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The Lone Ranger - "Murder for Profit" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: In a frontier town, three men are being pushed toward
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Speaker 1: the gallows by false evidence and by a banker and
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Speaker 1: sheriff working together. On November 25th, 1942, NBC Blue Network
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Speaker 1: listeners heard The Lone Ranger, episode 1536, Murder for Profit.
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Speaker 1: With the legal process turned against the accused and time
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Speaker 1: running short, The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into a
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Speaker 1: case where official authority cannot be trusted. Brace Beamer is
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Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger, John Todd is Tonto, in the Western
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Speaker 1: series produced by George W. Trendle and sponsored by General
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Speaker 1: Mills' Kicks cereal. Here is the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Oh, silly way! Oh, way!
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Speaker 3: Fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud of dust,
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Speaker 3: and a hearty hi-yo, Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 2: THE END THE END 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 early western United States. The stories of his strength
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Speaker 3: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
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Speaker 3: us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of
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Speaker 3: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
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Speaker 3: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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Speaker 3: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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Speaker 3: great horse Silver.
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Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver. Let's come.
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Speaker 4: Along the trail ahead.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Silver.
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Speaker 3: The courtroom was packed with townsmen who came to hear
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Speaker 3: Cyrus Hawkins sentenced. The hum of excited voices rose and
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Speaker 3: fell on the warm air, and the atmosphere was charged
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Speaker 3: with tense expectancy. Movement stirred in the crowded doorway and
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Speaker 3: in the tall open windows where late comers sought entrance
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Speaker 3: into the courtroom. The charge was murder. Witnesses who claimed
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Speaker 3: to have seen the act committed made the verdict of
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Speaker 3: guilty a certainty. But the pros and cons of the
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Speaker 3: case still held the excited interest of the crowd. Then
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Speaker 3: a sudden hush fell over the room as the judge
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Speaker 3: made ready to address the prisoner and a gavel rapped
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Speaker 3: for silence.
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Speaker 5: The prisoner will stand.
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Speaker 6: Cyrus Hawkins, you have been found guilty of murder as
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Speaker 6: charged in the indictment. Have you anything to say before
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Speaker 6: this court passes sentence?
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Speaker 5: Just this.
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Speaker 4: I'm no more guilty of murder than you are. I
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Speaker 4: tell you, Judge, this whole thing is a frame-up.
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Speaker 5: That's all that you have to say?
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Speaker 4: It's not all I've got to say, not by a jugful.
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Speaker 4: Every doggone one of those witnesses lied through his teeth.
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Speaker 5: Look at me.
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Speaker 4: I never so much as hurt a grasshopper. Seth Halloway
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Speaker 4: is to hang tomorrow. I know he's not guilty of
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Speaker 4: murder any more than I am. The same witnesses that lied.
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Speaker 6: The jury has found you guilty. The time for argument
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Speaker 6: is past. You had your trial. And all that remains
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Speaker 6: is for me to pass sentence.
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Speaker 5: But, Judge, I tell you.
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Speaker 6: It is the sentence of this court that you be
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Speaker 6: taken to the jail in the custody of the sheriff.
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Speaker 6: And on the morning of the 14th, be hanged by
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Speaker 6: the neck until dead.
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Speaker 5: Well, listen to me.
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Speaker 4: How come the same witnesses testify against everyone?
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Speaker 5: The court is adjourned. Hold it. You all stay right
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Speaker 5: where you are.
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Speaker 2: There he is.
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Speaker 5: There at the window. He's mad. He's got two guns
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Speaker 5: on us. What's this mean? Stop it. You, Indian, take
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Speaker 5: your hands off the prisoner. You stay here, you. If
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Speaker 5: you go out of the way, Sheriff, you might get hurt.
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Speaker 5: The Redskins take a side at the window.
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Speaker 2: Who is he?
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Speaker 5: Who's the master? Arrest them both. Interfere with justice. Stop him.
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Speaker 1: Go.
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Speaker 5: Send him away.
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Speaker 3: All that day, the townsmen discussed the trial and the
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Speaker 3: amazing abduction of the condemned man. Then toward evening, the
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Speaker 3: subject of conversation changed. Attention was focused on Seth Holloway,
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Speaker 3: already tried and convicted of murder, who was sentenced to
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Speaker 3: hang the following morning.
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Speaker 5: Daybreak.
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Speaker 3: Halloway slowly mounted the 13 steps of the scaffold. He
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Speaker 3: had pleaded in vain, protesting his innocence against a string
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Speaker 3: of men who claimed to be eyewitnesses to murder. On
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Speaker 3: top of the platform, he saw a row of men
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Speaker 3: who would officially witness his hanging. The sheriff was on
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Speaker 3: hand with a deputy who would adjust the black hood
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Speaker 3: over Seth's tired face.
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Speaker 2: Innocent. I'm innocent. And they're to hang me.
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Speaker 3: Near the sheriff stood the banker, a man named Steele,
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Speaker 3: who was an official witness.
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Speaker 2: If anything happens like yesterday, Sheriff, you'd better be ready
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Speaker 2: to account for it. It won't. Still no sign of
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Speaker 2: that masked man, huh? No, but we're still hunting him
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Speaker 2: and the Redskin and Cy Hawkins. He won't interrupt this hanging.
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Speaker 5: And by a darn sight. I've got guards posted all around.
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Speaker 2: Good. Innocent.
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Speaker 5: And there to hang me. Halloway, this is it. You
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Speaker 5: got any last words before we blindfold you? Sheriff, I.
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Speaker 2: I know there ain't no use pleading now.
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Speaker 6: But I hope someday, from where I'm going, to see
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Speaker 6: those line witnesses made to pay in full.
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Speaker 5: Fix the blind hole. Not now. That voice.
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Speaker 2: Who spoke? I did.
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Speaker 5: Put on those gloves. Stop the prisoner's hands.
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Speaker 2: It's the same man.
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Speaker 5: You needn't look so closely, Banker Steele. My face isn't masked,
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Speaker 5: but it is disguised. Hutter, bring up the horses. Uh,
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Speaker 5: me come. That same Redskin. Careful of that sheriff you'll
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Speaker 5: pay for this. Jump down and get on that white horse.
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Speaker 5: I'll be right alongside. Now hurry. My chance for life.
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Speaker 5: You get up on Silver.
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Speaker 2: Steady, Silver.
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Speaker 5: They're not going to get away with this. Keep your
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Speaker 5: gun and leather. Like fun, I will. Now fix it
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Speaker 5: so you can't use it.
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Speaker 3: Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 2: And about Scouts.
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Speaker 5: Someone stop him. He's got another prisoner. Fire at them.
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Speaker 2: Stop them.
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Speaker 5: Call the posse. Fire at them.
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Speaker 3: Later in the day, Sheriff Carey defended himself weakly against
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Speaker 3: the anger of Banker Steele, the wealthiest man in Lenape.
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Speaker 3: The huge frame of the banker seemed to tower over
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Speaker 3: the undersized lawman, and in his discomfiture, the sheriff seemed
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Speaker 3: to shrink in his chair. The scene is the sheriff's office.
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Speaker 5: I tell you, Steele, I did all I could. It
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Speaker 5: ain't my fault the masked man rescued him, too.
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Speaker 7: Shut up, you blabbering weak-kneed fool. I saw you give
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Speaker 7: way to the masked man with my own eyes. You
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Speaker 7: ain't got the spite of a jellyfish.
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Speaker 5: I did my best.
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Speaker 2: Your best ain't good enough.
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Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: I'd put you in office, Kerry. I'd put you out.
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Speaker 5: You wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't I? Kerry, I had you elected chair for one reason.
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Speaker 2: To arrest the men I wanted out of the way.
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Speaker 5: That's what I've been doing.
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Speaker 8: I supplied you with the evidence to hang them. Evidence
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Speaker 8: that convicted them. But you let him get away. It's
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Speaker 8: that mask man, Steele. He shows up when you don't
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Speaker 8: expect him. Handles them six guns of his like grease lightning.
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Speaker 2: Who is he?
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Speaker 5: I don't know. Find him.
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Speaker 2: Arrest him.
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Speaker 5: I can't. I've had men hunting everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Carey, if you don't get that mask man, you're finished. What?
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Speaker 5: You had me.
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Speaker 7: I don't know who he is or what he wants.
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Speaker 7: But I got a sneaking suspicion if I don't get him,
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Speaker 7: you'll get me.
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Speaker 5: If you'll just give me time. You had time.
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Speaker 2: Sheriff Carey. You wouldn't be thinking of double-crossing me, would you?
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Speaker 5: Of course not, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Steele. Any time you get tired of your job, there's
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Speaker 2: jail waiting for you. Mr. Steele. I've got evidence to
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Speaker 2: use against you the same as the others.
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Speaker 5: You don't have to worry about me.
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Speaker 2: No, I reckon not. But if you let that other
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Speaker 2: prisoner escape, you had better worry about me.
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Speaker 5: Jeff Harris? He's safe in jail. He won't get out.
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Speaker 2: I'm not so sure. What do you mean?
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Speaker 5: With that mask, hombre.
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Speaker 2: Around, like it's not Jeff Harris will be rescued before
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Speaker 2: he's hung.
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Speaker 5: The other two wasn't taken till he was ready for
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Speaker 5: the noose. Harris ain't even... been tried yet.
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Speaker 2: We won't take chances.
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Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: How would it be if Harris was to commit suicide
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Speaker 2: in his cell? Suicide? Folks would figure he had a
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Speaker 2: guilty conscience. How?
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Speaker 5: How?
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Speaker 2: It could be made to look like he hanged himself
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Speaker 2: in his cell by his belt.
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Speaker 5: It could be done.
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Speaker 2: Tonight, after he's asleep.
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Speaker 5: Will you be here?
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Speaker 2: Of course not.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll need help.
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Speaker 2: That's right. And I don't trust them deputies. I'll send
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Speaker 2: over a couple of my own men to help you.
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Speaker 5: This will be one hang in the mask man won't
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Speaker 5: know about.
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Speaker 3: Late that night, three figures crept stealthily toward the cell
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Speaker 3: where Jeff Harris slept. They were the sheriff and two
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Speaker 3: men whom Banker Steele had assigned to help him accomplish
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Speaker 3: his murderous errand. Grimm featured shrewd-eyed men who made their
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Speaker 3: living by the knife and the gun and the rope.
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Speaker 2: Slowly, carefully, they crept toward the unsuspecting youth. Go ahead,
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Speaker 2: you fool. Did it wake him? No, no. He's still sleepin'.
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Speaker 2: All right, boys, get him out.
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Speaker 5: Put up your hands. What's up? Who is it, Sheriff?
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Speaker 5: Bring Jeff Harris out of that cell, Tonto. The mask man.
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Speaker 5: What's going on here? His men came here to hang you, Jeff.
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Speaker 5: I don't understand. You come. Don't let him take the prisoner. Boys,
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Speaker 5: rush him. You handle the mask. Don't worry, Sheriff. We'll
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Speaker 5: jump the engine.
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Speaker 3: As the two grim-faced men leaped into Jeff's cell to
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Speaker 3: intercept Tonto in his attempt to free the youth, the
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Speaker 3: sheriff lunged at the lone ranger. Quickly, the masked man
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Speaker 3: returned his guns to their holsters and met the sheriff's
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Speaker 3: attack with his fists.
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Speaker 5: No, you don't. I'll get you. Yes.
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Speaker 2: And take this, too. No.
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Speaker 3: Fists flailed but briefly as the Lone Ranger countered the
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Speaker 3: sheriff's charge with an expertly timed, excellently aimed blow, then
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Speaker 3: floored him with a smash to the jaw. Meanwhile, in
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Speaker 3: Jeff's cell, Tonto was more than holding his own against
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Speaker 3: the two men who attacked him.
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Speaker 5: You take this! You only risk it, and I'll get
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Speaker 5: you for cracking my pot! No, you won't! As the
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Speaker 5: second man leaped at the Indian.
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Speaker 3: To revenge his partner, he was suddenly intercepted by a
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Speaker 3: tall figure who wore a black mask. Parrying the man's blow,
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Speaker 3: the Lone Ranger put the complete force of his muscular shoulders.
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Speaker 2: Behind a punch.
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Speaker 3: Send his opponent reeling against the wall, then crashing.
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Speaker 5: To the floor. We finish. Plenty past. Come on, Jeff.
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Speaker 5: Where are you taking me? Well, you'll be safe. But
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Speaker 5: I don't... Hurry, this way before they recover. Stop on
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Speaker 5: my gun. It is. On my horse, here.
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Speaker 2: Up you come.
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Speaker 5: But what's this? Up with you. Come on, Silver.
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Speaker 3: Come on. Thundering in the night, the powerful horses carried
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Speaker 3: the lone ranger Jeff and Tonto to a well-concealed camp
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Speaker 3: in an arroyo not far from town.
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Speaker 2: Easy.
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Speaker 5: Be safe here, Jeff. Where are we? At my camp.
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Speaker 2: That mask.
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Speaker 5: Your outlaws. We're your friends, Jeff. Why did you break
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Speaker 5: me out of jail? Those men were going to hang
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Speaker 5: you and make it appear as suicide.
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Speaker 2: But.
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Speaker 5: One of them was a sheriff. Yes, and the others
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Speaker 5: were Banker Steele's gunmen. Banker Steele? Steele planned to convict
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Speaker 5: you for murder. I didn't kill Hank James. The evidence
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Speaker 5: against me was fake. Fake by Steele. He framed you
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Speaker 5: just as he framed the others. You mean the two
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Speaker 5: you saved from hanging? I heard about that. Why does
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Speaker 5: Steele want you out of the way? I don't know.
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Speaker 5: First time I met him was when I made a
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Speaker 5: deposit at his bank. How much did you deposit? $ 7, 000.
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Speaker 5: My uncle back east left it to me in his will. Well,
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Speaker 5: that's reason enough for Steele to want to kill you.
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Speaker 5: Holloway and Hawkins also had large deposits in his bank.
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Speaker 5: I don't savvy this at all. It's simple enough. The
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Speaker 5: bank's big depositors were prevented from claiming their money. Steele
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Speaker 5: could take over their deposits. But there was evidence against
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Speaker 5: the others. Four men saw Holloway and Hawkins do murder.
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Speaker 5: Those four men could have been paid to testify falsely. By.
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Speaker 2: by Steele? Yes.
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Speaker 5: Then they're... That have been meant at my trial to
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Speaker 5: swear I shot Hank James?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Jeff.
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Speaker 5: But the sheriff, he knows... Sheriff Carey works hand in
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Speaker 5: glove with Steele. Why, the low-down coyote. Now, listen to me, Jeff.
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Speaker 5: You've got to risk your neck to establish your innocence.
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 5: As matters stand, you're out of jail. But you'll always
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Speaker 5: be a hunted man.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 5: If you'll risk hanging to help me, we can expose
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Speaker 5: Steele and Sheriff Carey. And you can return home unmolested.
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Speaker 5: I'd be with my wife again. And I can count
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Speaker 5: on you? You bet, mister.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 5: Holloway and Hawkins said the same thing.
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Speaker 2: That makes.
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Speaker 5: Five of us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, five.
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Speaker 5: Five against Steele and his whole rotten setup.
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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 2: Lone Ranger Now to continue our story.
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Speaker 3: A few days later, a stranger entered Steel's bank and
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Speaker 3: walked to the teller's window. He was well but conservatively dressed,
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Speaker 3: suggesting a man of means.
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Speaker 2: And in his hand, he carried a small black bag.
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Speaker 3: Setting the bag on the floor beside him, he withdrew
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Speaker 3: from it a thick package of banknotes, then presented the
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Speaker 3: bills together with a slip at the teller's window.
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Speaker 5: I want to make a deposit.
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Speaker 2: Surely, surely, stranger.
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Speaker 10: How much?
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Speaker 5: Ten thousand dollars. Here's a slip I filled out.
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Speaker 2: Ten thousand? That's a lot of cash.
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Speaker 5: I'm planning to open a business here.
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Speaker 10: I'll have to get this approved by the boss. I'll
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Speaker 10: be back in a minute. Wants to make a deposit.
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Speaker 2: $ 10, 000. How much? $ 10, 000. $ 10, 000. Who?
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Speaker 5: Here's the slip.
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Speaker 2: Lane Brand. Shall I put the deposit through? Certainly put
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Speaker 2: it through. What do I hire you for? Here, let
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Speaker 2: me sign that paper. Yes, sir. Here you are. Some
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Speaker 2: stranger is making a deposit, Kerry. Ten thousand dollars. Yeah?
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Speaker 2: If I could count on you, I could clean up.
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Speaker 5: Steel, I've done all the man can.
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Speaker 2: You sure messed things up at the jail the other night.
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Speaker 2: You and them dunderheads I told to help.
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Speaker 5: It was that mask man again.
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Speaker 2: I know that. And this time he turned Jeff Harris loose.
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Speaker 2: That makes three escapes, Kerry. You don't have to worry, Steel.
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Speaker 5: They won't show their faces in town again. They know
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Speaker 5: they'd be arrested if they did. And you already took
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Speaker 5: their bank deposits.
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Speaker 2: Even so, if one of your prisoners escapes again... The
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Speaker 2: next one won't get away, I'll promise you that. There
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Speaker 2: won't be a next one carrying him. Unless.
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Speaker 5: Unless what?
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Speaker 2: Unless we can frame the stranger that just came into
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Speaker 2: the bank. $ 10, 000.
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Speaker 5: Is a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: Yes. But first, I've got to.
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Speaker 5: Gunfire.
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Speaker 2: Give him outside.
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Speaker 5: Maybe we can see from this window.
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Speaker 2: It's a stranger.
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Speaker 5: He's bending over an engine.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And the Indians have been shot. Kerry, that 10,000 is
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Speaker 2: as good as mine.
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Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: We'll railroad the stranger to a hang noose so fast
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Speaker 2: it'll make his head swim. Come on.
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Speaker 3: Hurrying to the street, Sheriff Kerry and Steele elbowed their
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Speaker 3: way through the gathering crowd.
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Speaker 5: Angry voices rose as.
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Speaker 3: The crowd saw the inert form of a grave-faced Indian
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Speaker 3: dressed in buckskin on the ground and a stranger standing
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Speaker 3: over him. Then, before their anger could be expressed in action,
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Speaker 3: the sheriff and banker Steele pushed their way into the center.
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Speaker 5: Of the crowded circle. Let me through. Make way for
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Speaker 5: the sheriff. Ranger, you're under arrest. What for? Murder. I
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Speaker 5: didn't shoot this engine, Sheriff.
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Speaker 2: He was standing over him.
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Speaker 5: I ran to see if I could help him.
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Speaker 2: I mean, nobody else did.
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Speaker 5: Nobody else was around. Sure, just you and the engine.
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Speaker 5: So you shot him. Give me your gun. I'll tell you,
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Speaker 5: I found him there on the ground.
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Speaker 2: This Indian's the one who helped free their murderers, Kerry.
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Speaker 5: Well, darn if he ain't. Name's Tonto or something.
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Speaker 2: There's two bullet holes in this jacket.
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Speaker 5: That settles it, stranger. What? There's two bullets missing from
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Speaker 5: your gun. Well, that's a lie.
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Speaker 2: I never.
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Speaker 5: Search him, Steele. Like as not you'll find the shells
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Speaker 5: on him.
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Speaker 2: Where do the blads carry?
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Speaker 5: I'll see here. You better hold your tongue, mister. Anything
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Speaker 5: you say can be used against you. I'll tell you
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Speaker 5: I'm innocent. We'll let the court decide that. Find anything, Steele?
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Speaker 2: Just a piece of paper.
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Speaker 5: Hey, give me that. That's my bank receipt.
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Speaker 2: You're mistaken, mister. This is nothing but a scrap of paper.
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Speaker 5: It's a receipt for money I deposited. Shut up. Didn't
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Speaker 5: find any shells, did you?
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Speaker 2: No, Kerry. I guess he's run away.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, that way there'd be less evidence. We've got
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Speaker 5: enough to hang him already. Oh, Freeman may bustle you.
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Speaker 5: What the.
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Speaker 2: The mass, the mass, man.
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Speaker 5: Get your hands up.
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Speaker 2: Kerry, if he takes this prisoner from me, you're through.
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Speaker 5: Put down them guns. You're obstructing justice. Obstructing justice? You
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Speaker 5: should know all about that, Sheriff. You and Steve. Why
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Speaker 5: are you... What?
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Speaker 2: Remember, Kerry, if he takes the prisoner, if you let
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Speaker 2: him get away.
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Speaker 5: I didn't come for the prisoner this time. Easy, big fella.
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Speaker 5: I came for my friend. Come on, Tonto, I'll get
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Speaker 5: you out of here.
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Speaker 2: How's your chance, Kerry?
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Speaker 5: Jeffy, quick! Watch yourself, Sheriff. Shoot him! Shoot your fool!
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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Sheriff. Shoot me in the back.
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Speaker 2: Steady, big fella.
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Speaker 5: Come on, Silver!
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Speaker 2: Hey, you slow-moving mousehorn.
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Speaker 5: Confound you, Sheriff. You let him get away.
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Speaker 3: Carrying Tonto astride the great horse Silver, the Lone Ranger
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Speaker 3: raced back to the camp. When he arrived, the three
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Speaker 3: fugitives he had saved from Sheriff Carey's justice were waiting.
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Speaker 5: You did a perfect job, Tonto. Them plenty fooled. I
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Speaker 5: didn't come out. What happened?
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Speaker 2: Did it work?
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Speaker 5: Everything went as planned. They were so anxious to arrest Brandt,
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Speaker 5: they glanced at the bullet holes in Tonto's jacket and
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Speaker 5: took it for granted that he was shot. Can you
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Speaker 5: beat that? That proves the sheriff's a crook. I can't
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Speaker 5: wait to get my hands on that coyote. Steel robbed
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Speaker 5: Brandt of his bank receipt. The sheriff took mine.
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Speaker 2: Mine, too.
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Speaker 5: Those receipts was our only claim to having cash in
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Speaker 5: the bank. Now Steel's got them. He won't have them long.
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Speaker 5: Then try to hang Brandt. Brandt won't have a chance
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Speaker 5: at the trial. What'll we do? When the case comes up,
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Speaker 5: we'll give Steel and the sheriff the biggest surprise of
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Speaker 5: their lives.
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Speaker 3: Brant's trial was set for the following afternoon at the
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Speaker 3: insistence of Steele, who was anxious to claim Brant's $ 10, 000
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Speaker 3: bank account as quickly as possible. Attracted by the unusual
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Speaker 3: circumstances of the trial, a record crowd thronged the courtroom.
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Speaker 3: A jury had been hastily summoned, and the witnesses, as
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Speaker 3: was expected by the Lone Ranger, were picked by Steele.
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Speaker 3: Brandt heard first one man, then another, take the stand
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Speaker 3: and swear to lies against him.
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Speaker 5: And I saw Brandt pull his gun and shoot the redskin.
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Speaker 5: That's all, Your Honor. Judge. Judge, that man lies. Brandt. Brandt,
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Speaker 5: sit down. You're out of order.
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Speaker 11: My gun wasn't even fired. Don't believe him, Judge. I
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Speaker 11: found two bullets missing. Sure they were missing. You took
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Speaker 11: them from a gun yourself. You know you did, Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: It's a lie. It ain't a lie.
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Speaker 11: As heaven's my witness, it's the truth. Everything those witnesses
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Speaker 11: have said is a lie. Judge, you've got to believe me.
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Speaker 11: These men are hanging me.
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Speaker 3: With amazing speed, fake evidence was stacked against the man
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Speaker 3: on trial. It was clear that Brandt had no hope
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Speaker 3: of escaping the hangman's rope. Outside, watching the trial through a.
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Speaker 2: Window, was a small group of men... Holloway.
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Speaker 5: Yeah? Are those witnesses the same men who testified against you?
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Speaker 5: That's right, me too. Reckon they'd have testified against me
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Speaker 5: if you hadn't broken me out of jail first.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to go in there and throw them lies
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Speaker 2: right back in their faces. Yeah. When do we start?
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Speaker 5: Not yet. Well, the jury's filing out. When they return
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Speaker 5: with the verdict, Grant will have his say. But what
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Speaker 5: good will it do? Wait and watch.
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Speaker 3: Inside the courtroom, there was a low hum of excited voices,
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Speaker 3: punctuated by moments of tense expectancy as faces looked at
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Speaker 3: the clock on the wall, which seemed inexorably to take
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Speaker 3: away Brant's white light. When the judge and the jury returned,
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Speaker 3: the defendant's fate would be officially sealed. But in the
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Speaker 3: minds of the people who sat there, the decision soon
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Speaker 3: to be rendered was.
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Speaker 2: All too apparent.
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Speaker 3: Already it called for the death penalty. Suddenly, the jury
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Speaker 3: filed back into the room, their foreman holding tightly to
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Speaker 3: the paper whose few simple words held Grant's life in
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Speaker 3: the balance.
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Speaker 6: Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?
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Speaker 5: We have, Your Honor.
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Speaker 6: The defendant will stand and face the jury. The foreman
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Speaker 6: will rise and read the verdict. We, the jury, in
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Speaker 6: the case of the State v. Brandt, find the defendant
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Speaker 6: guilty of murder and the first degree is charged in
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Speaker 6: the indictment.
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Speaker 5: Your Honor. There's the defendant. Something to say? I want
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Speaker 5: to address the court. Well, make it short.
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Speaker 11: I've been guilty of killing a man who's not even
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Speaker 11: been proved dead.
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Speaker 5: Order! Order in the court! Order! What do you mean
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Speaker 5: by that, Brandt?
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Speaker 6: You heard the testimony of witnesses who examined the man
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Speaker 6: and found him dead.
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Speaker 5: I'll show you what I mean, Judge. My friends are
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Speaker 5: taking over. All of you, stay seated. Won't anybody make
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Speaker 5: a move? The mass brands. Glory be. Kelly. Sheriff Kelly.
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Speaker 5: There's Jeff Harris. One of the escaped prisoners.
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Speaker 2: Order.
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Speaker 5: Order in the corner.
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Speaker 2: Order.
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Speaker 5: And you'll see more of the escaped prisoners. Holloway. Hawkins.
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Speaker 5: Bring in the Indians. We're coming. Here we come. With
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Speaker 5: the engine on a stretcher. There's the other two fugitives.
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Speaker 5: Halloway and Huckins. Arrest those men. Stay right where you are. Judge,
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Speaker 5: what sort of a trial is this? Be quiet, Steele.
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Speaker 5: Everyone be quiet. Give me that gavel. Now, Judge, ask
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Speaker 5: the witnesses if this is the Indian Brandt killed. Step
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Speaker 5: up and answer the question. Is that engine on the
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Speaker 5: stretcher the one? Let me have a look. Yep, that's him. Sheriff,
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Speaker 5: do you agree? Yeah, that's the engine, all right. Steel,
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Speaker 5: you take a look.
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Speaker 2: Sure, Tim. What about it?
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Speaker 5: Stand up, Tonto. Me not dead. Me not even hurt.
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Speaker 5: We've been framed. Silvery double-crossed. Order. Order in the court. Order. Quiet.
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Speaker 2: Quiet.
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Speaker 5: Judge, every one of the witnesses lied. That ain't so. Jeff,
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Speaker 5: where was Collins when he said he saw Branch shoot?
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Speaker 5: In the cafe playing Pharaoh. Holloway. Where was Carson? He
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Speaker 5: was at the blacksmith's. Brown was there with him. And
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Speaker 5: Baird was home in bed.
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Speaker 2: Judge.
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Speaker 5: Judge. Those same witnesses testified against all of these men.
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Speaker 5: They were paid to lie by Steele. He wanted our money.
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Speaker 5: That ain't true. Am I right? Speak up or you'll
25:49
Speaker 5: be jailed for perjury. Maybe one of you can turn
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Speaker 5: the state's evidence. Steele paid us to lie. I'll tell
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Speaker 5: about it. Well, let me tell. I'll go tell. It's
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Speaker 5: a frame-up, Steele, but you framed it.
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Speaker 11: You fake murder evidence against three fugitives for the same
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Speaker 11: reason you did me.
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Speaker 5: To claim their bank deposits. Prove it. Branch, you prove it.
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Speaker 11: You deny I deposited $ 10, 000 in your bank?
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Speaker 5: I do. All my depositors get a receipt for their money.
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Speaker 5: I've got one, too, Steele. Ha, ha, ha.
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Speaker 2: You're bluffing, Brandt.
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Speaker 11: The receipt you took from me was a copy, Steel.
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Speaker 11: The real receipt is here. Signed with your name.
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Speaker 5: I've heard enough.
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Speaker 6: Steel, I'm appointing an honest lawman to investigate you and
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Speaker 6: the sheriff right now.
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Speaker 5: You needn't appoint anyone, Judge. The United States Marshal is
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Speaker 5: here to take charge. Well, where is he? His name is... Grant,
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Speaker 5: the deal, he's arresting you and the sheriff for murder. Murder?
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Speaker 5: Murder the men you accused Holloway, Hawkins, and Harris of killing.
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Speaker 5: That's a hanging charge. Yeah, but he's going to spring
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Speaker 5: the trap on me. Put down that gun, too. Hey,
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Speaker 5: move it up. Good work, Tonto. They won't need us now.
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Speaker 5: Come on. Wait. Hold up there. Who are those men,
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Speaker 5: that masked man? Masked man? Judge, he's the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 5: Glory be.
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Speaker 3: Well, still there.
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Speaker 11: Boys!
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Speaker 5: Boys! Boys!
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