'HENRY (Edward Finn) called at the chemist’s on the way home and bought some rat poison. His mother in-law (Madge Ryan) mistakes it for sugar and sprinkles it on the bread and butter she has cut for a midnight snack. It so happens that this mother-in law, who lives in the house, has ruined any chance of happiness between Henry and his wife, Mabel (Diana Davidson), and to let her eat the rat poison would have been an easy way out. But Henry loses his nerve and he wrests the bread and butter from her hand. However, when the mother-in law hears the story and realises that she nearly ate poison, she collapses and later dies. Henry, the coward who could dream of murder but could not nerve himself to commit it, is arrested and charged ... with murder. He is on the point of admitting to crime, but last-minute developments clear him.'
Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 19 January 1952, p.13.
Broadcast on 2UW on 26 January 1952, from 8:30pm.
Director: John Appleton.
Cast: John Appleton (as Announcer), Edwin Finn (as Henry), Diana Davidson (as Mabel), Madge Ryan (as Mother-in-Law), Peter Woodruff (as Druggist), Harvey Adams (as Neighbour & Cop), Colin McAlister (as The Guard), and George Hewlett (as George Mason).
