Latest / Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio / Gunsmoke — Billy the Kid [episode 1], Broadcast 4/26/1952 (Western Radio Drama)
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- 0:12Speaker 1: Around Dodd City in the territory on West. The just
- 0:17Speaker 1: one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, And
- 0:20Speaker 1: that's with the US Marshall and the smell of gun smokes.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Gun spoke.
- 0:50Speaker 3: The story of the violins that moved west with young America,
- 0:54Speaker 3: the story of a man who moved with it.
- 0:56Speaker 4: Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
- 1:09Speaker 5: Wanted from murder, Wanted from murder. Clay Richards Lay Richards,
- 1:16Speaker 5: age thirty one, six feet eyes, brown hair.
- 1:22Speaker 6: Red eyes, brown hair red.
- 1:26Speaker 7: Hey, how'd you like me to print his picture on
- 1:28Speaker 7: these notices? I got a wood cut. Let me show you,
- 1:31Speaker 7: Ernie Batch, you Marshall, copy of that front page. Interviewing
- 1:35Speaker 7: Clay's wife yesterday, I noticed a tin type on the
- 1:38Speaker 7: mantle their wedding photograph.
- 1:40Speaker 6: So first thing, you know, I.
- 1:42Speaker 7: Snitched it very thunfu. Yeah, oh I'll take it. And
- 1:46Speaker 7: then I propped it up in front of me and
- 1:48Speaker 7: caught me this wood guy. Ain't she prime? Ain't she
- 1:52Speaker 7: just elegant, real elegant, good likeness, don't you think? Of
- 1:55Speaker 7: course he was seven or eight years younger.
- 1:57Speaker 1: With Yeah, it's a good likeness. That doesn't show what
- 2:01Speaker 1: makes the law abiding man like and try to rub
- 2:04Speaker 1: a bank doesn't look like a man who murdered an
- 2:07Speaker 1: old cashier and a Chinese cook who just happened to
- 2:10Speaker 1: be there.
- 2:12Speaker 2: But it's a good likeness there.
- 2:14Speaker 6: It is a picture like this your addresses up.
- 2:16Speaker 2: The front page, don't it. Yeah, it's a little.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Masterpiece, mister hine Tower, A notable contribution to the culture
- 2:21Speaker 1: of Dutch City.
- 2:22Speaker 6: Well, thank you, Marshall. Does fetch your eye, don't it.
- 2:25Speaker 7: I'm printing an extra five hundred copies of the Weekly,
- 2:28Speaker 7: and I bet I sell them all. Too bad the
- 2:30Speaker 7: cashier's shot went wild. If he'd managed to kill Clay
- 2:34Speaker 7: or even wing him, why, I bet I could sell
- 2:35Speaker 7: a thousand extra companies.
- 2:37Speaker 2: We must be.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Thankful for the blessings we do received, mister Hinetower.
- 2:41Speaker 7: Oh I am Marshall, I am why just for it
- 2:43Speaker 7: happened yesterday afternoon. I didn't know what I was going
- 2:45Speaker 7: to build my columns with. And then, like Manna from heaven,
- 2:49Speaker 7: two murders in.
- 2:50Speaker 1: The bank robbery attempted bank robbery, mister hide Tower, he
- 2:53Speaker 1: turned and ran for he got his hands on so
- 2:55Speaker 1: much as a dollar.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Still, as you say, like man, I'm talking business.
- 3:03Speaker 6: What is it Chester, can wait, asked mister Dylan.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Yeah, prent Clay's picture on those notices. Mister high Tower,
- 3:13Speaker 2: where were we?
- 3:14Speaker 6: Uh? Eyes brown hair, red oh.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Yes, also known as red bricktop and sorrow.
- 3:23Speaker 2: He didn't answer to no other nicknames, did he? No,
- 3:26Speaker 2: that's what they call him, all right?
- 3:28Speaker 1: Tennant big letters, four hundred dollars reward, dead, alive and
- 3:34Speaker 1: at the bottom apply Matt Dillon Marshall, Dodge City print,
- 3:40Speaker 1: two hundred copies.
- 3:41Speaker 2: How soon?
- 3:42Speaker 1: Okay? I send Chester over for him. No, good morning,
- 3:46Speaker 1: mister high Tower, Chester.
- 3:55Speaker 6: I think those posters are doing any good. Richard is
- 3:58Speaker 6: probably over the line in Oklahoma. Colorad him now and
- 4:01Speaker 6: strawberry rowna. He is the fastest in the county.
- 4:04Speaker 2: He has no money.
- 4:05Speaker 1: He panicked and ran out of the bank.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Where he got a penny.
- 4:09Speaker 1: I think he'll try to get help from his wife
- 4:11Speaker 1: or brother a friend.
- 4:12Speaker 2: The first chance he has.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Maybe they're nice that stays around here somewhere. I uh,
- 4:22Speaker 1: I'm sorry I turned on.
- 4:23Speaker 2: You like that.
- 4:23Speaker 6: Just why that's all right? Mister don out all night
- 4:26Speaker 6: with a posy. Noshek Man's bound get touched.
- 4:28Speaker 1: No, it's not that, it's it's the way.
- 4:33Speaker 2: It's the way people use the thing. Like is the
- 4:36Speaker 2: men riding in Posse last night?
- 4:38Speaker 1: They enjoyed it, so they were hunting fox or Possum
- 4:43Speaker 1: High Tower back there.
- 4:44Speaker 2: He acts like it was a birthday treat.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Especially gotten up for him. Everybody finds the way to
- 4:49Speaker 1: use it.
- 4:53Speaker 2: What was it you wanted to tell me?
- 4:55Speaker 6: Oh?
- 4:56Speaker 7: I got a kid, a little boy locked up in
- 4:58Speaker 7: the cell away from home back in Cottonwood.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Ed's late turned him over too.
- 5:03Speaker 6: When he comes through on stagecoach. Just now, kid about
- 5:06Speaker 6: twelve years old?
- 5:07Speaker 2: Who's is he?
- 5:08Speaker 6: With? A woman? Is Bonnie?
- 5:09Speaker 7: She runs the boarding house in Cottonwood. It's his kids,
- 5:13Speaker 7: always running away a little while. I guess he flagged.
- 5:16Speaker 6: Ed for ride on the road halfway between there and here.
- 5:18Speaker 6: So who's head seen him stand there with his bundle
- 5:20Speaker 6: on his shoulder. He knowed what he was up to,
- 5:22Speaker 6: so he told kid he'd help him and then turn
- 5:24Speaker 6: him over to us when.
- 5:25Speaker 1: He got to me, all right, we'll send a telegram
- 5:27Speaker 1: to the mother to come fetch him. Well, come on
- 5:30Speaker 1: in Chester and shut the door. You're letting it never
- 5:33Speaker 1: horse flying Kansas.
- 5:35Speaker 7: I think you better cancel the order for them notices
- 5:38Speaker 7: on the dutchman's coming up the street, and he's leading
- 5:41Speaker 7: a strawberry own and Clay Richards is right across his back, like.
- 5:48Speaker 1: A sack of wheat across the saddle. Last time I
- 5:52Speaker 1: saw him, two days ago, he was standing at the bar,
- 5:56Speaker 1: lefting his head off, the sack of wheat across the saddle,
- 6:02Speaker 1: and followed by half the saloon bombs and loafers in town.
- 6:07Speaker 3: All right, Chester, make him keep back, ran back, you fella,
- 6:10Speaker 3: come on now back.
- 6:15Speaker 2: How it happens?
- 6:16Speaker 6: My gold, my old billy road.
- 6:18Speaker 2: He pushes open the fence last night and runs away.
- 6:21Speaker 8: I get your goat. What about Clay? Yeah, I tell you.
- 6:24Speaker 8: This morning I go to look for the gold. I
- 6:27Speaker 8: walk here there from near the river, I see Clay.
- 6:31Speaker 2: He sits there.
- 6:33Speaker 6: I said, hello, Clay, you get.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Us when you know the dog?
- 6:39Speaker 4: Hey was your best friendly?
- 6:40Speaker 2: Help you buy your farms and help Clay me. No, no,
- 6:50Speaker 2: my brother.
- 6:51Speaker 9: He was like we mus in the water together, bitter listen,
- 6:56Speaker 9: killing brother.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Nobody not since Kenny's burke. Please dead when.
- 7:04Speaker 5: I find him.
- 7:05Speaker 2: I don't even own his inside. Quick, Chester, give me
- 7:12Speaker 2: a hand with Clay, all right. I will not tolerate
- 7:23Speaker 2: a disturbance. You know me, I got in Chester, took
- 7:30Speaker 2: his legs alright, kicking door shut. I don't care Clay
- 7:41Speaker 2: on his table, Chester. What you do with Clay's gun
- 7:49Speaker 2: is Holster's empty gun. Clay, I ain't got it.
- 7:52Speaker 9: I don't even own.
- 7:53Speaker 2: One, Chester, See if it slipped out.
- 7:55Speaker 6: If it was empty. Coming up the street, first thing
- 7:57Speaker 6: I noticed.
- 7:58Speaker 4: Maybe it's all that has that.
- 8:00Speaker 9: The customer who has three in less than a day,
- 8:03Speaker 9: or bountiful harvest my feesis month, will keep me in luxury.
- 8:08Speaker 2: In luxury, dark guy. When I have an inquest, as
- 8:10Speaker 2: soon as possible.
- 8:11Speaker 9: As soon as I finished the autopsy. Shouldn't take long
- 8:14Speaker 9: with a practice I've had this week.
- 8:16Speaker 2: You know, late afternoon, right with you. I'll take him
- 8:19Speaker 2: up to my office right now. No, thank you, Jester.
- 8:23Speaker 2: I can carry him all by myself. Here. You just
- 8:25Speaker 2: open the door there like a good fellow.
- 8:31Speaker 9: Yeah, Marshall, tell the city fartish.
- 8:34Speaker 2: I'd like to make a deal.
- 8:36Speaker 9: When the corpses are as famous, is this one back
- 8:39Speaker 9: in fifty three and San Francisco, I knew earned a
- 8:42Speaker 9: fortune exhibit in the head of Walking Marietta.
- 8:45Speaker 6: Tell them if they let me keep the remains.
- 8:47Speaker 2: I'll do the autopsies for shut the door, Chester, Zegwa.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Where is it, Jim at Clay on the river by
- 8:56Speaker 2: the fort? This site by the fort right out there, Chester,
- 8:59Speaker 2: and see if you can find Clay's gun. Maybe he
- 9:01Speaker 2: dropped it when he was shot. I did not shoot. Sure,
- 9:06Speaker 2: I did not. I had no reason to. I did not.
- 9:08Speaker 4: I didn't know.
- 9:09Speaker 2: You listen to me.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Maybe you think Dodger's got so big. I don't know
- 9:12Speaker 1: about everything that goes on here. Well, if you do,
- 9:14Speaker 1: you're wrong. If you think I don't know about the
- 9:16Speaker 1: bank having an overdue mortgage on your farm, you're wrong.
- 9:19Speaker 2: Four hundred dollars is reason enough for a struggling farmer
- 9:22Speaker 2: like you, no good. I am a human being.
- 9:27Speaker 1: To a peace officer, Ziglier, that's enough grounds for suspicion.
- 9:31Speaker 1: But whether you did it or not, we decided at
- 9:33Speaker 1: your trial. In the meantime, you just stop yammering about it.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Try me, even when I shoot somebody else, stand trial
- 9:39Speaker 1: if they find it's justifiable homicide, and they probably will,
- 9:43Speaker 1: being a wanted man, and they'll.
- 9:44Speaker 2: Let you off. And if not, please I am permitted
- 9:49Speaker 2: to go. Now go are you crazy? Are you? Foh
- 9:54Speaker 2: the stuck up? I must look after you. Sit right down.
- 9:57Speaker 2: You want to be lynched. You're trying to get yourself murdered.
- 9:59Speaker 1: If you've forgotten about Clay's brother, Adam, what difference does
- 10:04Speaker 1: it make whether he believes it or not. His brother's
- 10:06Speaker 1: been killed. Everybody's looking to him to do something about it,
- 10:08Speaker 1: and he knows it. You want me to guess where
- 10:11Speaker 1: he is right this minute. He's one of them saloons,
- 10:13Speaker 1: lapping up courage to come in here and ask me
- 10:15Speaker 1: to give you to him for a present. You want
- 10:18Speaker 1: to know who's with him ever, will forever, bumb ever
- 10:21Speaker 1: slob in town, slapping him on the back and telling
- 10:24Speaker 1: him what a shame it is taking him on to
- 10:27Speaker 1: kill you so that they can have some.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Excitement and some fun.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Maybe you deserve kill him, but it's my job to
- 10:34Speaker 1: uphold the law, and I'm not letting you out of here.
- 10:37Speaker 1: You might spend your time trying to think up a
- 10:39Speaker 1: better story, That is, if you intend to stay in
- 10:42Speaker 1: this town all right now?
- 10:44Speaker 2: Think back. Didn't Claig Gofer his gun before you shot him?
- 10:47Speaker 2: To you? I didn't. If I'm not underrest, you have
- 10:51Speaker 2: no right to keep me here.
- 10:53Speaker 6: I got to look after my farm.
- 10:55Speaker 2: I go all right, Chester walking on, Yes.
- 10:57Speaker 6: Mister, come on, step out something this cage?
- 11:05Speaker 2: Is he foke? Who's in there?
- 11:07Speaker 1: Chester?
- 11:08Speaker 6: That a little runaway from Cottonwood? Oh?
- 11:13Speaker 2: Come over here, Son, Come over here to meet her?
- 11:18Speaker 10: Find of who you are?
- 11:21Speaker 11: You do you bet you're Matt Dylon Gil. I knowed
- 11:25Speaker 11: you're right off, He's pointed out to me one day
- 11:28Speaker 11: back home. Philler says you was the fastest gun throwing Kansas.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Why wouldn't be awful interested to hear that? I'm afraid?
- 11:36Speaker 11: Hiller says you was faster than older, faster than wild
- 11:39Speaker 11: bro Hickock and haysitying that master center, any of them.
- 11:43Speaker 11: How many fellas are you killed?
- 11:46Speaker 2: You don't keep scoring, Son, It's something you try to forget.
- 11:50Speaker 2: Not me.
- 11:52Speaker 11: Someday I'll be famous like you, And for every Filler
- 11:55Speaker 11: I kill, I'll put a notch on my gun. People
- 11:58Speaker 11: see those notches, and they don't know. They better not
- 12:01Speaker 11: try to let.
- 12:02Speaker 2: You run away from home. Bobby, don't you know your
- 12:04Speaker 2: mother is likely to worry about She won't worry.
- 12:07Speaker 11: She's too busy working. Ain't gonna make me go back
- 12:09Speaker 11: or you wouldn't do that, would you, Well, because it
- 12:12Speaker 11: wouldn't stop me for long. I'd only run away again.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Where are you off doing such a sweat?
- 12:16Speaker 11: Texas, California, Mexico. I don't accomplish things. They're not like
- 12:21Speaker 11: living in old cottonwood. If you let me go somebody,
- 12:24Speaker 11: when I'm famous, you can tell people you help get
- 12:26Speaker 11: me started.
- 12:30Speaker 2: But well, that's a pretty strong inducement. And I'll have
- 12:34Speaker 2: to think about it for a while.
- 12:35Speaker 1: And look, while I'm making up my mind, I want
- 12:38Speaker 1: you to give me your word, word of a man
- 12:40Speaker 1: who'll be famous someday, that he won't try to run
- 12:43Speaker 1: away from me.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Otherwise I'll have to have Chester lock you up again.
- 12:48Speaker 2: Oh shake gun there, and good good at Chester. I
- 12:53Speaker 2: want you to go look for Clay's gun. Yes, and
- 12:56Speaker 2: on the way, stop off of a sudden that telegram
- 13:00Speaker 2: you know?
- 13:02Speaker 6: Oh that telegram? Yes?
- 13:07Speaker 2: Sorry, Chester, go ahead, Yes, where's that murdering dog? Oh?
- 13:14Speaker 4: They are you?
- 13:15Speaker 2: Not a single step further?
- 13:19Speaker 4: I want him Dylan. He murdered Clay shot him down
- 13:22Speaker 4: without giving him a chance.
- 13:24Speaker 2: How do you know?
- 13:25Speaker 4: Because Clay wouldn't have let anyone catch him off, God.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Except a friend, A friend, and that Dylan, give me
- 13:33Speaker 2: that Dutchman try to take him. It's like that, It's
- 13:39Speaker 2: like and it's true.
- 13:41Speaker 4: With the Fellas say you made a deal with the Dutchman.
- 13:43Speaker 4: They give him the reward to protect him if he'd
- 13:45Speaker 4: killed Clay for you.
- 13:46Speaker 1: That was the deal was Yeah, the Fellas say, why
- 13:49Speaker 1: I'd make such a deal, Dylan.
- 13:52Speaker 4: It ain't no longer a secret around Tyler. You and
- 13:54Speaker 4: France he won each other. But Clay was in the way.
- 13:56Speaker 4: You had him kill so you could get his wife.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Do you deny it?
- 14:00Speaker 3: No?
- 14:02Speaker 2: No, we'll serve as well as any other crazy story
- 14:07Speaker 2: to work you with.
- 14:09Speaker 4: You think you're safe behind that start, don't you. Well,
- 14:12Speaker 4: Clay have friends, lots of them.
- 14:14Speaker 1: I'm coming back with them, friends who will get the
- 14:16Speaker 1: Dutch one and you and anyone else who tries to
- 14:18Speaker 1: stop us.
- 14:19Speaker 2: All right, An I'll be waking Yeah.
- 14:25Speaker 11: You wait, who I've seen something pretty and didn't.
- 14:32Speaker 2: I ast j Yeah almost, I don't another find of whiskey?
- 14:39Speaker 2: You want to do it?
- 14:54Speaker 4: We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
- 14:56Speaker 4: in just a moment.
- 14:57Speaker 2: But first.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Many radio shows win high popularity with the prizes and
- 15:01Speaker 3: cash they give away, but there's one show that tops
- 15:04Speaker 3: because the head man gives away as little as possible.
- 15:06Speaker 3: What other radio program could it be? But the Jack
- 15:09Speaker 3: Benny Shaw is all be listening. Here's the second act
- 15:13Speaker 3: of gun smoke, son.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Yeah, my drawer in front of you. There you'll find
- 15:36Speaker 1: a small bottle of oil in the no, no, one
- 15:38Speaker 1: of the right. Yeah, I said, now, bring a little
- 15:41Speaker 1: brush to huh.
- 15:45Speaker 6: It's an It's not.
- 15:47Speaker 2: Bad, but a little stif just a little. Do you
- 15:51Speaker 2: have a trigger?
- 15:52Speaker 12: Have never seen before?
- 15:54Speaker 2: Oh? You're a move a trigger or a tied back
- 15:56Speaker 2: against the guard? You know you have to do? Yeah?
- 16:01Speaker 2: I got it's faster. Yeah, that's about it. Now it's
- 16:06Speaker 2: a trigger. I remember that. What in the world for? Well?
- 16:10Speaker 11: I remember everything you told me about the Texas Holster
- 16:13Speaker 11: and the Spring Holster and the double roll and filing
- 16:16Speaker 11: off the site.
- 16:18Speaker 7: Any luck, chest Roser, not any I went to the
- 16:21Speaker 7: store first and asked mister Denton what kind of ammunition
- 16:23Speaker 7: Clay Richard used to buy, and he told me Clay
- 16:25Speaker 7: had a double action forty four. I scarred that riverbank
- 16:29Speaker 7: a half mile each way from the fore.
- 16:31Speaker 6: Damn, not a sign of it.
- 16:33Speaker 7: I got that telegram off you know who ought to
- 16:35Speaker 7: be here pretty soon, only seven eight miles from.
- 16:40Speaker 2: It set fire in town.
- 16:42Speaker 7: Funeral services from mister Grinnell or the cashier. So so
- 16:46Speaker 7: it's awful hot weather.
- 16:49Speaker 1: Yeah, any of your guns need oiland.
- 16:53Speaker 2: I don't think so. Yeah. Sure. When Adam left, he
- 16:56Speaker 2: said he'd be coming back with some friends.
- 16:59Speaker 7: I know I stopt that.
- 17:00Speaker 6: They all began to just now to rinse out of
- 17:02Speaker 6: my mouth. Adam was there talking mighty ugly and mighty big.
- 17:07Speaker 6: He's got his size.
- 17:07Speaker 7: We're falling.
- 17:09Speaker 2: When do you think any minute now?
- 17:11Speaker 6: Mister Dylon it wants me to take bob body here
- 17:14Speaker 6: to one of the hotels.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Maybe I want to see you.
- 17:17Speaker 1: I think you'll be safely here Chester, behind stone walls
- 17:20Speaker 1: and dodging about the streets, rubbing necking.
- 17:21Speaker 6: You keep your head down, shunning your hair's.
- 17:25Speaker 2: To you.
- 17:26Speaker 1: She ought to be in the morning, if she cared
- 17:28Speaker 1: for Clay at all anymore, she ought to be in
- 17:30Speaker 1: black Man.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Oh lord, I find them more beautiful moment time. Have
- 17:35Speaker 2: you heard what they're saying? What are they saying, Francie.
- 17:40Speaker 6: That you made Pete Sigla kill him?
- 17:42Speaker 2: Because I'm sorry that got back to you Francis, it's
- 17:45Speaker 2: all over. Dodge Adam almost strangle.
- 17:47Speaker 3: Me before they dragged him off.
- 17:49Speaker 2: I didn't you believe me? How was the shot up?
- 17:58Speaker 2: Francis is just one of those crazy stories. They needed one,
- 18:01Speaker 2: and they made one.
- 18:02Speaker 12: But mad everyone believes it.
- 18:04Speaker 13: On my way down here, people were pointing, whispering old women,
- 18:09Speaker 13: clucking their tongues at me. They believe it.
- 18:11Speaker 1: They'll forget it as soon as this is over. They
- 18:13Speaker 1: remember that even if we once did go with each other,
- 18:16Speaker 1: it was finished and done with, even before the war ended,
- 18:19Speaker 1: before you even met Clay.
- 18:22Speaker 13: No, they won't forget it for the rest of my life,
- 18:26Speaker 13: as long as I stayed here.
- 18:30Speaker 2: Yeah, doc, what is it?
- 18:32Speaker 6: Am? I?
- 18:33Speaker 1: What is it?
- 18:34Speaker 2: Doc? Our tops he's finished.
- 18:36Speaker 6: I examined his liver and.
- 18:37Speaker 9: Lights his lessus misses Richards. Doc Oh, I beg your
- 18:42Speaker 9: pardon him. I'm sure I have made no disrespect for
- 18:44Speaker 9: the departy. Well, well, Clay was shot all right, But
- 18:47Speaker 9: from the nats of the womb and the coagulation of
- 18:49Speaker 9: the blood, I'd say it happened sometime yesterday. I'd say
- 18:52Speaker 9: the cashier's bullet didn't go wild.
- 18:54Speaker 2: After all, I could a dead man gallop away.
- 18:56Speaker 9: But the wound wasn't what killed Clay. The ball the
- 19:00Speaker 9: rib case bounced off twenty two calibra it was. And
- 19:03Speaker 9: what deal kill him was the stab in the back,
- 19:05Speaker 9: right through the spine, inflicted sometime this morning. Now news,
- 19:09Speaker 9: I can judge by a small blade two three inches long.
- 19:12Speaker 9: It could have been a borrow knife. Thanks, please, except
- 19:16Speaker 9: when I can do it, mister Richard, you call the
- 19:18Speaker 9: inquest anytime you're ready.
- 19:20Speaker 2: Marshall Chester, close the door, you see.
- 19:24Speaker 6: You see I didn't do it. I didn't shoot them.
- 19:26Speaker 2: All right, Maybe you said you never carried a gun. Look, Franci,
- 19:33Speaker 2: go home and give Matters a chance to Simon.
- 19:37Speaker 6: Ask you something.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Yeah, turn pizza to your house into the street. All right, Francy,
- 19:48Speaker 2: they're itch and they get their hands on him. Let
- 19:50Speaker 2: them have them.
- 19:51Speaker 13: You'll prove that story is a lie, that you didn't
- 19:54Speaker 13: make a deal with him. Please, Math, I have to
- 19:57Speaker 13: live here. Tell me I have to live here. M Yes,
- 20:08Speaker 13: don't look at me like that.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Go home, Frenzy, go home, or leave town or hang
- 20:18Speaker 1: yourself or anything you like.
- 20:20Speaker 4: Just go away, no way right now?
- 20:30Speaker 7: How bought me a bottle at the aliph Agains? Mister dining,
- 20:33Speaker 7: was careful drinking. No, I guess the funeral is over.
- 20:39Speaker 2: There'll be others.
- 20:41Speaker 6: Funny now I miss that bell? Awful quiet, ain't it?
- 20:45Speaker 2: It's just just about unscheduled. Are you ready? Chester?
- 20:53Speaker 6: Yes?
- 20:53Speaker 2: You you? I used the shotgun if I were you.
- 20:56Speaker 2: It's more effective when there's a mom to be dealt with. Oh, yes, right,
- 20:59Speaker 2: Am Ziggler and you two son.
- 21:02Speaker 1: If prouble starts lying down flat on the floor and
- 21:05Speaker 1: keep your head down all the time, don't go out
- 21:07Speaker 1: to see what's happening.
- 21:07Speaker 2: You understand me, all right, Dylan co Chester.
- 21:17Speaker 1: I want you to stand here in the doorway after
- 21:18Speaker 1: I go out, where you can cover the back door
- 21:20Speaker 1: and meet at the same time.
- 21:22Speaker 4: Yes, you just really.
- 21:24Speaker 2: All right? Chester, opening door.
- 21:33Speaker 6: It's my duty to warn all of you that you're
- 21:37Speaker 6: in the breach of the peace.
- 21:39Speaker 4: I've sworn up all the law.
- 21:41Speaker 2: I've killed men in order to do it, and I'm
- 21:43Speaker 2: prepared to do so again.
- 21:45Speaker 1: He was a Dutchman, dun.
- 21:51Speaker 2: I asked you to be sensible and leave quietly.
- 21:54Speaker 10: But if you refuse to listen to reason, if you
- 21:57Speaker 10: insist upon being fools, if you've already decided to act
- 22:01Speaker 10: like wolves instead of humans, and there's nothing I can
- 22:05Speaker 10: say to make you change your minds.
- 22:08Speaker 2: All right, you'll want Peter's igler, and he's not.
- 22:11Speaker 13: Going twenty feet behind me, so come on and get him.
- 22:14Speaker 2: Many of you, one at a time, or all it wants.
- 22:16Speaker 2: Come on, what's one of you wants to die?
- 22:19Speaker 6: First?
- 22:20Speaker 2: You? You? You?
- 22:26Speaker 4: Adam?
- 22:28Speaker 7: What do you say, Adam?
- 22:29Speaker 2: You'll let him here? Don't let this star on my coat?
- 22:31Speaker 4: Stop here, come on there, I'm not wearing it now.
- 22:36Speaker 2: I'll come on.
- 22:37Speaker 6: Draw at him.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Draw you all right, mister Dylon, Yeah, get his gun
- 22:55Speaker 2: man a lie.
- 22:56Speaker 9: I couldn't even see your hand move and minds you'll oh,
- 23:00Speaker 9: don't tell me, don't do you make one single funny
- 23:04Speaker 9: remark and I'll knock you down.
- 23:05Speaker 2: You're just taking to your office and get to work.
- 23:08Speaker 6: I never do mean too a fend Marshall in my
- 23:11Speaker 6: line of work.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Well bodies, there's just so much lum.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Make all the jokes about him, you please, but not
- 23:16Speaker 1: to me and not in my hearing. In my line
- 23:18Speaker 1: of work, there's nothing humorous about death.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Give him my hand, Chester, You know I can handle
- 23:24Speaker 2: the Marshals. Thank you, Thank you the same?
- 23:27Speaker 12: Can you direct me to the Marshall's office.
- 23:30Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am right here, I'm Marshall Doylon.
- 23:33Speaker 12: I left Cottonwood soon as I got your telegram.
- 23:35Speaker 6: I'm miss Bonnie.
- 23:36Speaker 3: Where's my boy?
- 23:37Speaker 4: Oh?
- 23:37Speaker 2: We have him? Man Satan Son here, Let me help
- 23:40Speaker 2: you down. It's that horse Chester right way. Man.
- 23:45Speaker 12: Oh, I'm just sorry he puts in all that trouble, Marshall.
- 23:48Speaker 12: The truth of the matter is he is a wild one.
- 23:50Speaker 12: I'm no mistake. Takes after his father, one straight after another.
- 23:56Speaker 1: Trouble at all I enjoyed children like to have Bob
- 24:02Speaker 1: Bob your mass here, Son, Chester, where's the boy?
- 24:08Speaker 2: You let him slip past?
- 24:09Speaker 6: You know, mister, he never got past me. Look, so
- 24:12Speaker 6: that door's open.
- 24:13Speaker 2: You see me?
- 24:14Speaker 3: And he hides.
- 24:15Speaker 2: Heiled at the devil. We'll round him up for you. Man,
- 24:18Speaker 2: don't worry. I don't know why I bother holding him back.
- 24:21Speaker 12: If he's run away once, He's run away a thousand times.
- 24:26Speaker 2: This time he ran because I wouldn't buy him a gun.
- 24:28Speaker 12: He wanted a real one. That boy's just gone crazy.
- 24:32Speaker 12: I swear he got him a nice balling knife instead.
- 24:36Speaker 12: I reckon it didn't signify And off he.
- 24:38Speaker 6: Runs bow knife.
- 24:42Speaker 2: Chester finds a kid, Marshall, has he done something bad?
- 24:47Speaker 2: I told him to use it careful.
- 24:49Speaker 9: He promised he'd use it.
- 24:51Speaker 1: No, never mind, Chester, he's got plays Strawberry Rowin would
- 24:55Speaker 1: never catch.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Up to try to bring him up right, tell him
- 24:58Speaker 2: to be good, but it don't. You just don't listen.
- 25:02Speaker 1: Calm yourself, ma'am, Just calm yourself. Here's his little bundle,
- 25:05Speaker 1: mister dinner, Well give it to him. That's pretty heavy.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Here. You're better not to and I am open it
- 25:13Speaker 2: with you. The moment he was born, he's been nothing
- 25:16Speaker 2: but tribulation to Now, please, ma'am.
- 25:20Speaker 6: What you got in a Chester shirt? Stalking piece of sausage.
- 25:26Speaker 2: And this forty four double action? Yes, mister Dylan, that's
- 25:32Speaker 2: Play's gun. So he didn't manage to keep it long,
- 25:36Speaker 2: did he?
- 25:37Speaker 1: Man If he wants a gun that bad, he's bound
- 25:40Speaker 1: to get hold of another one somewhere somehow.
- 25:45Speaker 2: Chester. Call mister hine Tower.
- 25:47Speaker 6: Over, Hey, and come on over, mister Dylon.
- 25:54Speaker 9: Wantn't you.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Have water? Oh Ziegler, I forgot all about you. Chester,
- 26:03Speaker 2: Where the keys here we are? It'll be safe for
- 26:12Speaker 2: you to go home now I can go back by
- 26:15Speaker 2: the phone. Yeah, that's right, I'll send for you for
- 26:17Speaker 2: the trial.
- 26:19Speaker 7: Watch where you're going. You don't excuse me, Yes, Marshall,
- 26:24Speaker 7: mister high Tower. It appears that we can do business
- 26:27Speaker 7: after all. I get some paper and a pencil. I
- 26:30Speaker 7: want some notices.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Printed, fire away. I wanted for murder. I wanted murder.
- 26:36Speaker 2: What's the boy's name?
- 26:38Speaker 5: Bonnie William, Bonnie William, Bonnie William Bonnie.
- 26:44Speaker 2: Aged twelve. I had about five feet hairlight, eyes blue,
- 26:51Speaker 2: and I suppose he's known any other name.
- 26:55Speaker 12: Everybody just told him Billy.
- 26:58Speaker 2: The Kid, oh so known as Billy.
- 27:02Speaker 1: The Kid.
- 27:19Speaker 3: Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
- 27:23Speaker 3: Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
- 27:27Speaker 3: written for Gun Smoke by Walter Newman, with music composed
- 27:30Speaker 3: and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in Tonight's cast were
- 27:33Speaker 3: Don Diamond, Parley Bear, Harry Bartel, and Howard McNair, with
- 27:38Speaker 3: Richard Bials, Paul dubav Georgia Ellis and Mary Lansing join
- 27:42Speaker 3: us again next week as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights
- 27:45Speaker 3: to bring law and order out of the wild violence
- 27:48Speaker 3: of the West.
- 27:49Speaker 4: In gun Smoke.
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