November 24, 2025 • 28 mins
The Lone Ranger radio series debuted in 1933 and became one of the most successful radio programs in history, producing over 3,000 episodes until 1956. It featured the adventures of a masked Texas Ranger and his Native American companion, Tonto, as they fought for justice in the American Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
I am sure, a fiery horse with the speed of light,
a cloud of dust in a hoty hiel silver, and
a lone ranger. There is one man whose life story
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cannot be separated from the development of the Western United States.
The tale of his deed is not to be found
in the written records of those days, but has been
repeated through the generations, until the people of seven Western
States honor the memory of the mass writer of justice.
Wherever he appeared, the cause of justice was served, And
now once more a thrilling story of the phantom figure
of the Plains. The Lone Ranger rides again.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Hurry silvere, I s quite, lights and yours whok and
dabbles are running the town of monflats Hi.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
As the Lone Ranger rode by arms silver, he was
hurrying toward muddy. In all the West, no town had
a worse reputation. Though smaller than Dodge City, it was
filled with gamblers and crooks of every description. Honest people
found difficulty making a living, and as the sheriff had
been elected by the town's worst element, there was little
chance to correct the situation. In the first scene of
(03:17):
our Lone Ranger drama, Fifteen year old Tommy Goodwin is
walking down the main street. His steps are slow and
his eyes fixed upon the ground. When his father speaks
to him, Suddenly, he looks up in fear.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Tommy walliams, and have you been? You'll mind me? Was
word half sick about you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh, Pa?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Have any trouble? No? No, no, not exactly. But where
you've been all this time? We sent you out four
hours ago to pay over that cash to the store keeper. Yeah,
I know you paid him, didn't you? Well? U look
at me? What's the matter with you? I didn't mean
to do nothing?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Pie?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Did you pay our bill at the store? I was gone?
Did you or didn't you? No? You didn't? No, I didn't?
Why not? You know? Blame well? What we had to
do to get that cash? I had to say that
jewel Ja Mar has been treasured and ever since we
left Virginia, we had to pay that bill. We won't
get no more credit at the store. I knew it.
(04:13):
Part o, Why didn't you pay? Where have you been
all this time? I met Harve Riggs, REGs a gambling crook.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, he stopped and spoke to me in and we
got talking. He said, somebody fine things about you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Pat dirty Kyle. He never had a good word for
me in his life, but he did.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
We got to talking and and he was gonna tell
me about some of the things you've done in the army.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Was well, I was listening.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
And the first thing I knowed, we was inside the
cafe Riggs place.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, and he got you to gambling and took the cash.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well not at first, you see, we we just cut
cards for high cards for a nickel.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
For a nickel to cut, yeah, And and I won.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I want most of dollar cutting cards. And then then
he said I had to give him a chance to
get the dollar.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Back, the dirty scheming rat.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I still don't know po how it happened. But the
first thing I knowed, we were sort of cutting for
more and more money.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And for the next thing I knowed, I was broke.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You go on home, Pi, I didn't mean to go
home and tell your ma be along. In a little while,
I'm gonna call on Havel Riggs. That skunk's gone too far.
He ain't satisfied. Rob on every groad man in town.
He's gotta pick on. Kids your side, get to home, now,
tell your ma be along. By and by I'm going
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in and see that pole cat.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
That Jezebo cleans you up hard.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I'm sorry, Yeah, you look sorry. Riggs.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Drop it again sometime and I'll give you the chance
to win your money back.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I hope you gosh, I know, keep out of this
place when I get the more money.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Goodbye, and good luck to you. Good to luck.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Don't mean nothing around.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
His place like this praise. I want to speak to
you well of it ain't bar Goodwe have a chair
by it. Unto my talking on two feet. You've been
telling my boy things about me in the army. Yeah,
and he was you're interest, and you got him in
a game and robbed him fifty dollars you took from him, Riggs,
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I want that money. You want what money? I want
the money you stole from Tommy.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tray.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Goodwin.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I never stole a cent in.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
All my life. Maybe you don't consider it stealing when
you take it from a kid with more cars.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Some minute, Goodwin, and a man says my cards is marked.
I expect him either prove it or a dry shooting.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Iron prove it. Huh, all right, I got just five
bucks here.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
You expect me to play for five bucks?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Steal them cards? You're playing me now, Rigs, and don't
try no monkey shines, you know.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Let me.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
I'll stay one more around now, and I face these
guys all right, tell her, uh good man.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Look at Riggs there.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
He's the biggest gambler in town towne, but the biggest
gambling place in Montflats.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
And he's playing for five dollars him want all the money.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I wonder if there isn't some way to clean up
this town.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
We drive gambler round. That isn't easy the gamblers on
the town. Tata.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Maybe we make trouble for gambler Tada. Do you remember
Henry Parker? O him over to Dune City. He's not
known around here at all. He hasn't done any gambling
for years.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Him turn good.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yes, he's going straight since we helped him out of
that scrape a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Tata. Get Henry Parker here, me go fetch him now.
Yes he rat O I caught here. Look here, boys,
here's a crooked.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Do that win coat? Riggs got your flat? Put it?
There's how you've been winning any cards? I'm on your tricks.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Look here boy, I'm all right, I'm chime my hand,
my hands, Bustard Buller didn't touch your hands.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I shot you're gunna wait to stop I murder. Good one,
get out of here while you have the chance.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Swing me in the shoulder and you get out. All right,
I can get out. I'll come back. I'll get you
reap so i'll get.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You for this next time we meet. You to be
ready to shoot it out.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Good one proved you're a crook. Prove you're a crooked gambler.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Didn't I on your way? Good one, get out while
you have the chance. You'll cover at rags. Don't make
a play for that second gun you wear.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
How'll get your to stranger. I don't know who you are.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I want to find out.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I'll get you.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
You'll have to find out who I am first. The
rest of you stay back. Come on, Tuddle, it's.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Good one gone him gone back out the door.
Speaker 9 (08:37):
Then get on your horse and go for the man
I told you about me Boom the first man who
comes out there.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Don't get more of what Rakes got. Ride hard, Huddle,
how many to encampusmons you come back with? Parker can't
find hell.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Tun to race from town in one direction, while the
lone Ranger wrote in another. That night, the mass man
returned to Mudflats. The place was booming with activity. Prows
had gathered not only in the gambling hall owned by
Harve Riggs, but in all the smaller ones as well.
The lone Ranger, however, ignored these and went to Goodwin's
home on the.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Edge of town.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He paused outside, and, hearing voices, moved close to the window.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
My wounding's bad, Jane. I'll be as good as new
in a dare's soul, but he's losing that money. But
I don't know what we'll do for food.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
The store won't give you no more credit.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
An honest man ain't a chance earning any shorter living here.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
But there ain't but one thing for us to do.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
What's her? Jane? Move out? You mean leave Mudflat?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Bart.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I don't hold Tommy to blame for what he'd done.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
He's been brought up in this.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Sort of hole.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
What can you expect? Where is he in his room?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I guess he's ashamed.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
FACI send him here, but don't be harsh with him.
He ain't but fifteen Get him for me.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Tommy, What is it more?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Your father wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Didn't didn't figure he'd ever want to speak to me again.
Come here, son, Yeah, pah, go ahead, do whatever you're
a mind to.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I got it coming to me.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'm not gonna punish your tom I reckon you know
as well as me that you've done what you shouldn't.
But Harve Riggs is so slick that fool growed men
are took in by him. You you ain't gonna tan
my height, No, lad, I'm just gonna ask you to
look at me and see the most cursed, stubborn, foolish
man that ever lived. I made a mistake too, you, Pa. Yep.
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Me and your more settled here when it was a
decent place to live in. Then gamblers come here, put
up their own man for sheriff, and he blind. I
figured that he was a batton, but that I'd stay
around here and beat him when the next election come along.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You're better than he ever was, Pa, What my.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Friends are pulled out here one after another. Meanwhile other
gamblers and crow come in. Yeah, still ours cusset, stubborn.
I helped to make this town. I kept biding time
until Blind's term run out, figuring if I could just
hang on, I get my old job as sheriff back again.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
But there ain't no use hanging on no longer.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Bart.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
You've found out that you can't do nothing else to
in a decent living, and an honor sheriff wouldn't have
a chance of getting elected now.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It took me a long time to see that. Jane.
It's lucky our boy didn't get into no worse trouble.
You see it now.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I won't think of you as a quitter.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If you leave, Bart, I will be quitting the light.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
You these, don't be alarmed.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's the man that got me out of Rigg's place alive, Jane,
that's our friend. Oh gosh, mister, you sure help my part.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
But I brought back the money, reached it from your son.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The money there it is, Thank you, stranger.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
We needed that money.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I will sheriff around here, mister, before mud flats went
to the gamblers and crooks. Seen a lot of outlaws,
mask and otherwise. I'm not wanted by the law, but
I didn't think so. Wats the mask for?
Speaker 9 (12:07):
But you're going to quit, aren't you? After hanging on
all this time, waiting for sheriff Blind's term to expire.
You're going to quit and give up.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
There's nothing else can be done.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Twitters are much help in building this country, Bars, but
I don't If other men like yourself, who lived in
town before the gamblers came here hadn't taken the easy
way and move somewhere else, this town would.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Be nearly as bad off as it is now.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But they've all gone.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Until the future, this town depends upon your husband. There
was something I could do, there is. You can stay
here and be the next sheriff. Vote for all those
who are left here after the crooks leave town. Let
them be the quitters. There wouldn't be many folks left.
Others would come in if the town was safe for them,
good citizens like you you're asking.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm asking Bark Goodwin to stick now.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Who's there?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I don't want to be seen here. I'll slip out
the back way. Don't mention my being here, Bars, and remember,
no matter what happens, stick on the job and count
on me.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You ain't locked. The sheer's voice. Come on, boys, there's
our man. What do you want here? There's a cash
right on the table. Well, that makes a case of
put a slick one, don't it. What do you mean?
I mean your part was? You was with you at
Riggs place. Here's Riggs himself and.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
There's a cash he's told from me.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Not all money that'll be desired by the court. Meantime,
Bart Goodwin, you're under arrest for robbery and attempted murder.
What no, No, I can't a rest pot Hey, you can't.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
He didn't do nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh hold on, I didn't fire a shot.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Your friend with a mask did, and I need his fall.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I wasn't killed. You shot paw first, and he tried
to rob me. Every man in that gambering house you
were seeing you with a card in your sleeve. Rigs.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
If that's so, they are testifying court.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
But they won't. You own them body and soul. Look here, Blind,
you're going too far with your high handed ways of
doing things.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Come on, don't take.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Him to jail.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Leave him free and we'll leave town.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Leave town.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You'll even if you're allowed to go free, but he
leave ah.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
You can't be a quitter.
Speaker 13 (14:05):
Underation, son, I won't be the clear out any Blind
won't arrest you, go wan arrest me I promising to
clear out.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I am sticking.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
This is your chance to go.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
They might hang you.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't reconcile, Jane. You see that mask Man is
on our side.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
He admits it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And I heard what that mask man called his horse.
And I've seen how he handles shooting irons, and he
called his part the engine toto. Jane. He said to
count on him, and that's what we are doing. Come on,
blind hate me to jail. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 11 (14:43):
Then the curtain falls on the first starct of tonight's
Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please perm
us to pause.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
For just a few moments.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Now to continue our story. Mud Platts had fallen into
the hands of gamblers and was controlled by the most
important of their number, Harve Riggs. Bard Goodwin, the town's
former sheriff, was helpless to oppose the crooks until the
Lone Ranger promised him help. The mass Man sent Tontle
to summon the reformed gambler, Henry Parker. In the meantime,
Goodwin was arrested in jailed on a false charge. Our
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next scene opens in Harve Riggs gambling hall. It is
several days after Goodwin's arrest. Riggs is seated at the
corner table with the sheriff Andy Blind.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Hey Riggs, well, mercle ain't you short of strange ground?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Maybe I am, but I'm here to speak to you.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
You better keep to your own cheap gambling place and
stay out our first class places like mine.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He's just glad to see me here.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
I don't want cheapskates hanging around here. It will give
the place a bad name.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't like no party you, Merkle. I was just
a minute there.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I ain't going back to my place because it's closed.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Up, closed up? What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I come by there an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That was an hour ago. Now it's closed thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Here making gun talk. Merkle, Watch what you say.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You sent the best confounded gambler in the state to
bust me.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
That's a downright live Oh no it You send a.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Man that can do more tricks with cards than any
man I ever seen.
Speaker 13 (16:27):
He cleaned me out, took every cent I had, and
finished my back from the stack against my property and
took that too, And he left my place, laughing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
At me, saying you'd be glad to hear how he
come out of these first start.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I said July to Merkle, I say it again, I
never gave a food about the small time business you had.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I didn't send no one to bust you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Now that you are busted, I'm glad to hear what
you you word, what Riggs said, I'll clear out myrtle
all right? You wh.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Riggs? I don't know what to make of us, you know,
blame well.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
I didn't send the one to bust him.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
By thunder. I'd like to see the man that'd done
it to me too.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
If there's any first class gamblers with a lot of cash,
I want him in my place.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
There was no doubt in Merkell's mind that Riggs and
Saint Henry Parker. Merkle left riggs Gambling Hall in a
rage and promptly called upon his friend Sam Snead. Snead
was the owner of another small establishment.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
He's a stranger here, Max, and he's about clean me out.
Where must be the same one that done you in?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I heard about that. Where's that at? I got my
best dealer playing with him now, table over yonder See
it's the same one.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And look he's raking him all the cheers.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I still think Rigg sent him here. He's coming to
cash his chips.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Evening, mister Sneed, I reckon, I'm ready to cash in.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Now here's my chips. Eh, you've done all right, stranger
not heath bed for a sturday. I don't knows I
got cash enough on hand, uder you better have? Oh
you here, Michael? Yeah? But your name anyhow, mister name
Henry Parker? What about it? I'll poker. I'll tell you
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what I'll do. You'll offer to bet your place here?
What's left of it?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Again?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
My winning say yes, one cut of the cards? High
man wins. It suits me first, Raad and Joe. Let's
have a fresh deck. Got yeah, my ex break them
out and shuffle. I suppose you got the deed for
your place handy right here. Now, then suppose you lay
out the cash to replace these chips. I can't spend
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your chips in another house. I'll make the chips good.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Let me see the cash, and then we'll cut ah
as the cards all said? All right, poker, go ahead
and cut. Don't take more than a third of the cards,
you know. Sneed is an old trick cutting cards. But
a man wants to be sure to win.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He uses the dick. It's fixed up, so the high
cards are a mite longer.
Speaker 14 (19:17):
Now if instead of cutting by gripping the cards from
the side, I take them by the ends, I can
feel the long card and show.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You the ace of spades, which can't be beat pure.
Speaker 14 (19:30):
Why of course that the deck's and honest when I'd
done that just by luck.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
If it ain't honest, it's your deck. That's the same
stund he pulled on me. Likely my friend taught the trick.
You jam your friend. Now I'll take my winnings and
try some other place.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Evening, gents, I'll give you a couple of days to
move things out of my property.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
His property.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
He's took my place. He got mine too. I'm broke,
I'm busted, cleaned out. Who is that on Brandy? His friend?
He must have man Riggs.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I figured the same, but Riggs denies it.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
You're he denied, But the honery polecat he's trying to
drive out all competition.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Nothing is too small for him to want. Look at
how he took Tommy Goodwin in.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, listened, Max, leave Parker, Go leave him alone and
see what he does next.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Wait, Hey, you what are you hanging around here for Sneid?
That engine's been taken in all that's going on. You
not own place? Well, what do you do? Not own it? Either?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Clear out, get I'm still in charge here and I
got to clear the place out.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So I can do somethinking.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Tanto rode to a small, well concealed camp where he
met the lone Ranger. The faithful Indian told what Henry
Parker accomplished. Riggs in the air were amused by the
losses suffered by Merkle and Snead, but Henry Parker had
not stopped.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He appeared in more places. In the first, he.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Collected his winnings without bothering the cut cards for the property.
In the second, he was surrounded by a group of
excited men who watched his play, Parker speaking, you'd better
win this time, my.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Friend, or you'll be cleaned right out on. Gimme two
cards one two, I'll play what I got right here.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
You're bluffing me again, then raise me. The mat'sa medged
and raised clash. I still say you're bluffing. You can
say what you please, but just let's see your case.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
SI. No more to raise. I'll see you full house.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You gyms have a lot to learn about this game.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now, I reckon, I'll be saying good evening, New Year,
next four of us. He's wiped out. How's he do it?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I thought I knowed my own cards, but flastered him?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
And follow him?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
What's that you hear?
Speaker 14 (21:55):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You follow that funna? See where him go? Why? What
do you know about him?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Maybe, Wendy, let's do what the Redskins says.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
He must have a fortune in that bag of his
Come on.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
The defeated gamblers followed Parker to the huge establishment owned
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by Riggs. They stood outside while Parker approached the table
occupied by Riggs, carrying a heavy money bag in each hand.
The gamblers paused only long enough to note the meeting,
then went around to the side of the hall and
listened in at an open window.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Don't make no sound, just listen to what's it? Maybe
the engine was right? After all, there's Parker and Riggs.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Your Riggs and Begs is filled and I took my commission.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
What I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Sure you do?
Speaker 14 (22:57):
The way you slipped them fixed up dicks of cards,
no limb places worked out sleek, I cleaned out.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Four of them say who I and what are you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Ain't you the man named Parker?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Sure? What are you doing around? Needn't be afeared Riggs.
They need no one close enough to hear what I'm saying.
You blame fool.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You must be local if you want to gamble here,
all right, but don't be coming.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You're a feared Someone will know you hired me.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Wait, hold, blame you're in with me? Fust this place
of smart.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Infuriated gamblers were determined to wreck the ring place beyond repair.
Guns plays, The bar was overturned, chairs and tables are
smashed in montcano. Fire started from the upside lamp and
flames quickly caught on the dry walls.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Hi, they fired my place, but.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I turn No, that's more than we're thinking on too.
But it's just as well. And then we'll get out
all right.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
But all the Briggs equipment will be destroyed. And that
right now, it's time for the Texas Rangers to move.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
In him Here they come, mister.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
They waited, just like you said. They wanted to clean
out the alcohols for a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Parker.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
They couldn't come until they were sent for and sheriff
Blyne wouldn't send for them.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
How'd they happen? The movie?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And they think Blin sent for them.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Blin won't dare deny us he does, He'll implicate himself
for the outlaws. Now to get the man who's to
be the next sheriff. Come on, Silver, here we are.
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But he will not be held in that jail much longer.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I've heard all the noisy.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
What's happened?
Speaker 9 (24:58):
A man cleaned out all the small old gamblers, then
made them think Riggs hired him for the job.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
They smashed Rigg's place and they caught fire.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
He did great guns that swell.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
The Texas Rangers came and thinking Sheriff Blind sent for them.
They're arresting most of the gamblers and will recognize them
as men wanted by the law.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Did Blind sind for the rangers?
Speaker 14 (25:18):
No.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
With a dozen outlaws living here, Blind can't deny sending
for them unless he admits that he was in.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
League with the crooks.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
If he for him, some of them will kill him.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
That's why I'll have to clear out of the town.
The crooks will be jailed, the sheriff run out, and
then bart they'll have to elect a new sheriff, and
I think there's no doubt, but what you will be
the man.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Say, who's that riding away so fast? That's the ex
sheriff Andy Blind? Stand back away from that door.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
Bart eh all right, Bert, there's no one left to
insist that you'll be jailed.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Gosh, you Shore mean what you said when you said
you'd stand by me.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Bart. Make this sound the place it used to be.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Are sure we'll do that same or dire trime sort
of place for Tommy to grow up in, Tommy and
all the other younguns.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
I've emptied my saddle bags. The money there is gambler's money.
Most of them are taken dishonestly from people who are
victims of the vicious business here. You use it to
the best of thatage. Gosh, help those who need help
and stick to your job.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Hello those Silver I saw these life all more as
a gold robbery out the station.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Hello Shell.
Speaker 15 (27:02):
Another up, stop, stop, stop.
Speaker 16 (27:36):
At the
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Story you've just heard is a copyrighted feature of The
Lone Ranger, Incorporated.
I am sure, a fiery horse with the speed of light,
a cloud of dust in a hoty hiel silver, and
a lone ranger. There is one man whose life story
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cannot be separated from the development of the Western United States.
The tale of his deed is not to be found
in the written records of those days, but has been
repeated through the generations, until the people of seven Western
States honor the memory of the mass writer of justice.
Wherever he appeared, the cause of justice was served, And
now once more a thrilling story of the phantom figure
of the Plains. The Lone Ranger rides again.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Hurry silvere, I s quite, lights and yours whok and
dabbles are running the town of monflats Hi.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
As the Lone Ranger rode by arms silver, he was
hurrying toward muddy. In all the West, no town had
a worse reputation. Though smaller than Dodge City, it was
filled with gamblers and crooks of every description. Honest people
found difficulty making a living, and as the sheriff had
been elected by the town's worst element, there was little
chance to correct the situation. In the first scene of
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our Lone Ranger drama, Fifteen year old Tommy Goodwin is
walking down the main street. His steps are slow and
his eyes fixed upon the ground. When his father speaks
to him, Suddenly, he looks up in fear.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Tommy walliams, and have you been? You'll mind me? Was
word half sick about you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh, Pa?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Have any trouble? No? No, no, not exactly. But where
you've been all this time? We sent you out four
hours ago to pay over that cash to the store keeper. Yeah,
I know you paid him, didn't you? Well? U look
at me? What's the matter with you? I didn't mean
to do nothing?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Pie?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Did you pay our bill at the store? I was gone?
Did you or didn't you? No? You didn't? No, I didn't?
Why not? You know? Blame well? What we had to
do to get that cash? I had to say that
jewel Ja Mar has been treasured and ever since we
left Virginia, we had to pay that bill. We won't
get no more credit at the store. I knew it.
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Part o, Why didn't you pay? Where have you been
all this time? I met Harve Riggs, REGs a gambling crook.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, he stopped and spoke to me in and we
got talking. He said, somebody fine things about you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Pat dirty Kyle. He never had a good word for
me in his life, but he did.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
We got to talking and and he was gonna tell
me about some of the things you've done in the army.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Was well, I was listening.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
And the first thing I knowed, we was inside the
cafe Riggs place.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, and he got you to gambling and took the cash.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well not at first, you see, we we just cut
cards for high cards for a nickel.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
For a nickel to cut, yeah, And and I won.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I want most of dollar cutting cards. And then then
he said I had to give him a chance to
get the dollar.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Back, the dirty scheming rat.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I still don't know po how it happened. But the
first thing I knowed, we were sort of cutting for
more and more money.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And for the next thing I knowed, I was broke.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You go on home, Pi, I didn't mean to go
home and tell your ma be along. In a little while,
I'm gonna call on Havel Riggs. That skunk's gone too far.
He ain't satisfied. Rob on every groad man in town.
He's gotta pick on. Kids your side, get to home, now,
tell your ma be along. By and by I'm going
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in and see that pole cat.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
That Jezebo cleans you up hard.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I'm sorry, Yeah, you look sorry. Riggs.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Drop it again sometime and I'll give you the chance
to win your money back.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I hope you gosh, I know, keep out of this
place when I get the more money.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Goodbye, and good luck to you. Good to luck.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Don't mean nothing around.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
His place like this praise. I want to speak to
you well of it ain't bar Goodwe have a chair
by it. Unto my talking on two feet. You've been
telling my boy things about me in the army. Yeah,
and he was you're interest, and you got him in
a game and robbed him fifty dollars you took from him, Riggs,
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I want that money. You want what money? I want
the money you stole from Tommy.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tray.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Goodwin.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I never stole a cent in.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
All my life. Maybe you don't consider it stealing when
you take it from a kid with more cars.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Some minute, Goodwin, and a man says my cards is marked.
I expect him either prove it or a dry shooting.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Iron prove it. Huh, all right, I got just five
bucks here.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
You expect me to play for five bucks?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Steal them cards? You're playing me now, Rigs, and don't
try no monkey shines, you know.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Let me.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
I'll stay one more around now, and I face these
guys all right, tell her, uh good man.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Look at Riggs there.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
He's the biggest gambler in town towne, but the biggest
gambling place in Montflats.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
And he's playing for five dollars him want all the money.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I wonder if there isn't some way to clean up
this town.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
We drive gambler round. That isn't easy the gamblers on
the town. Tata.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Maybe we make trouble for gambler Tada. Do you remember
Henry Parker? O him over to Dune City. He's not
known around here at all. He hasn't done any gambling
for years.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Him turn good.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yes, he's going straight since we helped him out of
that scrape a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Tata. Get Henry Parker here, me go fetch him now.
Yes he rat O I caught here. Look here, boys,
here's a crooked.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Do that win coat? Riggs got your flat? Put it?
There's how you've been winning any cards? I'm on your tricks.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Look here boy, I'm all right, I'm chime my hand,
my hands, Bustard Buller didn't touch your hands.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I shot you're gunna wait to stop I murder. Good one,
get out of here while you have the chance.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Swing me in the shoulder and you get out. All right,
I can get out. I'll come back. I'll get you
reap so i'll get.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You for this next time we meet. You to be
ready to shoot it out.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Good one proved you're a crook. Prove you're a crooked gambler.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Didn't I on your way? Good one, get out while
you have the chance. You'll cover at rags. Don't make
a play for that second gun you wear.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
How'll get your to stranger. I don't know who you are.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I want to find out.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I'll get you.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
You'll have to find out who I am first. The
rest of you stay back. Come on, Tuddle, it's.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Good one gone him gone back out the door.
Speaker 9 (08:37):
Then get on your horse and go for the man
I told you about me Boom the first man who
comes out there.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Don't get more of what Rakes got. Ride hard, Huddle,
how many to encampusmons you come back with? Parker can't
find hell.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Tun to race from town in one direction, while the
lone Ranger wrote in another. That night, the mass man
returned to Mudflats. The place was booming with activity. Prows
had gathered not only in the gambling hall owned by
Harve Riggs, but in all the smaller ones as well.
The lone Ranger, however, ignored these and went to Goodwin's
home on the.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Edge of town.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He paused outside, and, hearing voices, moved close to the window.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
My wounding's bad, Jane. I'll be as good as new
in a dare's soul, but he's losing that money. But
I don't know what we'll do for food.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
The store won't give you no more credit.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
An honest man ain't a chance earning any shorter living here.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
But there ain't but one thing for us to do.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
What's her? Jane? Move out? You mean leave Mudflat?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Bart.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I don't hold Tommy to blame for what he'd done.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
He's been brought up in this.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Sort of hole.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
What can you expect? Where is he in his room?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I guess he's ashamed.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
FACI send him here, but don't be harsh with him.
He ain't but fifteen Get him for me.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Tommy, What is it more?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Your father wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Didn't didn't figure he'd ever want to speak to me again.
Come here, son, Yeah, pah, go ahead, do whatever you're
a mind to.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I got it coming to me.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'm not gonna punish your tom I reckon you know
as well as me that you've done what you shouldn't.
But Harve Riggs is so slick that fool growed men
are took in by him. You you ain't gonna tan
my height, No, lad, I'm just gonna ask you to
look at me and see the most cursed, stubborn, foolish
man that ever lived. I made a mistake too, you, Pa. Yep.
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Me and your more settled here when it was a
decent place to live in. Then gamblers come here, put
up their own man for sheriff, and he blind. I
figured that he was a batton, but that I'd stay
around here and beat him when the next election come along.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You're better than he ever was, Pa, What my.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Friends are pulled out here one after another. Meanwhile other
gamblers and crow come in. Yeah, still ours cusset, stubborn.
I helped to make this town. I kept biding time
until Blind's term run out, figuring if I could just
hang on, I get my old job as sheriff back again.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
But there ain't no use hanging on no longer.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Bart.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
You've found out that you can't do nothing else to
in a decent living, and an honor sheriff wouldn't have
a chance of getting elected now.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It took me a long time to see that. Jane.
It's lucky our boy didn't get into no worse trouble.
You see it now.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I won't think of you as a quitter.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If you leave, Bart, I will be quitting the light.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
You these, don't be alarmed.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's the man that got me out of Rigg's place alive, Jane,
that's our friend. Oh gosh, mister, you sure help my part.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
But I brought back the money, reached it from your son.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The money there it is, Thank you, stranger.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
We needed that money.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I will sheriff around here, mister, before mud flats went
to the gamblers and crooks. Seen a lot of outlaws,
mask and otherwise. I'm not wanted by the law, but
I didn't think so. Wats the mask for?
Speaker 9 (12:07):
But you're going to quit, aren't you? After hanging on
all this time, waiting for sheriff Blind's term to expire.
You're going to quit and give up.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
There's nothing else can be done.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Twitters are much help in building this country, Bars, but
I don't If other men like yourself, who lived in
town before the gamblers came here hadn't taken the easy
way and move somewhere else, this town would.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Be nearly as bad off as it is now.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But they've all gone.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Until the future, this town depends upon your husband. There
was something I could do, there is. You can stay
here and be the next sheriff. Vote for all those
who are left here after the crooks leave town. Let
them be the quitters. There wouldn't be many folks left.
Others would come in if the town was safe for them,
good citizens like you you're asking.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm asking Bark Goodwin to stick now.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Who's there?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I don't want to be seen here. I'll slip out
the back way. Don't mention my being here, Bars, and remember,
no matter what happens, stick on the job and count
on me.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You ain't locked. The sheer's voice. Come on, boys, there's
our man. What do you want here? There's a cash
right on the table. Well, that makes a case of
put a slick one, don't it. What do you mean?
I mean your part was? You was with you at
Riggs place. Here's Riggs himself and.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
There's a cash he's told from me.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Not all money that'll be desired by the court. Meantime,
Bart Goodwin, you're under arrest for robbery and attempted murder.
What no, No, I can't a rest pot Hey, you can't.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
He didn't do nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh hold on, I didn't fire a shot.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Your friend with a mask did, and I need his fall.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I wasn't killed. You shot paw first, and he tried
to rob me. Every man in that gambering house you
were seeing you with a card in your sleeve. Rigs.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
If that's so, they are testifying court.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
But they won't. You own them body and soul. Look here, Blind,
you're going too far with your high handed ways of
doing things.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Come on, don't take.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Him to jail.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Leave him free and we'll leave town.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Leave town.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You'll even if you're allowed to go free, but he
leave ah.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
You can't be a quitter.
Speaker 13 (14:05):
Underation, son, I won't be the clear out any Blind
won't arrest you, go wan arrest me I promising to
clear out.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I am sticking.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
This is your chance to go.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
They might hang you.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't reconcile, Jane. You see that mask Man is
on our side.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
He admits it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And I heard what that mask man called his horse.
And I've seen how he handles shooting irons, and he
called his part the engine toto. Jane. He said to
count on him, and that's what we are doing. Come on,
blind hate me to jail. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 11 (14:43):
Then the curtain falls on the first starct of tonight's
Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please perm
us to pause.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
For just a few moments.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Now to continue our story. Mud Platts had fallen into
the hands of gamblers and was controlled by the most
important of their number, Harve Riggs. Bard Goodwin, the town's
former sheriff, was helpless to oppose the crooks until the
Lone Ranger promised him help. The mass Man sent Tontle
to summon the reformed gambler, Henry Parker. In the meantime,
Goodwin was arrested in jailed on a false charge. Our
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next scene opens in Harve Riggs gambling hall. It is
several days after Goodwin's arrest. Riggs is seated at the
corner table with the sheriff Andy Blind.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Hey Riggs, well, mercle ain't you short of strange ground?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Maybe I am, but I'm here to speak to you.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
You better keep to your own cheap gambling place and
stay out our first class places like mine.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He's just glad to see me here.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
I don't want cheapskates hanging around here. It will give
the place a bad name.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't like no party you, Merkle. I was just
a minute there.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I ain't going back to my place because it's closed.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Up, closed up? What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I come by there an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That was an hour ago. Now it's closed thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Here making gun talk. Merkle, Watch what you say.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You sent the best confounded gambler in the state to
bust me.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
That's a downright live Oh no it You send a.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Man that can do more tricks with cards than any
man I ever seen.
Speaker 13 (16:27):
He cleaned me out, took every cent I had, and
finished my back from the stack against my property and
took that too, And he left my place, laughing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
At me, saying you'd be glad to hear how he
come out of these first start.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I said July to Merkle, I say it again, I
never gave a food about the small time business you had.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I didn't send no one to bust you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Now that you are busted, I'm glad to hear what
you you word, what Riggs said, I'll clear out myrtle
all right? You wh.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Riggs? I don't know what to make of us, you know,
blame well.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
I didn't send the one to bust him.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
By thunder. I'd like to see the man that'd done
it to me too.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
If there's any first class gamblers with a lot of cash,
I want him in my place.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
There was no doubt in Merkell's mind that Riggs and
Saint Henry Parker. Merkle left riggs Gambling Hall in a
rage and promptly called upon his friend Sam Snead. Snead
was the owner of another small establishment.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
He's a stranger here, Max, and he's about clean me out.
Where must be the same one that done you in?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I heard about that. Where's that at? I got my
best dealer playing with him now, table over yonder See
it's the same one.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And look he's raking him all the cheers.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I still think Rigg sent him here. He's coming to
cash his chips.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Evening, mister Sneed, I reckon, I'm ready to cash in.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Now here's my chips. Eh, you've done all right, stranger
not heath bed for a sturday. I don't knows I
got cash enough on hand, uder you better have? Oh
you here, Michael? Yeah? But your name anyhow, mister name
Henry Parker? What about it? I'll poker. I'll tell you
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what I'll do. You'll offer to bet your place here?
What's left of it?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Again?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
My winning say yes, one cut of the cards? High
man wins. It suits me first, Raad and Joe. Let's
have a fresh deck. Got yeah, my ex break them
out and shuffle. I suppose you got the deed for
your place handy right here. Now, then suppose you lay
out the cash to replace these chips. I can't spend
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your chips in another house. I'll make the chips good.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Let me see the cash, and then we'll cut ah
as the cards all said? All right, poker, go ahead
and cut. Don't take more than a third of the cards,
you know. Sneed is an old trick cutting cards. But
a man wants to be sure to win.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He uses the dick. It's fixed up, so the high
cards are a mite longer.
Speaker 14 (19:17):
Now if instead of cutting by gripping the cards from
the side, I take them by the ends, I can
feel the long card and show.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You the ace of spades, which can't be beat pure.
Speaker 14 (19:30):
Why of course that the deck's and honest when I'd
done that just by luck.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
If it ain't honest, it's your deck. That's the same
stund he pulled on me. Likely my friend taught the trick.
You jam your friend. Now I'll take my winnings and
try some other place.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Evening, gents, I'll give you a couple of days to
move things out of my property.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
His property.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
He's took my place. He got mine too. I'm broke,
I'm busted, cleaned out. Who is that on Brandy? His friend?
He must have man Riggs.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I figured the same, but Riggs denies it.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
You're he denied, But the honery polecat he's trying to
drive out all competition.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Nothing is too small for him to want. Look at
how he took Tommy Goodwin in.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, listened, Max, leave Parker, Go leave him alone and
see what he does next.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Wait, Hey, you what are you hanging around here for Sneid?
That engine's been taken in all that's going on. You
not own place? Well, what do you do? Not own it? Either?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Clear out, get I'm still in charge here and I
got to clear the place out.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So I can do somethinking.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Tanto rode to a small, well concealed camp where he
met the lone Ranger. The faithful Indian told what Henry
Parker accomplished. Riggs in the air were amused by the
losses suffered by Merkle and Snead, but Henry Parker had
not stopped.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He appeared in more places. In the first, he.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Collected his winnings without bothering the cut cards for the property.
In the second, he was surrounded by a group of
excited men who watched his play, Parker speaking, you'd better
win this time, my.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Friend, or you'll be cleaned right out on. Gimme two
cards one two, I'll play what I got right here.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
You're bluffing me again, then raise me. The mat'sa medged
and raised clash. I still say you're bluffing. You can
say what you please, but just let's see your case.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
SI. No more to raise. I'll see you full house.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You gyms have a lot to learn about this game.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now, I reckon, I'll be saying good evening, New Year,
next four of us. He's wiped out. How's he do it?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I thought I knowed my own cards, but flastered him?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
And follow him?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
What's that you hear?
Speaker 14 (21:55):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You follow that funna? See where him go? Why? What
do you know about him?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Maybe, Wendy, let's do what the Redskins says.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
He must have a fortune in that bag of his
Come on.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
The defeated gamblers followed Parker to the huge establishment owned
(22:28):
by Riggs. They stood outside while Parker approached the table
occupied by Riggs, carrying a heavy money bag in each hand.
The gamblers paused only long enough to note the meeting,
then went around to the side of the hall and
listened in at an open window.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Don't make no sound, just listen to what's it? Maybe
the engine was right? After all, there's Parker and Riggs.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Your Riggs and Begs is filled and I took my commission.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
What I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Sure you do?
Speaker 14 (22:57):
The way you slipped them fixed up dicks of cards,
no limb places worked out sleek, I cleaned out.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Four of them say who I and what are you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Ain't you the man named Parker?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Sure? What are you doing around? Needn't be afeared Riggs.
They need no one close enough to hear what I'm saying.
You blame fool.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You must be local if you want to gamble here,
all right, but don't be coming.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You're a feared Someone will know you hired me.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Wait, hold, blame you're in with me? Fust this place
of smart.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Infuriated gamblers were determined to wreck the ring place beyond repair.
Guns plays, The bar was overturned, chairs and tables are
smashed in montcano. Fire started from the upside lamp and
flames quickly caught on the dry walls.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Hi, they fired my place, but.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I turn No, that's more than we're thinking on too.
But it's just as well. And then we'll get out
all right.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
But all the Briggs equipment will be destroyed. And that
right now, it's time for the Texas Rangers to move.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
In him Here they come, mister.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
They waited, just like you said. They wanted to clean
out the alcohols for a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Parker.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
They couldn't come until they were sent for and sheriff
Blyne wouldn't send for them.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
How'd they happen? The movie?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And they think Blin sent for them.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Blin won't dare deny us he does, He'll implicate himself
for the outlaws. Now to get the man who's to
be the next sheriff. Come on, Silver, here we are.
(24:51):
But he will not be held in that jail much longer.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I've heard all the noisy.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
What's happened?
Speaker 9 (24:58):
A man cleaned out all the small old gamblers, then
made them think Riggs hired him for the job.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
They smashed Rigg's place and they caught fire.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
He did great guns that swell.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
The Texas Rangers came and thinking Sheriff Blind sent for them.
They're arresting most of the gamblers and will recognize them
as men wanted by the law.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Did Blind sind for the rangers?
Speaker 14 (25:18):
No.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
With a dozen outlaws living here, Blind can't deny sending
for them unless he admits that he was in.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
League with the crooks.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
If he for him, some of them will kill him.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
That's why I'll have to clear out of the town.
The crooks will be jailed, the sheriff run out, and
then bart they'll have to elect a new sheriff, and
I think there's no doubt, but what you will be
the man.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Say, who's that riding away so fast? That's the ex
sheriff Andy Blind? Stand back away from that door.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
Bart eh all right, Bert, there's no one left to
insist that you'll be jailed.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Gosh, you Shore mean what you said when you said
you'd stand by me.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Bart. Make this sound the place it used to be.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Are sure we'll do that same or dire trime sort
of place for Tommy to grow up in, Tommy and
all the other younguns.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
I've emptied my saddle bags. The money there is gambler's money.
Most of them are taken dishonestly from people who are
victims of the vicious business here. You use it to
the best of thatage. Gosh, help those who need help
and stick to your job.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Hello those Silver I saw these life all more as
a gold robbery out the station.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Hello Shell.
Speaker 15 (27:02):
Another up, stop, stop, stop.
Speaker 16 (27:36):
At the
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Story you've just heard is a copyrighted feature of The
Lone Ranger, Incorporated.
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