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Hopalong Cassidy - "Hoppy Takes a Chance" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Hopalong Cassidy | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A mail stage has been held up near the Bar
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: 20 ranch, leaving its driver and guard dead and a
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: town ready to accuse a young former prisoner. In Hop Along, Cassidy,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Hoppy takes a chance. Hop Along refuses to join the
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: rush to judgment when Johnny McIver, working at the ranch
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: as Bob Cranston, falls under suspicion. With California Carlson alongside,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Hoppy sets out to learn what happened on the stage
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: road before the accusation becomes vigilante action. William Boyd stars
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: as Hopalong Cassidy, with Andy Clyde as California Carlson, in
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  Speaker 1: this mutual broadcasting system program written by Harold Swanton. Originally
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: broadcast February 19th, 1950, it is program number eight. And now,
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: It's Hopalong Cassidy! With action and suspense, out of the
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Old West comes the most famous hero of them all,
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd. The Ring of the Silver
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  Speaker 2: Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the
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  Speaker 2: prairies of the early West, Hopalong Cassidy. This famous hero
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  Speaker 2: thrills his 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventures.
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  Speaker 2: In the role of Hopalong Cassidy is the popular star
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: of the motion picture series, William Boyd. And appearing as
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  Speaker 2: that laughable old character, California, is Andy Clyde. Now to
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  Speaker 2: our story, Hoppy Takes a Chance. September at the Bar 20.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: Like all cattle ranchers, is a happy month for the
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  Speaker 2: line riders... The lonely cowboys whose duty it is to
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: patrol the boundaries of the ranch and see to it
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  Speaker 2: that the outfit's stock stays on the reservation. It's a
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: happy time because it marks the end of the season
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  Speaker 2: for them and the friendly atmosphere of the ranch house
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: just around the corner. But Bob Cranston was different from
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: the rest. There was a frown on his face as
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  Speaker 2: Hoppy rode up to him on the ridge south of
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  Speaker 2: the Bar 20 ranch house.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: Hi there, Waddy.
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  Speaker 4: How's it going?
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  Speaker 5: Can't complain, Hoppy.
• 2:24
  Speaker 4: Good. I figure I'll send you out of sunup tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Make a circuit of the ranch boundaries, run down the strays,
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  Speaker 4: and kick any of Salinger's cows back onto their own territory.
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  Speaker 4: Take you a week or so.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, boss.
• 2:35
  Speaker 4: How do you like the new job?
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  Speaker 5: Fine, I reckon. Wondered if I might keep right at
• 2:39
  Speaker 5: it on through the winter after cutting out and branding.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you want that winter job?
• 2:43
  Speaker 5: Sure, why not?
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  Speaker 4: Bucking the snow drift and running down weak doggies in
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  Speaker 4: a blizzard? Ah, most of my boys jammer like a
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: stuck pig when I end up on assignment like that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know. I ain't much of a hand
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  Speaker 5: around the ranch house. I like to be off by myself.
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  Speaker 5: I don't mind the cold. If you'd give me the job,
• 3:00
  Speaker 5: I'd sure work at it, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, brother, if you want it, you get it. Come on, Tomber,
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  Speaker 4: let's get back to headquarters.
• 3:08
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: Morning, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff, what are you doing here?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, just dropping by on a friendly call, Hoppy. You
• 3:35
  Speaker 6: know Shelby Selinger here?
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Hello, Mr. Selinger. Have a chair.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 3:40
  Speaker 4: How are you, Cassidy? Great. Just sent one of my
• 3:42
  Speaker 4: line riders out to hustle your stock back on the reservation.
• 3:45
  Speaker 4: Seems an awful lot of circle sea cows like bar
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  Speaker 4: 20 grass better than their own. You save your rider
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  Speaker 4: a lot of work, Cassidy. I sold them off last week.
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  Speaker 4: I needed the money. I see.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mr. Selinger got payment before delivery and shipped $ 12, 000
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  Speaker 6: out by stage the day before yesterday, Hoppy.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 4:01
  Speaker 6: To pay off a loan on his ranch.
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: It didn't get very far.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean? About as far.
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  Speaker 6: As the blind turn on the stage road. Road agent
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  Speaker 6: shot the driver outright.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Clem Yates was guard on that stage.
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  Speaker 6: Shot him down in cold blood.
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  Speaker 4: Clem? How could anybody.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the way we all feel, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 6: Folks in town are ready for a lynching.
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  Speaker 4: You got any leads?
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  Speaker 6: We know who it is.
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  Speaker 4: His name's Johnny McIver. Is that so?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We talked to the only passenger on the stage, a
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  Speaker 4: girl named LaVanne Richards. She described him for us. Who
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  Speaker 4: is this McIver?
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  Speaker 6: Young fella, about 25 or so. Just got out of prison.
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  Speaker 6: Came through this part of the country a few days
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  Speaker 6: ago looking for a job. We, um... Wondered if he
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  Speaker 6: came by here.
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  Speaker 4: I'll keep on the lookout for him, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: The townspeople have put up a reward.
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  Speaker 4: If he shot Clem Yates, that's all the encouragement I need.
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  Speaker 6: We can sure use your help, puppy.
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  Speaker 4: You'll get it, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 7: Bye.
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  Speaker 4: Goodbye. California.
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 5:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, how are you, Hoppy? I was just frying up
• 5:09
  Speaker 6: half a dozen eggs here to tide me over till dinner.
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  Speaker 4: Forget your stomach for once.
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  Speaker 6: Hoppy, eggs is brain.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need your brain. I need the seat of
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: your pants and a saddle right now. What's up? I
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  Speaker 4: want you to ride down the south ridge and pick
• 5:22
  Speaker 4: up Bob Cranston.
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  Speaker 6: You mean the new hand you put on yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: That's right. I want to find out why he calls
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  Speaker 4: himself Cranston when his real name is Johnny MacGyver.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Now back to Hop Along, Cassidy and our story, Hoppy
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  Speaker 2: Takes a Chance. Two men have been murdered, one of
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: them the beloved Clem Yates, when the mail stage out
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  Speaker 2: of Baker's Crossing was held up and robbed by a
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: masked bandit. The sheriff and the townspeople are sure the
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  Speaker 2: robber is Johnny McIver, a young ex-convict. And while they
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: scour the country for him, Hoppy is talking to him
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: in the main room of the Bar 20 ranch house.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to believe me, Hoppy. I had nothing to
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  Speaker 5: do with this.
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  Speaker 4: Take it easy, Bob. I'm not accusing you, yet.
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  Speaker 6: How come you changed your handle, Sonny? Seems to me
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  Speaker 6: we hired a hand name Bob Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: I told you, California. People just can't deal an ex-convict
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  Speaker 5: a straight hand.
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  Speaker 4: I can understand that. You didn't need a new name
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  Speaker 4: around here. We take a man for what he is,
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  Speaker 4: not what he used to be.
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  Speaker 5: I wish they were all like you.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Selinger didn't look at it that way.
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: Selinger?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: When I first got to town a few days ago,
• 7:24
  Speaker 5: I hit him for a job.
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  Speaker 4: When was that?
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  Speaker 6: Let me see.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 7:28
  Speaker 5: Wednesday afternoon. Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: And the stage was held up that night at 8.
• 7:34
  Speaker 4: What did Salinger tell you?
• 7:35
  Speaker 5: He told me to come back about 10 o'clock. Said
• 7:37
  Speaker 5: he'd let me know then.
• 7:38
  Speaker 4: So you went back, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I started back from town about 7. Didn't see
• 7:43
  Speaker 5: anyone till I got to that place where the... It
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  Speaker 5: fords the creek. You know, there's a grove of cottonwoods there.
• 7:47
  Speaker 6: Yep, I know the place.
• 7:49
  Speaker 5: There was a fire going and a couple of men
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  Speaker 5: boiling up some coffee. They said they were from Salinger's ranch.
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  Speaker 4: What did they look like?
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  Speaker 5: One of them was heavy set... Or a pair of
• 7:57
  Speaker 5: side whiskies.
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  Speaker 6: Then it'd be Sam Wellman.
• 8:00
  Speaker 5: Who?
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  Speaker 4: Selinger's ranch foreman. What about the other one?
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  Speaker 5: He was red-headed, kind of short.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Red Conroy. What happened then?
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  Speaker 5: They told me Selinger wasn't back to the ranch yet.
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  Speaker 5: Asked me to have a cup of coffee with him.
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  Speaker 5: It was pretty chilly, and I figured a cup of
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  Speaker 5: coffee would taste good, so.
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  Speaker 4: So you accepted the invitation?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They said Mr. Selinger had passed right by there on
• 8:19
  Speaker 5: his way back. Well, we sat around a while, then
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  Speaker 5: the redhead pulled out a pack of cards and suggested
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  Speaker 5: a game.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-oh. Them fellas are sure to death at poker. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Red and Sam are a couple of pretty slick poker players.
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  Speaker 4: How much did you lose?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't lose.
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  Speaker 5: I won $ 300.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Sonny, you're wasting your time as a cowpoke. Anyone who
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  Speaker 6: can skin them coyotes at draw poker is.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, California. You, uh, pretty good at poker, Bob?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, just fair. They play pretty stupid. I took $ 100
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  Speaker 5: pot with a pair of 10s.
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  Speaker 6: Huh? Playing against Red Conroy and Sam Wellman?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wait a minute. Maybe this makes sense. What did
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  Speaker 4: you do with the 300, Bob?
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  Speaker 5: I saved it. They told me a lot of places
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  Speaker 5: I could blow it in town, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, they did, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Now, what's that got to do with it, Hoppy?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure yet, but I got an idea. A
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  Speaker 4: coach was robbed at 8 o'clock. Where were you at
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  Speaker 4: that time, Bob?
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  Speaker 5: That was about 30 minutes before I met the two men.
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  Speaker 5: I was at the trail quite a piece.
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  Speaker 6: Alone.
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  Speaker 4: No alibi.
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  Speaker 6: I guess not.
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  Speaker 4: About a half hour after the robbery, you run onto
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  Speaker 4: Red and Sam and win $ 300 from them at poker.
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  Speaker 4: They figure, of course, you'll roll into town and blow
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  Speaker 4: it sky high. When did Salinger finally show up?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. About ten, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: And he turned you down? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Said he didn't want any truck with jailbirds.
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: I see. Well, before we start out, I want you
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  Speaker 4: to know I'm going to give you every break I can.
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  Speaker 4: If you tell them the truth, I'll stand up with
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: you against the whole town. If you're not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not worrying about that, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let's get going.
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  Speaker 6: Where?
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  Speaker 4: The blind turn on the stage road where the coach
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  Speaker 4: was robbed. Maybe we can find a few tracks.
• 9:56
  Speaker 6: Bob? Yeah?
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: You can check your gun here at the ranch house.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: And I will take care of any shooting that has
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: to be done.
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: Any luck, Hoppy?
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: No, not a chance of finding any tracks on the
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: road here. Someone came through here with a bunch of
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: cattle after that happened.
• 10:17
  Speaker 5: That was Sillinger. That bunch of steers he just sold.
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: Tell me something, California.
• 10:21
  Speaker 6: Anything you want, Hoppy. My brain's at your service.
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: Well, harness it up for a minute. You planned to
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: hold up the mail coach here. Where would you hide out?
• 10:29
  Speaker 6: That's a cinch. Right behind the tree under.
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: That's what I thought. Come on.
• 10:34
  Speaker 6: Hey, I said over there behind the tree. Sure.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: So naturally a smart bandit would hide up in those
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: rocks above the turn.
• 10:42
  Speaker 6: Hop along, Cassidy. So help me out.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: Don't get insulted, California. You've got a wonderful pair of feet.
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: Pretty hard to find any tracks in these granite rocks, Hoppy.
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, especially when the robber was careful not to make any.
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Getting pretty dark now, too. You got a match, Bob?
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: No, I don't carry them. Oh.
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: Well, no use looking around here in the dark. Might
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: as well ride over to that cottonwood grove by the creek.
• 11:11
  Speaker 4: See if there's anything left of that campfire that you
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: sat around.
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: No, Dash, Hoppy. There ain't a thing to show anyone's
• 11:23
  Speaker 6: been here. Not a track, not a sign of a campfire.
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: But I told you the truth, Hoppy.
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: I was here.
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: Someone's cleaned the place up.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: I know it.
• 11:30
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: You mean you believe me?
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: I think I believed you from the first, Bob. Now
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: I got proof.
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: But we ain't found a thing, Hoppy. Now how can you.
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: That's just it. Not what we found, it's what we
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: didn't find.
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: One of our line riders uses this place regularly. Builds
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: his fire right here in the clearing. The ashes would
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: be here if someone didn't have a reason for cleaning
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: them up. They knew Bob had come here with a story.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: They wanted to make a liar out of him.
• 11:55
  Speaker 6: You mean Sam and Red?
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah. In fact, they're at the blind turn. We didn't
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: find any tracks on that granite. But I found something else.
• 12:03
  Speaker 6: What was that?
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: That's why I asked you for that match. I never
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: saw a cigarette smoker yet who didn't carry matches. One
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: of the robbers left this behind.
• 12:12
  Speaker 6: Well, it'll be a cigarette butt.
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: You think it was Sam and Red?
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: And someone else. The man who planned the job. I
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: can't think of a single reason why a man would
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: drive a herd of cattle six miles out of the way.
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: Unless there were some embarrassing tracks he wanted to cover up.
• 12:28
  Speaker 6: Lord Almighty. Salinger.
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: That's right. Salinger. Salinger.
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: Hoppy, amigo, you come here to my fiesta saloon once
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: in the blue moon. The sarsaparilla, she.
• 12:55
  Speaker 6: Is on me.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: Afraid I haven't time for a drink, Mike. I got
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: a lot of things on my mind right now.
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: You tell Mike the sicko, huh? Maybe I'll help, can't
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: stop it.
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: What do you know about Salinger, Mike? Seems to me
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: he was up against us for money for a while back.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: Why do you ask, Hoppy? It's pretty important right now
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: to a kid named Johnny McIver.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: That kid, he make one big mistake when he killed
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: Glenn Yates.
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: You think he did it?
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: The whole town thinks so. His life, she's worth two centavos.
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe less. You know why, Mike? Because the kid has
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: a prison record.
• 13:25
  Speaker 6: Si.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: He's the second man who came to Baker's Crossing with
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: a record, Mike.
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: Si.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: And he feels like you did when you got out.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: He wants to go straight. If the people hear it,
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: let him alone.
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: You have kept our secret well these ten years, I'll
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: tell you. But why do you ask about Selinger?
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: Because I think you know how bad he needs money.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: See, he tried to borrow $ 10, 000 from me two weeks ago.
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: His rancho, the Circle C, she's in one bad fix.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: That's what I thought. He got his money, Mike.
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: What do you mean? He figured by shipping that cattle
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: money express and robbing the stage, he'd collect from Wells Fargo, too.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: Nice way to double your money. He got a young
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: ex-convict handy to take the blame.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: Madre de Dios, you mean Salinger?
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, with Red Conroy and Sam Wellman to give him
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: a hand.
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: Hoppy, you can prove this?
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: There was one passenger on the stage, a girl named
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: Ann Richards. I think she knows more than she's telling.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, but the word of a young senorita against Salinger.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: No, she's no good, Hoppy.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: She's not enough. Mike.
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: Si?
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: That's just why I came to see you.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Before we continue with this exciting story, here is a
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: word from your announcer.
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you.
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, God.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Now back to Hop Along, Cassidy, and Hoppy Takes a Chance.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Hoppy is sure now that Shelby Salinger and his two
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: henchmen engineered the robbery of the mail stage, carrying his
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: own money, knowing that Johnny McIver, a young ex-convict, would
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: be blamed. But it's quite another matter to prove it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: That's why Hoppy has called on Ann Richards, the one
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: passenger on the stage during the robbery and the only
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: living witness.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Please, Mr. Cassidy. That's all I know. It's just as
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: I told the sheriff.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: I tell you, I want to know the truth, Miss Richards.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I want to know exactly what happened on that stage
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: from the minute the driver pulled up at that blind corner.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: But I've told you.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: You told me what someone's forcing you to say.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Hoppy!
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: Fred Conroy, standing across the street. I've just seen him
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: through the window. I know. Huh?
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: I made sure he saw me come here. Keep an
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: eye on him.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Sure, Hoppy.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, I sure wish I know what was going on.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Do you know what you're doing, Mr.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Cassidy?
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: He's watching this house.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: He'll do anything. Kill me.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Anything.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Miss Richards.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: What?
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: I wonder if you know what you're doing.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I tell you, he'll kill me.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: You understand that? He'll stop at nothing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Listen to me. You're the only witness to that robbery.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Because you said so, they're out looking for one man
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: instead of three. Because you said so, they'll hang Johnny McIver.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Because he happens to have a prison record and no alibi.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: I can't help it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I can't help it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: If you want it in plain English, Miss Richards, you're yellow.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: You're willing to let an innocent man hang to save
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: your own skin.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: But it's too late to do anything now.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: The people are ready to lynch him.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: I can't stop them.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: What can I do now?
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: You can tell me really what happened out there at
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: that blind corner.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: You're right, Mr. Cassidy.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: I guess I am a coward.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: When they came here and threatened me.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Who?
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Conroy and Wellman. They said they'd kill me if I
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: didn't tell the story the way they wanted it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Well, let's have it now.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: There wasn't just one man, Mr.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Cassidy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: There were two.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Conroy and Wellman.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: I think so. I couldn't identify them out there on
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: the road.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: They wore masks, and one kept calling the other, McIver.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I was inside the coach when they forced Slim Yates
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: to get down.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: He was right next to the window.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I heard him say, McIver?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: You're not McIver.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Then what?
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: That's when the shot came.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Hey, he's coming across the street.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: There he is now.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Get behind the door when I open it. You know
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: what to do. Stay right here, Miss Richard.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Ready? Let her rip.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Hello, Cassidy.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Conroy, what can I do for you?
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: I can talk better inside. Especially with a gun in
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: my hand.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: You think that's going to get you anywhere, Red?
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Put your hands up, Cassidy. That's better. You know, you've
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: got a bad habit. Messing around in things that ain't
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: your business. And I'm going to break.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: You with that right now.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Before you get your nose caught in somebody's keyhole. Keep
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: those hands up, Cassidy.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Do you hear what I.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Nice work, California.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Hit him too hard. My gun butt will never be
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: the same.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Cassidy.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: You see, Miss Richards, these tough guys aren't so bad
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: when you use the right kind of diplomacy. Get some
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: rope out back, California. We're going to truss this turkey
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: up so he won't come undone till roasting time. Right.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Why are you going through his pocket?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Ah, here we are.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: A letter?
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It ought to be just what the doctor ordered.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: You see, Miss Richards, we can hook Red and Sam
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: on your testimony. There's no way we can touch Salinger.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: That is, unless either Red or Sam decide to talk.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: They'll never do that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: You don't know them, Mr. Cassidy.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: And Miss Richard, you don't know Mike DeCicco.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: So, she's changed the story, huh?
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Bueno. Ah, but not good enough. I want Selinger, too.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: And if she tells her story now, we'll lose any
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: chance of getting him.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Wait.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Huh? Don't turn around. The sheriff just came in.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Quick, take this. Okay.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: A letter Red Conroy wrote to a girl in Council City.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Ah, bueno. Morning, Hoppy.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, howdy, Sheriff. Anything new?
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Been keeping mighty busy, Hoppy.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Me too. Have no business hanging around the fiesta here.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Gotta get on back to the ranch.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Just a minute, Hoppy.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Don't run off. Thought you might like to know Johnny
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: McIver was spotted by a posseman an hour ago riding
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: line on the Bar 20.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Which means what?
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Which means you're under arrest. Concealing and giving shelter to
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: a public enemy. Sorry, Hoppy. But you're going to jail.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: No!
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: What can I do for you, gents?
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: Howdy. I'm California Carlson. This here is Mike DeCicco. I'd
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: like to see Hopalong Cassidy, if you don't mind.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. Sheriff said no one's to see him.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: What, Jeff?
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: That means why not in Mexico?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Already told you. Sheriff said no one wants to see him.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Well, nothing to do but wait until the sheriff gets
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: back in.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I can show. Mind if we sit down?
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Free country. Here's public property. Sit anywhere you please.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Gracias.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: That means thanks. You sit in the chair there. Mike
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: and I'll sit in this here packing box.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Excuse me a minute, gents. I just want to check up.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: On the person. Mike, did you get a look at
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: them cell keys hanging from his belt?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Did.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Can you get them?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Can I get them?
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: At the age of six, I was the second best
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: pickpocket in Mexico City.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Who was the pair?
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: My papa. We'll get him when he sits down.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: You pull the chair and grab his gun, no? Here
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: he comes. Hound is an hour.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Stone walls do not a prison make, the fellow says.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Ain't never seen the Baker's Cross in jail, I reckon.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, old Hoppy. Wonder if he's had his dinner.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry, Sheriff. We'll bring him something when he
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: gets back. Say, uh, you fellas take cards? Thought we
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: might have a game while we're waiting. Got a deck
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: right here someplace and draw the steps.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Ah, maybe a little, um, fanny ante, no?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Tenth of a cent, I always say.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Now... Suffering snakes, sir. You hurt yourself?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Let me help you.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: A chair went right out from under me. Don't know
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: what happened.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Here, here. I'll give you a hand.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Foot slipped under the desk. Caught on something down there. Now,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: what in tarnation?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: What's the matter here? Oh, you're stuck.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Got my foot jammed in the spittoon. Trapped. Trapped like
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: a rat.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: No dice, no dice. Oh, let me get a new
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: hold here.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: That won't work neither. Only make him a leg longer.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Gotta move the desk.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. There she goes.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Come on, get off of that foot, you crazy.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Hey, hey.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Ain't had a whirl like that since I stepped in
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: the bar trap one winter in Montana. Let's get the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: desk back on her feet and... Hey.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Huh? What's the matter?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Where's the other fellow?
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Huh? Oh, you mean Mike. Well, gone. Looks like he went.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Trying to pull the wool over my eyes, eh? He's
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: back there at Cassidy's cell. That's where he is. I'll
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: show that fellow rules of rules.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, by golly.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: You show him. Hey, you down there. Stop the name
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: of the law.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: What do you see?
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Look at that. Door's open. Tag busted. He took my keys.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Well, take a look inside. Maybe Hoppy's hiding under the
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: bed or something.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I can't sound it. I can see, can't I? Jesus,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: empty as the day she was made. Hey, wait a minute.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Open the door.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Get me out of here. Get me out. Get me
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: out of here. You got him?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Come on, let's get going.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we haven't much time.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you farmers. Help me out.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Adios, amigo.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Adios. What does that mean?
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: That's goodbye in Mexican. Let's bring him up here now.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: We'll show you what justice is, Sheriff.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Quiet, quiet, everyone. It's my duty to see justice is done.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: That's why I've come out here to the Bar 20
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: after Johnny McIver. If he's found guilty by a jury
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: after he's had a fair trial, he'll get the full
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: punishment under the law. And not until.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: We'll give you five minutes to turn him over, Sheriff.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, just five minutes.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: It's getting mighty rough out there, Selinger. Don't think we
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: can hold out much longer.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: He hasn't got a chance.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: He don't deserve a chance.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: The law says he gets a fair trial, Sam. That
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: mob ain't gonna take him without a fight.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Twelve men against that mob out there? You're out of
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: your mind, Sheriff.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: You got any ideas, Selinger?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: If you went out on the porch there and grabbed
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: their attention, the kid and I might.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Be able to get away from the rear.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Say, that might work, Sheriff. If we could get him
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: back to the jailhouse, we might be able to hold
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: him off.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: And if the mob spotted you?
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Well, that's the chance we have to take.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Now back to Hopalong Cassidy.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: I don't know about that, Sullinger. If you take Johnny
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: McIver out the back way and make a run for it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Don't you see it's the only chance? And then your
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: gut won't stand up against that mob for two minutes.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Well, I guess we'll have to try it. But an
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: awful lot depends on you.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: You just leave it to me, Sheriff, and things will
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: turn out just fine.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Now bring the kit in.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Come here, McIver.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: I want to... Cassidy!
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Hello, Sheriff.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: What are you doing here?
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, I got kind of bored down at the jail. Hello, Salinger.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: And Sam Wellman. Welcome to Bar 20. You're just in
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: time for the payoff.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: What are you talking about, Cassidy? This.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Where? What's that?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: A little billy-do from your pal Red Conroy. Starts out,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: The following is my true and complete confession on the
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: holdup and murder at the Blind Turn at 8 o'clock
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: on the night of September 12th.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Let me see that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Not so fast, Salinger. Want to take a look at it, Sheriff?
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: It's a trick.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Shut up, Salinger. It's Red Conroy's handwriting, all right. I
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: got to tell it a mile away.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: What did you do with him, Cassidy?
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: He's taking it easy in town.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: And while I stood guard at the bend... Sam Wellman
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: walked up to Clem Yates. It's a lie.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Conroy killed him.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Get up, Sam.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: That double-crosser ain't gonna frame me, and you ain't either, Selinger.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I never pulled a trigger.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: Sam!
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Get away from him, Selinger. Selinger shot the driver, Sheriff.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: It's the truth. I was keeping watch.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: And it was Red who walked up to Clem Yates, huh?
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Stay where you are, Selinger, and keep your hands up.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I'll get you for this, Wellman, so help me out.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: You ain't getting anyone now, Selinger. You're gonna turn around
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: while I march the two of you out on the
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: porch and read this confession to the crowd.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Come on, now. Get going.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Did it work, Hoppy?
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Going out on the porch.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: It was a mite too close for me, Hoppy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Me too, California.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: How about me?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: You got a clean slate now, Bob. From here on in,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: it's up to you. And you can thank Mike here
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: for small favors. Oh, it was nothing, amigo. As they
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: say in Mexico, la cuerda se rompe por lo más delgado.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: The rope she break at the weakest point. Es verdad, no? Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: And we all have another secret to keep. Eh, Mike?
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Eh? What's that, Hoppy?
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: That confession of Red Conroy's. Or maybe you didn't know
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: that Mike DeCicco, in his heyday, was the best forger
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: west of the Mississippi.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: It's mighty peaceful at the Bar 20 now that this
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Johnny McIver affair is over, but somehow things never stay
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that way for very long. Hoppy and California will be
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: riding into more dangerous adventure real soon. Hop Along, Cassidy,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: starring William Boyd, is transcribed and produced in the West
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: by Walter White, Jr. Hoppy Takes a Chance was written
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: by Harold Swanson. All stories are based upon the characters
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: created by Clarence E.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Mulford.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: This is a Commodore production.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Our time with Hop Along Cassidy and Hoppy Takes a
• 29:49
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