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Gunsmoke - "Bum's Rush" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Two accused killers are brought back to Dodge City by
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Speaker 1: Marshal Matt Dillon, and three witnesses soon offer evidence intended
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Speaker 1: to clear them. As the accounts begin to conflict, Dillon
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Speaker 1: must learn what the witnesses know and why they have
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Speaker 1: chosen to come forward. This is Gunsmoke Bums Rush, Episode 52,
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Speaker 1: first heard on CBS Radio April 18, 1953, a 30-minute
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Speaker 1: sustaining broadcast. William Conrad stars as Dylan with Parley Bear,
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Speaker 1: Georgia Ellis, and Howard McNair. John Meston wrote the script,
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Speaker 1: Norman MacDonald produced, and Rex Corey supplied the music. And now,
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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: Gun smoke.
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that
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Speaker 2: moved west with young America. The story of a man
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Speaker 2: who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Hey, boss.
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Speaker 5: Yeah? There's no moon tonight.
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Speaker 4: What of it?
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Speaker 5: It's spooky when there's no moon. You afraid of something, Mahalo?
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Speaker 5: Of me?
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Speaker 6: You.
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Speaker 5: What are you afraid of? Of course, I ain't been
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Speaker 5: much afraid of anything since the second battle of Bull Run.
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Speaker 5: That so?
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 5: I took my first bullet at Manassas Gap. I thought, sure,
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Speaker 5: I'd die. But I didn't. That's nothing.
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Speaker 7: When I got shot on the Chattahoochee River over in Georgia.
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Speaker 5: I knew I wouldn't die. How'd you know? I just knew,
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Speaker 5: that's all. Weren't you afraid? Afraid of what? Dying. I've
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Speaker 5: never been afraid to die. Well, I'm not afraid. Not anymore.
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Speaker 5: Not since Bull Run. And what's all this about there
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Speaker 5: being no moon, Arlo? I said I'm not afraid to die.
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Speaker 5: I didn't say I'm not afraid of anything. Oh, shut up. Okay. Hey, Gorse.
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Wish we could stop and light a fire. Why? I
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Speaker 5: got some pork to cook. Now, listen here, Orlo. You
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Speaker 5: trying to tie the rope around your own neck? No.
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Speaker 5: And eat your meat raw, you hear? Raw meat gives
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Speaker 5: me the bellyache. You needn't worry about that, Orlo.
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Speaker 7: Those people back in Dodge, they got a cure for bellyache.
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Speaker 5: They have? You, they have. A lariat rope over the
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Speaker 5: limb of a cottonwood tree. Oh, they ain't going to
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Speaker 5: catch us. They will if you.
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Speaker 7: Go building bonfires all over the prairie to cook your
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Speaker 7: dang pork with.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll just build a little bitty Indian fire, Gorse. Oh,
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Speaker 5: shut up. Harlow?
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Speaker 7: Hmm?
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Speaker 5: Look over there. Where? Over there. What's the fun of
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Speaker 5: that little ride? I don't see nothing. That cabin, you
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Speaker 5: do too, sir. Oh, that. What about it?
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Speaker 7: There's no light in it, you fool.
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Speaker 5: And there's no smoke. It's deserted. Well, that's good, ain't it, Gorse?
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Speaker 5: Nobody to tell the posse which way we went. How
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Speaker 5: do you know they got a posse? Well, they should have. Anyways,
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Speaker 5: we'll sleep in that cabin. Somebody does come along, we
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Speaker 5: can fight them off from there. Come on. Come on.
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Speaker 5: Come on. It's big, ain't it, Gorse? Big enough for us, anyway.
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Speaker 5: Come on, maybe there's some food inside.
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Speaker 4: Hey, wait.
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Speaker 5: There's a horse in here. He must have got in
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Speaker 5: and the door blew shut. Poor thing. Well, get him out. Yeah. Easy, boy.
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Speaker 5: Easy now, sir. Easy. I got him. Now, outside, fella.
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Speaker 4: Outside. Come on. Yeah. Yeah, that's funny.
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Speaker 5: What's funny? That horse. He's all wet with lather. Lather?
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Speaker 4: Hold it right there.
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Speaker 7: Hey.
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Speaker 5: There's somebody in there.
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Speaker 4: Now get your hands up. You're framed in the door
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Speaker 4: and you'll die if you make a wrong move. Now
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Speaker 4: turn around and stand there. Now take your guns.
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Speaker 5: Who are you, mister?
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Speaker 4: All right, get outside.
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Speaker 5: Slow. Slow.
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Speaker 4: All right, that's far enough. Now you can turn around.
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Speaker 4: All right, you, what's your name? Orlo. Orlo what?
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Speaker 5: Just Orlo. And you? William Goss, but I don't use
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Speaker 5: a William.
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Speaker 4: I'll remember that.
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Speaker 5: Look, mister, we don't mean no harm.
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Speaker 7: We just thought your cabin was deserted and we could
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Speaker 7: sleep in that night.
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Speaker 4: It's deserted, but you won't be sleeping anywhere tonight.
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Speaker 5: Now, mister, you got no right to.
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Speaker 4: You'll sleep in Dodge when we get there.
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Speaker 5: Oh, no. No, we can't go back to Dodge.
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Speaker 4: No? Why can't you?
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Speaker 5: Well, you see, we shot a man that day. This
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Speaker 5: morning it was.
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Speaker 8: All of you, shut up.
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Speaker 5: But, Gorse, you know we can't go back. I'll shut
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Speaker 5: you up.
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Speaker 4: Hold it, Gorse.
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Speaker 7: Well, he always did talk too much. The war made
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Speaker 7: him like that, mister. He was all right before the war.
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Speaker 5: So they say, anyway.
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Speaker 4: Now, listen to me, both of you. This isn't my cabin.
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Speaker 5: It isn't? Then why'd you put us out of it?
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Speaker 4: I'm trying to tell you why. I'm a United States Marshal.
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Speaker 5: What? Oh, Gorse, we got caught.
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Speaker 4: You're both under arrest for murder.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll be. So that's why his horse was hot.
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Speaker 5: He'd been chasing us, Gorse. How could he have been
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Speaker 5: chasing us? He was in front of us.
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Speaker 4: I've been on your tail ever since you ran out
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Speaker 4: of Dodge. The trail you were following led right here,
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Speaker 4: so I made a circle and waited for you. Does
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Speaker 4: that explain things?
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Speaker 5: Hey, that's pretty smart, isn't it, Gorse? We was riding
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Speaker 5: too slow. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But if I'd known what I was following, I think
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Speaker 4: I'd have just ridden up behind and yelled at you
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Speaker 4: to stop.
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Speaker 5: We'd have run.
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Speaker 4: Now explain something to me, will you? What are you men?
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Speaker 5: We're just friends. Yeah, me and Gorse been friends for
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Speaker 5: a long time.
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, that's not what I meant. Look, you
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Speaker 4: shot that store clerk in Dodge and you killed him.
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Speaker 4: But you're sure not gunmen. You're not bandits. Now, what
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Speaker 4: are you?
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Speaker 5: We're broke. We needed some money. But he wouldn't give
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Speaker 5: it to us. He grabbed a gun and stared out
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Speaker 5: under the counter. And he'd have shot us with it, too.
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Speaker 5: We had to kill him. That's all there is to it, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Not quite, I'm afraid. You killed a man and I'm
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Speaker 4: taking you in for murder.
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Speaker 5: They gonna hang us?
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Speaker 4: Not they.
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Speaker 5: The law, maybe.
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Speaker 4: But you'll get a fair trial.
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Speaker 5: Won't matter. We done it. We'll hang. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You're right, Goose.
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Speaker 5: We'll hang, sure. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I suppose you'd have killed somebody sooner or later. All right,
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Speaker 4: get your horses.
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Speaker 5: Ain't you gonna handcuff us or nothing? Why? Oh, no reason, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: I was just asking.
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Speaker 4: I thought so. All right, come on. It's a long
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Speaker 4: ride to Dodge. It took all night to ride back
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Speaker 4: to Dodge. But I didn't have to watch my prisoners
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Speaker 4: any more than if they'd been a couple of riders
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Speaker 4: I'd thrown in with on the trail. Maybe it was
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Speaker 4: all their years in the war, in the army, that
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Speaker 4: made them do whatever I as a marshal told them
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Speaker 4: to do. The idea of not obeying me never occurred
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Speaker 4: to him. Next morning, I had Chester lock him up,
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Speaker 4: and then I went off to get some sleep. About noon,
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Speaker 4: I got up, ate something, and dropped into the Texas Trail.
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Speaker 4: Sit down.
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Speaker 9: Matt.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, Kitty. I hear you brought in those murderers. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I did. Well, aren't you glad? Yeah, sure, Kitty.
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Speaker 5: I'm glad. Well, they're the ones, aren't they?
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Speaker 10: You got the right men.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're the ones. They did it. Matt, sometimes I
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Speaker 4: don't know.
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Speaker 5: Kitty.
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Speaker 4: They're just a couple of not very bright men who...
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Speaker 4: Who've had too much war. I guess they just got
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Speaker 4: used to killing. I don't think it means anything at
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Speaker 4: all to them. They're not mean and they're not vicious.
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Speaker 4: They're just... Kind of loco. Well, that's what makes them dangerous,
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Speaker 4: I guess. Marshall Dillon? Yeah.
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Speaker 9: I hear you brought in two men this morning. Gorse
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Speaker 9: and Orlo.
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Speaker 4: Now, how do you know their names? Everybody does by now. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I suppose so. They didn't do it, Marshal. What? They're innocent.
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Speaker 4: They didn't kill that clerk.
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Speaker 5: Who are you, mister?
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Speaker 4: My name is Blaine, George Blaine. All right, Blaine, what's
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Speaker 4: this all about? What I said, Marshal. They're innocent. You see,
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Speaker 4: I and Ned and Lou... Well, over there at the bar.
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Speaker 9: We saw him just leaving Kelly's stable when that shooting
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Speaker 9: took place.
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Speaker 4: Would you swear to that in court? Why, sure, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: How come you arrested him anyway? Well, I'll tell you, Blaine.
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Speaker 4: They shot a man.
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Speaker 5: Nobody saw that killer.
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Speaker 4: Look, I don't know who you are or what your
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Speaker 4: interest in this is, but they admit killing that clerk.
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Speaker 4: So why don't you just go back and join your
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Speaker 4: friends at the bar and forget about it, huh?
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Speaker 9: No, Marshal, we won't forget about it. You shouldn't have
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Speaker 9: arrested those men. And what's more, we're going to see
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Speaker 9: to it they don't stay arrested.
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Speaker 4: Well? You want to see to it right now, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Blaine?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 9: No, there are other men around here interested in justice, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: And I think we'll talk to them first. Don't do it, Blaine.
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Speaker 4: Don't get anything like that started here in Dodge. See
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Speaker 4: you later, Marshal. Who is he, Kitty?
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Speaker 5: I don't know, Matt.
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Speaker 4: He and his two friends came in on a Santa
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Speaker 4: Fe from St.
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Speaker 5: Louis a couple of days ago. That's all I know.
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Speaker 4: I wonder what they got in mind.
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Speaker 5: Oh, they've been drinking. Let's just talk, Matt.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe. I'll see you later, Kitty. So long.
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Speaker 5: Hurry back, Matt.
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Speaker 3: The End.
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Speaker 5: Notice, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Dillon, that fellow come here, but I wouldn't let.
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Speaker 5: Him talk to the prisoners.
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Speaker 4: Was he alone or did he have his two friends
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Speaker 4: with him, Chester?
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Speaker 5: Oh, he was alone, sir.
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Speaker 8: But I did notice a couple of men waiting around
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Speaker 8: outside now that you mention it.
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Speaker 4: You, uh, haven't heard anything about this Blaine or his
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Speaker 4: friends the last day or so, have you? No, sir.
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Speaker 5: Nobody's mentioned them. Around me, anyway.
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Speaker 4: Well, it sure stumps me.
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Speaker 8: You think maybe they're going to cause trouble, Mr. Dillon?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Chester. They might try, but it'd be
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Speaker 4: easier to stop if I knew what was behind it.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, mobs have tried to open this jail before... but
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Speaker 4: to lynch somebody, not to turn them loose.
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Speaker 8: Mighty curious, all right.
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Speaker 4: Chester, I'm going to have a talk with the prisoners.
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Speaker 4: Maybe they might know something.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's worth a try, Chester. Yeah. Hey, Gorse. It's
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Speaker 5: the Marshal. Hello, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Arlo. Of course.
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Speaker 5: How are you, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: Well, is Chester treating you all right?
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Speaker 5: Well, there wasn't much of the bait we had this morning,
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Speaker 5: but the noon meal was fine. Marshal?
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Speaker 10: Hmm?
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Speaker 5: We get supper, too?
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Speaker 4: Of course you do.
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Speaker 5: When are they going to hang us, Marshal? Well, Arlo, you.
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Speaker 4: Haven't been tried yet. Nothing's going to happen until you
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Speaker 4: have a trial.
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Speaker 5: How long will that take, Marshal? Well, what difference does
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Speaker 5: it make, Gorse, as long as we get fed every day?
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Speaker 4: Listen, you man, I want to ask you something.
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Speaker 5: Sure, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of a man named Blaine? He's tall,
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Speaker 4: has black hair, he's... Wasn't that the fellow's name who
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Speaker 4: was here this morning all over?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, Blaine.
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Speaker 4: Here this morning? Chester said he kept him out of here.
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Speaker 7: Oh, he come around back outside, talked through the window there.
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Speaker 7: Seemed like a nice fella. Sort of crazy, though.
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Speaker 4: Now, why do you say that, Oliver? What'd he want?
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Speaker 5: Oh, he kept saying he had witnesses and all like that.
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Speaker 5: Said we're innocent. We shouldn't be in here. Well, what'd
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Speaker 5: you tell him? Well, we told him how you caught
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Speaker 5: us and what we did and all. We told him
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Speaker 5: there wasn't any witnesses we could see. Just us. And
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Speaker 5: that clerk. But we killed him.
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Speaker 7: Sure, but Blaine was saying him and his friends saw
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Speaker 7: us down by some corral or something.
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Speaker 5: I don't know. He was all mixed up.
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Speaker 4: Tell me, have either one of you ever seen this
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Speaker 4: Blaine before?
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Speaker 5: Oh, no, Marshal. Never laid eyes on him. And that's
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Speaker 5: the truth. That's right, Marshal. Me and Gorse, we never
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Speaker 5: tell lies.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Did Blaine tell you what he's going
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Speaker 4: to do? What his plans are?
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Speaker 5: Narrow word, Marshal.
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Speaker 7: Except he did say for us to set up a
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Speaker 7: holla that we didn't kill that fella.
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Speaker 5: Oh, he's crazy, that Blaine. I couldn't get his drift
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Speaker 5: at all.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you what it is, Orlo. For some
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Speaker 4: reason that I don't know, Blaine wants you two out
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Speaker 4: of jail. He may come here with a mob and
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Speaker 4: try and get you out.
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Speaker 5: Well, he can't do that. We're under arrest here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. But he might try. Hmm.
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Speaker 5: What'll we do about it, Marshal? Nothing, of course, nothing.
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Speaker 4: I'll handle it.
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Speaker 5: You sure, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: Uh, let me know if you need anything, huh?
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Speaker 5: Oh, we're fine, Marshal. Thanks just the same. Sure. Okay.
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Speaker 4: I'll see you later, then. Ah, hello, Doc. What are
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Speaker 4: you doing here?
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Speaker 10: I heard there might be some excitement, Matt.
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Speaker 4: Oh, you did, huh?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, right here at the jail, too.
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Speaker 4: Give Doc a gun, Chester. We can use another man.
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Speaker 8: Name your preference, Doc. Shotgun or rifle?
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Speaker 10: You sit right where you are, Chester. I'm not a gunfighter.
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Speaker 10: My work begins when you fellas leave off.
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Speaker 4: Well, you may have a busy evening, Doc. But I
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Speaker 4: hope not.
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Speaker 5: You never can tell, Matt. But I take things as
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Speaker 5: they come. Yeah. I know. I better go and get
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Speaker 5: my office cleaned up.
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Speaker 10: If anyone gets shot, you send them right up there.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't improve a man's temper to spend the afternoon
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Speaker 4: sitting around and waiting for a mob to form. A
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Speaker 4: mob that's going to head his way when it gets
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Speaker 4: its spirits high enough. Chester and I didn't talk much.
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Speaker 4: We just sat and waited. Long about dusk, we saw
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Speaker 4: a couple of dozen men gather in the middle of
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Speaker 4: the plaza. Then Blaine appeared, and he began haranguing them.
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Speaker 4: And the crowd grew. In a little while, it started
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Speaker 4: moving down Front Street, down toward the jail, and us.
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Speaker 8: Looks like everybody in Dodge is taking an interest, Mr. Dillon.
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Speaker 4: We'll use shotguns, Chester. I never saw a mob yet
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Speaker 4: that was eager to jump a shotgun.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 5: Here's yours, Mr. Dillon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks.
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Speaker 4: Well, let's go meet them outside, Chester.
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Speaker 5: All right, sir.
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Speaker 4: Here, this is good enough.
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Speaker 8: Pretty big crowd coming, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Dillon.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe most of them are just curious. I sure am, anyway.
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Speaker 5: What do you mean, sir?
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Speaker 4: Well, I haven't got this Blaine figure, that's all.
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Speaker 5: Good morning.
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Speaker 4: All right, hold it, man.
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Speaker 5: Hold it, man.
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Speaker 4: I'll see if I can talk some sense.
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Speaker 5: Into the Marshal first. Well, Marshal, I was right.
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Speaker 9: There seem to be a lot of men in Dodge
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Speaker 9: interested in justice.
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Speaker 4: We want Orlo and Gorse out of that jail, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: We want them freed. Aren't you going to say anything, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: I don't see your two partners, Blaine, whatever their names are.
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Speaker 4: Don't you worry about them, Marshal.
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Speaker 9: Now, you tell us. Are you going to turn those
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Speaker 9: prisoners away? loose, or do you want us to do it? Well,
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Speaker 9: speak up, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Which way is it going to be?
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Speaker 4: All right. Now, you've all heard Blaine's story. He claims
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Speaker 4: he and his friends saw Orlo and Gorse at Kelly's
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Speaker 4: stable when the shooting took place. Now, that's pretty good
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Speaker 4: evidence that they didn't kill that clerk. And it could
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Speaker 4: be true. I'm going to go inside and I'm going
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Speaker 4: to talk to him about it. I'll give you my
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Speaker 4: answer in half an hour. Now, is that fair enough?
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Speaker 2: A half hour will just about do it, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: I think it will, Blaine.
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Speaker 5: But no matter what you.
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Speaker 9: Decide, we're going to turn them loose.
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Speaker 5: Isn't that right, men?
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Speaker 4: That's right. Chester, keep an eye on Blaine. Don't let
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Speaker 4: him leave here if you have to shoot him to
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Speaker 4: keep him around.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, but I don't understand... Just do as I say, Chester.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 5: What's doing, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Gorse, but I just might find out.
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Speaker 5: This Dodge is a mighty strange place, wanting to turn
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Speaker 5: prisoners loose.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I'll be back soon.
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Speaker 5: Matt, what are you up to?
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Speaker 9: You're going to break my window with those rocks.
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Speaker 4: Get on here, Doc. I need you in a hurry.
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 4: Oh, sure, Matt.
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Speaker 5: Stand under the window here and I'll climb down on
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Speaker 5: top of you.
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Speaker 4: It's only a few feet. Okay. All right, come on, hurry.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, what's this all about, Matt? Where are we going?
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Speaker 4: We're going to the express company first. What for?
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Speaker 5: It's closed.
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Speaker 4: Maybe not. It's not quite six.
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Speaker 10: Everybody in Dodge is out there in the street. I
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Speaker 10: was watching from the front window.
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Speaker 4: Not quite everybody, Doc. Blaine's two friends, aren't they?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 4: I'm working on a hunch, Doc. If I'm right, I
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Speaker 4: want you as a witness. And we'll go back and
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Speaker 4: show that mob what fools they are.
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Speaker 5: Whatever you say, Matt. But I haven't got a gun.
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Speaker 4: Don't worry. I'll do the shooting. We reached the rear
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Speaker 4: of the express company, and I took a quick look
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Speaker 4: through the window. The single room was deserted. And the
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Speaker 4: only other place would be the bank, if I was right.
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Speaker 4: And I was. Two horses were tied to a tree
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Speaker 4: outside the back entrance, the door of which was ajar.
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Speaker 4: I made Doc get around the corner of the building
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Speaker 4: where he'd be safe. Then I stood close to the
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Speaker 4: door and waited. In about five minutes, I heard him
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Speaker 4: coming out.
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Speaker 5: Let's get that mask off.
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Speaker 10: We'll hide this stuff at the stable, go down and
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Speaker 10: join Blaine.
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Speaker 4: Hurry, Lou, we're late now. Get your hands up. This
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Speaker 4: is a shotgun. Don't use it.
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Speaker 5: You got us.
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Speaker 4: Don't shoot. Well, you're not the fightingest man I ever saw.
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Speaker 4: All right, I'll take your guns now, and don't try anything.
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Speaker 4: And yours.
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Speaker 3: Doc.
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Speaker 5: Here, here.
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Speaker 4: Well, what do you know?
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Speaker 5: Blaine's partners. You sure guess right, Matt.
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Speaker 4: Now, who's inside? We didn't hurt him, Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Just tied him up.
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Speaker 4: Who, I said?
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Speaker 5: That old man, the banker.
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Speaker 4: All right, go take a look at him, Doc. Take
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Speaker 4: those money bags with you.
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Speaker 5: But be quick.
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Speaker 4: We haven't got much time. The End I'll have company
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Speaker 4: for you shortly, gentlemen, so you just sit quiet, huh?
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Speaker 4: Lane's going to be mighty surprised at this. Come on, Doctor.
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Speaker 5: My gracious, I thought you was never going to come out, Mr. Dillon. Well, Marshal,
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Speaker 5: are you going to be smart?
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Speaker 4: Are you going to turn them loose? You're under arrest, Blaine.
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Speaker 5: What? Marshal, don't be a fool.
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Speaker 9: You aren't arresting anybody.
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Speaker 4: Is he, men? Tell him who I just locked up, Doc.
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Speaker 5: All right. That's right, men. Marshal just arrested Blaine's two friends. What?
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Speaker 4: You make one move and I'll cut you in half, Blaine.
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Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, Doc.
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Speaker 10: I was right there with him.
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Speaker 6: Caught him up the street, right in the bank. There,
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Speaker 6: locked up, inside, right now. Oh, they're no friends of mine.
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Speaker 6: We've been drinking together, that's all. Besides, I wasn't anywhere
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Speaker 6: near that bank. I was right here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. You men saw me here.
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Speaker 4: And you got nearly everybody else in town here, too, Blaine.
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Speaker 4: So your partners could work unmolested. Take his gun, Chester.
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Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 4: All right, you men. Now you've made fools enough of
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Speaker 4: yourselves for one evening. Now you go back where you
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Speaker 4: came from and stay there.
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Speaker 2: Now go on.
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Speaker 4: Inside, Blaine. Your friends are waiting for you. I never
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Speaker 4: did find out just who Blaine was. He kept his
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Speaker 4: mouth shut all through the trial. It could be that
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Speaker 4: he'd never been arrested before. But anyway, he and his
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Speaker 4: partners got five years. That's better than Harlow and Gorse
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Speaker 4: made up. They stood up and told their whole story
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Speaker 4: as straight as I'd told it myself. I guess telling
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Speaker 4: the truth was about the only sense of right and
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Speaker 4: wrong that the war had left them. They weren't bad men,
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Speaker 4: but they were dangerous. And early one morning, a month later,
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Speaker 4: up in Hayes City, on the order of the court,
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Speaker 4: Orlo and Gorse were hung.
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, under the direction of 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: Tonight's story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
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Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in
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Speaker 2: the cast were John Daner and Harry Bartell, with Lawrence
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Speaker 2: Dobkin and Lou Krugman. Marley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair
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Speaker 2: as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. Gunsmoke is heard
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Speaker 2: by our troops overseas through the facilities of the Armed
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Speaker 2: Forces Radio Service. Join us again next week as Matt.
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Speaker 5: Dillon, U.S.
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Speaker 2: Marshal, fights to bring law and order out of the
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Speaker 2: wild violence of the West in Gunsmoke.
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Speaker 1: Gunsmoke Bums Rush concludes our visit to Dodge City. Good night,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us.