Latest / Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio / Gunsmoke - "Cooter Reused Script" (Old Time Radio, 1961)

Transcript

Gunsmoke - "Cooter Reused Script" (Old Time Radio, 1961) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

0:00
Speaker 1: April 16th, 1961, marked a late-run return to Dodge City
0:05
Speaker 1: on CBS Radio's Gunsmoke, episode 471, Cooter. The broadcast revisits
0:13
Speaker 1: a John Meston script first heard on November 27th, 1954,
0:17
Speaker 1: with William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon and Frank Cady
0:21
Speaker 1: among the featured players. Dylan comes back to Dodge City
0:26
Speaker 1: after a questionable claim of self-defense involving a gunman connected
0:30
Speaker 1: to crooked gambler Ben Sissel. As the marshal investigates Sissel's operation,
0:35
Speaker 1: the gambler brings Cooter Smith into the situation. The case
0:39
Speaker 1: leads through Dodge City and toward the Long Branch Saloon,
0:43
Speaker 1: where Sissel's card table business is part of the inquiry. Now,
0:47
Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
0:58
Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
1:01
Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
1:05
Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
1:07
Speaker 2: gun smoke.
1:26
Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad.
1:29
Speaker 4: The story of.
1:30
Speaker 2: The violence that moved west with young America. And the
1:34
Speaker 2: story of a man who moved with it.
1:36
Speaker 5: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
1:41
Speaker 5: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
1:44
Speaker 4: It's a chancy job.
1:46
Speaker 6: And it makes a man watchful.
1:48
Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
1:50
Speaker 7: Gunsmoke Hey, Mr.
2:04
Speaker 5: Dillon.
2:05
Speaker 4: Hello, Chester. Well, how are things up at Slina, Mr.
2:09
Speaker 6: Dillon?
2:10
Speaker 8: Real peaceful.
2:11
Speaker 4: Town constables, all they need. I'm not going to recommend
2:13
Speaker 4: the government spend any money up there. Tell me about that, Chester.
2:17
Speaker 4: Anything been happening here this past week?
2:20
Speaker 9: Nothing much.
2:22
Speaker 10: One fellow kindly got killed last night, but outside of.
2:25
Speaker 9: That, it's been dull this winter.
2:26
Speaker 4: Oh, who got killed? Oh, I don't know.
2:28
Speaker 9: Some wandering cowboy.
2:30
Speaker 4: Who killed him?
2:31
Speaker 6: A man called Pate.
2:33
Speaker 9: They tell me. He was self-defense and was done pure
2:35
Speaker 9: and simple.
2:36
Speaker 6: Did you see it?
2:37
Speaker 9: Well, no, sir.
2:38
Speaker 4: Well, who did?
2:40
Speaker 10: Well, I believe the only man who seen the whole
2:42
Speaker 10: thing was that gambler, Ben Sissel.
2:44
Speaker 4: Sissel?
2:44
Speaker 9: He's new here the last few days. Been playing car
2:47
Speaker 9: draw at the Long Branch.
2:48
Speaker 4: You don't seem to know a whole lot about it,
2:49
Speaker 4: do you, Chester?
2:50
Speaker 11: No, sir, I don't. But I was just starting to
2:52
Speaker 11: find out when I seen you riding up the street.
2:54
Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
2:55
Speaker 4: Uh, where were you last night, Chester?
2:58
Speaker 12: Uh.
3:01
Speaker 9: I wouldn't be no gentleman to tell, Mr.
3:03
Speaker 12: Dillon.
3:06
Speaker 4: All right, I hope you had a good time.
3:08
Speaker 9: Oh, yes, sir, I had a fine time.
3:10
Speaker 4: Just fine. All right, you can put my horse up
3:12
Speaker 4: if you want. I'm going to go over to the
3:13
Speaker 4: long branch.
3:14
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, I'll come along when I'm through.
3:15
Speaker 8: I'll wait for you there.
3:27
Speaker 9: Hello, Matt.
3:31
Speaker 12: When did you get back?
3:32
Speaker 4: I just rode in, Kitty. Sit down.
3:35
Speaker 7: Thank you.
3:36
Speaker 11: How was the trip?
3:37
Speaker 8: Pretty good.
3:39
Speaker 4: Tell me something, Kitty. Were you here all last night?
3:43
Speaker 12: Oh, you're thinking of the killing we had.
3:45
Speaker 13: Yeah, I was here.
3:46
Speaker 4: Did you see it?
3:48
Speaker 11: Most of it.
3:49
Speaker 12: I was standing there at the bar... Pate and Ben
3:52
Speaker 12: Sissel and the cowboy were at a table in the back.
3:55
Speaker 4: Chester heard that it was self-defense.
3:57
Speaker 12: Oh, a cowboy drew first, Matt, but I don't know
3:59
Speaker 12: that you'd call it self-defense.
4:01
Speaker 6: Oh, why not?
4:02
Speaker 12: He wasn't after Pate.
4:04
Speaker 11: He was after Ben Sissel.
4:05
Speaker 6: What?
4:06
Speaker 12: Yeah, he wasn't even looking at Pate, Matt.
4:08
Speaker 11: He was looking at Sissel.
4:10
Speaker 12: Even so, when he started to draw, it was Pate
4:12
Speaker 12: who killed him.
4:13
Speaker 4: Pate calls that self-defense.
4:16
Speaker 12: They claimed he thought the cowboy was drawing on him. Besides,
4:19
Speaker 12: he said the cowboy knew Cecil, wasn't he not?
4:22
Speaker 4: Wasn't he?
4:22
Speaker 13: He never is.
4:25
Speaker 4: I see. Tell me, Kitty, is this Tate always around
4:29
Speaker 4: when Ben Cecil's dealing?
4:30
Speaker 7: He sure is, Matt.
4:32
Speaker 13: Always.
4:32
Speaker 4: And he's pretty handy with a gun, is he?
4:34
Speaker 12: Too handy for an ordinary man, Matt.
4:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought so.
4:40
Speaker 5: Ben Cecil's another crooked gambler using a hired gunman to protect.
4:43
Speaker 4: Him when he's caught.
4:45
Speaker 13: I don't know how you can prove it.
4:47
Speaker 4: Where would I find Ben Sissel now, Kitty.
4:49
Speaker 11: You know?
4:49
Speaker 12: Yeah, standing at the bar over there in the long
4:52
Speaker 12: black coat.
4:52
Speaker 5: Oh?
4:53
Speaker 4: Oh, good. I'll see you later.
4:58
Speaker 7: Sure.
5:01
Speaker 4: Ben Sissel? That's me.
5:02
Speaker 5: My name's Dylan Sissel.
5:04
Speaker 4: I'm the U.S. Marshal here.
5:06
Speaker 6: Oh, I thought you were out of town.
5:09
Speaker 4: I was.
5:10
Speaker 6: Well, what do you want, Marshal?
5:13
Speaker 4: Where you from, Sizzle?
5:14
Speaker 6: Oh, all over, Marshal. You know how gamblers are. Yeah,
5:17
Speaker 6: I know.
5:18
Speaker 5: Where'd you gamble last? I, uh, back east.
5:22
Speaker 4: Why? How long's Pate been working for you?
5:26
Speaker 6: Working for me?
5:27
Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
5:28
Speaker 6: What are you trying to say, Marshal?
5:30
Speaker 4: Well, I'll make it real simple. The way you operate
5:32
Speaker 4: has already led to one kill in here, and I'm
5:34
Speaker 4: not going to have any more. I didn't kill anybody, Marshal.
5:37
Speaker 6: There are plenty of witnesses to that.
5:38
Speaker 4: Where's Pate, Cecil?
5:40
Speaker 6: I don't know where he is. Why should I?
5:42
Speaker 4: I want to talk to him, and I want you
5:44
Speaker 4: with me when I do.
5:45
Speaker 6: You're getting kind of pushy, Marshal.
5:46
Speaker 4: I can get a lot worse.
5:48
Speaker 5: I suppose we go outside and wait for a friend
5:50
Speaker 5: who's coming here to meet me, and then we'll go
5:51
Speaker 5: talk to Pate.
5:53
Speaker 4: Shall we get moving?
6:04
Speaker 6: Pate's room's up here, Marshal.
6:06
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's in. Well, if he isn't,
6:08
Speaker 5: you'd start thinking of some place he might.
6:10
Speaker 11: Be, so.
6:11
Speaker 8: Sure, sure.
6:12
Speaker 9: I wouldn't blame you for not being here, Mr.
6:14
Speaker 4: Dillon.
6:14
Speaker 9: This is the worst hotel in Dodge.
6:16
Speaker 4: This the room?
6:17
Speaker 8: This is it.
6:18
Speaker 4: All right, knock on the door. Tell him you want
6:19
Speaker 4: to talk to him.
6:21
Speaker 6: Okay. Bet you're going to.
6:22
Speaker 4: Wish I hadn't. Knock. Who's that?
6:31
Speaker 8: It's Ben Sissel. Hello, Sissel. Who's these two?
6:39
Speaker 6: This is Marshal Dillon, Pate.
6:41
Speaker 8: Marshal Dillon? What's he doing here?
6:44
Speaker 4: We'll come inside and tell you, Peyton.
6:46
Speaker 8: Now, wait a minute, Marshal. Get out of there. Now,
6:52
Speaker 8: you look, Marshal. If you come here over that cowboy
6:55
Speaker 8: last night, it's no use.
6:57
Speaker 4: Everybody saw it knows I killed him in self-defense.
6:59
Speaker 6: Of course he did. There's plenty of witnesses to that.
7:01
Speaker 4: You're a smart sizzle, but you're a coward. That's why
7:04
Speaker 4: you need a hired gun to help you when you're
7:06
Speaker 4: caught dealing crooked. You'd better watch what you're saying. Why?
7:10
Speaker 5: I don't carry a gun, Marshal, but Peyton does.
7:13
Speaker 6: He happens to be a good friend of mine.
7:15
Speaker 4: Sure, but right now, Pate's gun belt is hanging on
7:17
Speaker 4: that chair over there. You see it? You blasted fool.
7:21
Speaker 9: Shut up!
7:23
Speaker 4: Now, Marshal, I.
7:25
Speaker 8: I ain't afraid of you, but you're armed and I'm not.
7:27
Speaker 4: Chester.
7:28
Speaker 5: Yes, sir?
7:28
Speaker 4: Go get his gun belt.
7:30
Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
7:31
Speaker 8: That's pretty brave of you, Marshal, arresting an unarmed man.
7:34
Speaker 4: I'm not arresting you, Pate. I wish I could.
7:37
Speaker 8: Then what are you doing?
7:38
Speaker 4: Chester, unbuckle that belt and hand it to him.
7:40
Speaker 13: Here you are.
7:41
Speaker 4: All right. Put it on, Pate.
7:44
Speaker 8: Put it on?
7:44
Speaker 4: That's right.
7:47
Speaker 6: Okay.
7:53
Speaker 4: All right, you got your gun on now.
7:55
Speaker 8: Yeah.
7:56
Speaker 4: Get out of Dodge.
7:57
Speaker 6: What?
7:58
Speaker 4: I said get out of Dodge right now.
8:02
Speaker 8: I ain't done nothing, Marshal. I got no quarrel with you.
8:06
Speaker 6: What kind of gunman are you, Paint?
8:09
Speaker 4: Too free to him?
8:09
Speaker 5: The kind of gunman that can be hired isn't the
8:11
Speaker 5: kind that's going to take any real chances, Cecil.
8:13
Speaker 8: I said I got no quarrel with you.
8:15
Speaker 4: I don't like this.
8:18
Speaker 8: You know, you let me out of here.
8:19
Speaker 4: Out of Dodge.
8:21
Speaker 8: Sure, it's no good town anyway.
8:24
Speaker 4: The door's open.
8:25
Speaker 8: The Marshal's right, Cecil. This job don't pay enough.
8:37
Speaker 6: I guess you win, Marshal.
8:39
Speaker 5: You won't find any gunman here who'll hire out to
8:41
Speaker 5: you now, Cecil, so you might as well learn to
8:43
Speaker 5: deal straight. Oh, I always do, Marshal.
8:46
Speaker 4: Yeah. Come on, Chester, let's get out of here. Yes, sir.
8:55
Speaker 9: Maybe you should have run Cecil out of Dodge, too.
8:57
Speaker 4: I'd rather he stayed, Chester.
8:58
Speaker 5: Maybe next time I can arrest him and see him
9:01
Speaker 5: hung like he deserves. It didn't take Peter any longer
9:06
Speaker 5: to leave Dodge than to find his horse and get mounted.
9:09
Speaker 5: And for the next week, there was no trouble from
9:11
Speaker 5: Ben Sissel. He went on dealing cards, and although everybody
9:15
Speaker 5: was watching him pretty close, nobody found any reason to
9:17
Speaker 5: complain about him. He didn't win much money, but I
9:20
Speaker 5: began to think maybe he decided that being honest had
9:23
Speaker 5: some value anyway.
9:25
Speaker 4: Doc and I were talking about him in my office
9:27
Speaker 4: one noon.
9:28
Speaker 11: Yeah, a man like Ben Sissel doesn't change, Matt. He's
9:32
Speaker 11: a crook, and he'll always be one. He's worse than
9:34
Speaker 11: a crook. He's practically a murderer.
9:36
Speaker 4: He's also a coward, Doc. That's why I think maybe
9:39
Speaker 4: I got him stopped.
9:40
Speaker 10: Well, the way I got him fixed now, in order
9:42
Speaker 10: to stay free, he's got to stay honest.
9:44
Speaker 11: Yeah. That must be a hard choice for a man
9:48
Speaker 11: like that.
9:48
Speaker 12: Mr.
9:48
Speaker 9: Dillon? Hold on.
9:51
Speaker 4: Justin?
9:52
Speaker 7: Mr.
9:52
Speaker 9: Dillon, I just seen the doggone thing out on the
9:55
Speaker 9: street there.
9:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was that?
9:57
Speaker 10: Well, sir, who would you say is the last man
10:00
Speaker 10: in Dodge you'd ever expect to start carrying a six-gun?
10:03
Speaker 13: I am.
10:04
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, no, besides of you, Doc.
10:06
Speaker 5: I can't think of anybody except Doc who doesn't carry
10:09
Speaker 5: a gun now, Chester.
10:11
Speaker 9: Well, what about Cooter Smith?
10:13
Speaker 4: Cooter Smith?
10:14
Speaker 9: If I hadn't saw him, I wouldn't believe it neither.
10:17
Speaker 4: Well, what's he doing with the gun?
10:18
Speaker 9: Just leaning on a post down the street there.
10:20
Speaker 11: He shouldn't be allowed to wear a gun, a man
10:22
Speaker 11: like him.
10:23
Speaker 8: No.
10:24
Speaker 4: Tester, go bring him in here. I want to talk
10:25
Speaker 4: to him. All right, sir.
10:27
Speaker 9: I'll get.
10:29
Speaker 6: Him.
10:29
Speaker 11: Things will get mighty bad around here when even Cooter
10:32
Speaker 11: Smith decides to arm himself, man.
10:35
Speaker 4: Ah, Cooter's pretty harmless, Doc.
10:36
Speaker 12: Well, you never know.
10:37
Speaker 11: A man like that could be harmless one day and
10:39
Speaker 11: dangerous the next.
10:40
Speaker 4: What's the matter with Cooter anyway, Doc?
10:42
Speaker 11: I don't know for sure. I did examine him once and...
10:47
Speaker 11: Looked to me like he got kicked in the head
10:48
Speaker 11: by a horse at one time. He won't say so
10:52
Speaker 11: for some reason, but maybe he doesn't even remember.
10:55
Speaker 4: Whatever it was, it sure made him half simple.
10:57
Speaker 11: I've seen men worse off. Here he is, Mr.
11:01
Speaker 6: Jones.
11:02
Speaker 4: Hello, Cooter. Come on in. Hello, Cooter.
11:06
Speaker 9: Hello, Doc.
11:08
Speaker 13: Why, come here like Chester said, Marshal.
11:10
Speaker 4: Good. I wanted to talk to you, Cooter. Well, you
11:14
Speaker 4: never told me you'd come here before. You never wore
11:17
Speaker 4: a gun before, Cooter.
11:19
Speaker 6: Oh, that.
11:21
Speaker 4: Well, that's for my job, Marshal. Your job? What job
11:24
Speaker 4: or work I got? What kind of a job is it? Well,
11:27
Speaker 4: I don't rightly know yet, Marshal. Well, can you tell
11:29
Speaker 4: me what you do know, then? Like who hired you?
11:32
Speaker 13: Well, the fellow that gave me this gun, he hired me.
11:36
Speaker 4: For an awful lot of money, he said. And who
11:38
Speaker 4: was that? Was it Ben something? Ben Sissel?
11:43
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's him.
11:45
Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
11:45
Speaker 13: He's going to pay me for wearing this gun.
11:47
Speaker 4: He is, huh? Did he tell you why?
11:49
Speaker 9: This afternoon.
11:49
Speaker 10: What?
11:50
Speaker 13: Well, that's why he's going to tell me everything I
11:53
Speaker 13: got to do. He's going to talk to me some
11:56
Speaker 13: more this afternoon.
11:58
Speaker 4: He sure talks a lot, that fellow. Yeah. Okay, Cooter,
12:03
Speaker 4: you can go along now. But, uh, I hope you
12:06
Speaker 4: don't let Sissel talk you into any trouble.
12:09
Speaker 13: Aw, it ain't that, Marshal.
12:11
Speaker 4: As long as he don't try to make a fool
12:14
Speaker 4: out of me. Sometimes people do.
12:16
Speaker 13: I don't like that.
12:19
Speaker 4: Yeah.
12:20
Speaker 11: Sure, Cooter.
12:21
Speaker 13: I think I'll go talk to him now and make sure.
12:26
Speaker 11: Goodbye.
12:27
Speaker 4: Bye, Cooter.
12:31
Speaker 9: Well, what in the world do you make of that?
12:34
Speaker 5: I think maybe Cecil's crazier than Cooter is, Chester. I'm
12:38
Speaker 5: going to be at the Long.
12:38
Speaker 4: Branch tonight to make sure. Evening, Kitty. Hello, Matt.
12:58
Speaker 8: What are you doing around here so early tonight?
13:00
Speaker 4: I'm looking for Ben Sissel.
13:02
Speaker 7: Over there.
13:03
Speaker 11: Is there trouble, Matt?
13:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe.
13:08
Speaker 3: Hello, Marshal.
13:12
Speaker 6: Sissel. Cooter Smith tells me you were talking to him
13:16
Speaker 6: this morning.
13:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
13:18
Speaker 6: And he'll be here in a minute. You can talk
13:20
Speaker 6: to him some more.
13:21
Speaker 4: Fine.
13:22
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know, Marshal. Maybe it won't be so fine. Oh?
13:27
Speaker 6: Cooter's not as easygoing as most people.
13:29
Speaker 4: Seem to think.
13:30
Speaker 6: He isn't?
13:31
Speaker 12: No.
13:32
Speaker 5: For example, you tie a gun on him, it kind
13:34
Speaker 5: of changes his whole character. Makes him mean, Marshal. You'd
13:39
Speaker 5: be surprised how mean.
13:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I would.
13:43
Speaker 6: You don't believe me, huh?
13:45
Speaker 4: I'll show you.
13:47
Speaker 6: Cooter?
13:48
Speaker 4: Hey, Cooter! Go ahead, Cooter.
13:57
Speaker 6: I told him. Go ahead now. Marshal?
14:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, Cooter? I'm going to draw on you, Marshal. I'm
14:06
Speaker 4: going to shoot you. What? I'm going to kill you.
14:08
Speaker 4: Now look, Cooter, you know better than that. Is this
14:12
Speaker 4: what you've been putting into his head, Cecil?
14:14
Speaker 8: Don't you look at him, Marshal.
14:16
Speaker 6: You look at me.
14:17
Speaker 4: Don't you look at him.
14:18
Speaker 13: You just look at me.
14:19
Speaker 4: So that's it, huh? Okay, Cooter. Go ahead.
14:25
Speaker 6: Draw.
14:26
Speaker 13: Well, I am.
14:29
Speaker 4: I'm going to.
14:31
Speaker 8: You look out, Marshal.
14:32
Speaker 11: I sure am.
14:33
Speaker 4: No, you're not, Cooter. You haven't got a chance. Now
14:35
Speaker 4: watch this! Ah, Cooter, there you see. You're too slow.
14:40
Speaker 4: I got my gun out and you haven't even touched yours. No. I...
14:47
Speaker 4: I haven't touched mine. Your gun's pointing at me. I... Vance?
14:55
Speaker 13: Ben.
14:56
Speaker 4: He's not going to help you, Cooter. Yes, he is.
14:58
Speaker 11: He is, too. It's him that's going to shoot you.
15:01
Speaker 8: It's him.
15:02
Speaker 4: You think so?
15:03
Speaker 6: Ben.
15:06
Speaker 4: Ben, he's going to kill me.
15:07
Speaker 11: Ben, you've got to shoot him.
15:11
Speaker 7: I can't stand that. I can't.
15:18
Speaker 4: You poor devil. Now, Cecil, you ought to be real proud. I.
15:25
Speaker 6: I didn't do nothing, Marshal. I wasn't going to shoot you.
15:29
Speaker 6: I don't even carry a gun, you know that.
15:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, but Cooter didn't know it.
15:33
Speaker 5: You told him to make me start for my gun,
15:34
Speaker 5: and then you'd shoot me from the side where I
15:36
Speaker 5: couldn't see you.
15:37
Speaker 4: You told him he'd be safe. That ain't so, Marshal.
15:39
Speaker 4: But what you planned was to make me kill him.
15:41
Speaker 5: It wouldn't look so good for me to kill a
15:42
Speaker 5: man like Cooter, but if nobody had stand for that,
15:44
Speaker 5: they'd laugh me right out of town.
15:45
Speaker 4: That's what you were figuring on, wasn't it?
15:48
Speaker 6: I had nothing to do with it, Marshal. I wasn't
15:51
Speaker 6: figuring on nothing.
15:51
Speaker 4: You're not as smart as I thought you were. When
15:56
Speaker 4: you're leaving town, Cecil, I'm going to give you one hour.
16:00
Speaker 4: And I hope you take longer.
16:03
Speaker 5: But what you made me do to Cooter is going
16:05
Speaker 5: to be a real pleasure to drag you out of town.
16:24
Speaker 9: Sissel leave yet, Mr. Dillon?
16:25
Speaker 4: He's still saddling up in the stable over there, Chester.
16:28
Speaker 6: I'm going to give him about one more minute.
16:31
Speaker 4: What did Doc say about Cooter?
16:32
Speaker 9: Oh, Cooter's fine. Doc gave him some powders and stuff.
16:35
Speaker 9: He's real calm now.
16:36
Speaker 4: Where is he?
16:37
Speaker 6: I don't know.
16:38
Speaker 9: He left Doc's quite a little bit ago.
16:40
Speaker 4: You explained to him what Sissel was trying to.
16:42
Speaker 6: Do, huh?
16:42
Speaker 11: Oh, yes, sir.
16:43
Speaker 9: I made it real plain, like you told me.
16:44
Speaker 4: You think he understands now?
16:46
Speaker 9: He understands everything, Mr.
16:47
Speaker 11: Dillon.
16:48
Speaker 10: You know, it's funny, but like Doc said, getting scared
16:51
Speaker 10: so bad he fainted. Seems to help Cooter think straighter,
16:54
Speaker 10: at least about what happened.
16:55
Speaker 9: He ain't near as fuzzy as usual.
16:57
Speaker 6: Ah, good.
16:59
Speaker 4: Sizzles, time's up. I'm going on that stable now and
17:02
Speaker 4: run him out.
17:03
Speaker 9: He won't give you no fight.
17:05
Speaker 4: No, he won't, but I kind of wish he would.
17:07
Speaker 9: You could have run him out of the lodge a
17:08
Speaker 9: long time ago.
17:09
Speaker 4: I wanted to catch him, Chester. I wanted to bring
17:11
Speaker 4: him to try.
17:13
Speaker 11: That's inside the stable.
17:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on. What's that, Mr.
17:20
Speaker 11: Dunn? It's Cooter.
17:23
Speaker 9: He's killed Ben Sissel.
17:27
Speaker 4: All right, drop the gun, Cooter. I dropped it. I
17:32
Speaker 4: ain't gonna shoot no more, Marshal.
17:35
Speaker 9: Shot him right in the head, Mr. Nellie.
17:38
Speaker 5: He lied to me. He made a fool out of me.
17:42
Speaker 5: Why did you have to kill him, Cooter? I was
17:43
Speaker 5: running him out of dodge.
17:45
Speaker 4: Don't you shoot me, Marshal.
17:46
Speaker 7: I wasn't gonna shoot you.
17:47
Speaker 4: Honest, I wasn't. I like you.
17:51
Speaker 13: Cecil told me I wasn't doing anything bad.
17:54
Speaker 7: I wasn't going to shoot you. Cecil was going to
17:55
Speaker 7: shoot you.
17:56
Speaker 11: I like you.
17:56
Speaker 4: All right. All right, Cooter. I know that. Now just
17:58
Speaker 4: calm down. I'm not going to hurt you.
18:01
Speaker 13: You're pointing that gun at me.
18:02
Speaker 4: No. Gun's back in my hole. Take a look at it.
18:06
Speaker 6: See?
18:07
Speaker 4: I am looking at it. And I can't stand it.
18:12
Speaker 12: No, I.
18:12
Speaker 6: Cooter.
18:13
Speaker 4: Cooter!
18:14
Speaker 9: Well, ain't you going after him?
18:16
Speaker 4: I didn't scare him even worse. It's bad enough now.
18:19
Speaker 9: But he killed a man.
18:20
Speaker 6: He murdered him.
18:21
Speaker 4: He won't run far, Chester. I'll find him when his
18:24
Speaker 4: trial comes up. I've done enough to coot her for
18:28
Speaker 4: one day. Well, it ain't your fault, Mr.
18:31
Speaker 11: Diller.
18:31
Speaker 4: No. That doesn't make me feel any better about it.
19:07
Speaker 8: Gunsmoke.
19:08
Speaker 2: Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William
19:12
Speaker 2: Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S.
19:14
Speaker 4: Marshal.
19:15
Speaker 2: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston.
19:18
Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were.
19:19
Speaker 4: Frank Cady, Barney Phillips, and Vic Perrin.
19:22
Speaker 2: Parley Bear is Chester, Howard McNair is Doc, and Georgia.
19:26
Speaker 4: Ellis is Kitty.
19:32
Speaker 1: That was Gunsmoke Cooter from the CBS radio broadcast of
19:36
Speaker 1: April 16th, 1961. Follow Gunsmoke for more classic broadcasts.