When Thomas Edwin Bartlett dies with a fatal quantity of chloroform in his stomach, suspicion falls on his wife Adelaide, but her sensational murder trial cannot establish how the poison was administered and ends in acquittal.

This Crime Classics broadcast aired on June 22, 1953. It is listed as episode 2 in the archive.

This version is based on The Shockingly Peaceful Passing of Thomas Edwin Bartlett, Green Grocer.

CBS historical true-crime docudrama created, produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

Listeners can expect crime, documentary, and drama, anthology in format, and dark, humorous, and cerebral in tone.