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Gunsmoke - "Lost Rifle" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Marshal Matt Dillon breaks up a confrontation between Frank Paris
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and Ben Tipper, but before long, Paris has been shot
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: and Tipper stands under suspicion. A young boy found at
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  Speaker 1: the scene adds another element to Dillon's investigation as the
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: marshal weighs the evidence in Dodge City. From CBS Radio,
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  Speaker 1: this is Gunsmoke, episode 225, Lost Rifle, first heard July 29th, 1956.
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  Speaker 1: William Conrad stars as Matt Dillon in a script by
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: John Meston with Norman MacDonald directing and producing. And now,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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  Speaker 2: gun smoke.
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  Speaker 3: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the violence
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  Speaker 2: that moved west with young America. And the story of
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  Speaker 2: a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 4: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 4: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 5: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke Hey, Temple.
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  Speaker 5: Move that horse.
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  Speaker 6: You're in over so I can get mine in there.
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  Speaker 6: This hitch rack's pretty crowded, Parris. Can't you tie up
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  Speaker 6: someplace else?
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  Speaker 5: I said move him over.
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  Speaker 7: Here, now, don't do that.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 6: You hit my horse again, I'll shoot you, Parris.
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  Speaker 5: You won't do nothing. What's the matter with you? You drunk?
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  Speaker 6: You gotta complain about something, Tipple. Yeah, Parris, I gotta complain.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Tipple.
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  Speaker 6: I'm waiting.
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  Speaker 5: All right, hold it there, you men. You stay out
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  Speaker 5: of this, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Not likely.
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  Speaker 6: Now, look here, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: I know you're a friend of Tipple's, but I don't
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  Speaker 8: know as I like your protecting him this hard.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not protecting anybody, Parris. I'm stopping a gunfight. Now,
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  Speaker 5: you get moving.
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  Speaker 6: I'll meet you any time, Parris.
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  Speaker 5: You shut up.
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  Speaker 6: We'll meet right now. Well, you ain't got your nursemaid around.
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  Speaker 6: Why'd you stop it, Matt? He had it coming to him.
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  Speaker 5: You're pretty hot-tempered, aren't you, Ben?
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  Speaker 6: Did you see what he done?
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  Speaker 5: That's no reason to shoot a man, and you know it.
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  Speaker 1: An ordinary man know, but that Paris has been looking
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  Speaker 1: for trouble for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: I know what he's like. But you keep away from him, Ben.
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  Speaker 6: It's bound to happen, Matt, sooner or later, and I
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  Speaker 6: don't hide from no man. You know me well enough
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  Speaker 6: for that.
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  Speaker 9: This doggone old river is awful high for this time
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  Speaker 9: of year, ain't it, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon?
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  Speaker 5: It must have been having some big rains up in Colorado.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, now that's where I'd like to be. Up in
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  Speaker 6: them tall, cool mountains.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 9: Just think of laying.
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  Speaker 8: On your back up there in the deep grass, drinking
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  Speaker 8: snow water and eating trout, listening to all them pretty
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  Speaker 8: birds singing away.
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  Speaker 5: We'll miss you, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I ain't going nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: Look on the bank there.
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  Speaker 6: Some fellow fishing.
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  Speaker 5: He must have fell asleep. He isn't asleep, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: No, sir. I don't believe he is.
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  Speaker 9: Well, that's Frank Pass, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Shot in the back.
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  Speaker 6: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 5: There's his pole.
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  Speaker 9: He was sitting here fishing and somebody sneaked up and
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  Speaker 9: shot him. Oh, that's a mean way to die.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get a wagon and carry him back to Dodge.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Get on, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: I can't see nobody.
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  Speaker 5: All right, come out of there. You can't get both
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  Speaker 5: of us. Come out or we'll start shooting.
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  Speaker 6: Don't shoot, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: I'm coming.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's only a kid. It's Andy Spangler.
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  Speaker 5: Andy, what are you doing out here? Nothing, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to go fishing, but I lost my line.
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  Speaker 5: Why were you hiding in the brush, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Him.
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  Speaker 5: I heard a shot some time ago, and I come
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  Speaker 5: looking around. I found him laying there, and I got
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  Speaker 5: scared when I heard you ride.
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  Speaker 10: Up, so I hid.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't see anybody? No, I didn't see nothing. Whoever
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  Speaker 5: did it was gone.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, my goodness, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Jones.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Chester?
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  Speaker 9: Well, the way Frank and Ben Tipple was carrying on.
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  Speaker 9: You don't suppose Ben could have did it, do you?
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  Speaker 9: I know he's a good friend of yours.
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  Speaker 5: Never mind, Chester. Well, let's get back to town. Come on, Andy.
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  Speaker 5: You can ride behind me.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Ben.
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  Speaker 6: I'm mad. Come in. I was about to take a
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  Speaker 6: little nap. Now it's cooled off some.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, you heard what happened to Frank Parrish yesterday? Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I heard. Well?
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  Speaker 6: Are you asking me if I did it, Matt?
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  Speaker 5: Most everybody in Dodge thinks you did. And what do
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  Speaker 5: you think?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've been telling everybody I've known Ben Temple a
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  Speaker 4: long time and that he's hot-tempered and that Frank Paris
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  Speaker 4: has been prodding him every chance he had.
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  Speaker 5: But that Paris didn't even have his gun up. Besides,
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  Speaker 5: he was shot in the back. What are people saying
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  Speaker 5: to that?
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  Speaker 4: They're saying you're a friend of mine. They think that's
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  Speaker 4: why I haven't arrested you.
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  Speaker 5: Is it? I'd go after my own brother if I
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  Speaker 5: thought he murdered a man, Ben.
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  Speaker 6: Happened yesterday morning sometime, didn't it, Matt?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 6: I got no alibi for then. I wasn't with nobody.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's too bad. It would have helped.
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  Speaker 6: I might have shot Frank Perry someday, Matt. But never
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  Speaker 6: in the back.
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  Speaker 5: I know that, Ben. But until I find out who
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  Speaker 5: did it, you better lay low. Just look at this place, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: What's wrong, Kitty? Well, it may be the biggest saloon
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  Speaker 5: in Dodge.
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  Speaker 6: But it's surely emptiest.
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  Speaker 5: You're getting greedy, Kitty. And it's about time.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure not getting younger.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to be able to retire before you're 30.
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  Speaker 11: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad somebody's getting rich around here. Law sure isn't.
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  Speaker 6: No. But the law keeps busy.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 6: Joe Spangler and his pa. I think he's looking for you, Matt.
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  Speaker 12: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Evening, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 12: Evening.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk to you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Spangler.
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  Speaker 11: I want to know why you ain't got Ben Tipple
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  Speaker 11: in jail.
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  Speaker 5: Frank Paris was a friend of yours, wasn't he? That
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  Speaker 5: don't matter.
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  Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter that Ben Tipple's a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't do it, Spangler. There's a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: who think he did, Marshal. You have any proof?
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  Speaker 11: I'm a boy, Andy, I think he saw Tipple out there.
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  Speaker 11: And I'll get it out of him. I whipped him
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  Speaker 11: once already.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Spangler, your boy would have told me if he'd
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  Speaker 4: seen anybody. Why would he try to protect Ben Tipple?
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  Speaker 6: Scared.
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  Speaker 5: Scared of what?
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 11: What you might do to him if he talked.
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  Speaker 5: Just a minute, Spangler.
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  Speaker 6: He's gonna talk before I'm through with him.
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  Speaker 5: You get out of here. You're making me mad. Well, no,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't aim to do that, Marshal.
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  Speaker 11: All I wanted is to get you to do your
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  Speaker 11: job before somebody has to do it for you.
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  Speaker 3: Easy, Mac.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I ought to take him apart.
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  Speaker 6: That wouldn't help.
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  Speaker 5: It'd make me feel better.
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  Speaker 6: You'll be all right.
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  Speaker 5: Soon you'll find out who did kill Paris. How am
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  Speaker 5: I going to find that out, Kitty?
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  Speaker 4: With all this going on, he's as safe as a
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  Speaker 4: bear in a hickory tree.
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  Speaker 3: The End.
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  Speaker 9: Well, looks to me like you're going to have a
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  Speaker 9: busy day today, man.
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  Speaker 5: I am? Why, Doc?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: Now, maybe it's because you did so little yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Do I owe you some money or something, Doc?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: You're all paid up.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, man, I've been thinking. How much you want, Doc? Oh,
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  Speaker 5: ten dollars would do it. Here you are. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Just pay it back by Friday, that's all.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: You think I was merely asking for a loan? You
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  Speaker 5: have your own way of doing things, Doctor. So's he. What?
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  Speaker 11: Look.
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  Speaker 5: That filthy spangler. He's cuffing his boy around again. I've
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  Speaker 5: had about enough of his ways.
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  Speaker 6: I warned you, boy. I warned you what you did.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't mean to do it.
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  Speaker 6: You won't learn, will you?
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  Speaker 5: All right, that's enough, Spangler.
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  Speaker 7: Fine.
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  Speaker 6: You just get out of here, Marshal. You ain't interfering
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  Speaker 6: in this.
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  Speaker 5: Let the boy go, Spangler. Let him go. I said
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  Speaker 5: that's enough. Andy, you stand over here. He won't hit
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  Speaker 5: you again.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do it. I told him I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: What did you do, Andy?
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  Speaker 7: I lost his rifle.
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  Speaker 2: I borrowed it to go hunting and I fell across
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  Speaker 2: the river and I lost it.
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  Speaker 6: I ought to kill you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Don't try it, Spankler. Now, come on, get on your feet.
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  Speaker 6: What right do you.
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  Speaker 11: Got to come between the man and this boy?
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  Speaker 5: None, I guess, but I took it anyway.
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  Speaker 11: That kid ought to be in jail stealing like he does.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't stealing. It ain't none of your business, Marshal.
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  Speaker 11: I ain't going to talk to you about it.
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  Speaker 5: Andy, I'll see to you later. You beat him again
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  Speaker 5: and I'll throw you in jail. He won't beat me
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  Speaker 5: because I ain't going home. Not ever. Now, what'll your
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  Speaker 5: mother think, Annie? I got no.
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  Speaker 6: Mother.
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot, Annie. And he hates me. Look, Annie,
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  Speaker 5: if things get bad, you come see me, huh? Anytime.
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  Speaker 5: Will you do that?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Now, don't let your pa make you say anything that
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: isn't true, Andy. You don't have to. You understand?
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  Speaker 12: Now, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you just remember, you can come see me any time.
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  Speaker 7: Boy, ain't this a pretty night, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 9: Look at all them stars up there just a-shining away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and look at all those lights in the saloons
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  Speaker 4: just a-shining away.
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  Speaker 6: You ain't much of a nature lover, are you?
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  Speaker 4: Not while I got work to do, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: What work?
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Well, for the next few hours, I got to walk
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  Speaker 4: around and try to make sure nobody's going to get
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  Speaker 4: cheated or get too drunk or get killed, maybe.
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: You're right. Sometimes that can turn into work. Well, looky there.
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: It's Andy. Now, what's he up to?
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: Marshal Dillon?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the trouble, Andy?
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  Speaker 6: They're in that alley right back there.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, hurry.
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  Speaker 11: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Well, who's in the alley?
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Ben Tippett.
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  Speaker 7: Paul's got them cornered.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 7: Paul's got the drop on him.
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  Speaker 1: He hid out in there and waited for him to
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  Speaker 1: come by.
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  Speaker 5: But how do you know? What were you doing there?
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  Speaker 6: I thought Paul was after me. But he's going to
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: shoot Ben Tippett. I know he is.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe I can stop him, Andy.
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  Speaker 6: I hope so, but I don't know how.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Let's slow down here. You wait here with Chester, Andy.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to go in there alone.
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  Speaker 10: If you are being named Tim Tipu. Well, as well
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  Speaker 10: admit it and you know it. I wouldn't abide to
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  Speaker 10: shoot Frank Parrish, but not in the back, not even him.
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  Speaker 10: I guess I'm going to have to kill you.
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  Speaker 5: You'll die yourself if you pull that trigger, Slinger.
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  Speaker 6: Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Now you drop that gun.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 11: He killed Frank Parrish and I'm going to shoot him
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  Speaker 11: if I die for it myself.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be a fool.
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  Speaker 6: He's got my gun, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: Just stand steady, Ben.
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  Speaker 10: Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Get back, Andy. I've got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 6: He slipped away from me, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: It's terribly important. Help me keep an eye on Spangler, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: All right, now, what is it, Andy? Hurry up.
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  Speaker 6: Bend over.
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  Speaker 5: I've got to whisper.
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  Speaker 6: What?
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: What's going on there? Never mind.
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  Speaker 9: You've got two men who will shoot you now, Spangler,
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: and you better not try nothing.
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  Speaker 6: I'm getting mighty tired of this. What's that kid doing
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  Speaker 6: here anyway?
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  Speaker 9: Well, he didn't come here to murder nobody like his
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: pa did.
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  Speaker 6: Ben Temple was the murderer, not me.
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  Speaker 5: No, he isn't, Spangler. Temple didn't shoot Frank Ferris. You
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: said that before, Marshal. Andy did it. Andy? He just
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: told me.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: What are you saying?
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  Speaker 5: It was an accident.
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  Speaker 4: He saw something move and he thought it was an animal,
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  Speaker 4: so he fired at it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: The day he took your rifle.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: When he found he'd shot Parris, he got scared and
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: threw the rifle into the river.
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  Speaker 5: You tell him, Andy.
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  Speaker 6: It's true.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: I was too scared to tell anybody before. All right.
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  Speaker 5: You heard him, Spangler. Now put up that gun.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: I don't believe him. He's lying. You stay where you are, Bush.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Put up your gun, I said.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Not hardly. You killed him, Matt.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: He almost killed me, Ben. Andy, I'm sorry about your pa.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: But you go with Chester now, huh?
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: He wasn't my pa.
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: What?
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: My real pa died a long time ago.
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  Speaker 6: Mama told me about it when she made me change
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: my name.
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I guess that's why he never did like me much.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Beat me all the time. Yeah. Marshall. What, Andy?
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: When are you going to hang me?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Hang you? For shooting Mr.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Parris.
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  Speaker 5: Is that what you've been thinking? I admitted doing it,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: didn't I? It was an accident, Andy. Nobody's going to
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: hang you. Ben.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: What, Matt?
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: He's a mighty brave boy.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he sure is.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Why, he spoke up just now to save my life,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: thinking he'd be hung for it, didn't he?
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Andy, how'd you like to come home with me?
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I got a place for a boy like you. You
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: mean that? I sure do. Marsha, you believe me, you
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: think he means it? Yeah, Andy.
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: I think he means it.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
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  Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
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  Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns
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  Speaker 2: by Tom Hanley and Bill James. Featured in the cast
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  Speaker 2: were John Daner, Vic Perrin, Richard Beals, and Jack Prussian.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Ellis as Kitty.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke Lost Rifle concludes this evening's visit to Dodge City.
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