July 31, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US. Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The Story of
(00:40):
the Violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moves with it Matt Dylan, United States.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Marshall, mister Jillan.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, what is it? Chester?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Doc wants you upstairs.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I promise, mister Green, I'd be at the Dodge House
and a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Chester. Tell Doc I'll drop a lot later.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Young Lee Prentices up there.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He got shot last night?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
What shot?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yes, sir, happened out at his ranch.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Doc thinks, try to talk to him. All right, let's go.
That was a thought. Lee Prentice had an enemy in
the world.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No, sir, he's about the nicest young fellow that settled
around here in.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
A long time.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Who brought him into town? Chester?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Nobody didn't he rode in along?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Doctor, don't know how he managed it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh, hello, doctor, Well, I hear you took a bullet leaf.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's not bad, Marshall. Doc's got me all fixed up now.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Sure, but you're gonna stay right here with me and
take it easy for a few days.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'd be putting you out, doc Ooh, yes, of course
there'll be a nuisance.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But a man and somehow how did that happen? Lee?
You got no fight?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I didn't even see him, Marshall. It was still dark
this morning, and I was going out after my horses,
and then a bullet knocked me down. That's all I know.
I did an awful lot of shooting the next few minutes.
And whoever it was run off?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Would it be any particular? Man?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I tell you if I knew Marshall, I don't want
me many trouble, all right, I believe you.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Oh man, it's a down right shame when the uncolored
likely comes to Dodge and in one year makes as
many friends as he has and then get shot down
by some murderer.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now you're gonna find out who did that.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I don't have much to go on, Doc, In fact,
I don't have anything.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Well, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You gotta do something now like what?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Well, I'm not a lawman.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
How do I know? Well, there's one thing, Doc, and
you do Chester what?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Don't say anything about where Lee is whoever did this
is probably still around.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Well, you mean he might come up here and try
to finish him off. He might, Chester, m you go
fetch me one of those shotguns you keep downstairs.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Sure do, okay, Doc, but uh, don't get trigger happy.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I know what I'm doing, The Doc martial arted. I'm
sure sorry for all the trouble I'm causing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's no trouble.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
We Oh, it's no trouble.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
He's alright, Matt.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
You go find him something to eat later this afternoon
and bring it up here a nice Oh say, roast chicken.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
That'd be just about right.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Sure, I coult be glad to gee, i'd i'd see
you laterly, Come on, Chester.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Am, I'm glad I ran into you. Math was a
good supper.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It was all my pleasure, Kitty Math. Yeah what and he.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Got time to sit here and watch the crowd for
a while. I don't have to be back at work
just yet.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Sure, sure, Kitty, Hey you sit there.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
H h looks like Dodgers in for another big night tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah I suppose.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Huh. Just think there's hardly one of these cowboys that
won't be broke before morning.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Oh. They figure it's worth it.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Three months paying one night. They're crazy, all of 'em.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well what would you have them do with their money, kitty?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Well, I don't know. Most anything's better than throwing it away.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Most of these men have waited a long time for
a night or two and dodge.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They don't care what it cost.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
There's only one cowboy I haven't knew who showed any sense.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Oh uh, that must be quite a fella for you
to say.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Well, you know who I mean, Matt Young Lee Prentice.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh oh sure.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Remember last year how he drifted into town and made
a killing at Ferrol and then swore off gambling.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, he stayed with it too. I never heard of
his going nearer game.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
So, oh he hasn't took his money and put it
in that little ranch of his. You got admired the boy.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah he's all right.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
He's sure a lot different from the rest of these
saddle bumps. I wonder where he's been lately. He used
to come to town every day or so.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh uh, Kitty, I'll tell you Lee's up at ducks
ap Docs.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Then he is in town.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh, he's been there for a couple of days.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Well, what's the matter. Is he sick of something.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
No, he's not sick.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Oh wait a minute, matter, Hey, mister, yeah, you come here?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I'm kitty, remember.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I remember?
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Now you don't act like it. You must have been
drunk and I.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Thought, I mean a hurry, kitty.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
I'll go on, man, I won't tell you. Tell me
what you remember asking me last night? If I know
anything about Lee Prentice?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Did that?
Speaker 8 (06:15):
You really were drunk? But if you're still interested, Marshall,
Dillon here just told me he's up at dock at him?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh well, I don't need him now bye.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh just a minute, mister, you're a stranger in Dodger.
I'll talk to you later, Marshall. Not now?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
What do you mean later, after I've done what I
come here for. That's your name, mister, Jake Harbin. He
looked like a gunman to me. Why are you looking
for leap Rented? All right, Marshall, If you're so nosy,
I'll tell you I'm gonna kill him.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No you're not. You can't stop me, Jake Harbin?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
What do you hit him for? Him?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What it's all about?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I don't know, kiddy, but maybe i'll find out when
he comes to in jail.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh, you're here early this morning, mister.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
John, go bring Jack Harbin and her Chester with him.
I want to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yes, sir, you've been saying he want to talk to
you too.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You wouldn't tell me nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Do stick my nose into something?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That does?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You say?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Part of here?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Harbin Will it's about time here he is, Miss Dillon,
come over here, Harvin.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You'd have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you
just stayed around here last night.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Marshall, what do.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You mean mi coole Cock and the man throwing him
in jail?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Where you from? Robin? Baker City? Uh, down on the
Canadian River.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, anybody goes to jail in Baker City, they search
'em first.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
What do you mean you to searched me last night?
You'd have found this? What is it? Read it and
afterwards you can apologize to me.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
What is mister Dillon?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
It's a Warren Chester and that also says I'm a
legal deputy. You can telegraph then, got it for proof
if you want those been God, he's the sheriff of
Baker City. That's all legal, marshal here, But who's the
warrant for me to Jones leap preduce ses.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The murder. Now what I'm dead or alive.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, anyway you look at it,
it's murder this Tuesday night when CBS Radio is mister
and missus North look into the matter of a body
that hurdled thirty stories from penthouse to sidewalk. And it's
murder too when a publicity stunt involving presumably blank Cartridges backfires.
The details of that neat little plot are very truly
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yours on yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Also Tuesday night on
most of these same stations. Now the second act of
gun Smoke.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Chester, Yester, go out and send a telegram to the
sheriff of Baker City.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Now what you say. His name is Harvin Ben Goddard.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
All right, asked Ben Goddard to verify this warrant for
Lee Prentice, and also ask him if Jake Harbin here
is a legal deputy. You'll find out, Marshall, I expect
we will. Harvin got going Chester, Yes, Sir Ockery, this
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warrant says Lee Prentice has wanted from murder Harvin. It's
kind of hard to believe knowing Lee well and you
don't know him very well, Marshall, because he is a murderer,
all right, and he'd have been caught a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
If they'd have found out where he was hiding.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
He hasn't been hiding le He's lived here for earlier year,
right up in the open, and so.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
He's all through now.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Maybe if this is true, I want to tell you
one thing, Ivan, You tell me what nobody, whether he's
a deputy or not, is going to come to Dodge
and kill a man.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Dead or alive. Marshall.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
You read the warrant, I don't care what it says.
You wouldn't like it said that you're protecting the murderer,
would you?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Marshall?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I don't know who he is a murderer yet, but
you came pretty close to me in one I was
going to explain it to you after I killed him.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I didn't want knowing. Oh you got it? Now?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
What kind of law do they have in Baker City?
Don't they ever give men a trial down there?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Sure they do.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Why didn't you come here and arrest Lee and take
him back with you? Are they afraid to put him
on trial?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Not hardly?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Marshall that they hired a killer like you to come
up here and shoot him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh, it's all legal.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
In Baker's city, maybe it is, but not in Dutch. Well,
the laws are the same everywhere they should be, haven't,
But sometimes it depends on who's representing the law. Yeah.
I don't aim to argue with you. Well, let's get
one thing straight. You're not gonna shoot Lee Prentice no
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matter what happens. I'll kill you myself if you try it. Okay, Okay, Marshall,
why don't you talk to him, being as you are
such good friends?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Ask him how i'd like to stand trial.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I will Harbin, but you'll stay away from him?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah? Here, Why sure, Marshall. I'm just trying to do
my duty.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Oh hello man?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh Marshall, how are you feeling? Lee?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Fine?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Doc says I can leave anytime as long as he
doesn't have you do any hard work for another week
or so.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I'll take it easy.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Do you have a hell of a man called Jake
Harbin Harbin?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard him.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, he's the man who tried to kill you. What
how do you know he's here as a deputy with a.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Warrant for you that are alive. The warrant signed by
the sheriff of Baker's City. Oh, what's the warrant for
Marshall murder?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But I didn't say who.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
No, he didn't have to, not have Ben Goddard signed it.
It's for the murder of Jim Turner. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Uh, not that you do it? Leave? I killed him.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
He tried to.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Shoot me in the back and missed. Well, that doesn't
exactly make it the murderess. His old man owns Baker City, Doc,
and he owns the sheriff and Jake Harbin along with it.
That makes it murder.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Oh, I see, is.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That why you left Baker City?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Leave?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Did it killed me?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
If? I? And what if you go back there and
stand trial?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Old man Turner'd run that trial, Marshall, I'd hang sure. No,
I won't go back. I'll die here first. Well, I
don't blame him, made or legal murder, that's what.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
It isn't legal to fix a trial and hang an
innocent man, Doc, That's what had.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Happened, though.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
You're not thinking of turning him over to this, to
this so called dipity.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Are you mad?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Look?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Lee, I believe you and I trust you, Thanks Marshall.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Now tell me something. Do you trust me?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I sure do, of course.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Why you may not like what I'm gonna do. What Marshall,
I'm putting you under arrest, Lee, right now, under arrest?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What for? I don't know?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Or Stephen orse, Stephen eat O man, it'll do. You're
my prisoner, Ali, my prisoner. I come on, let's go
to jail.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know. I like being a horse, Steve Marshall.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I hat beats being a murderer, Lee. And besides, I
kind of doubt that we'll hang you for it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Marshall. What Look there's Jake Harmon.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, I see him.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I'd feel safer if you gave me my gun back.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Prisoners can't carry guns. Lee, It wouldn't look right.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Well, Lee, Marshall taught you to coming back to Baker
City and stand in trial.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Still an old man, turner's payer, O inch jail.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Don't take no back talk from no murderer.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Why'd you try to ambush me the other morning?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Jacob?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Afraid to face me?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I got a warrant for you dead or alive? Was
shout had taken the chances? Nobody cares how you die?
I care, Harvin.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well, you can't stand the.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Way of a legal warring Marshall. And you you'll see
as soon as you get that telegram from the year.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's too late, Harvin. What's too Leef.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I just arrested Lee myself. He's my prisoner now you want,
and as long as he's my president, nobody touches him
warrant or no, you're.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You're being tricky, Marshall. What you're asked him for he
ain't done nothing.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Might be hard to prove, but anyway, I'm holding him
for a horse even now.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Get out of the way. I'm taking him of the
change you're forgetting.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I can kill him anytime I want, for free, like
right now, maybe Leap.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Are you a hit Leaf?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
But it was mighty close, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I didn't think he'd try it.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You got him just in time. The next shot he'd
kill me.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
They sure don't care much how they do things where
you come from. Do they leave.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
There's going to be trouble now, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Real trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
It seemed only fair to let the sheriff of Baker's
City know that his deputy had been killed, So I
sent him another telegram, and.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I soon got a reply.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Ben Goddard himself was coming to Dodge.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The day was due to arrive.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I sent Chester to the stage while Lee Prentice and
I waited in the lobby in the Dodge House, along
with a couple of friends who thought it might be
interesting to see how Sheriff Goddard was going to handle
the situation. The stage pulled in about noon, and a
few minutes later Chester and the sheriff walked into the
hotel lobby.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Where we were standing here. He is mister Dyllon, Hello Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
You're Marshall Dylon and this is mister Green he owns
the Dodge House. And mister Jonas one of our leading
the businessman gentlemen. And you know Lee Apprentice, I sure do.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
You're going to a lot of trouble Goddard.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
You know, man Turner, it's worth it getting you back
where you belong.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You'll hang sure. Now, Lee didn't kill Jack Harbin sharp uh?
I did what?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
He tried to shoot Lee in the back. What differences
me is he's wanted dead or alive? What are you
interfering this for?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Marsham?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
You got no respect for the law, not for your
kind of law. Anyway, Lee's wanted to dodge and he's
staying here.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What about my warrant? You're claiming it ain't legal. You
can't arrest a man that I've got under arrest.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
You're protecting him.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
At you what you're resting for stealing horses? I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I'm bringing the charge of Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It was my horse as he stole.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Well, I thought you owned this hotel, Green, What are
you doing with horses?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Well, I also own a little range outside of town.
I Uh, I raise horses.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Mm maybe, but I know you're lying about Lee.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Am I of course.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Uh, Marshall Dylon, you went very smart. No, you'll have
to bring me to trial, won't you. Of course you
think Green here is gonna swear to that story under oad?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, you may be right, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I I might have to change my mind once I
get on the stand.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Uh, it might be.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Uh, I couldn't swear to it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I didn't think so. That trial won't last long.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
And when it's over, I'll take Lee back to Baker City.
Marshall Dylon.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes, mister Jenas, what is it?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
There's something I haven't mentioned?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I kind of figured i'd wait to Lee's trial was
over before I did.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Oh, go ahead, mister Jonas. Eh.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Well, the other day Lee came into my.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Store and I went out back to fetch you a
sack of green?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Is that so?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
And he didn't know I was watching, but I watched,
and I saw him take a handful of money out
of my cash. Boy, Wait a minuteter, Jonas, are you
charging Lee with robbery?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
No, not yet, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I'll wait and see if he gets off for horse
stealing first. Well, Lee, looks like you're in for nothing
but trials and re arrests and more trials.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
That could go on for a long long time.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
As long as his friends hold out, Marshall, and Lee's
got quite a few of them in Dodge.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Right, you're here a pack of crooks treating the law.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
That's what you are, including you, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
My prisoner sheriff. I won't stand for it. I tell you,
what are you gonna do about it? We'd like to
know about this.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You won't dare tell him, Goddard, you're letting you know it.
Turner to have you run out of town if you're
fool enough to go back.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Marshall, I got to take leave. I got It's Lee's
life or your job, all right, Geruff take.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Him, but you'll have to kill me first. Or there's
a train east in about an hour, so make up
your mind.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Sheriff want me to follow in Miss Dillon now Chester,
He'll leave.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Marshall, gentlemen, I wish I knew how to tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yes, Marshall, go on home, but remember you're still under
arrest and you're gonna stay that way.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Tello Man Turners and his Great.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon U. S.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Tonight's story was specially written for Gun Smoke by John Meston,
with music composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in
the cast were Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, John Dayner, Joe
Duval and James Musser, Parley bear Is Chester, Howard mcneer
is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy. Join again next
week as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights to bring law
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and order out of the wild violence of the West
in Gunsmoke, the FBI in Peace and War, a manhunt
mystery packed with tension, is yours on CBS Radio this
coming Wednesday night. On most of these stations, George Wall,
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speaking crime photographer, Really Clicks against Criminals Wednesdays on the
CBS Radio network
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US. Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The Story of
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the Violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moves with it Matt Dylan, United States.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Marshall, mister Jillan.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, what is it? Chester?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Doc wants you upstairs.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I promise, mister Green, I'd be at the Dodge House
and a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Chester. Tell Doc I'll drop a lot later.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Young Lee Prentices up there.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He got shot last night?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
What shot?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yes, sir, happened out at his ranch.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Doc thinks, try to talk to him. All right, let's go.
That was a thought. Lee Prentice had an enemy in
the world.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No, sir, he's about the nicest young fellow that settled
around here in.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
A long time.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Who brought him into town? Chester?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Nobody didn't he rode in along?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Doctor, don't know how he managed it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh, hello, doctor, Well, I hear you took a bullet leaf.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's not bad, Marshall. Doc's got me all fixed up now.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Sure, but you're gonna stay right here with me and
take it easy for a few days.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'd be putting you out, doc Ooh, yes, of course
there'll be a nuisance.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But a man and somehow how did that happen? Lee?
You got no fight?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I didn't even see him, Marshall. It was still dark
this morning, and I was going out after my horses,
and then a bullet knocked me down. That's all I know.
I did an awful lot of shooting the next few minutes.
And whoever it was run off?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Would it be any particular? Man?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I tell you if I knew Marshall, I don't want
me many trouble, all right, I believe you.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Oh man, it's a down right shame when the uncolored
likely comes to Dodge and in one year makes as
many friends as he has and then get shot down
by some murderer.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now you're gonna find out who did that.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I don't have much to go on, Doc, In fact,
I don't have anything.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Well, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You gotta do something now like what?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Well, I'm not a lawman.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
How do I know? Well, there's one thing, Doc, and
you do Chester what?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Don't say anything about where Lee is whoever did this
is probably still around.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Well, you mean he might come up here and try
to finish him off. He might, Chester, m you go
fetch me one of those shotguns you keep downstairs.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Sure do, okay, Doc, but uh, don't get trigger happy.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I know what I'm doing, The Doc martial arted. I'm
sure sorry for all the trouble I'm causing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's no trouble.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
We Oh, it's no trouble.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
He's alright, Matt.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
You go find him something to eat later this afternoon
and bring it up here a nice Oh say, roast chicken.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
That'd be just about right.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Sure, I coult be glad to gee, i'd i'd see
you laterly, Come on, Chester.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Am, I'm glad I ran into you. Math was a
good supper.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It was all my pleasure, Kitty Math. Yeah what and he.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Got time to sit here and watch the crowd for
a while. I don't have to be back at work
just yet.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Sure, sure, Kitty, Hey you sit there.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
H h looks like Dodgers in for another big night tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah I suppose.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Huh. Just think there's hardly one of these cowboys that
won't be broke before morning.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Oh. They figure it's worth it.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Three months paying one night. They're crazy, all of 'em.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well what would you have them do with their money, kitty?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Well, I don't know. Most anything's better than throwing it away.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Most of these men have waited a long time for
a night or two and dodge.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They don't care what it cost.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
There's only one cowboy I haven't knew who showed any sense.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Oh uh, that must be quite a fella for you
to say.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Well, you know who I mean, Matt Young Lee Prentice.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh oh sure.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Remember last year how he drifted into town and made
a killing at Ferrol and then swore off gambling.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, he stayed with it too. I never heard of
his going nearer game.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
So, oh he hasn't took his money and put it
in that little ranch of his. You got admired the boy.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah he's all right.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
He's sure a lot different from the rest of these
saddle bumps. I wonder where he's been lately. He used
to come to town every day or so.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh uh, Kitty, I'll tell you Lee's up at ducks
ap Docs.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Then he is in town.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh, he's been there for a couple of days.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Well, what's the matter. Is he sick of something.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
No, he's not sick.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Oh wait a minute, matter, Hey, mister, yeah, you come here?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I'm kitty, remember.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I remember?
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Now you don't act like it. You must have been
drunk and I.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Thought, I mean a hurry, kitty.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
I'll go on, man, I won't tell you. Tell me
what you remember asking me last night? If I know
anything about Lee Prentice?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Did that?
Speaker 8 (06:15):
You really were drunk? But if you're still interested, Marshall,
Dillon here just told me he's up at dock at him?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh well, I don't need him now bye.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh just a minute, mister, you're a stranger in Dodger.
I'll talk to you later, Marshall. Not now?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
What do you mean later, after I've done what I
come here for. That's your name, mister, Jake Harbin. He
looked like a gunman to me. Why are you looking
for leap Rented? All right, Marshall, If you're so nosy,
I'll tell you I'm gonna kill him.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No you're not. You can't stop me, Jake Harbin?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
What do you hit him for? Him?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What it's all about?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I don't know, kiddy, but maybe i'll find out when
he comes to in jail.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh, you're here early this morning, mister.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
John, go bring Jack Harbin and her Chester with him.
I want to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yes, sir, you've been saying he want to talk to
you too.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You wouldn't tell me nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Do stick my nose into something?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That does?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You say?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Part of here?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Harbin Will it's about time here he is, Miss Dillon,
come over here, Harvin.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You'd have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you
just stayed around here last night.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Marshall, what do.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You mean mi coole Cock and the man throwing him
in jail?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Where you from? Robin? Baker City? Uh, down on the
Canadian River.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, anybody goes to jail in Baker City, they search
'em first.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
What do you mean you to searched me last night?
You'd have found this? What is it? Read it and
afterwards you can apologize to me.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
What is mister Dillon?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
It's a Warren Chester and that also says I'm a
legal deputy. You can telegraph then, got it for proof
if you want those been God, he's the sheriff of
Baker City. That's all legal, marshal here, But who's the
warrant for me to Jones leap preduce ses.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The murder. Now what I'm dead or alive.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, anyway you look at it,
it's murder this Tuesday night when CBS Radio is mister
and missus North look into the matter of a body
that hurdled thirty stories from penthouse to sidewalk. And it's
murder too when a publicity stunt involving presumably blank Cartridges backfires.
The details of that neat little plot are very truly
(09:52):
yours on yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Also Tuesday night on
most of these same stations. Now the second act of
gun Smoke.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Chester, Yester, go out and send a telegram to the
sheriff of Baker City.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Now what you say. His name is Harvin Ben Goddard.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
All right, asked Ben Goddard to verify this warrant for
Lee Prentice, and also ask him if Jake Harbin here
is a legal deputy. You'll find out, Marshall, I expect
we will. Harvin got going Chester, Yes, Sir Ockery, this
(10:54):
warrant says Lee Prentice has wanted from murder Harvin. It's
kind of hard to believe knowing Lee well and you
don't know him very well, Marshall, because he is a murderer,
all right, and he'd have been caught a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
If they'd have found out where he was hiding.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
He hasn't been hiding le He's lived here for earlier year,
right up in the open, and so.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
He's all through now.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Maybe if this is true, I want to tell you
one thing, Ivan, You tell me what nobody, whether he's
a deputy or not, is going to come to Dodge
and kill a man.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Dead or alive. Marshall.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
You read the warrant, I don't care what it says.
You wouldn't like it said that you're protecting the murderer,
would you?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Marshall?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I don't know who he is a murderer yet, but
you came pretty close to me in one I was
going to explain it to you after I killed him.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I didn't want knowing. Oh you got it? Now?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
What kind of law do they have in Baker City?
Don't they ever give men a trial down there?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Sure they do.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Why didn't you come here and arrest Lee and take
him back with you? Are they afraid to put him
on trial?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Not hardly?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Marshall that they hired a killer like you to come
up here and shoot him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh, it's all legal.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
In Baker's city, maybe it is, but not in Dutch. Well,
the laws are the same everywhere they should be, haven't,
But sometimes it depends on who's representing the law. Yeah.
I don't aim to argue with you. Well, let's get
one thing straight. You're not gonna shoot Lee Prentice no
(12:48):
matter what happens. I'll kill you myself if you try it. Okay, Okay, Marshall,
why don't you talk to him, being as you are
such good friends?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Ask him how i'd like to stand trial.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I will Harbin, but you'll stay away from him?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah? Here, Why sure, Marshall. I'm just trying to do
my duty.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Oh hello man?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh Marshall, how are you feeling? Lee?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Fine?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Doc says I can leave anytime as long as he
doesn't have you do any hard work for another week
or so.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I'll take it easy.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Do you have a hell of a man called Jake
Harbin Harbin?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard him.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, he's the man who tried to kill you. What
how do you know he's here as a deputy with a.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Warrant for you that are alive. The warrant signed by
the sheriff of Baker's City. Oh, what's the warrant for
Marshall murder?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But I didn't say who.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
No, he didn't have to, not have Ben Goddard signed it.
It's for the murder of Jim Turner. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Uh, not that you do it? Leave? I killed him.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
He tried to.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Shoot me in the back and missed. Well, that doesn't
exactly make it the murderess. His old man owns Baker City, Doc,
and he owns the sheriff and Jake Harbin along with it.
That makes it murder.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Oh, I see, is.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That why you left Baker City?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Leave?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Did it killed me?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
If? I? And what if you go back there and
stand trial?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Old man Turner'd run that trial, Marshall, I'd hang sure. No,
I won't go back. I'll die here first. Well, I
don't blame him, made or legal murder, that's what.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
It isn't legal to fix a trial and hang an
innocent man, Doc, That's what had.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Happened, though.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
You're not thinking of turning him over to this, to
this so called dipity.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Are you mad?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Look?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Lee, I believe you and I trust you, Thanks Marshall.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Now tell me something. Do you trust me?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I sure do, of course.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Why you may not like what I'm gonna do. What Marshall,
I'm putting you under arrest, Lee, right now, under arrest?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What for? I don't know?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Or Stephen orse, Stephen eat O man, it'll do. You're
my prisoner, Ali, my prisoner. I come on, let's go
to jail.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know. I like being a horse, Steve Marshall.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I hat beats being a murderer, Lee. And besides, I
kind of doubt that we'll hang you for it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Marshall. What Look there's Jake Harmon.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, I see him.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I'd feel safer if you gave me my gun back.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Prisoners can't carry guns. Lee, It wouldn't look right.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Well, Lee, Marshall taught you to coming back to Baker
City and stand in trial.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Still an old man, turner's payer, O inch jail.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Don't take no back talk from no murderer.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Why'd you try to ambush me the other morning?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Jacob?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Afraid to face me?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I got a warrant for you dead or alive? Was
shout had taken the chances? Nobody cares how you die?
I care, Harvin.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well, you can't stand the.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Way of a legal warring Marshall. And you you'll see
as soon as you get that telegram from the year.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's too late, Harvin. What's too Leef.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I just arrested Lee myself. He's my prisoner now you want,
and as long as he's my president, nobody touches him
warrant or no, you're.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You're being tricky, Marshall. What you're asked him for he
ain't done nothing.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Might be hard to prove, but anyway, I'm holding him
for a horse even now.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Get out of the way. I'm taking him of the
change you're forgetting.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I can kill him anytime I want, for free, like
right now, maybe Leap.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Are you a hit Leaf?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
But it was mighty close, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I didn't think he'd try it.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You got him just in time. The next shot he'd
kill me.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
They sure don't care much how they do things where
you come from. Do they leave.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
There's going to be trouble now, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Real trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
It seemed only fair to let the sheriff of Baker's
City know that his deputy had been killed, So I
sent him another telegram, and.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I soon got a reply.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Ben Goddard himself was coming to Dodge.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The day was due to arrive.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I sent Chester to the stage while Lee Prentice and
I waited in the lobby in the Dodge House, along
with a couple of friends who thought it might be
interesting to see how Sheriff Goddard was going to handle
the situation. The stage pulled in about noon, and a
few minutes later Chester and the sheriff walked into the
hotel lobby.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Where we were standing here. He is mister Dyllon, Hello Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
You're Marshall Dylon and this is mister Green he owns
the Dodge House. And mister Jonas one of our leading
the businessman gentlemen. And you know Lee Apprentice, I sure do.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
You're going to a lot of trouble Goddard.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
You know, man Turner, it's worth it getting you back
where you belong.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You'll hang sure. Now, Lee didn't kill Jack Harbin sharp uh?
I did what?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
He tried to shoot Lee in the back. What differences
me is he's wanted dead or alive? What are you
interfering this for?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Marsham?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
You got no respect for the law, not for your
kind of law. Anyway, Lee's wanted to dodge and he's
staying here.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What about my warrant? You're claiming it ain't legal. You
can't arrest a man that I've got under arrest.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
You're protecting him.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
At you what you're resting for stealing horses? I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I'm bringing the charge of Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It was my horse as he stole.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Well, I thought you owned this hotel, Green, What are
you doing with horses?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Well, I also own a little range outside of town.
I Uh, I raise horses.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Mm maybe, but I know you're lying about Lee.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Am I of course.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Uh, Marshall Dylon, you went very smart. No, you'll have
to bring me to trial, won't you. Of course you
think Green here is gonna swear to that story under oad?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, you may be right, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I I might have to change my mind once I
get on the stand.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Uh, it might be.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Uh, I couldn't swear to it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I didn't think so. That trial won't last long.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
And when it's over, I'll take Lee back to Baker City.
Marshall Dylon.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes, mister Jenas, what is it?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
There's something I haven't mentioned?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I kind of figured i'd wait to Lee's trial was
over before I did.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Oh, go ahead, mister Jonas. Eh.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Well, the other day Lee came into my.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Store and I went out back to fetch you a
sack of green?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Is that so?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
And he didn't know I was watching, but I watched,
and I saw him take a handful of money out
of my cash. Boy, Wait a minuteter, Jonas, are you
charging Lee with robbery?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
No, not yet, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I'll wait and see if he gets off for horse
stealing first. Well, Lee, looks like you're in for nothing
but trials and re arrests and more trials.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
That could go on for a long long time.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
As long as his friends hold out, Marshall, and Lee's
got quite a few of them in Dodge.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Right, you're here a pack of crooks treating the law.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
That's what you are, including you, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
My prisoner sheriff. I won't stand for it. I tell you,
what are you gonna do about it? We'd like to
know about this.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You won't dare tell him, Goddard, you're letting you know it.
Turner to have you run out of town if you're
fool enough to go back.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Marshall, I got to take leave. I got It's Lee's
life or your job, all right, Geruff take.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Him, but you'll have to kill me first. Or there's
a train east in about an hour, so make up
your mind.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Sheriff want me to follow in Miss Dillon now Chester,
He'll leave.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Marshall, gentlemen, I wish I knew how to tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yes, Marshall, go on home, but remember you're still under
arrest and you're gonna stay that way.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Tello Man Turners and his Great.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon U. S.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Tonight's story was specially written for Gun Smoke by John Meston,
with music composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in
the cast were Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, John Dayner, Joe
Duval and James Musser, Parley bear Is Chester, Howard mcneer
is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy. Join again next
week as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights to bring law
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and order out of the wild violence of the West
in Gunsmoke, the FBI in Peace and War, a manhunt
mystery packed with tension, is yours on CBS Radio this
coming Wednesday night. On most of these stations, George Wall,
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