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The Lone Ranger - "Murder Man" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Brace Beamer as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as
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  Speaker 1: Tonto are heard in ABC's June 19, 1946 presentation of
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger, Murder Man, episode 2092. Beamer had held
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  Speaker 1: the radio role since 1941, and Fran Stryker wrote the
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  Speaker 1: script during the series ABC Years when General Mills was
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  Speaker 1: the national sponsor. In Frontier Country, after a killer has
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  Speaker 1: struck four times, Tonto is accused of the murders. The
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  Speaker 1: accusation gathers force as a Frontier Town crowd threatens mob justice,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the Lone Ranger to clear his companion and uncover
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  Speaker 1: the truth behind the killings. Now, back to the golden
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  Speaker 1: age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud
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  Speaker 3: 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 6: THE END.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful
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  Speaker 3: masked rider of the plains led the fight for law
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  Speaker 3: and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in
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  Speaker 3: the pages of history can one find a greater champion
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  Speaker 3: of justice.
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  Speaker 4: Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
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  Speaker 3: From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of
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  Speaker 3: the great horse, Silver.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 2: Go, Silver! Let's go, big fellow! Hail, Silver! Hooray!
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger and Tonto were riding through the night
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  Speaker 3: on the gravel floor of an arroyo when they heard
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  Speaker 3: the shots.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Silver, oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, fella, oh, fella.
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  Speaker 2: Easy.
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  Speaker 5: You heard that, Tonto?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, a gunshot.
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  Speaker 5: Which side of the arroyo? Me think it's that side.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I thought. Come on up to the top
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  Speaker 5: of the bank. Come on there, Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Get him up, Scout. Come on, fella. Up you go, boy.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Come on, Scout.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. Easy, Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: Hold it. Whoa.
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  Speaker 5: They're like way over yonder. Yes, I see it. Maybe houses.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe campfire. Too far to tell. Come on, Toto.
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  Speaker 3: As the masked man and his Indian friend raced across
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  Speaker 3: the level ground, the dim light took form. The glow
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  Speaker 3: resolved itself into a small window. The light came from
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  Speaker 3: a single candle that burned inside the one-room cabin. Just
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  Speaker 3: beyond the cabin, there were trees. The edge of a
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  Speaker 3: dense forest.
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  Speaker 8: I wonder if those shots came from here.
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  Speaker 4: We soon know.
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  Speaker 5: Right there, Silver. The door is wide open. Let me
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  Speaker 5: see it. I'll take a look inside. Otto.
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  Speaker 8: There's a man in there on the floor. Put the
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  Speaker 8: horses in back and take a quick look around. I'll
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  Speaker 8: see about the man. Steady there, steady.
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  Speaker 5: Help me. I'm going to. Let me see how badly
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  Speaker 5: you're hurt. It's bad, ain't it? You've been hit twice.
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  Speaker 5: You know who did it? It was the killer. The
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  Speaker 5: same one. The same one? What do you mean? He
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  Speaker 5: got the others back. I'm number four. I... I knew
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  Speaker 5: too much. Can you name the man who shot you?
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  Speaker 5: Name him. Just his name, that's all. How bad? How hurt?
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  Speaker 5: Too far gone to help, Tonto. Just a minute. His
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  Speaker 5: heart is still beating. Get some water. There on the table.
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  Speaker 8: You can just get him conscious long enough to breathe
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  Speaker 8: one word. You'll name the man who shot him.
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  Speaker 5: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Here, water.
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  Speaker 5: Force him on this. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 8: He said something about being the fourth man to die. Hey,
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  Speaker 8: that's enough. If he speaks, be sure to catch every word.
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  Speaker 4: No, Pete.
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  Speaker 9: Sometimes I think we're just a couple of plain and
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  Speaker 9: fancy fools to keep on being deputy sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's better no job at all, Hank.
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  Speaker 9: It's all right till this mysterious murder man started operations
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  Speaker 9: around here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. The past couple of.
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  Speaker 9: Weeks, we've done nothing but ride down a hundred odd
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  Speaker 9: blind trails. I'll lay two to one this years to
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  Speaker 9: be another one of them.
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  Speaker 10: Where'd his nibs get the notion that the killer might
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  Speaker 10: go after old Clint?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Where'd his nibs get all his other notions?
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  Speaker 9: Doggone decide if he can't do his own work, why
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  Speaker 9: don't he resign as sheriff and let one of us
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  Speaker 9: have the job?
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  Speaker 10: Ah, don't be too hard on Deverick. It ain't his
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  Speaker 10: fault he can't walk. Maybe not, but I can't... You
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  Speaker 10: might get crippled up with rheumatics yourself someday.
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  Speaker 5: Take my word for it, Pete.
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  Speaker 9: If ever I am, and if I'm sitting at home
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  Speaker 9: while a couple of critters like you and me do
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  Speaker 9: all the work.
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  Speaker 5: I'll see that them same get the credit. Maybe Sheriff
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  Speaker 5: Deverick will give us the credit. Funny, Will.
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  Speaker 9: He'll rave and rant and howl for action until we
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  Speaker 9: run this murder man down. When we do, he'll take
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  Speaker 9: all the thanks and reward money.
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  Speaker 5: You'll see if he does. Oh, stop your growling, Hank.
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  Speaker 9: Blames us for not getting the killer, but won't give
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  Speaker 9: us no credit if we do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's Clem's cabin. There's a light going. They'll go
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  Speaker 5: up late as usual. Yeah. No, Pete, I think Sheriff
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  Speaker 5: Demrick's got spies. Spies? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: I think he's got some glutes around town to whisper
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  Speaker 9: things in his ear. He sure has some way of
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  Speaker 9: knowing things. Hey, that's a horse.
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  Speaker 5: I heard it. Well, Clem don't keep a horse, does he?
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  Speaker 4: Not that I know of.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't have one last week.
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  Speaker 6: We better rein up right here and be careful how
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  Speaker 6: we close in.
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  Speaker 5: Who? Who there? Who?
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  Speaker 4: Who are you?
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  Speaker 5: Who there? Maybe we'll get a crack at the murder man,
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  Speaker 5: whoever he is. You better unlimber your gun.
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  Speaker 4: All right, now.
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  Speaker 5: Leave the horse as the ground hits. We'll go ahead
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  Speaker 5: on foot.
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  Speaker 7: Keep your voice down.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. There. There. The horse again. It's beyond the house. Pete,
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  Speaker 5: there's someone moving about in there.
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  Speaker 7: I've seen the shatter.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, get close to the door. We'll jump in sudden. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: This way now. I'll give the word. Whatever you say.
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  Speaker 7: All right, now.
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  Speaker 2: Ice him, boss.
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  Speaker 7: Stick him up.
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  Speaker 2: Stick him, fellow. There they are. Sorry. Let go of me.
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  Speaker 5: Knock his gun down, fellow.
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  Speaker 2: Oh!
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  Speaker 5: You want to be mass killer, I'll get you.
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  Speaker 10: Just let me get loose.
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  Speaker 5: Next time you call, don't tell a girl. Oh! Come on, fella.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, come on back here. Hey, Hank, they're getting away. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God.
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  Speaker 10: Where'd he knock my gun? They had ratted all.
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  Speaker 2: I can't find it.
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  Speaker 5: Get him, Pete.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, fella. Hey, they're going away. Oh, thunderation.
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  Speaker 10: Hank, what are you doing on the floor? That bass man,
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  Speaker 10: he tagged my chin.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 9: Look at my chin, Sheriff Demrick. You can see that
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  Speaker 9: I sure stopped something mighty hard.
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  Speaker 10: Honest, Sheriff, we didn't have a chance. Those two must
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  Speaker 10: have known we were sneaking up. They were waiting for
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  Speaker 10: us as soon as we stepped through the door.
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  Speaker 2: They?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there was two of them there. Redskin and the
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  Speaker 5: masked man. Well, why'd you let him get away? Why
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  Speaker 5: didn't you shoot him?
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  Speaker 10: Well, Hank was falling on the floor and Redskin knocked
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  Speaker 10: my gun.
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  Speaker 2: Out of my hand.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to follow if they got away in the woods.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't no use trying to follow them in that woods, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 10: Figured we'd better come right here to you and tell
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  Speaker 10: you old Clem was dead.
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  Speaker 9: That's four deaths in the past two weeks. A fine
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  Speaker 9: pair of nincompoops I have for deputies. Oh, if my
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  Speaker 9: legs were better, I'd show you young squirts a thing
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  Speaker 9: or two.
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  Speaker 5: We've done our best, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 10: Your best wasn't good enough. We couldn't help it, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: I told you two galoots that Clem was in danger.
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  Speaker 5: I bet you dawdled on your way to his place. Well...
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  Speaker 5: I knew it. How'd you know he was in danger, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 5: He was in town today.
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  Speaker 9: Called on Judge Parker and told him he had a
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  Speaker 9: pretty fair notion as to who the murder man was.
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  Speaker 5: He did? Yes. Judge brought him here to my house
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  Speaker 5: and told me about it. What'd he say?
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  Speaker 9: He said he had some sort of clue to the
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  Speaker 9: man who killed Doc Robertson.
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  Speaker 10: That'd be the same man that killed and robbed them
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  Speaker 10: two newcomers just before Doc Robertson was shot.
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  Speaker 5: Probably. Did he say what the clue was?
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  Speaker 10: No, he promised to bring it into town tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: A poor old clan must have liked walking.
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  Speaker 10: It's four miles to his place.
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  Speaker 5: Chances are Clem bragged all over town about knowing something.
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  Speaker 5: The murder man heard him. That's what I figured. That's
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  Speaker 5: what I thought would happen.
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  Speaker 9: So I sent you two to Clem's place, thinking the
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  Speaker 9: killers would go after that evidence.
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  Speaker 5: And what happened? You got there too late.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Well, anyhow, Sheriff, we did learn something.
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  Speaker 10: We learned that there's two men instead of one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. And we also learned that one of the pair
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  Speaker 5: is an Indian that's called Tonto. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: From the home of the crippled sheriff, Hank and Pete
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  Speaker 4: went to the cafe and told their story. By midnight.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone had heard of Clem's death and the masked man
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  Speaker 3: and Indian who were to be hunted down. No one
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  Speaker 3: paid any attention to a tall stranger who had drifted
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  Speaker 3: into the cafe. There was no reason to suspect that
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  Speaker 3: he was the subject of most of the conversation. Because
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  Speaker 3: he wore a disguise instead of the mask that the
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  Speaker 3: lawman had seen.
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  Speaker 6: Is Demrick going to inform a posse to find that
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  Speaker 6: masked hombre in the red skin?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure he is.
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  Speaker 5: The first thing in the morning. Oh, you start now
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  Speaker 5: until daybreak, I suppose. No.
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  Speaker 6: By thunder, I sure hope we get those killers.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Clem was my friend. Oh, he'll get them all right,
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  Speaker 5: won't we, Peter? You bet. Well, do you think you'll
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  Speaker 5: recognize them?
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: What's that, stranger?
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  Speaker 8: Did you see the men who escaped from Clem's house?
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  Speaker 8: You can identify them?
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  Speaker 5: Doggone right. The mask will clip you right here in
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  Speaker 5: the chin.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 5: See how I'm swole up? Oh, yes, yes. I'll get square.
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  Speaker 5: Just wait till I see them the next time. Look
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  Speaker 5: right at him, Toto. He didn't recognize me without my mask. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 8: We're safe here in camp till morning. Tomorrow at daybreak,
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  Speaker 8: a posse will start looking for us. Maybe it's bad
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  Speaker 8: we run away. Maybe it's better we stay and place
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  Speaker 8: a murder.
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  Speaker 5: Meet Lawman.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we had to escape or surrender, Kimo Sabe. We'd surrendered,
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  Speaker 8: we might have been found guilty of Clem's death. The
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  Speaker 8: card would have been stacked against us.
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  Speaker 5: What do we do? If we stay here, we'll be found.
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  Speaker 5: We'd go away?
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  Speaker 8: If we do that, the real killer will never be found. Taro,
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  Speaker 8: that man's guilty of four murders. He's got to pay.
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  Speaker 8: But how do we get proof? I thought over a
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  Speaker 8: plan on the way from town, but it may be
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  Speaker 8: a dangerous one.
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  Speaker 5: Oh. And what's your plan?
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  Speaker 11: Hello, you've got to go to jail, and I've got
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  Speaker 11: to put you there.
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  Speaker 4: The posse set out at daybreak.
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  Speaker 3: Four hours later, Sheriff Demrick sat in a chair on
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  Speaker 3: the porch before his office with a blanket across his knees.
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  Speaker 4: He was roused from a doze by a fierce clattering
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  Speaker 4: of hoops.
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  Speaker 3: He looked up to see Pete Hank and another member
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  Speaker 3: of the posse leading a furiously fighting paint horse.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what the shame? Hang on, Cole.
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  Speaker 10: Throw your hips on the rail.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of it, Kirk. Maybe you'll be flying when
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  Speaker 2: you stop dragging it.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, there. Calm down.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Sheriff, look what we got.
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  Speaker 5: What's that? It's the horse of that Redskin, one of
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  Speaker 5: the two killers.
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  Speaker 10: He's found his camp, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Where's the Redskin? Did you shoot him?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we didn't see him. Looked all around.
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  Speaker 5: There's no sign of him. So we brought the horse in.
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  Speaker 10: We left a couple of men in hiding to watch
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  Speaker 10: the camp in case he goes back there.
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  Speaker 9: What about the mass man? There was no sign of him.
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  Speaker 9: How do you know that this is the Redskin's horse?
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  Speaker 9: There's a couple of clear footprints, Sheriff. They were moccasin prints.
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  Speaker 9: We compared them to some prints near Clem's.
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  Speaker 5: House, and they checked. This is the right horse. There's
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  Speaker 5: no doubt of it.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, what's this coming down the street?
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  Speaker 6: Pete, that's the Indian. Sure enough, that's a critter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: but who's the old desert rat riding that horse in
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  Speaker 6: back of him? He's got the Redskin at gunpoint. Looks
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  Speaker 6: like he captured him. Look, he's marching right up here.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Silver's pure white coat was dirty.
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  Speaker 3: So was the tattered clothes and the floppy hat that
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  Speaker 3: the slumped-over figure in the saddle was wearing. It was
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  Speaker 3: a curious disguise that the Lone Ranger had chosen to
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  Speaker 3: appear in town with Tonto as his prisoner.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you, Ensign, get your hands up.
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  Speaker 5: We want you. Hold on there, gents. As you could
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  Speaker 5: as my prisoner. I guessed him trying to steal more. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: me not steal him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Steve, too, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Me only try right him.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look.
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  Speaker 5: The pain recognizes the red skin.
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  Speaker 10: By darn, that's proof. We want you, Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take charge of him.
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  Speaker 5: He's wanted for murder.
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  Speaker 2: Murder, you say?
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  Speaker 10: Four murders.
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  Speaker 2: Well, is there a reward?
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  Speaker 9: That's none of your affair. We'll take charge of the prisoner.
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  Speaker 9: Now you get along.
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  Speaker 5: But if there's reward money coming, I should stick around.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe give me a little... I said clear out. Now
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  Speaker 5: I'm the law.
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  Speaker 10: If you don't, we'll throw you in jail for vagrancy
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  Speaker 10: or something.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: All right. I don't care if that's the way you
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  Speaker 5: feel about it. I don't want me in no trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Get up there.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 4: Ranger story.
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  Speaker 3: Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
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  Speaker 3: for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no. Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 3: Judge Parker arrived at the sheriff's office soon after Tonto
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: had been locked behind the bar door. Sheriff Demerick's two
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  Speaker 3: deputies carried the crippled lawman to a chair just outside
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  Speaker 3: the door of the cell.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be around, Sheriff. You want us to stop? Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Is it all right for me to talk to the
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  Speaker 7: Indian now, Sheriff Demnick? Go ahead, George, and see what
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  Speaker 7: you can do with him. Hey, tell me your name
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  Speaker 7: is Tonto.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, hey, Tonto.
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  Speaker 7: Well, now, Tonto, let me tell you something. The law
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  Speaker 7: is more interested in a white man who wears a
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  Speaker 7: mask than a noob. Now, if you'd help the law,
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: it might help you when you go on trial.
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  Speaker 12: Let me get proof that Maskman Tonto not murder.
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  Speaker 5: Proof? Why, you local.
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  Speaker 7: Well, he might be telling the truth, Sheriff. You remember
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  Speaker 7: what Clem said when he came to town yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: He was just talking.
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  Speaker 9: That killer's too sleek to let anyone have any proof
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  Speaker 9: against him.
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  Speaker 5: Tonto. Huh? Me wait.
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  Speaker 7: The man who was killed last night said that he
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: thought he could bring proof against the murdered man sometime today. Ah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: the proof come tonight.
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  Speaker 5: How's it coming? Who's to bring it? I think you're
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: an out-and-out liar. That's what I think. You wait.
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  Speaker 12: You see, mass crime come here into town. Him bring
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: proof against murder man. Him show everyone the count of
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  Speaker 12: not killer. Him show everyone who real killer is.
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  Speaker 5: You see. You mean to say that your mass friend
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  Speaker 5: is the one who's to bring that evidence? That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Sheriff, I wonder if we've been accusing the wrong people.
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  Speaker 5: Not on your life.
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  Speaker 7: But your deputies didn't actually see the murder.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they got here right after it. I understand they
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: weren't near enough at the moment of the shooting to
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: hear the gunfire. Well, what of it?
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: There must have been considerable time between the shooting and
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: the time Hank and Pete reached the house. Now, why
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: would the masked man and the Indians stay around so long?
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: They were searching the house for something or other. Just
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: a minute, Sheriff. Tonto, you said the masked man would
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: come here with proof against the murderer. Ah, you wait,
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: you see. Where is he going to get that proof? Well,
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: him come by way of Red Gap. Him come sometime tonight.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: He'll show who killer is.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: For some time after the judge had left, Sheriff Demerick
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: sat in deep thought. From time to time, a townsman
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: dropped in to see if he needed anything. At noon,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: a man brought a tray of food from the cafe.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Put it right down here on the desk, Joe. There
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: you are, Sheriff. Anything else?
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: Joe, it's being said around town that we don't have
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: evidence enough to hang that Indian if he goes on trial.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: You heard talk like that, didn't you?
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Well, seems that the judge thinks there's room for doubt
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: as to his guilt.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Just so, just so. And because of that, some of
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: the boys are talking of hanging him. What's there to it? Honest, Sheriff,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I haven't heard a word about a lynching.
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: Just because I can't walk, some of the boys figured
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: they could get away with stringing.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Up the redskin. Sheriff, is it true that a jury
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: might turn him loose? How do I know?
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: He's got to be trying on the evidence we got.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: If Dad don't convict him, he goes free. That'd be
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: a downright shame. Joe, you sure you haven't heard any
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: lynch talk? No, but it's a good idea.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Sure that none of the boys here in the cafe
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: have heard Lynch talk?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Very well.
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: We never had a lynching around here.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Boys, old Clem is my best friend. It would be
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: a sin and a shame if that murdering Redskin is.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: To go free because we don't have more evidence.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: The judge says he might go free. He and that
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: masked man are as guilty as sin. They killed four people.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 13: Maybe we should see how a trial comes up. He
• 20:57
  Speaker 13: ought to have a chance in court.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Those killers never give anyone else a chance. Look, boys.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Easy to hold a necktie party after the sheriff went
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: to bed. Even if he did hear the excitement, he
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: couldn't do anything about it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Now, hold on.
• 21:09
  Speaker 13: Wouldn't we be taking unfair advantage of the fact that
• 21:11
  Speaker 13: Demery can't walk?
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: But, Gallup. Now, boys.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: I'm for keeping things quiet so the deputies don't hear
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: any talk. They're still out hunting the masked man.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Just a minute, boys.
• 21:20
  Speaker 13: Before we come to any decision, let's see what some
• 21:22
  Speaker 13: of the other fellas around town have to say about it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: All right, let's find out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Once born, the idea of a lynching gathered force as
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: the day advanced.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: By late afternoon, a large majority were in favor of
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: hanging Tommy without waiting for a trial.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Those who had objected had been cried down.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I'm all for it. Me too. Let's make sure that
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Redskin don't go free. Bring him up.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Boys, boys, listen to me. Listen to me.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: As soon as the sheriff is in bed, I'll come
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: and let you know. Then we'll move on to the jail.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: All right. So old Hamlet's in bed?
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I helped him into the house and hung around nearby,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: watched till his light went out. Come on, boys, let's
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: go get that woman. Come on.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Bring up that battering ram.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Stand back there so we can smash her against the door.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Get back.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Stand back till I can push the door in. All right,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: here we come.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Let her go, boys.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: That did it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: Now let's fire.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: There's the cell.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: And there's the red skin. We come for you, engine.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Now we got a bus to lock on the cell door.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: I got a couple of bullets on it. Here, I
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: got a gun. Let me get at it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Hold on there. Hold on, you pack of crazy.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: Hey, hey, the deputy.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Stop it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Would you come back into town?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Never mind that. Break it up.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Go on back home. We can't leave Saturday. Who says
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: we can't? We're going to.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: He's the murder man.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Now wait.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Listen to me. There'll be proof that he's not guilty
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: if you'll just wait. Oh, you're just saying that's what
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: we break up. I'm giving you true facts. Just wait
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: till a little later. We're going to hang the Redskin.
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: You can't stop us.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Grab him, boys.
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: Hang on to him.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You're making a mistake.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Hang on to him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: Now try a gun on that lock.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: That did it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Boys, don't touch the Indian.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Wait till the masked man gets here.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: He's coming from Red Gap.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Just wait. That's all I ask. If he comes here,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: we hang him.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Right alongside the Indian. Come on, Tonto.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: You've got a big appointment.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: With the news.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger had ridden out of town soon after
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: appearing in the disguise of an old man. He stopped
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: on the trail to Red Gap and removed the disguise.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Then he donned his mask and waited until after dark.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: He was on the back trail heading toward town. The
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: route from Red Gap went through a narrow gap that
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: was ideally suited to the purposes of anyone who wanted
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: to wait in ambush.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: The dark form crouched waiting as the masked man approached.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: The dry gulcher waited until he saw that the solitary
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: horseman wore a mask.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: That's the man.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: He rested the barrel of his rifle on a rock
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: and then drew careful aim. Before his finger tightened on
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: the trigger, a voice spoke sharply from somewhere behind him.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Drop it! Huh?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: We have you.
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: I smashed his rifle.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, sir, hold on.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Well, here's your man.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: We got him.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Here's a rope for him.
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: No, no, wait.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: This will hold you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: George, speed, help me.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Shoot that masked man. We're on that masked man's side,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: John Rickford. You bet we are, Timnit. The masked man
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: came to me and said you could walk. I wouldn't
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: believe him. He talked for a solid hour last night,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: persuaded me to help him. Last night? Yes. He's the
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: one who put Tonto in jail.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Then I talked to the Indian enough to make you
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: think the masked man would come this way with proof
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: against you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Then you walked right into the trap. You walked as
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: good as any man. The judge and I followed you
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: all the way from your house.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: How'd you know so much? It was easy, Demerick. Old
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Clem lived long enough to name you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Clem?
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: You told about two people new in town that were
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: killed and robbed. Then the doctor was killed. Clem found
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: a vest button near the doctor's body. After thinking things over,
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: Clem realized that the button might be a clue to
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: the murderer. He came and told you about it. You
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: went to his house last night and killed him. so
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: he couldn't tell anyone else about the button.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: The chances are, Doc knew he'd fixed you so you
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: could walk. Yeah, fool Sawbones.
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: He'd be alive today if he hadn't put two and
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: two together and accused me of doing for the newcomers.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Pretty smart sending me and Hank on a lot of
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: blind leads.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: We took our time going to Clem's house, and you
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: had plenty of chance to get there ahead of us
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: while we thought you was home in your bed.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Indeed. Let's head, Greg, this way. I wondered why I
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: didn't meet us to follow this killer. He's coming fast.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: I wonder what's wrong.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Pete!
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Judge!
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Hold it!
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: The masked man. It's good you're here. What's the matter?
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: The lynch mob.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: What?
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: I tried to stop them, but they grabbed me and
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: held me. I just got away from them.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: They're hanging that redskin. I fixed that. You fixed it?
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: Maybe that masked man's caught me. But I've done for
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: his Indian pal.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Herzl, you're going with me, Sheriff. Hey!
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: Hold on a minute. You're going with me. If we're
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: too late, I'm not sure what'll happen to you.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Come up here.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Hey! Let me down! Judge, please stop it! Herzl!
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: With the race of a lifetime. Silver ran as never
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: before despite the double burden on his back.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: The mighty stallion seemed to recognize a.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Different quality in the masked man's voice. He seemed to
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: know a life depended on his speed. Tonto was seated
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: on his paint horse, Scout. His hands were tied behind
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: his back and a noose was around his neck. From
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the noose, a rope went over a convenient branch of
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the hangman's tree.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: This is it, Tonto. Slap the horse out from under him. Right.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Get up there.
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: What's the matter with that horse?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Slap the critter again.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Get along there. Well, what do you know?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Here's your masked friend. Him tell truth.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Him tell me not killer. Hey, he's got the sheriff
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: with him. We'll have the sheriff in bed. What's he
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: doing with that masked man?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Get that man. Now, hold on.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Don't shoot.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: We might hit the sheriff.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Get him, boys. Make him turn me loose. Don't try it.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I'll cut that rope, palo.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: For anyone who draws a gun, cut that Indian's hands free.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: I brought you your murderer.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: No, no, boys, don't believe him. Let me talk.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: Here's the man who couldn't walk.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Get down there, Demerick. Why, he's standing up.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: Yes, and he can walk. He walked to the pass
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: to ambush me. The judge is on the way to
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: back my story. So is Hank and so is Pete.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Come to think of it, by ginger, Demerick, it was
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: you that first mentioned Hank and the Indians.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Here comes Hank and Pete.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And the judge right behind us.
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: Well, cut that redskin loose.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: By thunder, boys, we've made a terrible mistake.
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: Cut that rope off his hand.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I'll do it. Now! Boys, the sheriff is the killer.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Hang on to Demrick. Throw him in jail.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: You're free to go, Tonto. Doggone, it's a good thing
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: that paint horse of yours was stubborn. Him not stubborn now.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Him go when Tonto say so.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Come on, Tonto. Get him out.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: Thank you. Thank you.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: The End.
• 30:03
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• 30:05
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• 30:07
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• 30:14
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• 30:18
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