Latest / Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio / Gunsmoke — Dodge Podge [episode 270], Broadcast 6/9/1957 (Western Radio Drama)
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- 0:11Speaker 1: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
- 0:14Speaker 1: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
- 0:17Speaker 1: And that's where the US Marshall and The Smell of
- 0:20Speaker 1: Guns Smoke Gun, starring William Conrad, the story of the
- 0:44Speaker 1: violence that moved west with young America, and the story
- 0:48Speaker 1: of a man who moved with it.
- 0:50Speaker 2: I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
- 0:54Speaker 2: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
- 0:58Speaker 2: It's a chance, a job. It make a man watchful
- 1:03Speaker 2: and a little lonely.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Yes, surday's times it can be real nice, mister dyn
- 1:38Speaker 3: Oh what can be real nice? Dodge City can take
- 1:42Speaker 3: a week like this last one, with fine weather and
- 1:45Speaker 3: the prairie all green, for the June sun's corches it
- 1:48Speaker 3: and people staying out of trouble.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Well, I won't last long, Chester, the trailerhers that's starting
- 1:52Speaker 2: to roll in.
- 1:55Speaker 3: I'm gone at all, mister Dynan. You just won't never
- 1:57Speaker 3: let a person pleasure hisself at all. I'm sorry, Chester,
- 2:01Speaker 3: I didn't say.
- 2:02Speaker 4: It was always nice. I said right now.
- 2:06Speaker 2: It's all right. Chester. I do I mean to bust
- 2:08Speaker 2: your balloon? Are you sure?
- 2:10Speaker 4: Noney? Look at there, there's young Packy.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Sayah, let's go see what it's all about.
- 2:22Speaker 3: My goodness, Sleave's gonna push that boy's arm right off.
- 2:25Speaker 2: If he ain't carefully. We've got no thanks for poking
- 2:28Speaker 2: our noses into a family row with him. Boy, I
- 2:32Speaker 2: can't see nothing wrong in that. Maybe I'll learn you
- 2:34Speaker 2: to see a little different. Please, late, you're a oh
- 2:41Speaker 2: you marshall. That boy's getting pretty near as big as
- 2:44Speaker 2: you leave. You're not careful. One of these days he's
- 2:47Speaker 2: gonna turn on you. And you lift a hand to
- 2:48Speaker 2: me just once, I'll take a horse whip cut him
- 2:51Speaker 2: to ribbons. Were all done, mister ride into town with
- 2:54Speaker 2: mister Roy You mean Chason roll Packy.
- 2:57Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I met him on the trail south of
- 2:59Speaker 5: the hut.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Your mouth, boy, get on over the livery's table and
- 3:03Speaker 2: wait for me. And whenever I'm ready to go home,
- 3:06Speaker 2: you better be setting that wagon seat you hear me?
- 3:09Speaker 6: Yes?
- 3:09Speaker 4: All right?
- 3:13Speaker 2: Do what behind the ears and back talking like you
- 3:16Speaker 2: had grown him? Why he so works up against Jason
- 3:20Speaker 2: roll If because he's no good. That's why I told
- 3:25Speaker 2: that boy of mine two dozen times stay shy. He's
- 3:29Speaker 2: gonna learn to do it if I have to beat
- 3:31Speaker 2: him to death. If that's what you're figuring on, you
- 3:34Speaker 2: better do it outside of dodge. You button into a
- 3:38Speaker 2: man's right to teach his family. Discipline disciplines one thing,
- 3:42Speaker 2: but a grown man beating a boy with his fist
- 3:44Speaker 2: or something else. And that's what you were doing when
- 3:46Speaker 2: way walking. He knowed what to expect. He's been told
- 3:48Speaker 2: and told what Jason Rolls pretty well liked as far
- 3:52Speaker 2: as I've ever heard. Listen. I aim to raise packing
- 3:55Speaker 2: up to be a cattleman, to take over the ranch someday,
- 3:58Speaker 2: to run it with his own two hands. I aim
- 4:00Speaker 2: to be proud, all right, say. I ain't raising him
- 4:03Speaker 2: up to be no no good book reading poet, just
- 4:07Speaker 2: enough sense to plant a bean patch and live off.
- 4:09Speaker 2: And I hurt his crawny sheep. And I told that
- 4:12Speaker 2: boy to stop hanging around that no good role. So live,
- 4:17Speaker 2: mister Sutter, How are you, Jason a share? It wasn't
- 4:24Speaker 2: because I don't enjoy his company that I told him
- 4:26Speaker 2: to stay away, but because I knew it was making
- 4:28Speaker 2: trouble for him with you. I had no intention of
- 4:31Speaker 2: trying to convince him by beating him to a pope,
- 4:35Speaker 2: I ain't sure you're man enough. I am sure, though,
- 4:40Speaker 2: That's why I don't have to go around proving it
- 4:42Speaker 2: twenty four hours a day. You trying to start something
- 4:46Speaker 2: with me, I think has already started. The Sutter as
- 4:50Speaker 2: long as you can find your attack on me to talk.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I wasn't greatly concerned, but I don't like being shot
- 4:56Speaker 2: at from ambush. What do you mean shot at? When
- 4:58Speaker 2: was this last week? Marshall? Maybe Sutter can tell you
- 5:01Speaker 2: more about it. You claiming I tried to shoot you
- 5:03Speaker 2: in the back. As a matter of fact, my back
- 5:06Speaker 2: was turned odd that you need I never even been
- 5:10Speaker 2: near that shack of yours. I think you're a liar. Sutter.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Too bad you ain't wearing a gun when you say that,
- 5:22Speaker 2: I suppose you take years off. You outweigh me twenty pounds.
- 5:26Speaker 2: That ought to be fair. Maybe you're scared of guns?
- 5:29Speaker 2: Is that it all right? I am scared of guns.
- 5:31Speaker 2: I've seen too many of them. Not the black guys,
- 5:33Speaker 2: said Marshall, Just a sheepherder that likes to read books.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Roll you keep away from my boy, you hear me.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Any friend who comes to my door is welcome, and
- 5:46Speaker 2: that includes packing and another thing sutter. From tonight on,
- 5:52Speaker 2: I'll be wearing a gun. I'm mighty glad to hear that.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Mighty glad. I'll believe it when I see it. Oh,
- 6:06Speaker 2: you better get somebody to learn you how to load it, Marshall.
- 6:13Speaker 2: Let foil to be taken away from him. That'd be
- 6:15Speaker 2: pretty hard to do, Jason. The Lord gives him out
- 6:18Speaker 2: a lot of leeway where his own family is concerned. Fact,
- 6:21Speaker 2: he's a good youngster, but his father is killing the.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Spirit in him.
- 6:27Speaker 2: He may do more killing than that, Jason. If you
- 6:29Speaker 2: give him a chance by wearing a gun, you mean no, Marshall.
- 6:34Speaker 2: I'm afraid he's worked himself up to a point now
- 6:36Speaker 2: where he'll try whether I'm armed or not. Let's start
- 6:39Speaker 2: at all this anyway. Pack he happens to like me
- 6:41Speaker 2: when I've talked to him and given him books to read.
- 6:45Speaker 2: Life's a cattle man and I run a few sheep.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Maybe that's the reason enough in itself. Yeah, maybe, mostly
- 6:51Speaker 2: though I think it's because he's scared. That's why he's
- 6:53Speaker 2: always blustering, trying to cover up, and he knows I
- 6:56Speaker 2: see it. So he hates me, and deep inside he's
- 7:00Speaker 2: scared of me too, as possible. The worst enemy you
- 7:03Speaker 2: can have in the world is a man who's scared
- 7:05Speaker 2: of you. Yeah. I know that, Jason, but I wasn't
- 7:11Speaker 2: sure you knew it.
- 7:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 7:38Speaker 5: Hm, By guys, it mighty strange looking cadaver a right? Oh?
- 7:46Speaker 2: How mad that scalp? Uh? Will you man play?
- 7:50Speaker 1: Uh?
- 7:51Speaker 2: Is this the one you made?
- 7:51Speaker 5: Doctor?
- 7:53Speaker 6: Oh?
- 7:53Speaker 1: Yes, girls, thank you, thank you.
- 7:57Speaker 3: Hm.
- 7:58Speaker 2: You know, it's a fine way for a grown to
- 8:00Speaker 2: be spending his time poking around on the inside of
- 8:03Speaker 2: a dead prairie dog. A rare opportunity, mat rare opportunity. Now,
- 8:08Speaker 2: the Hawkins kids brought me.
- 8:10Speaker 5: Three of them this morning, found them outs of the town.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Rare opportunity for what, Matt, how many.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Dead prairie dogs did you ever see? Come to think
- 8:23Speaker 2: of it, Ah, that's just what I mean. A prairie
- 8:25Speaker 2: dog is a tough little.
- 8:26Speaker 5: Animal, only get killed by hawks and snakes coyotes. But
- 8:30Speaker 5: they don't just up and die.
- 8:32Speaker 2: I guess not.
- 8:34Speaker 5: Yeah, come on in doors and are.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Oh well pack you.
- 8:44Speaker 5: I was looking for you, Marshall, huh, Chester said you
- 8:48Speaker 5: might be up here.
- 8:49Speaker 2: What can I do for you, sir? Well, nothing much,
- 8:53Speaker 2: I reckon I just.
- 8:56Speaker 3: Wanted to talk.
- 8:57Speaker 1: I guess I go right ahead.
- 8:58Speaker 5: I'm through here. Why don't you talk out there in
- 9:01Speaker 5: the front room? My life kind of clean up at me?
- 9:03Speaker 2: All right?
- 9:12Speaker 5: You know, Marshall, Paul just wailed the daylight side of me.
- 9:16Speaker 5: He was maddering to wet him.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Well, maybe there won't be much more of that. I
- 9:23Speaker 2: can hear about growing up now.
- 9:26Speaker 5: Paul keeps saying he aims to be proud of me,
- 9:29Speaker 5: make a man out of me.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Maybe he just wants you to them to be everything
- 9:32Speaker 2: he missed being.
- 9:34Speaker 5: Or Paul talk to me aloud for real, brable, But
- 9:38Speaker 5: I don't think he is a tall Well.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Why does he hate mister Raoul so much? I don't
- 9:46Speaker 4: see nothing wrong with him.
- 9:47Speaker 2: I like him so.
- 9:50Speaker 4: He knows things.
- 9:50Speaker 5: He most of anything you think of. Mister Rowland knows
- 9:55Speaker 5: about and he tells you so you know too. Sure's
- 10:01Speaker 5: mighty big world the way he tells about it.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it is.
- 10:07Speaker 5: DoD City, ain't all of it or the prairie bigger
- 10:10Speaker 5: than that? I ain't see for myself learn all about it.
- 10:15Speaker 2: I don't want your growing up. I guess you can
- 10:17Speaker 2: do about anything you want to package.
- 10:22Speaker 4: Growing up's kind of hard to do sometimes, Marshall.
- 10:26Speaker 2: M Yeah, yeah, it's pretty hard. A lot of people
- 10:32Speaker 2: never make it.
- 10:33Speaker 4: Pecky ain't no much, Dylon.
- 10:55Speaker 3: It just ain't nothing like a half dozen fried eggs
- 10:58Speaker 3: to start a man off right in the morning.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine how hog wakes up pretty much the same feelings.
- 11:06Speaker 3: A good appetite is a sign of good health.
- 11:08Speaker 2: Then I'd say you're about the healthiest man west of
- 11:10Speaker 2: Saint Lloyd.
- 11:12Speaker 3: Sticks and stones can break my bone, but words.
- 11:15Speaker 2: If I join you, Marshall, Jason, glad to have you. Sure,
- 11:19Speaker 2: So morning Chester. You're upping around early today. I'm just
- 11:24Speaker 2: going through thom As a matter of fact, I got
- 11:26Speaker 2: a timber cabin up a new cheer was the snow
- 11:28Speaker 2: is during the winter, damaged at some I'm going to
- 11:30Speaker 2: spend a week putting it back in shape. Now I am.
- 11:35Speaker 2: So you're wearing a gun. I meant what I said.
- 11:39Speaker 3: Motion Well, no, mister, wearing a gun is one thing,
- 11:43Speaker 3: but knowing how to use it when the time comes
- 11:46Speaker 3: is another.
- 11:47Speaker 2: I'm familiar with guns. Just tell me something, Jason. You've
- 11:51Speaker 2: led troops, haven't you. Why do you ask that? I'm
- 11:55Speaker 2: not asking exactly it's or matter of guessing. During the
- 12:00Speaker 2: war the Rebellion, I served as a captain twenty ninth
- 12:03Speaker 2: New York Volunteers assigned to the Seventh Cavern. Do me
- 12:08Speaker 2: a favorite with you, Jason, if I can. Marshall's stay clearest, Setter.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Let me talk to him. Let me see if I
- 12:14Speaker 2: can knock some sense and do his head. I have
- 12:17Speaker 2: no intention of looking him up and calling him, but
- 12:20Speaker 2: I doubt that'll make any difference. Marshall. He's like a blind,
- 12:23Speaker 2: mad bull, ready to charge anything to move. Yeah, you're right, Marshall.
- 12:28Speaker 2: I want to know what's happened to Packy. I ain't
- 12:31Speaker 2: seen him morning, Setter, you're behind this, You sneaking red.
- 12:39Speaker 2: It's just about them time, all right? Hold that night
- 12:41Speaker 2: and get your hand away, deliver all right, settle down.
- 12:51Speaker 2: I'll come out with you anyway, Becky. Becky's gone run
- 12:56Speaker 2: away during the night when I rolled. He knows he
- 13:00Speaker 2: put him up to it. Have you seen package, Jason,
- 13:03Speaker 2: not since yesterday out there in the street when Sutter
- 13:05Speaker 2: was trying to beat him. After death you're lying. You're
- 13:07Speaker 2: hiding him out somewhere, Sutter. Sutter, since you seem determined
- 13:14Speaker 2: to force this watch what my goodness that? But that
- 13:24Speaker 2: was the fastest draw I ever seen, My gracious Marshall.
- 13:30Speaker 2: I think I'll push on. I'll eat breakfast on the trail.
- 13:33Speaker 2: I'll see you in about a week. I have a
- 13:36Speaker 2: good trip, Jason. All right, leafe as your gun. If
- 13:45Speaker 2: you know what's good for you, you'll keep it in
- 13:47Speaker 2: its holstered. You might well keep a cell ready, Marshall,
- 13:51Speaker 2: I'll kill him no matter how fast he is. I
- 13:54Speaker 2: don't think i'll bother with a cell life. If you
- 13:56Speaker 2: do try it, what you're gonna needs a grave.
- 14:26Speaker 6: Man?
- 14:28Speaker 5: All right, Sam, marsha, how about having a drink with me?
- 14:32Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 14:32Speaker 2: Good, use a beer? Good Sam, shuffle over a picture?
- 14:36Speaker 2: Bill We sure key? Yeah, sit down man, Thank you?
- 14:48Speaker 1: You got quite a crowd of that.
- 14:49Speaker 6: Yeah circle b Barr heard came in about dark with
- 14:52Speaker 6: forty riders and the Curent of Verde. About an hour later.
- 14:56Speaker 6: I guess we'll be open all night. Thank you.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Thanks having put it on the house. Haven't you sure
- 15:04Speaker 2: you know? I can't figure these trail drivers, kiddy. They
- 15:06Speaker 2: work all winter along, make up fifteen hundred mile cattle
- 15:10Speaker 2: drive and then blow their whole wages.
- 15:12Speaker 4: Three nights one night, I love him.
- 15:15Speaker 6: Then they have to borrow money to eat until they
- 15:17Speaker 6: head back to Texas. But I guess that's the way
- 15:20Speaker 6: they like it.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Yeah, they saw my boy yet Marshall, No, not yet. Leaf.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Are you even trying as much as I know how to?
- 15:32Speaker 2: He hasn't been seen on any of the trails out
- 15:34Speaker 2: of town. I check with everybody I can. Why don't
- 15:38Speaker 2: you check with Jason Rolled? That's who he's gone with.
- 15:42Speaker 2: He heard what Jason said this morning. He was going
- 15:44Speaker 2: into the Chiro was be gone a weaker more, and
- 15:47Speaker 2: he took back. You would I talked to the driver
- 15:50Speaker 2: of the Pueblo Stag this afternoon. He saw Jason Roll
- 15:53Speaker 2: at rylight pass and it is alone. You're letting your
- 15:58Speaker 2: hate twist your thinking life. I wouldn't trust that Jason
- 16:02Speaker 2: Roll no further. And I can see you, well, that's
- 16:05Speaker 2: up to you. That seems to me. Your main concern
- 16:08Speaker 2: not to be your son, not your feud with Jason.
- 16:11Speaker 2: It is anything happened to that boy, Marshall. You find Peck,
- 16:22Speaker 2: You find him and fetch him back home. You hear me,
- 16:24Speaker 2: I'll do what I can live. You find him and
- 16:27Speaker 2: fetch him.
- 16:28Speaker 6: Back funny Matt personal let of hate get hold of
- 16:38Speaker 6: him without any real reason that it's riding.
- 16:41Speaker 2: That way, Yeah, and rid him right under the ground
- 16:45Speaker 2: more than offer match.
- 16:47Speaker 6: You think Jason did help Packy run away?
- 16:50Speaker 2: No, I think the boy just got tired of being
- 16:53Speaker 2: cuffed a arm and s.
- 16:55Speaker 6: But still Lafe worships that kid.
- 16:58Speaker 2: YEA suppose he does?
- 16:59Speaker 1: Is wait?
- 17:01Speaker 6: I could jealousy almost Lake wants the boy to look
- 17:05Speaker 6: up to him like he does a Jason.
- 17:07Speaker 2: I never got him to do it by slapping him
- 17:09Speaker 2: in my head.
- 17:12Speaker 6: Well, I guess we can't solve everybody's problems, man.
- 17:18Speaker 2: No, I gave that up a long time ago.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Oh what is it?
- 17:23Speaker 3: Chester looks like maybe we kindly got took in.
- 17:26Speaker 2: But Jason roll, Oh what do you mean? Golden appears
- 17:29Speaker 2: like he didn't go to the chair was after all?
- 17:31Speaker 2: I reckon he might to circle back. Huh.
- 17:34Speaker 7: Well, the homesteader just came in from out that way
- 17:36Speaker 7: and said.
- 17:36Speaker 2: There's a light in Jason's cabin.
- 17:38Speaker 4: He lied us, mister Jones.
- 17:40Speaker 2: We'd better go out and see him before Sutter finds out.
- 17:43Speaker 3: He already had he heard about it the same time
- 17:46Speaker 3: I did, and he just this minute took out of
- 17:48Speaker 3: here like a big footed bird.
- 17:50Speaker 7: All right, let's call Chester, Jason's cabin is just around
- 18:12Speaker 7: the Bendam what you're doing?
- 18:14Speaker 4: You still ain't no sign of study.
- 18:16Speaker 3: Oh, we might have to pass him some words on
- 18:19Speaker 3: the way out.
- 18:20Speaker 1: I might be.
- 18:25Speaker 2: I looked like that homestead. I was telling the truth. Chester,
- 18:27Speaker 2: there's a light in the cabin there.
- 18:29Speaker 4: Sure, my golly, the shore is well. This ain't the first.
- 18:35Speaker 2: Time I've been wrong about a man. Yeah, but Jason's
- 18:38Speaker 2: not the kind of lie. Let's live our horses here.
- 18:49Speaker 2: You would have.
- 18:50Speaker 3: Had many time to circle back, though, even if you.
- 18:53Speaker 4: Have seen it, rye light, I.
- 18:55Speaker 2: Guess so, alright, let's go.
- 19:00Speaker 3: He is kind of disheartening a and you figure a
- 19:03Speaker 3: man lied to you there, said, were there in the brush?
- 19:09Speaker 5: Come you righting car?
- 19:11Speaker 4: Late, hold it look somebody j opening the cabin door.
- 19:15Speaker 5: Get out of the light, get away from that car.
- 19:19Speaker 3: Shot him, mister Dyllan shot him, Stutter shot him down
- 19:22Speaker 3: in cold blood.
- 19:24Speaker 7: He isn't that.
- 19:24Speaker 2: Let's go see that, Marshall.
- 19:27Speaker 1: Tell him, Late, put down that rifle. We're going to
- 19:29Speaker 1: the cabin.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Mar I got control.
- 19:32Speaker 3: You fired and abush without giving him no chance at all.
- 19:40Speaker 2: He give me a hand, Chester on me turn him over.
- 19:44Speaker 4: Maybe he was a little tense and still open.
- 19:48Speaker 2: Oh, mister Neal, And yeah, that's just what I thought.
- 19:55Speaker 2: I'll take my medicine, Marshall, but I don't reckon a jury.
- 20:00Speaker 2: You'll go too hard on a man for shooting somebody
- 20:02Speaker 2: kidnapped his son. I told you that hate was gonna
- 20:07Speaker 2: twist your thinking. Jason rolled somewhere on a churrow, was
- 20:12Speaker 2: mm hmm are you telling me that this ain't you?
- 20:19Speaker 2: Thank you? Was a good shot leaf one bullet right
- 20:28Speaker 2: through the heart. Your son never knew who hit.
- 20:33Speaker 1: Him, and now ours are William Conrad.
- 21:03Speaker 2: You know. The frontier was a great half circle, with
- 21:06Speaker 2: one end anchored in the Dakotas and the other in Texas.
- 21:10Speaker 2: And through this ran a score of passageways to the west,
- 21:15Speaker 2: trails like the Santa Fe, the Overland, the Bozeman, the
- 21:20Speaker 2: Good Knight. Well next week, our story centers around a
- 21:24Speaker 2: band of people traveling west on one of these trails.
- 22:07Speaker 1: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
- 22:13Speaker 1: as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. Featured in the cast were
- 22:16Speaker 1: Parley Bear as Chester Howard, mcneer as Doc and Georgia
- 22:21Speaker 1: Ellis as Kitty George Walls speaking. Join us again next
- 22:26Speaker 1: week for another especially transcribed story on gun smoke. This
- 22:34Speaker 1: is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
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