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The Lone Ranger - "The Son of Akiller" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: After 15 years in prison, John Hawkins returns convinced that
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Ian Beasley was responsible for his conviction. That old grievance
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: bears down on the Beasley family when Beasley's son is
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: accused in a robbery and murder case, bringing the Lone
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  Speaker 1: Ranger and Tonto into the investigation. From November 1st, 1940,
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  Speaker 1: this is The Lone Ranger, episode 1213, The Son of
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  Speaker 1: a Killer, with Earl Gracer as the Lone Ranger, John
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  Speaker 1: Todd as Tonto, and Fran Stryker credited as writer. Ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, a mutual sustaining period broadcast produced by George W.
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  Speaker 2: Trendle.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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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 hi-yo silver.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 6: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
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  Speaker 6: the plains led the fight for law and order in
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  Speaker 6: the western United States. His strength and courage, his daring
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  Speaker 6: and resourcefulness, made him the greatest champion of justice the
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  Speaker 6: frontier ever knew. It was he more than any other
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  Speaker 6: man who put an end to bloodshed and violence and
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  Speaker 6: blazed the trail for the winning of the West. Return
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  Speaker 6: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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  Speaker 6: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 6: great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver! Tell us waiting in the trail ahead!
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  Speaker 2: We've got to hurry!
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  Speaker 4: Come on!
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  Speaker 6: John Hawkins had served a sentence of 15 years for robbery.
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  Speaker 6: The day he was to be released, he faced the warden.
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  Speaker 3: No use wasting breath on me, warden. I know the
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  Speaker 3: talk you give outgoing men. I'm not going to talk
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  Speaker 3: to you, Hawkins. There's just one thing I have to say. Well,
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  Speaker 3: never mind saying it. You've been a good prisoner. You've
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  Speaker 3: kept your health up and your muscles strong. But, John,
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  Speaker 3: you've let your soul shrivel up. Never mind my soul.
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  Speaker 3: My soul was killed when Land Beasley seen to it
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  Speaker 3: that I was sent here.
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  Speaker 2: But wait.
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  Speaker 7: Killing Land Beasley won't help you now.
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  Speaker 2: Killing him?
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  Speaker 4: No, Warden.
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  Speaker 3: Killing him won't help now, I know that. I made
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  Speaker 3: up my mind of that five years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple others, though. Beasley's friends. He could have
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  Speaker 3: come as witnesses to my trial and saved me from jail.
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  Speaker 3: They'll get killed.
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  Speaker 2: John, that Warden.
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  Speaker 3: No matter what I tell you, you can't jail me
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  Speaker 3: again without I do a crime, can you?
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  Speaker 2: No, John, I can't.
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  Speaker 3: Then just in case you're curious, I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 3: I've had 15 long years to think things over. Beasley
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  Speaker 3: sent me here. Beasley got the case that he framed
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  Speaker 3: me for getting. It was Beasley that schemed it all.
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  Speaker 2: I'll kill this cunt that helped him. That's a promise.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a promise too that... I won't kill Land Beasley.
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  Speaker 4: But you.
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  Speaker 3: What I got fixed up for him, for Beasley, is
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  Speaker 3: lots worse than dying. I know it. Now, if you...
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  Speaker 3: If you got no more to say, I'll... I'll shove on.
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  Speaker 4: Boys, I... I had word from the warden at Huntsville...
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  Speaker 4: John Hawkins is free.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkins?
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  Speaker 4: That means he'll be hidden here. Watch out for him. Look.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: John Hawkins.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: There's the notice, Mr. Beasley. We're putting these cards all
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  Speaker 4: over the county. Wanted for double murder. Dead or alive.
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  Speaker 4: John Hawkins. Sheriff, do you think that'll get him? Well, Beasley,
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  Speaker 4: Hawkins ain't an experienced crook. You ought to know that.
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  Speaker 8: He done 15 years for stealing a lot of cash.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know. Then he shot and killed them two
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  Speaker 4: friends of yours. But me, why didn't he shoot me?
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  Speaker 4: That's what I don't understand. I figure he don't know
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  Speaker 4: the country good. He won't be able to find good hiding.
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  Speaker 4: And someone will get him for the reward sooner or later.
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  Speaker 4: I hope so. This constant worry, it's driving me mad.
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  Speaker 4: A whole week now, not a word from him. You
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  Speaker 4: ought to be doggone glad you ain't had a word
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  Speaker 4: from him. But it'll come. He's scheming something. He's out
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  Speaker 4: to get me, I know it.
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  Speaker 3: You putting up a reward notice, Chef?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, stranger. Ain't seen nothing of a man like
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  Speaker 4: the one described here.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm holding the gun on the two of you.
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  Speaker 4: John Hawkins.
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  Speaker 3: Keep your voice down, Beasley. Fast move from you, Chef,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll shoot. You?
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  Speaker 4: Back here in town?
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  Speaker 3: I wanted a little talk with my old friend, Len Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: Suppose you two walk just ahead of me. We'll move
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  Speaker 3: out from town.
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  Speaker 2: Get walking.
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  Speaker 3: My horse will follow us.
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  Speaker 4: John, let me explain. You're all wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up, Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: What became of my wife after I went to jail?
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  Speaker 4: You'll miss something.
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  Speaker 3: Why wasn't she at my trial? She could have proved
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  Speaker 3: I had an alibi if she'd known that I was arrested.
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  Speaker 2: Did you tell her?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. I told her you'd been arrested, John. She tried
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  Speaker 4: to get to the trial. You lie.
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  Speaker 2: Keep walking.
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  Speaker 3: Stay here. You shut up and keep your face forward.
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  Speaker 3: I've had plenty of time to think everything all over Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: You could have proved that I didn't take that cash,
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  Speaker 3: but you never even came to my trial. Martha could
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  Speaker 3: have proved it.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't come.
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  Speaker 3: You double-crossed me at every turn to make sure I'd
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  Speaker 3: go to jail.
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  Speaker 4: Hawkins, you're mad. Jail's out of your brain.
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  Speaker 3: I'm mad.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I am.
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  Speaker 3: But I've lived through those 15 years, Beasley.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've lived through them. I had to.
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  Speaker 3: I thought a few times that mine was slipping.
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  Speaker 2: But I hung on.
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  Speaker 3: Living for this day. This day and the days that
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  Speaker 3: will follow while I watch you suffer.
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  Speaker 4: John, will you let me explain? Murphy's... is where? She's dead.
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  Speaker 3: Dead. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. There was a son, too.
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  Speaker 3: My son. Two years old he was then, Beasley. As cute,
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  Speaker 3: a little curly-headed kid as I ever saw.
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  Speaker 2: Big blue eyes.
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  Speaker 7: Find strong back.
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  Speaker 2: Is he dead too?
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  Speaker 4: Hawkins, we've got to talk. We've got to talk it over.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of goodness, give me the chance to
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  Speaker 4: explain everything to you.
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  Speaker 2: Explain?
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  Speaker 3: I don't need your lying explanations, Beasley. This will do.
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  Speaker 2: Stop walking.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you're going to shoot me now.
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  Speaker 3: Shoot you? No. Oh, no, that's too easy, Beasley. Too
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  Speaker 3: easy a way for you. I suffered in that jail
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  Speaker 3: for 15 years. I wondered where my boy was, my wife.
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  Speaker 3: I wondered if they'd know that I was in jail.
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  Speaker 3: They couldn't have known that they'd have been there. They'd
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  Speaker 3: have seen me, but you know that Beasley didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Hawkins, of course I knew it. I did all
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  Speaker 4: I could.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind the talk. You didn't tell Martha, did you?
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't tell her.
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  Speaker 3: No. I expect not. Maybe you told her I was dead.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the boy? Is he dead, too?
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  Speaker 4: You... Your son?
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  Speaker 3: What boy do you think I'm speaking about?
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  Speaker 2: My son? Yeah, of course, my son. Where is Johnny?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he... He's going away. I lost track of him.
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  Speaker 4: Some folks adopted him when he was young. I see.
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  Speaker 8: Hawkins, if you're not 20 kinds of a fool, you'll
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  Speaker 8: surrender and throw yourself on the mercy of the court
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  Speaker 8: that tries you.
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  Speaker 2: Surrender to hang? I'd be a fool if I did.
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  Speaker 3: How would I enjoy the revenge that's been all I
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  Speaker 3: could think of for the past 15 years if I
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  Speaker 3: was Hank?
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't to shoot me?
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  Speaker 7: No, Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: I don't aim to shoot you. How's that son of yours?
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  Speaker 3: He was about the same age as my boy, wasn't he?
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  Speaker 4: Hawkins, you can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Can't do what?
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  Speaker 4: Don't try to get revenge on my son.
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  Speaker 2: Squirming already, ain't you, Beasley?
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  Speaker 4: If you want to shoot me, go ahead. Go on
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  Speaker 4: and shoot. I'll make you shoot me. I'll make you.
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  Speaker 3: Try to jump me so that I'll shoot, huh? Not me, Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to stay alive. That's the only way I'll
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  Speaker 3: enjoy seeing my revenge.
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  Speaker 4: My boy didn't do anything to you, John.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough on him. But no tougher than it was
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  Speaker 3: on my boy to have his father taken away from him.
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  Speaker 3: I had a lot of plans for that boy, Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: Dreams of him growing up, going hunting and fishing with me.
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  Speaker 3: Dreams of watching him grow to a man, learn a business,
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  Speaker 3: marry a fine girl like his ma, like Martha. Settle
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  Speaker 3: down in a little house all his own.
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  Speaker 2: Those was my dreams, Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: I expect you had the same ideas for your own son.
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  Speaker 3: He's working, ain't he? Working in a bank.
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  Speaker 4: You leave him alone.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be tough on the kid, as I said, but
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  Speaker 3: tougher on you. Because whatever suffering that boy of yours
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  Speaker 3: has to bear will.
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  Speaker 2: Be on your account.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take that gun, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: Hawkins, let's try and... I'm through talking.
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  Speaker 3: Go on. Start walking back.
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  Speaker 4: John, if I was dead, I wouldn't suffer by what
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  Speaker 4: you did to my boy.
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  Speaker 3: You won't be dead. You'll live plenty of years yet, Beasley.
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  Speaker 3: Too much of a coward to die.
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  Speaker 7: Now start back. Go home.
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  Speaker 2: Look at your son.
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  Speaker 3: And be sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Dad. I was wondering where you were. Hello, son.
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  Speaker 2: Something go wrong?
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  Speaker 4: Well, nothing for you to worry about, son. What's happened?
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, you look as if you lost your last friend.
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  Speaker 4: Look, son. Since Ma died, we've been pretty close, ain't we? Sure.
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  Speaker 3: We'll always be, won't we? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure thing. There's something I've been figuring to tell
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  Speaker 4: you for some time, boy. What are you looking for, Dan? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: just that old shooting iron that was back here in
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  Speaker 4: the cupboard. As I was saying, there's something I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to tell you. And I guess this is as good
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  Speaker 4: a time as any. What is it? No matter what happens,
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  Speaker 4: I have been on the level.
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  Speaker 3: Why, sure you have.
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  Speaker 4: You say that now, but you might hear things. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: you believe some of the things you hear. About you?
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  Speaker 4: About me, yes. Well, when you hear those things, if
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  Speaker 4: you do, you just remember one thing. The thing you're
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  Speaker 4: going to see right now. I'd sort of like you
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  Speaker 4: to always be pretty sure I... I've been the square
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  Speaker 4: shooter I raised you to be. Dad, you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, look, tell me what's happened. Tell me why you're
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  Speaker 5: talking so, won't you?
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  Speaker 4: Come here.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Stand here, right by this table. You see this book?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's the good book that Ma used to read to
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  Speaker 4: us from. And the book that I made you swear
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  Speaker 4: on when you promised me you'd stay away from the cafes.
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  Speaker 2: I remember.
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  Speaker 4: Remember this minute in the years to come. I'm swearing
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  Speaker 4: on this book. But... I, Lanford Beasley, in the sight
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  Speaker 4: of God and the spirit of my beloved wife, Jessica,
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  Speaker 4: do solemnly swear that never in my life I've ever
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  Speaker 4: betrayed a friend. Neither have I given false witness, nor
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  Speaker 4: have I been guilty of robbery. Now, you look here, Ted.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't swear to those things to me.
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  Speaker 4: Remember that, boy, when you hear things. Remember what you
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  Speaker 4: just seen and heard.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne, where are you going, Dad?
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  Speaker 4: Out. You stay here, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going with you.
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  Speaker 3: Stay there.
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  Speaker 4: You hear me? Get back there. But... You're not going
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  Speaker 4: to disobey me now for the first time in your life? No, but...
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  Speaker 4: Then get back.
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  Speaker 3: What's happened to Dad? What's got into him? What? Let
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  Speaker 3: me be.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be a moment.
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  Speaker 7: That's not the way, Peter.
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  Speaker 4: Get back here.
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  Speaker 3: Get back here.
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  Speaker 2: Dad, what is.
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  Speaker 4: In with you. Let me alone. Let me be.
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  Speaker 2: Let you shoot yourself. A mask, man. Dad, what... Hawkins
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  Speaker 2: has been around here, is that it?
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  Speaker 4: How did you know?
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  Speaker 2: I heard about him, Beasley. The first man to tell
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  Speaker 2: me about John Hawkins was a warden of the prison.
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  Speaker 2: I learned more about him by inquiry. Dad, who is this?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, sir.
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  Speaker 2: But what about Hawkins? Isn't he the critter that's being
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  Speaker 2: hunted for murder?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know all you can tell me about him, Beasley.
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  Speaker 4: About John Hawkins?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 4: But I can't... That is, I don't know much.
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  Speaker 2: No? Let me remind you of a time 15 years ago. Wait.
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  Speaker 4: Jack. Yeah? Jack, I want you to get out. Get out?
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  Speaker 4: But where? Look, son, maybe someday, somehow, there's things I
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: can tell you. Maybe I can tell them to you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know yet. Well, I'm not getting out.
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  Speaker 5: First you act so mysterious and start making vows on
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: the Bible, and then you go out and try to
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  Speaker 5: shoot yourself, and then this masked man comes in here.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, Sam. I reckon I don't have no right
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  Speaker 4: to tell you to get out. We'll get out.
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  Speaker 2: Not without me, you won't.
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  Speaker 4: Stranger, I'll tell you what you're asking about. I ain't
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  Speaker 4: no choice, but not before that boy. Come on with me.
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Jack, I give you my word your father will be
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  Speaker 2: back in half an hour.
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  Speaker 3: You're sure?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Now stay there and wait for me. When I get back, Jack, I'll...
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  Speaker 4: Tell you as much as I can. I'll tell you
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: something that'll satisfy your curiosity. And that's a promise. The
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story.
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  Speaker 4: Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
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  Speaker 4: for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 1: THE END.
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  Speaker 9: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 6: Young Jack Beasley waited nearly an hour for his father's
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  Speaker 6: return and then.
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  Speaker 4: A.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Little more wood in the fire.
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  Speaker 4: Beats me the way Dad's acting.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even realize I ain't a kid no more.
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  Speaker 4: Let me help him.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: King for the life.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Let me figure it out.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: What's that? Maybe that's him now.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there.
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  Speaker 4: Jack Beasley. I want to speak to you.
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  Speaker 2: Me?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Why, sure.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Gosh, Mr. Jepson, is there something wrong at the bank?
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  Speaker 10: There certainly is something wrong. That's why I'm here with
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: the sheriff. We'll step in if you don't mind, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Come on in, sheriff. Your father not home? No, Dad's
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: gone out a little while. I reckon he'll be back soon.
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  Speaker 4: Were you at the bank after dark tonight? No, sir.
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  Speaker 10: The truth, Beasley. I must have the truth. Never mind
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: why you went there. Just tell me if you went.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Mr. Jepson. You've worked for me for
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: a long time, Jack. I'd have trusted you with anything.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: What's happened? Jack, is this here knife yours? Why, don't
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: try to deny it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not denying it. It's my knife.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Do you recognize this saddlebag? Sure. It's got my own
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: name on it. It's mine.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you get it?
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  Speaker 4: From the barn where.
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: You hung it. Followed your own horse there, Jack. Horse
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  Speaker 8: was still sweating. The blood on the saddlebag was a giveaway.
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  Speaker 4: What? Reckon you'll have to come along, Jack. Come where? What?
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: You're under arrest for the murder of a guard at Mr.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: Jepson's bank and the robbing of that bank. Now get going.
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: We got all the proof we need against you.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Tonto brought word of Jack's arrest to the small camp
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: where the Lone Ranger was talking with Beasley.
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  Speaker 4: That's Hawkins' work. He's framed, Jack.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Steady, Beasley. What Tonto has told us is an airtight
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: case against Jack.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: But I know he didn't do that robbery.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Were you with him all evening?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Not all evening, but I.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Was anyone with Jack before you went home?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: No.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Then there'd be scant hope of establishing an alibi. I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: doubt if the law would believe you, no matter what
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: you said.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Jack ain't that sort. Why, he's had plenty of chances
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: to steal from Banker Jepson if he wanted to steal.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: What can I do?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Wait for what? I'm going to tell the law that
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: I robbed that bank. That's what I'll do.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Let the real thief go unpunished?
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I ain't interested in seeing Hawkins hang. The poor fellow
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: has already been punished to plenty. I'm interested in seeing
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Jack go out of that jail.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: So am I.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Hawkins will never confess. Not even if he's captured, he
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: won't confess. He don't mind, Dan. All he wants to
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: see me spend the rest of my life in torment.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You're going to keep quiet, Beasley. Say nothing and do nothing.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: You're going to stay right here. What's Hunter do? He
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: said the sheriff found that Jack's horse had been used.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Not right. And Hawkins committed the robbery and used Jack's horse.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: He'd have had to leave some sort of a trail
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: from the Beasley stable to his hiding place. That's right.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: He'll have to follow that trail.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: How to do it?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It isn't going to be easy because you'll have to
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: follow it tonight in the darkness.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: It won't do no good, I tell you, mister.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I think it will.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Hawkins will shoot to kill. He'll never let himself be
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: captured alive. He won't even let you talk to him.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: I tried. But the man's gone loco for his revenge.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: We'll see about that. Not sure. You might go to
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the jail, Beasley, and have a talk with Jack if
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the lawman will let you. You'll let me or I'll...
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Nothing violent. Don't tell Jack a thing. Simply let him
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: know that you believe in him. That he'll not be
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: punished if he's innocent.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Of course he's innocent.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Then he'll not be punished. Are you ready to take
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: up that trail, Tudor? Me ready. Come on, Silver.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Tonto picked up a trail that would have been invisible
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: to other men. By the faint light of the moon,
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: he crept forward, studying the ground for stones that had
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: been overturned, for blades of grass that were bent down.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: The Lone Ranger followed him, leading Scout and Silver.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Trail. Go to woods. Over there.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Very well, Tonto. We'll follow it to the woods. Deep
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: in the woods, John Hawkins heard the two men approaching.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: He waited, ready to fight for his life. The sound
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: of hoofs drew nearer. Come for me, huh? Well, nothing
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: they can do now.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Will save that kid. They'll finally get me and die happy. Oh,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: and doggone well that Beasley will see his son heading
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: for the hangman's rope.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Stop where you are, and I'm ready for you. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: said stop! That won't do any good. What the... Drop
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the gun, Hawkins. You're covered. Where did you come from?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I circled the camp, you see. That's my friend you
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: hear riding there.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Who are you?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I came to have a talk with you. You better
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: shoot while you got the chance. No, Hawkins. I'm not
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: here to shoot you. I'm here to tell you what
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: a fool you've been. Come out where I can see you.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I will. We're going to have a talk.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: There's nothing to talk about.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: Later that same night, the town was awakened by a
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: volley of shots.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I'll steal over Hawaii. Get a break. Who you got loose?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: After him.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Get a posse.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Get the sheriff. Beasley's busted out of the jail.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: There he goes.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Get horses. Get me a horse.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I'll take after him. It's Jack. My boy's broke out
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: of jail.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: That's proof enough that he's the guilty one.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Sheriff, he ain't guilty. He knowed he was framed, though,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: and couldn't get out of it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: What's the matter with the law?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: The prisoner's got loose.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: We'll get him.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: We'll scour this whole country.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: Get your horses. Get your horses. Get your horses.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: The following morning, Beasley appeared at the sheriff's office.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Hey, I found this new, Sheriff. I thought I'd bring
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: it to you.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Who's it from, Beasley? My son, Jack. Why, that cussed little... Sheriff,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Jack ain't guilty of that robbery. You know that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: You know what Hawkins said when he pulled the gun
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: on us and made us listen? Look here, Beasley. I
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: know what Hawkins said and that he might have framed Jack.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: On the other hand, maybe this was all part of
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: a scheme. Maybe Jack was working with him.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: This note I got don't look like it. Let me
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: see it. I found it under the door of the
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: house this morning. Jack says that the only way he
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: can prove he didn't do no wrong is to bring
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: in the man that did. Meaning Hawkins? Right. That's what
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: he says there. He's out trailing John Hawkins.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Fine chance he'll have a locate in that killer when
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: all us lawmen has failed.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid so.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: And what if he does find Hawkins' hideout? It'll just
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: mean another notch in Hawkins' shooting iron. Hawkins will kill
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: the kid as sure as I'm sitting here. Crowd coming
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: up here. Likely to demand more action in rounding up
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: the killer. Folks don't like a sheriff that lets crooks
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: get loose. They're coming here all right enough.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: Sheriff, come out here!
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: May as well face them. Here's Jack and Hawkins.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Hi, sir.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Here's your prisoner.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Arrest him. Arrest him. Never mind arresting me.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: There's the man you want, John Hawkins. Hawkins, hold him there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I'm coming to get him. Jack, hold this. Oh, in
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: the name of mercy, don't let that lad find out.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Come on and see what Jack's done. I know what
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: he's done. He's captured John Hawkins.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: There'll be a reward for him.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Reward. Yes, sir. A reward. Sheriff!
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: Hawkins is willing to confess. Did you hear that? Sure
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: he is, Jepson. Confessed everything. Even to Freeman Jackson, that
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: bank robbery.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Your deputies have taken over the prison, Sheriff.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Come in, Jack.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Come in and close that door. I don't know what
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: he wanted to frame me for.
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: Jack, I'm downright sorry for suspecting you. I should have
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: had more trust in you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: That's all right, Mr.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Jepson.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: I reckon there was plenty of reason to think I'd
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: gone loco and done those things.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I should have known better.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Hang it all, a young critter with your background.
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: Jepson, what do you mean, his background? I didn't mean nothing, Beasley.
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: Excepting that I shouldn't have been so quick to believe
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: the evidence. It ain't as if Jack was the son
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: of a jailbird or a killer or something. He's your boy.
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: He wouldn't steal.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: You told me when you hired him a couple of
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: years ago that you always looked to the parents of
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: a boy to see how he'd grow up.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: And Jack's old man is on the level. Jack, you
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: come back to work?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: If my job's still open, I'll be there.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: You got reward money coming too, Jack. I'll be right
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: back as soon as I see about the prisoner. Boys,
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: take Hawkins to the jail and make sure he's well guarded.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: If he makes any break to get loose, shoot him
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: like you would a mad dog.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Right, sir.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: I still can't figure how Jack could bring him in.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: All right, Hawkins. The jail is straight ahead, and you're
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to march right to it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Now get going. Remember, we're all right behind you with
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: loaded guns. You try and get away, you'll save us
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the cost of a trial and hanging.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: You know, for a joke on me, That masked man
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: wasn't telling the truth. He must have told me the truth, though.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: As soon as I got a look at the boy... Jack,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: that's what Beasley called him. I called him Johnny.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: After me.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: It's a dead ring for Martha. Same eyes and mouth.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: My boy.
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: My own son.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Make a break, we'll shoot you, Hawkins.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Wonder who that masked man was. Glad he told me
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: that it was my boyfriend for jail. Beasley on a
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: level all alone.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: What was it?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: What was it that masked man said?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: There was an Indian attack, Hawkins, while Beasley was taking
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: your wife and the little boy to testify at your trial.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: His own son was with them. Beasley's son was killed.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: So was your wife. Beasley didn't recover from his wounds
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: until you'd been jailed. It was too late then. He
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: could do nothing. You killed the man who actually stole
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the money.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I said that Beasley raised my own son.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Don't you try to make an escape. Keep walking straight ahead, Hawkins.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: The boy wouldn't have had a chance in the world
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: if it were known that his father was in prison.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Beasley never told the boy.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I guess it's better this way. Now that I've turned killer,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Jack must never know. I reckon after the hanging, I'll
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: see Martha again. Then I'll know for sure that the
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: masked man, the masked man told the truth.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Try and escape and you'll save us the cost of
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: a trial.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Well, there'll be questions. Things might come out. The boy
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: must never know.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: That's the jail straight ahead.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, Martha, forgive me. Gosh, I wonder, will I know Martha?
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Seems like she's right close by now. Won't that bunch
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: of deputies be surprised? Won't they be surprised?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, sirree, they'll be surprised. He's making a break.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Surprised.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Doggone fool. He must have known he didn't have a
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: chance of getting away.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Look at him. He's grinning.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: He's saying something. I don't know what.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I'm glad to know that the masked man's true.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: What's that, Hawkins?
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: What are you trying to say, Hawkins? Who was he, Martha?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Martha?
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: What's he talking about?
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Shut up.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: He ain't talking to us. He said it alone, Ranger.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: That's it, boys.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: He sort of used his head after all.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: Warren no use him going through a trial.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Curious.
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: Speaking of Martha and the Lone Ranger....
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: I don't care where I'm going! I don't care where
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: I'm going! THE END THE END The story you have
• 30:10
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