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The Lone Ranger - "Crane Murder Case" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On August 25th, 1955, The Lone Ranger reached episode 3,273.
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  Speaker 1: This installment is titled Crane Murder Case. For generations, this
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  Speaker 1: western series carried listeners across the frontier with The Lone
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  Speaker 1: Ranger and Tonto. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 2: of dust, and a hearty high old silver.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: They're at your.
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  Speaker 6: Grocers right now.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask for the special Wheaties blackboard package.
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  Speaker 6: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the.
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  Speaker 2: Daring and resourceful mask rider of the plains led the
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  Speaker 2: fight for law and order in.
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  Speaker 6: The early western United States.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a
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  Speaker 2: greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those
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  Speaker 2: thrilling days of yesteryear.
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  Speaker 6: From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of
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  Speaker 6: the great horse, Silver.
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  Speaker 7: The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Silver. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: It was early evening when Clarabelle Hornblow excitedly entered the
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  Speaker 2: sheriff's office in Red Rock.
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  Speaker 8: Well, where is he? What's he in jail for this time?
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  Speaker 8: And how much is it going to cost.
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  Speaker 7: To get him out? When I get that ornery no good,
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  Speaker 7: it's a huge work. I'll hand over him now. No,
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  Speaker 7: we can't.
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  Speaker 6: Clarabelle, take it easy.
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  Speaker 7: Take it easy, you say? Why, I had to stop
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  Speaker 7: getting supper.
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  Speaker 8: And come all the way into town when I got
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  Speaker 8: the message from one of my hands that you were
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  Speaker 8: holding Thunder.
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  Speaker 7: Martin in jail.
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  Speaker 9: Guess that cowhand of yours didn't tell you why Thunder's
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  Speaker 9: in jail, did he?
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  Speaker 7: Nope, but I can guess.
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  Speaker 8: Got to carousing and busted some more mirrors in the cafe.
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  Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute, Claribel. This is serious. You see,
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  Speaker 6: Thunder's here this time for murder.
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  Speaker 7: I don't give a hoot what he's... What'd you say?
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  Speaker 6: He's in for murder.
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  Speaker 7: Murder?
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  Speaker 6: Murder?
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  Speaker 7: Now, look here. Thunder might be loco and all that,
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  Speaker 7: but he ain't going to go killing anybody.
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  Speaker 6: That'll be for the court to decide, Claribel. All I
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  Speaker 6: can say is it looks mighty bad for Thunder.
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  Speaker 8: Why, I just can't believe it. That you'd accuse Thunder,
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  Speaker 8: I mean. I just know he didn't do it.
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  Speaker 6: Want to see Thunder for a few minutes?
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  Speaker 7: No. Just tell him I was here and.
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  Speaker 8: And you tell him I'm going to get the only
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  Speaker 8: person I know who can help find the yellow polecat
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  Speaker 8: who did the killing he's blamed for.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to find the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: That same evening, Claribel sent an urgent message to a
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  Speaker 2: Padre at a.
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  Speaker 3: Mission not far away.
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  Speaker 2: The following afternoon, the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode to
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  Speaker 2: the mission in response to smoke signals made by friendly
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  Speaker 2: Indians known.
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  Speaker 3: To the Padre.
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  Speaker 2: They learned of Thunder's difficulty and immediately started for the
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  Speaker 2: town of Red Rock, 20 miles away. Darkness had fallen
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  Speaker 2: when the two men arrived at the outskirts of Red Rock.
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  Speaker 2: They rode the back trail and stopped behind the jail.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go, Tonto.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, what can I do?
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  Speaker 11: Wait.
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  Speaker 6: No mask on me.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go out there. We came to see Thunder Martin.
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  Speaker 6: You can't see him. No mask on me. Take it
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  Speaker 6: to his cell and hurry. Well, seeing as how you
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  Speaker 6: got the drop on me, I reckon I'll have to.
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  Speaker 3: Come on. All right.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there he is. If you're figuring on helping him escape, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Byron.
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  Speaker 7: Am I glad to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff, drop your arms and shake hands with the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 6: The Lone Ranger. Great day. So that's who you are.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. This is my friend, Toto.
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  Speaker 11: How?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry I had to pull guns.
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  Speaker 13: On you, but you might not have waited for an explanation.
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  Speaker 13: May we talk to Thunder alone, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: He and Clarabelle are friends of mine, too, but... Well,
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  Speaker 9: Thunder's got a lot of evidence against him. I have
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  Speaker 9: to keep him here.
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  Speaker 5: Why, of course, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: That's your duty.
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  Speaker 6: I'll leave you now. Be in my office when you're
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  Speaker 6: ready to leave.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I'm a thick-headed fool for being in this mess.
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  Speaker 11: But now that you and Tonto are here, I'm not
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  Speaker 11: worried anymore.
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  Speaker 13: We're sure you didn't kill anyone, Thunder. But we must
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  Speaker 13: convince everyone else of your innocence. The only way to
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  Speaker 13: do that is to get the full story from you
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  Speaker 13: and then try to find out who did commit the murder.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Will you tell us all the facts as
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  Speaker 3: you remember them?
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  Speaker 5: Why, sure.
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  Speaker 6: It was this way. The other day, I was standing
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  Speaker 6: with a group of hombres in the cafe.
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  Speaker 11: They were joshing me about Claribel, as usual.
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  Speaker 4: You and Claribel have been sweet on each other for
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  Speaker 4: a long time now, Thunder.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you're going to pop the question.
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  Speaker 6: Well, now, so far.
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  Speaker 11: All I get from Clarabelle is sour looks and a
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  Speaker 11: lot of bellowing.
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  Speaker 6: Now, if you call that being sweet on.
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  Speaker 11: Somebody, you're loco. Well, the fact is, Clarabelle's a mighty
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  Speaker 11: fine woman. Even if she is a mite.
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  Speaker 7: Rough and reddy.
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  Speaker 11: We get along mighty well together when we're apart.
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  Speaker 3: Well, howdy, stranger.
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  Speaker 6: Step up and join us. Sure. Don't care for do.
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  Speaker 6: The drinks is on me. Shut him up, bartender. You see, boys,
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  Speaker 6: this hombre knows the quickest way to make friends around here.
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  Speaker 6: He sure does. He's all right, eh, boys?
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  Speaker 11: You must have struck it rich, mister, to be throwing
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  Speaker 11: your money around like that.
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  Speaker 6: No, just sold out my farm down at Dry Gulch.
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  Speaker 6: I'm riding up to Pecos to take the train to St.
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  Speaker 7: Louis.
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  Speaker 6: Decided to pull up states, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Got a good price for the farm. So I'm taking
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  Speaker 6: the money with me. Gonna set myself up in a
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  Speaker 6: little business back east. Hey, stranger, my name's Lucky Hilton.
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  Speaker 5: I run the gaming room here. What name do you
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  Speaker 5: go by, mister?
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  Speaker 6: My name's Jim Crane.
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  Speaker 12: Well, see, now maybe you'd like to try a few
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  Speaker 12: of the games with some of your money.
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  Speaker 5: Might be your lucky day.
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  Speaker 6: No, don't go in for gambling.
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  Speaker 4: Had the bank pay me with new thousand dollar federal
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  Speaker 4: notes so that I wouldn't break.
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  Speaker 6: Into them too easy. I already had enough small bills
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  Speaker 6: for expenses.
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  Speaker 5: All right, enjoy yourself, Crane. And if you change your mind,
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  Speaker 5: just come in the other room.
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  Speaker 7: All right, I'll do that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, sir, I stayed a while after.
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  Speaker 5: The stranger left.
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  Speaker 6: Then after picking up some supplies at the general store, I.
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  Speaker 11: Rode out of town toward our ranch. After going a
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  Speaker 11: few miles, I saw a body on the trail. Great
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  Speaker 11: jump on Jupiter. It's that stranger shot in the back.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see. He's done for, all right.
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  Speaker 11: Some sneaking yellow coyote dry gossed him before he had
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  Speaker 11: a chance. Here comes a couple of hombres.
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  Speaker 5: Lookie, they come along.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, come here.
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  Speaker 7: Hurry it up.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, I'm glad you come along. This hombre's been dry-gold.
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  Speaker 6: Wait just a minute. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Watch it.
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  Speaker 6: He thought you were red-handed. Now, hold on. You got
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  Speaker 6: things all wrong. I didn't kill him. I just come along.
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  Speaker 3: Shut up.
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  Speaker 7: Take his gun, Biff.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, would you? Biff, take this hombre. He's been shot
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  Speaker 6: along with this homely gorilla to town.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go.
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  Speaker 11: Well, that's where it was. When the sheriff looked at
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  Speaker 11: my gun, there was two bullets missing. I remember one
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  Speaker 11: of the hombres fired a couple of shots at a
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  Speaker 11: prairie dog on the way back to town. I told
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  Speaker 11: the sheriff he must have used my gun for those shots,
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  Speaker 11: but they both said I was lying and that no
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  Speaker 11: shot will fire at all.
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  Speaker 3: Where did the killing take place?
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  Speaker 6: Butcher, about three miles out the north trail.
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  Speaker 11: There's a big gully to the left out there.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'll be Oh, dear mutt man.
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  Speaker 8: I just knew you'd get here in a hurry, mister,
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  Speaker 8: if you'd got my message.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sure glad and relieved to see both of you.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Clarabelle. Howdy, Clarabelle.
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  Speaker 6: I told Clarabelle you were here.
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  Speaker 3: We came as soon as we received your message, Clarabelle.
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  Speaker 7: Did Thunder tell you what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And knowing Thunder as we do, I'm sure he's
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  Speaker 3: been framed. Sheriff, what about the stranger's cash?
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  Speaker 9: It was mission, of course, and still is. Thunder didn't
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  Speaker 9: have it on him or in his saddlebags. If we
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  Speaker 9: could only find that cash.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 13: I'll do all we can to find it and prove
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  Speaker 13: that Thunder didn't commit murder.
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  Speaker 2: We'll continue our Lone Ranger adventure in just a moment.
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  Speaker 7: Fullback Bobby is a boy of nine. He can really
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  Speaker 7: hit that line. He's a star because.
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  Speaker 2: He knows he's got gold power from Cheerios.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, he's got gold power.
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  Speaker 6: There he goes.
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  Speaker 7: He's feeling his Cheerios, Cheerios, Cheerios.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's a fact.
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  Speaker 2: Cheerios does give you real goal power. You see, Cheerios
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  Speaker 2: is made from oats, and every delicious spoonful of Cheerios
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  Speaker 2: and milk is real muscle-building food. Each spoonful contains vitamins, minerals,
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  Speaker 2: and proteins your body needs. Yes, the good things in
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  Speaker 2: a Cheerios breakfast do good things for your body, help
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  Speaker 2: you have healthy nerves, good red blood, strong bones and muscles.
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  Speaker 2: And Cheerios is so much fun to eat, with its
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  Speaker 2: distinctive O shape and its wonderful toasted oat flavor. So
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning and every morning, start the day right with
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  Speaker 2: a Cheerios breakfast.
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  Speaker 7: Then you'll hear people say.
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  Speaker 1: He's feeling his Cheerios.
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  Speaker 6: Now to continue.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, one of the men who had accused Thunder hurriedly
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  Speaker 2: entered Lucky Hilton's office.
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  Speaker 5: At the cafe.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Lucky. There's a masked man at the sheriff's office.
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  Speaker 6: I could see him through the window. I looked around
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  Speaker 6: for his horse and finally found it behind the jail.
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  Speaker 6: A white stallion.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 5: A lone ranger. So he's here in town. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: figured that was him.
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  Speaker 6: If he does too much stupid work.
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  Speaker 4: Look, why don't Carl and I wait in the shadows
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  Speaker 4: near the sheriff's office and gun him when he comes out?
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  Speaker 5: No, don't gun him here in town.
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  Speaker 3: Follow him.
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  Speaker 5: When he leaves and then plug him on the trail someplace.
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  Speaker 5: That'll be better.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 6: See you later.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Bone Ranger and Tottle left the jail with Clarabelle and
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  Speaker 2: started for her ranch to spend the night.
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  Speaker 3: As they rode the trail.
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  Speaker 2: About a mile out of town, Tottle glanced back, then
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  Speaker 2: spoke quickly.
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  Speaker 6: He must have it.
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  Speaker 14: He looked back to see two riders come over hill,
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  Speaker 14: ride from trail into gully. He think them follow us.
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  Speaker 3: They go around the bend ahead. They never get the
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  Speaker 3: drop on them as they come along the trail.
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  Speaker 5: Come, come, come.
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  Speaker 6: Get up there.
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  Speaker 2: After rounding the bend, they pulled to a halt behind
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  Speaker 2: some large boulders.
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  Speaker 3: Have your gun ready.
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  Speaker 7: You're coming along the trail now.
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  Speaker 3: Stop and reach.
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  Speaker 6: You're coming. Oh, boy. What's the idea? Must be a holdup.
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  Speaker 3: No. We're convinced you're following us.
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  Speaker 6: Why should we follow you?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want to find out.
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  Speaker 6: You made a mistake, mister. We not make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger looked keenly at the two men, whose
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  Speaker 2: faces were clearly seen in the bright moonlight. He quickly
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  Speaker 2: decided he'd learn more about them if he allowed them
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  Speaker 2: to escape.
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  Speaker 5: Unnoticed by the two.
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  Speaker 2: Men, he touched Silver with his heel, causing the intelligent
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  Speaker 2: horse to rear and bump slightly against Tonto's horse.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, easy, Silver, easy.
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  Speaker 6: Let's get away from here, Tom. Get up, get up.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, they're getting away.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted them to get away, Clarabelle. Easy, Silver, easy.
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  Speaker 3: Good work, Tom.
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  Speaker 6: Me see you signal, Silver.
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  Speaker 5: Them right to town, Jim Covey.
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  Speaker 3: Now we'll follow them and see where they go. They
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  Speaker 3: may have been connected with a murder.
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  Speaker 8: Say, someone in town must have seen you leaving the
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  Speaker 8: sheriff's office, figured you were the Lone Ranger, and that
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  Speaker 8: you were investigating the murder.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's possible. All right, let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Move, Silver. Get up there.
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  Speaker 5: Get up there.
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  Speaker 2: When they reached the outskirts of town, the masked man
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  Speaker 2: and Clarabelle waited, while Tonto followed the hoof marks from there.
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  Speaker 3: Soon, Tonto returned to report. What did you find out, Tonto?
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  Speaker 14: Hoof marks lead to cafe.
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  Speaker 3: May have gone there to report to someone.
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  Speaker 8: I say we ought to go there right now and
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  Speaker 8: find out who those stinking coyotes are, accuse them of killing.
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  Speaker 7: The stranger, and then go.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, right now, the evidence is against thunder, Clarabelle. We
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  Speaker 13: can't accuse anyone without proof.
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  Speaker 8: But the trial starts in the morning. And from the
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  Speaker 8: looks of things, Thunder doesn't have much of a chance.
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  Speaker 3: We don't give up hope yet. Say, do you think
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  Speaker 3: the sheriff would cooperate with us in a certain plan
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  Speaker 3: I have in mind?
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  Speaker 7: Why, sure.
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  Speaker 8: The sheriff likes Thunder. And he'd do all he could
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  Speaker 8: to help prove him innocent.
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  Speaker 11: Good.
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  Speaker 13: I don't want to be seen again at his office, Claribel.
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  Speaker 13: I'll tell you what to say, and you talk to
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  Speaker 13: the sheriff. Now, this is what I'd like him to do.
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  Speaker 2: After listening carefully to the Lone Ranger's instructions, Clarabel rode
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  Speaker 2: to the sheriff's office and told him of the plan.
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  Speaker 6: Later that night, the.
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  Speaker 2: Cafe was crowded, and everyone was discussing the murder and
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  Speaker 2: the coming trial.
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  Speaker 4: Thunder Martin is rough and loud, but I say he's
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  Speaker 4: not a killer.
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  Speaker 6: Now, we saw it happen, didn't we, Carl?
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Martin's guilty, all right. It seems to me it's
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  Speaker 4: risky to wait for a trial. The sheriff is a
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  Speaker 4: friend of Martin's and might fix it so he can escape.
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  Speaker 6: I think we ought to make sure he pays for
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  Speaker 6: what he did. We could take him from the jail
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  Speaker 6: and settle this thing tonight. Hey, what's all the excitement here?
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  Speaker 6: What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Powell and Biff are afraid Thunder Martin might escape. They
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  Speaker 4: figure we ought to handle things.
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  Speaker 6: Our own way tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Quiet!
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  Speaker 6: Quiet, everybody! You better give up that idea right now.
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  Speaker 6: And as for you, Kyle, you, Biff, keep your mouth shut.
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  Speaker 12: We'll all take care of Thunder Martin... So just forget
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  Speaker 12: about the mob taking the law.
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  Speaker 6: Into their own hands. What's that I heard about a mob?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it's all right, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 12: Some of the boys got a little excited about the murder,
• 16:37
  Speaker 12: that's all. I told them the law would take care
• 16:39
  Speaker 12: of Thunder Martin.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: There's plenty of evidence against him.
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: Of course, the case would be really clinched if we
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: found what he did with a cash and.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Poke of gold that's missing.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: Cash and poke of gold? Uh-huh.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: I met and talked with a stranger before he came
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: into the cafe the day of the murder. He told
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: me about selling property and getting paid in large bills
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: he had in his wallet.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: He said he had the bank give him part payment
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: in gold dust so he could show it to his
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: folks back east.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: He carried it in leather coat.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Gold dust, huh?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Must have been worth considerable.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 17:12
  Speaker 12: Let's, uh, let's hope it turns up. I, uh, I
• 17:15
  Speaker 12: don't think the crowd will start anything, Sheriff, after what
• 17:18
  Speaker 12: I said to them. I'll give them refreshments on the house,
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: take their minds off the kill.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Good, good.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Step up, everybody.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: Refreshments around the house.
• 17:27
  Speaker 12: I think I changed their minds, Sheriff, but, uh, maybe
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: you'd better stay here and talk to them some more.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: All right, I'll do that. Sure. Refreshments around the house
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: for everybody.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Now, Biff, Kyle.
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I want to talk to you two in the office.
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: Come on. Sure.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Outside in the shadows, the Lone Ranger and Tonto had
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: been watching through the side window of the cafe. As
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Biff and Carl went toward the back office with Lucky,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Tonto spoke.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 18:03
  Speaker 14: Them two fellas who follow us on trails. I'm going
• 18:07
  Speaker 14: into office with another fellow.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: You go stand outside the back door, Tonto. I think
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: we might learn something. Come on.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: In his office, Lucky turned and faced Biff and Carl angrily.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: You're sneaking polecats. What happened to that poke of gold
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: dust that stranger carried?
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: You gotta believe us, Lucky. All we found was the
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: wallet we brought you. We even searched the saddlebags before
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Thunder came along. That's right, Lucky. Carl's telling the truth.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Crane didn't have any gold with him. You heard what
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: the sheriff said. You two held out on me.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Now speak up.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Where'd that poker go? Well, I tell you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Hey, what? There wasn't any gold.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Hey, look, the masked man, he sneaked in the back door.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: He's got us covered. Well, grab your gun. Hold it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: I'll move you two.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Good work, mister.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Well, Sheriff, our plan seems to have worked.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: We were listening just outside the office door. We could
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: hear what was said. You can't prove anything on us.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Keep him covered, mister. I'll search his desk. Why, here's
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: a wallet in the bottom drawer. Oh, that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: That's an old one of mine.
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: What about the initials stamped on the inside, J.C.? The
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: victim's name was Jim Crane.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: We heard you, Matt, admit you killed him. No, no, no,
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: wait a minute, Sheriff.
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: I didn't have anything to do with it. Carl and
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: Vic were in here last night. One of them left
• 19:23
  Speaker 12: that wallet on my desk. I dropped it into a drawer.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, he's lying.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Lucky planned the whole thing.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: He sent us to ambush and rob Crane after he
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: saw the cash in that wallet. And you fired two
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: shots from his gun to make it look like he'd
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: gunned the stranger.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Carl thought of that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: We've heard enough, Sheriff. Lucky these two men are responsible
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: for the murder.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: I ought to tell Thunder what they did. Then put
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: him into the cell with them one at a time
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: before I release him.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: No, he's murderous.
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: Thunder isn't a murderer, but he would give you both
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: a beating you'd remember. However, he'll be satisfied with his release.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: Take these sneaking coyotes over to the jail, men.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Later, Thunder Martin with Clarabelle and the sheriff entered the cafe,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: where Thunder was immediately the center of attraction.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Thunder! We all knew you were innocent. Well, thanks.
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: It's sure good to be out of that rat hole
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: the sheriff calls a jail.
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: I'm as glad to have you out of there as
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: you are to be free, Thunder. The masked man's plan
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: sure worked. We found the new $ 1, 000 federal notes in
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: Lucky's safe, and he broke down and confessed they were
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: stolen from the stranger. Though he still blames Carl and Biff.
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: What about the Polka Golda?
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: There wasn't any. I had my.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: Fingers crossed when I told about that. But it sure
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: brought out the truth. I reckon you're relieved, Clarabelle, to
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: have Thunder's name cleared.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: I sure am.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: You think I wanted to look all over the territory
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: for a new mule skinner?
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: You mean that's all you worried about?
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: Well, now, I'd have felt bound to pay for your
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: burial if you'd have been found guilty and hanged.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Oh, come on home, you big lumphead.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: Those mules will be happy to see you back.
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: Oh!
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Don't worry, Thunder. She was mighty upset when you were
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: in jail.
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: She's the one who sent for the hombre who brought
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: the killers to light.
• 21:17
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• 21:40
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• 21:49
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• 21:53
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• 21:54
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• 21:55
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• 22:03
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• 22:10
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• 22:13
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