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Gunsmoke - "How to Kill a Woman" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A deadly stagecoach holdup on the road near an isolated
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: station leaves driver Jim Buck with one.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Fact to report.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Before the coach departed, he saw gunman Nat Pilcher at
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: the station. From CBS Radio, this is Gunsmoke, Episode 80,
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: How to Kill a Woman, originally broadcast October 31, 1953.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: With another stage due along the same route, Marshal Matt
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Dillon and Chester follow the evidence from Dodge City to
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: a frontier station near Wagon Bed Springs, where stationmaster Jesse
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Daggett enters their investigation. William Conrad stars as Dillon and
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Parley Bear as Chester. John Meston wrote the script, with
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  Speaker 1: Norman MacDonald producing and directing. And now, the original broadcast.
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: just one way to handle the.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Killers and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
• 1:34
  Speaker 4: Gunsmoke, the story of the violence that moved west with
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  Speaker 4: young America. The story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad.
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: It's a darn shame, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what is, Chester?
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  Speaker 5: Well, for long it'll be too cold to sit out
• 2:17
  Speaker 5: here of an evening.
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  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha. Winter's too cold, summer's too hot. How
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: do you like spring, Chester?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, spring's all right up here. But I remember back
• 2:27
  Speaker 5: in Waco, we all got the egg you ever spring.
• 2:30
  Speaker 5: Terrible fever. Makes man feel like a harp with a
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  Speaker 5: thousand strings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I've had it. That stage is mighty
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  Speaker 2: late tonight.
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  Speaker 5: It sure is. You know, my ma had a theory
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  Speaker 5: we'd be immune if we had three hard-boiled eggs on
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  Speaker 5: good price. But if that didn't work and we got
• 2:46
  Speaker 5: the egg you anyway, she'd tie salt mackerel onto our feet.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that ought to toughen up your feet anyway.
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  Speaker 6: We all survived. Hey, look.
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  Speaker 5: Here comes the stage driver. Why, it's Jim Buck.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Marshall. Hello, Chester.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Jim.
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  Speaker 2: Buck. Trouble, Jim?
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  Speaker 6: I'd call it trouble, Marshal. Got held up. One passenger
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  Speaker 6: shot down in cold blood.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 6: It was the meanest thing I ever saw.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd this happen?
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  Speaker 7: Other side of Wagon Bed Springs, between there and Jesse Daggett's.
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  Speaker 6: Daggett's?
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  Speaker 7: He runs a stage station out there near the Colorado line.
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  Speaker 7: And I got a mighty strong feeling Jesse Daggett's in
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  Speaker 7: on this, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: What makes you think so, Jim?
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  Speaker 6: He knew I was carrying gold.
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  Speaker 7: After we'd laid over an hour or so at the station,
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  Speaker 7: I seen Daggett talking to a man who just rode in.
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  Speaker 6: Cussed at looking a gunman as he'd want.
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  Speaker 2: Then what happened?
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  Speaker 6: The fellow rode off, left before we did.
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  Speaker 2: Was alone?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just him with his face covered. Never said a word.
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  Speaker 6: He took the strong box and robbed the passengers.
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  Speaker 7: Then he got on his horse and turned around and
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  Speaker 7: shot one of them right through the head. Why would
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  Speaker 7: a man do that, Marshal? I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he just likes to kill, Jim. But I'll go
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  Speaker 2: back with you tomorrow. Maybe we can find out.
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  Speaker 3: We made the trip down to the Santa Fe Trail
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  Speaker 3: next day. Through Wagon Bed Springs and on.
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  Speaker 2: To Jesse Daggett's stage station.
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  Speaker 3: I sat on the box with Jim Buck while Chester
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  Speaker 3: rode inside with the passengers. And by evening, everybody was glad.
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  Speaker 2: When we reached Daggett's. It was a typical road ranch.
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  Speaker 3: With a large eating room and a row of sleeping
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  Speaker 3: quarters for the travelers.
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  Speaker 2: Jesse Daggett himself was a tall, angular man, gaunt and gray.
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  Speaker 2: He was quiet, but one could feel the trouble that
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  Speaker 2: lay inside him.
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  Speaker 3: The first chance I had to talk to him was
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  Speaker 3: in the yard after supper.
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  Speaker 2: Old weather be coming soon. I'll have to lay in
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  Speaker 2: more whiskey. Yeah. You, uh, had this station long? Three years,
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  Speaker 2: come spring. Built it myself.
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  Speaker 8: Pawnees tried to burn it down now and then, but
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  Speaker 8: I'm still here.
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  Speaker 2: You plan to stay here, Daggett? Man's plans are his own, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. It was just an idle question.
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  Speaker 9: It's all right.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'd like it here myself. No neighbors, but
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  Speaker 3: lots of company passing through.
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  Speaker 8: It ain't all good company.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of people travel, good and bad.
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  Speaker 9: True.
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  Speaker 2: Like the man who held up Jim Buck's stage yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and shot that passenger. What about him? Well, you might
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  Speaker 2: call him the bad kind, don't you think?
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  Speaker 8: What I think won't raise the dead, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: It might keep more people from dying, though. I figure
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  Speaker 2: that's what you're doing here, looking for that fella.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Buck thinks it might have been that gunman you
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  Speaker 3: were talking to here, the day of the holdup.
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  Speaker 8: That was Nat Pilcher, but I don't care what Jim
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  Speaker 8: Buck thinks.
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  Speaker 3: Now, everybody expects a stage to get held up once
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  Speaker 3: in a while, but it's a different matter to shoot
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  Speaker 3: people down for nothing. I don't figure this man, unless
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  Speaker 3: he's just a born killer.
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  Speaker 2: He could have a lot of reasons. Men are all different. Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 8: All got different reasons for doing what they do, living
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  Speaker 8: the way they live. Yes, it's what's happened to him
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  Speaker 8: In the past, spells it out.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell you something, Marshal, but ain't what you want
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  Speaker 8: to hear. I believe in letting every man kill his
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  Speaker 8: own snakes.
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  Speaker 9: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: This business is between whoever the bandit is and me.
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  Speaker 2: Is that it?
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  Speaker 8: That's it exactly. Every man for himself, you might say.
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  Speaker 8: I won't interfere, but I won't help.
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  Speaker 2: I see. Got to be like that. Even though a
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  Speaker 2: man was killed for nothing. Let dog eat dog, I see. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you won't regret it, Daggett.
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  Speaker 8: One more regret won't break me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to get anything out of Jesse Daggett was hopeless.
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  Speaker 2: But I still couldn't agree with Jim Buck that he
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  Speaker 2: was partners with a road agent... Daggett somehow wasn't that
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  Speaker 2: kind of man. Anyway, there was nothing to do but
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  Speaker 2: wait and let things happen.
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  Speaker 3: Two days passed while Chester and I sat in the
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  Speaker 3: eating room and played two-handed stud.
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  Speaker 2: Now we got mighty restless.
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  Speaker 3: Late afternoon of the second day, however, Jim Buck drove
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  Speaker 3: back with his stage. The travelers came in first, went
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  Speaker 3: to their rooms, and then Jim came.
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  Speaker 2: Over to say hello.
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  Speaker 7: I wish I had a job like yours. Nothing to
• 8:00
  Speaker 7: do but sit around, play cards.
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  Speaker 2: Drink whiskey.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we do a lot of thinking, Jim. That's what
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  Speaker 5: makes up for it.
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  Speaker 6: You do, huh? Well, you done any about finding Jesse
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  Speaker 6: Daggett's friend, Nat Pilcher?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if we did find him, Jim, we couldn't prove anything.
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  Speaker 6: No, neither could I, I guess. But you might just
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  Speaker 6: shoot him for luck.
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  Speaker 2: You're too suspicious, Jim. He was probably just some cowboy
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  Speaker 2: riding through. Maybe.
• 8:30
  Speaker 7: There's another pilgrim for supper. Where's Daggett, anyway?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he went outside just after you pulled in. Didn't
• 8:35
  Speaker 5: you see him?
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  Speaker 7: I was busy with the horses. And I still got
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  Speaker 7: work to do. I'll see you at supper.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's a hard life, driving a stage, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I'd want to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You might give it a try, First Chester. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 9: I heard there was a marshal here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 6: Me?
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  Speaker 9: You can't do nothing for me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Then what do you want?
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  Speaker 9: I just wanted to see what a Marshal looks like.
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  Speaker 5: A live one.
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  Speaker 2: Satisfied? Sure. Then get out of here.
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  Speaker 9: You're touchy, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: Real touchy.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want him to start no trouble.
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  Speaker 6: I want him to come in to say hello.
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  Speaker 2: Friendly like. What's your name? Pilcher.
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  Speaker 6: Not Pilcher.
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  Speaker 2: I thought so. Sure.
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  Speaker 9: I'm a friend of Jesse Daggett's. An old friend.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you live, Pilcher? You got a job around here?
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  Speaker 9: I'm a cowboy, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Know anybody who needs a good hand?
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  Speaker 2: What do you do besides ride? Funny. You ask that.
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 9: You being a lawman.
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  Speaker 10: Dear.
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  Speaker 5: Ever hear of Charlie Hall, sheriff over in New Mexico?
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 5: They say Clay Allison shot him.
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  Speaker 9: That's what they say, Marshal. But I know for a
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  Speaker 9: fact it wasn't Clay.
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  Speaker 2: Nice meeting you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: See you later.
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  Speaker 3: Jesse Daggett's stage station lay on the prairie miles from anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: It would be an easy thing for a man like
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  Speaker 3: Nat Pilcher to ride in long enough to.
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  Speaker 2: Check on a stagecoach and.
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  Speaker 3: the value of its cargo, and then ride up the
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  Speaker 3: road a few miles and wait for it. But I
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  Speaker 3: still didn't believe Daggett was in on the deal, even
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  Speaker 3: though he and Pilcher had obviously known each other somewhere before.
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  Speaker 3: The next morning at dawn, Jim Buck loaded his passengers
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  Speaker 3: aboard and pulled out.
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  Speaker 2: Daggett and I stood there and.
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  Speaker 3: Watched the little cloud of dust as it moved up
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  Speaker 3: the Santa Fe Trail toward Wagon Bed Spring.
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  Speaker 8: Make Dodge tonight, and he'll be back here tomorrow. I, uh,
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  Speaker 8: met your friend, Nat Pilcher, last.
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  Speaker 2: Night, Dagon. Pilcher rode out before supper. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Seems like he only came in to tell me what
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  Speaker 3: a hard case he is. To warn me about it.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't have much effect. You're still here. You don't think
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  Speaker 2: I scare that easy. All right, Marshal. Things will work
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  Speaker 2: out here without you.
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  Speaker 3: Daggett, I don't know what's going on down here, and
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  Speaker 3: if I'm meddling in your affairs, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, but....
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  Speaker 3: A stage has been robbed and a man's been killed,
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  Speaker 3: and that makes it my affair, too.
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  Speaker 8: I want to thank you for not thinking I got
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  Speaker 8: anything to do with all that much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't sure at first, but I am now.
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  Speaker 3: Even so, I'm not going back to Dodge without a man.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, I suppose you won't. Well, let's go inside. Sure. You, uh.
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  Speaker 3: I ought to plant some trees there, Daggett. It'd sure
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: improve the place.
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  Speaker 2: Not enough water. Dig for it, then.
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  Speaker 3: You'll never get a woman to come out here and
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  Speaker 3: marry you unless you've at least got some trees.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: How's that? There's no offense.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: I was just remarking that women like things growing around
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: the place. Let's say I meant it generally.
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  Speaker 2: No offense.
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  Speaker 8: I thought to have a woman here once when I
• 12:49
  Speaker 8: first planned about running a stage station.
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  Speaker 2: It was over in New Mexico. Seemed like a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago.
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  Speaker 8: Things don't always work out. I was mighty fond of her, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: But I lost her. I've been a little lonely ever since.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: You came close. That's better than some men do. I
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: don't know about that.
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  Speaker 8: It is funny how a man goes right on living,
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  Speaker 8: even when his luck's about run out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:16
  Speaker 8: Come on inside.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: I'll heat up some coffee. Good. Got him, Chester. Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon, do you mind if we don't play anymore? I'm
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: beginning to see things.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay with me. The stage ought to be here
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  Speaker 2: soon anyway.
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  Speaker 5: I just think Jim Buck's been all the way to
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  Speaker 5: Dodge and back, and we've just been sitting here another
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  Speaker 5: two days.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: Well, waiting's always the hardest part.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's the stage now. At least there'll be some
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: people around here.
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Jim.
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  Speaker 6: Come out here, Marshal. What?
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: More trouble, Jim?
• 14:11
  Speaker 6: Can you stop me again, Marshal? By heaven, I'm going
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: after him now if you don't. Take a look in
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  Speaker 6: the coach here. What?
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  Speaker 2: What, the woman?
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  Speaker 5: Is she dead, Jim?
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Of course she's dead.
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  Speaker 6: She's got a bullet in her.
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  Speaker 2: Where are your other passengers?
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  Speaker 6: There ain't any. She's the only one this trip.
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  Speaker 2: Look at her, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: He killed her.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: That is some blood sucking through your jacket, Jim. You
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: hit bad. In the shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: Knocked me off the box.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to stop at all.
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  Speaker 6: And he just rode up and put a bullet in
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  Speaker 6: her and rode off.
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  Speaker 2: Never said a word. You think it was culture? Well,
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: let's ask Jesse Daggett here who it was. No.
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: Take a look in the coach, Daggett.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Take a good look.
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: Well, Duggan, what do you think of killing women?
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  Speaker 2: Look at him, Marshal. I told you. Did you ever
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: see a guiltier looking man? You're wrong, Jim. It doesn't
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: even make sense. Well, he didn't do it. No. But
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: he's in on it somehow.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Chester, I'll help you bring the woman inside. Then we'll
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: see what we can do about your shoulder, Jim.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Come on. It doesn't make sense. None at all. But
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: I figured it would soon.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: And after I did what I could for Jim Buck's shoulder, Chester.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: And I buried the woman.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Put a cross over her grave. We'd find out later
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: who she was. The rest of the night, we took
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: turns watching for a move from Jesse Daggett. And sure enough,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: an hour before dawn, he saddled up and rode out
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  Speaker 3: into the prairie.
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  Speaker 2: We let him get a.
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  Speaker 3: Little start and then took a couple of his horses
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  Speaker 3: and followed him.
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  Speaker 5: You think he's going to meet Pilcher?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: If he can find him.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: He must have come ten miles already.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, about that. We shouldn't have let him get so
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: far ahead of us, though.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: We're right on his trail.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Hey, what's that up there? Look.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Watch the man.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on.
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  Speaker 8: Where's Daggett, Mr.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: Dillon?
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: He's been shot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fine. You followed me, Marshal. How bad are you hurt, Daggett?
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  Speaker 6: Pretty bad.
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  Speaker 2: Pilcher? I killed him, but my gun didn't go off.
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  Speaker 8: Then he got me easier than him.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: No luck left at all.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Any idea where Pilcher is now, Daggett? Said he was
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: going back to the station to get you. Took my
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: horse with him. I'd have come with you this morning.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Wasn't your business.
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: This was between me and Pilcher. I'm here looking for
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: a fight. I didn't want to kill anybody no more.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Not even him. So he drove me to it. Finally,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: that woman yesterday... No, I couldn't stand that.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: You mean he shot her and the other passenger just
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: to prod you into a fight?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Marshal, I'll tell you now about.
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: I had a woman out in New Mexico. Nat Bilcher
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: tried to run off with her. I didn't shoot him, no.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I shot her instead.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: I figured it made more sense.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: You killed her?
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: I don't think he'd have minded so much if I'd
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: have killed him, but I figured.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: He.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Wasn't doing nothing I didn't want to do myself. I
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: didn't blame him, none.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I blamed her. Wiltshire's been after me ever since. I
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: could have stopped all this if you told me sooner.
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: Every man's got to kill his own snakes, Marshal.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I tried. You can have them now. I ain't gonna
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: live long. I'm sorry, Daggett. Uh, Chester will stay with you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going back to the station. You both go. I
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: can die alone. I ain't afraid, no. Goodbye, Daggett. Goodbye, Marshal. Chester. Yes, sir.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Do what you can for him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Poor fellow.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I'll send somebody out to help you bring him in. Later. Yes, sir.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: That's about time you got here, Marshal.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Where's Pilcher, Jim?
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Jogging back, looking for whiskey. Where's everybody else?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: It's been a busy morning. How's your shoulder?
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: It hurts. I gotta get up to dodge somehow and
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: see it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Morning, Marshal.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: Morning.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Oh. Hello, Pilcher.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: You been riding?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: So have you.
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: Man like me rides a lot, Marshal.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: You should have kept going.
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: I wanted to see you again before I left.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Jesse Daggett told me. I'm gonna kill you.
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  Speaker 9: And then Jim here.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a... Shut up, Jim. Pilcher, you can drop your
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: gun belt and take your chances in court. If you like.
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  Speaker 9: Our chances are better right here, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: It's your choice.
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  Speaker 9: It's always been my choice. Except for the night Jesse
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  Speaker 9: Daggett shot his wife. Did he tell you about that?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter now.
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  Speaker 10: To me, it does.
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  Speaker 9: You killed him, Marshal.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You hit? No.
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  Speaker 2: What's this all about? A woman. Jim, I'm going to
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: hitch up the stage and drive you into Dodge. I'd
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: be grateful for that. We'll have to go out of
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: our way some. Why? Daggett's luck ran all the way
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: out this morning, that's why.
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  Speaker 8: THE END.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Gunsmoke, under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad
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  Speaker 4: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight's story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
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  Speaker 4: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the cast were Jack Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, and John Daner.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Parley Bear is Chester. Ken Peters speaking. Our freedom to
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: worship God.
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  Speaker 2: Is a precious national heritage.
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  Speaker 4: Attend the church or synagogue of your choice with your
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: family and support it actively. Light your children's life with faith.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Bring them to worship this week. Join us again next
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: week as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal, tracks a renegade during
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: his fight to bring law and order out of the
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: wild violence of the West in Gunsmoke.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: That brings our Gunsmoke presentation to a close. Good night,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us.