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Speaker 1: Lee Prentiss lies wounded in Dodge City when Deputy Jake
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Speaker 1: Harbin arrives from Baker City carrying a murder warrant. It
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Speaker 1: brings Marshal Matt Dillon face to face with an out-of-town
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Speaker 1: lawman and with questions of jurisdiction and due process before
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Speaker 1: Prentiss can be taken away. From CBS Radio, this is Gunsmoke,
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Speaker 1: Episode 105, Murder Warrant. First broadcast April 24th, 1954. William
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Speaker 1: Conrad stars as Matt Dillon, with Parley Bear as Chester,
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Speaker 1: Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc. John
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Speaker 1: Meston wrote the script, Norman MacDonald produced, and Sam Edwards,
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Speaker 1: Lawrence Dobkin, John Diener, Joe Duvall, and James Nooser are
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Speaker 1: also heard. Settle in now for Dodge City. Now back
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Speaker 1: to the golden age of radio.
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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 with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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Speaker 2: gun smoke.
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that
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Speaker 2: moved west with young America. The story of a man who.
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Speaker 4: Moved with it.
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Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Gunsmoke Mr.
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Speaker 4: Dillon. Yeah, what is it, Chester?
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Speaker 6: Doc wants you upstairs.
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Speaker 4: Well, I promised Mr.
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Speaker 7: Green I'd be at the Dodge house in a few minutes, Chester.
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Speaker 7: Tell Doc I'll drop along later, huh?
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Speaker 6: Young Lee Prentice is up there. He got shot last night.
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Speaker 8: What?
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Speaker 4: Shot?
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: Happened out at his ranch. Doc thinks you ought to
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Speaker 6: talk to him.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's go. I wouldn't have thought Lee Prentiss
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Speaker 4: had an enemy in the world.
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Speaker 6: No, sir.
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Speaker 9: He's about the nicest young fellow that's settled around here
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Speaker 9: in a long time.
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Speaker 4: Who brought him into town, Chester? Nobody did.
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Speaker 6: He rode in alone. Doc don't know how he managed it.
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Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Matt. Doc. Well, I hear you took a bullet, Lee.
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Speaker 6: It's not bad, Marshal. Doc's got me all fixed up now.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, sure.
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Speaker 10: But you're going to stay right here with me and take.
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Speaker 6: It easy for a few days, Lee. I'd be putting
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Speaker 6: you out, Doc.
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Speaker 10: Oh, yes, of course, it'll be a nuisance, but I'll
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Speaker 10: manage somehow.
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Speaker 4: How did it happen, Lee? Did you get in a fight?
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Speaker 9: I didn't even see him, Marshal. It was still dark
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Speaker 9: this morning, and I was going out after my horses,
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Speaker 9: and then a bullet knocked me down.
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Speaker 6: That's all I know.
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Speaker 9: I did an awful lot of shooting the next few minutes,
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Speaker 9: and whoever it was run off.
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Speaker 4: Would it be any particular man, Lee?
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Speaker 6: I tell you, if I knew, Marshal, I don't want
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Speaker 6: any trouble.
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Speaker 4: All right, I believe you.
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Speaker 8: Oh, man, it's a downright shame when a young fella
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Speaker 8: like Lee comes to Dodge and in one year makes
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Speaker 8: as many friends as he has and then gets shot
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Speaker 8: down by some murderer.
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Speaker 10: Now, you've got to find out who did that.
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Speaker 7: I don't have much to go on, Doc. In fact,
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Speaker 7: I don't have anything.
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Speaker 10: I don't care. You've got to do something.
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Speaker 4: Like what?
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Speaker 10: Well, what do you mean? I'm not a lawman.
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Speaker 4: How do I know? Well, there's one thing, Doc, and
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Speaker 4: you too, Chester.
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Speaker 11: What, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Dillon?
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Speaker 7: Don't say anything about where Lee is. Whoever did this
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Speaker 7: is probably still around.
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Speaker 10: Well, you mean he might come up here and try
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Speaker 10: to finish him off?
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Speaker 4: He might.
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Speaker 10: Chester, you go fetch me one of those shotguns you
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Speaker 10: keep downstairs.
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Speaker 4: Sure, Doc. Okay, Doc, but don't get trigger-heavy.
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Speaker 10: I know what I'm doing.
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Speaker 6: Doc, martial art. I'm sure sorry for all the trouble
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Speaker 6: I'm causing.
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Speaker 4: It's no trouble, Lee.
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Speaker 6: Oh, it's no trouble, he says.
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Speaker 4: Oh, all right, Matt.
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Speaker 10: You go find him something to eat later this afternoon
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Speaker 10: and bring it up here. A nice, oh, say, roast chicken.
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Speaker 10: That'd be just about right.
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Speaker 4: Sure, Doc. I'll be glad to. Gee, I... See you later, Lee.
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Speaker 4: Come on, Chester.
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Speaker 12: I'm glad I ran into you, Matt.
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Speaker 6: It was a good supper.
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Speaker 4: It was all my pleasure, Kitty. Matt. Yeah, what?
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Speaker 12: Have you got time to sit here and watch the
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Speaker 12: crowd for a while? I don't have to be back
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Speaker 12: at work just yet.
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Speaker 4: Sure, sure, Kitty. Now you sit there. All right.
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Speaker 12: Well, looks like Dodge is in for another big night tonight.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I suppose.
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Speaker 12: Just think, there's hardly one of these cowboys that won't
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Speaker 12: be broke before morning.
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Speaker 4: Well, they figure it's worth it.
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Speaker 12: Three months paying one night?
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Speaker 10: They're crazy, all of them.
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Speaker 4: Well, what would you happen to do with their money, Kitty?
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Speaker 10: Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 12: Most anything's better than throwing it away.
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Speaker 7: Well, most of these men have waited a long time
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Speaker 7: for a night or two in Dodge.
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Speaker 4: They don't care what it costs.
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Speaker 12: There's only one cowboy I ever knew who showed any sense.
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 7: Must be quite a fellow for you to say that, Kitty.
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Speaker 10: Well, you know who I mean, Matt. Young Lee Prentiss.
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Speaker 13: Oh.
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Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 12: Remember last year how he drifted into town and made
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Speaker 12: a killing at Farrell and then swore off gambling?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he stayed with it, too. I never heard of
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Speaker 7: his going nearer game since.
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Speaker 10: Oh, he hasn't.
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Speaker 12: Took his money and put it in that little ranch
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Speaker 12: of his. You gotta admire the boy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Lee's all right.
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Speaker 12: He's sure a lot different from the rest of these
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Speaker 12: saddle bumps.
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Speaker 10: I wonder where he's been lately. He usually comes to
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Speaker 10: town every day or so.
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Speaker 4: Well, uh, Kitty, I'll tell you. Lee's up at Doc's.
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Speaker 4: At Doc's?
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Speaker 10: Then he is in town.
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Speaker 4: Oh, he's been there for a couple of days.
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Speaker 6: Well, what's the matter? Is he sick or something?
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Speaker 4: No, he's not sick.
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Speaker 10: Oh, wait a minute, Matt. Hey, mister. Yeah, you.
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Speaker 12: Come here.
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Speaker 4: What do you want?
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Speaker 6: I'm Kitty, remember?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember.
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Speaker 10: Well, you don't act like it.
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Speaker 12: You must have been drunker than I thought.
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Speaker 4: I'm in a hurry, Kitty. Well, go on, then.
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Speaker 10: I won't tell you.
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Speaker 4: Tell me what?
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Speaker 12: You remember asking me last night if I know anything
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Speaker 12: about Lee Prentiss?
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Speaker 13: Did I?
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Speaker 10: You really were drunk.
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Speaker 12: But if you're still interested, Marshal Dillon here just told
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Speaker 12: me he's up at Doc Adams.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I see. Well, I don't need him now. Bye.
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Speaker 7: Oh, just a minute, mister. You're a stranger in Dodge, huh?
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Speaker 7: I'll talk to you later, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Not now. What do you mean, later? After I've done
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Speaker 4: what I come here for. What's your name, mister? Jake Harbin.
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Speaker 4: Jake Harbin. You look like a gunman to me. Why
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Speaker 4: are you looking for Lee Prentiss? All right, Marshal, if
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Speaker 4: you're so nosy, I'll tell you. I'm going to kill him. No,
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Speaker 4: you're not. You can't stop me. Jake, uh....
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Speaker 10: Harbin, huh?
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Speaker 8: What'd you.
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Speaker 10: What'd you hit him for, Matt? What's this all about?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Kitty. But maybe I'll find out when
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Speaker 4: he comes to. In jail.
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Speaker 6: Well, you're here early this morning, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Dillon. Go bring Jake Harbin in here, Jester, will you?
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Speaker 4: I want to talk to him. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: He's been saying he wants to talk to you, too.
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Speaker 6: He wouldn't tell me nothing. Don't stick my.
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Speaker 8: Nose into something that doesn't concern me.
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Speaker 6: He's all he'd say.
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Speaker 10: Marshal here, Harbin.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's about time.
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Speaker 10: Here he is, Mr.
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Speaker 11: Dillon.
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Speaker 4: Come over here, Harbin.
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Speaker 7: You'd have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you'd
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Speaker 7: have stayed around here last night, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean by cold cock and a man
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Speaker 4: throwing him in jail? Where are you from, Robin? Baker City.
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Speaker 4: Down on the Canadian River?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Anybody goes to jail in Baker City, they search him first.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean? If you'd have searched me last night,
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Speaker 4: you'd have found this. What is it?
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Speaker 7: Read it.
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Speaker 6: And afterwards, you can apologize to me. What is it, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Dillon? It's a warrant, Chester.
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Speaker 7: And that also says I'm a legal deputy. You can
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Speaker 7: telegraph Ben Goddard for proof if you want. Who's Ben Goddard?
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Speaker 7: He's the sheriff at Baker City. That's all legal, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but who's the warrant for him, Mr.
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Speaker 13: Dillon?
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Speaker 4: Lee Prentiss, Chester. For murder. They want him dead or alive.
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Speaker 3: The End.
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Speaker 4: Chester.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir? Go down and send a telegram to the
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Speaker 7: sheriff of Baker City. What'd you say his name is, Harbin?
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Speaker 4: Ben Goddard. All right.
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Speaker 7: Ask Ben Goddard to verify this warrant for Lee Prentiss.
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Speaker 7: And also ask him if Jake Harbin here is a
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Speaker 7: legal deputy.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. You'll find out, Marshal. I expect we will, Harbin.
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Speaker 4: Get going, Chester.
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Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 7: This, uh, warrant says Lee Prentiss is wanted for murder, Harbin.
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Speaker 7: It's kind of hard to believe.
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Speaker 4: Knowing Lee? Well, then you don't know him very well, Marshal.
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Speaker 7: Because he is a murderer, all right. And he'd have
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Speaker 7: been caught a long time ago. They'd have found out
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Speaker 7: where he was hiding.
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Speaker 4: He hasn't been hiding.
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Speaker 7: The leads live here for nearly a year.
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Speaker 4: Right out in the open. And so? He's all through now, maybe.
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Speaker 4: If this is true. I want to tell you one thing, Harvin.
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Speaker 4: You tell me what?
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Speaker 7: Nobody, whether he's a deputy or not, is going to
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Speaker 7: come to Dodge and kill a man.
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Speaker 4: Dead or alive, Marshal, you read the warrant. I don't
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Speaker 4: care what it says.
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Speaker 7: You wouldn't like it said that you're protecting a murderer,
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Speaker 7: would you, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: I don't know that he is a murderer yet. But
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Speaker 4: you came pretty close to being one. I was going
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Speaker 4: to explain it to you after I killed him. I
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Speaker 4: didn't want no interference. Well, you got it now. What
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Speaker 4: kind of law do they have in Baker City? Don't
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Speaker 4: they ever give men a trial down there? Sure they do.
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Speaker 4: Why didn't you come.
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Speaker 7: Here and arrest Lee and take him back with you?
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Speaker 7: Are they afraid to put him on trial?
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Speaker 4: Not hardly, Marshal. But they hired a killer like you
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Speaker 4: to come up here and shoot him. Look, it's all legal.
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Speaker 4: In Baker City, maybe it is. But not in Dodge.
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Speaker 7: Well, the law's the same everywhere. It should be, Harbin.
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Speaker 7: But sometimes it depends on who's representing the law. I
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Speaker 7: don't aim to argue with you. Now, look, let's get
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Speaker 7: one thing straight. You're not going to shoot Lee Prentiss
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Speaker 7: no matter what happens. I'll kill you myself if you
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Speaker 7: try it.
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Speaker 4: Okay. Okay, Marshal. Why don't you talk to him, being
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Speaker 4: as you are such good friends?
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Speaker 7: Ask him how he'd like to stand trial.
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Speaker 4: I will, Harbin. But you stay away from him. You hear? Why, sure, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to do my duty.
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Speaker 10: Come in, come in, come in.
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Speaker 6: Oh, hello, man.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Marshal. How are you feeling, Lee?
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Speaker 13: Fine.
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Speaker 6: Doc says I can leave any time.
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Speaker 10: Oh, she doesn't try to do any hard work for
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Speaker 10: another week or so.
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Speaker 6: I'll take it easy, Doc. You better.
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Speaker 7: Lee, did you ever hear of a man.
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Speaker 4: Called Jake Harbin?
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Speaker 13: Harbin?
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I've heard of him. Well, he's the man
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Speaker 4: who tried to kill you. What?
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Speaker 6: How do you know?
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Speaker 4: He's here as a deputy with a warrant for you.
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Speaker 4: Better alive. A warrant signed by the sheriff of Baker City.
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Speaker 13: Oh.
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Speaker 6: What's the warrant for, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: Murder. But it didn't say who.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 6: It didn't have to.
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Speaker 9: Not if Ben Goddard signed it. It's for the murder
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Speaker 9: of Jim Turner, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Oh. How did you do it, Lee?
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Speaker 6: I killed him. He tried to shoot me in the
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Speaker 6: back and missed.
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Speaker 10: Well, that doesn't exactly make it murder, does it?
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Speaker 9: His old man owns Baker City, Doc, and he owns
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Speaker 9: the sheriff and Jake Harbin along with it.
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Speaker 6: That makes it murder. Oh, I see.
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Speaker 4: Is that why you left Baker City, Lee?
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Speaker 6: They'd have killed me if I hadn't.
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Speaker 4: Well, what if you go back there and stand trial?
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Speaker 9: Old man Turner'd run that trial, Marshal. I'd hang sure. No,
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Speaker 9: I won't go back.
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Speaker 6: I'll die here first.
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Speaker 10: Well, I don't blame you, Matt. It'd be legal murder,
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Speaker 10: that's what.
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Speaker 7: It isn't legal to fix a trial and hang an
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Speaker 7: innocent man, Doc.
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Speaker 6: That's what had happened, though.
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Speaker 10: You're not thinking of turning him over to this so-called.
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Speaker 6: Deputy, are you, Matt?
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Speaker 7: Look, Lee, I believe you, and I trust you.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Now, tell me something. Do you trust me? I sure do.
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Speaker 6: Of course.
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 4: You may not like what I'm going to do. What, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: I'm putting you under arrest, Lee. Right now.
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Speaker 6: Under arrest?
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Speaker 4: What for? I don't know. Horse thieving? Horse thieving? It'll do.
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Speaker 4: You're my prisoner now, Lee. My prisoner. Now, come on.
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Speaker 4: Let's go to jail.
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Speaker 6: I don't know. I like being a horse thief, Marshal.
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Speaker 7: Well, it beats being a murderer, Lee. And besides, I
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Speaker 7: kind of doubt that we'll hang you for it.
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Speaker 4: Marshal.
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Speaker 13: What?
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Speaker 6: Look, there's Jake Harmon.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I see him.
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Speaker 6: I'd feel safer if you gave me my gun back.
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Speaker 4: Prisoners can't carry guns, Lee. It wouldn't look right. Be afraid.
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Speaker 7: Well, Lee. The marshal talked you to coming back.
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Speaker 6: To Baker City and stand in trial. Still an old
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Speaker 6: man Turner's payroll, ain't you, Jake?
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Speaker 4: I don't take no back talk from no murderer.
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Speaker 9: Why'd you try to ambush me the other morning, Jake?
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Speaker 9: Afraid to face me?
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Speaker 4: I got a warrant for you, dead or alive. Why
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Speaker 4: should I take any chances? Nobody cares how you die.
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Speaker 4: I care, Harbin.
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Speaker 7: Well, you can't stand in the way of a legal warrant, marshal.
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Speaker 7: And you'll see as soon as you get that telegram
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Speaker 7: from the sheriff.
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Speaker 4: It's too late, Harbin.
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Speaker 6: What's too late?
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Speaker 4: I just arrested Lee myself. He's my prisoner now. You what?
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Speaker 7: And as long as he's my prisoner, nobody touches him.
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Speaker 4: Warrant or no?
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Speaker 7: You're being tricky, Marshal. What'd you arrest him for? He
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Speaker 7: ain't done nothing. Might be hard to prove, but anyway,
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Speaker 7: I'm holding him for a horse, Stephen. Now get out
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Speaker 7: of the way. I'm taking him to jail. You're forgetting
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Speaker 7: I can kill him anytime I want for free.
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Speaker 4: Like right now, maybe.
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Speaker 8: Duck, Lee.
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Speaker 4: What? Were you hit, Lee?
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 6: But it was mighty close, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: I didn't think he'd try it.
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Speaker 6: You got him just in time. The next shot, he'd
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Speaker 6: have killed me.
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Speaker 4: They sure don't care much how they do things, where
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Speaker 4: you come from, do they, Lee?
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Speaker 6: There's gonna be trouble now, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Real trouble.
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Speaker 5: THE END.
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Speaker 7: It seemed only fair to let the sheriff of Baker
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Speaker 7: City know that his deputy.
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Speaker 4: Had been killed.
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Speaker 7: So I sent him another telegram. And I soon got
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Speaker 7: a reply. Ben Goddard himself was coming to Dodge. The
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Speaker 7: day he was due to arrive, I sent Chester to
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Speaker 7: the stage while Lee Prentiss and I waited in the
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Speaker 7: lobby of the Dodge house, along with a couple of
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Speaker 7: friends who thought it might be interesting to see how
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Speaker 7: Sheriff Goddard was going to handle the situation.
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Speaker 4: The stage pulled in about noon.
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Speaker 7: And a few minutes later, Chester and the sheriff walked
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Speaker 7: into the hotel lobby where we were standing.
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Speaker 6: Here he is, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Dillon. Hello, Sheriff. You're Marshal Dillon. And this is Mr. Green.
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Speaker 4: He owns the Dodge House. And Mr. Jonas, one of
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Speaker 4: our leading businessmen. Gentlemen, nice to know you. And you
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Speaker 4: know Lee Prentiss. I sure do.
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Speaker 6: You're going to a lot of trouble, Goddard. You an
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Speaker 6: old man, Turner?
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Speaker 4: It's worth it.
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Speaker 13: Getting you back where you belong. You'll hang sure now.
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Speaker 4: Lee didn't kill Jake Harbin, Sheriff. No? I did. What?
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Speaker 4: He tried to shoot Lee in the back.
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Speaker 13: What difference does it make? He's wanted, dead or alive.
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Speaker 13: What are you interfering in this for, Marshal? You got
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Speaker 13: no respect for the law?
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Speaker 7: Not for your kind of law. Anyway, Lee's wanted... in Dodge,
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Speaker 7: and he's staying here.
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Speaker 4: What about my warrant? You're claiming it ain't legal?
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Speaker 7: You can't arrest a man that I've got under arrest.
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Speaker 4: You're protecting him, ain't you? What'd you arrest him for?
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Speaker 4: Stealing horses? I don't believe it.
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Speaker 11: I'm bringing the charges, Sheriff. It was my horses he stole.
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Speaker 13: Well, I thought you owned this hotel, Green.
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Speaker 4: What are you doing with horses?
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Speaker 11: Well, I also own a little ranch outside of town.
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Speaker 6: I raise horses.
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Speaker 13: Maybe, but I know you're lying about Lee. Am I?
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Speaker 4: Of course you are.
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Speaker 13: Marshal Dillon, you ain't very smart.
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Speaker 4: No? You'll have to bring Lee to trial, won't you?
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Speaker 8: Of course.
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Speaker 13: You think Green here is going to swear to that story,
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Speaker 13: under oath?
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Speaker 11: You may be right, Sheriff. I might have to change
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Speaker 11: my mind once I get on the stand. It might
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Speaker 11: be I couldn't swear to it.
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Speaker 13: I didn't think so. That trial won't last long, and
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Speaker 13: when it's over, I'll take Lee back to Baker City.
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Speaker 10: Marshal Dillon.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Mr. Jonas. What is it?
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Speaker 6: There's something I haven't mentioned.
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Speaker 10: Oh?
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Speaker 8: I kind of figured I'd wait till Lee's trial was
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Speaker 8: over before I did.
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Speaker 4: Well, go ahead, Mr.
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Speaker 13: Jonas.
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Speaker 8: Well, the other day, Lee came into my store, and
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Speaker 8: I went out back to fetch him a sack of grain.
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Speaker 4: Is that so? He didn't know I was watching, but
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Speaker 4: I watched.
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Speaker 8: And I saw him take a handful of money out
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Speaker 8: of my cash box.
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Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute. Mr. Jonas, are you charging Lee
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Speaker 4: with robbery?
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Speaker 8: No, not yet, Marshal. I'll wait and see if he
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Speaker 8: gets off for horse stealing first.
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Speaker 7: Well, Lee, looks like you're in for nothing but.
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Speaker 4: Trials and re-arrests. And more trials?
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Speaker 7: That could go on for a long, long time.
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Speaker 11: As long as his friends hold out, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: And Lee's got quite a few of them in Dodge.
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Speaker 4: Why, you're a pack of crooks cheating the law. That's
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Speaker 4: what you are. Including you, Marshal? My prisoner, Sheriff. I
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Speaker 4: won't stand for it, I tell you. What are you
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Speaker 4: going to do about it?
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Speaker 13: We'd like to tell old man Turner about this.
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Speaker 6: You won't dare tell him, Goddard. You're licked and you
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Speaker 6: know it.
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Speaker 9: Turner will have you run out of town if you're
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Speaker 9: fool enough to go back.
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Speaker 4: Marshal, I got to take Lee. I got to... It's
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Speaker 4: Lee's life or your job, huh?
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Speaker 7: All right, Sheriff, take him. But you'll have to kill
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Speaker 7: me first. Or there's a train east in about an hour.
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Speaker 4: So make up your mind, Sheriff.
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Speaker 6: Want me to follow him, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Dillon?
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Speaker 4: No, Chester, he'll leave.
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Speaker 6: Marshal, gentlemen. I wish I knew how to tell you.
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Speaker 4: Lee.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Go on home.
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Speaker 7: But remember, you're still under arrest. And you're gonna stay
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Speaker 7: that way... until old man Turner's in his grave.
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
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Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
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Speaker 4: Marshal.
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Speaker 2: Tonight's story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
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Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in
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Speaker 2: the cast were Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, John Daner, Joe Duvall,
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Speaker 2: and James Nusser. Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc,
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Speaker 2: and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. Join us again next week
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Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal, fights to bring law and
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Speaker 2: order out of the wild violence of the West in Gunsmoke.
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Speaker 1: Our time in Dodge City closes with Gunsmoke, episode 105,
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