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The Lone Ranger - "Murder at Tricorn Ranch" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: On March 22nd, 1956, listeners heard the Lone Ranger in
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Speaker 1: episode 2943, Murder at Tricorn Ranch. Trouble at Tricorn Ranch
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Speaker 1: brings the Lone Ranger and Tonto into a western mystery
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Speaker 1: centered on the ranch. The ranch remains the setting as
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Speaker 1: the two riders turn their attention to the events unfolding there.
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Speaker 1: Brace Beamer stars as the Lone Ranger, with John Todd
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Speaker 1: as Tonto. The script is credited to Steve McCarthy. From
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Speaker 1: the later radio years of this long-running series, here are
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Speaker 1: the masked rider and his trusted companion in ranch country
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Speaker 1: once again. Now, back to the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty high
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Speaker 2: old silver. The Lone Ranger. Before this exciting adventure, a
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Speaker 2: breakfast of champions. Presented by Special Recording, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 3: Woo!
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Speaker 4: All over the country, in every direction, I'll just, I'll
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Speaker 4: just do what I need, that's my thing.
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Speaker 3: And here's one, I have to, that's what people have
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Speaker 3: to say. Woo! Oh, man, get it!
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Speaker 2: This is the Lone Ranger telling you that's a mighty
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Speaker 2: popular call out here in the West. At roundup time,
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Speaker 2: you'll hear it on many a ranch at the first
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Speaker 2: streaks of dawn. And you should see those long-legged cowboys
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Speaker 2: roll out of the blankets and head for the truck wagons.
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Speaker 2: They've got a full back-breaking day in the saddle ahead
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Speaker 2: of them, and they know what they need, a good,
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Speaker 2: substantial breakfast, one that will stick to their ribs and
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Speaker 2: really keep them feeling and doing okay. Take a tip
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Speaker 2: from the folks out west. With his faithful Indian companion Toto,
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Speaker 2: the daring and resourceful mass glider of the plains led
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Speaker 2: the fight for law and order in the early western
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Speaker 2: United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one
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Speaker 2: find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now
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Speaker 2: to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the
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Speaker 2: past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great whore of silver.
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Speaker 5: The lone ranger rides again.
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Speaker 4: Come on, you silver.
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Speaker 3: Let's go, big fellow.
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Speaker 4: I'm silver.
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Speaker 3: Go away.
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Speaker 2: George Durant was 49 years old when he left France
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Speaker 2: with his grown daughter, Annette, and went to the United
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Speaker 2: States settling in the fabulous Great West of which he
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Speaker 2: had read so much. A man of means, he avoided
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Speaker 2: commerce and bought a large ranch which he called the Tricorns.
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Speaker 3: At the end of three.
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Speaker 2: Years, his ranch had prospered, but he knew little of
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Speaker 2: ranching and allowed his young foreman, Wade Hatton, to supervise
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Speaker 2: all phases of the work. Late one afternoon, as he
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Speaker 2: mounted his gentle saddle horse, Napoleon, and prepared to ride away,
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Speaker 2: he saw his charming daughter, Annette, approaching, escorted by Wade Hatton.
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Speaker 2: And that's made of faith.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Papa, you are not riding up so.
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Speaker 5: Late in the day.
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Speaker 6: Dinner is ready, Papa, and I prepared the dishes you
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Speaker 6: like so well.
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Speaker 5: Eating is for the young ones. Wade will share your dinner.
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Speaker 3: Will you not, Wade?
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but I can't. Mr. Rand, I
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Speaker 5: have a little private business I must attend to on
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Speaker 5: the other side of town. It does not matter, really.
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Speaker 5: I shall eat alone. But I go now, Mother C.C. I, too,
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Speaker 5: have private business. Au revoir.
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Speaker 4: Au revoir, Papa.
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Speaker 5: So long, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Durant.
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Speaker 5: You know, Miss Annette, one of these days, your father's
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Speaker 5: going to be a real bronco riding rain.
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Speaker 6: I do not think so, Wade. He likes to ride, yes.
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Speaker 6: But it is like the effort he makes to speak English.
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Speaker 6: He go along fine for a while, then suddenly, poof,
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Speaker 6: he is gone. That is true on a horse as
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Speaker 6: well as when he speaks. It is why I do
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Speaker 6: not like to see him ride alone.
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Speaker 5: He does all right. What could happen to him? Many things.
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Speaker 6: And everyone knows that he carries on him always great
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Speaker 6: sums of money in his money bag.
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Speaker 5: He just refuses to put it in the bank, huh? Oh, he.
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Speaker 2: The moon was full and casting a silver glow on
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Speaker 2: the rock-littered ground when George Durant rode slowly into Little Canyon.
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Speaker 3: He peered from side to side as if seeking someone.
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Speaker 3: He stopped his horse.
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Speaker 2: Near a large boulder and smiled as he saw a
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Speaker 2: man step into his path.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Napoleon. Oh.
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Speaker 5: Ah, sharp. It is here you wait, no? It is
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Speaker 5: most what you call pleasant this evening, is it not?
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Speaker 5: By an empty....
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Speaker 3: But, Chops!
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Speaker 5: Chops, what are you doing? Why is it you raise
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Speaker 5: your gun like that? Chops!
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Speaker 2: At that moment, the Lone Ranger and Toto were riding
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Speaker 2: across the mesa when they heard.
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Speaker 5: The shots from the canyon.
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Speaker 3: Toto, you hear that? Shots. Them come from the canyon, Chimacati.
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Speaker 2: There's a trail straight ahead that leads down there.
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Speaker 3: We're going, Tonto. Come on, Tonto.
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Speaker 2: Many minutes later, the Lone Ranger and Tonto found George
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Speaker 2: Durant lying in Little Canyon badly wounded. There was no
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Speaker 2: other person inside as the masked man knelt beside Durant
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Speaker 2: and tried to stop the flow of blood. The Frenchman,
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Speaker 2: sensing death was near, tried to speak. Don't try to speak.
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Speaker 2: We want to know who shot you.
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Speaker 3: You understand? You do? All right. Now, if you're able,
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Speaker 3: use the end of this stick to write the man's
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Speaker 3: name in the dirt. Do you understand.
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Speaker 5: What I mean?
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Speaker 2: Your aunt started to move the stick, then stopped. The
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Speaker 2: moonlight revealed a stricken look in his eyes, a look
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Speaker 2: that became knowing again as he began to press the
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Speaker 2: stick into the dirt. He moved the stick convulsively. But
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Speaker 2: when he stopped, he had made the outlines of a sombrero.
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Speaker 2: He closed his eyes, opened them again, then started to
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Speaker 2: make another figure. But the stick fell from his hand
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Speaker 2: as he gasped and died.
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Speaker 3: There was nothing we could do to save him. No.
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Speaker 3: What Kimo Sabe did. Him not write name like you say.
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Speaker 4: Him make mountain.
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Speaker 3: A mountain? Let me look again.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it could be that. It looks more like a sombrero.
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Speaker 2: I think we'd better move his body away from here.
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Speaker 2: There's a ranch not far from here. Up Canyon Trail
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Speaker 2: to north.
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Speaker 3: That's right, the Tricorn Ranch. The one that.
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Speaker 2: Toto, the Tricorn Ranch is owned by a Frenchman named Durant.
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Speaker 2: The language this man spoke was French.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps this is George Durant. Maybe.
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Speaker 2: Toto, ride across the mesa and take this short trail
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Speaker 2: to town. Find the sheriff and have him come to
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Speaker 2: the Tricorn Ranch. I'll move this man's body there and.
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Speaker 3: Be waiting for you.
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Speaker 2: When Annette Durant answered the knock on the ranch house
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Speaker 2: door and saw the.
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Speaker 3: Masked man, she gasped in terror.
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Speaker 2: Then when she saw the body of her father, she
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Speaker 2: became hysterical.
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Speaker 5: The father!
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Speaker 2: The father!
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Speaker 3: No! No!
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Speaker 2: But by the time the sheriff and his men, led
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Speaker 2: by Tonto, arrived in front of the house, the soothing
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Speaker 2: words and manner of the lone ranger had calmed her greatly.
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Speaker 3: You remain seated. I'll open the door.
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Speaker 2: Sheriff Tom Roswell and his posse passed the ranch of
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Speaker 2: Chapman O'Neill on their way.
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Speaker 3: To the tricorn.
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Speaker 2: O'Neill, who was riding through his gate.
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Speaker 3: Turned his horse and joined them.
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Speaker 2: As the door opened and the low ranger appeared in
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Speaker 2: the opening, Chap O'Neill's reaction was immediate. He leaped in
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Speaker 2: front of the sheriff, gun in hand, and pointed it
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Speaker 2: at the master. Don't make a move, you. Stay right
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Speaker 2: where you are. What's the idea? You murder and vomit.
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Speaker 2: You're the one who killed Mr. Durant, aren't you?
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Speaker 3: Open your hands.
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Speaker 5: Stop it, Mr.
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Speaker 3: O'Neill.
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Speaker 5: Put away that gun.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 5: But, Sheriff, this man is masked. He's here. And he's
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Speaker 5: the one who found Mr. Durant's body and sent his
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Speaker 5: Indian friend for me. Now put away the gun.
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Speaker 3: All right. Thanks, Sheriff. You arrived here fast.
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Speaker 5: We left right away. And, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Durant, I'm sorry about this.
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Speaker 5: Yes. You must find the man who killed my father.
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Speaker 3: You must. I'll try, Mr. Durant. Believe me.
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Speaker 5: Now, stranger, suppose you tell me how you happened upon
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Speaker 5: the body.
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Speaker 2: Home rings are told of finding George Durant after hearing
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Speaker 2: the shot and related in detail the last moments of
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Speaker 2: the dying man.
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Speaker 5: And instead of writing a name, he drew what I.
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Speaker 3: take to be the picture of a hat.
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Speaker 6: May I offer an explanation, perhaps?
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Speaker 5: Certainly, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Ant.
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Speaker 6: Papa, when he was a boy, had studied to paint pictures. Draw,
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Speaker 6: you know. Perhaps he thinks he is better able to
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Speaker 6: make clear what is in his mind if he draws
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Speaker 6: a picture instead of writing in the English he finds
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Speaker 6: so difficult.
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Speaker 5: I'll bet that's it. Stranger, you say it's possible to
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Speaker 5: see this picture he drew in the moonlight?
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was lighter then, but I have candles in
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Speaker 2: my pack.
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Speaker 5: We'll go there now.
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Speaker 6: May I go with you? I may be able to
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Speaker 6: help you with this picture, I mean.
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Speaker 5: Sure, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Adams.
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Speaker 5: Come along.
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Speaker 2: The men and a nephew ran, studied the ground in
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Speaker 2: the canyon, scanning the picture made in the dirt with
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Speaker 2: the aid of the sheriff's lantern. Roswell was the first
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Speaker 2: to speak. He addressed the lone ranger.
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Speaker 5: I agree with him. He looks like a sombrero. Oui,
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Speaker 5: that is what I think.
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Speaker 6: Those last few lines Papa made, they make the band
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Speaker 6: on the hat and the dent in the crown.
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Speaker 3: But what does it mean, a hat on the... That's it.
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Speaker 5: That's what it meant. He told you who killed him
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Speaker 5: right there. What do you mean, Mr.
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Speaker 3: O'Neill? Yes, chap.
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Speaker 6: Tell us what it is you mean.
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Speaker 3: Did you hear what this masked man said?
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Speaker 5: Hat on.
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Speaker 3: Get it?
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Speaker 2: Miss Annette, where's your foreman, Wade Hatton?
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Speaker 5: Oh, darn, Mr. O'Neill, it looks like you hid it.
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Speaker 5: Hat on the ground is what he drew.
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Speaker 3: Hat on.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Rant.
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Speaker 5: Where is Wade Hatton?
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Speaker 6: I do not know.
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Speaker 5: He left the ranch soon after Papadre voted. I think
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Speaker 5: we'd better question Wade Hatton.
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Speaker 3: Come, men. We're going back.
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Speaker 5: On the main road, and we're going to look for
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Speaker 5: Wade Hatton.
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Speaker 2: A proxy augmented by O'Neill, the Lone Ranger, and.
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Speaker 5: Sato came upon Wade Hatton as he was leaving town.
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Speaker 3: Heading back towards the Tricorn Ranch. Oh, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: Patton on his horse looked stunned as the sheriff's men
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Speaker 2: surrounded him with drawn guns and Sheriff Roswell spoke.
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Speaker 5: Yes, you're coming back to my office, Wade Patton. I
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Speaker 5: have questions to ask you and you'd better answer them truthfully.
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Speaker 5: I'm holding you on suspicion of killing George Durant.
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Speaker 2: We'll continue our Lone Ranger adventure in just a moment.
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Speaker 6: Sheriff Sam is a boy of ten. He busts right
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Speaker 6: in the robber's den and gets his man because he
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Speaker 6: knows he's got gold power from Cheerios.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he's got gold power.
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Speaker 5: There he goes.
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Speaker 6: He's feeling his Cheerios, Cheerios, Cheerios.
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Speaker 2: That's Cheerios, the cereal shaped like little letter O's. And
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Speaker 2: those O's stand for oats. The good grain Cheerios is
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Speaker 2: made from. Every delicious spoonful of Cheerios and milk is
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Speaker 2: real muscle-building food. Each spoonful contains vitamins, minerals, and proteins
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Speaker 2: your body needs.
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Speaker 3: Yes, those good things in a.
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Speaker 2: Cheerios breakfast do good things for your body, help you
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Speaker 2: have healthy nerves, good red blood, strong bones and muscles.
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Speaker 2: You can see that Cheerios is made to give you
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Speaker 2: real go-power.
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Speaker 5: So make sure you have.
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Speaker 2: A Cheerios breakfast every day. Then you'll hear people say.
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Speaker 5: He's feeling his Cheerios.
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Speaker 2: Now to continue. Wade Hatton, astounded to learn of his
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Speaker 2: employer's murder, was questioned.
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Speaker 3: For almost an hour. He bore up.
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Speaker 2: Under the interrogation and, in exasperation, said to the sheriff.
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Speaker 5: You're out of your mind if you think that's what
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Speaker 5: the picture means. I was out at the T-Bar El Ranch,
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Speaker 5: and there are five cowpokes out there who swear I
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Speaker 5: was with them all night.
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Speaker 3: The End.
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Speaker 2: When Cap O'Neill left the sheriff's office, he'd gone to
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Speaker 2: a nearby cafe where his foreman and henchman, Red Bissell, waited.
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Speaker 2: He gave angry instructions to Bissell, who hurried to cafes
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Speaker 2: and stores along the main street, spreading the word of
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Speaker 2: Durant's murder. Now, as the crowd milled in front of
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Speaker 2: the sheriff's office, O'Neill spoke to Bissell at a spot
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Speaker 2: behind the mob. You sure have them riled.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. You made them think Hatton killed Durand in cold blood? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I said he killed and robbed him. Most of them
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Speaker 3: know the Frenchman and like him. They think we ought
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Speaker 3: to deal with Hatton ourselves.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise, his alibi might hold up and the sheriff will
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Speaker 2: keep looking for the killer.
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Speaker 3: I want Hatton to hang.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 2: You may be able to get the girl as well
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Speaker 2: as her old man's money, huh?
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Speaker 5: My arm.
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Speaker 3: My arm. All right, go make another remark like that
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Speaker 3: or I'll shoot you. Get up there and take charge
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Speaker 3: of that mob. Do it fast.
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Speaker 2: Fred Bissell went to the porch on the building next
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Speaker 2: to the sheriff's office. The crowd, unruly at first, subsided
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Speaker 2: as he signaled for quiet.
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Speaker 3: Then he spoke.
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Speaker 4: They have a murderer inside the sheriff's office. A cold-blooded
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Speaker 4: murderer who shot a good man because he wanted his money.
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Speaker 4: Old man Durant was good to a lot of you
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Speaker 4: fellas out there. And you owe him something. Something like
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Speaker 4: seeing that the man who murdered him doesn't get away
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Speaker 4: with it. He won't get away with it.
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Speaker 5: Let him.
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Speaker 4: He will get away with it. If that sheriff has anything.
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Speaker 5: To say, he's in on the thing with Hatton, you see.
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Speaker 4: I say we've stood for too much silly stallion with
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Speaker 4: bad lawmen. Let's do things ourselves. Let's revenge, old man Durant.
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Speaker 4: Do I hear someone say.
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Speaker 3: Lynch Hutton? Yes. Yes, hang him over there. Hang him.
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Speaker 4: Then let's break down the doors of the sheriff's office
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Speaker 4: and gut Hutton.
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Speaker 5: Come on. Come on.
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Speaker 2: Red Bissell, the leader of Chapel Neal.
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Speaker 5: Jumped to the ground and started for the.
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Speaker 2: Sheriff's office, the angry mob shuffling behind. Suddenly, a masked
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Speaker 2: man leaped from the shadows at the side of the
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Speaker 2: building and bolted onto the sheriff's porch. The lone ranger
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Speaker 2: fired over the heads of the mob and faced them
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Speaker 2: with two guns in his hands.
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Speaker 3: Stop right where you are. The first man who comes
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Speaker 3: forward will be shot.
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Speaker 6: Who are you?
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Speaker 4: What are you trying to do?
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Speaker 2: I'm going to see that justice is done. You, whoever
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Speaker 2: you are, You've been egging this crowd on to a
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Speaker 2: lynching bee.
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Speaker 3: Man, he's been lying to you.
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Speaker 5: There's no real proof it hadn't killed Mr. Durant.
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Speaker 4: That's not true.
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Speaker 5: Who are you?
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Speaker 4: Many are going to stand there afraid of a.
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Speaker 3: Single man in a mat. I have friends behind you. Pato,
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Speaker 3: show them.
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Speaker 2: You see, there are others too. Yeah, look.
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Speaker 4: Here comes Ed McDowell and two other deputies.
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Speaker 5: Inside.
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Speaker 3: McDowell, they're after Hutton.
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Speaker 5: I know. I heard everything.
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Speaker 3: Men, shoot him down. Shoot him down.
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Speaker 4: Get back, Bessel. Grab that gun.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: McDowell, you can't stop us.
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Speaker 3: I'll shoot.
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Speaker 2: Red Bessel raised his gun to fire, but McDowell's shot
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Speaker 2: caught him in the shoulder. At the same moment, the
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Speaker 2: two deputies fired over the heads of the crowd.
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Speaker 3: Red is hit. Look at him. They mean business.
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Speaker 4: Anyone else want to strike something?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: Anyone else?
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Speaker 4: Then get away from here. Patton will get a fair
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Speaker 4: trial in the court. No mobs will rule this town.
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Speaker 3: The crowd, like all mobs, was cowardly.
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Speaker 2: The men slunk away, leaving the wounded Bissell at the
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Speaker 2: feet of the deputy sheriff and the lone ranger. Red Bissell,
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Speaker 2: fearing he was mortally wounded, began to groan.
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Speaker 3: Don't save me.
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Speaker 4: Don't let him die.
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Speaker 3: Dad, don't let him do.
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Speaker 5: This to me.
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Speaker 3: Where are you, chap? You won't die, Biffle. I know
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Speaker 3: I'll die. I feel it.
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Speaker 5: And he put me up to this and then ran away.
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Speaker 3: Who put you up to it, Red? Who had you
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Speaker 3: lead the mob?
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Speaker 5: That child who ran away with the red.
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Speaker 3: Chap.
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Speaker 5: Chap. Oh. Oh. Oh. Chap.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Hold it, McDowell. This sounds insane, but it might be
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Speaker 3: the answer. You don't have to speak French to know
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Speaker 3: what the word for hat is, do you?
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Speaker 5: What? Why, no. The French for hat is chapeau.
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Speaker 2: The word this man said when he started to name
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Speaker 2: Chap O'Neil.
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Speaker 3: That's who your man is, isn't it, Bethel? Yeah. Yeah. Chap.
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Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, masked man. You mean that when Durant
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Speaker 5: threw that picture in the dirt, he meant Chap O'Neill?
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Speaker 3: Why not?
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Speaker 2: He started to trace another line next to the hat
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Speaker 2: when he died. Had he finished, he might have given
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Speaker 2: us a second picture and the complete name of his murderer.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what to say.
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Speaker 5: It's true that Chap O'Neill always needs money.
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Speaker 2: He's thrown away most of what his father left him
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Speaker 2: and the banks won't loan him anymore. Let's find out
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Speaker 2: then while Sheriff Roswell is checking on Hatton.
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Speaker 3: Look at Red. He's passed out. Bandage him, Pete.
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Speaker 5: And take him inside and get a doctor.
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Speaker 3: Right, Ed.
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Speaker 2: O'Neal did leave with the rest of the crowd. I
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Speaker 2: saw him talking to Bissell before. He must have it.
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Speaker 5: Yes. Me see him go to horse, ride west, heading
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Speaker 5: for his ranch, probably.
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Speaker 2: Then let's go there, McDowell. Let's learn what's behind his
19:25
Speaker 2: trying to get Hatton lynched. I'm saying there's more to
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Speaker 2: this than a mere play on the word chapeau.
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Speaker 3: But what do we do?
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Speaker 2: I have a plan in mind. I'll tell you about
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Speaker 2: it on the way. It starts with me going to
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Speaker 2: see O'Neill alone. We start from the.
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Speaker 2: Chapman O'Neill had been unnerved when the masked man kept
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Speaker 2: Red Bissell from breaking into the sheriff's office and had
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Speaker 2: become panicky when his lieutenant had been shot. Now, as
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Speaker 2: he opened the door in response to a knock from outside,
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Speaker 2: his legs became jelly-like as he saw the same masked
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Speaker 2: man facing him.
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Speaker 3: We're... What do you want?
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Speaker 2: To warn you, chap. Never mind who I am or
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Speaker 2: why I tell you. Red Bissell talked to the deputies.
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Speaker 3: What? That's right.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what he told them. They think they
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Speaker 2: have the answer to everything now. You were the one
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Speaker 2: who killed George Durant and took his money belt.
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Speaker 3: Who said that? I mean, who.
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Speaker 2: I haven't time to stay here. I only know they
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Speaker 2: have a new idea about the picture Durant drew before
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Speaker 2: he died. He could explain everything. He'd name you and
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Speaker 2: not Hatton.
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Speaker 3: I don't see how. They do. If I were you,
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Speaker 3: I'd get that money belt and ride away from here
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Speaker 3: before Sheriff Roswell returned and freed Hatton. That should have happened. Well, adios. Wait, wait, wait.
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Speaker 5: Tell me what.
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Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger walked quickly into the night and away
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Speaker 2: from the ranch house. When he arrived at a clump
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Speaker 2: of bushes near the gate, he slipped in beside Deputy
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Speaker 2: Ed McDowell. All right, you ready to follow him? I
20:49
Speaker 2: can't be sure that things will work out as I
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Speaker 2: think they might, but I know that when I told
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Speaker 2: him my story, he was actually shivering. Half an hour later,
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Speaker 2: Chapel Neal entered the deserted cabin in Little Canyon, the
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Speaker 2: place where he had buried George Durant's money belt. He
21:12
Speaker 2: lit a candle and placed it on the floor. Then
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Speaker 2: he removed a pile of trash from the floor, which
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Speaker 2: he had placed to cover the spot where the loot
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Speaker 2: was hidden. There was a loose board, and he placed
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Speaker 2: the fingers of both hands beneath this and began to tug.
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Speaker 2: The perspiration was streaming from his face as he finally
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Speaker 2: tore the board loose.
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Speaker 3: Now take this money belt and get out of here.
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Speaker 2: He held the large money belt in his hands, his
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Speaker 2: frightened eyes suddenly enlivened by the feeling of possession. And
21:39
Speaker 2: then he heard the door open behind him.
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Speaker 5: Run, run!
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Speaker 4: Get your hands up. You're under arrest for the murder
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Speaker 4: of George Durant.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
21:56
Speaker 2: It was after midnight when Sheriff Tom Roswell brought Wade
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Speaker 2: Hatton to Annette Durant and the Tricorn Ranch house. The
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Speaker 2: lone ranger and Tonto, who had ridden with them, to
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Speaker 2: hear of the confession which O'Neill had made to the sheriff,
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Speaker 2: remained outside the house as Sheriff Roswell led the way.
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Speaker 3: Inside the house, Roswell told.
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Speaker 2: The wide-eyed Annette of all that had happened, events he
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Speaker 2: had become aware.
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Speaker 3: Of only on his return to his office.
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Speaker 5: And though Wade's story proved true and I was ready
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Speaker 5: to free him, I had no idea that the guilty
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Speaker 5: man would be waiting for me.
22:28
Speaker 6: To think Chap O'Neill did this terrible thing.
22:32
Speaker 5: My father called him friend.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Your father loaned him money to save his ranch after
22:38
Speaker 5: the banks had refused. O'Neill never intended to repay the loan.
22:42
Speaker 5: He asked your father to meet him secretly in Little
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Speaker 5: Canyon to discuss his situation. Then he killed your father
22:49
Speaker 5: and took his money and the note, which was also
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Speaker 5: in the money belt. He destroyed the note, I suppose. No,
22:55
Speaker 5: we recovered it and the money. He intended to get
22:58
Speaker 5: rid of the paper at once, but he didn't have time.
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Speaker 5: He heard men riding into the canyon after he shot Mr.
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Speaker 3: Durant.
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Speaker 5: He fled. and hid the money belt in the cabin.
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Speaker 5: Then rode back to his ranch quickly.
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Speaker 6: Who were the riders you just mentioned?
23:13
Speaker 5: Who scared him away? The masked man and the Indian.
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Speaker 6: Oh, that wonderful masked man.
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Speaker 3: Wait, darling.
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Speaker 5: It was he who saved your.
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Speaker 6: Life, was it not?
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Speaker 3: Ah, he sure did, darling.
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Speaker 6: But where is he now?
23:28
Speaker 5: And who is he?
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Speaker 2: He's gone now. As he always goes when he's sure
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Speaker 2: that justice has been done. And for what's happened tonight,
23:39
Speaker 2: we're all grateful to the Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger,
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Speaker 3: Your announcer, Fred Floyd.
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