Ken spent seven years in jail for manslaughter and was let out early for good behaviour. He left Chicago for New York to a start a new life where nobody knew him. With seventeen dollars in his pocket he tried to get a job but no one would employ him. For some unknown reason he decides to spend $14 on a gun and when he leaves the shop he stops to light a cigarette a notices a big chauffeur driven car pull up. He is shocked when a man gets out of the car and Ken recognises him as Lee Burke the man he had killed seven years ago.

Stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

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