An anarchist with genuine psychic powers who has been using them as a stage magician learns the identity of the Shadow during a performance Lamont and Margot are attending.
There is trouble and death on the new bridge as men hear voices and die immediately after. Lamont gets a job on the bridge and is apparently the next to die.
Gunsmoke. May 15, 1954. CBS net. "The Indian Horse". Sustaining.
Obnoxious Lieutenant Flagg wins a horse race against Sy Pilcher, old
Howling Dog is another matter however. William Conrad, Parley Baer,
Harry Bartell, Ralph Moody, Paul Savage, John Dehner, Norman Macdonnell
(writer, director), Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Rex Koury (composer,
conductor), George Walsh (announcer).
When Lamont decides to look into the disappearance of a gangster associated with a political boss, the boss dies rather suddenly of allegedly pneumonia.
A philanthropist Senator is on trial for the seeming absurd charge of accepting a bribe from a deceased gangster. But the case becomes unexpectedly solid when the prosecution presents some motion picture evidence of the alleged incident.
Lamont looks into the possibility of insurance fraud mixed with murder by an elderly couple whose maids have a curious tendency to die of pneumonia shortly after being employed.