August 2, 2025 • 19 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke Gun Spoke, starring William Conrad. The story of
(00:42):
the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man who.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall,
the first man they look for and the less they
want to meet. It's a chance, a job, and it
makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
My morning like this makes a man feel body perkin
as you don't.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That looks to be a nice day.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Chester sunshining, fine breeze starting up and breakfast waiting right
down to cheat.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I wondered how long it'd be before you get around
to mentioning food. Oh I likee know, Chester, I know.
Give you a knife and a fork and you turn
into a tiger. Oh no, it ain't that bad. Yeah
A long time, an't you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
A long time?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, just rode into town five minutes ago and the
first man I run in, who's you?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I'm the first one. A lot of I'm running too,
there's a Chester prod for Carl killing.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Jesse and badge you're wearing, Matthew.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Uh huh, the US Marshall here in Dutch?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
No man, Well, never thought it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, and it seems we've both sold our guns in
different ways.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I wouldn't know about that.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I'm still a drifter, Matthew, same as always.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That's so I've heard that, just the saddle.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Bum here today, going tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But it's what happens between today and tomorrow and the
Carl nobody ever knows ahead of time. I let pretty
well do when you hit town the way I've been
hearing it.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
You know how easy stories get started.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Gun for a hire, thousand dollars, a job, results guaranteed.
That's how the stories go, Carl.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When a fella ain't got a regular job, folks make
up things about him.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You're a hired killer, Carl, and we both know it.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
You kind of a hired killer yourself, Matthew.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Or you're here for Carl. Oh you're figuring the kill.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Well, now, if I was the kind of man them stories.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Say, you don't think I'd answer that to you.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You're here for a killing, nothing else would bring it.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
A Dutch you're a long man for real.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Matthew, were just a bronco in this town for your
own benefit.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'm a law man.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Funny years back, when we used to cut brush for
strays down on the pakas we lay that night in
our bedrooms, look at the stars and talk.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
We never figured it turned out like this someday.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Carl, Why don't you get out of town? Or you
still can?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I figured look around a.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Few days, see what kind of place you got here?
I see you, Matthew, Mate meets you, Chester, go on, well.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Then is the cooldest pair of eyes I ever.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Seen in man's head.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And he got married the year after we worked together.
Chester and some fence cutters burned his place one night,
killed his wife, He run him down, shot him, all
four of them, and then he and he couldn't seem
to stop after that. Who do you reckon? He's after?
(04:21):
I don't know, but it gives you the creeps, not
knowing when or who? Forget that? Chester, come on, let's
get some breakfast.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Huh You you go on ahead, mister doing for some reason?
I I guess I just ain't hungry.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
M No, sir, I do not understand this. The mat.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
What's this friend heals up to anyhow?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Huh A which friend?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Doc, Carl Killian.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That true, he's not a friend in a long time
since he was. Why what's he been doing? That's just
that nothing.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
He's not been doing one.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Bus the thing?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well then not everybody in town knows who he is
and what he's here for. But they don't know who
the marks on. Why it's got them so spook they're
ready to jump out of the skins whenever a door closes.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, I can't do much about it, Doc, until he
tips his hands someway. He hasn't committed any crime in Dodge,
and he's not wanted anywhere else.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
And why isn't he wanted?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And they always managed to go to his victims into
making the first move, So it's self defense. And you
get any idea who he's after?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
No, Well, there's two dozen or more men around town
who think.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The other one, and one of them may be right.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Chilean stopped in front of Wilberg jones The store window
this morning and stood looking at them for a while.
As soon as he left, Wilbur locked up and went home.
And he's been sitting home. Man, this poller ever since,
with a shotgun across his knees.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I dott he's after Wilbur.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
But you don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
One of you men to.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Marshall, Yeah I am. Come on in, Marshall. There's a
man here in Dodge that's fixing to kill me. Oh oh,
what's your name? Takes Barto. This man calls himself Carl Killian.
He's been hired to follow me here and do me.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And oh half a town thinks that same thing. Texts yeah,
but I know I seen him in Peblo two weeks ago.
Night turns up here Bueblo.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I got in some trouble there, Marshall. Not with the law.
I was cleared.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
But I killed a man in a fight and his
friend swore that get me one way or another.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Hot does kill him. Figure he was there, he's seen
the fight.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I didn't know who he was in, but I remember
his face all right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And they hired him.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I know they have.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
He ain't here just by accident.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
He might be right.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Man.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
If killing wasn't poor brother just before he came here,
that must be where he was hired. I maybe you
got to lock him up, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I can't do that. Text I got no charge. But
if you don't kill.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Me, run away, wouldn't even help. He just follow me.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I keep clear of him, text and don't let him
push you into drawing against him. Uh, where you're staying,
Dorge Houst?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Then go on over there and stay there and keep
off the street. Huh all right. The meantime, I'll try
to figure something out. We'll keep marshall.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
So if he's not the one man, there's another possibility.
You maybe haven't even thought of me.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You mean, yeah, I thought of him. Would he take
a job like that?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Would you be in friends once?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You think he'd really do that? Yeah, he'd do it. Mad.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
If you don't run that man out of town, I
might as well close up here and take a vacation.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
He's practically living here at the long run.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well why not? You deserve the best beard in town, Kittie.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
He's about the only one that serves it to him.
Minute he comes in, the rest of the boy started edging.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Towards the door.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Now he can't blame him. It's pretty hard to relax
with the executioners standing at your elbow.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
You'd never know looking at him.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Even Kitty, Matthew, Hello, Carl, Well, how's a law business
coming along, Matthew? Out of town's been pretty quiet the
last few days, and I noticed that don't seem to
be hardly any people around at all, at least not
close to where you are. Folks had in order to
feel that way. I don't mean no.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Harm to him.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Were you and twelve loaders before you came here?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Girl? I might have been.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Why was that where you took on the job?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I reckon you believe all them stories all right, just
like everybody.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Miss Kitty, Yeah, Rusty, Oh good evening, Marshall, Miss kitting,
Oh rust Miss Fannel. Excuse me for abotting in this Kitty,
but Melbourne Becky wanted to think and have the rest
of the night off. Seeing there's not much business anyhow.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Sure tell the girl I had you seem mister killing,
you're ruining my business.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'll try to make up for it some right now,
Miss Fannel will do me the honor having a drink
with me?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Why sure, I'd love kidd see you later, Matthew, mis Kitty.
I'll give him credit on one thing, matt The girls
all like him.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I think it's fine.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Ally was fine once it makes a jump though way
he moves around, not saying much, but always watching.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Now had started some of the citizens thinking all.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Right, oh, everybody's guilty of something. Matt I even catch
myself wondering if I'm the one he's after.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, it's not likely, kidding, but even you're not sure?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
No, you see, you know, I almost wish you to
hurry up and happen, so we'd no, so we'd have
it over with. I.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I guess a lot of people feel that way. But
it's not a nickel do hey, what does it mean?
Taxa bartow? That kid he came to see me this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He tried to shoot, killing.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
In the back.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I tried, is right, Bardo, Bardo?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You know, I think that boy was aiming to do
me some harm.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Matthew and all he's dead, kill him. I didn't have
much choice. We come at Oh, you're undeclare. It was
self defense. I saw it myself. That's another job.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Done according to order.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Who are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He was the one you were after, wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I never saw that boy before in my life, never
heard of him.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I don't even know his name, Matthew, If I really
was after anybody I still am.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He was doing. What are you doing back here? Chester?
When I gave it the night off, I didn't figure
to see you the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I am giving up going to bed and have no
fun talking this time along that dog one.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Old killings round. He has kind of slowed down the night.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Life and say they just ain't nobody out no place hardly,
And then.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
It is it's a buy looking over their shoulder and
jumping sideways.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
A man can't get to feel.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
An easy no matter how hard he puts his mind
to it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And it just seems ashamed to waste all that hair,
grease and that boiled shirt. Though, Chester, I figured you'd
end up as the king of the Long Branch.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah that's another thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That little old girl over the long Branch.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I've been kindly sweet talking lately, Rusty Funnel. Yeah, well
now she can't see me for does. She just keeps
hanging around him all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's not smart to get serious of her dance hall
girl anyway, Chester, Well, well, Rusty.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Ain't just a common dance hall girl, mister Dunes. She
comes from a real good family as that so, yes, sir,
Her papa Mama's dead but she's got a rich uncle
that's a very important man, and his help ain't too good.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Neither the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So that's why you're so interested in her. I thought
it was true just yet.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Well now.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I ain't going to off be thinking about money, but
you sure don't hurt none to know that the only
heirs is just her and her cousin in Gueblo.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Gubbo.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
That's where her uncle and her cousin lives. What matters, John, Uh,
just a right.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think I'll drop over the long Branch and have
a talk with Rusty.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Well she ain't there now, she left with that doll
down killings that her room.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's your second door down the hall.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Lad said, all right, Chester, you wait here, but the
stairway so she's comes. Would be better if I talk
to her alone.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Alright, who is it, Marshall, Dylan Rustie, I'd like to
talk to you.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
For a minute.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well it's it's off of late Marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I didn't won't take long and pretty important.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Alright, get to take it.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What is it, Marshall? Mind?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
If I come in?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I I I guess it's all right.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Thanks, Please just don't mind the room.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
When a girl lives alone, she gets careless about.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Throwing things around that would expind to me.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Uh, what is it, Marshall's anything wrong?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, not exactly. Er Uh, well it's not yet, that's see.
I hear the You've been seeing quite a bit of
Carl Killy in the last couple of days.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yes, I I guess maybe I have.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I see. Well, I think he's nice.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I think people are wrong about it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Rustye, how did you happen to meet him that? Uh?
Did he make a point of trying to get acquainted
with you?
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:18):
He he, He came into the Long Branch a few times,
and he talked to all the girls.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But he well, he seemed to like me the best.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Can't we talk about something else.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Marshall Killian is the reason I came here, Rusty.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, let uh come on over by the window.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It's a hot end here.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Huh all right, sure, let me open it for you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
This is better, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah? That's fine. He got a nice feel the straight
from here.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's one reason I took the room. He's behind that's
green in the corner.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's quite a street. Always something going on down there
any hour of the day or night.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Yeah, I guess that's right.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
He didn't wanna see you.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now there's the night stage pulling in from Walnut Creek,
Foreblo and Denver. Rusty, your life's not worth ten cents
of mine either. Hum, I say, it looks like they're
carrying a short load tonight. If I know him, he's
got a gun on us right now. You're the one
he's here to kill.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And just take it easy. I'm gonna jump his movie
the only thing I can do. And I just stand still.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And I was right.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He did have his gun in his hand.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Oh why.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Why did he wanna kill me?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Your cousin hired him? Your uncle died in Pueblo two
weeks ago, and checked my telegraph an hour ago with
you dead too, Your c I wasn't got the whole estate. Yeah, yeah,
I'm alright. Chester, Oh, Carl, Carl, I I'm sorry. That
(17:15):
was a fast draw.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Matthew, thanks.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
They they just give me the name Rusty Fendle. I
didn't know it was a woman, not that I got here.
I never took a job like that before.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Who hides your car? Young fella in Peblo? A cousin
I think he said I had turned it down. If
known it was a woman had to go through with
it though, matter of honor.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Ah, you call it honor if you want, it's alright.
Maybe I'm finished, glad of it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I liked the girl funny.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Only job.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I ever failed on was the last one. Don't we wanted? Ever?
Fa I I thought he was so nice.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
He was just waiting for a chance to kill me.
They'd had four days to do it rest him, and
he hadn't tried. You know, sometimes a man can win
by failing, and maybe he got just what he wanted.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Mesteron. Featured in the cast were Vic Parrin,
Dick Prenna and Virginia, Christine Harley Bear Is Chester, Howard
McNair is doc, and Georgia.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Ellis is kidding.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
This is George wats inviting you to join us again
next week for another story on gun Smoke over the
ZBS Radio network.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke Gun Spoke, starring William Conrad. The story of
(00:42):
the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man who.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall,
the first man they look for and the less they
want to meet. It's a chance, a job, and it
makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
My morning like this makes a man feel body perkin
as you don't.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That looks to be a nice day.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Chester sunshining, fine breeze starting up and breakfast waiting right
down to cheat.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I wondered how long it'd be before you get around
to mentioning food. Oh I likee know, Chester, I know.
Give you a knife and a fork and you turn
into a tiger. Oh no, it ain't that bad. Yeah
A long time, an't you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
A long time?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, just rode into town five minutes ago and the
first man I run in, who's you?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I'm the first one. A lot of I'm running too,
there's a Chester prod for Carl killing.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Jesse and badge you're wearing, Matthew.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Uh huh, the US Marshall here in Dutch?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
No man, Well, never thought it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, and it seems we've both sold our guns in
different ways.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I wouldn't know about that.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I'm still a drifter, Matthew, same as always.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That's so I've heard that, just the saddle.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Bum here today, going tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But it's what happens between today and tomorrow and the
Carl nobody ever knows ahead of time. I let pretty
well do when you hit town the way I've been
hearing it.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
You know how easy stories get started.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Gun for a hire, thousand dollars, a job, results guaranteed.
That's how the stories go, Carl.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When a fella ain't got a regular job, folks make
up things about him.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You're a hired killer, Carl, and we both know it.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
You kind of a hired killer yourself, Matthew.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Or you're here for Carl. Oh you're figuring the kill.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Well, now, if I was the kind of man them stories.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Say, you don't think I'd answer that to you.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You're here for a killing, nothing else would bring it.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
A Dutch you're a long man for real.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Matthew, were just a bronco in this town for your
own benefit.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'm a law man.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Funny years back, when we used to cut brush for
strays down on the pakas we lay that night in
our bedrooms, look at the stars and talk.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
We never figured it turned out like this someday.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Carl, Why don't you get out of town? Or you
still can?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I figured look around a.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Few days, see what kind of place you got here?
I see you, Matthew, Mate meets you, Chester, go on, well.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Then is the cooldest pair of eyes I ever.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Seen in man's head.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And he got married the year after we worked together.
Chester and some fence cutters burned his place one night,
killed his wife, He run him down, shot him, all
four of them, and then he and he couldn't seem
to stop after that. Who do you reckon? He's after?
(04:21):
I don't know, but it gives you the creeps, not
knowing when or who? Forget that? Chester, come on, let's
get some breakfast.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Huh You you go on ahead, mister doing for some reason?
I I guess I just ain't hungry.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
M No, sir, I do not understand this. The mat.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
What's this friend heals up to anyhow?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Huh A which friend?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Doc, Carl Killian.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That true, he's not a friend in a long time
since he was. Why what's he been doing? That's just
that nothing.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
He's not been doing one.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Bus the thing?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well then not everybody in town knows who he is
and what he's here for. But they don't know who
the marks on. Why it's got them so spook they're
ready to jump out of the skins whenever a door closes.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, I can't do much about it, Doc, until he
tips his hands someway. He hasn't committed any crime in Dodge,
and he's not wanted anywhere else.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
And why isn't he wanted?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And they always managed to go to his victims into
making the first move, So it's self defense. And you
get any idea who he's after?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
No, Well, there's two dozen or more men around town
who think.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The other one, and one of them may be right.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Chilean stopped in front of Wilberg jones The store window
this morning and stood looking at them for a while.
As soon as he left, Wilbur locked up and went home.
And he's been sitting home. Man, this poller ever since,
with a shotgun across his knees.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I dott he's after Wilbur.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
But you don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
One of you men to.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Marshall, Yeah I am. Come on in, Marshall. There's a
man here in Dodge that's fixing to kill me. Oh oh,
what's your name? Takes Barto. This man calls himself Carl Killian.
He's been hired to follow me here and do me.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And oh half a town thinks that same thing. Texts yeah,
but I know I seen him in Peblo two weeks ago.
Night turns up here Bueblo.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I got in some trouble there, Marshall. Not with the law.
I was cleared.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
But I killed a man in a fight and his
friend swore that get me one way or another.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Hot does kill him. Figure he was there, he's seen
the fight.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I didn't know who he was in, but I remember
his face all right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And they hired him.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I know they have.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
He ain't here just by accident.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
He might be right.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Man.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
If killing wasn't poor brother just before he came here,
that must be where he was hired. I maybe you
got to lock him up, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I can't do that. Text I got no charge. But
if you don't kill.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Me, run away, wouldn't even help. He just follow me.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I keep clear of him, text and don't let him
push you into drawing against him. Uh, where you're staying,
Dorge Houst?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Then go on over there and stay there and keep
off the street. Huh all right. The meantime, I'll try
to figure something out. We'll keep marshall.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
So if he's not the one man, there's another possibility.
You maybe haven't even thought of me.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You mean, yeah, I thought of him. Would he take
a job like that?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Would you be in friends once?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You think he'd really do that? Yeah, he'd do it. Mad.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
If you don't run that man out of town, I
might as well close up here and take a vacation.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
He's practically living here at the long run.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well why not? You deserve the best beard in town, Kittie.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
He's about the only one that serves it to him.
Minute he comes in, the rest of the boy started edging.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Towards the door.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Now he can't blame him. It's pretty hard to relax
with the executioners standing at your elbow.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
You'd never know looking at him.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Even Kitty, Matthew, Hello, Carl, Well, how's a law business
coming along, Matthew? Out of town's been pretty quiet the
last few days, and I noticed that don't seem to
be hardly any people around at all, at least not
close to where you are. Folks had in order to
feel that way. I don't mean no.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Harm to him.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Were you and twelve loaders before you came here?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Girl? I might have been.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Why was that where you took on the job?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I reckon you believe all them stories all right, just
like everybody.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Miss Kitty, Yeah, Rusty, Oh good evening, Marshall, Miss kitting,
Oh rust Miss Fannel. Excuse me for abotting in this Kitty,
but Melbourne Becky wanted to think and have the rest
of the night off. Seeing there's not much business anyhow.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Sure tell the girl I had you seem mister killing,
you're ruining my business.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'll try to make up for it some right now,
Miss Fannel will do me the honor having a drink
with me?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Why sure, I'd love kidd see you later, Matthew, mis Kitty.
I'll give him credit on one thing, matt The girls
all like him.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I think it's fine.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Ally was fine once it makes a jump though way
he moves around, not saying much, but always watching.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Now had started some of the citizens thinking all.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Right, oh, everybody's guilty of something. Matt I even catch
myself wondering if I'm the one he's after.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, it's not likely, kidding, but even you're not sure?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
No, you see, you know, I almost wish you to
hurry up and happen, so we'd no, so we'd have
it over with. I.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I guess a lot of people feel that way. But
it's not a nickel do hey, what does it mean?
Taxa bartow? That kid he came to see me this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He tried to shoot, killing.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
In the back.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I tried, is right, Bardo, Bardo?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You know, I think that boy was aiming to do
me some harm.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Matthew and all he's dead, kill him. I didn't have
much choice. We come at Oh, you're undeclare. It was
self defense. I saw it myself. That's another job.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Done according to order.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Who are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He was the one you were after, wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I never saw that boy before in my life, never
heard of him.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I don't even know his name, Matthew, If I really
was after anybody I still am.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He was doing. What are you doing back here? Chester?
When I gave it the night off, I didn't figure
to see you the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I am giving up going to bed and have no
fun talking this time along that dog one.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Old killings round. He has kind of slowed down the night.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Life and say they just ain't nobody out no place hardly,
And then.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
It is it's a buy looking over their shoulder and
jumping sideways.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
A man can't get to feel.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
An easy no matter how hard he puts his mind
to it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And it just seems ashamed to waste all that hair,
grease and that boiled shirt. Though, Chester, I figured you'd
end up as the king of the Long Branch.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah that's another thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That little old girl over the long Branch.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I've been kindly sweet talking lately, Rusty Funnel. Yeah, well
now she can't see me for does. She just keeps
hanging around him all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's not smart to get serious of her dance hall
girl anyway, Chester, Well, well, Rusty.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Ain't just a common dance hall girl, mister Dunes. She
comes from a real good family as that so, yes, sir,
Her papa Mama's dead but she's got a rich uncle
that's a very important man, and his help ain't too good.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Neither the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So that's why you're so interested in her. I thought
it was true just yet.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Well now.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I ain't going to off be thinking about money, but
you sure don't hurt none to know that the only
heirs is just her and her cousin in Gueblo.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Gubbo.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
That's where her uncle and her cousin lives. What matters, John, Uh,
just a right.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think I'll drop over the long Branch and have
a talk with Rusty.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Well she ain't there now, she left with that doll
down killings that her room.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's your second door down the hall.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Lad said, all right, Chester, you wait here, but the
stairway so she's comes. Would be better if I talk
to her alone.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Alright, who is it, Marshall, Dylan Rustie, I'd like to
talk to you.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
For a minute.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well it's it's off of late Marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I didn't won't take long and pretty important.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Alright, get to take it.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What is it, Marshall? Mind?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
If I come in?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I I I guess it's all right.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Thanks, Please just don't mind the room.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
When a girl lives alone, she gets careless about.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Throwing things around that would expind to me.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Uh, what is it, Marshall's anything wrong?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, not exactly. Er Uh, well it's not yet, that's see.
I hear the You've been seeing quite a bit of
Carl Killy in the last couple of days.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yes, I I guess maybe I have.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I see. Well, I think he's nice.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I think people are wrong about it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Rustye, how did you happen to meet him that? Uh?
Did he make a point of trying to get acquainted
with you?
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:18):
He he, He came into the Long Branch a few times,
and he talked to all the girls.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But he well, he seemed to like me the best.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Can't we talk about something else.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Marshall Killian is the reason I came here, Rusty.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, let uh come on over by the window.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It's a hot end here.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Huh all right, sure, let me open it for you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
This is better, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah? That's fine. He got a nice feel the straight
from here.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's one reason I took the room. He's behind that's
green in the corner.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's quite a street. Always something going on down there
any hour of the day or night.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Yeah, I guess that's right.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
He didn't wanna see you.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now there's the night stage pulling in from Walnut Creek,
Foreblo and Denver. Rusty, your life's not worth ten cents
of mine either. Hum, I say, it looks like they're
carrying a short load tonight. If I know him, he's
got a gun on us right now. You're the one
he's here to kill.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And just take it easy. I'm gonna jump his movie
the only thing I can do. And I just stand still.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And I was right.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He did have his gun in his hand.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Oh why.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Why did he wanna kill me?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Your cousin hired him? Your uncle died in Pueblo two
weeks ago, and checked my telegraph an hour ago with
you dead too, Your c I wasn't got the whole estate. Yeah, yeah,
I'm alright. Chester, Oh, Carl, Carl, I I'm sorry. That
(17:15):
was a fast draw.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Matthew, thanks.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
They they just give me the name Rusty Fendle. I
didn't know it was a woman, not that I got here.
I never took a job like that before.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Who hides your car? Young fella in Peblo? A cousin
I think he said I had turned it down. If
known it was a woman had to go through with
it though, matter of honor.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Ah, you call it honor if you want, it's alright.
Maybe I'm finished, glad of it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I liked the girl funny.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Only job.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I ever failed on was the last one. Don't we wanted? Ever?
Fa I I thought he was so nice.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
He was just waiting for a chance to kill me.
They'd had four days to do it rest him, and
he hadn't tried. You know, sometimes a man can win
by failing, and maybe he got just what he wanted.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Mesteron. Featured in the cast were Vic Parrin,
Dick Prenna and Virginia, Christine Harley Bear Is Chester, Howard
McNair is doc, and Georgia.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Ellis is kidding.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
This is George wats inviting you to join us again
next week for another story on gun Smoke over the
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