who is this who heard it often enough father oh no it can't be strange how skeptical everyone is of me even my own daughter father it is you what do you want I just want to tell harry that I've claimed the first victim of my vengeance exactly on the stroke of midnight the same minute when I died oh no no and I wanted to warn him that he must do nothing to interfere with my plans he does have to add him no nor are you he's the telephone here you want to speak to me here's harry just a little after 12 he said that he yes I know he heard the news I was in the restaurant having coffee and he came over the radio Adams the foreman of the jury was found strangled in front of his home oh but it's impossible and yet it was his voice harry father's voice oh we've got to do something nor I've got to warn the others on that list the other juror is bored when the district attorney in judge dexter yes but he said if you try to interfere I know that that doesn't matter in the morning I'm going to the district attorney ball when he'll believe me you'll have to look mr bullen you've got to listen to me you've got to warn the others you've got to give them protection or they'll die just as Adams did once and I'm a busy man I have enough on my mind without having to listen to wild eyed stories like the one you just told me but it's true Reynolds instructions about the way you want to be buried the notebook that I put in the coffin with him mere theatrical memory Adams was the victim of an ordinary street mugging there that's all there is to it I have to ask you to leave I have more important things to tend to the Lord you're a sensible man you edit the biggest newspaper in this city if you'll only print what I've told you the authorities will have to take some action well so my job is to print news for our readers not go stories if I rang your story I'd be fired tomorrow then you don't believe me tell you what I will do I'll make a story for the Sunday supplement out or that won't do any good if it's in a Sunday supplement people will just smile at it when they see it they don't know it's just a story and I'm afraid there's no use in talking any further Wilson all right I'll go to other papers one of them will have to believe I don't advise it you're on a shop don't you're selling tricks and magic apparatus yes yes that's right why just this newspapers don't believe in giving free publicity and that's obviously what you're after goodbye Mr. Wilson and very sorry Mr. Wilson but Judge Dexter is unable to see you but Mr. you explained to him what it's about how important it is the judge said if you cared right in the letter he'd give the matter his consideration oh that's no good I got to talk to him I'm sorry he's leaving today for his vacation and he won't be back for a month perhaps you'll be able to see you then but he simply can't see you now none of them would listen to me nor are they either thought I was crazy or but I wanted publicity they all told me to forget it they're right Harry that's the only thing to do to forget it but Nora maybe we're wrong maybe Adam's death last night was just a coincidence I'm sure father had nothing to do with it oh no no no he telephoned you you heard his voice well I'm not sure now that I did maybe it was a dream Harry maybe I just imagined it so forget the whole thing please Harry for my sake forget it very darling it's no good just pacing up and down please sit down and try to relax I can't Nora I can't tonight the second full moon since Randolph was executed he'll be leaving his grave tonight and someone else will die but Harry that there ought to be a guard over the fault he's buried in oh no that wouldn't do any good if he came back to him that's daddy wouldn't be bothered by a guard please Harry you've done the best you can and if it is true when you go on like this will you be in danger too I don't care that list Nora the names on it were alphabetical and Adam's the foreman was the first to die what are you driving the second name on the list is Baldwin the district attorney Baldwin wouldn't listen to me last time but the night he's got to only was home now while it's still time Baldwin you are in danger tonight I'm sure of a deadly danger no you you mean it I'm sure well yes I thought it was some kind of a gag before now I can see you fully believe everything you've said oh then you you will take precautions at least for tonight I've been an officer of the law for 30 years I've been threatened by a lot of convicted murderers but not one of them has come back to get me yet but you don't understand the great grand office different he had powers that that we know nothing about perhaps perhaps but I doubt it now it's and I appreciate your warning but I can't take it seriously then you won't guard yourself no more than usual I lock the door presently I'm sure that'll keep out any ghosts who may come this way mr Baldwin please it's almost midnight at least let me stay with you for another hour I'm sorry but I'm about ready to turn in I expect to sleep well too now you go on home do the same because nobody's going to be harmed tonight by the great brand of spook I guarantee it oh no I I please I wish you'd let me I couldn't think of it now you can find your way out yourself can't you I'm sure yes of course all right mr Baldwin I won't bother you any longer good night good I listen he's gone I'm afraid the poor fellow needs to see a psychiatrist and they hope I never have anything worse to be afraid of them who's there who came in just now Wilson is that you again oh my friend it is not Wilson who are you but the devil's a meaning of this you don't recognize me then how can I at cloak with the collar pulled up over your face that is to spare the world a sight that should remain forever hidden within the darkness of a coffin but my voice surely you recognize that what are you talking about I get out at once I'll call for the police it would tax their powers to arrest me they have no authority in the world to which I belong no no it can't be I see you wasn't warning Baldwin because I'm here the great Randolph at your service is impossible that's been said of so many things but I think I can convince you no stay away that won't do you any good by the time anyone comes who will have joined me in the world of get away I could hear you calling all the way down the hall you're away you've been I just went out to get the morning papers why why it's happened again district attorney Baldwin has been killed but how exactly the same way mr. Adams was killed strangled just admit now oh no and norah I think I know the truth now what do you mean I don't believe it was your father at all I think it was I that killed them I killed them both oh no you've got to do it there's a full moon tonight you've got to lock me in this apartment oh but Harry you couldn't possibly have killed those two men I could I was near the scene at both times and my my mind it wasn't clear I don't remember doing it but don't you see if I've been hypnotized I wouldn't remember but darling father couldn't have hypnotized you into committing murder it's a law of hypnosis the subject won't do anything he knows is wrong I know that but I can't be sure I believe that in those few minutes I was with him somehow Randolph impressed on my mind orders to carry out his vengeance for him oh darling I'm sure he didn't but if you insist I'll lock you all right well I want you to go now might not be safe for you to stay with me all right Harry I'll go to a movie got to stay locked in until after midnight then even if I am hypnotized I won't be able to do any harm you do understand norah don't you oh of course darling I'm sure you're wrong but I'll do anything you say all right now lock me in and don't you come back until after midnight then I'll know well maybe I'll try to get out and I won't remember it but yes hello where are you Randolph I just wanted to warn you and don't try to interfere with my plans but Randolph I thought hello hello I'm not the one then in that case yes that's the only possible answer I know now who got the truth is I forgot to get out of here the door I couldn't break it down with an axe there's no prior escape and it's eight floors down to the street I have at the superintendent I can telephone the superintendent tell him I locked it locked in and then you'll come and let me out Judge Dexter first Adams died then Baldwin their names were the first two on the great Adam Randolph's list your name is third and so you think that tonight I'm scheduled to die yes yes I'm sure of it and you say you warned Baldwin last month just before he was murdered I did and he laughed at me but he died just the same and you're seriously asking me to believe that a dead man legally executed by the state is walking the streets tonight seeking my life I tell you he telephoned me only half an hour ago I recognize his voice you know of course that your story sounds like the ravings of an insane mind I know that's why I've kept quiet this last month I did try to convince the police the district attorney and all I got was laughed at and then yes and yet obviously you're you're in earnest I don't think you're crazy I'm not for a little while I thought that I was the killer you how I thought I was under post-hypnotic control but Randolph had planted in my mind the impulse to kill his enemies but that phone call proved that I was wrong and what do you propose that we do if we went to his town perhaps then we'd learn the truth Wilson what do you want to open Randolph's tomb for don't you see if we go there and we find Randolph is still in his car and then I'll know that the real murder is my wife Nora I have the key right here I'll have the padlock for a minute and then hurry the moon is bright I hate to have anyone see us yes I hear a very strange story a man in my position clowling around the cemetery at midnight oh but we had to come judge we had to make sure yeah but like that we can open the door and I'm rather sorry I paid any attention to you Wilson but we're here now so let's get this thing over with now I'm going in first but don't forget I'm on oh don't worry about me there I've shut the door be safe to turn on the flashlight now there see there's the coffin that's odd huh what is it judge the air in here is fresh this vault has been opened and very recently then it must have been opened by Randolph oh nonsense open this coffin and I'll prove it here how does it work this catch on the side can be operated either from the inside or out there we have it's on the right well then lift the lid man lift it all right I'll do it no there there you are now see there's your precious Randolph safe and sound just as I expected quite dead as he's supposed to be still in this coffin yes and that proves that it Wilson shine your flashlight down on the floor I just touched a body lying here near the wall body it's war she's dead I don't think so here give me that what happened why did you turn out the flashlight something not that out of my hand I I can find it because I have a tarry that's why you can't find it I know wasn't what you're saying it's Randolph he's not dead oh but I am Harry but don't let that disturb you I want to thank you for bringing the judge here to me Wilson where are you you're trying to play a trick on me no no I swear he's quite the innocent judge dexter that's for Nora she merely came to make sure I was that I'm supposed to be just as you did when I spoke to her she painted Wilson get the door open we'll get to have some light in here it's now you dexter I can see in the dark like a captain you can't so I have you now no judge you're going to die dexter executed as you ordered me executed Randolph let me go I warn you Randolph I've got a gun I'm going to shoot you're too late yeah yeah are you all right yes yes I am now see if you can find the flashlight I think I've taken care of Mr Randolph if it was Randolph I think I have it yes here it is judge it's funny it's it's still in the car I rather thought it would be Harry is that you oh no you're not hurt no just my head I I came here to see you father we understand Mrs Wilson and then someone hit you yes you're behind there was someone here in the vault I just got a glimpse of him and then he hit me but who wanted that's what we're just about to find out now let me have the flashlight Wilson yes I think he fell over here now yes here he is but who is he he was impersonating father but but who is he here he's lying in this place it better turn over carefully now he's still breathing that's it oh it's Miller the guard from the penitentiary the one Randolph said he made a friend of yes the one who was guarding him just before he was executed so that's it it was Miller Miller can you hear me I'm afraid he's dying before father was executed he must have hypnotized this man and ordered him to carry out his fantastic scheme of vengeance it was a trick but it was very cunning trick by means of hypnosis Randolph he was this man is a tool even though Randolph himself is dead he must have recognized that Miller was unusually susceptible I think we'll find that Miller was a psychotic to begin with otherwise Randolph's hypnosis would never have worked for no normal person can be influenced the way Miller was under any circumstances isn't there anything we can do for him no no he's gone and with him the great Randolph has died too for good he's travel again so the great Randolph is dead for good is he I wonder after all Miller wasn't the only guard Randolph had a chance to talk to oh but he couldn't have hypnotized any of the others I wouldn't give it another thought if I were you unless of course you were on the jury that convicted Randolph in that case oh you have to get off here I'm sorry I'm sure we'll meet again I take this same train every week at the same time you have just heard the mysterious traveler a series of dramas of the strange and terrifying the role of the mysterious travelers played by Maurice toddler in tonight's cast were satis or tega Richard Coogan surely blank and Bill Smith original music composed and played by Al Vanelli all characters in this story were fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons was purely coincidental this is Bob Emmerich speaking this program came from New York this is a mutual broadcasting system