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The Lone Ranger - "Murders Pay-off" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Mark Stevens faces execution after a murder conviction until a
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: dying killer's confession raises urgent doubts about the case. On
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: December 28, 1942, the Blue Network brought listeners The Lone
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Ranger in Murder's Payoff, episode number 1550, nationally sponsored by
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: General Mills. Brace Beamer is the lone ranger, with John
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Todd as Tonto, as they take up the matter alongside
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: the ranger's young nephew, Dan Reed, an early appearance for
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: the character introduced to the series earlier that month. Fran
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Stryker wrote the program, produced by George W.
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  Speaker 2: Trendle.
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  Speaker 1: Now, back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud of dust,
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  Speaker 1: and a hearty hi-yo, Silver, the Lone Ranger.
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: THE END.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
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  Speaker 1: the plains led the fight for law and order in
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
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  Speaker 1: us through the generations, and nowhere in the pages of
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  Speaker 1: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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  Speaker 1: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 1: great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Silver. There's trouble on the trail ahead.
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  Speaker 7: I hope Silver.
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  Speaker 1: Three horsemen rode a lonely back trail which wavered through
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  Speaker 1: an arroyo in the high border country just south of Canada.
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  Speaker 1: The leader, tall and bronzed by the western sun, wore
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  Speaker 1: a black mask and six guns hung low and sat
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  Speaker 1: easily astride a powerful white stallion. His partners were an
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  Speaker 1: Indian dressed in buckskin and Dan Reed, the 14-year-old boy
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  Speaker 1: whom Pate had identified as the nephew of the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: Now linked as one by mutual affection and respect, as
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  Speaker 1: well as by a common goal, the masked man, Tonto
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  Speaker 1: and Dan, rode to meet new adventures. Suddenly, as they
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  Speaker 1: rounded a bend in the trail, the lone ranger signaled
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  Speaker 1: a halt. Directly ahead stood a horse, riderless but saddled,
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  Speaker 1: his ears pricked at their approach.
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  Speaker 6: Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, boy, let's have a look at you. That's it.
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  Speaker 8: Rain is practically dragging the dirt.
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  Speaker 9: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: You mean not see right or anywhere?
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  Speaker 8: It can't be far, Tonto. His horse would have tripped
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  Speaker 8: on that loose rein if he'd tried to run.
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  Speaker 2: Not right.
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  Speaker 10: And the owner might have had a bad fall. He
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  Speaker 10: may be lying somewhere badly hurt.
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  Speaker 8: Either that, Dan, or worse.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: Outlaws hiding in these hills. Anything might happen on a
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  Speaker 8: trail as lonely as this.
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  Speaker 10: Golly, that's true. I've been through this country before, and
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  Speaker 10: it's bad medicine.
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  Speaker 8: See if you can find where the horse entered this trail, Tonto.
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  Speaker 8: This hoof prints may lead us to the man who
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  Speaker 8: owns him.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, may look for tracks. Maybe take a long time.
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  Speaker 9: Wait.
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  Speaker 8: What is it, Dan?
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  Speaker 10: Feel the tip of this rein.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it's damp.
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  Speaker 10: The horse's muzzle's damp, too. That means he stopped to drink.
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  Speaker 8: If we could find that waterhole, it'd be easy to
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  Speaker 8: follow his trail.
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  Speaker 10: I can take you to it.
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  Speaker 8: You can?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: It's a creek just beyond those trees.
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  Speaker 8: Bring this horse with you, Tonner. All right, Dan, lead on.
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  Speaker 11: You bet.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, boy.
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  Speaker 9: Get him.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 11: Get him off the couch.
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  Speaker 1: With Dan in the lead and the rider's horse in tow,
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  Speaker 1: the three horsemen left the back trail and rode cross-country
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  Speaker 1: to a creek which trickled through a grove of pines.
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  Speaker 1: Locating the animal's prints at the waterhole, they traced them
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  Speaker 1: a short distance through the trees, then quickly reined up.
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  Speaker 2: Sprawled on the.
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  Speaker 1: Ground, just ahead was a man with a knife in
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  Speaker 1: his back.
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  Speaker 8: It may be too late.
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  Speaker 2: A knife wound plenty bad.
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  Speaker 8: Help me turn him. He's alive at any rate. Bring
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  Speaker 8: me the canteen, Dan.
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  Speaker 10: Right away.
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  Speaker 8: See if there's anything you can do, Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid not much hope. Him in plenty bad shape.
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  Speaker 12: Here's the canteen.
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  Speaker 8: You pour the water between his lips, Dan, while I
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  Speaker 8: support his head.
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  Speaker 5: He's opening his eyes.
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  Speaker 6: Masked.
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  Speaker 8: We want to help you.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing nobody can do for me.
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  Speaker 8: There still may be time to.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I.
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  Speaker 9: I don't want to live.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing to live for.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: You... You're outlaws? No.
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  Speaker 12: Good.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you'll do something for me. You'll do me a favor, huh?
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  Speaker 5: We'll do everything we can.
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  Speaker 9: Uh-huh. Bend.
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  Speaker 5: Bend closer. I want you to be sure to hear.
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  Speaker 8: Very well.
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  Speaker 5: The name's Lefty Travis....
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  Speaker 9: I'm a murderer.
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  Speaker 13: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm an outlaw.
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  Speaker 9: Robbed a bank.
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  Speaker 5: Helped kill a guard.
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  Speaker 8: I see.
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  Speaker 5: I was right in the town. Gave myself up when.
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  Speaker 9: When.
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  Speaker 8: The knife you left me. Oh, wait.
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  Speaker 5: Something I gotta say. There's no peace where I'm going.
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  Speaker 5: I don't square myself here.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I helped to frame somebody else for the killing.
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  Speaker 8: You mean an innocent person who's charged with the murder?
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 8: Mark Sanders is just a kid. He wasn't anywhere near
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  Speaker 8: the killing. You got paper and pencil there?
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  Speaker 5: You bet.
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  Speaker 10: Got them right here in my jacket.
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  Speaker 5: Gotta save Mark. Savvy, save him from hanging.
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  Speaker 8: Hanging? When?
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  Speaker 5: Today, noon, at Twin Oaks. You know where that is?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, but I'll have to hurry.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, at almost noon now. I've written a brief confession, Lefty.
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  Speaker 8: Your signature to it would be enough to set Mark free.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe he'll think better of me where I'm going now. Here,
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  Speaker 8: sign here.
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  Speaker 9: I'll support you.
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  Speaker 14: There.
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  Speaker 5: Give me a pencil. Sinking fast.
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  Speaker 2: Lefty.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe if he drank some more water.
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  Speaker 5: I can't see. I can't see. Everything's getting dark, going black.
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  Speaker 9: Where are you?
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  Speaker 8: Lefty, listen. Who knifed you?
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  Speaker 5: It was you.
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  Speaker 12: It was you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, him die.
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  Speaker 8: Yes. Without his signature, this confession is worthless.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do?
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  Speaker 8: Take care of him, Toto. I'm going to Twin Oaks.
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  Speaker 5: I'll go with you.
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  Speaker 8: Not this time, Dan. It may be gunplay. Stay and
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  Speaker 8: help Toto.
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  Speaker 9: Here, Silver.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm not afraid.
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  Speaker 8: I know you're not, Dan, but you'll be taking a
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  Speaker 8: needless risk. I'll join you both later at the camp.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 12: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Twin Oaks was a peaceful patch of blue-green grass in
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  Speaker 1: the wooded border country near the town of Middleton. But
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  Speaker 1: the giant trees which gave the clearing its name looked
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  Speaker 1: down on anything but a peaceful sight. For sitting astride
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  Speaker 1: his horse with his hands tied behind him, young Mark
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  Speaker 1: Sanders defiantly faced the sheriff and the townsman who had
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  Speaker 1: come to witness his hanging, to watch him pay, innocent
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  Speaker 1: though he was, for the murder of a bank guard.
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  Speaker 14: Mark, you've been found guilty of murder and sentenced to hang.
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  Speaker 6: Blame for murder, you mean, chef?
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  Speaker 7: I'm no more guilty than you are.
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  Speaker 15: You've heard your trial. Twelve men listened to your story
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  Speaker 15: and examined the evidence. The verdict is final.
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  Speaker 6: That evidence was planted, I tell you.
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  Speaker 9: Is that all you want to say?
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  Speaker 11: Ask him again. Who helped him kill the guard, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 11: We aim to see both of.
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  Speaker 9: The murders, Hank.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Ain't no sense in this holding out on us now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: that's right.
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  Speaker 9: You heard him, Mark. Who was your partner in that
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  Speaker 9: bank holdup?
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  Speaker 16: I had no partner. I was nowhere near the bank
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  Speaker 16: the night of the holdup. The whole thing is a lie.
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  Speaker 16: You've got to believe me.
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  Speaker 9: You close-mouthed young whelp. Sticking to your story won't help
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  Speaker 9: you now.
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  Speaker 15: I'll get that other killer and the stolen bank cash too.
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  Speaker 16: I should have known better than to expect justice from you,
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  Speaker 16: all of you.
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  Speaker 6: You're the real murderers. Well, go ahead and hang me.
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  Speaker 6: Someday your guild will choke your throats.
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  Speaker 9: Fix your blindfold on the boys.
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  Speaker 11: Got it right here, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want it.
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  Speaker 14: I'd like to take a last look at things before
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  Speaker 14: you kick off, huh, Mark? Put the noose around his neck.
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  Speaker 8: Sure. There.
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  Speaker 11: It's all set.
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  Speaker 9: Good. Now when I give the word, whip that horse muttering.
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  Speaker 11: Somebody coming, Sheriff. A masked man riding a white horse.
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  Speaker 9: They're coming like the wind.
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  Speaker 12: Silver, who are who?
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 9: What in thunder do you mean by interrupting a hanging, stranger?
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  Speaker 8: There isn't going to be a hanging, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 7: What? No.
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  Speaker 8: Mark Sanders is innocent.
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  Speaker 9: Well, that calls for proof.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, what about that, stranger?
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  Speaker 8: Lefty Travis was knifed on the trail. Before he died,
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  Speaker 8: he confessed to being one of the killers of the
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  Speaker 8: bank guard.
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  Speaker 6: Lefty Travis? He's one of the two framing.
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  Speaker 9: Did he, uh, confess in writing?
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  Speaker 8: He tried to, Sheriff, but there wasn't time.
• 11:02
  Speaker 15: That's a mighty slick story, mister. But it'll take more
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  Speaker 15: than that to pull the wool over my eyes.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: I mean your Mark's partner. You came here figuring to
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  Speaker 9: get him free.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 11: Sounds like the sheriff's right, boys. Yeah, he's the other
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  Speaker 11: killer we've been looking for.
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  Speaker 9: I ain't calling you bluff, stranger.
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  Speaker 6: Don't move, any of you.
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  Speaker 9: Put down them guns.
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  Speaker 8: Take the noose from the prisoner's neck.
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  Speaker 9: Make fun of me.
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  Speaker 7: Very well.
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  Speaker 11: Did you see what I saw? He cut that rope
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  Speaker 11: with a bullet, clean.
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  Speaker 6: As a whistle.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: My hands, they're tied behind me.
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  Speaker 8: Dip your horse with your knees, hurry.
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  Speaker 6: Get up there, boy.
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  Speaker 14: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 11: If you're gun and leather, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 9: You can't.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, good to you now.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Silver.
• 11:39
  Speaker 9: Stop him. He's a killer.
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  Speaker 12: Fill him down.
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  Speaker 3: Shoot him, boys. Don't let him get away. I'm Silver Floyd.
• 11:47
  Speaker 11: I'm Silver Floyd.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Tonto and Dan were waiting when the Lone Ranger arrived
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: with Mark Sanders at the camp, concealed from prying eyes
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  Speaker 1: by a clump of trees. Cutting the rope which bound
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: the youth's wrists, they listened as he bitterly concluded the
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  Speaker 1: story of his arrest and conviction for murder.
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  Speaker 6: When I told them I was innocent, they wouldn't believe me.
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  Speaker 6: None of them.
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  Speaker 8: We'll try to get the truth, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: They'll never know the truth now. And I don't care.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
• 12:19
  Speaker 6: You made me an outlaw, just like yourself. They'll hunt me.
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  Speaker 6: Hunt me is an escape murder.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, him not outlaw.
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  Speaker 11: Of course he isn't.
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  Speaker 8: I can understand your bitterness, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: Can you?
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  Speaker 16: Can you understand what it means to be taken from
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  Speaker 16: your wife and child? To be branded a killer? To
• 12:33
  Speaker 16: see everyone you trust to turn against you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I can.
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  Speaker 8: It'd be better if they'd hang me. You recognize this, Mark?
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  Speaker 8: The knife?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: It's a blade that killed Lefty Travis.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, I recognize it. Belongs to A.
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  Speaker 16: Sheridan, the second of the two who framed me.
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  Speaker 9: Sheridan?
• 12:52
  Speaker 10: It fits the name left he was trying to say.
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  Speaker 2: Not right.
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  Speaker 8: Where can we find this man?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying. I've got plans for that pulpit myself.
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  Speaker 12: The End.
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  Speaker 1: That night, as the Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Dan lay
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: wrapped in their blankets near the still-smoking fire, a fourth
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  Speaker 1: figure rose stealthily and listened to their low, even breathing. Then,
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  Speaker 1: creeping cautiously, Mark Sanders took one of the masked man's
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  Speaker 1: guns from its holster and, with a whispered.
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  Speaker 2: Warning to his horse, rode into the shadows.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately, Dan discarded his pretense of sleep and ran to
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 10: You awake?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Dan.
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  Speaker 10: Mark took one of your guns and headed for the trail.
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  Speaker 6: He did?
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  Speaker 4: I thought he might do that, so I just pretended
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  Speaker 4: to sleep. He's riding to revenge himself on A. Sheridan,
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: I'm sure of it. That's what he meant when he
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: said he had plans.
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: Why didn't you mention your suspicion before?
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: I wanted to be sure he got away. I figured
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: we could trail him in time to prevent murder and
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  Speaker 4: capture A. Sheridan at the same time.
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  Speaker 8: Good boy, Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Now look. He bring horses.
• 14:02
  Speaker 9: Horses?
• 14:03
  Speaker 10: They're already saddled.
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  Speaker 2: Now Yes, Dan.
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  Speaker 8: He's a big fella.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 11: Get him up the couch.
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  Speaker 3: Ace Sheridan was alone in his cabin when he heard
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: a knock on the door. Coming.
• 14:37
  Speaker 9: I thought.
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  Speaker 6: I know what you thought.
• 14:40
  Speaker 16: You thought I was swinging from a tree, paying the
• 14:42
  Speaker 16: penalty for a crime you helped to commit.
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: That's a lie.
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  Speaker 11: You're mighty anxious to frame me for it.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: You and lefty Travis. I.
• 14:49
  Speaker 7: What do you want?
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: I want you.
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  Speaker 8: No.
• 14:52
  Speaker 11: Now, don't shoot, Mark. I'll do anything you say.
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: Anything.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: Sniveling rat. Death isn't easy to take when it stares
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: you in the face, is it? They'll hang you.
• 14:58
  Speaker 11: They'll hang you, Mark.
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: They'll hang me anyway. But not before I take you
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: with me. Drop that gun, Mark.
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: Drop it.
• 15:04
  Speaker 11: Oh, you followed me.
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: Well, you can't stop me now.
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Mark. Couldn't let you turn killer. Take care
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: of him, Toto.
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: I don't know who you are, stranger, but you sure
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: saved my life.
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: Not for long, Ace. You're going to jail for murder.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: to pause for just a few moments.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: THE END Now to continue our story. Charged with murder,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Ace Sheridan's reaction puzzled the Lone Ranger. For the outlaw
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: heard the masked man's words with real surprise.
• 16:39
  Speaker 12: Murder?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I don't savvy. This is your knife, isn't it?
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: I've been missing that blade. Where'd you find it?
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: You know where I found it. In Lefty Travis.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Lefty Tra.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: You mean.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: That's right, Ace.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: He's dead. And you killed him.
• 17:09
  Speaker 12: No.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: This is the first time I've heard of it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: You're trying to frame me.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: That's funny, coming from you.
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: You're going to jail, Ace.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: You mean you're going to turn me over to the sheriff?
• 17:18
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 17:20
  Speaker 13: All right, I'll go. I've nothing to fear from the law. Sure,
• 17:26
  Speaker 13: I couldn't ask for a better deal.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: Mark, Toto, take him outside.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: You, you come.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: And don't make any wrong moves.
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: He seems almost happy about going to jail.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: Yes, Dan, I wonder.
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: While you were talking, I looked around for more evidence.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Did you find anything, Dan?
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: I found this under the table.
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: Hmm.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: A gold concha.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Lots of men in these parts wear silver conchas as ornaments.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: You know, for their hat bands and gloves and boots.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: But it's the first time I ever saw a gold one.
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: There aren't many of them, Dan. That's what made me
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: notice them on the man I met this afternoon.
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: You saw a man wearing gold conchas?
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Yes. The same man who seems to have called on A.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: Sheridan in this cabin.
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: Maybe he's a crook, too.
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: Who is he?
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: The sheriff. Ah!
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: The next day in town, a grave-faced Indian and a
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: 14-year-old boy apparently loitered near the sheriff's office. Then at
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the far end of the street, they saw two horsemen approaching.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: One wore a mask and sat a white stallion. The
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: other rode with his hands tied behind his back.
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: It's a lone ranger, Tonto.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Ah, him take a sheriff into jail.
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: But he's wanted by the law. They'll arrest him for
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: freeing Mark Sanders.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not arrest, lone ranger.
• 18:42
  Speaker 12: No, I.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Reckon they won't.
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: Do you think the sheriff has really mixed up in
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: the murders, Tonto?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: We find out plenty soon.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: You come. I'm with you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: As Tonto and Dan slipped into the shadows behind the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: sheriff's office, the lone ranger reined up Silver and the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: horse ridden by his captive.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: All right, Ace.
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: Come with me.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: Sure. All right, kill him. What are you.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: You.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: I brought you a prisoner, Sheriff.
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: Howdy, Sheriff. Hey, Sheriff, what... What are you doing here?
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: I can explain that better inside.
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: You'd better start explaining where you took Mark Sanders, mister.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Keep that gun in leather.
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: Well, you've got the drop on me. You don't give
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: me much choice.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Your job is to hunt the guilty, Sheriff, not the innocent.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: What do you mean?
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: I told you yesterday that lefty Travis was knifed on
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: the trail... Here's a knife that killed him.
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: What about it?
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: Belongs to A. Sheridan.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Right, Ace?
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah, but I don't know nothing about the murder. I
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: didn't even know Lefty was dead till this massed on him,
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: he told me.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: I'm leaving him in your hands, Sheriff.
• 19:59
  Speaker 14: That's mighty mercy, mister. I'll take good care of him.
• 20:03
  Speaker 14: Good and proper care.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm sure you will.
• 20:06
  Speaker 14: Huh?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: You're missing a gold concha from the top of your boot.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: I believe this is the one. Adios.
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: How in thunder did he get hold of this?
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 13: There's something mighty queer about that masked hombre. Do you
• 20:24
  Speaker 13: think he's... That's all right. He's riding up the street.
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: Now we can talk.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Cut these ropes around my wrist, will you?
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah. I'll use this knife.
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: There.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Say, you're pretty handy with that blade, Sheriff.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: What do you mean?
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Ain't sure.
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: All I know is my knife turned up in Lefty
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: Travis yesterday. And I didn't put it there.
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: Are you insinuating I did? Maybe.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Maybe not.
• 20:49
  Speaker 13: You framed Mark Sanders for that bank murder you and
• 20:51
  Speaker 13: Lefty pulled. What's to prevent you from trying the same
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: trick on me?
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: Don't be a fool. What reason would I have for
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: framing you?
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: I don't know. But if you didn't plant my knife
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: in Lefty, who did?
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: How should I know? You ought to take more care
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: of that blade. And maybe it would stay where it belongs.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: You gotta get me out of this spot, Sheriff.
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, take it easy. Nothing will happen to you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Well, nothing better had.
• 21:11
  Speaker 13: Folks wouldn't like it if they found out you were
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: the one who engineered the bank robbery.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Not to mention that you helped kill the guard.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: You were in on that deal, too, Ace.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Well, the holdup, sure. But the murder was your dish.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Yours and Lefty's. I wasn't around for that. Put your lip.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: I said nothing will happen to you. Stop worrying.
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: It's easy for you to say. But what about that mask, Coyote?
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: If I ain't brought to trial, he'll investigate.
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: You can't face trial if you're not here.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: You mean.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: Sure. We'll stage an escape. Then you can bamboozle these
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: parts till lefty's murder blows over.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, reckon that's the ticket.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: I mean, well, what's to prevent us from making a
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: little profit.
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: While you're here?
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: I don't savvy.
• 21:45
  Speaker 14: Well, if you're in jail, it stands to reason you
• 21:47
  Speaker 14: can't be blamed for a holdup. Ain't that so?
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: What kind of holdup?
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: The stage is toting pay cash to the mines tonight.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: What about the guard?
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: He won't bother you.
• 21:58
  Speaker 14: He's worked on jobs with me before.
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: I'm fixing it for him to become a new deputy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: Sounds slick enough.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: What's the split?
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: 50-50. That'll mean plenty of cash for both of us.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I take all the risk.
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: What risk? The guard is just fake resistance. That cell
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: back there will be your alibi.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: I guess you're right.
• 22:21
  Speaker 13: Nobody could suspicion me of sticking up the stage when
• 22:23
  Speaker 13: I was booked behind bars.
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: Then it's a deal?
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 13: And if it works out as good as it looks,
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: maybe I'll set myself up in jail permanent.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Racing to the Lone Ranger's camp, Tonto and Dan reported
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: what they had heard of the Masked Man and Mark Sanders.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: The sheriff is the one who helped murder the bank guard, huh?
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: That's the name Lefty was trying to say.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: He may be the one who knifed Lefty, too.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Scheming skunk.
• 22:58
  Speaker 16: Framing me for the murder he pulled himself and making
• 23:00
  Speaker 16: out you as my partner.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: He almost got away with it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 16: Well, he won't have a chance now. I'm riding to
• 23:05
  Speaker 16: town and exposing him for the murder and.
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: Rat he is. But people won't listen to you.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: They'll listen to me. They've got to.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: Yes, but they know you as a convicted murderer, Mark.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: But what will I do? How can I prove I'm innocent?
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: I'll never see my wife and son again.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: Everything goes well. You'll see them tonight. Tonight? I don't understand.
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: There's one way we can trap the sheriff.
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: Now listen.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: That night, concealed by brushwood and the dark.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: Shadows of a clouded sky.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Ace Sheridan appeared in an approaching stagecoach. A handkerchief disguised
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the lower half of his face. And in his hands
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: he carried six guns primed for use... Then as the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: stage lumbered opposite him on the trail, he spurred his
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: horse to intercept it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: I'll lift that stage.
• 23:55
  Speaker 16: Hold up.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Pull up or I'll let you have it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: Don't get that gun.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: I'm killing.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: He's got us covered.
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: Yellow-livered weasel, give me that gun.
• 24:08
  Speaker 17: I want that paid cash, and I want it fast.
• 24:14
  Speaker 17: That cash belongs to the mines. I'll swallow lead before
• 24:17
  Speaker 17: I'll see you go to the likely you.
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: Don't be so flip, driver.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: I'll see that you get your wish.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: Why, you.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: You, guard!
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: Get the cash.
• 24:24
  Speaker 17: Got it right here, mister. It's all in this satchel.
• 24:26
  Speaker 17: Blast you, guard. Doggone if I don't think you're in
• 24:29
  Speaker 17: cahoots with this outlaw.
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: Give me that satchel. Now get going and don't look back.
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: Or you may find a slug between your eyes. Get
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: up there.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Get up there.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Later that night, a horseman dismounted at the rear of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the town jail and crept stealthily to a barred window.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: He looked about him carefully.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Then, satisfied that his movements were unseen, he rapped.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: A faint signal on the bars.
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: That your ways? Yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: Open the door.
• 25:12
  Speaker 12: Hey, what.
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: Do you see there?
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: The town's asleep.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: You got the cash all right, huh?
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: It was a sitch, just like you said.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: Didn't have any trouble with.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: The guard at all.
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: Bring it in here. Let's see what it looks like.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: Paper money. Wads of it. Must be all of $ 5, 000
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: in bills here, huh, Sheriff?
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: Easy that. Maybe more.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: There's one way to find out.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Let's divvy it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: There isn't gonna be any split, Ace.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: What?
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: I'm taking all the pay cash myself.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Hey, that gun... What are you aiming to do?
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: I'm aiming to settle accounts with you, Ace.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: I don't savvy.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: No? One double-cross deserves another. And this one's for keeps.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Is that it?
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: You're a loco, Sheriff. I never crossed you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: You thought I didn't know, huh? When we pulled that
• 26:04
  Speaker 14: bank job, you said we got away with $ 10, 000 in cash.
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: That's right, $ 10, 000. You ought to practice your bookkeeping more, Ace.
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: What do you mean? The bank reported that $ 15, 000 was stolen.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: That's a lie. I counted the cash myself.
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: Yes, I reckon you did.
• 26:18
  Speaker 14: While you were doing it, $ 5, 000 walked out of your
• 26:20
  Speaker 14: hands and into your pocket.
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: So you decided not to mention it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: No, that ain't true.
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: Give me a chance, Sheriff. You gotta let me explain.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: Save it for Lefty Travis.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: Him sending you what I sent him. Six feet under.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Then you did kill Lefty.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah. His conscience bothered him.
• 26:40
  Speaker 14: He meant to squeal about the bank murder to save
• 26:42
  Speaker 14: Mark Sanders from the news.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: And you framed me with my knife.
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: And you're the only one left who knows I killed
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: the guard, eh? But, sir... And I pardon you for
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: that information, pronto.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, you wouldn't.
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: I promised I'd stage your escape from jail, remember?
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: You don't mean you'll let me go?
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: For about 50 feet. Then I'll drill you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's murder.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: They'll hang you.
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: You're a little mixed up, Ace. You're the murderer. You
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: killed Lifty Travis.
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: I've got you a knife and the masked man's story
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: to prove it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: But this is... A cure for killers who try to escape.
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: Now start running, Ace.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: That won't be necessary.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: What the.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: The masked man.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: The man you've been hunting, Sheriff.
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: Mark Sanders.
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: Yes, a double-dealing polecat. Thought you'd pin your dirty murders
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: on me, huh?
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: Where.
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: Where did you come from?
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: From the cell where your outlaw partner's supposed to be.
• 27:34
  Speaker 18: While you were busy letting Ace in the back way,
• 27:36
  Speaker 18: the rest of us got in the front.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: The marshals?
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: I've heard enough to hang you twice, Sheriff.
• 27:41
  Speaker 18: Once for the murder of the bank guard and again
• 27:42
  Speaker 18: for killing lefty travelers.
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: No, no, it's a mistake. I wasn't telling the truth.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: You can't lie your way out of this, you double-crossing skunk.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: You killed them, all right, both of them.
• 27:50
  Speaker 18: I've heard plenty about you, too, Ace. Cash you stole
• 27:52
  Speaker 18: from the bank and the stage will put you behind
• 27:54
  Speaker 18: bars where you belong.
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: Nobody takes me. Stop that gun, Sheriff. Not before I.
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: Blast you. Look out, he's trying to escape.
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: I'm awake, kiddo. I'll get you.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: You're not his gun. Let me fix you.
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: Glory be, what a blow.
• 28:07
  Speaker 18: Well, I guess that'll take care of the sheriff for
• 28:09
  Speaker 18: a while.
• 28:10
  Speaker 16: Marshal, if you're satisfied I had nothing to do with
• 28:12
  Speaker 16: the bank murder, I'd like to go home.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: I haven't seen.
• 28:15
  Speaker 18: I understand, Mark. Count on me for any help you need.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Well, thanks, Marshal.
• 28:19
  Speaker 18: Don't thank me, young fella. Thank the mask man, the Indian, and.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: Why, they're gone.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: I'll do it!
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I'll do it!
• 28:41
  Speaker 12: THE END.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: THE END The story you have just heard is a
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 30:14
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• 30:17
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