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The Lone Ranger - "Crane Murder Case" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A murder case brings the Lone Ranger and Tonto into
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  Speaker 1: a Western investigation. From August 25th, 1955, this is The
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger, Crane Murder Case, episode 3273. Brace Beamer is
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  Speaker 1: the masked lawman, with John Todd as Tonto and Fred
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  Speaker 1: Foy as announcer. Dan Beattie receives the writing credit, with
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  Speaker 1: Charles D. Livingstone directing and George W. Trendle producing. As
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger and Tonto follow the trail of a killing,
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  Speaker 1: we turn now to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 2: THE LONE RANGER! Before this exciting adventure, a word from
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  Speaker 2: to pick up several. They're at your grocers right now.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask for the special Wheaties Blackboard Package. With his
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  Speaker 2: faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful mask rider
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  Speaker 2: of the plains led the fight for law and order
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  Speaker 2: in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages
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  Speaker 2: of history can one find a greater champion of justice.
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  Speaker 2: Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
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  Speaker 2: From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the.
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  Speaker 3: Great horse Silver.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: It was early evening when Clarabelle Hornblow excitedly entered the
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  Speaker 2: sheriff's office in Red Rock.
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  Speaker 3: Well, where is he?
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  Speaker 5: What's he in jail for this time? And how much
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  Speaker 5: is it going to cost to get him out? When
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  Speaker 5: I get that ordinary no-good-at-the-tooth work, I'll hand home.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, Clarabelle, take it easy.
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  Speaker 3: Take it easy, you say?
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  Speaker 5: Why, I had to stop getting supper and come all
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  Speaker 5: the way into town when I got the message from
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  Speaker 5: one of my hands that you were holding Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: Martin in jail.
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  Speaker 7: Guess that cowhand of yours didn't tell you why Thunder's
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  Speaker 7: in jail, did he?
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  Speaker 3: Nope, but I can get it.
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  Speaker 5: Got the carousal and busted some more mirrors in the cafe.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wait a minute, Claribel. This is serious.
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  Speaker 7: You see, Thunder's here this time for murder.
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  Speaker 3: I don't give a hoot what he's... What'd you say?
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  Speaker 6: He's in for murder.
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  Speaker 2: Murder?
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  Speaker 4: Murder?
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  Speaker 6: Now, look here.
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  Speaker 5: Thunder might be loco and all that, but he ain't
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  Speaker 5: going to go killing anybody.
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  Speaker 7: That'll be for the court to decide, Claribel. All I
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  Speaker 7: can say is it looks mighty bad for Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: I just can't believe it. That you'd accuse Thunder, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I just know he didn't do it.
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  Speaker 6: Want to see Thunder for a few minutes?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: Just tell him I was here.
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  Speaker 5: And you tell him I'm going to get the only
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  Speaker 5: person I know who can help find the yellow polecat
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  Speaker 5: who did the killing he's blamed for. I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: find the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: That same evening, Clarabelle sent an urgent message to a
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  Speaker 2: Padre at a.
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  Speaker 4: Mission not far away.
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  Speaker 2: The following afternoon, the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode to
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  Speaker 2: the mission in response to smoke signals made by friendly
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  Speaker 2: Indians known.
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  Speaker 4: To the Padre.
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  Speaker 2: They learned of Thunder's difficulty and immediately started for the
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  Speaker 2: town of Red Rock, 20 miles away. Darkness had fallen
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  Speaker 2: when the two men arrived at the outskirts of Red Rock.
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  Speaker 2: They rode the back trail and stopped behind the jail.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go, Tonto.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, what can I do?
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  Speaker 2: Wait.
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  Speaker 6: No mask, Comrade.
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  Speaker 4: Don't go, Sheriff. We came to see Thunder Martin.
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  Speaker 6: You can't see him. No mask, Comrade.
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  Speaker 4: Take it to his cell and hurry.
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  Speaker 6: Well, seeing as how you got the drop on me,
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  Speaker 6: I reckon I'll have to. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there he is.
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  Speaker 7: If you're figuring on helping him escape, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Byron.
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  Speaker 3: I'm alive! Am I glad to see you! Sheriff!
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  Speaker 6: Drop your arms and shake hands with the Lone Ranger!
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  Speaker 6: The Lone Ranger! Great day. So that's who you are.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. This is my friend, Toto. How?
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  Speaker 7: Sorry I had to pull guns on you, but you
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  Speaker 7: might not have waited for an explanation. May we talk
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  Speaker 7: to Thunder alone, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: He and Clarabelle are friends of mine, too, but... Well,
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  Speaker 7: Thunder's got a lot of evidence against him. I have
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  Speaker 7: to keep him here.
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  Speaker 4: Why, of course, Sheriff. That's your duty.
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  Speaker 6: I'll leave you now. Be in my office when you're
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  Speaker 6: ready to leave. Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I'm a thick-headed fool for being in this mess.
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  Speaker 6: But now that you and Tonto are here, I'm not
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  Speaker 6: worried anymore.
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  Speaker 7: We're sure you didn't kill anyone, Thunder. But we must
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  Speaker 7: convince everyone else of your innocence. The only way to
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  Speaker 7: do that is to get the full story from you
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  Speaker 7: and then try to find out who did commit the murder.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. Will you tell us all the facts as
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  Speaker 4: you remember them?
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  Speaker 6: Why, sure.
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  Speaker 8: It was this way. The other day, I was standing
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  Speaker 8: with a group of hombres in the cafe. They were
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  Speaker 8: jostling me about Clarabel.
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  Speaker 4: As usual.
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  Speaker 7: You and Clarabel have been sweet on each other for
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  Speaker 7: a long time now, Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're going to pop the question.
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  Speaker 8: Well, now, so far, all I get from Clarabelle is
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  Speaker 8: sour looks and a lot of bellowing. If you call
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  Speaker 8: that being sweet on somebody, you're loco.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the fact is, Clarabelle's.
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  Speaker 6: A mighty fine woman. Even if she is a mite
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  Speaker 6: rough and red, eh?
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  Speaker 8: We get along mighty well together.
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  Speaker 3: When we're apart.
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  Speaker 4: Well, howdy, stranger.
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  Speaker 6: Step up and join us.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: Don't care if I do.
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  Speaker 3: The drink is on me. Shut him up, bartender.
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  Speaker 8: You see, boys, this hombre knows the quickest way to
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  Speaker 8: make friends around here.
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  Speaker 6: He sure does. He's all right, eh, boys?
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  Speaker 8: You must have struck it rich, mister, to be throwing
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  Speaker 8: your money around like that.
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  Speaker 9: No, just sold out my farm down at Dry Gulch.
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  Speaker 9: I'm riding up to Pecos to take the train to St.
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  Speaker 6: Louis.
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  Speaker 4: Decided to pull up stakes, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 9: Got a good price for the farm. So I'm taking
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  Speaker 9: the money with me. Gonna set myself up in a
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  Speaker 9: little business back east.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, stranger, my name's Lucky Hilton. I run the gaming
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  Speaker 6: room here.
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  Speaker 4: What name do you go by, mister?
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  Speaker 6: My name's Jim Crane.
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  Speaker 4: Well, see, now maybe.
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  Speaker 10: You'd like to try a few of the games with
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  Speaker 10: some of your money. Might be your lucky day. No,
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  Speaker 10: don't go in for gambling. Had the bank pay me
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  Speaker 10: with new.
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  Speaker 9: Thousand dollar federal notes so that I wouldn't break into
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  Speaker 9: them too easy. I already had enough small bills for expenses.
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  Speaker 4: All right, enjoy yourself, Crane. And if you change your mind,
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  Speaker 4: just come in the other room. All right, I'll do that.
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  Speaker 8: Well, sir, I stayed a while after the stranger left.
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  Speaker 8: Then after picking up some supplies at the general store,
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  Speaker 8: I rode out of town toward our ranch.
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  Speaker 6: After going a few miles, I saw.
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  Speaker 8: A body on the trail. Great jump on Jupiter. It's
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  Speaker 8: that stranger shot in the back.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. He's done for, all right.
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  Speaker 8: Some sneaking yellow coyote dry gossed him before he had
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  Speaker 8: a chance.
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  Speaker 4: Here comes a couple of hombres.
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  Speaker 10: Lookie, they come along.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, come here.
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  Speaker 6: Hurry it up.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, I'm glad you come along. This hombre's been dragged out.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute. Watch out.
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  Speaker 3: You're red-handed.
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  Speaker 6: Now, hold on. You got things all wrong. I didn't
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  Speaker 6: kill him.
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  Speaker 4: I just come along. Shut up.
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  Speaker 11: Take his gun, Biff. Now, Biff, take this hombre who's
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  Speaker 11: been shot along with this homely gorilla to town.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's the way it was. When the sheriff looked
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  Speaker 8: at my gun, there was two bullets missing.
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  Speaker 3: I remember one.
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  Speaker 8: Of the hombres fired a couple of shots at a
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  Speaker 8: prairie dog on the way back to town. I told
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  Speaker 8: the sheriff he must have used my gun for those shots,
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  Speaker 8: but they both said I was lying and that no
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  Speaker 8: shot were fired at all.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Where did the killing take place?
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  Speaker 8: Butcher, about three miles out the north trail. There's a
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  Speaker 8: big gully to the.
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  Speaker 4: Left out there.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll be a dog. Here's my man.
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  Speaker 5: I just knew you'd get here in a hurry, mister,
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  Speaker 5: if you got my message. Oh, I'm sure glad and
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  Speaker 5: relieved to see both of you.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Clarabelle. Howdy, Clarabelle.
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  Speaker 6: I told Clarabelle you were here.
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  Speaker 4: We came as soon as we received your message, Clarabelle.
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  Speaker 3: Did Thunder tell you what happened?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. And knowing Thunder as we do, I'm sure he's
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  Speaker 4: been framed. Sheriff, what about the stranger's cache?
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  Speaker 7: It was missing, of course, and still is. Thunder didn't
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  Speaker 7: have it on him or in his saddlebags. If we
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  Speaker 7: could only find that cache.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'll do all we can to find it and prove
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  Speaker 7: that Thunder didn't commit murder.
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  Speaker 2: We'll continue our Lone Ranger adventure in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Fullback Bobby is a boy of nine. He can really
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  Speaker 3: hit that line. He's a star because he knows. He's
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  Speaker 3: got gold power from Cheerios. Yes, he's got gold power.
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  Speaker 3: There he goes. He's feeling his Cheerios. Cheerios. Cheerios. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it's a fact.
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  Speaker 2: Cheerios does give you real goal power. You see, Cheerios
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  Speaker 2: is made from oats, and every delicious spoonful of Cheerios
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  Speaker 2: and milk is real muscle-building food. Each spoonful contains vitamins, minerals,
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  Speaker 2: and proteins your body needs. Yes, the good things in
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  Speaker 2: a Cheerios breakfast do good things for your body, help
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  Speaker 2: you have healthy nerves, good red blood, strong bones and muscles.
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  Speaker 2: And Cheerios is so much fun to eat, with its
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  Speaker 2: distinctive O shape and its wonderful toasted oat flavor. So
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning and every morning, start the day right with
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  Speaker 2: a Cheerios breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: Then you'll hear people say... He's feeling his Cheerios.
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  Speaker 4: Now to continue.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, one of the men who had accused Thunder hurriedly
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  Speaker 2: entered Lucky Hilton's office at the cafe.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Lucky.
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  Speaker 2: There's a masked man at the sheriff's office. I could
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  Speaker 2: see him through the window. I looked around for his
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  Speaker 2: horse and finally found it behind the jail.
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  Speaker 3: A white stallion.
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  Speaker 4: What? A lone ranger. So he's here in town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured that was him.
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  Speaker 6: If he does too much stupid work.
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  Speaker 2: Look, why don't Carl and I wait in the shadows
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  Speaker 2: near the sheriff's office and gun him when he comes out?
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  Speaker 10: No, don't gun him here in town. Follow him when
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  Speaker 10: he leaves and then plug him on the trail someplace.
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  Speaker 4: That'll be better.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: See you later. The End.
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  Speaker 2: Lone Ranger and Tottle left the jail with Clarabelle and
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  Speaker 2: started for her ranch to spend the night. As they
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  Speaker 2: rode the trail about a mile out of town, Tottle
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  Speaker 2: glanced back, then spoke quickly.
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  Speaker 4: He must have it.
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  Speaker 2: He looked back to see two riders come over hill,
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  Speaker 2: ride from trail into gully.
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  Speaker 4: He think them follow us. They go around the bend ahead.
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  Speaker 7: They may get the drop on them as they come
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  Speaker 7: along the trail.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Tottle. Come, come, come. Get up.
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  Speaker 2: After rounding the bend, they pulled to a halt behind
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  Speaker 2: some large boulders.
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  Speaker 4: Have your gun ready.
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  Speaker 3: You're coming along the trail now.
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  Speaker 4: Stop and reach.
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  Speaker 6: You're coming.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 6: What's the idea? Must be a holdup.
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  Speaker 4: No. We're convinced you're following us.
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  Speaker 6: Why should we follow you?
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  Speaker 4: That's what I want to find out.
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  Speaker 3: You made a mistake, mister.
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  Speaker 4: We not make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger looked keenly at the two men, whose
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  Speaker 2: faces were clearly seen in the bright moonlight. He quickly
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  Speaker 2: decided he'd learn more about them if he allowed them
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  Speaker 2: to escape. Unnoticed by the two men, he touched Silver
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  Speaker 2: with his heel, causing the intelligent horse to rear and
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  Speaker 2: bump slightly against Tonto's horse.
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  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, easy, Silver, easy.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get away from here, Tom.
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  Speaker 6: Get up, get up.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, they're getting away.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted them to get away, Clarabelle. Easy, Silver, easy.
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  Speaker 4: Good work, fella. Me see you signal, Silver. Them right
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  Speaker 4: to town, Jim Tully.
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  Speaker 7: Now, we'll follow them and see where they go. They
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  Speaker 7: may have been connected with a murder.
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  Speaker 5: Say, someone in town must have seen you leaving the
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  Speaker 5: sheriff's office, figured you were the Lone Ranger, and that
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  Speaker 5: you were investigating the murder.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's possible. All right, let's go. Come on, Tully.
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  Speaker 4: Get up there.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: When they reached the outskirts of town, the masked man
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  Speaker 2: and Clarabelle waited, while Tonto followed the hoof marks from there.
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  Speaker 4: Soon, Tonto returned to report.
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  Speaker 2: What did you find out, Tonto?
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  Speaker 6: Hoof marks lead to cafe.
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  Speaker 4: May have gone there to report to someone.
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  Speaker 5: I say we ought to go there right now and
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  Speaker 5: find out who those sneaking coyotes are, accuse them of
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  Speaker 5: killing the stranger, and then go.
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  Speaker 7: No, right now, the evidence is against thunder, Clarabelle. We
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  Speaker 7: can't accuse anyone without proof.
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  Speaker 3: But the trial starts in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: And from the looks of things, Thunder doesn't have much.
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  Speaker 3: Of a chance.
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  Speaker 4: We won't give up hope yet.
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  Speaker 7: Say, do you think the sheriff would cooperate with us
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  Speaker 7: in a certain plan I have in mind?
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  Speaker 4: Why, sure.
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  Speaker 3: The sheriff likes Thunder. And he'd do all he could
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  Speaker 3: to help prove him innocent.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to be seen again in his office, Claribel.
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell you what to say, and you talk to
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  Speaker 7: the sheriff. Now, this is what I'd like him to do.
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  Speaker 2: After listening carefully to the Lone Ranger's instructions, Clarabel rode
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  Speaker 2: to the sheriff's office and told him of the plan.
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  Speaker 2: Later that night, the cafe was crowded, and everyone was
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  Speaker 2: discussing the murder and the coming trial.
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  Speaker 3: Thunder Martin is rough and loud, but I say he's.
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  Speaker 6: Not a killer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we saw it happen, didn't we, Charles?
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Martin's guilty, all right. It seems to me it's risky
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  Speaker 2: to wait for a trial. The sheriff is a friend
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  Speaker 2: of Martin's and might fix it so he can escape.
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  Speaker 11: I think we ought to make sure he pays for
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  Speaker 11: what he did.
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  Speaker 3: We could take him from the jail and settle this
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  Speaker 3: thing tonight.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, what's all the excitement here?
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  Speaker 6: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Powell and Biff are afraid Thunder Martin might escape. They
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  Speaker 2: figure we ought to handle things our own way tonight.
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  Speaker 10: Quiet!
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  Speaker 6: Quiet, everybody! You better give up that idea right now.
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  Speaker 4: And as for you, Carl, you, Biff, keep your mouth shut.
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  Speaker 4: We'll all take care of Thunder Martin.
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  Speaker 10: So just forget about the mob taking the law into.
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  Speaker 6: Their own hands. What's that I heard about a mob? Oh,
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: it's all right, Sheriff.
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: Some of the boys got a little excited about the murder,
• 16:52
  Speaker 10: that's all. I told them the law would take care
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: of Thunder Martin.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: There's plenty of evidence against him.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: Of course, the case would be really clinched if we
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: found what he did with a cash and poke of
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: gold that's missing.
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  Speaker 4: Cash and poke of gold, you say?
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: I met and talked with a stranger before he came
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: into the cafe the day of the murder. He told
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: me about selling property and getting paid in large bills
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: he had in his wallet. He said he had the
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: bank give him part payment in gold dust so he
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: could show it to his folks back east. He carried
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: it in a leather coat.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Gold dust, huh? Yep. Must have been worth considerable.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: Let's, uh, let's hope it turns up. I, uh, I
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: don't think the crowd will start anything, Sheriff. After what
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: I said to them, I'll give them refreshments on the house,
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: take their minds off the kiln.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Good, good.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Step up, everybody. Refreshments around the house.
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: I think I changed their minds, Sheriff, but, uh, maybe
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: you'd better stay here and talk to them some more.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: All right, I'll do that. Sure.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Refreshments around the house for everybody.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Now, Biff.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Kyle. Yes.
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: I want to talk to you two in the office.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Sure. Outside in the shadows, the Lone Ranger and Tonto
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: had been watching through the side window of the cafe.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: As Biff and Carl went toward the back office with Lucky,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Tonto spoke.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Them two fellas who follow us on trails.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I'm going into office with another fellow. You go stand
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: outside the back door, Tonto. I think we might learn something.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: In his office, Lucky turned and faced Biff and Carl angrily.
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: You're sneaking polecats. What happened to that poke of gold
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: dust that stranger carried?
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: You gotta believe us, Lucky. All we found was the
• 18:45
  Speaker 11: wallet we brought you. We even searched the saddlebags before
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: Thunder came along.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: That's right, Lucky. Carl's telling the truth. Crane didn't have
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: any gold with him. You heard what the sheriff said.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: You two held out on me.
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: Now speak up.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Where's that poke of gold? Well, I tell you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, what?
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: There wasn't any gold. He looked a mess, man.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: He sneaked in the back door.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: He's got us covered.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Well, grab your gun.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Hold it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Don't move, you two.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Good work, mister. Well, Sheriff, our plan seems to have worked. Yep.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: We were listening just outside the office door. We could
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: hear what was said. You can't prove anything on us.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Keep him covered, mister.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: I'll search his desk. Why, here's a wallet in the
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: bottom drawer. Oh, that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: That's an old one of mine. Yeah?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: What about the initials stamped on the inside, J.C.? The
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: victim's name was Jim Crane.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: We heard you met and met you killed him. No, no, no.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Sheriff.
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: I didn't have anything to do with it. Carl and
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: Vic were in here last night. One of them left
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: that wallet on my desk. I dropped it into a drawer.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's lying. Lucky planned the whole thing. He sent
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: us to ambush and rob Crane after he saw the
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: cash in that wallet.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: And you fired two shots from his gun to make
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: it look like he'd gunned the stranger.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Carl thought of that.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: That. We've heard enough, Sheriff.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Lucky and these two men are responsible for the murder.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: I ought to tell Thunder what they did. Then put
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: them into the cell with him one at a time
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: before I release him.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: No, he'd murder us.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Thunder isn't a murderer, but he would give you both
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: a beating you'd remember. However, he'll be satisfied with his release.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Take these sneaking coyotes over to the jail, men. All right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Later, Thunder Martin with Clarabelle and the sheriff entered the cafe,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: where Thunder was immediately the center of attraction.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Thunder! We all knew you were in it. Well, thanks.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: It's sure good to be out of that rat hole
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: the sheriff calls a jail.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: I'm as glad to have you out of there as
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: you are to be free, Thunder.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: The masked man's plan sure worked. We found the new $ 1, 000
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: federal notes in Lucky's safe, and he broke down.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: And confessed they were stolen from a stranger. Though he
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: still blames Carl and Biff. What about the Polka Golda?
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: There wasn't any. I had my fingers crossed when I
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: told about that. But it sure brought out the truth.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: I reckon you're relieved, Clarabelle, to have Thunder's name cleared.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I sure am.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: You think I wanted to look all over the territory
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: for a new mule skinner?
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: You mean that's all you worried about?
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Well, I'd have felt bound to pay for your burial
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: if you'd have been found guilty and hanged.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on home, you big lumphead. Those mules will
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: be happy to see you back.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Come on now, Clare Bell.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Don't worry, Thunder.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: She was mighty upset when you were in jail.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: She's the one who sent for the hombre who brought
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: the killers to light, the Lone Ranger.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Help me!
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: Help me!
• 22:00
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