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The Lone Ranger - "Murder Wears Skirts" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: January 21st, 1942 brings us an early radio adventure from
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  Speaker 1: The Lone Ranger. This is episode 1,404, Murder Wears Skirts.
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  Speaker 1: The Lone Ranger had already become a familiar voice across
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  Speaker 1: the American West of the imagination, carrying frontier tales into
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  Speaker 1: homes from coast to coast, and now the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hooray!
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  Speaker 3: Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: A fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud
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  Speaker 4: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver.
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  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: During the years of unrest that followed the Civil War,
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  Speaker 4: a powerful secret organization called the Legion of the Black
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  Speaker 4: Arrow sprang up in the western United States. Its members
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  Speaker 4: were to be found everywhere, defying the law or using
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  Speaker 4: the law for their own purposes, working toward the ultimate
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  Speaker 4: goal of revolt and the foundation of a despotic empire.
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  Speaker 4: It was the masked rider of the plains who led
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  Speaker 4: the fight against this band of outlaws and traitors.
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  Speaker 5: And for once, his great strength and courage, his daring.
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  Speaker 4: And resourcefulness were taxed to the utmost in the cause
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  Speaker 4: of democracy. Return with us now to those thrilling days
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  Speaker 4: when the West was young. From out of the past
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  Speaker 4: come the thundering hoofbeats of a great horse, Silver. The
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  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 6: We're on the trail of the Black Elves!
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 5: Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: In the woods near the town of Clifton, Butch Williams
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  Speaker 4: and a man named Truxton sat huddled in their camp
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  Speaker 4: close to a well-hidden fire.
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  Speaker 2: Butch, you and me have a big job on our hands,
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  Speaker 2: but we can do it.
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  Speaker 7: I got only one thing to do. That's to get
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  Speaker 7: to Lone Ranger. That's all I'm thinking about and hoping for.
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  Speaker 2: That's the job I mean.
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  Speaker 8: Well, then I'm with you, Truck. I'm with you from
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  Speaker 8: the word go. What's your plan? You got any ideas?
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  Speaker 2: You bet I have. The Lone Ranger's life was saved
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  Speaker 2: by that girl, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I reckon so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he'd give his life to save her, wouldn't he?
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  Speaker 8: I reckon he would. He's that kind of man.
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  Speaker 2: If he'd do that, we'll get him. We've as good
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  Speaker 2: as got him right now.
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  Speaker 8: Truck, don't be too sure of it.
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  Speaker 2: This is one.
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  Speaker 9: Time when I'm dead sure of what I'm saying. We've
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  Speaker 9: as good as got the Lone Ranger right now.
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  Speaker 8: How's that?
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  Speaker 2: Because, Butch, I know how we can capture that girl.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's big talk. We don't even know who the
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  Speaker 8: girl is.
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  Speaker 7: All we saw was somebody was dressed in heavy clothes
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  Speaker 7: like an old woman wearing a big bonnet on her head.
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  Speaker 8: We never even saw the girl that helped the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: That don't matter.
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  Speaker 9: I still say the same. I know how we can
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  Speaker 9: capture the girl. Then when we've got her captured, we'll
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  Speaker 9: make a deal with the Lone Ranger. His life for hers.
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  Speaker 7: Even if he was willing, the girl wouldn't let him
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  Speaker 7: save her. Not if it meant giving up his life.
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  Speaker 2: She won't have anything to say about it.
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  Speaker 7: Right now, I can't get over much enthused about your scheme.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe if you tell more, I'll see it different. Sounds
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  Speaker 7: to me like you're tackling more than we can handle.
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  Speaker 7: More than the whole gang could handle before we got
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  Speaker 7: busted up.
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  Speaker 2: Now listen.
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  Speaker 8: Well, in the first place, how do you locate the girl?
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  Speaker 2: Remember the bonnet we found by the campfire?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, but I mean now.
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  Speaker 2: We know that she's in the town of Clifton, don't we?
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's where she's likely to be.
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  Speaker 2: She'll hear about anything that happens in town. Sure. Now then.
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  Speaker 2: Who was in the jail in Clifton?
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  Speaker 8: Our boss.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Tatum.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Tatum's a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: He knows the law backwards, forwards, and upside down.
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  Speaker 7: I sure was surprised when I found out that he
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  Speaker 7: was the one who'd been giving orders to the gang
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  Speaker 7: all this time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, anyhow, he's in the calaboose, but he's not worried none.
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  Speaker 9: He knows enough of the law to know that he'll
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  Speaker 9: figure out some way to go free when he comes
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  Speaker 9: up for trial by jury.
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  Speaker 8: Tatum wasn't worried none when I last talked to him.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go on.
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  Speaker 9: This girl knows Tatum led the gang the same as
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  Speaker 9: everyone else knows it. She'd also know that Tatum is
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  Speaker 9: a lawyer and likely to talk his way out of trouble. Now,
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  Speaker 9: don't it seem like good sense for her to take
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  Speaker 9: the law into her own hands?
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  Speaker 8: Maybe, but she probably won't. Tatum needn't worry about her.
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  Speaker 2: Tatum better worry about her.
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  Speaker 8: I don't follow you, Truck.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Tatum will never see another sunrise. What?
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  Speaker 9: If he tells what he knows about us when he
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  Speaker 9: goes on trial, we'll be done for. We've got to
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  Speaker 9: get rid of him to keep him from squealing on us.
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  Speaker 9: The girl gets charged with what we do. The law
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  Speaker 9: locates her for us, and then we capture her. But
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  Speaker 9: how can you fix it so the law will blame her?
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  Speaker 2: You leave that to me.
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  Speaker 9: Come on now, we've got things to do.
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  Speaker 4: Bill Tatum was in jail, but not asleep. He could
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  Speaker 4: hear the measured pacing of the special guard outside his window.
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  Speaker 4: His mind was busy with plans for his defense in court.
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  Speaker 4: I'll beat the law on my day in court.
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  Speaker 10: Those local fools will hear of laws they never knew existed. Sure,
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  Speaker 10: they have evidence against me. But how'd they get it?
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  Speaker 10: They took it from my house. They didn't show me
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  Speaker 10: any search warrant. The law says that's illegal seizure. Evidence
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  Speaker 10: must be ruled out.
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  Speaker 5: My confession?
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  Speaker 8: A man can't be made to testify against himself.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on there, old woman. What do you want?
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  Speaker 2: Someone outside.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's the matter with you? You lost your tongue?
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  Speaker 5: What do you want?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you.
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  Speaker 8: I wish I could see.
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  Speaker 5: Something happened there. Can't quite make it.
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  Speaker 4: The prisoner pressed hard against the bars of the window,
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  Speaker 4: straining to see the corner of the building where something
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  Speaker 4: had happened. Then the door behind him opened. He turned,
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  Speaker 4: stared at the figure in the moonlit cell, and then.
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  Speaker 2: He's dead.
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  Speaker 5: Knifed. Sure got him sudden. Where was the guard? Who
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  Speaker 5: done it? Something said about a woman. Well, where is
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  Speaker 5: the sheriff? Anyone gone for him? What about the guard?
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  Speaker 5: Let me through there.
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  Speaker 11: What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Sheriff, Bill Tatum got knifed. Yeah, sheriff, he's dead. Get back.
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  Speaker 12: Don't touch things. Where's the guard? Where's Hank Loomis? Sheriff,
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  Speaker 12: I'm here. I got knocked down by that old woman.
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  Speaker 5: Hank, what happened to the prisoner? Who knifed him? Great. Guns?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know he got knifed.
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  Speaker 11: Look at him there on the floor.
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  Speaker 5: I just come too. It must have been the same woman. Who? Hey,
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  Speaker 5: the door's unlocked too. Where's your keys? Keys? My keys,
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  Speaker 5: let me see. Well, they've been stolen.
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  Speaker 12: While you were sleeping off that blow on the head.
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  Speaker 12: What kind of a guard are you anyhow?
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  Speaker 5: Sheriff, I could... Did you say a woman done it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it was. Who? I don't know.
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  Speaker 13: She wore a big bonnet that hit her face. She
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  Speaker 13: come up to me not saying a word. I asked
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  Speaker 13: her who she was and what she wanted. Still, she
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  Speaker 13: didn't say anything. Then all of a.
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  Speaker 5: Sudden, she raised her hand, holding a hunk of wood
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  Speaker 5: or something, and clouted me alongside the head.
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  Speaker 12: Letting a woman do that, and you carrying a rifle.
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  Speaker 12: She didn't give me no chance at all, Sheriff. Some
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  Speaker 12: of you gents get more light in here.
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  Speaker 5: We gotta look for clues. I'll fix them. I know
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  Speaker 5: where there's a lamp.
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  Speaker 2: Fine thing.
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  Speaker 5: Prisoner getting a knife when he's here in the jail.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I'll find whodunit and hang him.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you there's a woman. Is that all you
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  Speaker 5: can tell me about her? I didn't get a good
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  Speaker 5: look at her, Sheriff. Sheriff, I found something out in
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  Speaker 5: the road. Look at this. What's that? It's a woman's bonnet. Sheriff,
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  Speaker 5: that's like the one she wore. Let me see it. Why, sure.
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  Speaker 5: It's the same one. I bet money it is. Now
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  Speaker 5: we got something to go on. Hey, bring that lamp
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  Speaker 5: over here. Hurry. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Here you are.
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  Speaker 11: Anyone know who.
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  Speaker 5: Owns this here bonnet? Why, it's Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Penny's.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen her wearing it.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Penny, are you sure of that? Dead sure. Come to
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  Speaker 5: think of it, I've seen her wearing it.
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  Speaker 12: But hang it all, Mrs. Penny wouldn't knife a man.
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  Speaker 12: She'd walk the long way around to keep from stepping
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  Speaker 12: on a cockroach.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on, Sharon. I just thought of something. Speak up, then.
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  Speaker 5: What reason would Mrs. Penny have to do a thing
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  Speaker 5: like this?
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  Speaker 7: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Penny wouldn't have a reason, not her. But what about
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  Speaker 5: that girl that lives with her?
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  Speaker 11: Who?
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  Speaker 13: That youngish girl. The one that nobody ever seems to
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  Speaker 13: know much about. Maybe she borrowed the old woman's clothes. Hank,
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  Speaker 13: maybe you got an idea at that. I reckon we'll
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  Speaker 13: have a talk with Maupinny right now.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger, on the fringe of the crowd, heard
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  Speaker 4: the declaration of the sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: He hurried to the home of an elderly couple.
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  Speaker 6: This is where the Pennys live, Silver. I never suspected
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  Speaker 6: that the girl lived here, too. Not much time. The
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  Speaker 6: sheriff will soon be here.
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  Speaker 12: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: A mask, men. Please wait.
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  Speaker 6: Don't close the door. Listen to me.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want?
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  Speaker 6: Are you Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Penny?
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  Speaker 14: Yes, but I've got nothing worth stealing.
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  Speaker 2: Please, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Penny.
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  Speaker 6: Believe me when I tell you I'm not here to
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  Speaker 6: rob or harm you. I'm masked, but not because I'm
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  Speaker 6: hiding from the law.
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  Speaker 5: That horse.
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  Speaker 14: It's white. You're the one.
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  Speaker 6: Has she told you about me?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. You're the Lone Ranger. Where is she now? Who?
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  Speaker 2: The girl.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know who you're talking about. I don't know anything.
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  Speaker 5: You better go.
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  Speaker 2: Wait.
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  Speaker 6: You just said she had told you about me.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 14: No, that was a mistake. Please, mister.
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  Speaker 6: But I must speak to her. The sheriff is coming here.
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  Speaker 6: He'll be here at any moment. I.
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  Speaker 14: I can't tell you anything. I give my word. I
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  Speaker 14: mustn't say any more.
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  Speaker 5: Then listen to what I say. Last night, a man
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  Speaker 5: in jail was killed.
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  Speaker 14: That's got nothing to do with me.
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  Speaker 5: Go away.
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  Speaker 6: Your bonnet was found at the jail. The guard was
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  Speaker 6: knocked down. He described the dress and the bonnet of
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  Speaker 6: the one who knocked him down.
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  Speaker 14: Go on. Then what?
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  Speaker 6: That's better. The sheriff thinks the girl who has been
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  Speaker 6: here with you borrowed your clothes and wore them when
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  Speaker 6: she stabbed the prisoner.
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  Speaker 14: She didn't do it. She didn't do it, I tell you.
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  Speaker 14: She didn't have any part in it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure she didn't. But have you any idea who did? No.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know who could have borrowed your dress and
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  Speaker 5: your bonnet?
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  Speaker 14: I won't say another word.
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  Speaker 5: Go away. Won't you let me speak to the girl?
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  Speaker 14: She's not here. She's gone.
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  Speaker 5: When did she go?
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  Speaker 14: During the night. I don't know when. I found out
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  Speaker 14: this morning she hadn't slept in her bed, and that's
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  Speaker 14: all I can tell you. Will the law charge him
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  Speaker 14: with murder?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. There's no way of telling what the
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  Speaker 6: law will do.
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  Speaker 5: Mercy.
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  Speaker 14: There comes the sheriff now and a lot of men
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  Speaker 14: with him.
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  Speaker 6: I can't lose time answering questions now, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Penny.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see each other again. Oh, dear me.
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  Speaker 14: Now what will happen to all of us?
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: How about you let him get after that masked man?
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  Speaker 5: Let him back here so as I can ask him
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  Speaker 5: a few questions.
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  Speaker 12: All right, Sheriff, we'll get after him.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you go inside more, Penny. I want to speak
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  Speaker 5: to you.
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  Speaker 14: Well, I'm here to speak to you. But make it short.
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  Speaker 14: I got bread in the oven. What's the matter with you, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I want to ask if you've ever
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  Speaker 5: seen this bottle before.
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  Speaker 14: Of course I have. It's mine.
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  Speaker 5: That settles that, then. Now, when did you wear it
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  Speaker 5: the last time?
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 14: When?
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  Speaker 5: That's what I said. When? Last night. You hear that?
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  Speaker 5: Be quiet, Hank. What time last night did you wear it,
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  Speaker 5: Miss Penny?
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  Speaker 14: I don't know the exact time. Why are you asking
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  Speaker 14: all these questions anyhow?
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  Speaker 5: I got more to ask. You had a girl here
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  Speaker 5: living with you, didn't you?
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  Speaker 14: What of it? She didn't bother anyone, did she? She
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  Speaker 14: hardly ever showed herself around.
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  Speaker 12: Maybe she kept herself scarce so she wouldn't be found
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  Speaker 12: so easy when she finished with Bill Tatum.
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  Speaker 5: Who's he? That's the prisoner that was in jail. He
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  Speaker 5: was knifed last night.
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  Speaker 14: Knifed, huh? Well, I reckon he must have had it
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  Speaker 14: coming to him.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, Penny, you're a hard woman to talk to. But
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  Speaker 12: you'd better help the law. I know you didn't kill Tatum.
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  Speaker 12: So it must have been the girl who wore your
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  Speaker 12: bonnet when the deed was done. Now, if she's innocent,
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  Speaker 12: the thing for her to do is show herself and
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  Speaker 12: prove it.
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  Speaker 14: I always thought it was up to the law to
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  Speaker 14: prove a party guilty, not up to the party to
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  Speaker 14: prove herself or himself innocent.
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  Speaker 12: Only so far, the proof is that she's guilty. If
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  Speaker 12: she don't have something to say, we'll have to place
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  Speaker 12: the charge against her. And find her?
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  Speaker 14: She's not here now.
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe you can tell us where she is.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: What's her name?
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  Speaker 14: Sheriff, all I know is the name she used here
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  Speaker 14: isn't the right name. She said I could call her Jane.
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  Speaker 14: And if I wanted two names to make it, Jane Doe.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Ma, I'm sorry you won't help us out more
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  Speaker 5: than this.
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  Speaker 14: I'm sorry I can't. Good day to you, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: Ma, I'm not leaving here.
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  Speaker 12: Unless you make me go back to my office and
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  Speaker 12: get a warrant to search this house.
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  Speaker 5: I'll do that if need be.
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  Speaker 12: But I'm hoping you'll save me the trouble by letting
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  Speaker 12: us go through the house without a warrant.
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  Speaker 14: Search my house?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: I told you the girl's gone.
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  Speaker 12: You never can tell. She might have left some clues around.
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  Speaker 12: Maybe something in the shape of a letter or a note.
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  Speaker 12: Or something that would give us a hint as to
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  Speaker 12: where she went.
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  Speaker 14: She didn't leave anything.
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  Speaker 12: Then you sure can't mind if I have a look.
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  Speaker 14: You can't go in there.
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  Speaker 4: Mom.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get that warned if I have to.
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  Speaker 14: You don't need to hunt for that girl. She didn't
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  Speaker 14: have anything to.
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  Speaker 5: Do with the murder of Bill Tatum. You speak as
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  Speaker 5: if you knew something. I know she didn't do it.
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  Speaker 5: How can you be so sure?
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  Speaker 14: I know who did.
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  Speaker 5: You do? Well, do you hear that, Sheriff? Hold on, Mrs. Penny.
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  Speaker 5: Who killed that prisoner?
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  Speaker 14: I can't tell you that.
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  Speaker 13: Please, Sheriff, please.
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  Speaker 14: Take my word for it. The girl didn't do it.
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  Speaker 14: I know she didn't because I know who did.
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  Speaker 12: Ma, the only way you can convince me that that
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  Speaker 12: girl is innocent is by telling me who's guilty.
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  Speaker 14: You found the bonnet? It's mine. I admit it as much.
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  Speaker 5: Who wore it last night?
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  Speaker 14: I did.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you confessed to that murder?
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  Speaker 14: What else can I do? Take me away if you must.
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  Speaker 5: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 15: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 15: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 15: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: Now to continue our story. The sheriff heard Ma Penny's confession,
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: but instead of arresting her, he chuckles.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, Ma, that's too thin. I sure take my hat
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: off to you. You have a heap of spunk. But
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: I know better than to believe any such yarn as
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: you just told me.
• 15:21
  Speaker 14: What do you mean you don't believe me?
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Just that.
• 15:24
  Speaker 12: You didn't get Bill Tatum. You confessed to it so
• 15:27
  Speaker 12: he wouldn't search the house. You did it to shield
• 15:29
  Speaker 12: that girl. Well, that makes us all the more sure
• 15:32
  Speaker 12: that she's.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: The guilty party. No.
• 15:34
  Speaker 14: No, Sheriff.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Please.
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: Hank.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: You mosey back to the office and get a search warrant.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: We'll have a.
• 15:39
  Speaker 11: Look around here.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: While the sheriff searched Mrs. Penny's house... Butch and Truck
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: compared notes.
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: Truck, it's working out just like we planned. They'll all
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: capture the girl, all right.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: I hope so.
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: The thing that riles me is that we went to
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: all this trouble and then found that the Lone Ranger
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: was right here in town while the crowd was around
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: the jail.
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: Well, it don't matter. We'll get another crack at him
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: as soon as the girl's arrested.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: I hope she is.
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: You think she's in Ma Penny's house?
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I doubt it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: I'll bet there's something in that house that'll tell where
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: she is, or Mrs. Penny wouldn't have tried so hard
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: to keep the sheriff from searching.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: There's nothing more that we can do.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Nothing till the girl is found and put under arrest.
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: Let's go to the cafe and wait till the sheriff's
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: done with the searching, and we'll find out what he's learned.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Inside the house, Mrs. Penny followed the sheriff and his
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: deputy from one room to another.
• 16:39
  Speaker 14: That there? That's my bedroom. You don't have to go
• 16:42
  Speaker 14: in there.
• 16:42
  Speaker 12: I sure hate to be so insistent, Ma Penny. But
• 16:45
  Speaker 12: I'd be neglecting my duty if I didn't make the
• 16:47
  Speaker 12: search complete.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Open the door.
• 16:49
  Speaker 14: But Sheriff... Ma, I am.
• 16:52
  Speaker 12: Asking you as few questions as possible. Now just open
• 16:55
  Speaker 12: that door and I'll continue to make things as easy
• 16:58
  Speaker 12: as I can.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, all right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 14: I'll go in and open the shutter to let more
• 17:02
  Speaker 14: light in.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Just a minute, Ma Penny.
• 17:03
  Speaker 14: Now what's the matter?
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: You know as well as I do. You grabbed something
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: from the table and tried to get it in your
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: apron pocket. I'll have to have a look at it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 13: It's nothing.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Let me see more, Penny. Let me see. Hand her over.
• 17:17
  Speaker 14: It's just a message. You can see it's got my
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: name on it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Open it up. Or should I?
• 17:23
  Speaker 14: It's mine. It's personal mail.
• 17:25
  Speaker 12: That's not mail. It was written by that girl and
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: left there for you to find. I reckon that was
• 17:31
  Speaker 12: why you didn't want me to go through here. You
• 17:33
  Speaker 12: knew it was here, but you didn't get the chance
• 17:35
  Speaker 12: to read it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 14: I wish women could vote so as I could vote
• 17:39
  Speaker 14: against you next election.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Well, another message inside it, all sealed up. I'll read that.
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: Please hand the enclosed envelope to the masked man who
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: rides a white horse when he comes here to ask questions.
• 17:54
  Speaker 14: Is that what it says?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: That's what it says.
• 17:56
  Speaker 14: Oh, great day he was here. Oh, if I'd only
• 17:59
  Speaker 14: had the chance to read that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 18:02
  Speaker 12: Now we'll see what this girl says to the masked
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: man that rides the white horse.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Me take that. Sheriff, a redskin. How'd you get in here?
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Me come back door.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Me listen. Watch when you find note.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Put down that gun, Ingen. Me take letter.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: That for Lone Ranger.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I don't care.
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: Shut up, Hank.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger, huh? All right, Redskin. Take it to
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the Lone Ranger. Sheriff, you gonna let him have it?
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: You're doggone right I am, Hank. And then we'll wait
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: and see what happens. When Tonto joined the Lone Ranger
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: in camp, the masked man said.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: I had to ride in a roundabout way to get here, Tonto.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: The deputy stayed behind me for quite a while.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Maybe this message important. Addressed in the girl's handwriting.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Where did you get it?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: In the house of Mrs.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Penny.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Good for you, Tonto.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: The girl wasn't there?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: No, they're not there.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Me not know where girl is.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: I wonder how she learns as much as she does. Tonto,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: this will solve the murder of Bill Tatum.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: A girl not do it?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Of course she didn't.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Sheriff think girl guilty.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: The sheriff will change his mind before sundown.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Come along, Tonto.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: We have things to do.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: What do we do?
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: First, we've got to fix her disguise. Then we've got
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: to ride to town again.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Later in the day, shortly after noon, the cafe was
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: a beehive of activity as men gathered to discuss the
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: death of Bill Tatum and the suspected girl who had disappeared.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they tell me the sheriff has a dozen men
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: out looking for her. I heard he had more than that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: He's being mighty mysterious about the whole thing. There's Hank,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: the deputy.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: Hey, Hank.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: What is it, gents? What's the latest on the missing girl? Boys,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: I sure admire this kind of weather, don't you? Which
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: means you won't talk about it. Oh, come on, Hank.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: The sheriff is holding out on us. Yes, it cost
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: me my job, but said anything. Hey, deputy, we Hank
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: you know about the sheriff's plan. You do, huh, Butch?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Who's that with you?
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Oh, Truxton, you know him. We heard the sheriff didn't
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: tell all that he knows about things.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: If you want to know anything, you go ask the sheriff.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: If he wants you to know, he'll tell you.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Come on, Butch, we're wasting time here.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Where's the sheriff that's hunting a murderer?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: You heard that, Butch? Yeah.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, what's that, stranger? I want to talk to the sheriff.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: I understand he has about a dozen men wasting their
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: time hunting for someone that can.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Be proved innocent. That's pretty big talk, stranger.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: I guess no one took the trouble to look around
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: the jail for clues after the bonnet was found.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: That is, no one but me.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: Well, you looked around, huh?
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, of course.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: One of the things they know where I came from
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: is to look for all the clues.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: Oh, where you came from, huh?
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Where's that? Another thing.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: They teach law officers to tell nothing. We know the sheriff, stranger. Now,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: he wouldn't pay attention to anything that you might tell him.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: You're a stranger, you see.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Now, if you'll tell us, maybe we can get him
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: to pay some attention to what you found.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter whether he pays any attention to it
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: or not. But I guess he will when he sees
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: what it is.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Evidence that will hang a man.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Oh, you're joshing.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Do I look like a man that makes jokes about murder?
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: No, you don't.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: And I'll tell you what, mister. We'll go along to
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: the sheriff with you. We'll tell him he better listen
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: to you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: You know where he is? He wasn't in his office
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: when I went there.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: We know where you can find him. We'll take you
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: right to him.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: That'd be mighty nice of you.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: We don't mind.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Fact is, we'll be glad to do it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Say, where did you find this evidence you speak of?
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Near the scene of the crime. I guess the crook
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: doesn't know he lost it or he had gone back
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: after it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: Well, maybe it was something, well, he wouldn't have missed.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Maybe. Look, stranger, could it have been a vest button
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: or something like that? Well, it could have been, but
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: it wasn't.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Mighty close-mouthed, aren't you?
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Mighty.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Now, you sit right there for a minute, mister, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: we'll be right back. I want to speak to my
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: friend a second.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Come on over here, truck.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Don't let the deputy know about this stranger. He'll want
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: to come along with us.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: Truck with it or lose. I can't figure it out.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but whatever it is, we're going to
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: get it. Can't have things spoiled now.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: We'll lead the stranger to a good place. And then
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you follow my lead.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Suits me.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Come on, mister.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: We're ready to take you where you want to go.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: I'm with you.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: You won't need your horse for this.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: That's good. How far is it to where the sheriff is?
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: It won't take long to get where we're going.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: We got to go this way.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Just lead the way.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I'm right with you.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger, walking between truck and butch, left town
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: and headed for a small clump of trees just beyond
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: the last of the buildings on the main street. Little
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: was said during the walk, but butch and truck exchanged
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: meaningful glances behind the back of the disguised man.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Is the sheriff in those cottonwoods?
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: That's where we're going, mister, right there.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Sheriff is likely to be doggone near any place, you see.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Only you won't talk to no sheriff today. What's that?
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Why won't I talk to him?
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: This is a gun that's prodding your spine, stranger.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Now keep walking. What sort of a trick is it?
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Just keep walking.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: See here.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: We'll talk when we get in them trees. We're most
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: there now, and anything you've got to say can wait.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: You won't get away with this.
• 23:01
  Speaker 15: No?
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: We'll see about that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: You're not going to take him to the sheriff at all.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: That's one time you're dead right. You want the evidence
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: I have for yourselves. You want to collect the rewards, huh?
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: We'll be rewarded, all right, when we get whatever you found.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Stop right here.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: This is good enough. I'll keep a gun on them
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: truck while you search him.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: He don't have a gun on him.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: I reckon he's one.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Of these hombres that counts on his wits, huh?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Is that it, mister? Yeah, I guess so.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: A gun wouldn't do you no good anyway when you
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: deal with men like us.
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: I don't find anything like evidence on him, Butch.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: You must have it somewhere. You tell us what you
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: found and be quick about it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you the evidence that will hang the murderer.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: It's a fancy pin, the kind that is usually worn
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: on a man's neckerchief. It's shaped like a horseshoe. Made
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: of imitation diamonds. It has the initials TM on it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: What?
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Your feeling of the one you wear. You never found
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: any such thing. No, because you're still wearing it. So
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: you're the murderer. I thought that little trick would make
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: you show your guilt.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Well, you're wrong. I didn't do it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: When I tell the sheriff what I saw just now,
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: he'll suspect you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Maybe when he... You won't tell nobody nothing.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: And when I also tell how you brought me here
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: at the point of a gun to make me hand
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: over what evidence I have, you'll be doubly convinced.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I'll deal with him, Truck.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Just a minute. I don't want you men to think
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: I haven't told the truth. I said I found evidence
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: near the jail. Well, I did. The evidence was a
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: deputy who had been knocked down. A girl could not
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: have struck that hard. That's talking enough. Wait a minute.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: I've already pointed out two things that will swing a
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: jury against you. Now, if you try to kill me
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: so I can't tell how you brought me here to
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: steal the evidence, it will be just about all that's
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: needed to hang you.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: If you're out of the way, you won't be able
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: to tell anything.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, Butch. I wouldn't do it, Butch. Truck is
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: a killer. Let him try to shoot me.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Go on.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: He's talked too much already. Why should you do truck's
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: work for him? I'm doing my own work, and I'm
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: doing it right now. Not today, you don't. Huh? Drop
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: that gun. Hello. Hey, don't get me. He got him
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: in the leg, Sheriff. You butch, drop that gun. I
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: got my hands up. Don't shoot.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 25:02
  Speaker 12: Put the handcuffs on this big one. You two get
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: a rope on that one that's falling on the ground.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: I didn't do it. It was Butch.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: He's the one.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Listen to him squeal. He wasn't in it as much
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: as I was. I guess the two of you will
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: get all that's coming for you. A frame-up, huh, that
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: slick-talking critter? If only you had another chance. And now
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: there's two men I've got to get. That one and
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: the Lone Ranger.
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: Well, you're getting days are all over with, Butch. And
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: maybe it'll make you feel good to know that your
• 25:22
  Speaker 12: scheme worked out real slick. You tried to frame a
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: girl for a crime so the Lone Ranger would come
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: to help her.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not hung yet. I'll get another chance. Your plan
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: worked out real slick. The Lone Ranger did come. What's that?
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Only you didn't know it when he showed up.
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: Look over there where Agenda's taken off a fake mustache
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: and black hat and put on a mask and a
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: white hat instead.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: There he is. Why, that's him. That's right, Butch. That,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: sure enough, is the Lone Ranger.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I'll settle this.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Hooray!
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Hooray! THE END.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: That was the Lone Ranger in Murder Wears Skirts. This
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: is Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night.