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The Lone Ranger - "The Son of Akiller" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Fifteen years after serving a robbery sentence, John Hawkins returns
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Speaker 1: convinced that Ian Beasley arranged his conviction and he sets
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Speaker 1: his sights on revenge. In The Lone Ranger, The Son
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Speaker 1: of a Killer, The Masked Rider and Tonto enter the
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Speaker 1: case when Beasley's son, Jack, is accused of robbery and murder.
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Speaker 1: Their investigation leads from the sheriff's office and jail to
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Speaker 1: a frontier bank. and into a conflict involving old loyalties
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Speaker 1: and family secrets. Earl Gracer is the Lone Ranger, with
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Speaker 1: John Todd as Tonto, in a Fran Stryker script produced
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Speaker 1: by George W. Trendle for the Mutual Broadcasting System, originally
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Speaker 1: heard November 1st, 1940.
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Speaker 2: Episode 1213.
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Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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Speaker 3: I'll see you over Hawaii!
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Speaker 4: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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Speaker 4: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 5: THE END.
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Speaker 6: The End.
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Speaker 2: THE END.
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Speaker 3: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
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Speaker 3: the plains led the fight for law and order in
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Speaker 3: the western United States.
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Speaker 4: His strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness, made him
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Speaker 4: the greatest champion of justice the frontier ever knew. It
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Speaker 4: was he more than any other man who put an
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Speaker 4: end to bloodshed and violence and blazed the trail for
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Speaker 4: the winning of the West. Return with us now to
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Speaker 4: those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past
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Speaker 4: come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The
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Speaker 4: Lone Ranger rides again.
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Speaker 7: Come on, Silver!
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Speaker 3: Tell the queen and the tale ahead!
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Speaker 7: We've got to hurry!
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Speaker 5: Come on!
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Speaker 4: John Hawkins had served a sentence of 15 years for robbery.
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Speaker 5: The day he was to be released, he faced the warden.
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Speaker 2: No use wasting breath on me, warden.
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Speaker 6: I know the talk you give outgoing men.
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Speaker 8: I'm not going to talk to you, Hawkins. There's just
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Speaker 8: one thing I have to say. Well, never mind saying it.
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Speaker 8: You've been a good prisoner. You've kept your health up
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Speaker 8: and your muscles strong. But, John, you've let your soul
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Speaker 8: shrivel up. Never mind my soul. My soul was killed
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Speaker 8: when Len Beasley seemed to it that I was sent here.
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Speaker 7: But wait.
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Speaker 5: Killing Len Beasley won't help you now.
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Speaker 2: Killing him? No, Warden. Killing him won't help now, I
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Speaker 2: know that. I made up my mind of that five
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Speaker 2: years ago. Good.
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Speaker 6: There's a couple others, though. Beasley's friends. He could have
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Speaker 6: come as witnesses to my trial and.
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Speaker 2: Saved me from jail.
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Speaker 5: They'll get killed. John, that Warden.
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Speaker 6: No matter what I tell you, you can't jail me
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Speaker 6: again without I do a crime, can you?
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Speaker 5: No, John, I can't.
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Speaker 2: Then just in case you're curious, I'll.
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Speaker 5: Tell you this.
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Speaker 6: I've had 15 long years to think things over. Beasley
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Speaker 6: sent me here. Beasley got the case that he framed
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Speaker 6: me for getting. It was Beasley that schemed it all.
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Speaker 6: I'll kill this cunt that helped him. That's a promise.
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Speaker 2: And it's a promise, too, that... I won't kill Land Beasley.
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Speaker 9: But you.
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Speaker 6: But I got fixed up for him, for Beasley is
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Speaker 6: lots worse than I am.
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Speaker 9: I know it.
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Speaker 2: Now, if you... If you got no more to say, I'll...
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Speaker 2: I'll shove on.
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Speaker 9: Who is that? I had word from the warden at Huntsville.
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Speaker 9: John Hawkins is free.
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Speaker 5: Hawkins?
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Speaker 9: That means he'll be hidden here. Watch out for him. Look.
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Speaker 5: There. John Hawkins.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 9: There's the notice, Mr. Beasley. We're putting these cards all
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Speaker 9: over the county. Wanted for double murder. Dead or alive.
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Speaker 9: John Hawkins. Sheriff, do you think that'll get him? Well, Beasley,
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Speaker 9: Hawkins ain't an experienced crook. You ought to know that.
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Speaker 9: He done 15 years for stealing a lot of cash. Yes,
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Speaker 9: I know. Then he shot and killed them two friends
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Speaker 9: of yours. But me, why didn't he shoot me? That's
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Speaker 9: what I don't understand. I figure he don't know the
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Speaker 9: country good. He won't be able to find good hiding.
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Speaker 9: And someone will get him for the reward sooner or later.
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Speaker 9: I hope so. This constant worry, it's driving me mad.
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Speaker 9: A whole week now, and not a word from him.
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Speaker 2: You ought to be doggone glad you ain't had a
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Speaker 2: word from him.
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Speaker 9: But it'll come. He's scheming something. He's out to get me,
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Speaker 9: I know it.
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Speaker 2: You putting up a reward notice, Sheriff?
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Speaker 9: That's right, stranger. Ain't seen nothing of a man like
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Speaker 9: the one described here.
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Speaker 2: I'm holding a gun on the two of you.
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Speaker 9: John Hawkins!
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Speaker 5: Keep your voice down, Beasley.
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Speaker 2: Fast move from you, Sheriff, and I'll shoot. You?
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Speaker 9: Back here in town?
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Speaker 6: Wanted a little talk with my old friend, Len Beasley.
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Speaker 6: Suppose you two walk just ahead of me. We'll move
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Speaker 6: out from town.
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Speaker 2: Get walking. My horse will follow us.
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Speaker 9: John, let me explain. You're all wrong. Shut up, Beasley.
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Speaker 2: What became of my wife after I went to jail?
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Speaker 2: Why wasn't she at my trial? She could have proved
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Speaker 2: I had an alibi if she'd known that I was arrested.
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Speaker 2: Did you tell her?
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Speaker 9: Yes. I told her you'd been arrested, John. She tried
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Speaker 9: to get to the trial. You lie.
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Speaker 5: Keep walking.
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Speaker 9: Stay here.
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Speaker 6: You shut up and keep your face forward.
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Speaker 2: I've had plenty of time to think everything all over, Beasley.
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Speaker 6: You could have proved that I didn't take that cash,
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Speaker 6: but you never even came to my trial.
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Speaker 2: Martha could have proved it.
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Speaker 5: She didn't come.
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Speaker 6: You double-crossed me at every turn to make sure I'd
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Speaker 6: go to jail.
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Speaker 9: Hawkins, you're mad. Jail's out of your brain. I'm mad.
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Speaker 9: Maybe I am.
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Speaker 2: But I've lived through those 15 years, Beasley. Yeah, I've
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Speaker 2: lived through them.
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Speaker 7: I had to.
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Speaker 2: I thought a few times that mine was slipping, but
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Speaker 2: I hung on.
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Speaker 6: Living for this day. This day and the days that
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Speaker 6: will follow while I watch you suffer.
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Speaker 9: John, will you let me explain? Murphy's... is where? She's dead.
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Speaker 2: Dead. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. There was a son, too.
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Speaker 2: My son. Two years old he was then, Beasley.
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Speaker 6: As cute, a little curly-headed kid as I ever saw.
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Speaker 5: Big blue eyes.
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Speaker 2: Find strong back. Is he dead too?
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Speaker 9: Hawkins, we've got to talk. We've got to talk it over.
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Speaker 9: In the name of goodness, give me the chance to
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Speaker 9: explain everything to you.
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Speaker 5: Explain?
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Speaker 6: I don't need your lying explanations, Beasley.
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Speaker 2: This will do. Stop walking.
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Speaker 9: I suppose you're going to shoot me now.
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Speaker 2: Shoot you?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, that's too easy, Beasley. Too easy a way
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Speaker 6: for you. I suffered in that jail for 15 years.
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Speaker 6: I wondered where my boy was, my wife. I wondered
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Speaker 6: if they'd know that I was in jail. They couldn't
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Speaker 6: have known that they'd have been there.
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Speaker 2: They'd have seen me, but you know that Beasley didn't.
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Speaker 9: Yes, Hawkins, of course I knew it. I did all
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Speaker 9: I could.
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Speaker 2: Never mind your talk. You didn't tell Martha, did you?
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Speaker 9: I couldn't tell her.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 6: I expect not. Maybe you told her I was dead.
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Speaker 6: Where's the boy? Is he dead, too? You.
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Speaker 9: Your son?
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Speaker 2: What boy do you think I'm speaking about? My son? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: of course, my son.
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Speaker 5: Where is Johnny?
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Speaker 9: Well, he... He's going away. I lost track of him.
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Speaker 9: Some folks adopted him when he was young.
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Speaker 5: I see.
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Speaker 9: Hawkins, if you're not 20 kinds of a fool, you'll
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Speaker 9: surrender and throw yourself on the mercy of the court
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Speaker 9: that tries you.
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Speaker 5: Surrender to hang?
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Speaker 2: I'd be a fool if I did.
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Speaker 5: How would I enjoy the revenge.
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Speaker 6: That's been all I could think of for the past
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Speaker 6: 15 years if I was Hank?
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Speaker 2: You.
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Speaker 9: You aim to shoot me?
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Speaker 2: No, Beasley.
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Speaker 6: I don't aim to shoot you. How's that son of yours?
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Speaker 6: He was about the same age as my boy, wasn't he?
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Speaker 9: Hawkins, you can't do it.
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Speaker 2: Can't do what?
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Speaker 9: Don't try to get revenge on my son.
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Speaker 5: Squirming already, ain't you, Beasley?
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Speaker 9: If you want to shoot me, go ahead. Go on
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Speaker 9: and shoot. I'll make you shoot me. I'll make you.
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Speaker 2: Try to jump me so that I'll shoot, huh?
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Speaker 5: Not me, Beasley.
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Speaker 2: You've got to stay alive. That's the only way I'll
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Speaker 2: enjoy seeing my revenge.
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Speaker 9: My boy didn't do anything to you, John.
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Speaker 2: Tough on him.
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Speaker 6: But no tougher than it was on my boy to
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Speaker 6: have his father taken away from him.
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Speaker 2: I had a lot of plans for that boy, Beasley.
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Speaker 2: Dreams of him growing up. Going hunting and fishing with me.
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Speaker 6: Dreams of watching him grow to a man, learn a business,
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Speaker 6: marry a fine girl like.
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Speaker 9: His ma, like.
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Speaker 2: Like Martha. Settle down in a little house all his own.
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Speaker 2: Those was my dreams, Beasley.
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Speaker 8: Beasley.
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Speaker 2: I expect you had the same ideas for your own son.
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Speaker 2: He's working, ain't he? Working in a bank.
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Speaker 9: You leave him alone.
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Speaker 2: It'll be tough on the kid, as I said, but
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Speaker 2: tougher on you.
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Speaker 6: Because whatever suffering that boy of yours has to bear
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Speaker 6: will be on your account.
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Speaker 2: I'll take that gun, Sheriff.
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Speaker 9: Hawkins, let's try and.
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Speaker 2: I'm through talking. Go on. Start walking back.
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Speaker 9: Jordan... If I was dead, I wouldn't suffer by what
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Speaker 9: you did to my boy.
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Speaker 6: You won't be dead. You'll live plenty of years yet, Beasley.
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Speaker 6: You're too much of a coward to die. Now start back.
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Speaker 2: Go home, look at your son, and be sorry.
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Speaker 3: Oh, hello, Dad.
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Speaker 7: I was wondering where you were.
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Speaker 9: Hello, son.
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Speaker 7: Something go wrong?
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Speaker 9: Well, nothing for you to worry about, son.
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Speaker 5: What's happened? Gosh, you look as if you lost your
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Speaker 5: last friend.
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Speaker 9: Look, son. Since Ma died, we've been pretty close, ain't we? Sure.
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Speaker 2: We'll always be, won't we?
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Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, sure thing. There's something I've been figuring to
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Speaker 9: tell you for some time, boy. What is it?
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Speaker 2: What are you looking for, Dan?
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Speaker 9: Oh, just that old shooting iron that was back here
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Speaker 9: in the cupboard. As I was saying, there's something I
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Speaker 9: wanted to tell you. And I guess this is as
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Speaker 9: good a time as any.
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 9: No matter what happens, I have been on the level.
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Speaker 2: Why, sure you have.
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Speaker 9: You say that now, but you might hear things. Maybe
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Speaker 9: you believe some of the things you hear. About you?
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Speaker 9: About me, yes. Well, when you hear those things, if
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Speaker 9: you do, you just remember one thing. The thing you're
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Speaker 9: going to see right now. I'd sort of like you
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Speaker 9: to always be pretty sure I've been the square shooter
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Speaker 9: I raised you to be. Dad, you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, look, tell me what's happened. Tell me why you're
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Speaker 2: talking so, won't you? Come here.
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Speaker 9: Sure. Stand here right by this table. You see this book?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 9: That's the good book that Ma used to read to
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Speaker 9: us from. And the book that I made you swear
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Speaker 9: on when you promised me you'd stay away from the cafes.
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Speaker 2: I remember.
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Speaker 9: Remember this minute in the years to come. I'm swearing
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Speaker 9: on this book. But I... I, Lanford Beasley, in the
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Speaker 9: sight of God and the spirit of my beloved wife, Jessica,
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Speaker 9: do solemnly swear that never in my life I've ever
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Speaker 9: betrayed a friend. Neither have I given false witness. Nor
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Speaker 9: have I been guilty of robbery. Now, you look here, Ted.
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Speaker 1: You didn't swear to those things to me.
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Speaker 9: Remember that, boy, when you hear things. Remember what you
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Speaker 9: just seen and heard.
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Speaker 10: Wayne, where are you going, Dad?
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Speaker 5: Out.
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Speaker 9: You stay here, Jack.
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Speaker 5: Hold on.
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Speaker 9: I'm going with you.
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Speaker 2: Stay there.
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Speaker 9: You hear me? Get back there.
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Speaker 5: But.
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Speaker 9: You're going to disobey me now for the first time
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Speaker 9: in your life? No, but... Then get back.
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Speaker 2: What's happened to Dad? Let's get in.
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Speaker 9: What?
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Speaker 2: Let me be.
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Speaker 7: Let me alone.
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Speaker 9: Dad, what is... In with you. Let me alone.
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Speaker 7: Let me be. Let you shoot yourself.
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Speaker 9: A mask, man.
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Speaker 2: Dad, what.
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Speaker 7: Hawkins has been around here. Is that it?
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Speaker 9: How did you know?
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Speaker 7: I heard about it, Beasley.
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Speaker 5: The first man to tell me about John Hawkins was
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Speaker 5: a warden of the prison. Who? I learned more about
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Speaker 5: him by inquiry. Dad, who is this?
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Speaker 9: I don't know, sir.
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Speaker 2: But what about Hawkins?
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Speaker 5: Isn't he the critter that's being hunted for murder?
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Speaker 9: Yes, he is.
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Speaker 5: I want to know all you can tell me about him, Beasley.
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Speaker 9: About John Hawkins?
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Speaker 5: Of course.
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Speaker 9: But I can't. That is, I don't know much.
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Speaker 5: No? Let me remind you of a time 15 years ago. Wait.
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Speaker 6: Jack.
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 9: Jack, I want you to get out.
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Speaker 7: Get out?
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Speaker 9: But where? Look, son, maybe someday, somehow, there's things I
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Speaker 9: can tell you. Maybe I can tell them to you.
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Speaker 9: I don't know yet.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm not getting out.
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Speaker 10: First you act so mysterious and start making vows on
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Speaker 10: the Bible, and then you go out and try.
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Speaker 5: To shoot yourself, and then this masked man comes in here.
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Speaker 9: You're right, Sam. I reckon I don't have no right
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Speaker 9: to tell you to get out. We'll get out. Not
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Speaker 9: without me, you won't. Stranger, I'll tell you what you're
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Speaker 9: asking about. I ain't no choice, but not before that boy.
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Speaker 9: Come on with me.
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Speaker 5: Very well.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 5: Jack, I give you my word your father will be
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Speaker 5: back in half an hour.
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Speaker 2: You're sure?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Now stay there and wait for me. When I get back, Jack, I'll...
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Speaker 9: I'll tell you as much as I can. I'll tell
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Speaker 9: you something that'll satisfy your curiosity. And that's a promise.
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Speaker 9: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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Speaker 9: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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Speaker 9: to pause for just a few moments.
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Speaker 3: THE END.
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Speaker 2: THE END.
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Speaker 5: Now to continue our story.
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Speaker 4: Young Jack Beasley waited nearly an hour for his father's
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Speaker 4: return and then.
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Speaker 9: A.
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Speaker 5: Little more wood in the fire.
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Speaker 9: Beats me the way Dad's acting.
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Speaker 2: I know they realize I ain't a kid no more.
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Speaker 2: Let me help him. Can't kill a life.
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Speaker 9: Let me figure it out.
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Speaker 5: What's that?
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's him now. Hi there.
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Speaker 9: Jack Beasley. I want to speak to you.
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Speaker 2: Me?
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Speaker 9: Why, sure.
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Speaker 5: Gosh, Mr.
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Speaker 10: Jepson, is there something wrong at the bank? There certainly
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Speaker 10: is something wrong. That's why I'm here with the sheriff.
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Speaker 9: We'll step in if you don't mind, Jack. Yeah, sure.
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Speaker 2: Come on in, sheriff.
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Speaker 10: Your father not home? No, Dad's gone out a little while.
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Speaker 10: I reckon he'll be back soon. Were you at the
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Speaker 10: bank after dark tonight?
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Speaker 2: No, sir.
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Speaker 9: The truth, Beasley. I must have the truth. Never mind
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Speaker 9: why you went there. Just tell me if you went.
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Speaker 5: I didn't.
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Speaker 9: Wait a minute, Mr. Jepson. You've worked for me for
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Speaker 9: a long time, Jack. I'd have trusted you with anything.
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Speaker 5: What's happened?
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Speaker 9: Jack, is this here knife yours? Why, don't try to
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Speaker 9: deny it. I'm not denying it.
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Speaker 2: It's my knife. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 9: You recognize this saddlebag? Sure.
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Speaker 2: It's got my own name on it.
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Speaker 9: It's mine. Where'd you get it? From the barn where
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Speaker 9: you hung it. Followed your own horse there, Jack. Horse
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Speaker 9: was still sweating. The blood on the saddlebag was a giveaway.
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 9: Reckon you'll have to come along, Jack. Come where?
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 9: You're under arrest for the murder of a guard at Mr.
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Speaker 9: Jepson's bank and the robbing of that bank. Now get going.
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Speaker 9: We got all the proof we need against you.
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Speaker 4: Tonto brought word of Jack's arrest to the small camp
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Speaker 4: where the Lone Ranger was talking with Beasley.
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Speaker 9: It's Hawkins' work. He's framed, Jack.
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Speaker 5: Steady, Beasley. What Tonto has told us is an airtight
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Speaker 5: case against Jack.
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Speaker 9: But I know he didn't do that robbery.
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Speaker 5: Were you with him all evening? Not all evening, but I...
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Speaker 5: Was anyone with Jack before you went home?
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Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 11: Then there'd be scant hope of establishing an alibi. I
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Speaker 11: doubt if the law would believe you, no matter what
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Speaker 11: you said.
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Speaker 9: Jack ain't that sort. Why, he's had plenty of chances
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Speaker 9: to steal from Banker Jepson if he wanted to steal.
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Speaker 9: What can I do? Wait. Wait for what? I'm going
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Speaker 9: to tell the law that I robbed that bank. That's
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Speaker 9: what I'll do.
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Speaker 5: Let the real thief go unpunished?
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Speaker 9: I ain't interested in seeing Hawkins hang. The poor fellow
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Speaker 9: has already been punished aplenty. I'm interested in seeing Jack
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Speaker 9: go out of that jail.
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Speaker 5: So am I.
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Speaker 9: Hawkins will never confess. Not even if he's captured, he
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Speaker 9: won't confess. He don't mind, Dan. All he wants to
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Speaker 9: see me spend the rest of my life in Tome.
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Speaker 11: You're going to keep quiet, Beasley. Say nothing and do nothing.
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Speaker 11: You're going to stay right here.
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Speaker 7: What's Hunter do?
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Speaker 5: He said the sheriff found that Jack's horse had been used.
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Speaker 9: Not right.
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Speaker 11: If Hawkins committed the robbery and used Jack's horse... He'd
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Speaker 11: have had to leave some sort of a trail from
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Speaker 11: the Beasley stable to his hiding place.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 5: He'll have to follow that trail.
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Speaker 9: How to do it?
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Speaker 5: It isn't going to be easy because you'll have to
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Speaker 5: follow it tonight in the darkness.
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Speaker 9: It won't do no good, I tell you, mister.
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Speaker 5: I think it will.
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Speaker 9: Hawkins will shoot to kill. He'll never let himself be
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Speaker 9: captured alive. He won't even let you talk to him.
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Speaker 9: I tried. But the man's gone loco for his revenge.
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Speaker 9: Don't kid him.
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Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
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Speaker 11: You might go to the jail, Beasley, and have a
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Speaker 11: talk with Jack if the lawman will let you.
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Speaker 5: You'll let me or I'll... Nothing violent.
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Speaker 11: Don't tell Jack a thing. Simply let him know that
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Speaker 11: you believe in him. That he'll not be punished if
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Speaker 11: he's innocent.
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Speaker 9: Of course he's innocent.
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Speaker 5: Then he'll not be punished. Are you ready to take
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Speaker 5: up that trail, Tudor?
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Speaker 9: Me ready.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 9: Come on.
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Speaker 4: Tonto picked up a trail that would have been invisible
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Speaker 4: to other men. By the faint light of the moon,
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Speaker 4: he crept forward, studying the ground for stones that had
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Speaker 4: been overturned, for blades of grass that were bent down.
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Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger followed him, leading Scout and Silver. Trail.
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Speaker 2: Go to woods.
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Speaker 9: Over there.
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Speaker 4: Very well, Tonto. We'll follow it to the woods. Deep
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Speaker 4: in the woods, John Hawkins heard the two men approaching.
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Speaker 4: He waited, ready to fight for his life. The sound
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Speaker 4: of hoofs drew nearer.
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Speaker 2: Come for me, huh?
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Speaker 5: Well, nothing they can do now.
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Speaker 2: Will save that kid. And I'll finally get me and
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Speaker 2: die happy.
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Speaker 6: Oh, and doggone well that Beasley will see his son
21:35
Speaker 6: heading for the hangman's rope.
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Speaker 2: Stop where you are, and I'm ready for you. I
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Speaker 2: said stop!
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Speaker 7: That won't do any good.
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Speaker 5: What the... Drop the gun, Hawkins.
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Speaker 7: You're covered. Where did you come from?
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Speaker 5: I circled the camp, you see. That's my friend you
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Speaker 5: hear riding there.
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Speaker 9: Who are you?
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Speaker 5: I came to have a talk with you.
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Speaker 2: You better shoot while you got the chance.
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Speaker 7: No, Hawkins. I'm not here to shoot you.
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Speaker 5: I'm here to tell you what a fool you've been.
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Speaker 2: Come out where I can see you. I will.
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Speaker 5: We're going to have a talk.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing to talk about.
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Speaker 5: We'll see.
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Speaker 7: Later that same.
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Speaker 3: Night, the town was awakened by a volley of shots....
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Speaker 7: I'll steal my Hawaii.
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Speaker 3: Jailbreak.
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Speaker 7: Who you got loose? After him.
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Speaker 2: Get a posse.
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Speaker 9: Get the sheriff.
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Speaker 7: He's just busted out of the jail.
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Speaker 9: There he goes.
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Speaker 2: Get horses.
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Speaker 5: Get me a horse.
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Speaker 9: I'll take after him. It's Jack. My boy's broke out
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Speaker 9: of jail.
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Speaker 5: That's proof enough that he's the guilty one.
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Speaker 9: Sheriff, he ain't guilty. He knowed he was framed, though,
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Speaker 9: and couldn't get out of it.
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Speaker 5: What's the matter with the law?
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Speaker 2: The prisoner's got loose.
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Speaker 9: We'll get him.
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Speaker 5: We'll scour this whole country.
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Speaker 4: The following morning, Beasley appeared at the sheriff's office.
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Speaker 9: Hey, I found this snow, Sheriff. I thought I'd bring
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Speaker 9: it to you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 9: Who's it from, Beasley? My son, Jack. Why, that cussed little... Sheriff,
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Speaker 9: Jack ain't guilty of that robbery. You know that. You
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Speaker 9: know what Hawkins said when he pulled the gun on
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Speaker 9: us and made us listen? Look here, Beasley. I know
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Speaker 9: what Hawkins said and that he might have framed Jack.
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Speaker 9: On the other hand, maybe this was all part of
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Speaker 9: a scheme. Maybe Jack was working with him. This note
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Speaker 9: I got don't look like it. Let me see it.
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Speaker 9: I found it under the door of the house this morning.
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Speaker 9: Jack says that the only way he can prove he
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Speaker 9: didn't do no wrong is to bring in the man
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Speaker 9: that did. Meaning Hawkins?
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 9: That's what he says there. He's out trailing John Hawkins.
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Speaker 9: Fine chance he'll have a locate in that killer when
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Speaker 9: all us lawmen has failed. I'm afraid so. And what
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Speaker 9: if he does find Hawkins' hideout? It'll just mean another
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Speaker 9: notch in Hawkins' shooting iron. Hawkins will kill the kid
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Speaker 9: as sure as I'm sitting here. A crowd coming up here.
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Speaker 2: They're likely to demand more action in rounding up the killer.
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Speaker 9: Folks don't like a sheriff that lets crooks get loose.
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Speaker 9: They're coming here all right enough. Sheriff, come out here!
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Speaker 9: May as well face them. There's Jack and Hawkins.
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Speaker 6: Hi, sir.
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Speaker 7: Here's your prisoner.
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Speaker 8: Arrest him.
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Speaker 2: Arrest him.
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Speaker 7: Never mind arresting me. There's the man you want, John Hawkins.
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Speaker 9: Hawkins, hold him there.
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Speaker 7: I'm coming to get him.
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Speaker 9: Jack, hold this. Oh, in the name of mercy, don't
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Speaker 9: let that lad find out.
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Speaker 7: Come on and see what Jack's done.
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Speaker 9: I know what he's done.
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Speaker 7: He's captured John Hawkins.
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Speaker 5: There'll be a reward for him.
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Speaker 9: Reward.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 9: A reward. Sheriff!
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Speaker 5: Hawkins is willing to confess.
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Speaker 9: Did you hear that? Sure he is, Jepson. Confessed everything.
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Speaker 9: Even to Flamin' Jack for that bank robbery.
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Speaker 5: Your deputies have taken over the prison, Sheriff.
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Speaker 2: Come in, Jack.
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Speaker 9: Come in and close that door.
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Speaker 10: I don't know what he wanted to frame me for.
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Speaker 9: Jack, I'm downright sorry for suspecting you. I should have
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Speaker 9: had more trust in you.
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Speaker 2: That's all right, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Jepson.
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Speaker 10: I reckon there was plenty of reason to think I'd
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Speaker 10: gone loco and done those things.
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Speaker 9: I should have known better.
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Speaker 5: Hang it all, a young critter with your background.
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Speaker 9: Jepson, what do you mean, his background? Oh, I didn't
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Speaker 9: mean nothing, Beasley. Excepting that I shouldn't have been so
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Speaker 9: quick to believe the evidence. It ain't as if Jack
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Speaker 9: was the son of a jailbird or a killer or something.
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Speaker 9: He's your boy. He wouldn't steal. You told me when
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Speaker 9: you hired him a couple of years ago that you
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Speaker 9: always looked to the parents of a boy to see
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Speaker 9: how he'd grow up. Sure. And Jack's old man is
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Speaker 9: on the level. Jack, you come back to work?
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Speaker 5: If my job's still open, I'll be there. Good.
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Speaker 9: You got reward money coming too, Jack. I'll be right
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Speaker 9: back as soon as I see about the prisoner. Boys,
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Speaker 9: take Hawkins to the jail and make sure he's well guarded.
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Speaker 9: If he makes any break to get loose, shoot him
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Speaker 9: like you would a mad dog. Right, sir. I still
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Speaker 9: can't figure how Jack could bring him in.
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Speaker 2: All right, Hawkins.
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Speaker 7: The jail is straight ahead, and you're to march right
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Speaker 7: to it.
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Speaker 9: I know.
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Speaker 7: Now get going.
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Speaker 12: Remember, we're all right behind you with loaded guns. You
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Speaker 12: try and get away, you'll save us the cost of
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Speaker 12: a trial and hanging.
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Speaker 6: You know full joke on me. That masked man wasn't
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Speaker 6: telling the truth. He must have told me the truth, though.
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Speaker 6: As soon as I got a look at the boy... Jack,
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Speaker 6: that's what Beasley called him.
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Speaker 2: I called him Johnny. After me.
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Speaker 6: It's a dead ring for Martha. Same eyes and mouth.
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Speaker 2: My boy. My own son.
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Speaker 7: Make a break, we'll shoot you, Hawkins.
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Speaker 6: Wonder who that masked man was. Glad he told me
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Speaker 6: that it was my boyfriend for jail. Beasley on a
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Speaker 6: level all alone.
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Speaker 2: What was it? What was it that masked man said?
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Speaker 11: There was an Indian attack, Hawkins, while Beasley was taking
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Speaker 11: your wife and the little boy to testify at your trial.
26:48
Speaker 11: His own son was with them. Beasley's son was killed.
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Speaker 11: So was your wife. Beasley didn't recover from his wounds
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Speaker 11: until you'd been jailed. It was too late then.
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Speaker 5: He could do nothing. You killed the man who actually
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Speaker 5: stole the money.
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Speaker 2: I said that Beasley raised my own son.
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Speaker 7: Don't you try to make an escape. Keep walking straight ahead, Hawkins.
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Speaker 11: The boy wouldn't have had a chance in the world
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Speaker 11: if it were known that his father was in prison.
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Speaker 11: Beasley never told the boy.
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Speaker 6: I guess it's better this way. Now that I've turned killer,
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Speaker 6: Jack must never know. I reckon after the hanging, I'll
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Speaker 6: see Martha again. Then I'll know for sure that the
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Speaker 6: masked man told the truth.
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Speaker 12: Try and escape, and you'll save us the cost of
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Speaker 12: a trial.
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Speaker 6: Well, there'll be questions. Things might come out. The boy
27:37
Speaker 6: must never know.
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Speaker 7: That's the jail straight ahead.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Martha, forgive me. Gosh, I wonder, will I know Martha?
27:48
Speaker 2: Seems like she's right close by now. Won't that bunch
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Speaker 2: of deputies be surprised?
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Speaker 5: Won't they be surprised?
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Speaker 2: Yes, sirree, they'll be surprised. He's making a break. Surprised.
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Speaker 12: Doggone fool. He must have known he didn't have a
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Speaker 12: chance of getting away.
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Speaker 9: Look at him.
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Speaker 2: He's grinning. He's saying something. I don't know what. I'm
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Speaker 2: glad to know that the bastard man's true. What's that, Hawkins?
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Speaker 2: What are you trying to say, Hawkins? Who was he, Martha? Martha?
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Speaker 2: What's he talking about?
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Speaker 9: Shut up. He ain't talking to us.
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Speaker 2: He said a lone ranger. That's it, boys. He sort
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Speaker 2: of used his head after all. Warren no use him going.
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Speaker 9: Through a trial. Curious?
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Speaker 2: Speaking of Martha and the Lone Ranger?
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Speaker 3: I don't know where the world is. I don't know
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Speaker 3: where the world is. THE END THE END.
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Speaker 2: The story you.
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Speaker 3: Have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone
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Speaker 3: Ranger Incorporated.
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