Broadcast: 17th August 1953

Starring: Lou Merrill

Added: Jul 11 2005

The good ship El Capitan used to sail the bay between Oakland and San Francisco in the 1870’s mostly in the fog. Its skipper was captain Bill Tranchell and he was known among the ferryboat set as having a heavy hand on the whistle. He found any number of excuses for tooting that whistle, but the one excuse which he never forgot was the time he was entertaining Mr and Mrs Crittenden on the bridge and an uninvited lady named Laura D. Fair suddenly opened the door, walked over to Mr Crittenden and shot him through his heart…