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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host,
Angel Ryans, and I'm excited to bring you another episode
absolutely free. This is one of over eighty episodes released
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
of dust, and a.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hearty hio silver, the lone range.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Step suspecting, and stand, and and and and and stanch
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and and.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
In the early days of the Western United States, the
stagecoach lines were the only means of transportation. The drivers
of the coaches were hardened to danger and equal to
any emergency, but the local sheriffs were unable to give
them the protection they needed. And it was not until
the masked right of the plane started his great fight
for law and order that the trails became safe. Return
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with us, not of those thrilling days of yesteryear, A
out of the pass, on the thundering hoof beats of
the great horse Tilver, the lone Ranger rides again.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
A long silver for anf holf rock, quiting of the
pan of hand, how silver away.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
There was always a crowd on hand to greet Old
Barney Titus whenever he brought the ancient stagecoach he drove
to the end of its run at wolf Rock. Barney,
in spite of the fact that he was employed by
a line so small that it had only one coach
in operation, was the most famous driver in the entire state.
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Some years earlier, an accident had robbed the old man
of his sight, but to the surprise of everyone, blindness
had not ended his usefulness. His two lead horses, big
Red and Dusty, knew the trail and understood their duties
better than most humans, and with their aid, Barney had
never missed a trip or been so much as ten
minutes off schedule. One day, the old man reigned in
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his team. At the end of the run. The crowd
around the office realized that something unusual had happened. Barney
climbed down from the box to the speed. That was amazing,
Quinn said, Horse. Then he get through. Hey, Jeane, Hi, Jane, here,
where's your paw? You would about me?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Heny headed me to see to get around, he called
in said, where can I get news? Jane? Inside the
opposite of you? Who cured this little I got my hand?
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Oh it's it's from the gutage.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Jip picked up at cdy Ben in his and it's
what you and your pub and waiting for open it up? Oh,
he won't care, won't open the dead in the reason.
If I have to wait much longer to find out
what it says, he'll go loco.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Hurry up, all right, Fanny. I guess Paul won't man.
And if it isn't what we've been hoping, sir, then
maybe I can break it the part easier than if
he found it.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Out read the dog, quit looking for the worst.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Get this second. Oh, but we've got it. We've got.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I don't know why not, jewelry won't he can tell
up to go jump in the river. Hey, let you
and nego find your paw and tell him about this
right away.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Hey, wait, someone's coming.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Maybe it's that you, boss, Hory Bunny?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
You Hello, what do you want here?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
It's our man? Do I I ain't welcome here? Well,
if you don't like me, it ain't my fault. I
don't or anything I've ever done to cause it anyhow.
I just thought, tell me, sure you log in it.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
But you up with him?
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:09):
I thought maybe he might have changed his mind since
the last time we talked anything to him.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
No, let's just talk. You've done everything you could the
first party there you are lying.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh wait, you to me.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
You've threatened them, you talked against them. You try to
make people believe that we weren't given good service. Well,
once all that might have worked. You knew that if
we lost any more business, we say. But now it's different.
Now we'll keep the line. And there's nothing you can
do to get it away.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
And if you think she's just bluffing Philly, it's because
you ain't seen what you meant liter the governor. You're
going to get the contact to Kear of the United
States means from here to Cindy. Ben. Just put that
in your pipe and smoke it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So that's it.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
And you figure with that contractor bank on your PA
won't even think of selling.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I know even maybe you do, and maybe you don't.
But as far as I'm concerned, what you say don't count.
I'll have to have it straight from him.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You don't start a call, just go get Paul. We'll
let Paul tell him.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
He'll kill him all red, He'll tell him herd. It'll
blister his head.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
You see your in the stables. That's where he said
he was going. You'll find him somewhere up back, thought.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Mind, if I sit down, wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Be worth while believing in a second.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Sure are unsociable.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I don't like, and I won't pretend I do.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Shirks, Miss, Why are you so dead set?
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Again? Me?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
I've already said, because I've been trying to buy your paw.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
No, because you've been trying to force him to sell out.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
But miss, that's just business?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Did he business? But we won't discuss it. I don't
even want to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's the way you want it. Nothing I can do,
I reckon, there.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Is so I guess I might just as well. Hey,
that comes Bonnie back again. Now what's he in such
a rush about? You can see him through the window
there gone? He sure looks at if something that happened here?
They comes down, Ronnie?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
What is it? What's the matter? Where's Paul? Donny? Something wrong?
What is it? Tell me?
Speaker 9 (08:20):
We go to the steamers, Jamie, Yes, they stumble a
curse something? Len you pause?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Who there? It's me Trump the track, Open up the.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Door with me here, you old fool, get in here,
all right?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Thought?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
I told you not to come near my place till
aft the dock.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I was careful, boss, nobody's seen me.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
What do you want the cash?
Speaker 8 (09:05):
You promise me you'll get it all right the first
time to find out what happened? How'd you manage to
drill Ross without nobody here in the shot? You recollect them?
What is the marshall chased down of town? What they
gotta do with it? They had too much to drink.
It was riding up and down, firing up into the air.
That's when I'd done it. Nobody paid any attention because
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they figured it was just them drunks. Oh your slicker,
I thought you was Heck, I ain't, no dummy. Sure
nobody noticed you're hanging around the stables. I kept back
out of sight, and nobody's seen you come here.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Oh what if they did? As long as they don't
know I'd done it.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
They know I want to buy that stage line, Yes,
they can guess. I'd figured it'd be a heap side,
easier to buy from the girl than from Ross itself.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
And they know you'd grill your own brother for the.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Price of a new pair of boots, And they start
putting two and two together. I don't aim for them
to have any definite to go on.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
They won't. You bet they won't.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
You know why they're taking this money and you're getting
so dog gone far out of this part of the country.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It'll take you a year to back trail.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Sure I promised I wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
They all there, then hit the trail and hack h
don't come back till I say the.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Word or uh oh what boss.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
I'll fail you so full of lead, ten men couldn't
carry it a Boothill.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Now get it. I'm going something else.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So Ross was found murdered and the killer escaped. That right,
we're going to look into the what we do. Ruse
had only one enemy that I ever heard of.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hell her name or right.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
He's had a man in his employe who was the
most notorious gunman in the district. Oh that Heck Bridges.
Here's over, calls calc. We're riding the town. Here we
can find Heck, we may have the murderer.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
If we can't find him, he's a hiding and I'll
know he's a killer.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Ready are you ready?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Let's go, Come on, come hurry.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
We come to the Cafegn said, you want to see me?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Gee shipping room in almost a week now.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Paul was killed.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
I was talking to the mersher, like most everybody is.
He'd like to lay his hands on their own break. Heg,
budgers can't be located. He want to be one of
these days. He can't stay hit forrivy. Don't you worry none?
Speaker 7 (12:22):
I wanted to talk about what's morning. He offered the
bike and I told him to come back this evening.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Hey, you ain't playing him to sell, now, are you, bunny?
I don't know what to do the franchise for the meal.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
The stage line isn't a woman.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Maybe murder her, of.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Course, and I appreciate it. But you're in town only
for a little while every other day between run to
stand it? It isn't enough and.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
And that isn't What more is there?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
If I don't. I'm afraid of what Pup might do it.
Heck did murder my father, then we know Thop hired
him to do it. Stop it.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
You've fed.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Worried about myself?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Then who are you? Well? Wellbeit there, Jane, you look here,
Nobody needs to worry about me, none at all. Reckon.
I can take care of myself all right, But dog
got it all Jane. You listen to me for a second.
One day's a day we get the free ship and
the me you carry the sandy bend. All we have
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to do is get that one ship and through on
time and the franchise's eyes for good. We'll be all
shit After that. You're credit down to the bank will
be as high, and you can bory enough cash to
hire a dozen fellas forguard if you're mindy. But if
you go and sell out of four there, if you
left here with a stage, mammy, yes, and.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
If thought had made up his mind that the stage
wouldn't get through. Oh, Bonnnie, don't you understand. I can't
see it that you might be killed just like Parmas.
It isn't worth it. I want who is it?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Genie? Who is it?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Friend, Bernie? When I said I was a friend, I
met it to help.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
You went to hilperson. Would you take it for him?
Iss g?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I recall once, Bernie, a long time ago, when you
believe the mask man an Indian were your friends. The
day you were thrown from your stage, if it hadn't
been for an Indian and a mask man, might have
lost not only your sight but your life as well.
I roped you and pulled you to safety, and you
would have dropped into that canyon.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, what is it, Bernie, what is it?
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Gee? This mesh man, this messh man is a lone Ranger.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Pause on the first act of our lone range of drama.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause
for just a few moments.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Got to continue our story. When the Lone Ranger had
gained the confidence of Jane and Barney, he explained the
purpose of his visit. I heard a part of what
you said before I came in. He told Barney you
wanted to sell because you were afraid for his life.
If you didn't, you needn't be.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
You think mister Thorpe isn't responsible for my father's murder.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I think he is.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
It happened.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
You say Barney wouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Endangered because if Thorpe was responsible, he didn't do the
actual killing himself. The man who might have done it
has left the district. I know that for sure, because
Tallow and I found his trail, and Toto's following that trailer.
Now he'll try.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
It's a bits I've heard in the coon's age.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
But the point I'm making is simply this Thorpe hasn't
the personal courage for murder. He might hire another to
kill for him, Yes, but he never try his own
hand at it. I know the man.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yes, it's sure, Jane. I never thought it would have pooled,
but it's sure. The skunk's too yellow.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
You think he won't make more trouble.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I didn't say that. Perhaps he will, but I'm certain
that he won't kill.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Why can't you, hey, he demised, Man tolds you so.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You don't take my advice, don't sell, promise you won't.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Very well?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Good for you.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I'll tell him I've changed my mind.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
That's your last word. I've got it over, have you.
He's going to stick by that I am. He'll be sorry,
young lady. Hey, you thrit and miss Jane, not another sort?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And what you mean by what you just said?
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Just this, When a girl that don't savey business teams
up with the stoven army that can't even see asking
for trouble, you ask for trouble, you usually get it.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Good Night, New Goods said, I'm afraid the way you
should be. Maybe you you don't know the mash man,
so I said, maybe that's just what'll tripping.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Man hopeful.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Monday morning, Brett and early, I'm picking up a couple
of sakes, Uncle Sim's mail and a poor send down.
That same mail is going to be in Sandy Bend,
and you're gonna have yourself a brand new franchise. Cret
you fritten, and leave your tubues to me in the
in the mash.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Man, what's the stage leaving so early for today?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Ain't heard? N has got to be a send a
ben the poor sundown if he.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Ain't, miss Jane, don't get that mayor franchise.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Bonnie ain't taking no chance hire there's Bonnie, no real said.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
It's all loaded on the stage as it all hits them,
big red and dust. They put the lead right in
the go, you watchers make this.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
I wish I could go along.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Hey, you stay here and tended the office. Don't need
to worry about me.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
He'll be careful sure, and you will read Candy Ben
for Sundan Jeane. Yes, Bonnie, I.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Got my fresh job with your poorfore he was born.
I was a fridge filler here in time to say
loude you more when you when your poor got hitched
and bringer here I worked for the booth and a
good many years he was allowed today to see Sue
until you. I'd never let him down, Bonny. Well, I
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ain't gonna let you down anymore when I would have them.
That's something you can try to.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Oh, I'll set the pull up, Bonnie.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Any business huge?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Oh, I was just asking you'll set the hang on
to this two bid stage one of your am you.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Had minds before?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Well, I thought i'd ask again anyhow, good luck to here, Bonnie.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Get up there, Get up jan Just what was making
that critics? A good nat You don't all of a
sudden any idea is if you had some particular sneaking
scheme of your sleeve. Yeah, well if he has it
ain't going to work. He'll pick you, that will, honey.
Regulars time I was on my way tomorrow evening. You
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keep watching, you'll see me coming back with ban news
weaving you by. One said, folks, you you you up?
You have that? Get along with this, he tuk. The
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magic is bo it's the beat of the port. Get
along with this.
Speaker 12 (20:11):
Get up there, won't have me there straight ahead now
still we turn into the river.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Get along, Get along there, Get up, get.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Up there, quiet there, quiet blast chair steady there's the stage,
all right, Get.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Up, Get up there, Get up?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Hey, hold on, hold up, back right up, big, right up.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
There's a couple of hands.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
But did you see what's wrong? You see? What did you?
Who are you? I reckon?
Speaker 8 (21:08):
You could make a mighty close guess.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Yeah, well you get know my ways.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
You ain't going no place right, and I'll slap you
off that seat.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You holding me up?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
You know it would turn in your horses at all.
I got a youth for you're gonna do what you heard.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
What I said.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I'm in hitching these here horses.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
But if you do that, the stage can't get the town. Yeah,
you don't say you can be jail fisted like this. Stop.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
If you can prove anything where you pay me, you
can put your hollered on.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Follow order, fellow.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
The stage got this far without any trouble. Maybe there
wasn't danger, hasn't been wasting our time? Following along, we
will soon be inside of the river tail turns there
and head straight downstream for Sandy Ben And then what
tu the stage?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Come on, come on, come on, come on for honey,
all that money, hurry, hurry to the right money.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What's happened?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
What happened. Hey, that blue down sneak and kyot to
a thorpe took my horses. That's what happened. Helped me
up and stole them. Look at me and eight more
and five miles away. All look good? It'll do me
might as we'll be five hundred to get there by
send down and can't and then shunk. Well, Sue's miss Jane.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
We can throw the mail across my saddle.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
It wouldn't do no good. Agreement was the mail in
the stage had to reach Sandy bending schedule. If we don't,
we don't get no franchise.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
There's no ranch nearby. Don't try hood and where we
get borrow horses, we'll use wishions for if we know
we can't have We looked at you. I wonder if
river's about two hundred yards.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Row wouldn't fund reason you get murdered.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Bonnie, lend me your hand.
Speaker 13 (23:10):
It may look it, but we're not beaten yet.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Hardy.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Hey, oh how do you do? You don't know me, mister,
but my name's talk. I was Wanson, ain't you that's right?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Government man?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I am waiting for the stage to get here. Well,
I have been, But if it doesn't reach town pretty soon,
it won't matter.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I can't give a franchise to a stage land I
can't keep on schedule.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Huh exactly, Oh, I see, well, you should have known.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Better in the first place than to put any trust
in an outfit run by a girl. I was just
wondering about something, and I figured you was a fellas asked, Yes,
of course, the state don't get here in time. You
can't give that ross girl no franchise. I suppose somebody
else was to buy that line, figure you could do
business with them.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm not sure I understand, all right.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
I don't leave my cards out on the table. Suppose
I bought that line, i'd have a chance to carry
the mayors for the government like they have, wouldn't I
I don't see why not?
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Fine, Now, how much.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Longer they got afore they lost out?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
What time is it?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
In?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Just a second right now? It's just twenty five minutes
past seven?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
The stage was due with seven. I was perfectly willing
to give them a half hour's leeway. But if it
isn't here in five minutes, they won't get it.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yes, so, and I reckon you and me, mister can
start talking terms right now you can lay ten to one.
By this time tomorrow that.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Line will be minus down the river. What could be
a vote in?
Speaker 8 (24:49):
It ain't country where by thunderation is the stage?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
They had hit the horses last wall.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
So look at it, come afloat, it stopped. It's pour
into the bank. How it can't be the stage. It
just can't be. It can't be, but it is.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
That's an ass man.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
He's cot the store with Bonnie.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Calling me, what trick? I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Leg go Dan, Still you get the mail in the
stage both here, mister Swartson, you can't see we didn't
need this' legal?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Whoever heard of a stage voting down or ever?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
It don't count. You can't better her. We got here,
you're sure we did, he said, So, mister.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Swatson did, this is certainly unusual.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You can't deny what Bonnie said. There's the stage, the
mails there, It arrived here on time. It fulfilled the
provisions of your contract, sho'd smile.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
It did.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'm inclined to think it did.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Hey, you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You can't fight, I said, wantson.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
It hadn't been for this man, the stage would have
had no trouble at all getting here. He stopped it
and stole the horses.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
You can't prove that, perhaps not, And you be careful
what you say.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You hear me, you'll be Perhaps I can't prove your
own horse thief.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I've got an idea.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
There's something I can prove hum and that's murder hendo.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
That's why tada. There's a redskin who's that he's got
across the saddle?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Heck, and if I'm not mistaken, Thorpe, he's going to talk.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Old Coper, you get down, hurry me be, I'll talk.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
I promised I would. There's a skunker hired me to
shoot ross. He's the one I ain't gonna hang alone.
He's just as guilty as I am.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You'll cut a squiller, well, you won't get me my hand,
You'll not.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Hurt you cut him? You did en swill jab.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
Him plenty, coward him talk easy.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
That has a way of making men talk. Who thinks
they prefer to keep silent?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Will he cut a killer? You saved? Is the pig
chaise mace man between the two? Aa Hey, reckon your
denner job to remembers.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Suspe stands post fat umstap stocks and have clubs and
steps and stuck stops and.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
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