In a radio broadcast called Episode From Life, the host--Joe Grady--announces the winner of their weekly essay contest. The winner is a man named John J. Matthews who lives on 201 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn New York. Joe Grady begins to play a recent crime story show about a taxicab driver arguing with a passenger about the fares of his taxi. The passenger explains that he is the nephew of Judge Whitcomb and refuses to pay the fare. The taxicab driver threatens to call the police. The police officer walks over and the nephew begins to shoot from his revolver, killing the taxi driver and causing the surrounding townspeople to scream and run away. The police officer notices that the nephew is very drunk. The nephew demands to talk to his aunt, Jane Whitcomb, about the situation. The officer, Sergeant Minzer, refuses to let the nephew talk to his aunt and instead Minzer calls a doctor for the taxi driver and then arrests the nephew. According to Minzer, the nephew has killed many unarmed people in the area. Joe Grady switches the audio to the phone of Judge Whitcomb. Judge Whitcomb picks up the phone and listens to Minzer talk about how his nephew--Ron Whitcomb--just killed someone in cold blood because of a taxi fare. Judge Whitcomb refuses to arrest his nephew despite Minzer's plea that the driver has a family and that Ron has killed many people already. Minzer brings Ron to his uncle and Judge Whitcomb sends Minzer away, who leaves reluctantly. Ron argues with his uncle about the fare he should've paid and his uncle warns him of the consequences of murder. Judge Whitcomb lets his nephew go, without being arrested. The reporters then interview Minzer about the situation. Minzer, ordered by Judge Whitcomb, lies about the whole situation and refuses to release the name of the murderer. After the interview, Minzer talks with Judge Whitcomb about the widow of the taxi driver. They talk about how the widow will be fine without her husband and that she's young enough to marry someone else who makes more money. The two men talk about Ron's punishment: going to Montana for a year before returning. Joe Grady ends the story and talks about the essay submissions for the week with the prompt of, "Did the Judge Do Right?" Joe Grady lists off the cast of the crime show for that day before ending for the day.