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The Lone Ranger - "Murder Masters" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Steve Hawkins has received a pardon, yet he remains a fugitive,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and his daughter wants him to come home. That situation
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: brings the Lone Ranger into the case in the November 4th,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: 1942 broadcast of the Lone Ranger, Murder Masters, episode 1527.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Brace Beamer is the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: As the Ranger takes up Hawkins' cause, events bring an
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: alarming apparent break between the two friends. On the Blue Network,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: the program was sponsored by General Mills, produced by George W. Trendle,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: and directed by Charles D. Livingston from Fran Stryker's script.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: I'll see you later.
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust, and a hearty hi-ho silver.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 2:06
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 2:36
  Speaker 6: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of.
• 2:44
  Speaker 7: The plains led the fight for law and order in
• 2:49
  Speaker 7: the early western United States.
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  Speaker 3: The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and
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  Speaker 3: resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations. And
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  Speaker 3: nowhere in the pages of history can one find a
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  Speaker 3: greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those
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  Speaker 3: thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come
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  Speaker 3: the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The Lone
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  Speaker 3: Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver. There's danger on the trail ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Silver.
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  Speaker 8: Hooray.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger reined up at the hitch rack in
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  Speaker 3: front of Sheriff Parmelee's office. Two men waiting around the
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  Speaker 3: corner of the building watched the masked man dismount and toss.
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  Speaker 9: No question about it, Pete. We've got to get him, Jake,
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  Speaker 9: before he talks to the sheriff. Stand ready to jump him.
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  Speaker 8: I'm set. Red-faced Wilp had his facts straight.
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  Speaker 10: I thought the weasel was mistaken when he said the
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  Speaker 10: Lone Ranger was heading this way.
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  Speaker 8: He weren't mistaken. Get ready now.
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  Speaker 2: Chomp him.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Crack him.
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  Speaker 4: Get him.
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  Speaker 6: Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: Turn him this way. I'll get him.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like being turned that way.
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  Speaker 9: I'll show you no masked man can gun for us, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 5: You missed. Here's another.
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  Speaker 2: You won't get me that way.
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  Speaker 6: I'll fix you.
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  Speaker 1: Too slow.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, there.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Get your hands up.
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  Speaker 4: Hoist him.
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  Speaker 5: Put your guns away, Parmalee. I came to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Those two wanted to change my plans.
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  Speaker 4: They both are cold.
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  Speaker 5: Go on inside. We'll talk there.
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  Speaker 4: But I got the drop on you. I told you
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  Speaker 4: to get your hands up.
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  Speaker 5: Down there.
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  Speaker 4: You look here. When I point a shooting iron at
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  Speaker 4: a man, I want his hands to raise. I'm Hank,
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  Speaker 4: if ever I saw you.
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  Speaker 5: You wouldn't shoot a man who didn't raise his hands.
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  Speaker 5: You're not that kind of a lawman. I'd like to
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  Speaker 5: know why those two jumped me, but that can wait. Here,
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  Speaker 5: read this.
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  Speaker 4: What you got there?
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  Speaker 5: Signed by the governor of the state.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it is. Jumping Jingle Bob's.
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  Speaker 5: You remember Steve Hawkins, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: Like I remember my own name. He was convicted of
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  Speaker 4: murder and sentenced to hang. Then he escaped. Now, this
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  Speaker 4: paper gives him a free pardon. If he's found, he
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  Speaker 4: can come back here and take up his life again.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. But he can't be found. He's gone from
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  Speaker 4: these parts. He ain't been seen in four years. We
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  Speaker 4: had a reward for his capture, but he's never been found.
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  Speaker 5: He'll be found.
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  Speaker 4: You know where he is?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I've talked to him.
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  Speaker 4: How long since?
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  Speaker 5: Not long ago. When I talk to him again, I'll
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  Speaker 5: tell him to come back.
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  Speaker 4: How'd you angle this pardon?
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  Speaker 5: Steve Hawkins never committed a crime.
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  Speaker 4: The evidence was against him.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, three men testified against him. That was all the
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  Speaker 5: evidence there was.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but three witnesses is plenty to hang a man.
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  Speaker 5: When I talked to Steve, he told me he thought
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  Speaker 5: he could name the real murderers. But he didn't dare
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  Speaker 5: come back to town. Knew he'd be shot on sight.
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  Speaker 4: Luckily, he would have been.
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  Speaker 5: When Steve has a chance to tell what he's learned,
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  Speaker 5: you'll have evidence enough to convict the men who did
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  Speaker 5: the killing.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. There was a lot of gold and jewelry stolen.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Any chance of recovering that stuff?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, probably some of it.
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  Speaker 4: All right. I've noted the pardon, and I'll post the news.
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  Speaker 4: You say you can find Steve?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he'll be here in a short time.
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  Speaker 4: Short time? Does that mean a few hours or a
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  Speaker 4: few days?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, possibly tomorrow, maybe a couple of days. Say, uh...
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  Speaker 5: Who are the men who jumped on me when I
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  Speaker 5: started toward your door?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, uh, Jake and Pete, eh?
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  Speaker 5: Jake Maxim? Yeah. And Pete Whitcomb?
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  Speaker 4: You know them? Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Two of the witnesses at the trial.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's so come to think of it. Those two
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  Speaker 4: were the witnesses.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Sheriff. I'll see you again. Well, still waiting around, eh?
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you two try again? You see... Hold on there, Jake.
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  Speaker 10: I ain't started nothing.
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  Speaker 8: You just make him leave us alone, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: You two seem to muddy anxious to keep me from
• 6:47
  Speaker 5: calling on the sheriff.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we only want... That is.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if you didn't have some information about my visit.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you mean. Did you know why
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  Speaker 5: I went to see the sheriff?
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  Speaker 8: No, how could we know?
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  Speaker 5: Then why did you hide back of the building and
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  Speaker 5: jump me? Well, we.
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  Speaker 5: And you, Pete. You were reaching for my pocket while
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  Speaker 5: Jake was trying to get at me.
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  Speaker 10: I wasn't doing anything of the sort.
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  Speaker 5: Are you sure you didn't want the governor's pardon?
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  Speaker 4: Boys, where did you jump him?
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  Speaker 5: He was masked.
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  Speaker 8: We thought he was an outlaw.
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  Speaker 5: You find it better to jump on a man's back, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Instead of getting the drop on him. I'll see you
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  Speaker 5: two again. Maybe you started something that I'll finish.
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  Speaker 6: After the Lone.
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  Speaker 8: Ranger left the town, the sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: Gave Pete and Jake a talking to.
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  Speaker 3: And then went to the small ranch where Betty Hawkins
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  Speaker 3: lived alone.
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  Speaker 4: I've sure brought good news for you, Betty. It's about
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  Speaker 4: your father.
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  Speaker 7: My father's dead.
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  Speaker 4: That's the story you've stuck to all these years, honey.
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  Speaker 4: But it's not the true fact. Your pa is alive
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  Speaker 4: and kicking. And he's been hiding out near here.
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  Speaker 7: No such thing. Why are you coming here to tell
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  Speaker 7: me this?
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  Speaker 2: Look.
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  Speaker 4: He's been pardoned by the governor of the state.
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  Speaker 7: That's a lie.
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  Speaker 4: Here, read this, Betty. It's true. It's true as I'm
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  Speaker 4: standing here.
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  Speaker 7: You're only trying to trick me into telling him where
• 8:15
  Speaker 7: he is. Well, I don't know where he is.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you don't need to. The Lone Ranger's going to
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  Speaker 4: get him.
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  Speaker 7: The Lone Ranger?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't let on I knew who he was,
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  Speaker 4: but he's the man. Seems like Steve must have got
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  Speaker 4: evidence against the ones that framed him for the murder
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  Speaker 4: of that old man and his wife. The evidence was
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  Speaker 4: enough to convince the governor of the state. Oh, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 7: Sheriff Parmalee, don't lie to me. If you only knew
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  Speaker 7: how much it means to me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not lying to you, honey. I'm telling the truth.
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  Speaker 4: Your pa is a free man.
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  Speaker 7: But if he didn't do the murder, then the witnesses
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  Speaker 7: lied at the trial.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: That'd mean that the witnesses were likely the ones that
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  Speaker 7: done the murder.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Cinder, that's so... Great guns, why didn't I think
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  Speaker 4: of that? Jake and Pete and that other critter at
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  Speaker 4: the trial. The weasel face, wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Do they know Pa's coming out of hiding?
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  Speaker 4: They know all about it. That's why they jumped the
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  Speaker 4: Lone Ranger. They wanted to get the partner away from him.
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  Speaker 4: Great guns. They'll be after him. I've got to travel fast.
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  Speaker 7: Sheriff, what'll they do?
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  Speaker 4: They can only hang once. They'll kill to keep your
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  Speaker 4: Pa from getting here. But... Get up there.
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  Speaker 5: Get up. Get up.
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  Speaker 2: The sheriff hurried to his office, reined up, and shouted
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  Speaker 2: at a group of men sitting on the porch.
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  Speaker 4: Where's Jake? Where's Pete? We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: They got attacked. Where'd they go?
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  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't say.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, boys, we've got to find those two. Get your
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  Speaker 4: horses and hunt for them.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: All day, the sheriff hunted for Jake.
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  Speaker 5: And Pete without success.
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  Speaker 3: Those two had already left town and ridden into the Badlands,
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  Speaker 3: where hoofs made no tracks on the hard rock.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we managed to keep him in sight, Pete, and
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  Speaker 8: keep out of sight ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's plenty of big rocks.
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  Speaker 2: Wait up.
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  Speaker 10: Look back at this rock.
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  Speaker 4: See him?
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 10: Resting his horse way off yonder.
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  Speaker 8: Pete, we got nothing to worry about. There ain't no
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  Speaker 8: evidence against him.
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  Speaker 5: There is.
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  Speaker 10: Listen, Jake, I ain't had the chance to tell you.
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  Speaker 10: Look at this jewelry.
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  Speaker 8: Where'd you get that?
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  Speaker 10: From the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 8: But Pete did some of the stuff we got.
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  Speaker 10: I know when we got it. This is the worthless
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  Speaker 10: junk we swapped to those Redskins.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: How'd the Lone Ranger get it?
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  Speaker 10: Don't you savvy? He got it from Steve. Steve got
• 10:45
  Speaker 10: it from the Redskins. And they likely told him they
• 10:47
  Speaker 10: got it from us. That's proof that we're the ones
• 10:49
  Speaker 10: that drilled that couple.
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  Speaker 8: How'd you get it from the Lone Ranger?
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  Speaker 10: I was trying to get the pardon off him while
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  Speaker 10: we fought. I got this instead. This is what he
• 10:57
  Speaker 10: showed the governor to get the pardon.
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  Speaker 8: Well, there's probably more of it.
• 11:00
  Speaker 9: That's why we got away, lay the Lone Ranger and Steve.
• 11:03
  Speaker 9: Got to drill them both before they hit town.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, he's moving forward again.
• 11:07
  Speaker 5: Get up, boy. Come on, get up.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger reached a cave at twilight. He joined
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  Speaker 3: Tonto and the man who for four years had been
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: a fugitive.
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  Speaker 5: I turned your pardon over to the sheriff, Steve.
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  Speaker 2: I wish you hadn't.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to have seen it.
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  Speaker 6: You not trust Lone Ranger?
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  Speaker 5: I don't trust anyone, not anyone. You had my word
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  Speaker 5: for it, Steve. The sheriff has posted the news you're
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: a free man.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: You can start back for town right now, Steve. Your
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: friends are waiting for you.
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  Speaker 4: It's a trick.
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  Speaker 5: Trick? No trick at all, Steve.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: You're on the side of law and order. You'd do
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: anything to get a fugitive in jail.
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're wrong.
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: Oh, him never lying to get crook.
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  Speaker 5: All you've got to do is go back, accuse those
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  Speaker 5: lying witnesses, and the truth will come out.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the evidence I gave you?
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: Here, I have it.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it? Let me have that jewelry.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was in this pocket.
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  Speaker 2: You ain't got it.
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  Speaker 4: It's gone.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: You turn it over to someone.
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  Speaker 5: Steve, we'll find it.
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: I won't move.
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  Speaker 2: I won't go back. It's all a trick to get
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  Speaker 2: me to surrender. That's all it is, a trick. I'll
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  Speaker 2: go back to hang.
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  Speaker 5: They aren't going to hang you, Steve. Betty is there,
• 12:09
  Speaker 5: your daughter. Betty?
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: Betty, what's she like?
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: She's trying to hang on to the farm, Steve. But
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  Speaker 5: she needs you. She needs her father.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: If only I could be sure it ain't a trick
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  Speaker 2: to get me. Take my word for it.
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  Speaker 6: It's Lone Ranger, good friend.
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  Speaker 2: Give me your guns.
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  Speaker 5: And the belt.
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  Speaker 2: The gun belt. Let me have that, too. The belt
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: with the guns. And you, Towner, give me your gun belt, too.
• 12:31
  Speaker 6: Why do you want that?
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: Give it to me. Red, maybe I'm touching being out
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  Speaker 2: here alone for so many years, but I don't trust anyone.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: Here, Steve. Take my gun belt. Give him yours, son.
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: Now, why do you want them?
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. It's because I'm going to be
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: on a guard against a trap.
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  Speaker 6: You ready to start now?
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: Get going.
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  Speaker 5: Steve, can you ride the horse we brought you? I'd
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: ride a Razorback to get back home.
• 12:55
  Speaker 6: Home? I never thought I'd.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: Be going home again. You sure you ain't double-crossing me?
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: Come, Steve, you're not being double-crossed. We'll start now and
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: be home by sunup.
• 13:24
  Speaker 8: He'd keep that horse quiet.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: They're a-comin', Jake.
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  Speaker 10: See him? He's just enough lightly.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I see him.
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: Got your rifle ready?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 13:32
  Speaker 8: Take the Lone Ranger. I'll get Tonto, and then we'll
• 13:35
  Speaker 8: both fire on Steve Hawkins.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 13:38
  Speaker 8: Pete, you doggone fool.
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: You said to shoot.
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  Speaker 10: But you fired too soon.
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  Speaker 5: You missed.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: You gave him a warning. But I thought.
• 13:43
  Speaker 10: Ah, you thought.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: Look at them. They ducked back at those rocks.
• 13:46
  Speaker 10: Now we lost our best chance at them. They can't
• 13:48
  Speaker 10: stay back at those rocks forever.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: So that's it.
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: That's the story, huh? I should trust the Lone Ranger.
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: Steve, listen to me.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: I did listen to you. I listened to you and
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: walked right into a trap. You got men in wait
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: for me. That's what you got. They're waiting a chance
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: to kill me to get the reward.
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: I tell you, I didn't know those men were there.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: You're lying. Listen to me. If you're lying, I'll kill
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: you with your own gun. Now go on out there.
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: Show yourself. Show myself?
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: You heard me. Step out behind this rock. If they
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: shoot at you, I'll know you're on the square with me.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: If they don't shoot at you... By thunder, I will.
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: Now, wait. Me go.
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  Speaker 5: No, Tonto.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: I don't care which, but one of you is going
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: out there pronto. I'll find out if you'll lead me
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: into a trap. I thought this was too good to
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: be true. That was a slick story. For a time,
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: I believed you.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: I'll prove he told the truth, Steve.
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: You wait.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: Tonto.
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  Speaker 6: Me got rope. Me rope you.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Masabi, this isn't your job.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: I'm the one to go.
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  Speaker 6: No, me not let you go.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto go.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Me get killed, it's not matter.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: You die, that can't be bad.
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: And there.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Rope, hold here for a minute.
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: Now, time to go out from shelter and rock.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Well, be quick about it, Dad. Ready to get going.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: If you don't get shot by those skunks yonder, you'll
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: get shot by me.
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: Ranger story.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: for just a few moments.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: Now to continue our story.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: After convincing Steve Hawkins that he should return to town
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: and face a murder charge.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Of which he is innocent.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Steve were ambushed on the trail.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Taking cover behind a sheltering rock, Hawkins threatened the masked
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: man and the Indian with death unless they faced the
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: rifle fire of the outlaws to prove that the ambush
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: was not a trick. Tonto quickly roped and tied the
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Lone Ranger and prepared to face death alone.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Tonto, one minute.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Come here just a minute before you step out.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: What matter? Me make ropes too tight?
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: No, Tonto. Not tight enough. Sorry, Tonto. But if anyone's
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: going to be shot, I'm going to be the one.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Make up your mind. I'm getting ready to do some
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: shooting my own self.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: You'll not have long to wait to learn the truth.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Show yourself.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Drop.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Drop to the ground. Great day you did tell me
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the truth. They get you, son? They get you?
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: No, Steve.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Great gopher. She was on the level all the time.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I hope you're satisfied.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Here, let me look at Tonto.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: You sure?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Sorry, Tonto, but it had to be done.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Is he hurt bad?
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Just knocked out. Steady, Tonto.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: You're all right. I need a rope.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: You need me.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Go out.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Forget it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: It's all over.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Steve's convinced we're his friends.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: Me go out. What happened? You hit Tonto?
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, Tonto. Oh.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Ah, me savvy.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Take a drink from this canteen.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: What do we do now? Those critters have the trail
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: cut off.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: As soon as it gets dark, we'll circle them and
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: get back to town.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Can we do it?
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Yes, Steve.
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, fire shot.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Are you all right now, Tonto?
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, me all right. You hit plenty hard, but.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I've got plenty of hard chin, too.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, Kemosabe. Well, I got a quick look at the
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: man who fired. It was Jake, one of the men
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: who jumped on me at the sheriff's office.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Jake, one of the witnesses against me.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Steve, there were three witnesses.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: That's right, Jake and Pete and the weasel.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And the weasel, that's what they called Mort. Rat-faced, yellow polka,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: if there ever was one.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Where is he?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Well, he skipped town right after the trial.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Tonto, I wonder if this fellow called the weasel found
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: out what we were planning and got word to Jake
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: and Pete.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: Now, how him find out?
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: I don't know. But those two surely knew why I
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: was calling.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: See here.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: The evidence I had was that jewelry. The jewelry you had.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Now it's gone. I got no evidence left.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: I'm convinced those two are the murderers, Steve. And there's
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: some way to prove it.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I'd like to get my hands on the skinny neck
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: of that rat-toothed weasel.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I said I'd like to get my hands on that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Did you say rat-toothed?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Mort's front teeth point out and come together like a rat's.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Steve, tell me more about him. Tell me all about Mort.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Everything you know. How big is he? How does he talk?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: What color is his hair? Tell me everything. I think
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: he's working in the state office. If he is, he
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: would know about the pardon. He would have sent word
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: to Jake and Pete. The weasel is there. I'm going
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: after him.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Darkness enveloped the Badlands, and in its shelter, the masked
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: man prepared the mighty Silver for a long trip.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Steady, Silver. Easy, boy. We're traveling. Tonto, it's up to
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: you to get Steve into town.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: No, no. Me do it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Now wait here until total darkness, and you'll be able
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: to circle those two.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Why not shoot it out with the ornery buzzards?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: They've got to stand trial for murder.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Now what me do in town?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Steady, Silver. Keep Steve out of sight.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Out of sight?
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: I thought I was to be a free man. You
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: are a free man. If you don't keep out of sight,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: you'll be a dead one. Jake and Pete will be
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: gunning for you. Can't I even see my daughter, Betty? Easy, Silver.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: A couple of days won't make any difference. You'll have
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: to stay hidden until we're ready for you. I'll check
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: with you, Tonto. Easy, big fella. Come on, Silver!
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: There he goes!
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: You made him.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: A few days later, they haven't found any son of
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: your father yet.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: Tell me the truth, Sheriff. What's happened to him?
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know. That's the truth.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Those two men are back in town.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Jake and Pete? Yes, I know they are.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: Paul was the only one who had evidence against them.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Then they've killed him, haven't they?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Now, Miss Betty, I.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: Please tell me the truth. I can stand anything better
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: than this uncertainty.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Betty, I don't think they got him.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Why do you say that?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Your pa was with the Lone Ranger.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Do you know that for a fact?
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger said he'd bring him to town. My
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: bets are that he will.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Then why hasn't he done so? Where is he?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I've told you all I know, honey. Now you'll just
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: have to be patient.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Hooves clattered as a horse was brought to a halt
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: outside the house.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: The sheriff leaped toward the door.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Sit in there, Silver.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Silver.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Sheriff, is that the Lord?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Biddy, the Lord Ranger.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: They told me you were here, Sheriff. I brought something
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: to show you. Down you go.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Who you got there?
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: A man that used to live in town. Go on, Weasel.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Weasel.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I want you to take a look at him, Sheriff.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Identify him. Now, see here, you got nothing against me.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I'm a law-abiding citizen.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Sheriff, you got to make this masked man let me go.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Weasel.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: It's been a long time since I had to look
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: at you.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: Why did you bring that man here?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: I wanted to be sure he was one of the
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: witnesses against Steve Hawkins.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Where is my father?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: He's safe.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: Where is he? Please tell me.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: He's hidden so Jake and Pete can't kill him.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Where did you bring that here? I thought the town
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: was rid of it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Now I'll see here.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Sheriff, Sheriff. Jake and Pete knew about my coming here
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: with a pardon.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: The only way they could have learned about it was
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: from someone in the office of the state where the
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: pardon was issued. This man was working there.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Lay low, Pete. So that's where you've been.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: One of the three witnesses against Steve Hawkins. Are you mort?
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Let's have the truth.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: I don't know nothing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Isn't it true that you lied in court?
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Didn't you know that Jake and Pete were the killers?
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Didn't they make you help build a case against Steve Hawkins?
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: No, no, honest.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, please let me go.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Didn't they threaten to kill you too if you didn't
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: help convict Steve? Didn't they make you leave town? I
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: don't know what you're talking about. Sheriff, make him let
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: me go. Jake and Pete aren't the killers. Why did
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: they try to murder Steve before he came to town
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: with evidence against him? I don't know. You weren't working
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: with him? Why did you tell him about me? Sheriff,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: he dragged me here bodily. He abducted me. All right,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: all right. You won't squeal. I'll have to let you go.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Is that all you're going to say?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, for the present. Go on, Weasel. You'll have to
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: spend the night in town. The way to get a
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: horse till morning.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: You ready?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: There moves before I forget him an alarm and he'll
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: step on you.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Pete, we got to work fast.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: Come with me. But, Jake, I just ordered another drink.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Don't mind that.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: The cafe will always be here.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Weasel's in town. What?
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I just learned of it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: He's got a room in the hotel.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: That yellow rat face will squeal or show his tongue.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Sure he will.
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: We got to fix him.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Make sure he don't.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: Get him out of town.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: Out of town, then do what we should have done
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: in the first place.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Fix him permanent.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Let's go get him.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Who's there?
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Open up, Mort.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Jake.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Pete.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Shut up.
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: Keep your trap closed and go down the back stairs.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Boys, I didn't know you were.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Save your breath.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Come in.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: You come out. We got something to talk over with you.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: Why are you here in town?
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Well, there is the Lone Ranger.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: He brought me.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: Squealing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: No, on a stake. I didn't say a word. Come on.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: We're going to take a walk in the moonlight.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, but I.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Step.
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: Along or I'll unhide your arm.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Down these back stairs and right outside.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Listen, let me talk.
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: I swear I didn't say anything.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: That don't prove you won't. We can't take chances, weasel.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Open your face to yell and I'll shove this knife
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: right through your back.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Boys, I'm leaving town right away.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: They tried to question me.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: I didn't say a word.
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: Straight ahead now, right out that door.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, please, boys, listen.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Shut up. Now go on. Keep right on.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: What the?
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: You heard him.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Steve Hawkins. Save the talk. Take their guns, Todd. Me
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: get them.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Now see here, Steve.
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: Listen, it's great that you're free.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Shut up.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I ain't done nothing. Nothing but send me to jail.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Get going.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: The sheriff's in his office and he's waiting. Well, all
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: three of the witnesses together again, eh?
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Now, see here, Sheriff.
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: That masked man's got a lot to account for.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: He brought me here at the point of a gun.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: And me.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And he brought me all the way here.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Jake, you and Pete get back to that cell.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I'll be hanged if I.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: You move.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, cut it out.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: I'm a-going.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Now, stop shoving me.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: What's the idea?
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: There.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Now then, Steve, your masked friend had better deliver him.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I've jailed those two. Where's the proof we get of them?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Sheriff, I.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: The evidence was stolen from me, Sheriff.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: What?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: The evidence stolen?
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: No, it's a lie.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: He never had evidence.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I had jewelry that those two traded to Indians. That
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: jewelry came from the robbery. The evidence was sufficient to
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: get the governor's pardon so Steve could return to town.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe so, but without the evidence, how can I bring
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: those two to trial?
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Well, if this man will confess his part, you'll have
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: the evidence.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: I didn't do anything. Say, have you questioned me before?
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Weasel, you didn't have a part in the murder, but
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: you knew that Jake and Pete were the killers, didn't you?
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: If you'll admit you lied at the trial and testify
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: against those two, you might escape punishment.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I ain't got nothing to see.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: There you see, you got nothing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: At all against us.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Well, you're dead ready.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Where's Steve? Too bad, but it looks like we can't
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: keep him in jail.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: No, you can't. We'll have to let them go, Sheriff.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: They're too smart for us. And they probably won't leave
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: evidence when they get Weasel, either.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: What?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Of course he won't. They'll probably frame poor Steve for
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: that murder, too. Of course, there ain't no one who'll
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: be sorry to see a poor cat like the Weasel
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: wiped out.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, stop talking like that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Well, unlock the door.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: No, no, hold on.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Don't let him out yet.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Wait a few minutes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: We can't keep him in jail.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Don't worry, Weasel.
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: We won't hurt you.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: You can think it over, Weasel. Maybe when you're away
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: from here, you can testify and collect the reward. Send
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: your statement to the sheriff by mail when you've got
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: where Jake and Pete can't reach you. I won't squeal. Jake, Pete,
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: listen to me.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Here's my keys. I'll unlock the cell door.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: You have their guns, Toto. Return them when the sheriff
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: unlocks the door.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Ah, me do it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I'll let you out pronto, Jake.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: No, wait, Jeff, wait.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Don't let them out there and murder me.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: That'd be too bad.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: They can't be kept in jail without cause. Death ain't bad, weasel.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: I tried four years of living as a hunted animal.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Death would have been lots better. Maybe you can outwit them, Weasel.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: You're a smart man.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: We'll give you a send-off when you're planted in Boothill.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Wait, hold on, Chef.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: You've got to keep them there.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I'll talk.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: You dirty rat.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: If they'd done it, they'd killed him.
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: They made me promise not to squeal.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Don't let them out.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: Keep them jailed.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: We'll get you for that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: You've got to have proof, Weasel. They've still got some
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: of the jewelry. I'll tell you where it is. I'll
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: tell you everything.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I lied in court.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Stephen never had a hand in the murder.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Don't let them out.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Keep them in jail till they hang.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, don't let them out.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: They'll kill me. There's plenty of evidence against the killers now.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, Tonto, plenty.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Look over there.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Steve's at the door of his home. Betty's opening the door.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Ah, me see. Dad!
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, Dad, you've come home!
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Steve has waited a long time to hear that, Tonto.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Ah, that good. Are we riding out here, Musabi?
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, Tonto. Come on, Silver.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: Get him up, Scout.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Get him up.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Go, Silver! Go away!
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Go!
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 28:36
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• 28:39
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• 28:45
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