Latest / The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio / The Lone Ranger - "The Bearded Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1952)

Transcript

The Lone Ranger - "The Bearded Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A young Dan Reid believes he has recognized a killer
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: sought for years, though the man before him now wears
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: a beard and eyeglasses and has put on weight. His
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: identification brings the Lone Ranger and Tonto into a case
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: where careful observation matters, while Dan finds himself in peril.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: On November twenty fourth, nineteen fifty two, The Lone Ranger
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: presented The Bearded Killer Episode three thy ninety nine. Brace
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Beemer stars as the Lone Ranger with John todd as Tonto.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Betty Joyce wrote the script.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: Charles D.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Livingstone directed, and George W. Trendle produced. Ladies and Gentlemen,
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: we now take you back to the original broadcast.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: A fairy horse with a speed of light, a cloud
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hockey high old silver. A Lone Ranger,
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: this faithful Indian companion Toddle, the daring and resourceful mask
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: rider of the Planes, led the fight for law and
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: order in the early Western United States. No where in
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: the pages of history can one find a greater champion
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: of yesteryear. From out of the past, come up, thundering
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: hoof beats of the great horse Silver, A lone ranger
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: rides again.
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: Going on.
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: Two men shared a room in Mahank's Hotel in Modoch City.
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: A self styled colonel with a nonexistent Civil War record,
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: Owen Dodge, was heavy set in pompous.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: His moon shaped face was adorned.
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: With sandy colored mutton chop whiskers, which served as an
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: excellent disguise for Dodger's actual record had been written years
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: ago in the books of the New York Police Department,
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: where he was wanted for murder. The colonel's partner was
• 3:57
  Speaker 3: Amos Harlan, a tall, lean, leathery skinned man. The colonel
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: polished a pair of gold rimmed spectacles as he grinned
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: at his partner.
• 4:05
  Speaker 5: Emas, if all goes well, we'll soon leave Modok City
• 4:09
  Speaker 5: with plenty of guys.
• 4:10
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure that I am.
• 4:13
  Speaker 5: Our landlady keeps a small fortune in her office safe.
• 4:16
  Speaker 5: How do you know it was open when I went
• 4:18
  Speaker 5: to the office this morning to pay our bill for
• 4:20
  Speaker 5: last week, before missus Hanks closed it. I saw the
• 4:24
  Speaker 5: money inside. Furthermore, Ams I had made inquiries about it
• 4:29
  Speaker 5: the newspaper and some other places in town.
• 4:32
  Speaker 7: I learned that her husband is wealthy, a New York
• 4:35
  Speaker 7: lawyer who came here to live and married her. He's
• 4:39
  Speaker 7: out of town right now. He went east about her
• 4:43
  Speaker 7: a month ago, and.
• 4:43
  Speaker 6: He isn't back yety. So she has money of her
• 4:46
  Speaker 6: own and she married more.
• 4:48
  Speaker 5: That's what she's an ideal prospect for our railroad stocket.
• 4:53
  Speaker 5: We might not be able to pull the will over
• 4:56
  Speaker 5: her husband's eyes, but easy to fool her there lookes
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: you agreed.
• 5:01
  Speaker 6: Might be easier to rob the safe and to have.
• 5:03
  Speaker 7: The law and out of he is before we could
• 5:05
  Speaker 7: get out of town and not me.
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: Thanks, am I propose to talk missus Handcott about money
• 5:12
  Speaker 5: by the time she realizes she's been swindled and will
• 5:14
  Speaker 5: be far away from Dukshdad.
• 5:17
  Speaker 6: That doesn't mean we'll be in the clear.
• 5:19
  Speaker 8: And I've been doing some investigating myself, Colonel Who, and
• 5:23
  Speaker 8: I found out that my Hank and her husband Homer
• 5:26
  Speaker 8: good friends of the Lone Ring.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: The old reader.
• 5:29
  Speaker 8: I didn't know that, Yeah, I thought the news had
• 5:32
  Speaker 8: changed your style. At mask Man's double barreled poison to
• 5:36
  Speaker 8: anyone on the wrong side of the law. And if
• 5:38
  Speaker 8: he finds out we swindled as friends I reckon you
• 5:42
  Speaker 8: know what that it means. Yes, she would be lucky
• 5:46
  Speaker 8: to get over of the jail.
• 5:46
  Speaker 6: Term, and you might hang if he finds out you're
• 5:49
  Speaker 6: wanted from murder.
• 5:50
  Speaker 7: That murder was committed years ago.
• 5:51
  Speaker 8: That doesn't make the law any less anxious to put
• 5:54
  Speaker 8: a rope around your neck.
• 5:55
  Speaker 7: There's not a chance to be recognized.
• 5:58
  Speaker 5: These whiskeys and my glasses have changed my appearance completely,
• 6:01
  Speaker 5: and I've had it to wait since then, do them?
• 6:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, without the glass and the whiskers, you wouldn't look
• 6:08
  Speaker 8: much different than you're dead now.
• 6:09
  Speaker 7: I'm sense the authority's have forgotten all about me. They
• 6:13
  Speaker 7: gave up the search long ago.
• 6:15
  Speaker 6: The law never forgets a murder. Colonel, You're not.
• 6:18
  Speaker 5: In the clear yourself image. I may be wanted in
• 6:21
  Speaker 5: the East, but you're wanted in the Southwest.
• 6:24
  Speaker 6: I'm not wanted for murder.
• 6:26
  Speaker 5: That's because you never left any witnesses to identify.
• 6:30
  Speaker 6: That makes me smarter and you were, uh you losing
• 6:34
  Speaker 6: your nerve?
• 6:36
  Speaker 7: Why let the thought of a mask man panic you
• 6:38
  Speaker 7: at this stage.
• 6:38
  Speaker 6: Of the game. I don't want to go to jail.
• 6:41
  Speaker 5: We've sold a lot of what was stuck without being cut.
• 6:45
  Speaker 5: We can get away with it once more?
• 6:48
  Speaker 6: Just what do you mean once more?
• 6:50
  Speaker 5: We've been dealing in petty change, taking a couple of
• 6:54
  Speaker 5: hundred dollars here and there. But missus Hank is different
• 6:58
  Speaker 5: from the small ranchers. Host is in storekeepers we've cheated.
• 7:02
  Speaker 5: She has real money.
• 7:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, those Rangers and homesteaders didn't know.
• 7:06
  Speaker 9: The Lone Ranger, the.
• 7:07
  Speaker 5: Load Ranger can't do anything to us once we across
• 7:10
  Speaker 5: the boarder.
• 7:12
  Speaker 6: So you're planned to go to Mexico.
• 7:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, and I'm going to take a lot of more
• 7:16
  Speaker 5: Hank's money with me. If you don't want to share
• 7:20
  Speaker 5: the profits, it's.
• 7:21
  Speaker 7: All right with me. I'll pull a deal alone.
• 7:26
  Speaker 6: I'll stick with you, Colonel. But I sure hope we
• 7:29
  Speaker 6: don't meet that.
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: Mask may forget him.
• 7:31
  Speaker 5: As far as we know, the Lone Rangers know where
• 7:34
  Speaker 5: near Modok Shitty.
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: The two Confidence Man didn't know that the Lone Ranger's
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: teenage nephew occupied a room across the hall to await
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: the arrival of the Mask Man and Totto. While he waited,
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: Dan spent a great deal of time with a fun
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: loving and mischievous orphan boy who's own age and named Inky,
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: who had been adopted by the newspaper editor. As Dan
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: entered the newspaper office late that afternoon, he didn't see Inky.
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: He called, Inky, what are you doing.
• 8:05
  Speaker 10: I'm supposed to clear this place out.
• 8:07
  Speaker 11: It's still with old newspaper from all parts of the country.
• 8:09
  Speaker 11: Tom wants me to stack him in chronological order.
• 8:13
  Speaker 12: So if one stated eighteen fifty ninets, some of them
• 8:16
  Speaker 12: are a lot older than that.
• 8:18
  Speaker 11: Say when's the lone ranger coming to town?
• 8:20
  Speaker 7: To media?
• 8:21
  Speaker 9: Oh, I don't know.
• 8:22
  Speaker 12: He just said he'd come to Modoc City after he
• 8:24
  Speaker 12: and towno made peace between two Indian tribes.
• 8:27
  Speaker 9: In the hills north of here.
• 8:28
  Speaker 11: Oh what are you reading?
• 8:30
  Speaker 13: Dan?
• 8:31
  Speaker 12: I was just looking at the front page of this
• 8:33
  Speaker 12: old New York paper. Here's a picture of a man
• 8:36
  Speaker 12: who has wanted for murderer. Let's see they reproduced a
• 8:39
  Speaker 12: nartist sketch of the killer.
• 8:41
  Speaker 11: He doesn't look like a murderer.
• 8:43
  Speaker 9: All murderers don't look alike.
• 8:44
  Speaker 11: Inky, Let's change the looks of this one. Hand me
• 8:47
  Speaker 11: the pencil. Dan, here, thanks, Hey, what are you doing?
• 8:52
  Speaker 14: I'm giving this gen a set of whiskers. I saw
• 8:55
  Speaker 14: a picture of an actor once with mutton chop whiskers
• 8:58
  Speaker 14: like this. He was a stuck up looking critter, an
• 9:02
  Speaker 14: earl or a duke or something.
• 9:04
  Speaker 9: You mean, Lord Dunferry.
• 9:05
  Speaker 11: That's a good name for him.
• 9:07
  Speaker 12: Oh, that was the name of the character in the play.
• 9:10
  Speaker 12: The famous actor mister Suthern created the role.
• 9:12
  Speaker 14: Oh, add a pair of specs like this there. Now,
• 9:17
  Speaker 14: take a look at the killer, Dan. That's what the
• 9:19
  Speaker 14: actor looked like. He's a funny looking fella, isn't he.
• 9:23
  Speaker 12: Gosh, those whiskers make that man look like one of
• 9:27
  Speaker 12: my Hank's guests. Huh, Colonel Dodgers staying at the hotel.
• 9:32
  Speaker 12: He has whiskers like those, and he wears glasses too.
• 9:35
  Speaker 11: I don't know who you mean, Dan.
• 9:37
  Speaker 14: He was in a newspaper office this week asking a
• 9:39
  Speaker 14: lot of questions about my Hank and Uncle Homer.
• 9:42
  Speaker 11: He's an Easterner.
• 9:43
  Speaker 9: He talks and dresses like him.
• 9:44
  Speaker 11: He's a plenty hind money.
• 9:46
  Speaker 9: Kept calling me.
• 9:46
  Speaker 11: Boy wanted me to run errands for him.
• 9:48
  Speaker 9: Did you no?
• 9:49
  Speaker 11: I didn't like him. Say maybe he's the same man,
• 9:55
  Speaker 11: Maybe he's the killer.
• 9:56
  Speaker 9: He couldn't be. That murder was committed a long time ago.
• 10:00
  Speaker 14: I'll look up later issues of the paper to see
• 10:02
  Speaker 14: if he was ever caught if he is.
• 10:04
  Speaker 12: Scared of jumping the conclusions. Inchy old ranger always says
• 10:08
  Speaker 12: a man's innocent until he's proved. Gilly old newspaper picture
• 10:12
  Speaker 12: isn't proved, No.
• 10:13
  Speaker 9: But it.
• 10:14
  Speaker 11: Oh oh, time's wife is signaling me. I promised to
• 10:17
  Speaker 11: be home on time for supper. I've got a hurry, Dan.
• 10:20
  Speaker 9: Cas see you later.
• 10:21
  Speaker 14: I'll come over to the hotel and play a couple
• 10:22
  Speaker 14: of games of checkers with you tonight.
• 10:24
  Speaker 9: Quiet, So long, iggy along.
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: When Dan returned to the hotel, he went to his
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: room to wash his face and hands. Then he presented
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: himself in the hotel dining room for dinner. As he
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: waited for his meal to be served, Colonel Dodge and
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: Amos Harlan entered and seated themselves at a nearby table.
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: Still thinking of the newspaper picture, Dan studied the colonel closely.
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: The colonel noticed Dann's interest in him.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: He leaned toward his partner and.
• 10:51
  Speaker 7: Murmured, raise that confronted Bosh staring at me.
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: Oh oh boy, he gets the tickle near the window.
• 10:59
  Speaker 7: You know who?
• 11:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, name is Dan Reed. I've seen him around the hotel.
• 11:05
  Speaker 6: There's a room across all from us.
• 11:06
  Speaker 7: He's been staring at me ever since we came in.
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: Why worry about a youngster's curiosity, Colonel.
• 11:12
  Speaker 7: I dishlike curiosity, and get it and enjoy your meal.
• 11:16
  Speaker 8: May and I haven't tasted food like this since I
• 11:18
  Speaker 8: was a kid.
• 11:20
  Speaker 6: My Hank is certainly a good cook.
• 11:21
  Speaker 5: I've made arrangements talk to her and her husband late
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: tonight about the railroad stagging. Hey think we'll be able
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: to close the deal tonight or tomorrow morning.
• 11:31
  Speaker 6: As soon as we get her money and get out
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: of town, the better I like it.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: At seven o'clock that evening, Inky came to Dan's room
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: in the hotel. He brought a checkerboard and checkers with him,
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: as well as the front page of the New York
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: paper that featured the picture and the story of the
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: murderer that the boys had talked about. As he unfolded
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: the tear sheet, Inky said.
• 11:54
  Speaker 14: Dan, I went back to the office after supper to
• 11:56
  Speaker 14: try to find out more about this killer.
• 11:58
  Speaker 11: There was a later edition in this doorroom saying that
• 12:01
  Speaker 11: the feller escaped.
• 12:02
  Speaker 6: Did the law ever catch him?
• 12:03
  Speaker 9: Not?
• 12:04
  Speaker 11: As far as I know.
• 12:05
  Speaker 14: Time's paper skipped a year after that. Maybe he dropped
• 12:08
  Speaker 14: his subscription for a year or something. Where's the colonel's room.
• 12:12
  Speaker 9: He's in the room right across the hall from me.
• 12:14
  Speaker 14: Why let's put this picture and story on his door.
• 12:17
  Speaker 14: We can put the whole page there. It'll be fun
• 12:20
  Speaker 14: to see what he does about it.
• 12:21
  Speaker 6: No, Inky, we can't do that.
• 12:23
  Speaker 11: Why not. I think it'd be a good joke.
• 12:26
  Speaker 12: He'll get into trouble one of these days with your joke, Sinky.
• 12:30
  Speaker 12: Let's get out the checkers and see who wins the
• 12:32
  Speaker 12: next kime.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: Two hours later, Inky left Dan's room. The irrepressible Boy
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: stood in the hall for a moment, studying the closed
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: door of the colonel's room. Beneath the door, he could
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: see a narrow strip of light.
• 12:48
  Speaker 11: Orton chops must be inside.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Inky took the tear sheet out of his pocket and
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: unfolded it once more. In spite of the fact that
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: Damn disapproved of the idea, Inky could not resist the
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: temptation to play a joke on Colonel. He tore a
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: hole in the sheet near the top of the paper.
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: Then he putted the page over the doorknob, rattled the doorknob,
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: and ran down the hall to the stairs. By the
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: time the colonel opened his door to investigate, Inky was
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: on his way out the front door of the hotel.
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: Out there, colonel, Yeah, don't see, it's so any Maybe
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: they're in the hall. The doorknob wouldn't have rattled if
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: someone hadn't he himmish man.
• 13:23
  Speaker 7: Look he fastened to the doorknobby.
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: What the front page of an old tribune.
• 13:27
  Speaker 7: Himmish look at that picture?
• 13:29
  Speaker 6: What great a colonel?
• 13:31
  Speaker 7: It's you, yesh?
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: And the headline over the pictures has wandered for murder?
• 13:35
  Speaker 7: Closed the door before someone hears his Yeah, it.
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: Says John Black.
• 13:40
  Speaker 8: This city has wandered for the brutal murder generash. Well, colonel,
• 13:46
  Speaker 8: looks like your new name and your whisker this guy's
• 13:49
  Speaker 8: weren't enough to.
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: Fool the log Yes, someone penciled those whiskers on that picture.
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: And if your picture or write, no doubt of that? Yeah?
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: She who could have penetrated by disguise?
• 13:59
  Speaker 9: Who could have?
• 14:00
  Speaker 8: Yesy you sure you didn't see anyone in the hall
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: when you open the door, Yes, saw no one. Then
• 14:05
  Speaker 8: whoever put that paper on the door must have gotten away.
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: Mighty fat.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: Why that's the culprit didn't get away. What do you
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: mean he may have opened the door of his room
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: across the hall, fastened this to our door, then quickly
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: closed his own door before we had a chance to
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: discover him.
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: Are you talking about that youngster across the hall?
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: Yes, you saw him staring at me in the dining
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: room to night.
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I knew something more than that of curiosity prompted
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: his industry. Just look at that picture, imish, whose whiskers
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: were obviously penciled by a youngster.
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: I admit it looks like the work of a kid.
• 14:40
  Speaker 7: Or it's the work of Dan Reid.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: Come on, you must find out if anyone else knows
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: my identity.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: How do you plan to find that out?
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: He'll get the answer from Dan Reid.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: Ranger Adventure.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Before the next exciting scenes.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Please permit us to pause for just a few moments,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: No to continue. A few minutes later, Amos Harlan knocked
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: on the door of Dan's room.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Hello, you're Dan Reed, aren't you.
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: That's right, mister Harland, Amos Harlan, Is anyone in your room?
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: No?
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: Why, My partner and I'd like to talk to you.
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: How about stepping into our room right across the hall. Well,
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: I don't have time to pulla a dance. Step into
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: our room and move fast. What's the idea of a
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: gun you walk ahead of me, or I'll crack your
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: head with a gun barrel and carry out all right,
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: that's better. Our doors unlocked, Just turn the handle and
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: walk in.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Here. He has colonel.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Keep him covered. Well, I asked the question right now,
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: that young man.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: What was the idea of putting that old newspaper page
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: in our door?
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: Newspaper page?
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: Do you demand penciling these whiskers on this return?
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: Sod it on your door?
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Who's working with you?
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: I don't know what you mean.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Who puts you up to the stretch?
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: Who besides you has penetrated by the skies.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: There's no use playing dumb.
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: We know you're wives to the colonel, but I don't
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: senor don't tell us if anyone else knows about that murder.
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: I can't tell you anything.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: You are making a mistake.
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: Boy.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: If I have to, I'll gut with the truth out
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: of you.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: Take it easy, colonel. We can't start a rockers in
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: the hotel. Someone will hear us, but we can't have
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: to get the boy out here. We'll start this way.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: Please sorry to him, but if you're unconscious, you'll be
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: a lot easier to handle.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: You knocked him out.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: That's right. We're going to get him out of the hotel.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: We'll have to gag him, tie his hands and feet,
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: and carry him out the back way.
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: When we used to tie him, got a couple.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Of links from that coil of rope hanging by the window.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: See that's good idea.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: I always wondered why hotels kept coils of rope near
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: the window.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: It's a means of escape in case of fire.
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: Where we take him and we leave it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: I'll take him to that old.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Trapper shack we saw on our way to Modoc City.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: As I remember the place, it's north of town.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: That's right. While I'm going there, you better go talk
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: to my Hank. You can't get the cash room at tonight.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: We'll never get it because we can't afford to stay
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: around town any longer.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: I'll get it, then i'll join you with the shaggy.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: By that time you should be able to make the
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: boy talking.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Colonel Dodge von Mahank in the hotel kitchen, I say,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: except to the big cup of coffee, the landlady offered him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: The colonel remarked, I hoped to be able.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: To talk to you and your husband. Receiving Missus Hag.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: I'm expecting Homer back tonight, Colonel.
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: Dodge easy up town.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: He was back east on a visit.
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: Well, hey, I'll.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Not be in town much longer, Missus Hagg, and I
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: want to give you an opportunity to buy the stock
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: I told you about before. I need now I'm in
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: a position to offer this stock to a limited people.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: The colonel was a convincing salesman. Ma Hank was about
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: to buy the Worthless Railroad stock when she heard a
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: light tap on the kitchen window.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: She opened the door and exclaimed.
• 19:35
  Speaker 15: Great sakes alive, the Lone Ranger and Totle, we're coming
• 19:41
  Speaker 15: coming in.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: It's good to see missus Henny.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: When'd you get to town just.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: A few minutes ago? We stayed off the main street
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: to avoid being seen. Where's uncle Homer?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Ma explained that she expected her husband momentarily, and introduced
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: the masked man to the uneasy colonel, who had been
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: nearly paralyzed with fear when the mask and entered the kitchen.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Then the lone Ranger asked for Dan Reid. Ma left
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the kitchen to call the boy. The colonel hurriedly pushed
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: back his chair.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: I'll go to my room and joined my frand Naghbor's ship.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: I need to have met you in your an Indian
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: fencel man.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Instead of going to his room, the panic stricken colonel
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: went out the front door of the hotel and rushed
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: to the livery stable. He rented a horse and raced
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: out of town. Meanwhile, Ma Hank was on her way
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: back to the kitchen to report that Dan was not
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: in his room. As the butxom Landlady came down the
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: front steps, she saw Inky standing in the doorway looking
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: down the street. The mischievous boy was laughing heartily for
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: he had just seen the colonel racing out of town.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Thinking his joke had been a huge success. He was
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: about to go to see Dan when Ma gripped his shoulder.
• 20:47
  Speaker 15: Hey, Hey, what, Kinky, Where's Dan in his room? Hi
• 20:52
  Speaker 15: just came from there.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: He's gone.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: Where'd he go?
• 20:55
  Speaker 15: That's just what I want to know? And alone ring
• 20:59
  Speaker 15: drew last the same question. Now the lone Ranger is
• 21:02
  Speaker 15: he here?
• 21:03
  Speaker 16: Yet?
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: He's in the kitchen. Now, come along, Inky, you're going.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: To talk to you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: In the kitchen.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Inky explained to the lone Ranger that he had not
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: seen Dan since he left his room after the checker game.
• 21:16
  Speaker 15: Where's the colonel? He has the room across the hall
• 21:19
  Speaker 15: from Daniel's. Maybe he heard the.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Lad go out the colonel left to go to his room.
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: He's not in his room.
• 21:25
  Speaker 14: I saw him riding out of town a few minutes ago,
• 21:28
  Speaker 14: and he was traveling plenty fast.
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: I figured that newspaper picture scared and so bad.
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: He wanted to get out of town before the before
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: the loss started.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: After him, Inky stopped abruptly.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: He hadn't meant to tell Ma Hank about the prank
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: he had played on her guest, but the Lone Ranger
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: picked up the boy's remarks and questioned him at length.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Squirming uneasily, Inky confessed what he had done.
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: Inky.
• 21:49
  Speaker 15: I had a tan your hide for coming into my
• 21:51
  Speaker 15: hotel and torment in my guests.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: Gosh, my, I'm sorry.
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: I won't do it again.
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: You're are gone right, You're not.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Do it again, Henry. If the colonel is innocent, he
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: had nothing to fear.
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: You look plenty scared when I saw him. He sure
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: was in a hurry to get wherever he was going.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: He must have left here soon after I went to
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: look for Dan.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Yes she did. I think we better question the colonel's friend, Amos.
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: To their.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Receiving no answer from Amos, Harlan, Ma tried the door.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: As it opened, Inky entered the room. Ma stopped in
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the doorway, all but blocking it when she heard, Oh.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: Great shakes, you'll live. It's Homer. I'm going to see him.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: While Mal went to greet her husband, the lone ranger,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Tohoe and Inky surveyed the empty room that had been
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: occupied by the colonel and his partner. The masked man
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: noticed the freight ends of the fire escape rope. Examining it,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: he realized that a length had been cut from it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Suddenly, Inky exclaimed.
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: This is it. This is the tear she got put
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: in the door.
• 22:57
  Speaker 14: Look at the picture, mister, That fellas a dead ringer
• 22:59
  Speaker 14: for the colonel.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: As the last man studied the terr sheet, mand Homer
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: entered the room. When the little New York lawyer saw
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: the newspaper page, he recalled the crime it described.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: He pointed to the picture of the killer and said.
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: There's proof in the police files that John Black was
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: not only a murderer, but a swindler and a thief
• 23:16
  Speaker 13: as well.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: The man he killed was a client mine. Unfortunately, Black
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: escaped the law.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Was he ever captured, He was never found. He disappeared completely.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: And it's possible that Black came to the West. Assume
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: the Nailias grew a beer.
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: Did you say that Fellow was a swindler?
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: That's right, my dear.
• 23:34
  Speaker 13: He sold countless people worthless stock in non existent gold
• 23:38
  Speaker 13: mines and oil wells.
• 23:40
  Speaker 15: Why that no good double dealon triple twisted polek what's wrong?
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: He was trying to sell me railroad style, Maude?
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: Did you buy? And no? But I might have. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: knew he was a crook.
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: I told Danny was the killer.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: Mister.
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: There's no doubt in my mind that John Black in
• 23:57
  Speaker 13: this so called Colonel Dodge at the same ma'am.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: You may be right, Homer. I'm wondering if there's any
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: connection between the colonel and Dan's disappearance. Inky was the
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Colonel's partner with him when he left town.
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: No, sir, Old Mutton Chops was alone. He was riding
• 24:12
  Speaker 14: a Renot the horse.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Come on the question the man the livery stable, you'll
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: be able to tell us whether or not Amos Harlan
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: rented a horse.
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: If he did, that means they both left town.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: At the livery stable, they learned that Amos Harlan had
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: rented a light buckboard as well as a horse. The
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: little Ranger's mind raced. He recalled the preyed ends of
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: the rope in the Colonel's room and realized that the
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: length cut from it might have been used to tie
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: the hands and the feet of a prisoner. The buckboard
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: might have been used to take the prisoner out of town.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: He turned to Tottoe and said, come on, no, go
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: back to the hotel to pick up the tracks of
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: that buckboard.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: In the brilliant hoon light, the tracks were easy to see.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: The mask man and his Indian companion modeled.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: We'll follow these tracks.
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: Can now go tell Marshall Jim Fraser about the colonel
• 24:58
  Speaker 13: when he sees that newspaper.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: Pick sure, here, go after that crook enough.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: When the Colonel reached the lighted shack on the edge
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: of town, he saw the buck board at the side
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: of the old weather beaten cabin. As he blew rain
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: and dismounted. He wasn't aware of his disheveled and dusty clothing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: The fastidious colonel avoided travel by horseback whenever possible. He
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: disliked horses, and as he strolled toward the door of
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: the shack, he thought sorrowly of the long, uncomfortable ride
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: ahead of him.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Hemish, I'm here, colonel. Did you get my hanks cash?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: So?
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Why not?
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: Why did what's happened to you? You look like you've
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: been dogging a couple of low coat steers.
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: Where's your hair turned? The heady?
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: You've got to keep going?
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: He gets hit the table.
• 25:45
  Speaker 13: Where to to the border as fast as horses were kennys?
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: What the her?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: A little ranger.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: Showed up in town? Don't ring at the hotel?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: What?
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: What's more? He's looking for this boy?
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: Go on, I'm glad to hear that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: Shut up, you.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: Sneaking little stoop. And if you hadn't mixed into our hairs,
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: be in trouble.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: And I couldn't get him to talk, Colonel.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: He admits, someone else in town knows about the newspaper story,
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: but he won't mention names.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: The ahead time and make him talk. But come on,
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: the first do we move, the father will be from
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: that mesh mad.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Amos climbed to the seat of the buck board and
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: the Colonel mounted his rented horse. They were about to
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: start when they saw two riders approaching. As the two
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: horsemen came close to the colonel recognized them.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: Each The mesh he never had any mus shoot him
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: deal them both.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: The lone ranger and tot who saw the fugitives reach
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: for their guns.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: The masked man drew his colts.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: He fired from the saddle and instant ahead of the
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: panicked fugitives.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: He was in The Colonel cried out with pain. A
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: silver bullet struck.
• 26:41
  Speaker 17: Their marking my shoulder, my shoulders. That damn he's inside
• 26:51
  Speaker 17: the cabin.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Keep these two covered.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: While I go getting Toto.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: An hour later, the loon Ranger, Totto, and Dan reached
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the outskirts of town with the two prisoners. There they
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: met Marshall Jim Fraser, Mahnk, Uncle Homer, and Inky. Soon
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Amos and the colonel were behind bars while the loon Ranger,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Dan and Totto returned to the hotel to get Dan's
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: clothing packed. Uncle Homer, Mahannk, and Inky lingered in Marshall
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Fraser's office. From their cells, the prisoners heard Uncle Homer say.
• 27:25
  Speaker 13: Job, the Colonel has come to the end of the trail.
• 27:28
  Speaker 13: He and a Marshall hang at the same time.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: That's right, Uncleholmer, amos Harlon. The Colonel will be out
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: of circulation from now on.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: Marshall out turned State's evidence.
• 27:37
  Speaker 16: I'll tell everything I know about the Colonel doublet trust all,
• 27:41
  Speaker 16: you got a common colonel. I tried to tell you
• 27:43
  Speaker 16: we should have left town when I found out my
• 27:45
  Speaker 16: Hank knew that mask man, But no, you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: Wouldn't do it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: What are you laughing at? Inke that Dix? You're scared.
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: Old Mutton chopped even more than I thought it would.
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: I don't think the picture scared him half as much
• 27:58
  Speaker 15: as meeting the Lord Ranger.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: This is a feature of The Lone Ranger Incorporated, created
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: by George W. Twndall, produced by Trendall Campbell. You're Incorporated,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: directed by Charles D. Livingston and edited by Fran Striker.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: A part of a Lone Ranger is played by Brace Steamer.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on the Lone Rangers the Bearded Killer.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Follow the Lone Ranger for more classic Western broadcasts,