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Gunsmoke - "Crowbait Bob" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A dying, penniless man in Dodge City has a final request,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: a will leaving his few possessions to Kitty Russell. That
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: bequest draws Marshal Matt Dillon, Kitty, Chester, and Doc Adams
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: into Crowbait Bob's last affairs. From CBS, here is Gunsmoke,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: episode 239, Crowbait Bob, first broadcast November 10th, 1956. William
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Conrad stars as Matt Dillon, with Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Parley Bear as Chester, and Howard McNear as Doc Adams.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Les Crutchfield wrote the script, and Norman MacDonald produced and directed. Now,
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by L & M, the modern cigarette
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: that lets you get full exciting flavor through the modern
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: miracle of the pure white miracle tip.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Live modern. Smoke L & M.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: and that's with a U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: Gun smoke.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the violence
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: that moved west with young America. And the story of
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: a man who moved with it.
• 1:52
  Speaker 5: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
• 1:56
  Speaker 5: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
• 2:00
  Speaker 5: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
• 2:05
  Speaker 6: And a little lonely.
• 2:06
  Speaker 7: THE END Them cussing and smiling can make me so mad.
• 2:34
  Speaker 7: It's like they think if I ain't got a lick
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  Speaker 7: of sense in his head.
• 2:40
  Speaker 8: Honest, I swear to goodness, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon, there are times a man's got to choke his
• 2:45
  Speaker 7: words right back down in his craw to keep him starting.
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  Speaker 2: Up a ruckus.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what's the trouble, Chester?
• 2:50
  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 8: There's a fellow over at.
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  Speaker 7: The Dodge house, a traveling drummer out of Baltimore, and
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  Speaker 7: you know what he said?
• 2:56
  Speaker 6: Now what'd he say?
• 2:57
  Speaker 7: He said they got a railroad train over there in
• 3:00
  Speaker 7: England somewhere that goes 150 miles in three hours flat.
• 3:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, is that so?
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  Speaker 7: He said they'll have trains like that here one of
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  Speaker 7: these days going clean across the country. In 30 or
• 3:12
  Speaker 7: 40 years, according to him, a man can get on
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  Speaker 7: one in New York City and get off a week
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  Speaker 7: later in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 6: You don't say.
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  Speaker 8: Well, now, you don't believe that, do you, Mr. Dillon?
• 3:24
  Speaker 6: Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see, Chester.
• 3:26
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't believe it. A human body just ain't
• 3:30
  Speaker 7: built to go that fast. It'd get a man's innards
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  Speaker 7: all out of whack, choke him to death trying to breathe.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe, maybe.
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  Speaker 7: The good Lord wanted a man to go 50 miles
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  Speaker 7: an hour.
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  Speaker 2: He'd have put wheels on him.
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah. Good morning, Matt. Hello, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, come on in, Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, my, I've just been at the livery stable, Matt.
• 3:53
  Speaker 6: Well, what's the matter? Is Moss sick?
• 3:55
  Speaker 8: No, it's old Crowbait Bob.
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  Speaker 7: Moss Grimmick's been letting him sleep in the hayloft in
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  Speaker 7: return for helping with the chores.
• 4:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I heard he has.
• 4:03
  Speaker 7: Well, old Crowbait took sick in the night sometime and
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  Speaker 7: couldn't get up this morning.
• 4:07
  Speaker 6: Well, what's wrong with him?
• 4:08
  Speaker 8: Well, nothing that 30 years off his age wouldn't cure.
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  Speaker 8: And a thousand or so less bottles of rock-gut whiskey.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if he's sick, we ought to... Get him out
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  Speaker 6: of that hayloft.
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  Speaker 8: Well, but I can't figure any place to move him.
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  Speaker 8: He wants to see you, Matt. Right away.
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  Speaker 6: See me? What for?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I wouldn't say. But he claims it's mighty important.
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  Speaker 8: It's something he wants to do before he dies.
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  Speaker 6: Before he dies?
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  Speaker 8: I'm just trying to make him comfortable, Matt. That's all
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  Speaker 8: I can do.
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  Speaker 9: Well, as far as I'm concerned, Marshal, you're the only
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  Speaker 9: man in Dodge City that's worth a.
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  Speaker 8: Hoot and a holler.
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  Speaker 9: Except Moss Grimmick.
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  Speaker 8: Why, but for him and.
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  Speaker 9: Marshal, I'm a golden liar.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, there's lots of nice folks here. Of course there is.
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  Speaker 9: I reckon the only ones I'm really talking about is
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  Speaker 9: that highfalutin' Easter man and that... Sneaky old husband of hers.
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  Speaker 5: And I was wondering, Bob, if maybe we ought to
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  Speaker 5: let Ruth and Albin know about your being sick.
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  Speaker 9: No, sir, no.
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  Speaker 8: No, let them know nothing.
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  Speaker 9: Let them sit out there in the precious ranch and rock.
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  Speaker 9: Ain't showed me no care for years.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's up to you, I guess.
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  Speaker 9: Marshal, the reason I sent for you is because I
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  Speaker 9: want to make my will. will oh i know i
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  Speaker 9: know it don't seem likely a worthless old coot like
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  Speaker 9: me and have a reason to but that's where you're
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  Speaker 9: wrong well bob.
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  Speaker 6: I'll do whatever i.
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  Speaker 9: Can you know that well i only got one thing
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  Speaker 9: to leave let's see it's here yes it's right here
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  Speaker 9: in this here leather box won't you take care of
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  Speaker 9: it for me marshall See, that ain't open till after
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  Speaker 9: I'm gone.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, Bob, that'll probably be years somehow.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, no, you don't know. Doc's trying to fool me, too,
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  Speaker 9: but I know where I stand.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Bob, I'll take care of it for you.
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  Speaker 5: Look, Doc's gone after a rig, and we're going to
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  Speaker 5: move you over to the jail. At least you'll be
• 6:34
  Speaker 5: warm there, and there'll be somebody with you. And I'll...
• 6:39
  Speaker 5: write up a will of some kind, and you can
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  Speaker 5: sign it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, much obliged to you, Marshal. That there box is
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  Speaker 9: mighty valuable. And I want to be sure the right
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  Speaker 9: party gets it.
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  Speaker 6: Sure. Well, what does it go to, Bob?
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  Speaker 8: It goes to Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 6: What? Kitty Russell?
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, she's a fine girl, Marshal. Just a gallant angel,
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  Speaker 9: that's what she is. Just a golden.
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  Speaker 4: Angel.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: Free yourself of old-fashioned ideas.
• 7:30
  Speaker 4: Why don't you live in modern life? Live modern. Live, live,
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  Speaker 4: live modern.
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: Free up. Freshen up your taste.
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: Smoke an L & M.
• 7:46
  Speaker 10: Today, all over the country, more people are changing to
• 7:49
  Speaker 10: L & M than.
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: To any other cigarette. And it's all because.
• 7:53
  Speaker 10: Only L & M gives you full, exciting flavor through
• 7:56
  Speaker 10: the pure white miracle tip.
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: L & M draws easier. Tastes richer. Smokes cleaner. So
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: free up. Freshen up your taste.
• 8:08
  Speaker 8: Live modern.
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: Change to L & M.
• 8:10
  Speaker 5: Make today your big red-letter day and start.
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: To live the modern way.
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: Live, live, live modern. Smoke at L & M.
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: It's America's fastest-growing cigarette.
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: I've been looking for you, Matt.
• 8:50
  Speaker 8: How about Kitty?
• 9:02
  Speaker 6: How does it feel to be an heiress?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, stop it. That's all I've been hearing for the
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  Speaker 11: last three hours. How's the old man, Matt?
• 9:10
  Speaker 6: We got him moved over to the jail, Kitty. Fixed
• 9:12
  Speaker 6: up a cell for him. Chester's staying there this evening
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  Speaker 6: to look after him.
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  Speaker 11: Must be terrible to know you're dying. To be all
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  Speaker 11: alone like that with nobody on your own.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I, uh.
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  Speaker 5: I asked him about sending for his niece, Ruth Guttler,
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  Speaker 5: and her husband, but, uh.
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  Speaker 6: He was dead set against that.
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  Speaker 11: And I don't blame him. Not the way they treated him.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Seems like they might have done something for him.
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  Speaker 11: They could have found a place for him out there
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  Speaker 11: in the ranch. So he drank too much. Maybe he
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  Speaker 11: had a reason to drink.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe he is worthless. But he never meant any harm
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  Speaker 11: to anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 6: Crobat's all right. I, uh... I didn't know that you
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: and him were so thick, though.
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  Speaker 11: I treated him like a human being, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 8: Good evening, Mac and Kitty.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Kitty, I hear you're about to inherit a million dollars.
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  Speaker 8: That's foolishness, Doc.
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  Speaker 11: Old Bob never had two quarters to rub together.
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  Speaker 8: Never can tell now.
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  Speaker 6: At least you get it, Kitty, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 11: I wish he hadn't done it, Matt. I didn't expect
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  Speaker 11: any payment.
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  Speaker 6: Payment for what?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing, again. Mac, you mean you didn't know?
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  Speaker 6: Didn't know what, Doc.
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  Speaker 11: Doc, you keep quiet now. Where do you think.
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  Speaker 8: Crow Bait's been getting his meals?
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  Speaker 6: I suppose Moss at the delivery stable was feeding him.
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  Speaker 8: Moss has been letting him sleep there is all. Doc,
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  Speaker 8: if you don't... Why, Kitty's been feeding him for the
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  Speaker 8: last two years.
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  Speaker 6: Kitty, is this true?
• 10:52
  Speaker 8: All right. What of it?
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  Speaker 11: They waste enough food here in a long branch to
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  Speaker 11: feed ten men like him. Didn't cost me anything. It
• 11:01
  Speaker 11: was just... Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have a drink.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how's it going, Chester?
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  Speaker 8: Fine, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Dillon.
• 11:34
  Speaker 8: We got visitors.
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, good evening, Miss Cutler.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Alvin.
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  Speaker 6: What brings you people into town?
• 11:43
  Speaker 8: You know dang well what brings us, Marshal.
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  Speaker 12: Poor Uncle Robert laying back there sick to his death, maybe.
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  Speaker 12: And this upstart saying we can't see him.
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  Speaker 7: Upstart?
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll be.
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  Speaker 6: Now, just take it easy, Chester.
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: Take it easy. Poor old Uncle Robert. Would that be
• 11:59
  Speaker 5: Crowbait Bob by any chance?
• 12:01
  Speaker 8: Marshal, now you're insulting a dear relative of my wife.
• 12:05
  Speaker 12: What a thing to call Uncle Robert. Why, we had
• 12:07
  Speaker 12: no idea he was took down and ailing this way.
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: No, I don't suppose you did, since you haven't spoken
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: to him in the last five years.
• 12:14
  Speaker 8: Well, that was just a family misunderstanding, Marshal.
• 12:17
  Speaker 12: When one's own kin is took bad sick about, he'd
• 12:20
  Speaker 12: be mighty heartless if they didn't let bygones be bygones.
• 12:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, sure.
• 12:25
  Speaker 12: Well, I even brung him some nice chicken broth and
• 12:27
  Speaker 12: baked him an egg custard pie.
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: That's real thoughtful of you, Miss Gutter. You must have
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: heard the rumors.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: Rumors?
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: About him turning out to be wealthy.
• 12:34
  Speaker 8: Well, we haven't heard a thing. That dance hall girl
• 12:36
  Speaker 8: ain't getting one cent, Marshal.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: No, sir.
• 12:40
  Speaker 8: We'll take her to court.
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: Why don't you do that, Elvin, if you know some
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: way of beating.
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: A legal will?
• 12:45
  Speaker 8: Well, he was out of his mind.
• 12:47
  Speaker 6: Doc and I'll say different.
• 12:49
  Speaker 12: We demand to see him.
• 12:50
  Speaker 8: Right this minute.
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. He left orders against it.
• 12:54
  Speaker 12: Well, then take that food back to him and tell
• 12:56
  Speaker 12: him who brung it.
• 12:57
  Speaker 8: That'll change his mind.
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: All right. Chester.
• 13:03
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir?
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: Take this back to the cell with him.
• 13:06
  Speaker 8: All right. He's asleep for a little while.
• 13:08
  Speaker 6: Well, if he's asleep, just leave him. All right, sir.
• 13:12
  Speaker 8: You be sure and tell him we brung it. Oh,
• 13:14
  Speaker 8: I'll hire a brass band and tell.
• 13:16
  Speaker 7: The whole country to come.
• 13:19
  Speaker 8: Now, Marshal, you know that's a terrible thing. A woman
• 13:22
  Speaker 8: like that to undermine a man's feelings for his own kin.
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: Look, Albin, if you want to do something for him,
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: why don't you pay off some of his bills around town?
• 13:31
  Speaker 8: Pay off his bills?
• 13:33
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: $ 10 or $ 15 to Moss Grimmick, $ 20 or so to
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: Wilbur Jonas at the general store.
• 13:38
  Speaker 12: Why don't he pay them himself if he's got all
• 13:40
  Speaker 12: that money?
• 13:40
  Speaker 8: Now, wait a minute, Ruth. Might just make him stop
• 13:45
  Speaker 8: and think twice.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: If we was to pay him off.
• 13:47
  Speaker 12: Pay good money on bills, that worthless old.
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: Oh, shut up, Ruth. All righty, Marshal. We won't bother
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: you no longer. We'll be going now. Come on, Ruth.
• 13:59
  Speaker 8: Good night, Marshal. Mr.
• 14:12
  Speaker 11: Dillon.
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: Huh? What's wrong, Chester?
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: You better find Doc in a hurry, Mr.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Dillon.
• 14:18
  Speaker 8: That old man don't look too good.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: The End.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Free yourself of old-fashioned ideas.
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: Why don't you live modern?
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Live modern. Live, live, live modern.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Free up. Freshen up your taste.
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: Smoke an L & M.
• 15:01
  Speaker 10: Why are more people changing to L & M than
• 15:03
  Speaker 10: to any other cigarette? Because only L & M lets
• 15:06
  Speaker 10: you enjoy full, exciting flavor through the pure white miracle tip.
• 15:11
  Speaker 10: L & M draws easier.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Tastes richer. Smokes cleaner. So free up. Freshen up your taste.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Get full exciting flavor. Live modern. Smoke L & M.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: Make today your big red letter day and start to
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: live the modern way.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Live, live, live modern. Smoke at L & M.
• 15:37
  Speaker 10: It's America's fastest growing cigarette.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: It's a mighty good pie, Mr.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Dillon.
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: Even if old Mrs.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: Guttler did bake it.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it looks real good, Chester.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: Makes a man feel kind of funny eating it, though.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: No?
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: Well, I reckon old Colbate wouldn't want him.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: To go to ways. No, I don't think he would.
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: I wonder what is.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: In that box, Mr.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: Dillon. I don't know. We'll find out as soon as
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: Kenny comes over.
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Died in his sleep, Doc said.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Peaceful as anything. Mm-hmm.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: If you really ain't gonna eat that last peach pie.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: I haven't eaten any of it, Chester. Why don't you
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: finish it?
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you had Orton to go away, started.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: No. Oh, Kitty. Kitty, come on in.
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: Doc told me, Mac. I'm real sorry.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not kidding.
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: Oh, fellas.
• 17:13
  Speaker 11: Well, I hope he had a good life somewhere back
• 17:15
  Speaker 11: along the line. His last years sure weren't very happy.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Well, here's a box, Kitty. It's all yours.
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: I wish you hadn't done it, Matt.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Why not?
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: Oh, I don't know. Looks like I did things for
• 17:31
  Speaker 11: him just because I expected something. I just felt sorry
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: for him, that's all.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't count any chickens ahead of time, Marie.
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: I don't even care what's in it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: Just that I.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: Marshal.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, come in, Alvin.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Marshal, you tricked us. All that good hard cash paid
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: out for.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: You folks acquainted with Miss Kitty Russell here?
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: I know who they are, Matt.
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: How do you figure I tricked you, Alvin?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: How do I.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Well, them bills are his.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I paid out $ 86.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: 40 in that old soak before I run into Doc,
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: found out he'd died... And him without even knowing what
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: we'd done for him.
• 18:10
  Speaker 11: You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
• 18:12
  Speaker 12: Oh, mighty fine talk for you, doing his kin out
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: of what's rightfully theirs.
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: Oh, you beady-eyed old goat.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: Why, you little girl.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: All right, settle down.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: So you think I tricked you, huh, Alden?
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: Well, you don't think I'd have paid them bills if
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: I'd known he was that far gone.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: I thought I was giving you a chance to do
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: something decent for once in your life.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: Well, he ain't responsible for his debts.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: No, not legally. Well, now he's gone and died.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: He left all his wealth to this here... this here woman.
• 18:43
  Speaker 12: The way I hear, that box is full of diamonds
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: and emeralds.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Whatever it's full of, it belongs to Kitty, so you
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: may as well forget it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: Forget it?
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: When a fortune that's rightfully ours is laying right there
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: on that table.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and about to slip through our fingers.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: You get your hands up, Marshal.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: You too, Chester.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Alvin.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Alvin, that was a real foolish move you just made.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Now you hand over the gun.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Stay back, Marshal.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: I'll shoot.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Alvin, I said hand over the gun.
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: Marshal, so help me. If you take one more.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: You hit him.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: You hit Elvin.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: All right, drag him back and lock him up, Chester.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Yes, Mr.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Dillon.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: All right, come on.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: You're locking up Elvin?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Assault with a deadly weapon. Judge Bentle figures it's worth
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: about $ 100 and good hard cash, Miss Cutler.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: And courts at 10 in the morning if you want
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: to be there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: But what will I do tonight?
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Why don't you get yourself a room over at the
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Dodge house and meditate on your sins?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: My sins?
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Good night, Miss Cutler.
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: Oh, Mr.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: Dillon.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Well, now I suppose you want to take a look
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: at your diamonds and emeralds, huh, Kitty?
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: Can't we just burn it, Matt? Not even open it?
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: A crowbait wouldn't have wanted you to do that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know.
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: I know.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Anyhow, you got too much curiosity to do something like that,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: and you know it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: Well, you win, Matt.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Okay, let's see now. Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: I guess if we break the seal on the catcher.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: There we go.
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: Matt, it's full of banknotes.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Confederate banknotes, Kitty.
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: Well, what do you know? You suppose he thought they
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: might fight the war over again someday, Matt?
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Maybe. Now, wait a minute. There's something underneath here.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: What is it, Matt?
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: It's an Army medal. Bravery in Action, field citation.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Awarded to Lieutenant Robert Danford Conroy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: So that was his name.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: For conspicuous heroism during the storming of Chapultepec Heights, September 13, 1847. Signed,
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: General Winfield Scott, Commander-in-Chief, United States Expeditionary Forces in Mexico.
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: Here's a silver dollar, Matt.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh. Well, at least that's worth something.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Look.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: It's a ribbon.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: Silk hair bow.
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: Tied to a curl.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Lock of hair.
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: Matt, I wonder who she was.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Well, whoever. It was a long time ago.
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: Metal, a curl, dollar. A box full of worthless paper.
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: Story of a man's life, Matt.
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: And there have been worse stories.
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: I'll keep the curl and the metal. You know something? What?
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: We'll spend the dollar on a drink.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: All right, Kitty, I think I'd have poised him. Come on.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: In a moment, our star, William Conrad. Every year in America,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: property losses through fire amount to around $ 800 million, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: 90% of these fires are caused by human carelessness. We
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: put a match to $ 720 million bills every 12 months unnecessarily.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Every 20 seconds, fire breaks out somewhere in the United States.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Three fires will start while this announcement is being read.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: The cost in human life is even more shocking than
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the property losses. 11,000 people die every year in fires,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: and thousands more are severely burned and disfigured for life.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: These losses do not have to continue. Each of us
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: can protect his home from fire by following these simple
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: safety rules. Don't smoke in bed. Clean out flammable debris
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: and have it carted away. Repair or replace worn and
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: defective electrical equipment. Use cleaning fluids that won't burn. In
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: other words, don't give fire a place to start. This
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: has been a CBS Radio Public Service announcement. Hello, this
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: is Bill Conrad. Dropping the role of Matt Dillon for
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: a moment to remind you to cast your vote next
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Tuesday in one of the most important elections of our time.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: After you've voted, don't forget CBS Radio is going to
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: be reporting to you over this station... The election story
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: with the most comprehensive coverage and broadcasting history.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Be with us next Tuesday, won't you?
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: After you've voted.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Marshal.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Ray Kemper
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: and Bill James. Join us again next week for another
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: specially transcribed story on Gunsmoke.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke has concluded Crowbait Bob. Good night and thank
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you for sharing another broadcast from radio's earlier days.