CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER, “A Departmental Case,â€ starring Robert Dryden and Joe Silver, with E.G Marshall, host. O.Henry’s story about a 65-year-old-ex-gunfighter  who challenges a much younger desperado who is allegedly beating his wife.

O. Henry, living in New York, travels to Austin, Tex., to get the full story of why Luke Standifer, 65, now working as Texas’s Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics and History, challenged and shot to death a notorious desperado, one Benton Sharp. Standifer claims he did it because Sharp had been mistreating his wife, the daughter of a Texas hero. But O. Henry soon discovers the story is much more complicated than that.

CAST:
O. Henry...............ROBERT DRYDEN                             Benton Sharp..........Earl Hammond
Luke Standifer.............JOE SILVER                                 Coralee Sharp..........Carol Teitel
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