The Hanging Sheriff

Sheriff Tom Bender never thought that he would be called upon to be chief executioner when a drifting salesman was accused, convicted and sentenced to hang for murder. In truth the drifter accidentally killed someone, but the town needs a hanging and needs a hangman. Tom must find a way of ridding himself of the job and his nagging wife.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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