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The Lone Ranger - "Bob Mcalister Framed for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1938) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Poston's streets are deserted in mid-afternoon. The townspeople gathered at
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: the courthouse for the murder trial of young Bob McAllister.
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  Speaker 1: This is The Lone Ranger in Bob McAllister Framed for Murder,
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  Speaker 1: episode 825, first broadcast on May 11th, 1938. The masked
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: rider and Tonto arrive to find McAllister also implicated in
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: a robbery, with execution set for the following morning. Earl
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Grazer is The Lone Ranger, John Todd is Tonto, and
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Fran Stryker wrote the script for this mutual broadcast, produced
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  Speaker 1: by George W.
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  Speaker 2: Trendle.
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  Speaker 1: There is little time before morning as the Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 1: begins his investigation of the case against McAllister. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 4: of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 3: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: In the pioneer days of the western United States, gunmen
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  Speaker 4: and soldiers, outlaws, cattlemen, and Indians lived dangerously and knew
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  Speaker 4: the thrill of adventure. But the most daring figure of
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  Speaker 4: them all was the masked rider of justice. Stories of
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  Speaker 4: his deeds had been told and retold through the generations.
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  Speaker 4: And now return with us once more to the days
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  Speaker 4: when the Phantom of the Plains.
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  Speaker 2: Fought crime with justice. The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver,
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  Speaker 2: let's go!
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  Speaker 4: As the Lone Ranger rode by on Silver, he said
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  Speaker 4: that he was heading for the town of Potsdam. When
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  Speaker 4: the masked man and his faithful Indian companion taught Wintertown,
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  Speaker 4: they found the streets deserted, although it was only mid-afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: The townspeople had left their work to attend the trial
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  Speaker 4: of young Bob McAllister, charged with murder. But old Len
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  Speaker 4: Purvis did not share their curiosity. He was content to
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  Speaker 4: sit on the steps of the courthouse, idly whittling, until
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  Speaker 4: the voice of the Lone Ranger demanded his attention. Say there,
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  Speaker 4: what's going on inside the court? Hey, great guns, your mask.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let that scare you. What's the trial for?
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  Speaker 7: They're fixing to hang young Bob McAllister. And if ever
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  Speaker 7: there was a man framed, Bob's him.
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  Speaker 2: What's he accused of? Robbery and murders, all.
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  Speaker 7: Well, they can hang him for murder, but by darn
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  Speaker 7: they can't get back what he said to have sold
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  Speaker 7: because he didn't steal nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know who did, but Bob didn't. Why are you
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  Speaker 2: so sure of that?
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  Speaker 7: Stranger, when a man lives to be my age out here,
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  Speaker 7: it's because he's got blamed good judgment and has the
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  Speaker 7: knack of picking out straight shooters from the ornery run
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  Speaker 7: of polecats and buzzards. McAllister's a straight shooter and always
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  Speaker 7: has been. You yourself, for instance.
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  Speaker 2: What about me?
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  Speaker 8: You ain't what your mask can make you out to be.
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  Speaker 2: No siree.
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  Speaker 7: I ain't talked with you five minutes, and I sized
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  Speaker 7: you up as a right-thinking hombre.
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  Speaker 2: And in spite of your mask, get that. I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to hear more about McAllister.
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  Speaker 7: Well, he'll be found guilty afore sundown, hanged before sunup,
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  Speaker 7: and then some skunk will have peace of mind, knowing
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  Speaker 7: Bob's paid for the murder of Joe Findlay. You said
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  Speaker 7: Bob was not guilty. Sure as my name's Lem Purvis,
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  Speaker 7: he ain't. It's a dirty shame the way things piled
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  Speaker 7: up against him. He didn't have no alibi for the
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  Speaker 7: night Joe was knifed. He was no due of rowd
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  Speaker 7: with Joe a couple hours previous. So Sheriff Green called
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  Speaker 7: on Bob at the express office where he worked, found
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  Speaker 7: the murder knife in his desk, or some rat put it,
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  Speaker 7: and hailed him into court for trial.
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  Speaker 2: Hello? We stay here for time. Exactly.
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  Speaker 8: You better not.
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  Speaker 7: Our sheriff's gosh-awful ambitious, and he'd likely jail you and
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  Speaker 7: hang you.
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  Speaker 2: Just because you wear a mask. I'll take that chance.
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  Speaker 7: But Sheriff Green ain't as slick as I am sizing
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  Speaker 7: a man up. You better not take no chances. We'll
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  Speaker 7: go over to the side of the building. I see
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  Speaker 7: an open window there.
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  Speaker 2: Wee here, Kyle there. Yes.
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  Speaker 7: That's again my good advice to you, stranger. Thanks for
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  Speaker 7: the advice, Lem. If you thank me, take it and
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  Speaker 7: shove on. And let Bob McAllister hang for what.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't do? Well, there ain't much you can do
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  Speaker 2: to stop it. I can talk to you again. Hang?
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  Speaker 2: And possibly you'll tell me which of the men in
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  Speaker 2: town you think might have framed McAllister. Come on, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe old men vice good. Hello. We're going to stay here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that. Did you keep us up? We
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  Speaker 2: see trial now. There's the window. We'll get as close
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  Speaker 2: as we dare. I know it looks as if the
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  Speaker 2: jury's coming in. Well... And from their expressions, it looks
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  Speaker 2: as if the worst has happened. That's a hanging jury
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  Speaker 2: if ever I see one. Well, we ain't got no
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  Speaker 2: chance at all. I wonder if he's really guilty. The
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  Speaker 2: sheriff sure thought so when he gave his testimony. Order!
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  Speaker 2: Order this here court! Order!
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  Speaker 5: Well, a foreman and a jury in the case of
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  Speaker 5: State v. Robert McAllister... charged with the murder of Joe Finley,
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  Speaker 5: please rise.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: And take that hat off. Ain't you no respect for
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  Speaker 5: the court? Not a heck of a lot. That'll do.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you get so flip. Has the jury reached a verdict?
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  Speaker 5: We has.
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  Speaker 2: Then let's hear it. We find the prisoner guilty as charged.
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  Speaker 5: The prisoner will please to stand and face the judge.
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  Speaker 5: I don't suppose he's any use to me saying any
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  Speaker 5: more now, is there, Judge?
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  Speaker 2: No, McAllister, there ain't.
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  Speaker 9: You do, however, have a chance to speak before I
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  Speaker 9: pass sentence if you got something worth saying.
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  Speaker 5: I have.
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  Speaker 2: I got something to say. Well?
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  Speaker 5: I know what the sentence will be.
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  Speaker 2: I'll hang.
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  Speaker 5: But there's just one thing I'd like to ask. Let
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  Speaker 5: me go to my mother for just a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 2: Where is she? Ain't far, Judge.
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  Speaker 5: Only a couple hours ridin'. She ain't able to get
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  Speaker 5: around much, and when I'm gone, I don't know who'll
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  Speaker 5: take care of her. She'll need cash and need it bad, and, well,
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  Speaker 5: I've got some cash hidden.
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  Speaker 8: The stolen cash?
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, it was bonds that were stolen from Joe Finley,
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  Speaker 5: not cash. The cash is my own. Ma don't know
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  Speaker 5: where it is.
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  Speaker 8: Can't allow a condemned man to leave here.
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  Speaker 5: Anything else to say? But, Judge, I've got to see Ma.
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  Speaker 8: Tell someone where the cash is and the message will
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  Speaker 8: be taken.
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  Speaker 2: Tell someone? Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: With the way this trial's been handled, I wouldn't trust anyone.
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  Speaker 5: Someone in this town framed me for murder. I'd sooner
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  Speaker 5: have Mom not get the case than give some rat
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  Speaker 5: a chance to steal it.
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  Speaker 9: That's enough from you, McAllister. The court will now pass sentence.
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  Speaker 9: I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until dead.
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  Speaker 8: The time?
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  Speaker 9: At sunrise tomorrow morning. The sheriff will.
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  Speaker 8: Take the prisoner in custody and put him under constant
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  Speaker 8: guard till morning.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Bob.
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  Speaker 8: All you folks stay in your seats till the prisoner's removed.
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  Speaker 8: You needn't to hold your gun on me, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: I know there ain't no use trying to break loose.
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  Speaker 2: Serve you right, you murderer. Listen, I'm not going to stand.
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  Speaker 2: He know you should reply in the talk. Kill Joe Finley, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Well, you'll see him where he's gone right soon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go to jail with you, Sheriff. Take the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the prisoner, Larson. Go on, McAllister. Hi there, Bob.
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  Speaker 2: Tough luck.
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  Speaker 7: I was rooting for you, but I was afraid the
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  Speaker 7: cards were stacked.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet, Lamb.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't allowed you to talk to the prisoner. There's
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  Speaker 5: the jail straight ahead, Bob. I ain't a killer, Larson.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to be hanged. I know you don't, Bob,
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  Speaker 5: but I ain't so sure you're guilty. I'm doggone it all.
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  Speaker 5: It was the evidence. I wish there was something I
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  Speaker 5: could have done to help.
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  Speaker 2: Shut your mouth, Larson. There ain't no way for a
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  Speaker 2: deputy to talk to a condemned man.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't mind the hanging half as much. If only
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  Speaker 5: I could get to see my mother. Just long enough
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  Speaker 5: to give her the cash. I suppose you don't care
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  Speaker 5: to tell me where it is any more than you
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  Speaker 5: do anyone else in town. I ain't trusting no one.
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  Speaker 5: This real murder of Joe Finley is slick. He'd get
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  Speaker 5: that cash if anyone in town knew where it was.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not gonna.
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  Speaker 2: You wait. Stand aside, Injun. You wait. Me won't talk
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  Speaker 2: with a feller. Move along. It ain't allowed. Where your
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  Speaker 2: mother live. I ain't talking. You tell me. No. Get
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  Speaker 2: back there. Blanche, you ain't allowed to run alongside us
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  Speaker 2: like that. We can't lie. We're all red-skinned, Bob. You
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  Speaker 2: can trust him.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't telling nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Let me talk with you, Injun.
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  Speaker 5: I got some ideas of my own.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 4: It was late that night. Bob McAllister sat alone in
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  Speaker 4: his cell while Larson, the deputy sheriff, stood guard outside.
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  Speaker 4: As he watched, the masked man and Tonto were moving
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  Speaker 4: quietly toward the shadowed jail.
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  Speaker 6: We're justified, Tonto. I'm sure of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: I'm convinced that Bob told the truth. I'm afraid there's
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  Speaker 6: little chance to save him, though. There's too much evidence
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  Speaker 6: piled up against him.
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  Speaker 2: You know what Lempel are telling you. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Lempel does seem to be a good judge of men.
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  Speaker 6: If only we can get Bob to his mother, I'm
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  Speaker 6: sure he'll feel a lot better. That's right. He should
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  Speaker 6: at least have some money to take care of her.
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  Speaker 6: There's a jail.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 6: There a guard. Can you make out who the guard is?
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  Speaker 6: Looked like a deputy.
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  Speaker 5: Which one?
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  Speaker 2: The Larson fella.
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  Speaker 6: The only man in town outside of Lem Purvis with
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  Speaker 6: a kind word to say to Bob.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry he's the guard, but it can't be helped.
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  Speaker 2: We're here to help Bob. Come on, Tudor.
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  Speaker 6: We'll move ahead slowly. We don't want him to have
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  Speaker 6: a chance to raise any alarm.
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  Speaker 5: Ain't no use my trying to sleep anyhow. So you
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  Speaker 5: may as well talk if you don't mind, Larson. I
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  Speaker 5: don't mind, Bob. Anything I can do to make it
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  Speaker 5: a little easier, I'm glad to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: It wouldn't do, though, for me to be seen confabbing
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  Speaker 5: through the bars like this. I suppose not. Don't you
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  Speaker 5: reckon it'd be a good idea to try and sleep?
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  Speaker 5: For what? I got about six hours left on Earth.
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  Speaker 5: Why should I waste them sleeping? This is the last
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  Speaker 5: time I'll see them stars in the sky. The last
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  Speaker 5: time I'll be able to talk to anyone. And I
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  Speaker 5: didn't kill Joe Finley.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't right, Larson. It ain't just.
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  Speaker 5: Take it easy, Bob. Getting head up won't help none.
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  Speaker 5: And Mother, she don't even know I'm in trouble. She'll
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  Speaker 5: be looking for me to come home tonight. And I
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  Speaker 5: won't be able to. Then she'll learn what's happened. And
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  Speaker 5: I can't stand thinking of it, Larson.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look up, Bob. We all got to go someday.
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  Speaker 5: But hang him. Going as a murderer.
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  Speaker 2: He ain't guilty.
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  Speaker 5: You'll get square judgment later on. But what of the
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  Speaker 5: real killer? He goes free.
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  Speaker 2: Look here, Bob.
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  Speaker 5: I reckon I showed you I'm a friend, didn't I? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: sure you have, Larson. Done all I could for you, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'd do more if you'd let me. I know how
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  Speaker 5: you feel about trusting anyone. But it's important that your
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  Speaker 5: mother get that money you got here. I'll take a
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  Speaker 5: message to her. I.
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  Speaker 2: Wait.
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  Speaker 5: I heard something over yonder.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 5: I did. I.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep him quiet. You didn't hit him too hard,
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: did you, Tonto? Lock him up. I know. Well, be
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  Speaker 2: sure he isn't seriously hurt. Then gag him and tie
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  Speaker 2: him up. I don't savvy this. What does it mean?
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  Speaker 8: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Conister, if you have the chance to see your mother,
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  Speaker 2: will you be willing to come back here before daybreak?
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  Speaker 5: I'd do anything for that. If I could see Mom
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  Speaker 5: for just a few minutes... That's why we're here.
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  Speaker 2: Find the keys on the deputy, Tonto. Me got them. Here, Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Your mask. Here's.
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  Speaker 5: Why are you doing this for me? Because I think
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  Speaker 5: you deserve it.
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  Speaker 2: Come on out. We'll let you see your mother. You'll
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: have to travel on my horse with me. Tyler, you
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  Speaker 2: stay here and watch the deputy. Me watch him. Is
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  Speaker 2: he conscious yet?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Well, keep an eye on him.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, I'm sure sorry I had to clout Mike Larson
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  Speaker 5: so hard. Why? He was right fine to me. Hope
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  Speaker 5: he ain't hurt bad.
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  Speaker 2: He isn't.
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  Speaker 5: He was willing to do most anything for me. He
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: seemed very friendly. Yeah, but come on. Let's start riding.
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  Speaker 5: If I got to be back here by sunup.
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 5: Hope the guy should take good care of Larson, Injun.
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  Speaker 5: Hunter will do. I almost told him where the cash
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  Speaker 5: was hid. I reckon I might have took the chance
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  Speaker 5: if you hadn't come along.
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  Speaker 2: But wait. How do I know you won't steal the cash?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where it is.
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  Speaker 5: You might watch Ma when she goes for it. How
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  Speaker 5: do you know about it in the first place? Well,
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  Speaker 5: answer me.
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  Speaker 2: Wait.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess I'll have to take a chance on you.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't no choice. I know Larson would let me
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  Speaker 5: out of the jail. He's too honest to betray his job. Honest,
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  Speaker 5: is he?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Very well, Bob. Huh? Back in jail with you.
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  Speaker 8: Hold on. Wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to you some more. Oh, let
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: go of me. Get back there. Get some water and
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: try to bring the deputy around as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 5: What did I do to make you change so suddenly?
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: You said you'd trust the deputy. Well, trust him.
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  Speaker 7: The curtain falls on the first act of tonight's Lone
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  Speaker 7: Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 7: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 4: And now to continue our story. Bob McAllister, sentenced to
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: death for murder... wished to send his savings to his mother,
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  Speaker 4: but felt that no one could be trusted. The Lone Ranger,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: believing the young man innocent, planned to release Bob long
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: enough to carry the money himself. But at the last moment,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: learning that Deputy Sheriff Larson had proved friendly to his prisoner,
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  Speaker 4: the masked man returned Bob to his cell. Fifteen minutes later,
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  Speaker 4: the deputy recovered consciousness. Bob watched him from behind the bars.
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  Speaker 2: My head.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: You ain't hurt bad, are you, Larson?
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  Speaker 2: A redskin. I remember now. Where'd he go?
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  Speaker 8: What'd he do?
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Don't know where he went, but he didn't do anything.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: I figure he might have planned to help me bust loose,
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: but got scared away by something.
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  Speaker 2: He sure fits me a whack. How long was I
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: knocked out?
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  Speaker 5: Not so very long. I don't have no way of
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: keeping time. All right, so I'll hunt for that engine
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: tomorrow as soon as you.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as my hanging is over.
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  Speaker 5: Darn shame. Your ma won't.
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  Speaker 2: Never have that cash.
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  Speaker 5: Deputy, I've got to trust someone.
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  Speaker 2: You're foolish not to.
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  Speaker 5: Ain't nothing to lose. I'd see that your ma got it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to trust you.
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  Speaker 2: Good. I'll do what I can, Bob. You ought to
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: know that. Look here.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: There'll be another guard put on the job tonight, won't there?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: I wish you'd head for ma's place as soon as
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: she relieved. Tell her all that happened and tell her
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: that I ain't guilty. That'll make it easier for.
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  Speaker 2: Her to.
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  Speaker 5: When you've told her, then tell her where my savings
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: are hid.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Where's that?
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Inside a hollow tree stump, 50 yards in front of
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: the house.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be easy to find. Sure it will.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: It's going to be hard telling your ma about you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: But ma'll take it with her chin up. She's that kind.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I hope so. Be pretty late at night when I
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: get there, though. Next guard has to relieve me first,
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: and then it's a couple hours' ride.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Ma'll be awake. She will? Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: She expected me to be coming home sometime before morning.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: And she'll likely be waiting up for me.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: There'll be lights in the house. Don't let me down, Larson.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I'm trusting you. I won't let you down. Not on
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: your life. I'll ride for your house as soon as
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: the next guard comes to take my place.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: When the deputy was relieved, he immediately saddled and rode
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: to the McAllister home as he'd promised. When he arrived,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Bob's mother was half asleep in her favorite rocking chair,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: a lamp burning on the table beside her. When the
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: deputy knocked, she opened her eyes.
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: Oh, that must be Bob come home. Must be I
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: barred the door, not thinking.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, the door ain't barred at that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: I wonder, is that you, Bob?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: No, ma'am, it's Deputy Sheriff Lawson. What do you want
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: at this time of night? I got news about your son, ma'am.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: Open the door.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: What about him?
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: Has something happened?
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: Where is Bob?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: What I got to tell ain't pleasant, ma'am. Mind if
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: I step in?
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: Oh, come in.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Come in, Deputy Larson. I, uh... I don't know just
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: how to start, ma'am.
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: What's happened to my son?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I believed in him all through.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: That was why I trusted me where I wouldn't trust
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: nobody else.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Will you get to the point?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Well... A while ago, there was a man killed. Name
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: was Joe Findley.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Well, what about it? Bob was working in town, as
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: He had a little argument with Joe. But none of
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: us thought it was as serious as it turned out
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: to be.
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: You don't mean Joe.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Joe Findley was.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: Lord.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Bob with the knife.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Well, there's a mistake.
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: My Bob wouldn't do no such thing.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: That's just how I felt, ma'am. Even when they searched
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: his desk where he worked and found the knife.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: He'd used, I wouldn't believe it.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: Bob didn't do it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: The law found different. He's been found guilty and I
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: reckon you know what that means.
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: It means Sheriff Green's made another mistake.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Being his deputy, yeah, I should have thought just as
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: he did. But I didn't think Bob was guilty. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: was guarding him tonight, and he asked me to come
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: here and tell you what happened. He wanted me to
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: tell you that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Well, ma'am, they don't lose no time in carrying out
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: the laws here. He's to hang his son up.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Now the worst is over. I... He said you'd be
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: brave about it, ma'am. I.
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: I will be, Mr.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Larson. We....
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: We gotta be prepared. Prepared all the time. We gotta
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: see the West take those we love the most. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: saw this country take my husband from me. I saw
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: two of my children go. That was because of Indians.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Now... Now, because the law, the.
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: Justice of the East ain't come this far, I... I
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: see my boy Bob taken from me.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I'm right sorry about it, ma'am. Bob ain't guilty, Mr. Larson.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid that... He ain't guilty.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: Her mother knows.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I can't tell how, but.
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: If Bob ain't confessed to the crime, he didn't do it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: Unless he tells me with his own lips that he's
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: done it, I won't believe it. I'll get my shawl
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: and my bonnet.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Where are you going? To see my boy, of course. But, ma'am,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: you can't do it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: There's a horse and wagon in the barn. If you'll
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: take me, I'll go to see Bob. I've got to
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: get to hear from him if he's done it or not.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: He ain't allowed to talk to anyone. I'll find a
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: way to talk to him.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you can't go. I've got to travel myself now.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I just brought you the news like I promised Bob
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: I'd do.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: But, Mr. Larson.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Sorry, ma'am.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: By the way.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Joe Findlay had some bonds stolen from his place when
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: he was killed.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: They ain't been found yet.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: If you happen to see them around anywhere, now or later, you'll.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Know Bob took them.
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: How would I find him?
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Bob come here, didn't he? He might have hid them
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: around the house someplace. I have to go now.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going with you. Sorry, not with me. I got
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: orders about that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: No, stop me from getting to my boy. That deputy
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: might have waited for me, drat him. Now I'll have
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: to hitch up the horse myself. There he goes, heading
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: away as fast as he can. Who's that out there?
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Who are you?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Better stay in the house, ma'am. What are you prowling
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: around here for?
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: Come close so as I can see you or I'll fire.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: You better not try any shooting, Mrs. McAllister. I'm Sheriff Green.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: The sheriff? That's right, ma'am. Is it true?
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Is Bob going to hang?
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: Tell me that it ain't the case. Tell me my
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: boy ain't gonna hang.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Ain't nothing to say just yet, ma'am. Let me go
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: inside your house where it's light. You haven't said he
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: was gonna hang. Can't tell just yet.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: Well, what's that you got?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Mrs. McAllister, I took this tin box from the hollow
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: stump where you just seen me.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Do you recognize the box? Oh, yes, I... Oh, that is...
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Don't tell me anything that ain't true, ma'am. I'm trying
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: to get the facts on something. Well, I... That's Bob's
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: name scratched on the tin there.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: His box, ain't it? Yes, sir. Thanks for being honest.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: He never did tell me where he kept that box hid.
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: He kept saying that if ever we was in awful
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: trouble and had to have money, we'd have it saved
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: up in there.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: My boy was always thinking of a rainy day. Oh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: but I don't care about that now. I want to
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: get to town and see Bob.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Let's just have a look in this box first. Now then,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: looks like bonds here, don't it?
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: There ain't much cash here, not more than 15, 20
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: dollars in silver. These bonds are worth something, though.
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: I ain't interested, Sheriff. Let me go to Bob.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Mrs. McAllister, these bonds are the one that was stole
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: from the man Bob went to jail for killing.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: No.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Yep, they sure are. Old Joe Finley owned these bonds.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: And the man that killed him stole him.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Sheriff Green.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Hurry. Where? Come on. There's more to be seen. I
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: brought your horse up to the house.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: Who's that masked man?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Tell you later. Hurry before it's too late.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I'm coming.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, Bob didn't steal him. He's been framed, Sheriff.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Listen to me.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: See you later.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Come.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: On with you.
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, Sheriff, he ain't a thief.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: He ain't a killer. Wait right there, Mrs. McAllister. We'll
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: be back. But that man... Wait for us, ma'am. And
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: keep that lamp burning in the window. Keep the lamp burning.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Get up there.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Get up there.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: Hail, sales.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: The lone ranger.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: And the sheriff left the McAllister home and rode swiftly
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: to a point several hundred yards distant. There they found
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Lem Purvis standing beside a powerful chestnut mare.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: What's the word, Len?
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: I got your signal when you lit the fire. And
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: I got the signal from that point south of here.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: We all worked like you said. Where's the other signal?
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: It's tundra down there. See his fire?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Come on, then. Fire on the fire! Fire on the fire!
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: The masked man and the sheriff, with Lem following behind,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: urged their mounts toward the small signal fire where Tonto waited.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: The faithful Indian greeted them with a shout.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: There!
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: There on the fire!
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I see it, Tonto!
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Follow us!
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Get over here, Tonto!
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: Hi there! Wait for me!
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: We wait for no one! This is the night to
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: ride for justice! Come on there! Come on! Sail back!
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Led by the swift strides of silver, the group made
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: their way toward another signal fire. But ahead of them, concealed,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: as he thought, by the darkness, Deputy Sheriff Larson was
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: hastily scooping a hollow in the soft earth next to
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: a limestone rock.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: We hear him as he speaks aloud. Cash it away.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: Get back to town before the old woman gets there.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I gotta do it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Can't take the chance of having her talk to Bob.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: That wouldn't do.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Now I reckon we'll get... Don't make a move.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: What?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: We got you. Cover, Larson. Green. What's this mean? Means
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I size a rat upright. We got you cold. You
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: dirty killer. I'll have a look at what you're planting there, Larson. Listen, chef.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: How'd that man get loose?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I let him loose. Take a look at what he has, Cheryl.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Keep him covered. Here's cash. Lots of it. And more
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of Joe Finley's bonds as well. Let me explain that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: to you. And here's Finley's watch.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Larson, this puts a noose around your neck instead of
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Bob McKellis'. You went to the hollow tree, all right.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: You stole my cash.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: You'll have some bonds to frame me tighter than ever,
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: if they was ever found.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I did not. Trouble with that lie, Larson, is that
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: we was there and seen you. You're framing me. It's
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a put-up job. It's a put-up job, all right. From
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the time the masked man here believed in Bob and
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: mistrusted you because of what Lamb Purvis told him. I didn't.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I was right.
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: I never misjudged a man in my life.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: You see, Larson, while you were knocked out, Bob McAllister
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: told how you were so eager to do him a
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: favor and tell his mother where his cash was hidden.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: You're not a man who does favors of that sort.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: You weren't satisfied with what you'd already stolen. You wanted
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Bob's cash as well. You plotted to get it just
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: as we thought you would. And you went further.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: You figured to solve my case in the same hiding
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: place with the rest of your loot.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you done more than we hoped you would.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do about it?
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Ain't you anxious to know how we come in your
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: hiding place? What's the odds? Bob Wimbutano lent purpose when
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: you left the house. Each time you turned, one of
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: them stayed to mark the turn. When you finally stopped,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: each lit some brushwood to fetch all the others. We
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: got you red-handed. Well, you won't get me alive. I'll
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: show you what... I got him.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: By darn, I'm still handy with a six-gun. My leg.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Rope the skunk. My leg's broken. I can't stand. You
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: don't need to stand, Larson. You're gonna hang. You better
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: get for home, Bob. Your ma's waiting up for you.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I'm free?
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: There'll be formalities in court, but I guess you can
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: go home for what's left of the night. I'll see
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: you get back your cash after court's over with. Now,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: where's the masked man that got me to try a
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: scheme to find a killer?
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: Oh, shucks, Sheriff Green. Him and his Indian friends moved
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: off after this rat was shot.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: But I want to see him. Don't reckon you will. By, Cracky,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: he's just like me.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: The two of us sure can size up a straight
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: shooter like McAllister and a polecat like Larson as well.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Come on there, Silver!
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: More trouble ahead!
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Hi-yo, Silver!
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Hi-yo, Silver!
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: THE END THE END.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 30:30
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• 30:32
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• 30:42
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