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The Lone Ranger - "Murder Man" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Four killings have left a frontier community on edge, and
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Speaker 1: Tonto finds himself accused before an angry crowd ready to
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Speaker 1: take the law into its own hands. From June 19th, 1946,
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Speaker 1: this is The Lone Ranger, episode 2092, Murder Man. Brace
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Speaker 1: Beamer stars as the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto,
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Speaker 1: in a story credited to Fran Stryker. As the accusations mount,
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Speaker 1: the masked rider must protect his friend while seeking the
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Speaker 1: truth behind the killings. And now, we return to the
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Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: ¶ ¶.
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Speaker 3: A fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud
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Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver, the Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 5: THE END THE END Thank you.
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Speaker 3: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful
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Speaker 3: masked rider of the plains led the fight for law
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Speaker 3: and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in
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Speaker 3: the pages of history can one find a greater champion
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Speaker 3: of justice.
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Speaker 6: Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
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Speaker 3: From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of
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Speaker 3: the great horse, Silver.
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Speaker 6: The Lone Ranger rides again.
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Speaker 5: Go, Silver! Let's go, big fellow! Go, Silver!
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Speaker 4: Hooray! Hooray!
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Speaker 3: The lone ranger and Tonto were riding through the night
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Speaker 3: on the gravel floor of an arroyo when they heard
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Speaker 3: the shots.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Silver, oh, boy, oh. Oh, fella, oh, fella. Easy.
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Speaker 5: You heard that, Tonto? Ah, a gunshot. Which side of
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Speaker 5: the arroyo? Me think it's that side. That's what I thought.
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Speaker 7: Come on up to the top of the bank.
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Speaker 5: Come on there, Silver. Get him up, Scout. Come on, fella.
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Speaker 5: Up you go, boy. That's it. Come on, Scout. Come on. Easy, Tonto.
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Speaker 6: Hold it.
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Speaker 5: Whoa. They're like way over yonder. Yes, I see it.
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Speaker 5: Maybe house. Maybe campfire. Too far to tell. Come on, Toto.
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Speaker 3: As the masked man and his Indian friend raced across
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Speaker 3: the level ground, the dim light took form.
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Speaker 6: The glow resolved itself into a small window.
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Speaker 3: The light came from a single candle that burned inside
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Speaker 3: the one-room cabin.
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Speaker 6: Just beyond the cabin, there were trees. The edge of
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Speaker 6: a dense forest.
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Speaker 5: I wonder if.
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Speaker 7: Those shots came from here.
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Speaker 6: We soon know.
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Speaker 5: Right there, Silver. The door is wide open. Let me
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Speaker 5: see it. I'll take a look inside. Otto.
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Speaker 7: There's a man in there on the floor. Put the
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Speaker 7: horses in back and take a quick look around. I'll
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Speaker 7: see about the man.
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Speaker 5: Steady there, steady.
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Speaker 6: Help me.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to. Let me see how badly you're hurt.
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Speaker 8: It's bad, ain't it?
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Speaker 5: You've been hit twice. You know who did it?
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Speaker 9: It was the killer.
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Speaker 8: The same one.
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Speaker 5: The same one? What do you mean?
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Speaker 8: He got the others back. I'm number four. I... I
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Speaker 8: knew too much.
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Speaker 5: Can you name the man who shot you? Name him.
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Speaker 5: Just his name, that's all. How bad? How hurt? Too
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Speaker 5: far gone to help, Tonto. Just a minute.
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Speaker 7: His heart is still beating. Get some water. There on
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Speaker 7: the table. You can just get him conscious long enough
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Speaker 7: to breathe one word. You'll name the man who shot him.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 10: Here, water.
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Speaker 5: Force him on this. Uh-huh. He said something about being
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Speaker 5: the fourth man to die. Hey, that's enough.
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Speaker 7: If he speaks, be sure to catch every word.
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Speaker 4: No, Pete.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes I think we're just a couple of plain and
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Speaker 2: fancy fools to keep on being deputy sheriff.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's better no job at all, Hank.
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Speaker 2: It's all right till this mysterious murder man started operations
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Speaker 2: around here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 6: The past couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: We've done nothing but ride down a hundred-odd blind trails.
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Speaker 2: I'll lay two to one this years to be another
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Speaker 2: one of them.
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Speaker 5: Where'd his nibs get the notion that the killer might
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Speaker 5: go after old Clint?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: Where'd his nibs get all his other notions?
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Speaker 2: Doggone decide if he can't do his own work, why
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Speaker 2: don't he resign as sheriff and let one of us
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Speaker 2: have the job?
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Speaker 11: Ah, don't be too hard on Deverick. It ain't his
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Speaker 11: fault he can't walk.
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Speaker 8: Maybe not, but I can't... You might get crippled.
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Speaker 5: Up with rheumatics yourself someday.
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Speaker 8: Take my word for it, Pete.
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Speaker 2: If ever I am, and if I'm sitting at home
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Speaker 2: while a couple of critters like you and me do
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Speaker 2: all the work, I'll see that them same get the credit.
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Speaker 5: Maybe Sheriff Deverick will give us the credit. Funny world.
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Speaker 2: He'll rave and rant and howl for action until we
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Speaker 2: run this murder man down.
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Speaker 8: When we do, he'll take all the thanks and reward money.
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Speaker 8: You'll see if he does.
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Speaker 5: Oh, stop your growling, Hank.
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Speaker 2: Blames us for not getting the killer, but won't give
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Speaker 2: us no credit if we do.
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Speaker 5: There's Clem's cabin.
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Speaker 8: There's a light going.
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Speaker 5: The goat's up late as usual. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: No, Pete, I think Sheriff Demrick's got spies.
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Speaker 5: Spies? Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: I think he's got some glutes around town to whisper
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Speaker 2: things in his ear. He sure has some way of
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Speaker 2: knowing things. Hey, that's a horse.
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Speaker 5: I heard it. Clem don't keep a horse, does he?
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Speaker 8: Not that I know of. He didn't have one last week.
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Speaker 5: We better rein up right here and be careful how
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Speaker 5: we close in.
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Speaker 11: Who?
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Speaker 5: Who there? Who? Who are you? Who there? Maybe we'll
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Speaker 5: get a crack at the murder man, whoever he is.
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Speaker 5: You better unlimber your gun. All right, now leave the
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Speaker 5: horse as the ground hits. We'll go ahead on foot.
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Speaker 8: Keep your voice down.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. There.
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Speaker 9: The horse again.
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Speaker 5: It's beyond the house.
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Speaker 8: Pete, there's someone moving about in there. I've seen the shatter.
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Speaker 5: Oh, if you get close to the door, we'll jump
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Speaker 5: in sudden. Yeah, this way now. I'll give the word.
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Speaker 9: Whenever you say.
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Speaker 5: Order now. I should, boss. Pick him up. Pick him, fellow.
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Speaker 5: There they are. Pick him up. Sorry. Oh, let go
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Speaker 5: of me. Lock his gun down, fellow. Oh. You want
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Speaker 5: to rematch? Here, I'll get you. First let me get loose.
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Speaker 5: Next time you call, don't tell a girl. Hey, come
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Speaker 5: on back here. Hey, Hank, they're getting away. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 5: Where'd he knock my guns? They had ratted all. I
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Speaker 5: can't find it.
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Speaker 8: Get them, Pete.
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Speaker 5: Hey, they're going away. Oh, thunderation. Hank, what are you
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Speaker 5: doing on the floor? That bass man, he tagged my chin.
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Speaker 8: Look at my chin, Sheriff Demrick. You can see that
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Speaker 8: I sure stopped something mighty hard.
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Speaker 11: Honest, Sheriff, we didn't have a chance. Those two must
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Speaker 11: have known we were sneaking up. They were waiting for
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Speaker 11: us as soon as we stepped through the door.
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Speaker 5: They? Yeah, there was two of them there. Redskin and
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Speaker 5: the masked man. Well, why'd you let him get away?
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Speaker 5: Why didn't you shoot him? Well, Hank was falling on
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Speaker 5: the floor and Redskin knocked my gun out of my hand.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to follow if they got away in the woods.
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Speaker 8: Wasn't no use trying to follow them in that woods, Sheriff.
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Speaker 5: Figured we'd better come right here to you and tell
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Speaker 5: you old Clem was dead. That's four deaths in the
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Speaker 5: past two weeks.
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Speaker 2: A fine pair of nincompoops I have for deputies. Oh,
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Speaker 2: if my legs were better, I'd show you young squirts
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Speaker 2: a thing or two.
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Speaker 5: We've done our best, Sheriff. Your best wasn't good enough.
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Speaker 5: We couldn't help it, Sheriff.
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Speaker 2: I told you two galoots that Clem was in danger.
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Speaker 2: I bet you dawdled on your way to his place.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 5: I knew it. How'd you know he was in danger, Sheriff?
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Speaker 5: He was in town today.
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Speaker 2: Called on Judge Parker and told him he had a
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Speaker 2: pretty fair notion as to who the murder man was.
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Speaker 8: He did?
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Speaker 5: Yes. Judge brought him here to my house and told
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Speaker 5: me about it. What'd he say?
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Speaker 2: He said he had some sort of clue to the
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Speaker 2: man who killed Doc Robertson.
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Speaker 5: That'd be the same man that killed and robbed them
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Speaker 5: two newcomers... just before Doc Robertson was shot. Probably.
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Speaker 8: Did he say what the clue was?
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Speaker 5: No, he promised to bring it into town tomorrow. Poor
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Speaker 5: old Clem must have liked walking. It's four miles to
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Speaker 5: his place.
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Speaker 8: Chances are Clem bragged all over town about knowing something.
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Speaker 8: The murder man heard him.
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Speaker 2: That's what I figured. That's what I thought would happen.
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Speaker 2: So I sent you two to Clem's place, thinking the
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Speaker 2: killers would go after that evidence. And what happened? You
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Speaker 2: got there too late.
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Speaker 5: No. Well, anyhow, Sheriff, we did learn something. We learned
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Speaker 5: that there's two men instead of one. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And we also learned that one of the pair is
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Speaker 2: an Indian and it's called Tonto.
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Speaker 3: From the home of the crippled sheriff, Hank and Pete
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Speaker 3: went to the cafe and told their story.
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Speaker 5: By midnight.
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Speaker 3: Everyone had heard of Clem's death and the masked man
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Speaker 3: and Indian who were to be hunted down. No one
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Speaker 3: paid any attention to a tall stranger who had drifted
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Speaker 3: into the cafe. There was no reason to suspect that
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Speaker 3: he was the subject of most of the conversation. Because
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Speaker 3: he wore a disguise instead of a mask that the
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Speaker 3: lawman had seen.
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Speaker 12: Is Demrick going to inform a posse to find that
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Speaker 12: man scombray in the red skin?
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Speaker 5: Oh, sure he is.
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Speaker 8: The first thing in the morning.
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Speaker 5: Oh, you're starting out from daybreak, I suppose. No. By thunder,
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Speaker 5: I sure hope we get those killers. Oh, Clem was
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Speaker 5: my friend.
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Speaker 8: Oh, he'll get them all right, won't we, Peter?
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Speaker 5: You bet. Well, do you think you'll recognize them?
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Speaker 3: Huh?
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Speaker 6: What's that, stranger?
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Speaker 7: Did you see the men who escaped from Clem's house?
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Speaker 7: You can identify them?
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Speaker 8: Doggone right. The mask won't clip me right here in
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Speaker 8: the chin.
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Speaker 13: Look.
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Speaker 8: See how I'm swole up?
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes.
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Speaker 8: I'll get square. Just wait till I see them the
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Speaker 8: next time.
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Speaker 5: Look right at him, Toto. He didn't recognize me without
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Speaker 5: my mask.
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Speaker 7: We're safe here in camp till morning. Tomorrow at daybreak,
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Speaker 7: a posse will start looking for us. Maybe it's bad
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Speaker 7: we run away. Maybe it's better we stay and place
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Speaker 7: a murder.
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Speaker 5: Meet Lawman.
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Speaker 7: Well, he had to escape or surrender, Kimo Sabe. If
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Speaker 7: we'd surrendered, we might have been found guilty of Clem's death.
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Speaker 5: The card would have been stacked against us. What do
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Speaker 5: we do? If we stay here, we'll be found. We
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Speaker 5: go away? If we do that, the real killer will
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Speaker 5: never be found.
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Speaker 7: Taro, that man's guilty of four murders.
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Speaker 5: He's got to pay.
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Speaker 6: But how will he get proof?
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Speaker 7: I thought over a plan on the way from town,
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Speaker 7: but it may be a dangerous one.
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Speaker 13: Oh.
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Speaker 10: And what's your plan?
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Speaker 14: Hello, you've got to go to jail, and I've got
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Speaker 14: to put you there.
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Speaker 6: The posse set out at daybreak.
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Speaker 3: Four hours later, Sheriff Demrick sat in a chair on
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Speaker 3: the porch before his office with a.
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Speaker 6: Blanket across his knees.
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Speaker 6: He was roused from a doze by a fierce clattering
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Speaker 6: of hoops.
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Speaker 3: He looked up to see Pete Hank and another member
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Speaker 3: of the posse.
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Speaker 6: Leading a furiously fighting paint horse.
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Speaker 5: Hey, what the shame? Hang on, George. Throw your hips
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Speaker 5: on the rail.
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Speaker 8: I'm tired of it, Kurt.
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Speaker 5: Maybe you'll be quiet when you start dragging it. Hey, there.
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Speaker 5: Calm down. Hey, Sheriff, look what we got. What's that?
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Speaker 15: It's the horse of that redskin, one of the two killers.
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Speaker 5: He's found his camp, Sheriff. Where's the redskin? Did you
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Speaker 5: shoot him? Oh, we didn't see him. Looked all around,
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Speaker 5: there's no sign of him. So we brought the horse in.
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Speaker 8: We left a couple of men in hiding to watch
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Speaker 8: the camp in case he goes back there.
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Speaker 2: What about the mass man? There was no sign of him.
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Speaker 2: How do you know that this is the Redskin's horse?
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Speaker 2: There's a couple of clear footprints, Sheriff. They were moccasin prints.
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Speaker 2: We compared them to some prints near Clem's house, and
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Speaker 2: they checked. This is the right horse. There's no doubt
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Speaker 2: of it. Hey, what's this coming down the street?
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Speaker 15: Pete, that's the Indian. Sure enough, that's a critter. Yeah,
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Speaker 15: but who's the old desert rat riding that horse in
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Speaker 15: back of him? He's got the Redskin at gunpoint. Looks
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Speaker 15: like he captured him. Look, he's marching right up here.
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Speaker 11: Good.
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Speaker 6: Silver's pure white coat was dirty.
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Speaker 3: So was the tattered clothes and the floppy hat that
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Speaker 3: the slumped-over.
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Speaker 6: Figure in the saddle was wearing.
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Speaker 3: It was a curious disguise that the Lone Ranger had
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Speaker 3: chosen to appear in town with Tonto as his prisoner.
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Speaker 11: Hey, you, Ensign, get your hands up.
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Speaker 5: We want you.
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Speaker 8: Hold on there, gents.
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Speaker 5: As you could as my prisoner. I guessed him trying
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Speaker 5: to steal more. Oh, me not steal him. Oh, Steve, too, huh?
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Speaker 5: Me only try right him. Hey, look. The pain recognizes
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Speaker 5: the red skin. By darn, that's proof. We want you, Tonto.
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Speaker 5: We'll take charge of him. He's wanted for murder. Murder,
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Speaker 5: you say? Four murders. Well, is there a reward?
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Speaker 2: That's none of your affair. We'll take charge of the prisoner.
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Speaker 2: Now you get along.
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Speaker 6: But if there's reward money coming, I should stick around,
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Speaker 6: maybe give me a little.
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Speaker 5: I said clear out. Now I'm the law.
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Speaker 2: If you don't, we'll throw you in jail for vagrancy
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Speaker 2: or something.
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Speaker 5: All right, Sheriff. All right. I don't care if that's
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Speaker 5: the way you feel about it. I don't want me
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Speaker 5: in no trouble. Get up there!
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Speaker 3: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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Speaker 3: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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Speaker 3: to pause for.
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Speaker 6: Just a few moments.
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Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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Speaker 5: THE END.
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Speaker 6: Now to continue our story.
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Speaker 3: Judge Parker arrived at the sheriff's office soon after Tom
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Speaker 3: had been locked behind the bar door. Sheriff Demerick's two
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Speaker 3: deputies carried the crippled lawman to a chair just outside
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Speaker 3: the door of a cell.
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Speaker 5: We'll be around, Sheriff. You want us to stop? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Is it all right for me to talk to the
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Speaker 2: Indian now, Sheriff Deming? Go ahead, George, and see what
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Speaker 2: you can do with him. Hey, tell me your name
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Speaker 2: is Tonto.
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Speaker 10: Ah, hey, Tonto.
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Speaker 9: Well, now, Tonto, let me tell you something. The law
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Speaker 9: is more interested in a white man who wears a
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Speaker 9: mask than a noob. Now, if you'd help the law,
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Speaker 9: it might help you when you go on trial.
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Speaker 10: Well, me get proof that Maskman Tonto not murder.
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Speaker 5: Proof? Why, you local.
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Speaker 9: Well, he might be telling the truth, Sheriff. You remember
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Speaker 9: what Clem said when he came to town yesterday?
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Speaker 5: He was just talking. That killer's too sleek to let
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Speaker 5: anyone have any proof against him.
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Speaker 9: Tonto.
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 9: If you'll trust me, I might be able to help you.
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Speaker 11: Oh.
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Speaker 5: Me wait.
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Speaker 9: The man who was killed last night said that he
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Speaker 9: thought he could bring proof against the murdered man sometime today. Ah,
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Speaker 9: and proof come tonight.
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Speaker 5: How's it coming? Who's to bring it? I think you're
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Speaker 5: an out-and-out liar. That's what I think. You wait. You see.
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Speaker 10: Masked friend come here into town. Him bring proof against
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Speaker 10: murder man. Him show everyone the counter, not killer. Him
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Speaker 10: show everyone who real killer is.
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Speaker 5: You see.
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Speaker 9: You mean to say that your mass friend is the
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Speaker 9: one who's to bring that evidence?
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Speaker 10: That's right.
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Speaker 9: Sheriff, I wonder if we've been accusing the wrong people.
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Speaker 5: Not on your life.
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Speaker 9: But your deputies didn't actually see the murder.
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Speaker 5: Well, they got here right after it.
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Speaker 9: I understand they weren't near enough at the moment of
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Speaker 9: the shooting to hear the gunfire.
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Speaker 5: Well, what of it?
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Speaker 9: There must have been considerable time between the shooting and
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Speaker 9: the time Hank and Pete reached the house. Now, why
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Speaker 9: would the masked man and the Indians stay around so long?
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Speaker 9: They were searching the house for something or other. Just
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Speaker 9: a minute, Sherry. Tonto, you said the masked man would
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Speaker 9: come here with proof against the murder. Ah, you wait,
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Speaker 9: you see. Where is he going to get that proof?
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Speaker 10: Of him come by way of Red Gap. Him come
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Speaker 10: sometime tonight. He'll show who killer is.
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Speaker 3: For some time after the judge had left, Sheriff Demerick
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Speaker 3: sat in deep thought. From time to time, a townsman dropped.
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Speaker 6: In to see if he needed anything. At noon, a
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Speaker 6: man brought a tray of food from the cafe.
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Speaker 5: Put it right down here on the desk, Joe. There
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Speaker 5: you are, Sheriff. Anything else?
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Speaker 2: Joe, it's being said around town that we don't have
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Speaker 2: evidence enough to hang that Indian if he goes on trial.
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Speaker 5: You heard talk like that, didn't you?
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Speaker 12: Well, uh, seems that the judge thinks there's room for
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Speaker 12: doubt as to his guilt.
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Speaker 2: Just so, just so. And because of that, some of
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Speaker 2: the boys are talking of hanging him. What's there to it?
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Speaker 5: Father Sheriff, I haven't heard a word about a lynching.
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Speaker 5: Just because I can't walk, some of the boys... figured
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Speaker 5: they could get away with stringing up the red skimmer.
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Speaker 12: Sheriff, is it true that a jury might turn him loose?
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Speaker 6: How do I know?
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Speaker 5: He's got to be tried on the evidence we got.
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Speaker 5: If that don't convict him, he goes free. That'd be
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Speaker 5: a downright shame. Joe, you sure you haven't heard any
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Speaker 5: lynch talk? No. No? But it's a good idea.
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Speaker 4: Sure that none of the boys here in the cafe
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Speaker 4: have heard Lynch talk?
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Speaker 5: Very well. We never had a lynching around here.
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Speaker 12: Boys, old Clem is my best friend. It would be
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Speaker 12: a sin and a shame if that murdering Redskin is
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Speaker 12: to go free because we don't have more evidence.
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Speaker 5: Hey.
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Speaker 12: The judge says he might go free. He and that
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Speaker 12: masked man are as guilty as sin. They killed four people.
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 13: Maybe we should see how a trial comes up. He
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Speaker 13: ought to have a chance in court.
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Speaker 5: Those killers never give anyone else a chance.
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Speaker 15: Look, boys, it's easy to hold a necktie party after
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Speaker 15: the sheriff went to bed.
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Speaker 5: Even if he did hear the excitement, he couldn't do
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Speaker 5: anything about it. Now, hold on.
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Speaker 13: Wouldn't we be taking unfair advantage of the fact that
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Speaker 13: Demery can't walk?
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Speaker 6: But, Gallup, boys.
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Speaker 15: I'm for keeping things quiet so the deputies don't hear
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Speaker 15: any talk.
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Speaker 5: They're still out hunting the masked man. Just a minute, boys.
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Speaker 13: Before we come to any decision, let's see what some
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Speaker 13: of the other fellas around town have to say about it.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's find out.
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Speaker 3: Once born, the idea of a lynching gathered force as
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Speaker 3: the day advanced. By late afternoon, a large majority were
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Speaker 3: in favor of hanging Tommy without waiting for a trial.
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Speaker 3: Those who had objected had been cried down.
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Speaker 5: I'm all for it. Me too. Let's make sure that
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Speaker 5: redskin don't go free. Bring him up. Boys, boys, listen
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Speaker 5: to me. Listen to me. As soon as the sheriff
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Speaker 5: is in bed, I'll come and let you know. Then
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Speaker 5: we'll move on to the jail.
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Speaker 10: All right.
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Speaker 5: You sure old damn Rick's in bed?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I helped him into the house and hung around nearby,
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Speaker 15: watched till his light went out.
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Speaker 5: Come on, boys, let's go get that man. Come on.
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Speaker 5: Bring up that battering ram. Stand back there so we
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Speaker 5: can smash her against the door. Stand back. Stand back
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Speaker 5: till I can push the door in. All right, here
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Speaker 5: we come. Let her go, boys.
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Speaker 6: That did it.
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Speaker 4: Now let's fire.
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Speaker 5: There's the cell. And there's the Red Scare. We come
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Speaker 5: for you, engine. Now we got a bus to lock
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Speaker 5: on the cell door. I got a couple of bullets
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Speaker 5: on it. Here, I got a gun. Now let me
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Speaker 5: get at it. Hold on there. Hold on, you pack
22:37
Speaker 5: of crazy. Hey, hey. Stop it. Would you come back
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Speaker 5: into town? Never mind that. Break it up. Go on
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Speaker 5: back home. You can't leave Saturday. Who says we can't?
22:45
Speaker 5: We're going to. He's the murder man. Now wait. Wait
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Speaker 5: a minute. Listen to me.
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Speaker 8: There'll be proof that he's not guilty if you just wait.
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Speaker 5: Oh, you're just saying that's what we break up. I'm
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Speaker 5: giving you two facts. Just wait till a little later.
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Speaker 5: We're going to hang the Redskin. You can't stop us.
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Speaker 5: Grab him, boys. Hang on to him. You're making a mistake.
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Speaker 5: Hang on to him. Now try a gun on that lock.
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Speaker 4: That did it.
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Speaker 5: Roy, don't touch the Indian. Wait till the masked man
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Speaker 5: gets here. He's coming from Red Gap. Just wait. That's
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Speaker 5: all I ask. If he comes here, we hang him.
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Speaker 5: Right alongside the engine. Come on, Tonto. You've got a
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Speaker 5: big appointment with the news.
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Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger had ridden out of town soon after
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Speaker 3: appearing in the disguise of an old man. He stopped
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Speaker 3: on the trail to Red Gap and removed the disguise.
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Speaker 3: Then he donned his mask and waited until after dark.
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Speaker 3: He was on the back trail heading toward town. The
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Speaker 3: route from Red Gap went through a narrow gap that
23:51
Speaker 3: was ideally suited to the purposes of anyone who.
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Speaker 6: Wanted to wait in ambush. The dark form crouched waiting
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Speaker 6: as the masked man approached. The dry gulcher waited until
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Speaker 6: he saw that the solitary horseman wore a mask.
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Speaker 9: That's the man.
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Speaker 3: He rested the barrel of his rifle on a rock
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Speaker 3: and then drew careful aim. Before his finger tightened on
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Speaker 3: the trigger, a voice spoke sharply from somewhere behind him.
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Speaker 5: Drop it! Huh? We have you. I smashed his rifle. Well,
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Speaker 5: here's your man. We got him. Here's a rope for him. No, no, wait.
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Speaker 5: This will hold you.
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Speaker 11: George, speed, help me. Shoot that masked man. We're on
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Speaker 11: that masked man's side, John Rickford.
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Speaker 8: You bet we are, Timnit.
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Speaker 9: The masked man came to me and said you could walk.
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't believe him.
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Speaker 8: He talked for a solid hour last night, persuaded me
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Speaker 8: to help him.
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Speaker 5: Last night? Yes.
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Speaker 8: He's the one who put Pronto in jail.
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Speaker 9: Then I talked to the Indian enough to make you
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Speaker 9: think the masked man would come this way with proof
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Speaker 9: against you.
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Speaker 11: Then you walked right into the trap. You walked as
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Speaker 11: good as any man. The judge and I followed you
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Speaker 11: all the way from your house.
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Speaker 5: How'd you know so much? That was easy, Demerick. Old
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Speaker 5: Clem lived long enough to name you. Clem?
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Speaker 7: You told about two people new in town that were
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Speaker 7: killed and robbed. Then the doctor was killed. Clem found
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Speaker 7: a vest button near the doctor's body. After thinking things over,
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Speaker 7: Clem realized that the button might be a clue to
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Speaker 7: the murderer. He came and told you about it. You
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Speaker 7: went to his house last night and killed him. so
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Speaker 7: he couldn't tell anyone else about the button.
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Speaker 9: The chances are, Doc knew he'd fixed you so you
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Speaker 9: could walk.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, fool Sawbones.
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Speaker 2: He'd be alive today if he hadn't put two and
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Speaker 2: two together and accused me of doing.
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Speaker 5: For the newcomers. Pretty smart sending me and Hank on
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Speaker 5: a lot of blind leads.
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Speaker 11: We took our time going to Clem's house, and you
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Speaker 11: had plenty of chance to get there ahead of us
25:34
Speaker 11: while we thought you was home in your bed.
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Speaker 9: Pete, let's hang right this way.
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Speaker 5: I wondered why I didn't meet us to follow this killer.
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Speaker 5: He's coming fast. I wonder what's wrong. Pete! Judge! Hold it!
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Speaker 5: The masked man. It's good you're here. What's the matter?
25:48
Speaker 5: The lynch mob. What?
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Speaker 2: I tried to stop them, but they grabbed me and
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Speaker 2: held me. I just got away from them. They're hanging
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Speaker 2: that redskin. I fixed that. You fixed it?
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Speaker 5: Maybe that masked man's caught me. But I've done for
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Speaker 5: his Indian pal. Here's a look. You're going with me, Sheriff. Hey!
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Speaker 5: Hold on a minute. You're going with me. If we're
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Speaker 5: too late, I'm not sure what'll happen to you. Come
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Speaker 5: up here. Hey! Let me down! Judge, please! Stop it!
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Speaker 5: Don't do this!
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Speaker 4: Don't do this!
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Speaker 3: With the race of a lifetime. Silver ran as never
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Speaker 3: before despite the double burden on his back. The mighty
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Speaker 3: stallion seemed to recognize a different quality in the masked
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Speaker 3: man's voice.
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Speaker 5: He seemed to know a life depended.
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Speaker 6: On his speed.
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Speaker 3: Tonto was seated on his paint horse, Scout. His hands
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Speaker 3: were tied behind his back and a noose was around
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Speaker 3: his neck. From the noose, a rope went over a
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Speaker 3: convenient branch of the hangman's tree.
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Speaker 5: This is it, Tonto. Slap the horse out from under him. Right.
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Speaker 5: Get up there. What's the matter with that horse? Slap
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Speaker 5: the critter again. Get along there. Well, what do you know?
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Speaker 5: Here's your masked friend. Him tell truth. Him tell me
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Speaker 5: not kill her. Hey, he's got the sheriff with him.
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Speaker 5: We'll have the sheriff in bed. What's he doing with
27:07
Speaker 5: that masked man? Get that man. Now, hold on. Don't shoot.
27:10
Speaker 5: We might hit the sheriff. Get him, boys. Make him
27:14
Speaker 5: turn me loose. Don't try it. I'll cut that rope hollow.
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Speaker 3: 21 who draws a gun.
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Speaker 5: Cut that Indian's hands free. I brought you your murderer. No, no, boys.
27:26
Speaker 5: Don't believe him. Let me talk. Here's the man who
27:29
Speaker 5: couldn't walk. Get down there, Demerick.
27:32
Speaker 11: Why, he's standing up.
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Speaker 7: Yes, and he can walk. He walked to the pass
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Speaker 7: to ambush me. The judge is on the way to
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Speaker 7: back my story. So is Hank and so is Pete.
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Speaker 15: Come to think of it, by ginger, Demerick, it was
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Speaker 15: you that first mentioned Hank and the Indians.
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Speaker 5: Here comes Hank and Pete. And the judge right behind him. Well,
27:48
Speaker 5: cut that red skin loose. By thunder, boys, we've made
27:50
Speaker 5: a terrible mistake. Cut that rope off his hand. I'll
27:53
Speaker 5: do it. Boys, the sheriff is the killer. Hang on
27:57
Speaker 5: to Demerick. Throw him in jail. You're free to go, Tonto. Doggone,
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Speaker 5: it's a good thing that paint horse of yours was stubborn. Oh, hey,
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Speaker 5: him not stubborn now. Him go when Tonto say so.
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Speaker 5: Come on, Tonto. Get him out. I'll do that.
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Speaker 4: I'll do that. Hooray!
28:35
Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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