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- 0:00Speaker 1: June fourteenth, nineteen fifty nine, mark the CBS broadcast of Gunsmoke,
- 0:05Speaker 1: Episode three hundred seventy five, Kitty's Kidnap In Dodge City, Marshal,
- 0:11Speaker 1: Matt Dillon and Chester stop two men from lynching a traveler,
- 0:15Speaker 1: then learn he is Pete Brass, wanted for robbery and murder.
- 0:20Speaker 1: With Brass behind bars, members of his gang come to town
- 0:24Speaker 1: seeking his release, and Kitty Russell is drawn into their plan.
- 0:28Speaker 1: William Conrad stars as Dylan, with Georgia Ellis as Kitty,
- 0:33Speaker 1: Parley Bear as Chester, and Howard mcneer as Doc Adams.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Mary and Clark wrote this late run radio drama produced
- 0:41Speaker 1: and directed by Norman McDonnell. Settle in now for a
- 0:45Speaker 1: visit to Dodge City as radio gun Smoke takes the air.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Now back to the golden age of radio.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
- 1:07Speaker 2: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
- 1:10Speaker 2: And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Guns Smoke.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Guns, starring William Conrad, The story of the violence that
- 1:37Speaker 2: moved west.
- 1:37Speaker 3: With Young America and the story of a man who
- 1:41Speaker 3: moved with it.
- 1:42Speaker 4: I'm that man Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
- 1:47Speaker 4: man they look for and the least they want to meet.
- 1:50Speaker 4: It's a chance a job, and it makes a man
- 1:53Speaker 4: watchful and a little lonely.
- 2:15Speaker 3: That's doing. Yeah, Chester, you don't spool. That stream is
- 2:19Speaker 3: gone and.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Dried itself right out of the prairie.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Do you.
- 2:23Speaker 4: It just seems like it. We'll be coming across at
- 2:25Speaker 4: any time.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Now, I sure do, hope. So I'm dried inside out.
- 2:29Speaker 3: I got some water left in my canteen. You don't know.
- 2:32Speaker 3: It ain't drinking water. I mean, Miss don it's my
- 2:34Speaker 3: feet that's burning down. You'll live. Well, Sure I live,
- 2:39Speaker 3: ain't no question about that.
- 2:41Speaker 1: But I sure would like to get these boots off
- 2:43Speaker 1: and get the soaking.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Guess we're come to it, all right.
- 2:50Speaker 1: I remember them trees, Yeah, look at them.
- 2:56Speaker 3: Miss June's other folks there, Yeah, yeah, they're sure arm.
- 3:04Speaker 1: In the world.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Ever gonna lunch that man?
- 3:09Speaker 3: Would you? Sure did scare them off? Fine over the
- 3:11Speaker 3: heads that way, look him right off if I want
- 3:14Speaker 3: of them, listen, come on, let's get on there. Got
- 3:30Speaker 3: his arms close, sesser, I.
- 3:32Speaker 4: Will, I will get that gag out of your mouth.
- 3:37Speaker 1: There cowers, lousy running coward.
- 3:41Speaker 3: You all right? For a couple of minutes they have
- 3:44Speaker 3: finished me? For sure? You don't look hurting none to me?
- 3:47Speaker 3: I hurt. I sort of thank you some for that.
- 3:52Speaker 3: You know who it was? I sure I know he
- 3:55Speaker 3: never gonna forget neither. What were their names? Why they?
- 4:01Speaker 3: You're alarm and us Marshall out of Dutch.
- 4:08Speaker 1: I ain't that's something getting my next saved by Alarman?
- 4:12Speaker 3: Any objections?
- 4:13Speaker 4: It just it ain't something I can be too particular about.
- 4:17Speaker 3: Who are you? And there were those men?
- 4:19Speaker 1: Hey, I'll tell you, Marshall, this is something I'm particular about.
- 4:24Speaker 3: What do you mean?
- 4:25Speaker 1: It ain't my habit to tell nothing to Alarman? Don't
- 4:29Speaker 1: approve of it. You might say, yeah, look you here.
- 4:34Speaker 3: Hanging out of his saddle bag.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Huh, let's see just an empty sack.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Marshall, money sacked, says which tar bank? Come there? Wre
- 4:48Speaker 3: What do you know about that?
- 4:50Speaker 4: I know, mother than I did a minute ago. Three
- 4:52Speaker 4: men robbed that bank.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Mister. You got three guesses, that, ain't you? Marshall?
- 4:58Speaker 4: I don't need more than one about you. Come on, tester,
- 5:01Speaker 4: let's take him in. Cool, you'll take your other horses. Chester,
- 5:19Speaker 4: All right, climb down. You in here, you're gonna lock
- 5:36Speaker 4: me up.
- 5:36Speaker 3: Come on, you made a big mistake, Marshall. I wouldn't
- 5:40Speaker 3: worry about it if you. I ain't gonna do no worry.
- 5:45Speaker 3: I get in there.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Oh, I'll go in easy, Marshall, nys, I'll be coming
- 5:53Speaker 1: out easy too.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Don't count on it.
- 5:55Speaker 1: The fact Marshall, my boys ain't gonna leave me sitting
- 5:58Speaker 1: there very long.
- 6:00Speaker 3: They'll have me out of here right soon. You're the
- 6:02Speaker 3: head man of your outfit. Ain't many folks live and
- 6:06Speaker 3: who'd argue by that? Your name is brass, Pete Brass.
- 6:12Speaker 3: You heard about me?
- 6:13Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard about you besides that Wichita bank, I've
- 6:15Speaker 4: heard your one of the three states.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Well, Marshall, rise some states.
- 6:19Speaker 1: I just ain't had time to get around to you,
- 6:22Speaker 1: or you.
- 6:22Speaker 4: Just might not make it either. I'll have to bring
- 6:25Speaker 4: you some suffer.
- 6:27Speaker 1: And Marshall, what is it you don't want me to
- 6:31Speaker 1: get away? You'd have done better to let them hide
- 6:33Speaker 1: binders lynch me how you figure you'd be better off
- 6:38Speaker 1: not me? You You're gonna feel mighty foolish after my
- 6:42Speaker 1: boys getting me out.
- 6:43Speaker 4: I didn't notice your boys getting you out of that
- 6:45Speaker 4: rope this morning.
- 6:46Speaker 1: All boys didn't have time to hear of it. You see,
- 6:49Speaker 1: a lynching is a sudden thing. You borrow a horse
- 6:52Speaker 1: and a couple of hot heads want to string you up.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Ain't time for word to get around. My boys didn't know. Now,
- 6:59Speaker 1: there's plenty of time. No, that's what.
- 7:01Speaker 3: I mean, Marshall.
- 7:02Speaker 1: My boys are real good at figured they'll study out
- 7:05Speaker 1: a real nice plan. I ain't gonna be here long
- 7:10Speaker 1: when my boys come. It's gonna be real hard on you.
- 7:16Speaker 4: I'll tell you something, mister, it might be kind of
- 7:18Speaker 4: hard on your boys too.
- 7:35Speaker 1: I'll say this, Jess, be sure it didn't pick out
- 7:38Speaker 1: much of a town to get itself locked up in.
- 7:41Speaker 1: It ain't so bad, Meal, I see two three saloons
- 7:45Speaker 1: right down the street.
- 7:46Speaker 3: There, saloons. Ain't what we're looking for. Hell as a
- 7:52Speaker 3: Marshall's office. That sure don't look like much.
- 7:56Speaker 1: They probably got brass locked up in the back of it.
- 7:59Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, there's the bank. You know we ain't going
- 8:03Speaker 3: anywhere near that bank. Looks like it'd be real easy.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Listen, Jess, you got to keep your mind on what
- 8:10Speaker 1: we're here for. To get brass out of jail, that's
- 8:14Speaker 1: all sure.
- 8:14Speaker 3: I mean shooting, how we gonna do it, that's what
- 8:20Speaker 3: we got to figure.
- 8:22Speaker 2: You know.
- 8:22Speaker 1: We could bust in there tonight shooting.
- 8:25Speaker 3: We'd have a horse ready.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Uh, we might just get shot doing it like that. Well,
- 8:32Speaker 1: if we ain't gonna shoot him out, how we're gonna
- 8:34Speaker 1: get it. We've got to learn about this town. Got
- 8:38Speaker 1: to work it out real.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Carefully, and shooting's easier. Now you listen to mate, Jess.
- 8:43Speaker 3: We got to have a plan, all right, all right,
- 8:48Speaker 3: where we're gonna get one.
- 8:49Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna start in right here. Well, you said
- 8:54Speaker 1: we wasn't looking for saloons, not for drinking, Jess, for listening.
- 8:59Speaker 3: Come on, you're telling me not to have a drink.
- 9:05Speaker 3: You stick to bear. Do we get this thing settled
- 9:08Speaker 3: and you drink it slow? You here, mayeh, look out,
- 9:10Speaker 3: milk and doors.
- 9:14Speaker 4: As soon as you're able to get on your horse.
- 9:15Speaker 3: You're right right out of town. You got that straight,
- 9:19Speaker 3: all right? Thanks here you are, Come on back, matty.
- 9:26Speaker 5: He's not gonna cause any more trouble, all right.
- 9:29Speaker 3: Kiddy, I guess I will without that.
- 9:35Speaker 1: You see that milk, You see that big fellow. Throw
- 9:38Speaker 1: that man out of there like he was a sack
- 9:40Speaker 1: of mean. Yeah, he's a fella. We've got a smart Marshall.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Come on, let's go in.
- 10:01Speaker 3: Well, let me jen, I'll have a shot. Are two bears?
- 10:05Speaker 1: I'm right, hey, barkie, Yeah, we just seen that bet
- 10:21Speaker 1: Marshall throw a fella out of here.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Marshall's getting more full on.
- 10:26Speaker 1: He in the habit of musting up your customers like
- 10:28Speaker 1: that you think of.
- 10:30Speaker 3: The acting smart Where miss Kitty is kitty? Uh?
- 10:35Speaker 1: That saloton gals sitting over everyone. I'd be careful. I
- 10:39Speaker 1: always talked about her, mister. With Marshall's partial tourism, you
- 10:45Speaker 1: don't like nobody that caught her trouble. You're sure about that, yeah, mister,
- 10:51Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd better be sure about her too. So
- 10:56Speaker 1: that's interesting, friends, mighty interesting.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Barging on me times kiddy?
- 11:19Speaker 6: Well, thank you, yes, but you really don't have to
- 11:22Speaker 6: say nice things about me just because I'm going to
- 11:24Speaker 6: wait from you.
- 11:26Speaker 3: It ain't that at all. What would be just pretty
- 11:28Speaker 3: if you were staying. Ain't that too me? Yea?
- 11:33Speaker 6: Now see here, boys, I can stand a little chivalry,
- 11:36Speaker 6: but this is too much, especially from you.
- 11:39Speaker 3: Three outlaws.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Okay, now, Kitty, it seems to me we're acting in
- 11:43Speaker 1: a fine, upright manner. We're giving you a farewell ginner.
- 11:46Speaker 1: We're being as nice as we know how.
- 11:49Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just it.
- 11:50Speaker 6: When you all start acting so nice, I begin to worry.
- 11:54Speaker 3: You know, doesn't sound like she appreciates us. No matter,
- 11:57Speaker 3: it doesn't it doesn't it die?
- 11:59Speaker 1: Oh well, if my company isn't wanted, maybe I better
- 12:03Speaker 1: not ride along with.
- 12:04Speaker 3: Her in the stage tomorrow.
- 12:05Speaker 6: Why you wonll sake, nothing could keep you from coming
- 12:09Speaker 6: along with me.
- 12:10Speaker 1: You're gonna be gone a long dark no chested, just
- 12:13Speaker 1: a couple of days. I've had some things to tend
- 12:15Speaker 1: you up there and line it for some time. Figured
- 12:18Speaker 1: the might as well make the trip with Kitty for company.
- 12:21Speaker 4: But now you know we better stop teasing her. Doc
- 12:23Speaker 4: she's gotten not looking rye.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Well, I ain't been a dean, miss Kitty, not a particle, and.
- 12:28Speaker 3: I know you haven't.
- 12:29Speaker 6: Chester So here you finished up the pie. Well, then
- 12:33Speaker 6: I think we have those two men at that table
- 12:40Speaker 6: out of there behind you, you know.
- 12:44Speaker 1: Uh no, I don't why Well, maybe it's nothing, but
- 12:50Speaker 1: they've been sitting there staring at us all through dinner.
- 12:53Speaker 3: It's as though they were listening to everything.
- 12:54Speaker 4: Miss said, maybe I better go find out what's on
- 12:59Speaker 4: their minds.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Excuse me a little.
- 13:01Speaker 4: Yeah, you men seem kind of interested in what we've
- 13:12Speaker 4: been talking.
- 13:12Speaker 3: About over there. The little lady told you. Yeah, that's right,
- 13:18Speaker 3: she told me. You know, she's mighty thirty. Shut up, Jess.
- 13:23Speaker 3: We ain't breaking all law on Marshall.
- 13:25Speaker 4: No, but if you've got any business with me, it's
- 13:27Speaker 4: better to come straight out with it.
- 13:30Speaker 3: That's just what we'll do, Marshall. When the time comes,
- 13:35Speaker 3: we'll come straight out with it.
- 13:49Speaker 6: I don't know about you, doctor, I'm kind of sorry.
- 13:52Speaker 6: I thought about making a strift right like this doesn't
- 13:56Speaker 6: make you want to do much traveling.
- 13:57Speaker 4: Get in well here, you're right about.
- 13:59Speaker 6: It feels like a driver is trying to show it
- 14:02Speaker 6: how fast you can go.
- 14:05Speaker 1: I don't think it makes much Stupidnce kiddy jo joel
- 14:08Speaker 1: them look like this.
- 14:10Speaker 2: I'm going slow.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Just make some class long.
- 14:13Speaker 6: I guess you're right. And maybe you heard this.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Doc, how's that before it's throwing down? Oh? Let me
- 14:21Speaker 3: see I look out here. Yeah, you're right, it's a
- 14:26Speaker 3: quiet kitty. What's the matter we're not slowing down. What's high?
- 14:30Speaker 3: It's a hold on? Hold up much working. I won't
- 14:33Speaker 3: be driver. Just keep your hands up high. Yes you covered? Okay,
- 14:42Speaker 3: I'm on out. I have nothing of that, not you
- 14:45Speaker 3: her me now see here. Don't make me do no arguing.
- 14:51Speaker 3: Come on out, miss kitty.
- 14:52Speaker 1: But you come out, lady, or I'll fix this old
- 14:55Speaker 1: geezer so of his doctor and won't never be able
- 14:57Speaker 1: to help.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Him, Kitty, don't George all right? Talks? That's better now,
- 15:06Speaker 3: Doc at your turn. Don't you hurt him? Why gonna
- 15:09Speaker 3: hurt him?
- 15:10Speaker 5: None?
- 15:10Speaker 1: I'm I'm just gonna send him back to the ridge.
- 15:14Speaker 1: There's a message for that big Marshal. I'm not going
- 15:17Speaker 1: and leave her better. But there ain't no chance for
- 15:20Speaker 1: her at all, or for you neither.
- 15:23Speaker 3: Go on talk.
- 15:25Speaker 1: That's more like you head right back there and tell
- 15:28Speaker 1: the Marshal that I'm in the mood to do some
- 15:30Speaker 1: horse trading.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Crimes. They talk about you.
- 15:54Speaker 1: What you just went down to Jones the store for
- 15:57Speaker 1: a minute. Just hear his pants were just about or
- 16:00Speaker 1: Chester Chester.
- 16:02Speaker 3: I've never seen him right away.
- 16:04Speaker 4: I saw you walking to Leofice. What are you doing
- 16:06Speaker 4: back here? They've got Kitty who's got kitty.
- 16:09Speaker 1: They held up the stage bout an hour out of town, Matt.
- 16:11Speaker 3: They're holding her for Pete Brass, and you've got to do.
- 16:14Speaker 4: Something right dog, all right, just slow down, I'll tell
- 16:16Speaker 4: me just how it has.
- 16:17Speaker 3: They held up the stage and took Kitty off.
- 16:19Speaker 1: They say they won't let her go into you turn
- 16:21Speaker 1: Brass loose.
- 16:22Speaker 3: Now that's holders to it. Well, you know who they were? No,
- 16:24Speaker 3: I don't know their.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Names, and they weren't hiding anything. I can recognize their faces.
- 16:28Speaker 1: They were the two men who were so interested in
- 16:30Speaker 1: us the del Monica is last night.
- 16:34Speaker 3: You know where they're holding her? No, man, I don't.
- 16:37Speaker 1: I just had to have Brass ride down the stage
- 16:39Speaker 1: road until he does.
- 16:41Speaker 3: They're holding kitty. Now you gotta do something, man.
- 16:43Speaker 1: Because this Mdillan will let Brass out Chester. But mister Dyllan,
- 16:47Speaker 1: they've got me as kidding.
- 16:48Speaker 3: I know they've got our Chester.
- 16:49Speaker 4: Welly aren't you got to help her at And I'm
- 16:51Speaker 4: gonna try.
- 16:52Speaker 3: Well, then, little.
- 16:52Speaker 5: Listener may bother you.
- 16:55Speaker 4: Now, we don't know where they've got her, don't we No, No,
- 16:58Speaker 4: we don't. It's no sure thing that they will let
- 17:00Speaker 4: her go, even nebrask go is loose.
- 17:03Speaker 3: I'm I guess you're right. Well, what do you plan
- 17:05Speaker 3: to do? Wait?
- 17:07Speaker 4: Waits not likely to hurt her as long as she
- 17:10Speaker 4: can be some good to them.
- 17:12Speaker 3: If they don't hear from it, they'll have to try again.
- 17:17Speaker 3: I've got to wait, don't I sure do? Hope you
- 17:22Speaker 3: know what you're doing? Yeah, so wi shuster.
- 17:25Speaker 1: So you're glad you decided to do the cooking, Miss Kitty.
- 17:42Speaker 3: Maybe you'll choke on it and it'll be worth it.
- 17:46Speaker 3: See me like you're acting too friendly? Any reason why
- 17:50Speaker 3: I should? Sure, Miss Kitty? You and me, You and me.
- 18:00Speaker 3: That's the way it's gonna be.
- 18:01Speaker 1: It's never gonna be like that. You kind of caught
- 18:05Speaker 1: into that big Marshall.
- 18:08Speaker 3: That's none of your business. You think he's gonna get
- 18:11Speaker 3: you out of this. He'll be here. Sure he's gonna
- 18:15Speaker 3: be here.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Milt went down to talk to him, make sure he'd
- 18:18Speaker 1: be here. I know that thee my birth not. I
- 18:23Speaker 1: know something else that you want to hear about it?
- 18:29Speaker 3: Not much?
- 18:30Speaker 1: You better want to. I done mean some figuring. Milt
- 18:35Speaker 1: ain't the only one to do the figuring. He thinks
- 18:38Speaker 1: he is sure he does this time, I've done some
- 18:41Speaker 1: figuring all by myself.
- 18:43Speaker 3: I got it all worked out about.
- 18:45Speaker 1: That, big Marshal, What do you mean even if he comes,
- 18:52Speaker 1: even if he lets brass go, he ain't gonna get you.
- 18:58Speaker 3: How do you plan to stop? Why? There ain't nothing
- 19:03Speaker 3: to it after the figuring is done? What's that? I
- 19:07Speaker 3: just ain't gonna let him ride out of here? That's
- 19:09Speaker 3: all already be getting pretty close now it's done. Yeah,
- 19:32Speaker 3: got along in here. Do you think they'll really show
- 19:35Speaker 3: up with miss Kitty? How thought they want this? Man?
- 19:38Speaker 3: They will?
- 19:39Speaker 1: They really got you square, and ain't they, Marshal.
- 19:42Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, Press, I told you my boys,
- 19:45Speaker 3: and study it out. They haven't finished it yet. Don't
- 19:49Speaker 3: stare under them freeze. Yeah, come on, look there, I
- 20:00Speaker 3: can see this kiddy and one of them fellas. Let's
- 20:02Speaker 3: keep your eyes up, untest, all right, Marshall, let's barn up,
- 20:12Speaker 3: let her go. Mister, Well now, let's do this nice
- 20:15Speaker 3: and regular life.
- 20:17Speaker 5: Just mount all of it, right, yeah, mil all right,
- 20:29Speaker 5: ain't nothing wrong with me?
- 20:30Speaker 3: Set my hands the time, walk over here. We'll fix that.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Let her go, all right, Marshall, say I blame him,
- 20:39Speaker 1: mighty pretty little lady.
- 20:40Speaker 3: She ain't going no place. You all right what you're going? Yeah?
- 20:47Speaker 3: Yees you wait? Oh man, it's all right. You got
- 20:57Speaker 3: both of them. Yeah, it's all over here. This isn't
- 21:01Speaker 3: still alive, Miss Dylan. H It, It don't right, k.
- 21:22Speaker 4: No, that doesn't seem right. All right, brass, I'll tie
- 21:31Speaker 4: your hands now. I'm tire you letting me go. No,
- 21:38Speaker 4: but you're gonna need your hands to dig two graves
- 21:41Speaker 4: with for your boys.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Before you go back to jail.
- 21:47Speaker 6: M h.
- 22:20Speaker 2: Gun Smoke Broduston directed by Norman McDonald's, stars William Conrad
- 22:25Speaker 2: as Matt Villon Us Marshall. The story was especially woking
- 22:29Speaker 2: for gun Smoke by Marion Clark, with aeditorial supervision by
- 22:32Speaker 2: John Meston. Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Viccaren,
- 22:36Speaker 2: James Nusser and Ken Lynch. Harley Bear is Chester, Howard
- 22:41Speaker 2: mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy.
- 22:46Speaker 1: We Leave Dodge City with Gun Smoke episode three hundred
- 22:49Speaker 1: and seventy five Kiddies Kidnap. Follow Gun Smoke for more
- 22:53Speaker 1: classic broadcasts.