August 13, 2025 • 24 mins
A series that captures the essence of frontier life, portraying the challenges and adventures faced by those in the American West.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Gun Smoke, brought to you by L and M. The
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ellen m.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with the US Marshall and the Smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad transgrog story of
(01:02):
the violence that moved was with Young America and the
story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh that you got the mail tester, I sure did,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And if that railroad gets any slower, yesterday's train's going
to start getting in the Dodge tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Now that's happened to go a times, that's anything important.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I ain't had a chance to look what well it
took will Burgler so long to get the mail bag sorted?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Or say he's coming over here in a little while.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Mister Jyllan u Willa's what for. I don't know, but
he's got something on his mind. He's about to bust
his bridges over. He said it had to do with
Jim Rank and.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Jim rankin Well.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I hated to bring it up, mister Jyllan, you and
Jim Rank and being close friends like you was.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I can't figure what will Bargler all about Jim's murder.
He never gets out of that depot except they eat.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well, maybe he's heard something from El Paso, something over
the telegraph.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Has nothing to hear Chester, and that won't be He
was killed for that payroll he was carrying.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
They never did find the body.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
They buried him somewhere out there on the desert more likely,
and then jumped the border.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They sure could get a long way south from sixty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
All in banknotes. Wouldn't be no weight to it, wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Even fill a saddle bags funny. I was always joshing
him about that. A full road man, being a messenger
boy for Wells Fargo, go around carrying a little old handcase.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
With him and being a target forever hold up man
west of Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I never had no call to be plaguing him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
When I think of it now, I could just kick myself.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Jim knew you didn't managest. Yeah, you know, he was
one of the best. I wrote a lot of country
with Jim Rankin back when he.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Was a lum and even and Marshall, Oh, come on
and will what's this nose about? Jim Rankin?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Just that you and everybody else is wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's all, Oh, why so?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Because all of you.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Figured them killers must have hitded south after they murdered Ranking,
but they've come north.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Marshall, what makes you think so?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
These couple of bank notes ten dollars silver certificates American
Federal Bank of Boston, chust got me that?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Wells Fargo? What's the serial numbers?
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Would you's true?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Already checked to Marshall, there on the list.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
How'd you got these?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
They turned up in the cash box to depot.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Somebody bought a ticket with them. Who do you know?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
It was miss Lily over to the Long Branch. Lily,
that pretty one with the yellow hair. She bought a
ticket on the Santa Hey to Kansas City. Said she
was aiming to go back there on a visit.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Why them killers might be right here in Dodge, Mister.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
John, I hope, Sir Chester, I should have hoped.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So why don't you.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
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Speaker 9 (05:36):
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Speaker 10 (05:38):
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love kidding.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
Well, good to see you, man. You've been a real
stranger the last month, ever since.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well since Jim Rankin was murdered.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Huh.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
I didn't mean to solve him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's all right, Kenny, I got the reason I'm here now,
huh ah.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It's literally around somewhere.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
Well, she's upstairs. I suppose I'm kind of surprised.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
You.
Speaker 11 (06:54):
Marshall's pay won't get you for that club man. The
dudes are pretty high. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
This wouldn't be just a case of one pretty woman
talking about another pretty woman, was it.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
No?
Speaker 11 (07:05):
Seriously, Matt, didn't Jim ever tell you about him? Jim
Jim mincln You didn't know about it?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
About what.
Speaker 11 (07:16):
I thought you knew he was spending all his time
with Lily.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
No, I didn't. Uh, I'll see you later, killing.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
A.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
How are you, Lily?
Speaker 11 (07:55):
Well, this is quite a surprise.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I understand. And you're leaving for Kansas City.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
I'm just going for a visit.
Speaker 12 (08:05):
Is there a law against it, Marshall?
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Or do you care?
Speaker 12 (08:09):
Personally?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Hey, you bought a railroad ticket this afternoon from will Borglar.
You paid for it with a couple of ten dollars
notes of the American Federal Bank of Boston.
Speaker 12 (08:20):
My you have been taking an interest.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Where did you get those banknotes? A Lily? Oh, come now,
I want to know why you got those bills?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Why?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
I don't know where I got them?
Speaker 12 (08:33):
You don't know, of course, not the gentlemen who come
into the Long Branch.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
You're usually quite.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And the gentlemen who come in usually carry gold or
silver paper money is rare and dodge.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And you know it.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I don't remember who gave them to mean, what difference
does it make her good?
Speaker 12 (08:47):
Aren't they?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And they were stolen from a man who disappeared from
a blood stained room in al Paso, Texas. How do
you know because Wells Fargo records the serial number of
ever banknote they ship, and these numbers match. Oh, but
a man's name was Jim Rankin, in case you forgot
the name.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
In the last thirty days.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
Marshall, Jim and I were going to be married.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
We're going to be married?
Speaker 12 (09:18):
Is it that unbelievable?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's just that Jim never mentioned it.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
That's he knew what you'd say.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I did you see him last Lily.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Ten days before he got killed? He went from here
to Saint Louis and then straight tale Passo.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Did you know his plans where he was going to
stay in al Passo? How much money he was carrying?
Speaker 12 (09:41):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I just asked you if I couldn't make it any sooner, you'll.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Get out of here.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
Mister.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
You've got the wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Room, boy, Yes I have.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sorry, folks, I was looking for Wait just a minute.
You're a gambler, aren't you house man over the allophraganza?
That's right, marshall, Deuce McCoy, Who are you looking for?
It's nobody.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I'll not bother you folks any longer.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You wouldn't happen to have any banknotes on you by
any chance, would you banknotes?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I'm strictly gold standard, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I got caught with some of that worthless paper trash
during the rebellion.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
My apologies, ma'am Marshall.
Speaker 11 (10:32):
Why are you looking at me that way? I never
saw him before in my life.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Lily, If you're in the clear, then I'm sorry for
misjudging you. But if you're not, if you did have
anything to do with Jim's murder, I'll bring you in
for it if it takes me the rest of my life.
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Three days went by, things stayed pretty much the same.
I found out Jim rank And had told a couple
of people that he was going to marry Lily, and
she could have been telling the truth about the two
bank notes. Maybe she didn't remember where she'd got him,
but she had led about one thing about not no
Induce McClay. Word had gotten around town that she induced
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had been thicker than thieves for a long time. But
that didn't help me. Neither went out of dodge in
six months. And then one evening, about eight o'clock, Ketty
came into the office with the news that started all landslide.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Well, Matt, Matt, there's something funny going on.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
What do you mean, Nelly?
Speaker 11 (11:41):
She didn't show up for work this evening, So I
went upstairs looking for all her clothes, the costumes, they're gone.
She's cleaned everything out.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You know where she lives.
Speaker 11 (11:51):
She's got a room at La Grott's place down south
of the Dodge House, couple of state.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yeah, I know where it is. Chester. Come on, let's go.
Why don't you.
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Speaker 1 (12:31):
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through the modern miracle of the L and M miracle tip.
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Speaker 3 (13:01):
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Speaker 3 (13:10):
Today, Lily wasn't at the room in house, and nobody
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there had seen her since mid afternoon. So Chester and
I went back and took a look at her room
in the Long Branch. Ketty was right, she'd cleaned out.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Goodness, mister Dyllan, if this ain't the most tough set.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Room, that's kind of a messer and throw.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It around every which way. Looks like a cyclone hit it.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Somebody was hunting for something.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Well, you'd think Lily had know her thing.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Was that there was somebody else. Chester, after the Lily.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Has gone, Well, where do you think she's gone?
Speaker 11 (14:05):
To?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
You?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And she bought a railroad ticket to Kansas City. I
train leaves in half hour and we better get over
to the default.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Come on, you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Kind of hard to think ill of a woman that's
pretty as Lily. Man just can't hardly help believe in
anything she wants him to.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
And h.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Marshall, Hey, I'm glad you're here. I was just aiming
to send a.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Boy over to tell you tell me what? Well, who
was about them?
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Too?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
They're here, miss Lily and at their Gambler Feller Deuce McCoy.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh yeah, he's the.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
One that brought the trunks him, but the part of
was hers.
Speaker 12 (14:53):
He wasn't fooling me.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Now are they both living? Is he going with her?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I reckon? So what a self?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
A ticket to Kansas City seams her It didn't pay
for it, no bank note.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So he was cool.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Uh huh? Where are they now? Well, well, they've.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Been a hand around down there at the end of
the platform, stayed clear of the light.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
I figured maybe you don't.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Want to draw no attention to themselves.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
It ain't like miss Lillian either, Ordinarily she'd hear herself
breaking down fit to kill. He strutting around here, A board.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Of that was down the platform.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, come on.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Straight a head, Marshal, their pang, Yeah, I see slip.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
What you're doing?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Somebody jumped on a horse out all that there.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He's getting away.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Couldn't have been nothing but plain luck in the dark
like this, mister Dan.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Had I sworn I had him on my sight.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
So Marshall, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Miss Lilian and that gamber Feller, the shot bot something
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
No mmm mm.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
It was a Lily, who shut you?
Speaker 12 (16:15):
He came back?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Who Jim, Jim?
Speaker 12 (16:30):
I never sorry, you're gonna go.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
After mister John.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Now we waitl Son, I'm chester Son. There's no hurry
not now. I got a pretty good idea of where
general had.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
For what you're dying? How can you meet your dog on?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Certain he's out here some worse because I know how
he thinks.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Chester, I never see such a country rim Rock, gullys
and mesquite plumb thickets.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
We couldn't find him this stuff in a month of Sundays.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I think he'll find us, Dear, I.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Believe you wouldn't talk that way.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Mister Dylon gives a man the willies, knowing all the
time there might be a gun sight leveled on him,
and not knowing just when the.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Show Oh you no, no chessea all.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Right where you are?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
He's just by that point of rim Rock.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I forget that he's got perfect covered.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
Is that you, Matt?
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Yeah, it's made Jim.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Leave your gun, come up here, come alone.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Stay here with a horse's chest.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Don't do it, mister Dynan. You don't know what he's
up too.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Only one way to find out, and he take my gun.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh I just don't like.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Guess.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
I don't like.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Over this way, Matt, Man, You're a fool. I could
have shot you dead. I was betting you wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Why did it have to be you?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's a difference, Gem, and it had been somebody sooner
or later you knew it was me, or you wouldn't
have come here. How did you know, Matt, Lily told
me before she died. She I'm sorry about that, and
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a last night I went to the room.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
And found she'd taken the money and run out on me.
I've been living down.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Along the river bottom since I rode up from al Pastle.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I was, huh, it's a.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Matter of jim he it was pretty good shooting last night, man,
dark as it was.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
We better get you in the dock own or forget it, man,
I know how I stand.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Lily never didn't mean to marry me, man. She told
me last night there on the station plant for him,
and then she laughed, Ye, take it easy, gym. She
helped me plan that fake robbery in the El Pastle.
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She was all for it, I thought, But she was
all for the money, not for me. Never known, uh,
woman like Lily, all fire and diamonds.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And soft as a kitten.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Yeah, feel funny.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I know I I'd do the same thing again if
she asked me to.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
What do you think of that? I'm not a judge,
Jim Man. Remember the time that we.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Time we rode out of the sanator and we rode.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
From st Yeah, I remember, Jim, we were planting a
right down to the right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Let's say if we let's see if we.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Could Jim, Jim, Yeah, Jim. I remember.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
In a moment our star William Conrad. When you're at
home and use a match to light a cigarette or
the stove, what do you do with that match? When
you're through with it? You make sure that's out of course,
after all, you don't want to have the house burned
down for the same reason you wouldn't think of leaving
the kitchen stove blazing away when you left home. But
some of us forget these precautions when we're in the woods.
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Some folks will stroll through heavily wooded country, light a
cigarette and casually toss the match away without bothering to
see if it's out. They'll also toss the cigarette but
away still burning, and if they've been using a camp fire,
they may even leave that to smolder. From now on,
make yourself a committee of one to help prevent forest fires,
because forest fires are usually started by just such carelessness.
(22:31):
Whenever you are in the woods or driving past a
wooded area, break all matches in two before discarding them.
Make sure all smokes are completely out and drown all
camp fires. Don't leave any sparks behind. They can cost
our country millions of dollars in lost Timberland. Remember only
you can prevent forest fires. And now, William Conrad.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Enough there were rifles of all makes out on the frontier, Springfields, Henry's,
Spencer's Colts, Maynard's, Enfields, Sharp's, even old flintlocks. Next week
a man discovers it doesn't matter what it's fired from.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
A bullet kills a man awful fast. And that was
the West.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The script was specially
written for gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory, sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Lynn Allen, Tim Graham, Lawrence
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Dobkin and John Dayner, Harley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer
is doc. And Georgia Ellis Is Kiddy join us again
next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
In the world wide in in in
Gun Smoke, brought to you by L and M. The
modern cigarette that lets you get full of exciting flavor
through the modern miracle of the pure white miracle Tip
Live modern Smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ellen m.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with the US Marshall and the Smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad transgrog story of
(01:02):
the violence that moved was with Young America and the
story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh that you got the mail tester, I sure did,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And if that railroad gets any slower, yesterday's train's going
to start getting in the Dodge tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Now that's happened to go a times, that's anything important.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I ain't had a chance to look what well it
took will Burgler so long to get the mail bag sorted?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Or say he's coming over here in a little while.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Mister Jyllan u Willa's what for. I don't know, but
he's got something on his mind. He's about to bust
his bridges over. He said it had to do with
Jim Rank and.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Jim rankin Well.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I hated to bring it up, mister Jyllan, you and
Jim Rank and being close friends like you was.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I can't figure what will Bargler all about Jim's murder.
He never gets out of that depot except they eat.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well, maybe he's heard something from El Paso, something over
the telegraph.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Has nothing to hear Chester, and that won't be He
was killed for that payroll he was carrying.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
They never did find the body.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
They buried him somewhere out there on the desert more likely,
and then jumped the border.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They sure could get a long way south from sixty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
All in banknotes. Wouldn't be no weight to it, wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Even fill a saddle bags funny. I was always joshing
him about that. A full road man, being a messenger
boy for Wells Fargo, go around carrying a little old handcase.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
With him and being a target forever hold up man
west of Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I never had no call to be plaguing him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
When I think of it now, I could just kick myself.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Jim knew you didn't managest. Yeah, you know, he was
one of the best. I wrote a lot of country
with Jim Rankin back when he.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Was a lum and even and Marshall, Oh, come on
and will what's this nose about? Jim Rankin?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Just that you and everybody else is wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's all, Oh, why so?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Because all of you.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Figured them killers must have hitded south after they murdered Ranking,
but they've come north.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Marshall, what makes you think so?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
These couple of bank notes ten dollars silver certificates American
Federal Bank of Boston, chust got me that?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Wells Fargo? What's the serial numbers?
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Would you's true?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Already checked to Marshall, there on the list.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
How'd you got these?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
They turned up in the cash box to depot.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Somebody bought a ticket with them. Who do you know?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
It was miss Lily over to the Long Branch. Lily,
that pretty one with the yellow hair. She bought a
ticket on the Santa Hey to Kansas City. Said she
was aiming to go back there on a visit.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Why them killers might be right here in Dodge, Mister.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
John, I hope, Sir Chester, I should have hoped.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So why don't you.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
Modern, modern, live, modern taste you ELM.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Only with llen M.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Can you enjoy the full exciting flavor of today's finest
tobaccos through the modern miracle of the LL and M
Miracle tip, Through the pure white miracle tip. Ll and
M tastes richer, smokes, cleaner, draws easier. No other cigarette,
plain or filter gives you all the flavor you want,
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Speaker 9 (05:36):
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Speaker 10 (05:38):
And start to live the modern way.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
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love kidding.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
Well, good to see you, man. You've been a real
stranger the last month, ever since.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well since Jim Rankin was murdered.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Huh.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
I didn't mean to solve him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's all right, Kenny, I got the reason I'm here now,
huh ah.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It's literally around somewhere.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
Well, she's upstairs. I suppose I'm kind of surprised.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
You.
Speaker 11 (06:54):
Marshall's pay won't get you for that club man. The
dudes are pretty high. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
This wouldn't be just a case of one pretty woman
talking about another pretty woman, was it.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
No?
Speaker 11 (07:05):
Seriously, Matt, didn't Jim ever tell you about him? Jim
Jim mincln You didn't know about it?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
About what.
Speaker 11 (07:16):
I thought you knew he was spending all his time
with Lily.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
No, I didn't. Uh, I'll see you later, killing.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
A.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
How are you, Lily?
Speaker 11 (07:55):
Well, this is quite a surprise.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I understand. And you're leaving for Kansas City.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
I'm just going for a visit.
Speaker 12 (08:05):
Is there a law against it, Marshall?
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Or do you care?
Speaker 12 (08:09):
Personally?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Hey, you bought a railroad ticket this afternoon from will Borglar.
You paid for it with a couple of ten dollars
notes of the American Federal Bank of Boston.
Speaker 12 (08:20):
My you have been taking an interest.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Where did you get those banknotes? A Lily? Oh, come now,
I want to know why you got those bills?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Why?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
I don't know where I got them?
Speaker 12 (08:33):
You don't know, of course, not the gentlemen who come
into the Long Branch.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
You're usually quite.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And the gentlemen who come in usually carry gold or
silver paper money is rare and dodge.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And you know it.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I don't remember who gave them to mean, what difference
does it make her good?
Speaker 12 (08:47):
Aren't they?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And they were stolen from a man who disappeared from
a blood stained room in al Paso, Texas. How do
you know because Wells Fargo records the serial number of
ever banknote they ship, and these numbers match. Oh, but
a man's name was Jim Rankin, in case you forgot
the name.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
In the last thirty days.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
Marshall, Jim and I were going to be married.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
We're going to be married?
Speaker 12 (09:18):
Is it that unbelievable?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's just that Jim never mentioned it.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
That's he knew what you'd say.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I did you see him last Lily.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Ten days before he got killed? He went from here
to Saint Louis and then straight tale Passo.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Did you know his plans where he was going to
stay in al Passo? How much money he was carrying?
Speaker 12 (09:41):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I just asked you if I couldn't make it any sooner, you'll.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Get out of here.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
Mister.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
You've got the wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Room, boy, Yes I have.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sorry, folks, I was looking for Wait just a minute.
You're a gambler, aren't you house man over the allophraganza?
That's right, marshall, Deuce McCoy, Who are you looking for?
It's nobody.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I'll not bother you folks any longer.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You wouldn't happen to have any banknotes on you by
any chance, would you banknotes?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I'm strictly gold standard, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I got caught with some of that worthless paper trash
during the rebellion.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
My apologies, ma'am Marshall.
Speaker 11 (10:32):
Why are you looking at me that way? I never
saw him before in my life.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Lily, If you're in the clear, then I'm sorry for
misjudging you. But if you're not, if you did have
anything to do with Jim's murder, I'll bring you in
for it if it takes me the rest of my life.
(10:58):
Three days went by, things stayed pretty much the same.
I found out Jim rank And had told a couple
of people that he was going to marry Lily, and
she could have been telling the truth about the two
bank notes. Maybe she didn't remember where she'd got him,
but she had led about one thing about not no
Induce McClay. Word had gotten around town that she induced
(11:19):
had been thicker than thieves for a long time. But
that didn't help me. Neither went out of dodge in
six months. And then one evening, about eight o'clock, Ketty
came into the office with the news that started all landslide.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Well, Matt, Matt, there's something funny going on.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
What do you mean, Nelly?
Speaker 11 (11:41):
She didn't show up for work this evening, So I
went upstairs looking for all her clothes, the costumes, they're gone.
She's cleaned everything out.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
You know where she lives.
Speaker 11 (11:51):
She's got a room at La Grott's place down south
of the Dodge House, couple of state.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yeah, I know where it is. Chester. Come on, let's go.
Why don't you.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
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Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yes, have an L and M.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
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Speaker 3 (13:01):
Your big red letter day and start to live the modern.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
Way, Live Live, Live, mod.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Get out of M.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Today, Lily wasn't at the room in house, and nobody
(13:36):
there had seen her since mid afternoon. So Chester and
I went back and took a look at her room
in the Long Branch. Ketty was right, she'd cleaned out.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Goodness, mister Dyllan, if this ain't the most tough set.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Room, that's kind of a messer and throw.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It around every which way. Looks like a cyclone hit it.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Somebody was hunting for something.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Well, you'd think Lily had know her thing.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Was that there was somebody else. Chester, after the Lily.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Has gone, Well, where do you think she's gone?
Speaker 11 (14:05):
To?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
You?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And she bought a railroad ticket to Kansas City. I
train leaves in half hour and we better get over
to the default.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Come on, you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Kind of hard to think ill of a woman that's
pretty as Lily. Man just can't hardly help believe in
anything she wants him to.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
And h.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Marshall, Hey, I'm glad you're here. I was just aiming
to send a.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Boy over to tell you tell me what? Well, who
was about them?
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Too?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
They're here, miss Lily and at their Gambler Feller Deuce McCoy.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh yeah, he's the.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
One that brought the trunks him, but the part of
was hers.
Speaker 12 (14:53):
He wasn't fooling me.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Now are they both living? Is he going with her?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I reckon? So what a self?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
A ticket to Kansas City seams her It didn't pay
for it, no bank note.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So he was cool.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Uh huh? Where are they now? Well, well, they've.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Been a hand around down there at the end of
the platform, stayed clear of the light.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
I figured maybe you don't.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Want to draw no attention to themselves.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
It ain't like miss Lillian either, Ordinarily she'd hear herself
breaking down fit to kill. He strutting around here, A board.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Of that was down the platform.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, come on.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Straight a head, Marshal, their pang, Yeah, I see slip.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
What you're doing?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Somebody jumped on a horse out all that there.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He's getting away.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Couldn't have been nothing but plain luck in the dark
like this, mister Dan.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Had I sworn I had him on my sight.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
So Marshall, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Miss Lilian and that gamber Feller, the shot bot something
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
No mmm mm.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
It was a Lily, who shut you?
Speaker 12 (16:15):
He came back?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Who Jim, Jim?
Speaker 12 (16:30):
I never sorry, you're gonna go.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
After mister John.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Now we waitl Son, I'm chester Son. There's no hurry
not now. I got a pretty good idea of where
general had.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
For what you're dying? How can you meet your dog on?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Certain he's out here some worse because I know how
he thinks.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Chester, I never see such a country rim Rock, gullys
and mesquite plumb thickets.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
We couldn't find him this stuff in a month of Sundays.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I think he'll find us, Dear, I.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Believe you wouldn't talk that way.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Mister Dylon gives a man the willies, knowing all the
time there might be a gun sight leveled on him,
and not knowing just when the.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Show Oh you no, no chessea all.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Right where you are?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
He's just by that point of rim Rock.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I forget that he's got perfect covered.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
Is that you, Matt?
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Yeah, it's made Jim.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Leave your gun, come up here, come alone.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Stay here with a horse's chest.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Don't do it, mister Dynan. You don't know what he's
up too.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Only one way to find out, and he take my gun.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh I just don't like.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Guess.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
I don't like.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Over this way, Matt, Man, You're a fool. I could
have shot you dead. I was betting you wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Why did it have to be you?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's a difference, Gem, and it had been somebody sooner
or later you knew it was me, or you wouldn't
have come here. How did you know, Matt, Lily told
me before she died. She I'm sorry about that, and
(19:00):
a last night I went to the room.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
And found she'd taken the money and run out on me.
I've been living down.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Along the river bottom since I rode up from al Pastle.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I was, huh, it's a.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Matter of jim he it was pretty good shooting last night, man,
dark as it was.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
We better get you in the dock own or forget it, man,
I know how I stand.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Lily never didn't mean to marry me, man. She told
me last night there on the station plant for him,
and then she laughed, Ye, take it easy, gym. She
helped me plan that fake robbery in the El Pastle.
(19:57):
She was all for it, I thought, But she was
all for the money, not for me. Never known, uh,
woman like Lily, all fire and diamonds.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And soft as a kitten.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Yeah, feel funny.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I know I I'd do the same thing again if
she asked me to.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
What do you think of that? I'm not a judge,
Jim Man. Remember the time that we.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Time we rode out of the sanator and we rode.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
From st Yeah, I remember, Jim, we were planting a
right down to the right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Let's say if we let's see if we.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Could Jim, Jim, Yeah, Jim. I remember.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
In a moment our star William Conrad. When you're at
home and use a match to light a cigarette or
the stove, what do you do with that match? When
you're through with it? You make sure that's out of course,
after all, you don't want to have the house burned
down for the same reason you wouldn't think of leaving
the kitchen stove blazing away when you left home. But
some of us forget these precautions when we're in the woods.
(22:08):
Some folks will stroll through heavily wooded country, light a
cigarette and casually toss the match away without bothering to
see if it's out. They'll also toss the cigarette but
away still burning, and if they've been using a camp fire,
they may even leave that to smolder. From now on,
make yourself a committee of one to help prevent forest fires,
because forest fires are usually started by just such carelessness.
(22:31):
Whenever you are in the woods or driving past a
wooded area, break all matches in two before discarding them.
Make sure all smokes are completely out and drown all
camp fires. Don't leave any sparks behind. They can cost
our country millions of dollars in lost Timberland. Remember only
you can prevent forest fires. And now, William Conrad.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Enough there were rifles of all makes out on the frontier, Springfields, Henry's,
Spencer's Colts, Maynard's, Enfields, Sharp's, even old flintlocks. Next week
a man discovers it doesn't matter what it's fired from.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
A bullet kills a man awful fast. And that was
the West.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The script was specially
written for gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory, sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Lynn Allen, Tim Graham, Lawrence
(23:38):
Dobkin and John Dayner, Harley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer
is doc. And Georgia Ellis Is Kiddy join us again
next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
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