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Speaker 1: In Dodge City, a hungry man named Homer Tisdale is
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Speaker 1: accused of a stage office robbery and killing, with little
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Speaker 1: means to defend himself. On March 22nd, 1959, CBS Radio
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Speaker 1: brought listeners Gunsmoke, The Trial, Episode 363. William Conrad stars
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Speaker 1: as Marshal Matt Dillon, alongside Parley Bear as Chester Proudfoot,
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Speaker 1: Howard McNair as Doc Adams, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
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Speaker 1: As Circuit Judge Stokes convenes court in an old dance
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Speaker 1: hall across the tracks, Dillon follows the case beyond the testimony.
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Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
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Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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Speaker 2: and that's.
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Speaker 3: With a U.S.
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Speaker 2: Marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
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Speaker 2: The story of the violence that moved west with young America.
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Speaker 2: And the story of a man who moved with it.
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Speaker 5: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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Speaker 5: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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Speaker 5: It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful.
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Speaker 6: Matt?
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Speaker 7: Oh, Matt, where are you?
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Speaker 3: Is that you, Doc? Uh, sit down.
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Speaker 8: I'll be right in.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 3: How are you, Doc?
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Speaker 5: How's the coffee?
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Speaker 3: Fine, fine. Pour yourself a cup.
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Speaker 5: Well, gee, thank you.
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Speaker 3: What were you doing out there, Matt? Watering the prisoners?
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Speaker 5: I haven't got any prisoners now, Doc.
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Speaker 3: Oh, then you're falling down on the job. Offhand, I
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Speaker 3: can think of a dozen men around Dodge that ought
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Speaker 3: to be in jail.
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Speaker 5: Well, you give me a list. I'm going to need
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Speaker 5: somebody to bring to trial next week. You are?
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Speaker 3: Well, what do you mean?
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Speaker 5: There's a new circuit court judge coming. He's going to
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Speaker 5: be disappointed if there's nothing for him to do.
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Speaker 3: A new judge? What happened to Judge Brookie?
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Speaker 5: He just needed help, I guess. After all, he has
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Speaker 5: to cover about the whole of western Kansas.
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Speaker 3: Well, who is this new man? What's his name?
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Speaker 5: The name is Stokes. Judge Stokes. That's all I know
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Speaker 5: about him.
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Speaker 7: Stokes. I hope he's a good one.
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Speaker 3: I've seen some remarkably unlearned judges in my time.
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Speaker 5: That's not an easy job, Doc. And out here, it
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Speaker 5: doesn't pay enough to make it worthwhile to most men.
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Speaker 5: You know, Judge Brookings could probably do twice as well
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Speaker 5: back east.
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Speaker 3: And so could I, man.
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Speaker 5: I know, Doc, but then you wouldn't have anything to
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Speaker 5: complain about. And if you didn't have anything to complain about,
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Speaker 5: you'd just shrivel up and die.
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Speaker 3: Well, at least I wouldn't go to the pauper's grave
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Speaker 3: I'm headed for now.
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Speaker 5: Say, Doc, how about loaning.
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Speaker 3: Me $ 100? $ 100?
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Homer.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Mr. Dillon.
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Speaker 5: Chester. Chester. Who's this you got?
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Speaker 7: Well, this is Homer Tisdale, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Dillon.
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Speaker 7: There's a complaint against him.
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Speaker 5: Oh, a complaint? Yes, sir.
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Speaker 7: You know Van Walcott who took over that little store
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Speaker 7: next to the stage office?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know him.
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Speaker 7: Well, sir, he's coming over here in a few minutes.
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Speaker 7: He claims Homer was trying.
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Speaker 10: To rob him.
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Speaker 9: Oh.
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Speaker 7: I figured it'd be best to settle a thing right
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Speaker 7: here with you.
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Speaker 9: Yeah. Uh....
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Speaker 5: Were you trying to rob him, Homer?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 5: I see. With a gun or what?
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Speaker 10: No, sir.
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Speaker 3: I ain't got no gun.
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Speaker 5: You were trying to steal something out of his store then,
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Speaker 5: is that it? Yes, sir. Where you from, Homer? I
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Speaker 5: haven't seen you in Dodge before. No, sir.
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Speaker 3: I've been homesteading. Saline River.
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Speaker 5: But I got starved out.
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Speaker 3: I had to quit. I... Didn't have no luck at all. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You sure don't look as though you'd been eating very regular.
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Speaker 3: No, sure I ain't. Well, you got him here.
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Speaker 7: Well, of course I got him here, Walcott.
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Speaker 11: You dirty little thief.
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Speaker 7: Marshal, I want to sign a complaint against this man.
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Speaker 11: Mr.
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Speaker 5: Walcott, you've been in Dodge about a month now, haven't you?
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Speaker 5: What's that got to do with it? Back east, I
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Speaker 5: guess they're a little more formal in the way they
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Speaker 5: handle things. Why don't you just tell me what happened?
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Speaker 8: Well, I was next door at the stage office talking
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Speaker 8: to Jay Buford. We heard a crash over in my store.
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Speaker 5: Or something falling. So we run out, and there he was.
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Speaker 3: We caught him red-handed, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Caught him doing what?
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Speaker 7: Stealing, that's what.
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Speaker 5: You haven't told me what he stole. He had a.
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Speaker 7: Whole handful of potatoes, Marshal.
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Speaker 11: A man's a thief.
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Speaker 7: He belongs in jail.
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Speaker 5: A whole handful of potatoes. Is that true, Homer? Yeah,
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Speaker 5: what happened?
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Speaker 7: Yes, Marshal. Yes, sir, it's true.
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Speaker 3: I was hungry.
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Speaker 5: And I seen the potatoes.
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Speaker 3: I thought he wouldn't miss a couple.
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Speaker 5: I could pay him back later.
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Speaker 7: Man who steals belongs in jail.
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Speaker 5: Look, Walcott, he shouldn't have done it. I admit that.
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Speaker 5: Then throw him in jail.
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Speaker 3: And I can't do that.
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 5: For one thing, Chester and I have to ride up
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Speaker 5: to Fort Lauderdale for a few days. Wouldn't be anybody
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Speaker 5: here to watch him and feed him. Leave him some water.
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Speaker 5: That's all he needs.
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Speaker 3: Chester.
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Speaker 11: Yes, Chief?
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Speaker 5: You take Homer over to the Long Branch. Maybe Sam
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Speaker 5: Noonan can put him to work sweeping out or washing
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Speaker 5: glasses or something, huh?
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Speaker 7: Now, look here, Marshal. You ain't gonna make a fool
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Speaker 7: of me.
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Speaker 5: Get going, Chester.
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Speaker 7: Marshal, I'm telling you.
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Speaker 5: Mr. Walcott, why don't you get back to your store?
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Speaker 5: Maybe somebody's found a few pennies and wants to buy
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Speaker 5: that handful of potatoes. Doc was right. There probably were
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Speaker 5: a dozen men around Dodge that should have been in jail.
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Speaker 5: But if the law was going to start locking up
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Speaker 5: men like Homer Tisdale, I figured they wouldn't need me
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Speaker 5: to handle the job. At least that's what I thought
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Speaker 5: on the way to Fort Lauderdale. It was four days
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Speaker 5: later when we got back and I found out different things.
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Speaker 5: We were riding up Front Street past the stage office
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Speaker 5: when Jay Buford, the stage company manager, and Van Walken
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Speaker 5: spotted us and started yelling. I had Chester take my
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Speaker 5: horse while I got down and went over to see
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Speaker 5: what they wanted.
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Speaker 3: You've come back just in time, Marshal. If you'd done
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Speaker 3: what I said, it wouldn't have happened.
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Speaker 6: I was just telling Walken, if you didn't get back today,
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Speaker 6: we'd have to do something ourselves.
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Speaker 5: What's the trouble, Buford? Murder.
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Speaker 11: Murder and robbery, Marshal.
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Speaker 7: Right there in the stage office.
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Speaker 8: Charlie Reynolds is dead and $ 10, 000 is gone.
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Speaker 11: Happened this morning.
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Speaker 5: Hold up.
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Speaker 7: It was about 8 o'clock, Marshal.
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Speaker 8: And I'd just opened up my store and gone into
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Speaker 8: the stage office to say good morning to Jay. He
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Speaker 8: was standing there talking to Charlie Reynolds and, well, I
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Speaker 8: no sooner got inside than the voice out back yelled
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Speaker 8: at us to throw up our hands. And we did, too.
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Speaker 8: And then this gunman come forward wearing a mask. He
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Speaker 8: knew right where the money was, too. I had it
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Speaker 8: in the treasure box waiting for the stage to go north, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: This gunman opened it up. It was all bills.
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Speaker 8: And he scooped them out into his pocket. And then
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Speaker 8: he stood there, Marshal. And he told us not to
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Speaker 8: try to follow him. And before we could even move,
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Speaker 8: he pulled the trigger on poor old Charlie Reynolds and
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Speaker 8: killed him.
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Speaker 7: Just like that.
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Speaker 3: No reason at all.
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Speaker 5: You didn't follow him. He got away.
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Speaker 3: Now, who's going to follow a killer like that?
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Speaker 10: We ain't crazy.
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Speaker 5: Any idea who it was? You bet we do.
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Speaker 9: Who?
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Speaker 7: That mask. That didn't hide nothing.
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Speaker 5: Well, who was it?
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Speaker 7: Homer Tisdale.
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Speaker 11: What?
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Speaker 3: Just as plain as day, even if he hadn't spoke.
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Speaker 7: Homer ain't so meek as he looks, Marshal.
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Speaker 3: He's a killer, that's what he is.
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Speaker 5: All that other is just pretending.
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Speaker 7: You should have put him in jail first off.
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Speaker 5: Any idea where he is?
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Speaker 8: He must be halfway to Texas by now. But you
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Speaker 8: better find him, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: That Homer's a mighty cool one if he is still
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Speaker 7: in Dodge, Mr.
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Speaker 10: Jones.
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Speaker 5: Maybe he hasn't heard about it yet, Chester.
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Speaker 7: You don't think he did it, do you?
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Speaker 5: Well, we'll ask him if he's in here.
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Speaker 7: There he is, sweeping out back them tables.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Marshall.
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Speaker 10: Chester.
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Speaker 9: Oh, Homer.
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Speaker 3: This fella's looking for a drink. It ain't 10 o'clock yet.
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Speaker 5: Homer.
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Speaker 3: Hmm?
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Speaker 5: How long have you been here?
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Speaker 12: Oh, come into work about, oh, about 8.30, Marshall.
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Speaker 5: Why? Where were you before that?
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Speaker 3: Out back. Sam leaves me asleep in that shed he's
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Speaker 3: got out there.
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Speaker 5: Homer, can you prove that you were out there at
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Speaker 5: 8 o'clock this morning?
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Speaker 3: Prove it?
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Speaker 5: Did anybody see you?
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Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Nobody ever come out there.
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Speaker 5: Why, Marshal? Well, the stage office was robbed this morning.
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Speaker 5: And a man was shot and killed. Jay Buford and
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Speaker 5: Van Walk had witnessed it.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: They say you did it.
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Speaker 10: Me?
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Speaker 5: They're willing to swear to it.
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Speaker 3: Well, I... I didn't rob.
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Speaker 12: I didn't kill nobody else. I wouldn't do nothing like that, Marshal.
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Speaker 12: You don't believe them, do you?
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Speaker 5: Doesn't matter what I believe, Homer. There are two witnesses.
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Speaker 5: You haven't even got an alibi.
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Speaker 12: Well, I was right out back there, Marshal. I was
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Speaker 12: eating a little bread and some bacon.
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Speaker 5: Will you promise me something, Homer?
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Speaker 3: For sure, Marshal.
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Speaker 12: What?
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Speaker 5: You promise me that you won't leave Dodge. I'm in
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Speaker 5: bad trouble.
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Speaker 9: Ain't I?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I won't run. I promise.
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Speaker 5: Three days later, Judge Stokes' circuit brought him to Dodge.
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Speaker 5: I went over and talked to him about Homer Tisdale.
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Speaker 5: And it was like talking into a rain barrel, or
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Speaker 5: rather a whiskey barrel. The judge seemed to have more
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Speaker 5: interest in corn liquor than in the law. And all
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Speaker 5: I could get out of him was that a jury
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Speaker 5: would have to decide the case. So the following Monday morning,
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Speaker 5: court was open in an old dance hall across the
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Speaker 5: railroad tracks. A jury was sworn in. Judge Stokes took over.
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Speaker 5: First he put Van Walcott on the stand. Then Jay Buford.
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Speaker 5: Chester and I sat with Homer and watched.
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Speaker 3: Marshal. Marshal, something I don't understand.
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Speaker 5: What, Homer?
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Speaker 3: Well, that judge, he'd been talking to Walcott about me.
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Speaker 3: Now he's going to talk to Buford. Is he going
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Speaker 3: to ask me anything?
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Speaker 5: Well, sure, Homer. He'll put you on the stand, but
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Speaker 5: you'll have your lawyer to help you.
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Speaker 3: My what?
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Speaker 5: That man sitting right over there.
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Speaker 9: Huh?
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Speaker 5: He's the lawyer that the judge appointed to defend you.
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Speaker 3: Oh. Well, how can he help me? He ain't talk
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Speaker 3: to me. He won't know what to say.
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Speaker 5: Oh, he will talk to you, Homer. I guess there's
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Speaker 5: no hurry.
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Speaker 9: Mr.
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Speaker 7: Dillon, I never seen that lawyer before.
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Speaker 1: Did you?
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Speaker 5: No, he's a stranger to me, Chester, but Judge Stokes
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Speaker 5: seems to know him. I swear.
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Speaker 7: I don't understand why they ain't no prosecutor.
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Speaker 5: Prosecutor, Chester.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 5: But I asked the judge about that, and he said
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Speaker 5: that there's no need for one.
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Speaker 6: Yes, he knows what he's doing.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: I do. Now, Mr. Buford, we've heard the testimony in
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Speaker 11: detail from Mr.
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Speaker 7: Wolcott.
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Speaker 11: So to speed things up a little, I'll just ask
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Speaker 11: you a few questions.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: You were at the stage office when the holdup took place, right?
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Speaker 11: That's right, Your Honor. You saw everything Mr. Wolcott saw,
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Speaker 11: is that right? Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: The bandit came in, took $ 10, 000 in bills out of
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Speaker 6: the box, then shot and killed, what is his name?
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Speaker 6: Charlie Reynolds, Your Honor.
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Speaker 11: Charlie Reynolds.
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Speaker 10: All right.
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Speaker 6: Now, I want you to tell the gentleman in the
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Speaker 6: jury who that bandit was.
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Speaker 11: It was Homer Tisdale, Your Honor. Homer Tisdale?
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Speaker 3: How did you know it was him?
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Speaker 11: Well, he had a mask on, but it didn't really
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Speaker 11: hide nothing.
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Speaker 6: It was him, all right. Besides, it was his voice,
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Speaker 6: plain as day. Then you knew him before?
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Speaker 3: Sure.
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Speaker 11: Sure, the day we caught him robbing Wolcott's store. He's
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Speaker 11: been a thief ever since he come to die.
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Speaker 5: Oh, now, look here. Your Honor.
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Speaker 3: You're out of order, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: But, Your Honor, he's giving the jury a wrong impression
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Speaker 5: of this man. Now, believe me.
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Speaker 3: You sit down, Marshal, or I'll hold you in contempt.
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Speaker 3: Your Honor, don't you understand.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 11: There. That's better. The jury is confident to judge the evidence, Marshal.
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Speaker 11: All right, Mr. Buford, you may step down.
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Speaker 9: Yes. Uh.
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Speaker 3: We'll now hear from the defense.
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Speaker 11: Take over, Mr. Shipp.
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Speaker 3: Marshal, he didn't talk to me. He didn't ask me nothing.
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Speaker 3: You said he would.
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Speaker 5: Just wait a minute, Homer. We'll see what your defense
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Speaker 5: says about it.
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Speaker 11: May it please the court and the gentlemen of the jury.
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Speaker 11: You've heard the evidence. I rest my case.
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Speaker 3: Marshal, that ain't no defense. What does that mean, Marshal?
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Speaker 3: He's sitting down already. I can't do that. All right, silence.
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Speaker 3: Silence in the court. Silence.
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Speaker 11: The jury will retire to consider the evidence. And it
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Speaker 11: will return with its verdict in, say, a half hour.
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Speaker 6: And it better be the right verdict or I'll hold
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Speaker 6: you all in contempt.
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Speaker 11: Now, get to work.
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Speaker 3: Marshal, I don't understand, Marshal. I thought a man had
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Speaker 3: a right to say something for himself.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so did I, Homer.
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Speaker 3: And that defense fellow, he didn't help none. Where's the
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Speaker 3: judge going now?
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Speaker 5: Outside for a drink, I expect.
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Speaker 3: For what?
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Speaker 5: You wait here with Chester.
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Speaker 3: Will you talk to him, Marshal? Tell him I didn't
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 5: I'll be back, Homer.
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Speaker 3: I didn't do nothing?
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Have a nip, Marshal?
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Speaker 5: No, thank you, Judge.
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Speaker 7: I always like to get the jury out.
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Speaker 3: Gives a man time for a bit of a refreshment.
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Speaker 3: That's good corn you make here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, Marshal, I'm a drinking man, but I've never
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Speaker 3: been drunk in my life.
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Speaker 5: Never once. Well, that's fine, Judge.
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Speaker 6: Marshal, I'm sorry I had to sit you down so
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Speaker 6: hard in there, but a court's got to be run by.
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Speaker 3: One man or it'll get out of hand. I know.
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Speaker 3: I've seen it happen.
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Speaker 5: I've seen some things happen in court, too, Judge. I
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Speaker 5: never saw an accused man not get a chance to
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Speaker 5: defend himself before.
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Speaker 7: You heard the evidence, Marshal.
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Speaker 3: What defense could he make? It'd be just a waste
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Speaker 3: of time.
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Speaker 10: I see.
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Speaker 7: I want to get this trial over with.
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Speaker 3: I've got to take the train up to Abilene at midnight.
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Speaker 11: That's... That doesn't give me much time.
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Speaker 7: To see Dodge, does it?
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Speaker 5: No, I guess it doesn't.
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Speaker 7: In fact, a half hour is too long for that jury.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to call them back now. Excuse me, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Sure, Judge, sure.
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Speaker 7: Maybe you'll change your mind and have that drink with
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Speaker 7: me after, huh?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Judge, maybe.
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Speaker 10: Well, he sure didn't give that jury much time, did he, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Dodge?
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Speaker 5: No, he doesn't, Pastor.
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Speaker 3: Markle, what do you think they'll say?
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Speaker 5: They haven't much choice, Homer.
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Speaker 11: Well, gentlemen, have you reached a verdict?
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Speaker 3: We have, Your Honor.
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Speaker 5: Let's hear it.
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Speaker 11: We find the defendant, Homer Tisdale, guilty. Homer Tisdale!
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Speaker 3: I ain't guilty, Marshal.
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Speaker 7: Stand up.
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Speaker 3: I didn't do nothing.
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Speaker 5: Stand up and we're going.
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Speaker 3: It ain't fair.
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Speaker 11: Homer Tisdale, you've been found guilty. Where's the money? What
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Speaker 11: did you do with that $ 10, 000?
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Speaker 3: I ain't got it, Judge. I didn't take it. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I didn't take it.
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Speaker 6: If you won't tell us where you buried that money,
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Speaker 6: I'm going to sentence you. For robbery, you get 20
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Speaker 6: years in prison.
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Speaker 7: 20 years?
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Speaker 3: But you'll never serve them, Homer Tisdale.
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Speaker 6: You're a double-dyed monster and your hands are steeped in
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Speaker 6: human blood.
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Speaker 3: Creatures of your like aren't fit to live.
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Speaker 11: Away with you.
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Speaker 6: And for murder, I sentence you to be hanged by
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Speaker 6: the neck until you are dead.
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Speaker 3: Porn dismissed.
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Speaker 5: Marshal. Marshal, did you hear him?
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Speaker 11: Did you hear what he said?
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Speaker 7: I never seen nothing like this. There might just as
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Speaker 7: well not have been no trial at all.
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Speaker 5: Take Homer to jail, Chester, and keep him there.
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Speaker 3: Well, it ain't right, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Dillon.
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Speaker 7: It just ain't right at all.
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Speaker 5: Do it, Chester.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 11: Where are you going?
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Speaker 5: I'm going to have a drink with Judge Stokes.
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Speaker 9: What?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: We're going to become real good friends.
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Speaker 3: Have another drink, Judge? No, no more, Miss Kitty. I've
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Speaker 3: got to be going.
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Speaker 5: Oh, poor everyone, Kitty. He's got an hour yet before
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Speaker 5: his train leaves. Have you, Judge?
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Speaker 9: Sure.
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Speaker 3: You'll have another, Judge.
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Speaker 7: There you are.
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Speaker 3: You can't sit around a whole hour.
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Speaker 7: Without a drink.
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Speaker 3: I told you I... Aren't you enjoying yourself, Judge? Oh,
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Speaker 3: it isn't that, Miss Kitty, but.
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Speaker 7: Well, I haven't been alone all day long.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's been my pleasure, Judge. I don't often get
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Speaker 5: a chance to be with a man like you.
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Speaker 7: I know, I know.
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Speaker 9: But there must be things you have to do. I
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Speaker 9: just don't feel right taking up all your time this way.
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Speaker 12: Oh, don't worry about him, Judge. People don't get really
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Speaker 12: serious about breaking the law around here until after midnight anyway.
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Speaker 7: That's right, Judge.
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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll put you on
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Speaker 5: the train and then I'll get to work.
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Speaker 3: No, no.
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Speaker 7: I don't want anybody to put me on the train.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's less than an hour from now.
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Speaker 7: Marshal, I insist I go alone.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to leave now.
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Speaker 6: Well, it doesn't take that long to get to the people, Judge.
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Speaker 9: I want to walk around first by myself. I like
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Speaker 9: being alone sometimes. Well, everybody does.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Judge.
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Speaker 5: Sure, I understand. You go on alone if you want.
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm grateful to you, Marshal, for all you've done.
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Speaker 5: Ah.
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Speaker 7: Well, it was a pleasure.
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Speaker 3: Meeting you, Miss Kitty.
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Speaker 11: Goodbye, Judge.
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Speaker 3: Look me up when you come back. Of course.
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Speaker 7: Goodbye.
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Speaker 3: Goodbye, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Goodbye, Judge.
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Speaker 11: Goodbye.
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Speaker 5: Let me know when he gets out the door, Kitty.
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Speaker 5: I will.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what this is all about, Matt, but
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Speaker 3: I hope I did what you wanted.
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Speaker 5: You were a big help. Got pretty tiresome before we
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Speaker 5: came in here.
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Speaker 10: There he goes.
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Speaker 3: You better hurry if you're going to follow him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going to pick up Chester first. I think
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Speaker 5: I know where the judge is going. I'll see you later, Kenny. Yeah, sure.
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Speaker 7: I do think I must have drove him crazy, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Dillon.
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Speaker 7: You dogged him around that way.
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Speaker 5: I worried him some, Chester. That's how I knew I
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Speaker 5: must be right.
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Speaker 7: Here we are. We better walk through that side window
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Speaker 7: there and they'll see us.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Can you see anything, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Miller?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: They're in there, all right. Judge Stokes is with them.
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Speaker 5: All right, come on. We'll walk right in the front door.
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Speaker 11: All right.
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Speaker 5: You get to one side when we go in, Chester.
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Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 5: What are you doing here? I thought you wanted to
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Speaker 5: be alone, Judge. Shoot him.
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Speaker 3: Shoot him.
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Speaker 5: I tell you, he knows. Now, Buford, Walken, which one
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Speaker 5: of you is going to shoot me? Now, one of
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Speaker 5: you must have a gun somewhere. You shot Charlie Reynolds.
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Speaker 9: No? No.
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Speaker 5: Then get your hands up while we search you.
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Speaker 3: I got a gun, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 3: I'll give it to you.
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Speaker 5: Get his gun, Chester. It's still in his pocket. Tell me, Judge,
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Speaker 5: how much money did they give you out of the $ 10, 000?
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Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about, Marshal. But I'll
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Speaker 3: have you in court for this.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'll be in court with you and in front
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Speaker 5: of Judge Brookings. You know, you overplayed your hand today,
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Speaker 5: Judge Stokes. You and that bought defense lawyer. And I'll
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Speaker 5: find him before the night's up.
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Speaker 3: You wouldn't dare arrest a judge. Whoever heard of such
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Speaker 3: a thing?
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess maybe a judge is a
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Speaker 5: pretty important man, isn't he?
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Speaker 7: He certainly is.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Well?
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Speaker 5: Well, I tell you, since you are the most important
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Speaker 5: man here, I'm going to give you a cell by yourself.
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Speaker 5: You can have Homer Tisdale's. He won't be needing it anymore.
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Speaker 9: Oh.
23:41
Speaker 5: Gunsmoke.
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Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
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Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
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Speaker 5: Marshal.
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Speaker 2: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston.
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Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Perron, Joseph Kearns,
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Speaker 2: and Harry Bartell. Carly Baer as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc,
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Speaker 2: and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. This is George Walsh inviting
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Speaker 2: you to join us again next week for another story
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Speaker 2: on Gunsmoke.
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Speaker 5: Over to the CBS radio network.
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