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Gunsmoke - "How to Kill a Woman Reused Script" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A stagecoach robbery becomes a murder investigation when a passenger
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: is shot for no apparent reason. In Gunsmoke, Marshal Matt
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Dillon and Chester follow the trail to an isolated Frontier
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Stage station, where stationmaster Jesse Daggett and Nat Pilcher are
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: bound by an uneasy relationship and an older grievance may
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: lie behind the crime. This is How to Kill a Woman,
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  Speaker 1: episode 136, heard on November 20th, 1954. A repeat of
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  Speaker 1: John Meston's October 31st, 1953 script, with William Conrad as
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Dylan and.
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  Speaker 2: Parley Bear as Chester.
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  Speaker 1: The supporting cast includes Jack Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, and John Diener.
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  Speaker 1: Norman MacDonald produced and directed for CBS Radio. And now,
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
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  Speaker 3: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 3: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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  Speaker 3: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of
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  Speaker 3: the violence that moved west with young America. And the
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  Speaker 3: story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 4: man they look for and the last they.
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  Speaker 5: Want to meet.
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  Speaker 4: It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: It's a doggone shame, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what is, Justice?
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: Well, for long it'll be too cold to set out
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  Speaker 2: here of an evening.
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  Speaker 4: Winter's too cold, summer's too hot, huh? How do you
• 2:35
  Speaker 4: like spring?
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, spring's all right up here. But I remember back
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  Speaker 2: in Waco, we all got the ague every spring. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: a terrible fever. Makes a man feel like a harp
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  Speaker 2: with a thousand strings.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 4: I've had it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my ma had an idea we wouldn't get
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  Speaker 2: if we had three hard-boiled eggs on Good Friday. But
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: if that didn't work and we got the ague anyway,
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  Speaker 2: then she'd tie salt mackerel onto our feet.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that should have toughened up your feet anyway.
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  Speaker 6: We all survived.
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  Speaker 2: That stage is mighty late tonight, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Are you expecting somebody?
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  Speaker 5: Me?
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, who would I be expecting?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, maybe some girl from Waco who found out where
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  Speaker 4: you've been hiding.
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  Speaker 6: Not very likely.
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  Speaker 2: Even my ma don't know where I'm at anymore. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: here comes the stage driver. It's Jim Buff.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Chester.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Jim.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: Trouble, Jim?
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  Speaker 6: I'd call it trouble, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Got held up.
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  Speaker 6: One passenger shot down in cold blood.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Meanest thing I ever saw.
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  Speaker 4: What did happen?
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  Speaker 5: On the side of Wagon Bed Springs.
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  Speaker 6: Between there and Jesse Daggetts.
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  Speaker 4: Daggetts?
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  Speaker 6: He runs a stage station out toward the Colorado line.
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  Speaker 6: I got a mighty strong feeling Jesse Daggetts in on this, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: What makes you think so, Jim?
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  Speaker 6: He knew I was carrying gold.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't much, but it was some.
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  Speaker 6: After we'd laid over an hour or so at the station,
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  Speaker 6: I seen Daggett talking to a man who just rode in.
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  Speaker 2: As cussed looking a.
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  Speaker 6: Gunman as you'd want.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then what happened?
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  Speaker 6: The fellow rode off.
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  Speaker 5: He was alone?
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  Speaker 6: Just him.
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  Speaker 2: His face covered.
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  Speaker 6: And he never said a word.
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  Speaker 2: Took the strong box, robbed the.
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  Speaker 6: Passengers, and he got on his horse, turned around, and
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  Speaker 6: shot one of them right through the head.
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  Speaker 2: Forevermore. Then he rode off.
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  Speaker 6: I could have cried.
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  Speaker 2: I was so mad. Helpless.
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  Speaker 4: That's a strange thing, Jim, is shooting down the passenger.
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  Speaker 6: Why would a man do that, Marshal? I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he just likes to kill, maybe. I'll go back
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  Speaker 4: with you tomorrow, Jim. Maybe we can find out. We
• 4:48
  Speaker 4: made the trip down the Santa Fe Trail next day
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  Speaker 4: through Wagon Bed Springs and on to Jesse Daggett's stage station.
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  Speaker 4: I sat on the box with Jim Buck while Chester
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  Speaker 4: rode inside with the passengers. And by evening, everybody was
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  Speaker 4: glad when we reached Daggett's. It was a typical road
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  Speaker 4: ranch with a large eating room and a row of
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  Speaker 4: sleeping quarters for the travelers. Jesse Daggett himself was a tall,
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  Speaker 4: angular man, blonde and gray. He was quiet, but one
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  Speaker 4: could feel the trouble that lay inside him. The first
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  Speaker 4: chance I had to talk to him was in the
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  Speaker 4: yard after supper.
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  Speaker 5: Cold weather be coming soon. I have to lay in
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  Speaker 5: more whiskey.
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  Speaker 4: I figured you probably made your own whiskey, Daggett. I do.
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  Speaker 4: There's a five-barrel of coin buried on the road out there.
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  Speaker 4: Staging the horses, keep them shook up properly. You have
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  Speaker 4: been stationed long? Three years come spring, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Put her up myself.
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  Speaker 4: Four knees try to burn her down now and then,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm still here. You plan to stay here? Man's
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  Speaker 4: plans are his own, Marshal. I'm sorry, it was just
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  Speaker 4: an idle question.
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  Speaker 5: That's all right.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'd like it here myself. No neighbors, but
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  Speaker 4: lots of company passing through. Ain't all good company. Lots
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  Speaker 4: of people travel, good and bad.
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  Speaker 5: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Like the man who held up Jim Buck's stage yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Shot that passenger. What about him? Well, you might call
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  Speaker 4: him comedy like we were talking about. The bad kind.
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  Speaker 4: Any man kills in cold blood that way, I'd call bad.
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  Speaker 4: It might have been a mistake, though.
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  Speaker 6: He.
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  Speaker 4: Gun might have gone off by accident.
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  Speaker 5: Might.
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  Speaker 4: You don't think it did, huh?
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  Speaker 5: What I think won't raise the dead, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: No, but it might keep more people from dying, though.
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  Speaker 4: Figured that's what you're doing here. Looking for that felon.
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  Speaker 4: Jim Buck thinks it might have been that gunman you
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  Speaker 4: were talking to here the day of the holdup.
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  Speaker 5: That was Nat Pilcher.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't care.
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  Speaker 5: What Jim Buck thinks.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it won't help your business or the stage companies
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  Speaker 4: if more passengers get killed near here, Daggett. No, it won't. Perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody expects the stage to get held up once in
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  Speaker 4: a while, but it's a different matter to shoot people
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  Speaker 4: down for nothing. Now, I don't figure this man, unless
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  Speaker 4: he's just a born killer. He could have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of reasons. Men are all different, Charles. All got different
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  Speaker 4: reasons for doing what they do.
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  Speaker 5: Living the way they live.
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  Speaker 4: I guess it's what happened to them in the past
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  Speaker 4: that spells it out. That's why I'm a lawman and
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  Speaker 4: you run a stage station and whoever he is holds
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  Speaker 4: up people and kills them.
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  Speaker 5: Marshal, I'll tell you something, but it ain't.
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  Speaker 4: What you want to hear. I believe in letting every
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  Speaker 4: man kill his own snakes. Uh-huh. Then this business is
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  Speaker 4: between whoever that bandit is and me. Is that it?
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  Speaker 5: That's it, exactly. Every man for himself.
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  Speaker 4: You might say.
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  Speaker 5: I don't interfere, and I won't help. Mm-hmm, I see.
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  Speaker 4: It's got to be like that. Even though a man
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  Speaker 4: was killed for nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Dog eat dog, I see.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I hope you won't regret it, Taggart.
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  Speaker 5: One more regret won't break me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not so sure, Doctor. I'm not so sure it won't.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to get anything out of Jesse Daggett was hopeless.
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  Speaker 4: But I still couldn't agree with Jim Buck that Daggett.
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  Speaker 5: Was partners with a road agent.
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  Speaker 4: Daggett somehow wasn't that kind of a man. Anyway, there
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  Speaker 4: was nothing to do but wait and let things happen.
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  Speaker 4: Two days passed while Chester and I sat in the
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  Speaker 4: eating room and played two-handed studs and got bored and restless.
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  Speaker 4: Late afternoon of the second day, however, Jim Buck drove
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  Speaker 4: back with.
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  Speaker 2: His stage show.
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  Speaker 4: The travelers came in first, went to their rooms, and
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  Speaker 4: then Jim came over to say hello.
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  Speaker 6: I wish I had a job like yours.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing to do but sit around and play cards and
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  Speaker 2: drink whiskey. Well, we do a lot of thinking, Jim.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes up for it.
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  Speaker 6: You do, huh? Have you done any about finding Jesse
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  Speaker 6: Daggett's friend?
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  Speaker 4: Nat Pilcher? Not if we did find him, Jim. We
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  Speaker 4: couldn't prove anything.
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  Speaker 6: No. Neither could I, I guess. We might just shoot
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  Speaker 6: him for luck.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're too suspicious, Jim. He was probably just some
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  Speaker 4: cowboy riding through.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe. Anyway, I got no gold this trip.
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  Speaker 4: Then there's nothing to worry about, is there?
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  Speaker 6: There's another pilgrim for supper.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first picture we've had since you left, Jim.
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  Speaker 6: Man, that's to be mighty hungry to ride in here
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  Speaker 6: for Jesse Daggett's food. Where is Daggett, anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he went outside just after you pulled in. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: you see him?
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  Speaker 6: I was busy with the horses, and I still got
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  Speaker 6: work to do. I'll see you at supper.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 7: That's a hard life driving the stage, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon. I don't think I'd want to do that.
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  Speaker 4: You might give it a try first, Justin.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 8: I heard there was a marshal here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 5: Me?
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  Speaker 7: You can't do nothing for me, marshal.
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  Speaker 4: And what do you want?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I just wanted to see what a marshal looks like.
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  Speaker 7: A live one.
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  Speaker 4: You satisfied?
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: All right, then get out of here.
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  Speaker 8: You're touchy, Marshal, real touchy. I don't aim to start
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  Speaker 8: no trouble. I only come in to say hello, friendly like...
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  Speaker 8: What's your name?
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  Speaker 5: Pilcher.
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  Speaker 7: Ned Pilcher.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought so.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a friend of Jesse Daggett's, an old friend.
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  Speaker 4: Where do you live, Pilcher? You got a job around here?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a cowboy, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: Know anybody needs a good hand?
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  Speaker 4: What do you do besides ride, then?
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  Speaker 7: Funny you ask that.
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  Speaker 5: Does it?
• 11:50
  Speaker 7: You being a lawman, it is. Ever hear of Charlie Hall,
• 11:54
  Speaker 7: sheriff over in New Mexico?
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  Speaker 4: I have.
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  Speaker 8: They say Clay Allison shot him. That's what they say, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: But I know for a fact it wasn't Clay.
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  Speaker 7: Nice meeting you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: See you later.
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  Speaker 4: Jesse Daggett's stage station lay on the prairie, miles from anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: It would be an easy thing for a man like
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  Speaker 4: Nat Pilcher to ride in long enough to check on
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  Speaker 4: a stagecoach and the value of its cargo, and then
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  Speaker 4: ride up the road a few miles and wait for it.
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  Speaker 4: But I still didn't believe Daggett was in on the deal,
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  Speaker 4: even though he and Pilcher had obviously known each other
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  Speaker 4: somewhere before. The next morning at dawn, Jim Buck loaded
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  Speaker 4: his passengers aboard and pulled out. Daggett and I stood
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  Speaker 4: there and watched the little cloud of dust as it
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  Speaker 4: moved up the Santa Fe Trail toward Wagon Bed Springs.
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  Speaker 4: They'll make dodge tonight. He'll be back here tomorrow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: if he doesn't get shot up. I ain't carrying no
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  Speaker 4: gold this trip. I, uh, met your friend Nat Pilcher
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  Speaker 4: last night, Daggett. Pilcher rolled out before supper. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Seems like he only came in to tell me what
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: a hard case he is. To warn me about it.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't have much effect. You're still here. You don't think
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  Speaker 4: I scare that easy. You're all right, Marshall.
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  Speaker 5: You should have gone back to Dodge.
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  Speaker 4: Why, Daggett? Why should I?
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  Speaker 5: Things will work out here without you.
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  Speaker 4: Now, go ahead. That's all. Now, Daggett, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what's going on down here, and if I'm meddling in
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  Speaker 4: your affairs, I'm sorry, but a stage has been robbed
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  Speaker 4: and a man's been killed, and that makes it my affair, too. Well, one,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for not thinking I got anything.
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  Speaker 7: To do with all that, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I wasn't sure at first, but I am now.
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  Speaker 4: Even so, I'm not going back to Dodge without a man.
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  Speaker 5: No, I suppose you won't.
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  Speaker 4: Now, let's go inside.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you ought to plant some trees out here, Daggett.
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  Speaker 4: Sure improved the place.
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  Speaker 2: Not enough water.
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  Speaker 4: Now dig for it, then. You'll never get a woman
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  Speaker 4: to come out here and marry you unless you've at
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  Speaker 4: least got some trees.
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  Speaker 2: How's that?
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  Speaker 4: No offense, I was just remarking that women like things
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  Speaker 4: growing around the place. Let's say that I meant it generally.
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  Speaker 4: I thought to have a woman here once when I first.
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  Speaker 5: Planned about it. Running the stage station.
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  Speaker 4: That was over in New Mexico.
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  Speaker 5: Seems like a long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: Things don't always work out. I was mighty fond of her.
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  Speaker 4: But I lost her. I've been a.
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  Speaker 5: Little lonely ever since.
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  Speaker 4: You came close. That's better than some men do.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 4: Funny how a man goes right on living, even when
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: his luck is about to run out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, come on inside. Heat up some coffee.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Good. Got him, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Dillon, do you mind if we don't play no more?
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: I swear I'm beginning to see things.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay with me. The stage ought to be here
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  Speaker 4: pretty soon anyway.
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  Speaker 2: You just think, Jim Buck's taking the stage all the
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: way to Dodge and back, and we've just been sitting
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  Speaker 2: here another two days.
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  Speaker 4: Well, waiting's always the hardest part, Chester. I just hope
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  Speaker 4: it pays off.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: There's a stage now. There'll be some people around here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go up and meet it, huh? Howdy, Jim.
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  Speaker 6: Come out here, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter? More trouble, Jim?
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: He stopped me again, Marshal. My heaven, I'm going after
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: him now if you don't. Take a look in the
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  Speaker 6: coach there.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 5: That woman.
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  Speaker 5: She dead, Jim?
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: Of course she's dead. She's got a bullet in her.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Where are your other passengers, Jim?
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: There ain't any. She was the only one this trip.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Look at her, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: He killed her.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: There's some blood soaking through your jacket, Jim. You hit bad?
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: In the shoulder. I wasn't going to stop at all.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: It knocked me off the box.
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  Speaker 2: And he just rode up and put a bullet in
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  Speaker 2: her and rode off.
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  Speaker 6: Never said a word.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: You think it was a filter?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Who else would it be?
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: You've seen him.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: You know what he's like. Must be him. Let's ask
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Jesse Daggett here who it was. Take a look in
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  Speaker 6: the coach, Daggett. Take a good look. Well, Daggett, what do.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: You think of killing women?
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Look at him, Marshal. I told you. You ever see
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: a guiltier looking man?
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  Speaker 4: No, you're wrong, Jim. It doesn't even make sense.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't do it, no. But he's in on it somehow.
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  Speaker 6: Chester. Yes, sir?
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I'll help you take the woman inside. Then we'll see
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: what we can do about your shoulder, Jim. It doesn't
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: make sense, none at all. But I figured it would soon.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: And after I did what I could for Jim Buck's shoulder,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Chester and I buried the woman. Put a cross over
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: her grave. We'd find out later who she was. The
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: rest of the night, we took turns watching for a
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  Speaker 4: move from Jesse Daggett. And sure enough, about an hour
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: before dawn, he saddled up and rode out into the prairie.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: We let him get a little start and then took
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: a couple of his horses and followed him.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think he's going to meet Pilcher?
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: If we can find him.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: We must have come ten miles already.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, about that. We shouldn't have let him get so
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: far ahead of us, though.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: We're right on his trail.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Let's start up there.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Look.
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  Speaker 2: It's a man.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: You followed me, Marshal?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: How bad are you hurt, Daggett?
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Pretty bad.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Pilcher?
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: I'd have killed him, Marshal.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: But my gun didn't go off.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: And he got me easy. No luck left at all.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Right? Any idea where Pilcher is now?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Daggett? He said he was going back to the station
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: to get you.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Took my horse with him. Had to come with you
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: this morning, Daggett.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Wasn't your business. Between me and Pilcher.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: He come here looking for a fight, but I didn't
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: want to kill nobody no more. Not even him.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: So he drove me to it. Finally.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: Finally, that woman.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: He knew I couldn't stand that. You mean he shot
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: her and that other passenger just to prod you into
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: a fight?
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Marshal, I'll tell you now. I had a woman out
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: in New Mexico.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: I caught her running off with that Pilcher.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't shoot him, though.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I shot her instead.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Figured that made more sense. You killed her? I don't
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: think he'd have minded so much if I'd have killed him.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: I figured he wasn't doing nothing. I didn't want to
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: do myself. I didn't blame him. None of it. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: blamed her.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Pilcher been after me ever since. I could have stopped
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: all this if you'd have told me sooner, Daggett. Every
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: man's got to kill his own snakes, Marshal. I tried.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: You can have them now. I ain't gonna live long.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Daggett. Chester will stay with you. I'm going
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: back to the station.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: You both go. I can die alone. I ain't afraid.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Now....
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Goodbye, Begum. Bye, Marshal.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Chester. Yes, sir?
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Do what you can for him.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Poor fellow.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: I'll send somebody out to help you bring him in later. Yes, sir.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: It's about time you got back, Marshal.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Where's Pilcher, Jim?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Out back looking for whiskey. Where's everybody else?
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: It's been a busy morning. How's your shoulder?
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: It hurts. I got to get up to dodge somehow.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Marshal.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Hello, Pilcher.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: You've been riding.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: So have you.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: A man like me rides a lot, Marshal.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: You should have.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Kept going, Pilcher.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: I wanted to see you again before I left. Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what Jesse Daggett told me.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: I'm going to kill you and then Jim here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait a minute.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Shut up, Jim. Pilcher, you can drop your gun belt
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: and take your chances in court if you like them.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: My chances are better right here, Marshal.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Now, that's your choice.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: It's always been my choice.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Except for the night Jesse Daggett shot his wife.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Did he tell you about that?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter now.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: To me, it does.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: You killed him, Marshal.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You hit?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: No. What's this all about, anyway?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: A woman.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Jim, I'm going to hitch up the stage and drive
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: you to Dodge.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I'd be grateful for that, Marshal.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: We'll have to go out of our way some. Why?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Jesse Daggett's luck ran all the way out this morning.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: That's why I'm... THE END.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke, transcribed under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Our story was specially written.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: For Gunsmoke by John Meston, with music composed and conducted
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Ray Kemper.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Clayton Post. Harley Bear as Chester. Join us again next
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: week as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal, fights to bring law
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: and order out of the wild violence of the West
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: in Gunsmoke.
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: Gunsmoke, episode 136, How to Kill a Woman, has now concluded.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: Until our next broadcast, good night.