"Dapper Dan" Malloy, a convicted killer, is scheduled to die in the electric chair, but his lawyer has given his solemn promise that the governor will grant him a commuted sentence and, in fact, Mlloy will be able to hear the governor's announcement over his own earphone radio set an hour before the scheduled execution. Newspaper reporter "Scoop" Connor is assigned to cover the execution but passes out in his attempt to prepare himself for the ordeal. In his place goes Bert Bell who has been trying to land a job with the newspaper as a reporter and Gladys Wayne, a reporter already with the paper and anxious for Bert to get a break. And he does, as Malloy is apparently killed by a stoke of lightning while listening to his radio set. Bert thinks otherwise.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>