Classic Radio 08-12-25 - Broken Spur, Snakebite, and the Assembly Line - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Huspense, Shadow Note Washington, David.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Honey, count As My Classic Radio Theater, The Great Elderslide,
Via McGhee and Molly Dragon Gunson.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Is your host Wyatt cos.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Good evening friend Leona tang.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
So to you. It's only been a day since we
did this last but it's actually almost been a week,
and I took a couple of days off and well,
I'll tell you why things just didn't go right on
taking a day away. I never get to do that.

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But we're gonna do Westerns on this Tuesday, with Tales
of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae from seventy five
years ago, Gun Smoking Fort Laramie from Sunday August twelfth,
nineteen fifty six, sixty nine years ago, Challenge of the
Yukon starring Paul Sutton from nineteen fifty one, and an
episode of Lumon Abner and the Baby Owns a gold Mine.

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Can't imagine the baby digging a woal mine. That's all
coming up here on this Tuesday. This is the twelfth
day of August two hundred and twenty fourth day of
the year. We have one hundred and forty one days left.
In twenty twenty five, the peak of the Perseid meteor
shower the glorious twelfth in the UK, as it marks
an additional start of the grouse shooting season. We don't

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shoot any grouse here in northern Nevada, but when it
comes to the Perseid meteor shower, oh, we're the place
for that. We've got the clearest skies in the North
America here in beautiful ike Pine County, Nevada, we do.
In eighteen thirty three, Chicago founded eighteen fifty one, Isaac
Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine. That

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is why people continually call Isaac Singer an old sew
and so Thomas Edison invented the photograph on this date
phono graph on this date. In eighteen seventy seven.

Speaker 7 (02:22):
Mary had a little, ma'am. It's preated quite as slow,
and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
Mary had a little ma'am. It's treated quite as slow,
and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.

Speaker 8 (02:34):
Mary had a little ma'am.

Speaker 7 (02:35):
It's freated quite as snow. And everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.

Speaker 6 (02:41):
Repurported to be Edison's first recording, We don't know if
that exact recording is of the original recording, which is doubtful,
but Edison did recount that a number of times that
that's what he recorded on his first recording, So we'll
just say that's what Edison originally recorded on this state
in eighteen seventy seven. An armistist ender the Spanish American

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War on this state in eighteen ninety eight. On that
same date, the Hawaiian flag lowered from Iolani Palace in
an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag
to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of
Hawaii to the United States. In nineteen oh eight, the
very first Model t Ford was built and was on

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this date. In nineteen forty one, Britain in the US
made a joint declaration of their common national aims and
postwar policy on this date. In nineteen forty one.

Speaker 9 (03:38):
I have come to you about an important meeting between.

Speaker 10 (03:43):
The President of the United States and the Prime Minister
which has taken place and of a declaration of principle
which has been agreed between.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Them Deputy Prime Minister, Major Athlete. That joint declaration would
later become known as the Atlantic Charter. Today in nineteen
forty three the alleged date of the first Philadelphia test
experiment on US Navy ship USS Eldridge. The first communications
satellite Echo one was launched on this date in nineteen sixty.

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In nineteen seventy seventy first free flight tests, so Space
Shuttle Enterprise took place.

Speaker 11 (04:24):
Bought base base to Base.

Speaker 12 (04:31):
Two B.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
And they're on the ground.

Speaker 11 (04:37):
There are of applause on the spectators on the lake bed.
The Shuttle Enterprise makes it first landing all.

Speaker 13 (04:43):
By a successfully.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
No, it wasn't a space flight, but rather a test
of the landing capabilities of the Space Shuttle vehicle. Enterprise
never took the space It always remained a test vehicle.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh, it was on this date.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
In nineteen eighty one, the IBM Personal Computer was released.

Speaker 13 (05:03):
The IBM Personal Computer now it's selected stores across the country. Now.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
The PC was released four years after the original radio
shack Model one, the first widely distributed personal computer, and
it was kind of in its own workspace. You had
to go to radio shack to buy it. They didn't
always keep the computers in stock, so you couldn't just

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walk in, buy one, and walk out all the time.
But the computers were in many ways the light years
ahead of what IBM came out with the sixteen kilomet
base model with no data storage side sixteen K, not
sixteen meg, not sixteen gig. Sixteen K. It cost fifteen

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hundred and sixty five dollars no data storage drives that was.
That'd be over fifty five hundred dollars in today's money. Yeah,
if you loaded it up all the memory within take
sixty four K with all the standard features it had
jumped to twelve with still no storage twenty eight hundred
and eighty dollars over ten thousand bucks today. You put

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color graphics and a two hundred and fifty six K
kill a bit of memory six thousand bucks over twenty
one thousand dollars today. And what did you have available
The VisiCalc spreadsheet, Easy Rider one point zero and Adventure,
Microsoft's first game, which by the way, was a text
based game because you know, you couldn't do much with

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those graphics. This made Tandy stumble a bit and I
talk about this because I was almost a Tandy person,
and you know they They came out with a modeled
Tandy two thousand, which also worked on MS DOS, but
it was totally incompatible with the IBMPC, so Tandy stepped back.

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They came out with the Handy one thousand computer. They
got a ten percent share of the home computer market
in nineteen eighty six, and its outstanding color graphics and
sound capabilities made it a much better computer. But I digress. Uh, yeah,
I know, I'm doing my task talk again. In nineteen

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eighty two, Mexico announced they couldn't pay their debt, the
beginning of a debt crisis that spread to all of
Latin America in the Third World. Nineteen eighty seven, President
Reagan addressed the people of America and the world about
the Iran contra.

Speaker 14 (07:35):
There I was aware of the resistance was receiving funds
directly from third countries and from private efforts, and I
endorsed those endeavors wholeheartedly. Let me put this in capital letters.
I did not know about the diversion of funds. Indeed,
I didn't know there were excess funds.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
President Stubborn, in his pursuit of a policy that went astray.
He said, the buck stopped with him. In nineteen ninety two,
President Bush announced the US, Canada, and Mexico had reached
a North American Free Trade Agreement, and he immediately began
the campaign to have it ratified by the Senate.

Speaker 15 (08:12):
This historic trade agreement will further open markets in Mexico, Canada,
and the United States, and it'll create jobs and generate
economic growth in all three countries.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
Bush left office before the agreement could be passed. This
is George Herbert Walker Bush, by the way, ratified during
the first year of the Clinton administration. President Trump push
war and got a replacement deal that has benefited the
American people greatly. One of the issues that we saw
at the time, back in ninety two and ninety three

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when this was going on, is we saw the collapse
of agriculture in Florida. There was a thriving Florida tomato industry,
and when we saw Mexican tomatoes coming in, quality wise,
they weren't as good, but they were cheap, and that

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was what really and it hurt American farmers, it really did. Hopefully,
we're going to see more benefits as the trade deals
end up happening again.

Speaker 13 (09:20):
Now.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
It was on this day twenty five years ago the
Russian nuclear submarine Kirk and its one hundred and eighteen
man crew lost during naval exercises in the barren See.
Defense Secretary William Cohen offered condolences.

Speaker 16 (09:35):
Our military men and women are not looking at this
accident as something that has happened to the Russians, but
as something that has happened to fellow uniform professionals. It's
personal and it's very deep, and I.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
Mean when you look at more about what happened with
the incident, and investigation concluded, the crew loaded a dummy
torpedo into one of the tubes. Faulty welled in it's
casing the TI test peroxide into the torpedo tube, and
that initiated a catalytic explosion. Yeah, when the test admission

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like this happens, you gotta feel sad for the people
on board because yeah, they were Russian. But my goodness. Now,
two thousand and four, former New Jersey Governor Jim mcgreeby
resigned after admitting to a same sex affair.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
So my truth is that I am a gay American. Now.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Mcgreeby later stated he had an affair with Israeli consultant
Golan Ciple denied the claim, but there are still questions.
And it was on this date. In twenty seventeen the
Unite the Right rally occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, leading to
the deaths of three and injuring nearly fifty others. Passing

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away on this date, Henry Fonk gung gyp your member,
the film and commercials that he did, Henry Fond, a wonderful,
wonderful actor. The singer songwriter Kusakamoto, who was a wonderful
singer and had a wonderful hit song in America, and yet,

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rather than give it a proper translation, the hit song
in Japanese was called Sukiyaki Go figure I had nothing
to do with food. Actress Loretta Young passing on this day.
Kusakamoto did also as well, the man who created Jeopardy

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and Wheel of Fortune and yet was a hit singer
in his day. Also actor and talk show host Mert
Griffin passing away on this date, the wonderful less Paul,
such wonderful things he did and such innovations in recording
at the time. And Lord McCall passing away on this date.

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It will be eleven years ago today.

Speaker 13 (12:03):
Now.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Birthdays on this date include the very flashy financer Diamond
Jim Brady, also Cecil b de Mill aunt Clara in Bewitch,
Marion Lorne. Also actor Alfred Hunt Lund rather Alfred Lund.
Let's get the words out that are on the page.

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Also the very funny Joe Besser funny funny man. Also
actress Jane Wyatt. Mexican actor Cunton Bluss, a gentleman who
wore flashy suits, had a television show that ran over
twenty years and the thing we forget about him today

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is that he brought Dolly Parton to our television screens.
Porter Wagner born on this date in history, along with
another great country legend, Buck Owens. And psychic Miss Cleo
born on this date, but she never saw it coming.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements.

Speaker 17 (13:06):
The following people are now officially older than.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
Dirt financer, liberal political activist George Soros ninety five years
old today. Actor George Hamilton's still with us at eighty six.
If you saw him work in the in the mid
South wrestling era, you would not ever guess that he
would become the Red Rooster in the WWE. He's now

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a trainer for their NXT brand. Terry Taylor seventy years old,
rapper Sir mix a Lot sixty two. Can you imagine
we're now I have rappers. They're coming up for social security.
Comedian Michael ian Black fifty four from Nothing to Lose
an Urban Legend. Rebecca Gayheart is fifty four. Yes, he

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was in Ocean's eleven, Oceans twelve, Oceans thirteen, but his
best actor was for the two hundred Best Actor Oscar
I should say for the twenty sixteen film Manchester by
the Sea. Casey Appleck fifty today the Forest.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Blue and they couldn't go back in again.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
And that's all I remember.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
From Manchester by the Sea where he got his best
actor nod Casey Appleck fifty today from psych Maggie Lawson
forty five from Lolita and Face Off, Dominique Swain is
forty five, and the gorgeous Kara Delvigny is thirty three.
Those just a few of the people celebrating the twelfth

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day of August is their birthday. And if this is
your birthday, happy people.

Speaker 13 (14:51):
Day to.

Speaker 18 (14:55):
Help people day too.

Speaker 19 (15:08):
To.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Get to the Westerns. In just a moment. I want
to thank some nice people, the folks at the beautiful
roadway in in Elco, Nevada, where I spent a couple
of days, intending to record some Classic radio theater podcasts. Instead,
I took the long way to Elko, went through a
beautiful community west Windover, Nevada, and was going to get

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something healthy and good to eat at one of the
casinos there. But I saw sign at Burger King that
talked about the barbecue brisket whopper. They had me at
brisket within an hour. But between the time I drove

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from wind Over, West Windover, Nevada to Elko, Nevada, my
stomach was killing me, killing me, food poisoning. It makes
me wonder when they what is it? Burger King says, yeah,

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we you know, we got it for you. They had
it out for me that day. Okay, up next here
tales of the Texas Rangers that'll be first here seventy
five years ago on Classic Radio Theater.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Driving tonight. Then remember this.

Speaker 17 (16:46):
Most highway deaths are caused by two temptations to cut
out of line and to go too fast. Crossing the
center line of the road is more dangerous than you realize.
Statistics proven excessive speed is just as dangerous as officials say.
You can predict your own impulses, but you can never
predict the other drivers. When driving Tonight, drive cautiously.

Speaker 9 (17:06):
Please.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
Now we go back seventy five years on Classic radio
theater with Wyattcox, Joel McCrae Tales of the Texas Rangers
and The Broken Spur.

Speaker 20 (17:17):
Wheaties presents Joel McCrae in Tales of the Texas Rangers
on stage tonight, transcribed from Hollywood. Another in the Wheaties
Big Parade of exciting half hour presentations, Tales of the

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Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCray as Ranger Pierson, Texas, more
than two hundred and sixty thousand square miles and fifty
men who make up the most famous and oldest law
enforcement body in North America.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now from the.

Speaker 20 (18:10):
Files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on
fact only. Names, dates and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
They events themselves are a matter of record. To Night's case,
The Broken.

Speaker 21 (18:28):
Spur Saturday Night, June fifth, nineteen forty eight, The time
ten pm on a small ranch ten miles south of Cranston,
Irwin County, Texas, Milton Thomas was counting a large sum
of money preparatory to locking it up to night. As

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he was counting, his dog, Rags, appeared to be nervous.
Thomas tried quietly, did Rags stop that?

Speaker 2 (18:57):
You're making me count wrong?

Speaker 19 (19:00):
And you.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
And I not stop it? To the hiatrack, jup, down down?
Who's there?

Speaker 9 (19:13):
What do you want to?

Speaker 8 (19:14):
I want to?

Speaker 13 (19:17):
Seems to me a topfully don't like to be knocking
at people's dark Give it about that?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
What are you trying to get? Your dog back off?

Speaker 22 (19:28):
You get the same thing?

Speaker 8 (19:30):
You wait that dog? Give me that money?

Speaker 23 (19:32):
No, no, I want you ask for it?

Speaker 24 (19:36):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
All right then.

Speaker 20 (19:53):
Tales of the Texas Rangers will continue in just a moment.

Speaker 9 (19:57):
If you've got a job to do tomorrow, partner, get
your weedy Sure, Breakfast of Champions is for you, just
like it's for Ralph Kiner prior to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
You may not play ball for a living, but whatever
your job is tomorrow, you can do it better on
a better breakfast. And it's a better breakfast you're starting
with wheaties. There's a whole kernel of wheat in every

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wheati's flake. Yes, whole wheat good sound, whole wheat pump
and ripe and bursting with vitamins and minerals and protein
for your vitality, your energy, your working power. So tumble
the wheaties out of the package, Pour on the milk,
put on the fruit, pick up the spoon, and smile.

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You're eating good, to be feeling good. Breakfast of champions
for people who are going places. Are you ready triumph?
See how wheaties at seven can help? At eleven?

Speaker 21 (21:01):
At ten thirty the same night, Milton Thomas's house was
discovered on fire.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
The Cranston Fire Department was called.

Speaker 21 (21:07):
Next morning, the local sheriff, making a routine investigation, discovered
the burnt remains of a broken chair next to Thomas's body.
He ordered an autopsy. The results prompted him to call
the Texas Rangers. Ranger Jace Pearson was assigned to the
case and arrived at the scene of the fire early
that afternoon.

Speaker 9 (21:27):
For Harley Ranger, I'm Sheriff tax Howdy, my name is
Jace Pearson. Come on, I'll show you the house or
what's left of it.

Speaker 23 (21:38):
All right, folks, step back.

Speaker 9 (21:39):
Please, shouldn't have all these people walking around here, Sheriff,
ruin any footprints there might be. I had my deputy
here to list a few minutes ago, Pearson. I sent
him down to get some coffee.

Speaker 13 (21:49):
All right, folks, step back away from the house, all
of you. I'll get back to the fan.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Please.

Speaker 9 (21:56):
All burned out except for the wall. But you may
find something. He said when you you didn't think it
was an accident. I've been shared here for.

Speaker 23 (22:02):
Eighteen years and I'll stake my reputation it wasn't.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
It was ours to cover murder. Base that on the
autopsy YEP.

Speaker 9 (22:10):
Coroner couldn't find any traces of carbon vanuels in the
bronchial passages or lungs, and only the normal amount of
carbon monoxide in the lunch, indicating milk.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Thomas wasn't breathing when the fire started.

Speaker 25 (22:21):
Right.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
This was the front door burned off, the hinges and
fell off.

Speaker 9 (22:29):
That's funny, but a lock on this door special kind
takes a key on both sides. When the door's shut,
you have to have a key to get out of
the house.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
As well as in oh that.

Speaker 9 (22:39):
Yeah, milk was a funny old glue had them put
on both doors. The windows had trick locks too. Why well,
folks say kept a lot of money in the house.
Maybe he just a story. This lock's still working. Let's
look at the back door.

Speaker 23 (23:00):
Oh, here's what's left the millshole iron safe.

Speaker 9 (23:03):
Open like that when you found it. Yeah, empty too,
This lock's not forced or broken. Kind of hard to
tell much about anything after the roots felling. Yeah, it's
a mess, all right, same kind of lock here on
the back door. It's working too, Meaning whoever started the

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fire was locked in. Look here, whoever it was, here's
where he went out. See that window glass outside on
the ground's climb out and look see he didn't break it.
It's not crazed. It was knocked out from inside. And

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do you think the killer was trapped inside? Could have
been after he set fire to the place. How about footprints?
Sheriff tho, there's thousands of volunteer fireman tramps around alder
and the fire. Wait.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Wait, here's something.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
Like a spur row exactly what it is, broken off
a spur right below where the window was maybe busted
off by a man jumping out the window with his
tail feathers on fur. Maybe I don't envy an unperson.
I'll come well as a clue. The spur row is
probably mighty important.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
But what, Sheriff, I was just thinking.

Speaker 13 (24:22):
There probably ain't over ten million spurs in the state
of Texas with rowels just like the one you got
there in your hand.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Your figure may be a little high, Sheriff, but I
get your point.

Speaker 23 (24:34):
Hey, Jack, Yeah, what do you think you're doing?

Speaker 9 (24:37):
Jack?

Speaker 23 (24:38):
What's the matter, Sheriff? You know, darn well, what's the matter?
I told you to keep back.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
I was just looking around.

Speaker 23 (24:44):
We'll stop kicking around. Those ashes and the rest of you.
That's evidence you're tramping on. We didn't mean no harm.

Speaker 13 (24:50):
Now listen, all of you, So last time, I'm going
to tell you, how'd you like it if we thought
one of you was the criminal coming back to the
scene of the crime and deliberately trying to destroy oh evidence? Okay,
then get back or get off the property altogether.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
The books say that's generally not true, Sheriff.

Speaker 9 (25:09):
Huh about the criminal and the scene of the crime
happens only once in a thousand times.

Speaker 26 (25:13):
Oh, I know it.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
I just wanted to throw a scare into him. I see.

Speaker 9 (25:17):
Oh, by the way, who was that fellow you were
talking to him? It names Casey, Jack Casey. The sheriff
and I went over the yard thoroughly, but any footprints
the murderer might have left were trampled out by the

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fireman and the onlookers. Finally, some distance from the house,
I found the place.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
I was looking for.

Speaker 23 (25:46):
Sheriff, huh, come over here, what is it?

Speaker 9 (25:52):
Look? Here's where he took off from hook friends dug
out in an awful hurry too.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
And his horse tethered to this tree.

Speaker 9 (26:00):
Seems to me any man who had legitimate business at
the house would have tied up closer.

Speaker 18 (26:03):
Eh, that's loud.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
You look here.

Speaker 9 (26:06):
Horse chewed on the tree might be a quibber. We
find our man would likely find a horse that chews
on his feet. Bend see these tracks, head west towards
Snake Creek. You got a horse, Sheriff, I can get
one good. I'll get mine out of the trailer. We're
gonna follow those hoof prints. Hold a sheriff, keep your

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horse off that bank.

Speaker 23 (26:40):
Why what's the mast?

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Boot prints? Good fresh ones?

Speaker 23 (26:48):
H I thought for a minute. Gypsina moccasin. This stream's
full of cotton.

Speaker 9 (26:54):
I'll take my kit and make some plaster molds of
these prints. Mean dismounted here and let it horse across.
Yeah're probably afraid of slipping on those flat mossy rocks.
And small foot about size seven or eight, i'd say
on track pattern too.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Not likely he was toting a heavy load.

Speaker 9 (27:12):
Probably a fat man, fat, Yeah, look at his tracks deep,
even in the dry places. I make tracks as deep
as way over two hundred. But I ain't exactly fat.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
No, you're not fat, sheriff. But what sized boot do
you wear? Eleven and a half. If you ever see
a man your height, make a foot French, that's small,
come to think of it. I don't suppose there every dear.
Oh wait a minute.

Speaker 9 (27:34):
That man who was poking around the ashes back at
the house, Casey wasn't yeah Jack Casey?

Speaker 5 (27:39):
What about him?

Speaker 9 (27:40):
He's fat, Sheriff? Was he driving a car or riding
in case? He was riding his old paint mayor say
she's a quibber. Then I'm gonna need a warrant. As
soon as I get this mold, I'm heading for town sheriff.
Either the books are wrong or this Casey is one
in a thousand. Yeah, operator, operator, this is Jack Casey Again.

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What about that call I've been trying to get through
for the last hour and a half. Yeah, money Texas
the Della Sawmill Company. I know it's Sunday, but somebody
bound me.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
What are you doing with that gun?

Speaker 25 (28:25):
Oh shoe?

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Operator?

Speaker 8 (28:30):
Hello?

Speaker 5 (28:31):
Operator?

Speaker 13 (28:32):
And you said you'd call me back every twenty minutes.
It was over a half hour last time. Well keep trying, Jack,
who you trying to call? And what are you doing
with your shotgun?

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Maybe alone? Martha?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Were you ben since noon?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
You were supposed to meet me at the Tates for dinner.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
I know it, I know it.

Speaker 27 (28:48):
But who's that.

Speaker 23 (28:53):
Texas Ranger?

Speaker 17 (28:55):
Jack?

Speaker 9 (28:56):
What have you done?

Speaker 23 (28:57):
Put that gun away, get in the back room. You
ain't fixing the shoes, are you? If I have to, Jack,
don't do it.

Speaker 9 (29:03):
Jack, don't hold it. Bringer say here you are put
that gun down, Casey, you're not coming in here.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
I got a warrant here, says I can, and I
am shack.

Speaker 13 (29:16):
Put it down.

Speaker 28 (29:24):
You are right, ma'am?

Speaker 24 (29:25):
Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
Shotgun is a nasty thing to carry around.

Speaker 9 (29:29):
Cock.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
I'll just take this. I want to look around a little.
Got your bedroom? Yeah, come on, paint mayor outside yours?

Speaker 9 (29:41):
Yes it is?

Speaker 5 (29:46):
These are your boots?

Speaker 18 (29:47):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
How'd you break this spur?

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Didn't know it was broken. I'll take these boots along.

Speaker 9 (29:56):
You want me to get a check?

Speaker 5 (29:58):
No, somebody gonna answer it?

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (30:03):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (30:07):
Hello? What but never mind?

Speaker 9 (30:11):
Catching?

Speaker 5 (30:14):
You better come along with me, Casey.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
What's this all about?

Speaker 23 (30:16):
Ranger?

Speaker 9 (30:16):
Where are you're taking? Jack? He thinks somebody killed Milk Thomas.
To be exact, he thinks I did.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Oh, you seem to know some of the answers, some
of them.

Speaker 9 (30:27):
Before we go, Ranger, I'd like to ask you one question. Sure,
what time did this soul called murder take place? About
ten o'clock last night?

Speaker 28 (30:37):
Ten o'clock?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's the handle?

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Smart?

Speaker 12 (30:41):
Suppose I can prove where it was last night.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
We're just as anxious to prove a man innocent as guilty. Casey,
do you have any witnesses?

Speaker 5 (30:49):
About three hundred of them?

Speaker 13 (30:51):
At ten o'clock last night, I was sitting in the
Cranston High School auditorium watching my niece graduate.

Speaker 20 (31:12):
In just a moment, we continue with tales of the
Texas Rangers. Starring Joel McCrae as ranger Jase Pearson.

Speaker 9 (31:19):
If a man rides herd on one hundred head of
cattle all day, first he needs his wheaties. Yes. And
if a man sits behind a big desk and pushes
buttons on his job, first, he.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Needs his wheaties. And listen, mama, you too.

Speaker 9 (31:32):
If you keep track of a couple of growing up
kids and wash dishes and make beds on your job, first,
you need your wheaties, yump, Whatever your job, wherever you work,
wheaties can help, whether you run a machine, or pound
a typewriter or play baseball for a living. First, you
need your wheaties. Because here is whole wheat, with the rich,

(31:53):
full bodied energy of whole wheat. There's a whole kernel
of wheat in every wheati's flake. That's why wheaties give
so much vitamins, minerals, protein. Wheaties have them, and they're
for you. Pour the wheaties into the cereal bowl, add
the milk, add the fruit, and dig right in. Do
that at seven and see how much better you're working

(32:14):
when eleven am rolls around. Yes, try them every morning.
Crisp and tempting and See if I'm not right. See
if a better breakfast with the whole wheat nourishment of
wheaties doesn't make a pleasant difference in your morning's work.
See if milk fruit wheaties isn't honest and truly breakfast
of champions. See yourself how wheaties at seven can help.

(32:38):
At eleven, Casey stuck to the alibi that he'd been
at the graduation the night before, and I already had
enough evidence to take him in. While the sheriff was
out asking questions around town, I tried to break down
Casey's story. I tell you I was there, all right,

(33:01):
Take it easy, Casey. Let's assume for a minute you were,
And how do you count for the boot prints made
by your boots and found near the scene of the crime.
Lots of people wear boots. Could have been anybody, I'm
afraid not.

Speaker 25 (33:12):
You.

Speaker 9 (33:12):
See, I made plaster casts of those prints, and the boots,
the ones you admitted were yours, matched the prince to
the last nailmark. Well, I've tramped around this part of
the country a lot of times. They could have been
old prince. Huh huh, these were fresh prints.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Well, what about it? I don't know all right?

Speaker 9 (33:31):
Then, what about the row we found just outside Thomas House?
One broken off your spur.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
I don't know anything about that either.

Speaker 9 (33:39):
There's no pointing withholding information, Casey. You know we'll find
out about it sooner or later.

Speaker 23 (33:45):
How are you doing, Pierson?

Speaker 9 (33:46):
Casey decided to come clean aunt chev What about the
niche sheriff. The neighbors say she and her family left
on a vacation.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Early this morning. You know anything about that, Casey? No,
too bad, because I've had.

Speaker 23 (33:58):
Several interesting chefs.

Speaker 13 (34:01):
Casey, I've just talked to four people who were at
the graduation exercises last night, four people who know you,
and not one of them remember seeing you there. I
was at the high school last night, I tell you, Casey,
the Sheriff's talked to four people who didn't see you.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
Well, who did, I don't know.

Speaker 28 (34:19):
We're dark in the auditorium.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
Didn't you speak to anybody?

Speaker 9 (34:22):
No thing had already started. And wait a minute, yeah,
I talked to one of the ushers what was his name?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Wasn't it him?

Speaker 9 (34:31):
It was to her one of the high school girls
wearing a long pink dress. Sheriff who's the principal of
the high school. Mister shot Warren shot all right, locked
Casey up. I'm going to find out who the ushers were,
and especially the little girl with a long pink dress.

Speaker 12 (34:59):
Right.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Why, yes, sir, I remember mister Casey being there with
missus Casey.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Are you sure, Elma, this is very important.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 29 (35:10):
They came in late and had to wait until the
invocation was over, and then he asked for an Aisle'll see.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
He said he couldn't climb over people.

Speaker 23 (35:20):
Well you know, yeah, I know.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
And he didn't leave at any time during the exercises.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Not until near the end.

Speaker 29 (35:27):
They left just before the recessional, while everybody was standing
and singing the class song.

Speaker 5 (35:31):
What time was that?

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Oh a few minutes before eleven?

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Oh, thank you very much, good bye.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Was I any help, Ranger?

Speaker 5 (35:42):
Yes, Lma, you were a big help.

Speaker 9 (35:54):
I was stuck. It looked like I was going to
have to release Casey. And then I remembered something. The
phone call. It came in while I was out at
Casey's place, the one he'd been reluctant to answer. I
dropped by the Cranston telephone office.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
This is the call you wanted, Ranger.

Speaker 7 (36:09):
What was it?

Speaker 29 (36:10):
Mister Jack Casey placed a call to the Della Sawmill
Company in Money, Texas at two twenty two pm today.
There was no answer, and when the money operator did
get through, she called back at three p forty, but
mister Casey.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Had canceled it. Do you know who the call was for?

Speaker 29 (36:25):
Yes, sir, it was person to person of mister Ben Casey.
Ben Casey, mister Jack Casey's son son.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
What do you know him?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I used to when well, we went to high school together.

Speaker 29 (36:38):
Some of my girlfriends and I used to go places
with Ben's bunch, but my mother made me stop. She
said he wasn't a kind of boy that girls should
run around with. I see, and he finally left home.
Couldn't get along with his stepmother.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Oh then missus Casey's not his mother?

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Oh no, ranger. They used to fight.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
Oh go on, this may be very important.

Speaker 29 (36:58):
Well, I that she and Ben fought all the time,
and then one day after they had a big fight,
Ben packed up and left.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
When was this?

Speaker 29 (37:07):
I reckon it was a couple of years ago. He
went down to Monee then and got a job at
that sawmill there.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
What does this Ben look like?

Speaker 1 (37:16):
He's a spitting image of his father and Justice fat too.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Have you seen him lately?

Speaker 29 (37:21):
I saw him at the bus station. His father came
and picked him up. When let's see day before yesterday, Friday.

Speaker 9 (37:38):
There was no doubt now why Jack Casey wasn't talking.
He was protecting his own son. I put a call
through to Missus Casey and met her at the Sheriff's office.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
I ain't saying this because he ain't my flesh and
blood ranger, but Ben's bad through and through.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
I might have knowed he was the one killed Milk Thomas.

Speaker 9 (37:55):
Uh, Missus Casey, tell me about Ben. He came in Friday,
didn't he.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah, come in on the bus and stayed over Saturday.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
He wanted to borrow money.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
He's always broke gambles.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (38:08):
Pearson picked him up a couple of times for gambling.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Go on, miss Casey, Well, like I say, he wanted
to borrow fifty dollars from Jack, but Jack didn't have it.
He just paid off a note to Milk Thomas and
he was kind of strapped.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
Oh, your husband owed Thomas money, Yes.

Speaker 24 (38:21):
But it was the last payment.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Jack was joking about how Thomas always wanted cash money,
didn't trust.

Speaker 23 (38:27):
Checks, it'd been hear him say this.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
He sure did, Sheriff.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
And then he sucked around all day Saturday until we
was getting ready to go to the commencement that night.
And just before we left, he said he was going
to use Jack's horse to go for a ride at night. Yeah,
seems strange to me too, And then he asked could
he borrow a pair of Jack's boots?

Speaker 9 (38:47):
He was wearing flat heel shoes.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
They wear the same size, oh have ever since I
can remember.

Speaker 7 (38:52):
Well.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Anyway, we went onto the graduation and when we got home,
the mayor was in the barn, still saddled, all sweaty,
looked like she'd been run almost to death, and Jack's
boots were tossed on the floor.

Speaker 9 (39:04):
And then was gone, all right, miss Casey, that's all
for now, and thanks, you're welcome. Come on, Sheriff, we're
going on a little trip, Sheriff taxon and I piled

(39:26):
into my car and headed for Monee. As soon as
we got out on the highway, I put in a
call to my headquarters. Unit ten to kt XA, Unit
ten to kt XA kt X A unit ten go ahead, Unit.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
Ten, Unit ten.

Speaker 9 (39:40):
Leaving Cranston State Highway twenty two en route to Monee
investigating murder suspect believed in vicinity of Delta Sawmill. We'll
keep kt XA informed Unit ten ten four. Okay kt
XA Austin K Sheriff.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
You know young Ksey by sight, don't you?

Speaker 23 (39:59):
Washington girl up?

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Good?

Speaker 9 (40:01):
If he's gone and we have to comb for him.
I don't want to turn up the wrong fat man again.

Speaker 23 (40:05):
Oh you know him now after seeing his father, except
for age.

Speaker 9 (40:09):
They're the scene you mean, except for age and the
fact that the young one's a murderer. When we reached
the sawmill, the moon was up. Before moon there was
a light burning through the wind of one shack the
edge of the camp. We pulled up there and got
out of the car and went in well out of

(40:41):
range a share. We're looking for a man named Casey.
Ben Casey, Yeah, you're on.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
I don't know for sure.

Speaker 9 (40:48):
Sleeps in the big bunk house down the line, which
bunk I'll show you if you lie fine, Sureff, Maybe
you better take a look through the mess hall. Boy
like him might be fixing a late snack. If you
don't find him, come up and meet me, and if
you do find him, call me before you try and
take him.

Speaker 21 (41:08):
Right the bunk houses this way, No no light in
the place. Well, some of the boys was going into
town for the moonlight dance. Don't know Ben went with
him or.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
I Has he been packing any money that you know of?

Speaker 9 (41:22):
Well?

Speaker 21 (41:23):
Oh yeah, come think of it. He had quite a bit.
Said he hit it lucky in the dice game. That well,
he did get it, and the dice game didn't if
he did, the other fellow never got a chance to
roll him. Oh here, will I light this lamp for you.

(41:47):
Ben sleeps in that third bunk on the right banks.
I'll wait for him, all right. I'll get back to
my books and just entering the shipment that's been hauled
out tonight.

Speaker 9 (41:56):
That's why you found me working. Go ahead, but if
you see Casey, don't mention I'm here. The pharman went
back to his shack, and I ripped Ben Casey's bunk apart.
There was nothing in the bunk of the covering. I
dragged a foot locker out from underneath and was bending
over it up with him. Don't turn around thereof what

(42:20):
are you doing here? If you're Ben Casey, you know
what I'm doing. This is the end of the road.

Speaker 5 (42:25):
Boy, I'll take that landin. I'd be careful with that.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Ben.

Speaker 9 (42:30):
Remember what happened the last time you dropped the lantern.
You're pretty smart, ain't you?

Speaker 5 (42:34):
Mischief? But I'm smart too. Here's a present for you.
The lantern at the edge of the bunk, and the
flaming kerosene splashed over me. I beat the flames out
of my hands and dope for the door. He rammed
something against the outside of it.

Speaker 9 (42:56):
When I forced it open, I stumble over a heavy
logged bench he used as a barricade.

Speaker 23 (43:00):
And what casey you see him?

Speaker 13 (43:02):
Sir? For somebody off that way from the railside and
let's go.

Speaker 9 (43:15):
We spotted him swinging up the side of a flat cars.
The train hit the main line and started to roll.
He grabbed on to one of the last cars and
scrambled at the top and started to work our way forward.

Speaker 23 (43:23):
There he is about five cars ahead.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
I can't see him.

Speaker 23 (43:26):
Kerosene starts. My eyes don't see us all right? It
sho from a flat We'll crawl up on him. He
can't go any farther on the length of the train.
There he goes, he's jumping.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
I see him.

Speaker 13 (43:37):
I'm going after him.

Speaker 9 (43:39):
Well, I'm coming with you.

Speaker 25 (43:40):
He track, here's here's you?

Speaker 19 (43:49):
All right?

Speaker 23 (43:50):
Where shut down?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Sir? Stop?

Speaker 5 (43:58):
Can you see him?

Speaker 9 (43:59):
Nobody's coast about ten yards in not moving? Keep low,
we're silhouetted. Good against this clarity? What you do?

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Person?

Speaker 5 (44:07):
Taking up of my jacket?

Speaker 9 (44:09):
See if you can find a stick about five feet long.
Here's a dead brain this dude, fine, give it a me.

Speaker 23 (44:15):
What you fixing to do?

Speaker 9 (44:16):
I'm gonna put this branch through my coat sleeves like
this here. When I tell you hold it up, I
get it something for him to shoot at. All right?

Speaker 5 (44:25):
I fired his gun. Flash?

Speaker 23 (44:27):
All right, Casey, come on with your hands up. There's
your last chance.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Casey.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
Okay, sheriff, lift the coat.

Speaker 13 (44:39):
You got it?

Speaker 23 (44:39):
Come on, don't shoot, don't cut it.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
Do please please give me.

Speaker 9 (44:46):
A chance like you gave Milt Thomas. It was a
short train ride, Casey, but I got a hunch you'll
get a longer one soon. Come on in case.

Speaker 21 (45:05):
He confessed to the murder of Milt Thomas on August two,
nineteen forty eight. He entered Huntsville Penitentiary. His sentence life imprisonment.

Speaker 9 (45:25):
Joel McCrae that was a great show tonight, Wheedies, and
I are proud of you. Thank you, Frank. I like
to please the customers. Well, now, so do I take
whety's for instance?

Speaker 5 (45:33):
Frank? Are you going to say that wheaties taste good?

Speaker 9 (45:36):
Well?

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Yes, I was going to touch on that.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
And are you going to say that wheties are good
for people?

Speaker 9 (45:41):
Yes? Yes, I was going to say just there anything else?
Well no, I guess that just about covers of Joel
accept telling people to get some. That's it, you know,
Well that's easy, Frank. I'm a Wheaty's eater myself. You
hear that, folks, You too can be a Wheati's eater
as early as tomorrow morning.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Twist of Champions. You know, get some.

Speaker 20 (46:06):
Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the piles of Not Texas Rangers. This story
was transcribed and adapted by David Bruce and was produced
and directed by Stacy Keach.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Hel give me speaking, And this.

Speaker 23 (46:23):
Is the Wheedies Man.

Speaker 9 (46:23):
Frank Marsham inviting you to listen Monday night to Frank
Lovejoy a night beat on the Wheaties Big Parade.

Speaker 30 (46:29):
See you then, tomorrow, there's good listening with the Summer
Symphony on NBC.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
One of the most unusual things about Tales of the
Texas Rangers, as opposed to all of the other Westerns
of the day is these events were based on mostly
twentieth century events, like this story something that took place
in May of nineteen forty seven. So you know, you
still had Westerns, you still had horses, but it was

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not in the nineteenth century. It was in the twentieth century.
Go figure interesting stuff. Joel McCrae Tales of the Texas
Rangers seventy five years ago, August twelfth, nineteen fifty Here
on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Going to jump
back to nineteen fifty six on a Sunday for an
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aired on Sunday twelve, nineteen fifty six, sixty nine years ago.
We'll start off with an episode of gun Smoke, one
of your favorites. You always tell us that this is
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And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
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(49:14):
of the violence that moved west with young Americas and
the story of a man will.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Move with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal,
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 28 (50:00):
Oh but then they cooled up after all that hot weather,
didn't you do?

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Uh huh?

Speaker 27 (50:07):
The shirts turned out to be a pretty nice day.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Try to make some man lazy.

Speaker 28 (50:16):
Hey, look at that that little dog out in the
street there.

Speaker 27 (50:20):
Make Sure he's playful, ain't he?

Speaker 5 (50:22):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Yeah, but he had any sense he'd go to light
out in the shade somewhere.

Speaker 32 (50:27):
Well, he's just a puff uh uh oh, Now he
buried them horses.

Speaker 23 (50:32):
Be he's gonna get kicked.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Ah, he's got to learn sometime.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Go on, sat, go on, get away from me.

Speaker 27 (50:39):
To you what you're gonna make that fella mad?

Speaker 19 (50:42):
Go?

Speaker 27 (50:43):
Oh, I'll fix you.

Speaker 12 (50:45):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Why he shot him?

Speaker 28 (50:49):
Well, what a mean, miserable thing to do?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Hello?

Speaker 27 (50:53):
If I wasn't hurting nothing, No.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
He sure wasn't.

Speaker 23 (51:00):
Hey, that's Marshall.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
Well what do you want? Get on off those horses?

Speaker 19 (51:08):
What not?

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Right now?

Speaker 4 (51:13):
All right, now, what's your trouble? Marshall? I'll take your gun, mister. No,
you are not even gonna argue with this, and I'll make.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
A move.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Here Chester hold it, yes, sir, all right, I'll take
yours too.

Speaker 28 (51:39):
Sure, Marshall, I ain't gonna try nothing.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
Hold up, now, what's this all about? Anyway? That's your name,
mister Walt Gorman?

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Mm hmm?

Speaker 4 (51:51):
What's yours?

Speaker 28 (51:52):
Haiks? John Haiks?

Speaker 4 (51:54):
All right, I don't allow shooting and dodge. Well, ain't
no reason to take our guns? I under my crush
our heads. Come on, Chester, Hey, wait a minute, when
do we get them guns back? Tomorrow? Unknown? When you
leave town?

Speaker 28 (52:14):
We ain't figuring on leaving.

Speaker 25 (52:16):
Oh, never mind him, he can't run us out.

Speaker 28 (52:20):
By God, you are too miss dying.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
I will Chester, h.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
Okay, poor little dog.

Speaker 27 (52:26):
I wonder whose.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Tears I don't know, Probably belongs to some kid around here.

Speaker 27 (52:34):
I'll carry around back to jail.

Speaker 28 (52:36):
Maybe the kid will want.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
To bury it himself. Yeah, why don't you do that?

Speaker 27 (52:42):
I have grumman. Sure, here's a mean one, and.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
I can get mean too, Chester, And I got a
feeling I may have to before I'm through with him.

Speaker 27 (53:09):
Why don't you live.

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Speaker 11 (54:00):
The mother.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
Get out on them today. Hey, mister Johnes, guess what

(54:45):
all right?

Speaker 5 (54:46):
Chester?

Speaker 4 (54:47):
You know who that little raggedy dog blonged to?

Speaker 13 (54:49):
There was no kid at all.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
It was an old fellow called.

Speaker 32 (54:51):
Pony Thompson, Bonie Thompson yesterday, come in here a while ago.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
He heard we had him.

Speaker 27 (54:57):
He's out back now, Burry and you never.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
Heard of Bonnie Thompson.

Speaker 9 (55:00):
There.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
He's a real nice.

Speaker 32 (55:01):
Old fellow, though, oh kindly funny looking.

Speaker 23 (55:04):
He looks at you from one of them.

Speaker 27 (55:06):
Scraggly eyebrow, like an old gray wolf. But that's him,
you'll see.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Hello, mister Thompson.

Speaker 12 (55:14):
No, I ain't no mister.

Speaker 27 (55:17):
Pony's good enough. This is Marshall doing.

Speaker 12 (55:20):
Uh, I'll do, Marshall.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
I'm sorry about your dog.

Speaker 12 (55:25):
Well I shouldn't have brung him. Town's bad enough for humans.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
Where are you from, Pony? I haven't seen you in
Dodge before.

Speaker 19 (55:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (55:34):
I don't seek out no town, but once a year
I move around on the prairie.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Marshall.

Speaker 12 (55:39):
Yeah, sometimes you go into the mountains. I just can't
stand four walls in a roof.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
It's like being in jail.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 7 (55:47):
Now?

Speaker 12 (55:48):
Once a year I get drunk? What And that's why
I come to town to do it. I figure, if
I got to get drunk, I gotta be cooped up
in some saloon. But you know, just walking down your
street there if you kind of hog tied my goodness, marshall, Yeah,
who shot my dog?

Speaker 19 (56:08):
Hi?

Speaker 4 (56:09):
A couple of men who just rode out the town.

Speaker 9 (56:11):
I'll have to know their names.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
You want them to pay you for the dog?

Speaker 34 (56:16):
No?

Speaker 2 (56:16):
No, tain't money.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
I'm after I didn't think so.

Speaker 34 (56:19):
You know.

Speaker 12 (56:19):
I got a heavy old rifle down at the stable
with my gatherings. I figured to go kind of beat
him after.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Death with it.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
That wouldn't help you, Pony.

Speaker 12 (56:27):
You you ain't gonna tell me their names?

Speaker 4 (56:33):
No, pony, I'm not.

Speaker 8 (56:36):
Why are you going?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I can't get drunk.

Speaker 12 (56:38):
Listen, I start drinking, can I?

Speaker 19 (56:41):
No?

Speaker 12 (56:42):
I'll find out who shot my dog, Don't you worry?

Speaker 29 (57:02):
Your friend Pony Thompson is doing pretty well with the
borrow of their mask.

Speaker 28 (57:06):
That's his second bottle.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
He's working on you.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
He sure keeps to himself.

Speaker 9 (57:10):
A man who.

Speaker 28 (57:11):
Drinks alone is usually peaceful anyway.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
Yeah, hurry up, Martenda, we ain't got all right.

Speaker 28 (57:18):
Who's that pair just came in?

Speaker 9 (57:22):
Do you know him?

Speaker 19 (57:22):
Matter?

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Yeah? One happen is a man who shot pony's dog.
I was telling you about it.

Speaker 28 (57:31):
He looks like the kind I don't know what Sam want?

Speaker 13 (57:35):
Kid?

Speaker 9 (57:36):
I see you. I'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Yeah, sure, kitty, Hey look at this from the eggs.

Speaker 13 (57:45):
She's pretty. Hey, Girley, buy you a drink?

Speaker 33 (57:49):
No thanks?

Speaker 9 (57:51):
What do you want?

Speaker 19 (57:51):
Said?

Speaker 28 (57:51):
Never mind about him? Come on, I have a drink,
I said no, I said yes, tell me something, mister.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Do you have to be awful?

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Break the shot puppy dogs?

Speaker 13 (58:07):
What you must take a real man to do that?

Speaker 4 (58:10):
I just ought to slap your face in for you.
I wouldn't try that gun.

Speaker 28 (58:14):
It's a marshall.

Speaker 19 (58:18):
Now what.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
You get out of here and you take hakes with you?
You sure like having your own way in this here town,
don't you?

Speaker 9 (58:31):
I sure do?

Speaker 4 (58:34):
Now you get moved.

Speaker 28 (58:35):
Come on, Gorman, we don't want no trouble.

Speaker 9 (58:40):
All right.

Speaker 28 (58:42):
I'm sure I'm getting a belly full.

Speaker 29 (58:44):
Of what a hero?

Speaker 19 (58:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (58:53):
You know, Kitty, I wish you hadn't mentioned the dog.

Speaker 28 (58:57):
Oh, I'm sorry that I forgot.

Speaker 34 (59:03):
Hey, Marshall, pony, Oh that that fuller's name was Gorman. Huh,
you got a mean face to any I look here.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Oh, don't you worry.

Speaker 12 (59:16):
I ain't gonna follow him, Marshall, No, sugary Bob.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
I got me this here bottle to finish.

Speaker 12 (59:22):
Here, I'm gonna get drunk tonight.

Speaker 25 (59:24):
I remember.

Speaker 28 (59:27):
Well, I guess it doesn't matter after all.

Speaker 18 (59:29):
Matter.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
I hope not, kiddy, but I'm not so sure.

Speaker 12 (59:48):
Oh my side, meat fried potatoes, Harmony, Gritson, Sorg and
a couple lies.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Matt.

Speaker 27 (59:58):
There was a mighty poor breakfast if I do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Oh, and I'm glad I didn't treat you too.

Speaker 13 (01:00:04):
If you ever treated me to breakfast, I'd be so
dumbfounded I couldn't complain.

Speaker 9 (01:00:10):
Mister.

Speaker 27 (01:00:11):
Huh, wh's chest.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
Here at the stable door?

Speaker 32 (01:00:14):
There?

Speaker 9 (01:00:14):
You you got hurt me? What's he got?

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
The course in there? He's got something to dock. He
looks pretty worried. Oh, chest is always word.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
If it isn't money, it's women.

Speaker 23 (01:00:27):
Mars Drimmick went the office looking for you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Oh it's the trouble chesse.

Speaker 27 (01:00:31):
They's been a killing.

Speaker 32 (01:00:32):
What that fellow walk Grom and he got his throat
cut in here Mass found him laying in one of
the straw pony Thompson done it?

Speaker 19 (01:00:40):
Do you know?

Speaker 9 (01:00:40):
Well?

Speaker 32 (01:00:41):
He was right in there with him still is We
tied him up with the rope.

Speaker 23 (01:00:44):
Of course.

Speaker 32 (01:00:44):
He was passed out drunk when Moss found him. Did
he come too fast enough? And we sluiced some water on?

Speaker 23 (01:00:49):
How could he kill a man when he was passed out?

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
I don't know, Doc, but he.

Speaker 32 (01:00:52):
Was all spattered with blood and the knife was laying
there right there, but his hand there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Is Marshall, Marshall, make him to lose.

Speaker 32 (01:01:01):
That's Gorman under the saddle blanket back.

Speaker 28 (01:01:03):
There, and I'll take a look, but I don't know
how much good.

Speaker 23 (01:01:05):
Oh, please get me loose, Marshall, please. I just can't
stand it.

Speaker 27 (01:01:10):
Right on time, Chester, all right, I didn't chill nobody.

Speaker 23 (01:01:15):
The knife's in that board right next to you, mister John.

Speaker 9 (01:01:21):
Bunny.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Is this your knife? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, it's miners.

Speaker 27 (01:01:25):
I didn't use it on nobody.

Speaker 23 (01:01:27):
It was laying right by his hand.

Speaker 12 (01:01:28):
Well, then somebody put it there.

Speaker 9 (01:01:31):
Gorman's dead, all right, match four or five hours he
took a knife in his back and then had his
throat cut.

Speaker 25 (01:01:39):
There.

Speaker 13 (01:01:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Well, I wouldn't do a thing like that, Marshall.

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
I wouldn't have thought.

Speaker 27 (01:01:45):
So it's true.

Speaker 12 (01:01:46):
Oh sure I found him later after you left the
Long Branch, but I only swore at him a little
for shooting my poor pup.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
I'm gonna have to lock you up.

Speaker 27 (01:01:57):
Oh no, please, Marshall, don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Please don't.

Speaker 34 (01:01:59):
I got no.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
I tell you, I'll just go crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
You put me in jail. I told you how I
am start taking him down.

Speaker 24 (01:02:05):
Come.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Oh please, don't not jail.

Speaker 32 (01:02:08):
You should have talked about that before you killed Garmond.

Speaker 27 (01:02:10):
Now, come on, I'd rather get shot.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
I'd rather die.

Speaker 28 (01:02:13):
I ain't gonna die. No, walk along, hello, Marshall. I

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have been waiting for you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:35):
Hello.

Speaker 9 (01:02:36):
I've seen Chester a while ago taking Pony Thompson into
the jail.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
Here they'll tell you what happened.

Speaker 28 (01:02:43):
He sure did. I didn't want to see Gorman, not
after what that old man did to him.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Come out unto the.

Speaker 27 (01:02:51):
Office, six, mister John.

Speaker 8 (01:03:00):
Chester.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Oh that's the matter.

Speaker 9 (01:03:07):
That's the matter.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
You're sick or something.

Speaker 23 (01:03:09):
He hit me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
Oh, there's Pony Thompson.

Speaker 23 (01:03:15):
That's what I'm telling you.

Speaker 13 (01:03:16):
He hit me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
With that stool in there.

Speaker 28 (01:03:19):
You mean he got away.

Speaker 23 (01:03:21):
I turned my back to go out of that saillence.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Oh, I remember, And he's been gone about twenty minutes.

Speaker 28 (01:03:28):
Let's find him. Standing around here is doing no good.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
We'll find him, heis.

Speaker 28 (01:03:32):
But I know where he went.

Speaker 4 (01:03:34):
You know where?

Speaker 27 (01:03:35):
Wellnn's table there.

Speaker 9 (01:03:36):
He was mumbling about a hideout he knows down by
the Arkansas, some worse. He he'll up to ride in Chester,
you bet I do, And I'm coming to I'll shoot
that old devil on Sits a good thing. I took
your gun, heigs. But you're coming with us, all right,
just to make sure you don't find another one.

Speaker 27 (01:04:10):
Why don't you.

Speaker 33 (01:04:13):
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Speaker 9 (01:04:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Make your day your big red letter day and start
to live the modd way.

Speaker 33 (01:05:02):
Love water, get out of them today.

Speaker 27 (01:05:39):
I'm breaking day, mister Dune. We can get moving again directly.

Speaker 28 (01:05:45):
He could be thirty miles from here by now.

Speaker 27 (01:05:48):
Well, you can't track a man in the dark.

Speaker 9 (01:05:50):
Hate.

Speaker 28 (01:05:50):
We've done the best we could. Black as not I
ever seen, Marshall.

Speaker 4 (01:05:57):
I want you to give me a gun today for
anxious to shut him down, aren't you.

Speaker 9 (01:06:02):
It's to keep him from shooting me. It's probably armed
by now, Oh sure is. There's lots of guns laying
along the banks of the Arkansas.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
I'm cold.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
I'm gonna walk around a little and stretch my legs.

Speaker 28 (01:06:18):
Don't you get lost, Sonny?

Speaker 19 (01:06:20):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:06:22):
Why don't you cry? Keep him quiet?

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
Your voice itches my ears? X tell me something. How
long were you and Gorman partners?

Speaker 28 (01:06:33):
About a year?

Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
Why?

Speaker 28 (01:06:36):
I just wondered you're gonna let me have a gun today.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
I wouldn't trust you with a buggy.

Speaker 28 (01:06:43):
Well, you got no cause to say that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
I want Bonnie Thompson alive. It'd be no good to
me dead' What do you mean I didn't get a
chance to talk to him for one thing you done?

Speaker 13 (01:06:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:06:55):
What he's okay?

Speaker 28 (01:06:57):
Right up here, go crawl in it.

Speaker 23 (01:07:00):
Maybe it'll fall on you.

Speaker 28 (01:07:02):
He sure bothers me.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
You kind of bother him.

Speaker 28 (01:07:05):
I ain't done nothing to him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Come here quick, Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 23 (01:07:10):
Chester, says a man in his case. Ah, he's old
Bony Thompson.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
I'll drag him out.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
I did.

Speaker 27 (01:07:26):
He's dead, mister dun huh, he said, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
Uh make a torch out of some of those dry weeds.

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
Chester.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
I can't see much here, yes, sir, what is it, Marshall?

Speaker 28 (01:07:41):
Somebody kill him?

Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 27 (01:07:43):
He's just out of the way, gone gone that.

Speaker 28 (01:07:45):
You treat me like I was dirt. I've had enough
of that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
Come on, Chester, hurry up, Yes.

Speaker 27 (01:07:49):
Sure, I got it here. Let me get the lip.

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
I don't feel blood anywhere.

Speaker 28 (01:07:57):
Yeah, ain't gonna burn long though.

Speaker 27 (01:07:59):
Holding there his I don't see nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
No, wait a minute, hold it closer.

Speaker 9 (01:08:04):
Do here?

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
Are they a mark on him? Yes?

Speaker 25 (01:08:08):
There is?

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
See those two little punctures on his neck there?

Speaker 9 (01:08:14):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 8 (01:08:16):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
Chester, Well, I guess the pony meant what he said
about not liking jail. What do you mean we've been
sitting right down there in front of his cave for
about eight hours. Now he could hollered for help, but
he didn't help. For what There was a rattlesnake in
that cave.

Speaker 27 (01:08:37):
That's what that marks on his neck was.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
He got bit rather than face. Jaiy stayed in there
and died.

Speaker 9 (01:08:43):
I don't get the feeling so sorry for him. He
stuck Gorman in the back and cut his throat, didn't he?

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Yeah, he, That's exactly what happened to Gorman.

Speaker 28 (01:08:58):
Were you looking at me like that?

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
Chester, Sir?

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
Did you tell the Hacks that Gorman got knifed in
the back? No, sir, all I said was he got
his throat cut, and poor old Pony Thompson died for nothing.
I don't know why you killed your partner, and I
don't much care, but we'll find out after we get
Pony buried proper.

Speaker 28 (01:09:21):
Now look here, marsh and you'll dig the grave, Hacks,
and you'll dig it deep.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
The old man deserves that much from you.

Speaker 17 (01:09:48):
In a moment Our star William Conrad. In a recent study,
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in traffic jams crossed the amount of can economy billions
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be needed to curb the speed of our powerful automobiles
before they ever leave the factories. This is a controversy
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experts agree.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
On one thing.

Speaker 17 (01:10:24):
Common sense cannot be legislated into the automobile driver. He
has to learn it by himself. Anger, bravado, and the
spirit of competition often are expressed on the highway by
excessive speeding, disregard of traffic signs and signals, and other
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careless driving is kid stuff. This has been a CBS
Radio public service announcement.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
You know, when a high planeswoman was looking for a husband,
Carhans used to laugh and say she's throwing a wide loop.
Next week a woman catches her man right enough, but
with a fifty caliber rifle. And that was the West.

Speaker 17 (01:11:13):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Our story was specially
written for gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory, sound patterns by Tom Hanley
and Bill James.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Featured in the cast were Joseph Kerns.

Speaker 17 (01:11:32):
Vic Parron and Lawrence Dobkin, Harley behar Is Chester, Howard
mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. Join us
a gun next week for another specially transcribed story on
gun Smoke.

Speaker 6 (01:12:41):
First of two westerns from Sunday, August twelfth, nineteen fifty six.
Gun Smoke here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cogs. Now,
while I clear my throat, I will tell you what's
coming up in the days ahead. Tomorrow we'll have variety
on the program with the Chasin's Sanborn Hour, Edgar Berg

(01:13:02):
and Charlie McCarthy. Joan Blondell a guest star from nineteen
thirty seven. Edgar also appears on the Jackie Glease and
lest Tremaine Show from nineteen forty four, mattne with Bob
and Ray from nineteen forty nine. Jack Headstrong. On Thursday,
we'll have some more westerns, Tom Mix from nineteen forty five,

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Frontier Town, Reed Hadley from nineteen fifty three, and a
couple of nineteen sixties westerns from a Sunday Gun Smoke
and Have Gun Will Travel. And then on Friday, John
Dayer will star as a friend to Alexander, an episode
of Suspense from nineteen fifty six, Murdered by Experts from
nineteen forty nine, Nick Carter, Master Detective and The Professional

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Beggar from nineteen forty eight, and Counterspy from nineteen fifty
And then we'll have kind of a variety mix here.
On Saturday, an episode of Tarzan The Trumpy Room Lamont
Johnson and starring as Tarzan from nineteen fifty one, stars
over Hollywood, My Wife, The Deputy Sheriff starring Gary Merrill

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from nineteen fifty two, and the nineteen fifty one episode
of the Screen Director's Playhouse, Charles Boyer and Jane Wyatt
in The Ghost and Missus Mrror. On Sunday, mix again
Fleischman's Yeast Hour starring Ruddy Balley going back to nineteen
thirty three ninety two years ago. Also an episode of

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Front and Center, starring Dorothy Lamore, also with George Burns
and Gracey Allen. That's nineteen forty seven, and an episode
of the CBS Radio Workshop from nineteen fifty six, Colloquy
two dissertation on Love or Boy Meets Girl. Then on
Monday we will have a nineteen forty nine episode of

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counter Spy Dohn McLaughlan, Mandel Kramer, The Desert Explosion, a
nineteen fifty seven episode of Sun's Suspense, Peanut Brittle Escape
from nineteen fifty The Footprint, and a nineteen fifty episode
of Dimension X Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. Tuesday, we'll get
to comedy George Burns, Grace Allen and from nineteen forty

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Milton Burrow from nineteen forty seven, a Salute to Relaxation,
Love Crazy, an episode of the Screen Director's Playhouse from
nineteen forty nine, and The Great Guilder Sleep starring Willard Waterman,
A Fish Story from nineteen fifty three. Wednesday, Boston Blackie,
The Whistler, The Green Lama, and Top Secret. And then

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on Thursday we'll have a week away.

Speaker 15 (01:15:38):
Is that right?

Speaker 6 (01:15:38):
A week away? Yeah, We'll have comedies. Let's see. Well,
we'll get to those later on. But that's what's coming
up here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Coox and
always find out on demand Classic Radio Dot Stream. Now
we'll have Fort Laramie next with Raymond Burr.

Speaker 31 (01:16:04):
Do you know how old the school building in your
community is? If it's over twenty five years old, the
chances are that it's woefully inadic. Join with the groups
in your community working for better school conditions. Remember, better
schools build a stronger America.

Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
Now the show that Perry Mason killed. Raymond Burr loved
doing radio, and he would do occasional sketches, but doing
a weekly show was that something he could bit in
while being while he could be Perry Mason. And so
Fort Laramie went away sixty nine years ago. August twelfth,
nineteen fifty six. The assembly Line.

Speaker 8 (01:16:50):
That's the cover oh.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Fort Laramie.

Speaker 17 (01:17:31):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quins especially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild Frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode the
rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quince,
Captain of Cavalry.

Speaker 35 (01:18:05):
It's from Jim Lack at the Oglala Agency. Kevin asking
us to stay away. That's what he usually wants.

Speaker 9 (01:18:11):
Which time he's asking for help. Ams he's about to
have an uprising on his hands.

Speaker 35 (01:18:15):
And the way he parcels out the food, the Sioux
haven't got the strength for an uprising here.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
You read it. All the troops you can spare, Black
must be scared stiff.

Speaker 35 (01:18:27):
But he doesn't mention what the trouble's about or if
it started, just that he fears that it will. Oh,
you better take a patroll down, Kevin.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
That all the troops you can spare major, there's until.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
I know better what the problem is him.

Speaker 35 (01:18:44):
How long since you saw Lac last month when we
went up to butcher the beef and the agency was
hovering around like a mother hand making sure no Indian.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Got a fair share. You saw they did, of course. Yeah,
that's when he ordered us off the agency. I got
no way of knowing that the Indians got to keep
their meat or not, but they had it when we left.

Speaker 28 (01:19:01):
He's a hard man to understand. When he first came
out here from the East, remember, we both.

Speaker 35 (01:19:06):
Thought he had a good feeling about his job. He
talked a lot about Indians being human, treating him fair.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
You say, and he's changed major, hasn't he? I don't
think so.

Speaker 35 (01:19:16):
He still talks the same way pretty much. He goes
back to what he calls being human. He hasn't had
much regard for us as human beings or his wife.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Never seen her. I met her when they moved out here.

Speaker 5 (01:19:28):
Tall woman.

Speaker 28 (01:19:29):
Sin never says much.

Speaker 35 (01:19:31):
Never says anything anymore when he's around. I don't think
he feeds her any better than he does the sou Well,
they're sure high on him in Washington, sure the budget
boys relax, keeping them in the black, just firm. Of course,
they might feel different about him if there is a
Sioux uprising. How soon can you leave capt'n an hour good?

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As soon as you get an estimate of the situation,
telegraph me.

Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
I don't know what you'll find.

Speaker 35 (01:19:58):
There's something wrong up to now, he looked on the army.
There's just so much interference. Now he's asking for us,
I'd say, lacks in real trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Looks like we've got a delegation of head sir.

Speaker 35 (01:20:29):
At least they're waiting for us, not charging out to
meet us. It looks like red there desert right at
the reservation line.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Might be. That's as far as he wants us to go.
Red there is not a hostile, never has.

Speaker 36 (01:20:44):
Been patrol Oh, greetings, Red deer, greetings captain, you do
not come our way in a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
I was here last month you were off hunting, hunting
no good Red deer no longer find good hunting ground.
Too much white man. Sorry to hear that many moons
ago you tell Red deer, white men leave reservation to Indian.

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That's right, Indian to have fine hunting ground, good lodger,
plenty food now lodgers, no shelter for squaw papoos or
many holes in the walls. Bring wind and snow against us,

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No good foods now, no hunting ground. You power with
mister lack no good Red deer, go make talk luck.
He not listen. If red deer talk luck, he take
food a way, make less not good. That why you

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rode out from the agency to meet me right there? Luck,
No like army to come. When army come bad for Indines.
We've never bothered your red there not you. But when
army come, lock get mad. When lack mad bad for Indians?

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Is there new trouble on the agency. No trouble you sure,
no trouble good. I'll suppose you ride back to the
agency with us. You give hunting grounds back, all right?
What's happened to them? White men take all over? Digging rocks,

(01:22:56):
make big hole, game'll run.

Speaker 25 (01:23:01):
No good hunting.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
My name is digging rock, make big hole sometimes not
good for hunting ground. No, not good, I read there.
Ride back with us. We'll make power with mister lac.
No trouble, no trouble.

Speaker 9 (01:23:22):
Then come.

Speaker 8 (01:23:42):
You heard me.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
I'll go on, get on back to your lodgers.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
Move now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
I'll cut your right. I told Red Dear with power,
mister lack you no right to do that. I had
the ride, and we will power.

Speaker 8 (01:23:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
I want to talk to you first alone, all right,
Read dear, go to your lodge and see your braves.

Speaker 9 (01:23:59):
Go to theirs.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
No poll later, have my word, no cut ration, No,
then Red Deer go. If you had to deal with
them every day, you'd sing a different tune. Captain Quince.
I'd have to live with them every day to know
that you can pile all yourself half crazy and get nowhere.
I came at your request. I asked for troops, not

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a patrol. If you need troops, you'll get them. Come
on inside. You never know who's listening around here. Have
your men stand guard over what over us.

Speaker 35 (01:24:32):
We'll see we're free to talk, mister Lack. All right,
go on here, Oh morning, miss Lack.

Speaker 12 (01:24:48):
Captain quinns on, get on back your kitchen, Claire, Captain
and I have a lot to settle in a hurry.

Speaker 24 (01:24:52):
Yes, James, Oh, you'll tell him about it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
I'll tell him everything, Claire, and I'm go on. I
can sit if you want to. Thanks.

Speaker 12 (01:25:06):
Well, First things first, you will telegraph major dagging immediately
for reinforcements. I'd say we'll need at least one hundred
and fifty men, full supply of arms and ammunition, and
of course whatever food the army will require.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
I can't be expected to feed the army on agency food.
I think the searchar'd begin right away, and after you
we want to slow down a little. You wait till
you've been through it as long as I have, Captain,
before we move the army from the entire department of
the plat over here. Maybe you ought to tell us
about this uprising. Mark my words, there will be one

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we don't nip it in the bud you want to drink?

Speaker 9 (01:25:40):
No thanks.

Speaker 12 (01:25:41):
Now they've been growing sullen without cause, mind you, for
the last few days. I've cut their rations each time
there's been.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
A disturbance, disturbance with kind, oh, delegations, committees.

Speaker 13 (01:25:54):
I guess they are.

Speaker 12 (01:25:55):
Why every time I look up towards chiefs are waiting
on my front stoop with some new grievance.

Speaker 35 (01:26:04):
And these grievances they're what your calling a disturbance, that's
what they are. I was thinking more like a demonstration
of some kind.

Speaker 12 (01:26:12):
I think that's next on their list. Why because of
the guns. Now that they're armed, I say, we can
expect shooting trouble any day. You know they got guns,
of course or not it that's why I called for
the army. I want you to disarm them first, and
that where they get the guns. Oh, Captain, you're the
most obstinate man I've ever encountered.

Speaker 23 (01:26:30):
I'm head of this agency.

Speaker 9 (01:26:32):
It should be enough for you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
That I say they have gone, But it isn't enough.

Speaker 35 (01:26:36):
Yes, I can see that when this agency was established,
it was agreed that the braves could keep their guns
if they were hunters.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
That was before my time, Captain, I'd never have agreed
to that. No, but the army agreed to it. Mister
lack All.

Speaker 12 (01:26:47):
Right, then you may as well know I changed all
that shortly after I came here. I was quick to
see that no good could come of savagers under my
control having gun.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
You took them away for disciplinary reason, Jazz, what happened
to their hunting?

Speaker 19 (01:27:05):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
What hunting they're willing to do? There's lazy's sin you. Oh,
I figured they could do with bows and arrow.

Speaker 35 (01:27:10):
Now, look, the Siewerre traditional hunters. They're not lazy about it.
If they got hunting grounds, they've got hunting grounds by treaty.
Red Deer says, the miners scare the game off.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Well, I can't keep miners out of here. That's not
my job. It's the army's job. We'll run them out.

Speaker 12 (01:27:24):
I'm not interested in miners. I'm interested in the Indians
having guns, oh am. I Now, ever, since I took
them away, I've kept their guns in one of the
supply stores, under lock and key.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
You can be sure of that.

Speaker 12 (01:27:34):
Yesterday the lock was broken and the guns were gone.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
They took their own guns back.

Speaker 12 (01:27:40):
It was yesterday morning I found them gone. That's when
I telegraphed the major Last evening I found some of
my own rifles gone. Now I say they're spoiling for something.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
Captain might be your right, MISTERI and.

Speaker 12 (01:27:52):
Know I'm right, and I don't mind telling you it
frightens me. It should was to handle agency affairs by himself.
I've done a good job of it too, for do
say so. But when savager start arming against me, I
don't mind admitting I need help.

Speaker 35 (01:28:10):
I'll start a search going for the guns right away,
mister Lac. Good, but you better get some ideas about
helping yourself too well in what way and the way
you look on humanity, mister Lac, Agency indians got the
right to enough food, proper living quarters and hunting grounds.

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
I abide by the letter. Captain. We'll start our search,
see what we come up with.

Speaker 12 (01:28:33):
Naturally, I'll want to help you anyway I can.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
That'd be by staying right here, mister Lac. Let us
do the search in our way.

Speaker 37 (01:28:49):
Mister Lac said that store building there next to the
laundry was where the guns was kept. Captain, did you
speak to Red dear sergeant we He said he'd meet
us here good. I don't know quite how to say this,
but I don't just warm the searching engines for guns
that are rightly theirs.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Not all of them are rightly there. Some of them
belong to mister Lack. Is the building, Yes, sir, what
you're doing here, white captain? He will say, no, bother
white squaw, something wrong, missus Lack.

Speaker 24 (01:29:25):
Red deer just started me, Captain quince. I didn't hear
him come in, and then suddenly there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
He was, and we asked him to meet us here, ma'am. Yes,
so he said, red dear, no bother white squaw.

Speaker 24 (01:29:36):
No, no, of course he didn't. I'm just edgy, Captain.

Speaker 9 (01:29:40):
We all are.

Speaker 24 (01:29:41):
And how I've just never got used to their moccasins.
You can't hear them, you know, you just can't hear
them at all.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
If you've got business here, man, we won't bother you,
not at all.

Speaker 24 (01:29:50):
I was just looking for some soap. I thought we'd
stored the surplus here. I guess we've used it all.
Mister Lac keeps a very close check on supplies, you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
Know, I'll bet he does.

Speaker 24 (01:30:01):
Yes, well, I'll go.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Now, oh, ma'am. Yes, I was wondering, is this supply
store kept opening as a rule. Anybody can come and go.

Speaker 24 (01:30:13):
Oh need not No, No, mister Lock keeps it bolted
at all times. He and I have the only keys.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
Then you unlocked it just now before we came.

Speaker 24 (01:30:21):
Yes, that's how red deer got in without my hearing him.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Thank you, ma'am, Thank you very much.

Speaker 24 (01:30:26):
I'll see it's locked immediate.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
You're finished, Captain, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 35 (01:30:38):
This cabinet, red deer, This where Lac kept your guns. Nothing, No,
Lock's been spliced clean, sergeant.

Speaker 28 (01:30:54):
Real clean cabin hatchet, Maybe.

Speaker 35 (01:30:58):
Pretty good sized cabinet. How many guns did it hold,
Red deer?

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
No, red deer not know about guns. They were your
own guns once. Maybe you figured you had the right to.

Speaker 25 (01:31:13):
Them many rights once belonged to red deer and people.

Speaker 9 (01:31:18):
No more.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
You hate Lock, don't you? Red deer, Red deer, come
make power with captain. Captain say, talk about hunting grounds,
not guns, not hate. But you do hate him, not
like lack give Indian bad lodge, not much good, no

(01:31:39):
no good hunting.

Speaker 26 (01:31:42):
Hate, Yes, hate enough to want to kill him, maybe
kill red deer.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
Not need gun to kill Lock. Oh you wouldn't, would you?
And if you didn't take the guns yourself, Read deer,
you know who took them? Many questions from Captain No, Powell.

Speaker 35 (01:32:06):
We don't want to search your lodgers, but we will
if we have to. You understand, we'll go through every
stick of building on this agency to find those guns
unless your people give them up of their own.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
Will Red Dear not know boating guns? Red Deer, Red Dear,
listen to me. We're going to try to do our
best for you about the food and your lodges, and
we'll drive the miners off your hunting grounds. But you've
got to help us too. Now, you go to your people,

(01:32:37):
tell them to give up these guns or we'll come.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
Looking for them.

Speaker 26 (01:32:41):
How much time till tomorrow morning? White soldiers camp on
agency tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
Yes, we'll have to.

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
Red Deer go to people, make talk.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
You find guns, bring to Captain, stack them in front
of your lodges. If do this, Captain not take buppus
from Indian. Where'd you get an idea like that?

Speaker 37 (01:33:12):
Red Deer, go to people, now, who's going to take
their kids from nobody?

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
But I'll sure find out who threatened it.

Speaker 12 (01:33:39):
That kind of question doesn't deserve an answer, Captain.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
And I'm still asking it. Take their papooters away. Why
what intarnation would I do with their mangy kids. The
point is they got the idea you mean to take
them or not from me.

Speaker 9 (01:33:52):
They didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
I'd steal guns too, have I got that kind of threatened?
But what kind of man do you think I am.
I've had a look around today, Lack. I've seen what
they live in, seen what they eat. I know what
kind of man you are. I do my job.

Speaker 12 (01:34:11):
I keep endings in their place. I run an agency
with a strong hand, because that's the only thing they
can understand. But I've never told them I intended to
take their children. Now you can believe that or not.

Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
Got all the food stuff locked up tight? Now have
you all of it?

Speaker 12 (01:34:27):
You can go around exchanging on her pledges with him
if you want, a captain getting your word on this
and that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
But I keep their food for them, and that's something
they understand. You're wrong, Lack. No man understands starvation. I'll
say good night to you, captain, and sleep well, mister
lack Goptain, mister Sabbits. We kept our eye on the

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lodges until sundowns.

Speaker 28 (01:35:05):
There no sign of the guns.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
They haven't till morning. I hope they give them up voluntarily,
so do I. Well, if you don't eat me anymore,
I guess I'll turn in, sir. Get a good night's sleep,
mister Sabbats. Tomorrow stands a chance of being quite a
day around here. I know, night a night, mister Sabbaths.

Speaker 19 (01:35:29):
Oh over here, Captain's Lack.

Speaker 24 (01:35:41):
I hope the pepple didn't start at you. I wanted
to get your attention.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
You got it, ma'am.

Speaker 24 (01:35:47):
I think we can talk better in the supply store.
Mister Lack knew i'd come to you, he'd please, Captain,

(01:36:10):
we don't dare.

Speaker 32 (01:36:11):
Light the lamp.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Whatever you say, Man, I'm so much to.

Speaker 24 (01:36:15):
Blame, Captain. I want you to know. I know that now,
But at first I thought it was only right after
so much wrong, Captain, I thought. And mister LAK's not
easy to talk to. He's never easy.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
Whatever you did, missus Lack, I can believe you thought
it was right.

Speaker 24 (01:36:35):
That's kind, that's kind. I'm not good with talk. I
think a lot, but I I never say, I never
dare say. Mister Lac isn't one to listen. I guess
I didn't make the Indians understand me very well?

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
What did you tell them about the school? Just the women?

Speaker 24 (01:36:53):
Of course, the squaws. They're all I see really in
the laundry mostly. Mister Lac never comes there, and sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
We talk about the school.

Speaker 24 (01:37:03):
I thought if they couldn't see any hope for themselves here,
that it would mean something to think their children would
have a better chance. I told them maybe we could
start at school.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
And they took it. You meant to take their kids
from them?

Speaker 24 (01:37:18):
I guess I just didn't say it very well.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
It was after that they took the guns.

Speaker 24 (01:37:23):
Yes, it's a terrible thing I've done, Captain.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Some terrible things have been done here, ma'am. But what
you tried to do was a fine thing.

Speaker 24 (01:37:36):
Children. They're a mother's full hope. A woman will bear
anything knowing her young will have it better and easier.
And I don't know what's possessed me speaking so free.

Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
Nothing wrong with speaking free.

Speaker 24 (01:37:52):
I'm a childless woman, Captain.

Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
I'm not the right.

Speaker 24 (01:37:56):
I'd best get back to my quarters now.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
I wanted you to know.

Speaker 24 (01:38:00):
Will it help you're known?

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
I think it will, missus Lack, I'm much obliged.

Speaker 35 (01:38:08):
Ah, I don't see the guns, Red Deer, No guns, Captain,

(01:38:32):
you've had time to talk to your people.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
No gun. I ask for your help, read dear. Is
this your answer? Can do nothing, mister saberts Yes, sir,
he will direct the search of all lodges, all buildings
housing Indians. Yes, sir, I'm starting the search with your lodge,
Red Deer. Will you lead me to it? Squaw in ludge,
I won't bother.

Speaker 23 (01:38:54):
Her, Howison near the others?

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
Come a Captain, you find something, Sergeant, No, sir. Back
to the matter.

Speaker 28 (01:39:07):
Is we lost something?

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
Now?

Speaker 28 (01:39:09):
Was that Miller and kinkaid?

Speaker 25 (01:39:11):
Captain?

Speaker 37 (01:39:12):
He was too sheepish to speak out now during the
night their rifles was took right?

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
Damn you look, Captain?

Speaker 18 (01:39:20):
You know fine?

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
M what's this belong to?

Speaker 25 (01:39:44):
School?

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Soap for papoos learn from white Square, missus Lak white Squaw,
keep all things very clean, my square.

Speaker 25 (01:39:55):
She learned from her.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
Your papoose could learn from her too, if you'd let
her start at school, nor take pop poosh from lodge.
You want them to grow up, Scared Hayton, the way
you do use your head, Red Deer, A school in
this agency might make a lot of things better, not
take pop poosh from Ludge. We'll have a lot of
talking to do later. Big power, red men, white men,

(01:40:18):
settle many things, will you take soap?

Speaker 12 (01:40:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
No, here, but your squad took it, didn't she from
the supply store by the laundry. Not no, Maybe she
took the guns too. You find no gun, Captain, Well,
I we'll see about that. You're not lying around here anyway.
Come on, all people taken from lodgers. Why we're gonna

(01:40:51):
find those guns? Red deer, red deer, some sort of
privileged characters, he captain, he'll stand search and do time.
Mister Lack. You will conduct the search yourself, Captain. Of course,
I'll walk right along with you, all right, you walk
along with me. But save you're talking for the Indian Commission.
Major Dagger'll be sending one over as soon as he

(01:41:11):
gets my report. Captain, you'd have my job, you bet
I would, mister Lack, you'll walk with us.

Speaker 26 (01:41:18):
Red deer, this running bird, uh huh, this many rivers

(01:41:49):
hm hmm.

Speaker 25 (01:42:00):
Dish squaw, oh larking.

Speaker 5 (01:42:06):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Sergeant, Yes, sir, sergeant, walk towards us along that line.
Take a good look, yes, sir, what is it? Captain,
you didn't see, mister Lack, I saw nothing.

Speaker 28 (01:42:31):
Well, Captain, it took quite a little doing on their part, Yeah, a.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Lot of doing, Sergeant. Go on, mister Lac, look again,
look close this time the beads.

Speaker 35 (01:42:46):
The squaws are wearing their shells, cartridges. The old men
are leaning on canes, only their gun barrels. The kids
got arrowheads hanging from their belts, and right along with
them gunlocks, hammers.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
You mean they took the guns apart, they're wearing them.

Speaker 13 (01:43:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (01:43:04):
And if you're smart, Black, you'll ask to get relieved
from your job before they put him back together.

Speaker 17 (01:43:28):
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Featured in the cast were Joseph Kernes, John Dayner, and

(01:43:51):
Vivi Janas. Jack Moyles is Major Daggett and Harry Bartel
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(01:44:31):
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(01:45:02):
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Speaker 6 (01:46:12):
You gotta love Joseph Kerns, who could play anything from
serious drama to a comedy, but he is best at
play in that cranky old man that he was portraying
there Fort Laramie sixty nine years ago. August twelfth, nineteen
fifty six. Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox,
I really need to dig a little deeper. I finding

(01:46:38):
intact copies that have any sound quality at all of
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realizing that Freeman Goslin and Charles Correll evolved from a
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(01:47:03):
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on this next break as we listen to We'll listen
to Challenge of the Yukon Paul Sutton coming up next
year on Classic Radio Theater with Wyapcox.

Speaker 17 (01:47:31):
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Speaker 6 (01:47:53):
We head from the West to the North for an
episode of Challenge of the Yukon starring Paul Sutton. Seventy
four years the Longest twelfth nineteen fifty one.

Speaker 13 (01:48:05):
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(01:48:25):
present five special recording Sergeant Preston of the Yukon Whoo Whoo, Whoaoo,
It's Yukon King Swift is the strongest lead god of
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Speaker 7 (01:48:46):
On yours whoa.

Speaker 13 (01:48:49):
Gold gold discovered in the Yukon A stampede of the
Klondike in the wild race for riches back to the
days of the gold Rush, and the adventures of Sergeant
Preston and his wonder dog you Can King as they
meet the.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
Challenge of the.

Speaker 13 (01:49:22):
Our adventure will begin in just a moment. As a parent,
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(01:49:44):
What will a situation be in ten years. Realizing that
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(01:50:05):
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Corporal Bill Buckland, the Northwest Mounted Police, traveled on snowshoes
through desolate country whiles from the settlement of Bellery Flats.
The corporal was on the trail of cub West and
the five killers traveling with him.

Speaker 18 (01:50:51):
Buckland was closer than he realized to the man he saw.

Speaker 13 (01:50:55):
Here he comes, get ready to h Buckland didn't know
that they had doubled back in their tracks, were watching
his approach from behind the formation of boulders.

Speaker 22 (01:51:03):
And then when he was within rifle range, that's got.

Speaker 13 (01:51:09):
Invoced at Manti's off our tracks for Keith. We make
sure that let's shot on voice. We'll shut down. After
I make sure the mighty's dead a man, we'll go
and take a look at it. The short, heavy set
man giving the orders was cub West. Cobb had received
his nickname early in his career of crime. In his teens,
he had turned criminals, and his greatest boast was that

(01:51:29):
he'd been behind bars only once. And now in his
middle thirties, he was an expert at dodging justice. Only
one of his followers, a man named Tex, had escape
being pictured on handbills.

Speaker 8 (01:51:41):
When Cobb saw the face of the man he had shot,
he turned to.

Speaker 13 (01:51:44):
Text and snapped that set person was on our trail
horses for I heard doors press. Who has he cubbed?
His name's Belin. He gener patrols this territory. And of
course I didn't know. I thought he was pressing. No,
he didn't get pressing. But this Mary sure is dead.
And I said, we're in a lott trouble. Before killed
one body and we still have pressed in urracon way, Tay.
Let's make for the border while we have the chance.

(01:52:06):
I'm not clearing out of the Yukon t I have
enough goal to put me on easy Street, my cor
If we stay here will be catching. Not if we
make fast and think we cleared out of this country.
You mean, well, they can think we've cleared out. If
we'll stay here.

Speaker 8 (01:52:19):
That's it.

Speaker 13 (01:52:19):
We'll hide out till the heat dies down. You know,
a safe place to hide? Yeah, there's no mind not
far from here. About two years ago a gens named.

Speaker 18 (01:52:28):
Right Boy, He and his wife and son lived there.

Speaker 13 (01:52:31):
What about well, I've heard him gold They were the
right died. The woman and the ten year old boy
are there alone. We'll make him hide us. I guess
that the travel boys, we're heading for the Right mind right.
Nearly an hour after Buckling had been shot, you con
King led Sergeant Preston and the Mounti's team of puppies

(01:52:53):
toward Dellowy flanks.

Speaker 18 (01:52:55):
The sergeant was accompanied by a young American named.

Speaker 13 (01:52:58):
Ed Wright Dodge in half part from the flats are we?

Speaker 32 (01:53:00):
I don't know?

Speaker 13 (01:53:01):
I've we've been in this part of the country.

Speaker 22 (01:53:03):
How do you know we're going in the right direction?

Speaker 18 (01:53:05):
Earned the more information the Firs of biggis deelbebas Blos.
I'm mighty glad to get there.

Speaker 13 (01:53:10):
I'm anxious to see young Johnny. There's only four when
his dad brought him to the Yuka older than all,
nearly ten, poor little kid. Stuff for a boy his
age to lose his dad. That happened to his father.
He died about three months ago pneumonia. Oh there, I
promised my brother I take care of his wife and
son if anything happened to him From now on, I

(01:53:31):
guess stuff to me, Hey.

Speaker 18 (01:53:34):
Sergeant, is it my imagination?

Speaker 13 (01:53:35):
Or is the sky getting dark over to the north.
The man's a notion there.

Speaker 18 (01:53:38):
We're going to have small one.

Speaker 13 (01:53:40):
If the trails covered before we reached the mine, we'll
babble bed compass.

Speaker 18 (01:53:43):
And looked the king together.

Speaker 13 (01:53:44):
Soon, Hey, sergeant, king's running away. Who's never been to
Abada's Look, he's running way ahead on the trail.

Speaker 9 (01:53:51):
He does that happened the dream of gods up to him?

Speaker 13 (01:53:54):
Here It looks like he's found something in the snow.
It is looks as if it's an animal thing.

Speaker 18 (01:53:59):
We're coming, come on, will investigate other hooking.

Speaker 13 (01:54:09):
It's a man. He's wearing a basket in Parker.

Speaker 23 (01:54:12):
He must have frozen to death.

Speaker 22 (01:54:14):
Gargan Preston, goodn't dancers you'd already.

Speaker 13 (01:54:17):
Noticed the official stripe breaks on the still form gently.

Speaker 18 (01:54:21):
He turned over the body lying face down in the snow.
Still you know what I'm said?

Speaker 25 (01:54:27):
Yes, yes, he's wearing a uniform.

Speaker 18 (01:54:31):
That's right, missus, Corporal Button. I came to this part
of the Yukon to sea and I didn't expect to
find him.

Speaker 5 (01:54:38):
Then he was shot.

Speaker 22 (01:54:39):
He was shot to ambush going the spill in the.

Speaker 8 (01:54:42):
Halting saying you came here to meet him?

Speaker 18 (01:54:45):
Yes to Inspector has sent me from Bess and the
Warren Bill about cub West and his gang of killers.
Is the cub West gang in this part of the country. Yes,
that's across the trail.

Speaker 14 (01:54:55):
Was murder.

Speaker 18 (01:54:57):
It's too late to help Bill, but not too late
to get those Help me carry his body to the
sled and we'll look for tracking.

Speaker 13 (01:55:14):
We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. Say if
you had the thrill lately of being right there in
the ballpark when the leadoff man steps up to the plate.
Have you been there at these star players in person?
See them wall of home runs, see the exciting double plays. Well,

(01:55:37):
don't miss the fun another day, come out to the
ballgame as guest of a major or minor league team.
Walk right through the gate free if you are twelve
years or younger and bring mom or Dad or another
paying adult. Yes, you can get a free baseball ticket.
No mailing, no waiting, It's right inside a package of
Quaker Pop wheat or Quaker Pop rice or muffet shredded

(01:56:01):
wheat or by Quaker PACKO ten and get two free
baseball tickets. Names of teams and dates are on every ticket.
Hurried to get your free baseball tickets in the special
package of Quaker Puff Wheat, al rice, muffet, shredded wheat
or Quaker Packo ten. Now to continue, snow began falling.

(01:56:32):
A Sergeant Preston and ed Wright placed them Outy's body
on the sled. Inside of fifteen minutes, the snow became
a howling blizzard, completely covering the tracks.

Speaker 22 (01:56:40):
Of a man who had murdered Corporate.

Speaker 13 (01:56:42):
But after the death of her husband, Merry Wright found
it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Men had to
be hired and costly machinery bought before gold could be
taken from the tunnel. With barely enough food for herself
and john he merely had no hope of operating the mine.

(01:57:03):
She and Johnny were finishing a light meal in their
cabin as the storm raged outside.

Speaker 9 (01:57:07):
Gosh, it's nice to be indorsed.

Speaker 13 (01:57:10):
I have to be out in the storm.

Speaker 22 (01:57:12):
Someone has to go out to feed the dogs.

Speaker 24 (01:57:14):
I wish you'd do it for me tonight, Johnny, what Mom,
take some of the drive station in the woodshed. Why Son,
you're still afraid of dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
I hope you had changed, Mom.

Speaker 24 (01:57:25):
I tried to write jobs. Honestly, Let's talk it over,
Johnny and see if we can't settle it before Uncle
Ed gets here. You wouldn't want him to know you're
afraid of dogs, would you know? That's all right?

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
Then?

Speaker 24 (01:57:38):
Now, what is it that makes you afraid?

Speaker 22 (01:57:41):
You remember the time Dad nine went to Dawson when
I lived in three Times?

Speaker 9 (01:57:45):
What about it?

Speaker 1 (01:57:46):
Dear Dad and I were.

Speaker 13 (01:57:47):
Traveling at length. There was a moon that we couldn't
see very far.

Speaker 9 (01:57:51):
A wood path was back off the trail.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
They attacked two men.

Speaker 24 (01:57:55):
Dad let me keep firing his gun to drive wolves away.

Speaker 13 (01:57:58):
Those wolves?

Speaker 24 (01:58:00):
Then, yes, Dad told me about it when you came
home in the moon.

Speaker 9 (01:58:04):
Like those wolves just like dogs.

Speaker 13 (01:58:06):
I get a fan of those men every time you
hear a dog. But there's a big difference between a
dog and a wolf.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
A dog is a friend, not to me.

Speaker 23 (01:58:15):
I don't like dogs.

Speaker 24 (01:58:16):
Wouldn't you like to overcome your fears? Yes, taking food
to the dog is a good way to start, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:58:24):
Now, I'll try good for.

Speaker 9 (01:58:27):
You, Johnny.

Speaker 24 (01:58:29):
I'll put the fish in a basket.

Speaker 13 (01:58:30):
You just throw it to the dog. Mary Wright stood
by the open door of the woodshed, watching Johnny as
he walked toward the dog, running with a strong wind.

Speaker 18 (01:58:43):
At his back.

Speaker 13 (01:58:44):
Johnny felt as if you were being driven toward the
thing he feared. He stay there, se down in the snow.
The boungary dog smelled the dried fish. They stood up,
anticipating the food they knew was theirs.

Speaker 8 (01:58:58):
Oh well, each stepped.

Speaker 13 (01:59:01):
Johnny's terror mounted, his heart powdered in his ears, His
hands became nominous, knees shook.

Speaker 8 (01:59:06):
The dogs crowded told him eagerly. But Johnny had.

Speaker 13 (01:59:08):
Stopped in his tracks.

Speaker 18 (01:59:09):
He trembles from the head to pot.

Speaker 13 (01:59:11):
The waiting dogs talk that he did set a feel
and reacted instantly.

Speaker 12 (01:59:22):
Joy he's a man in.

Speaker 24 (01:59:25):
The house, darling, I cried, I tried there there, dear,
don't cry.

Speaker 3 (01:59:35):
I don't like.

Speaker 9 (01:59:36):
Jobs, never like them all right, say, I don't care how.

Speaker 24 (01:59:44):
Maybe that's uncle lead Now, dry your tears, darling.

Speaker 7 (01:59:48):
As the door.

Speaker 13 (01:59:51):
Had done, Man.

Speaker 8 (01:59:56):
Club West pushed Johnny to one side as he and
his man entered.

Speaker 13 (01:59:59):
The largest children anyone besides you and the boy here missus? Right?

Speaker 17 (02:00:03):
No, of course not.

Speaker 9 (02:00:05):
How do you know my name?

Speaker 13 (02:00:06):
With your shoulder packs over in the corner. Boys, make
yourself the whole.

Speaker 2 (02:00:09):
All right, you're welcome here if you're looking for shelter.

Speaker 18 (02:00:12):
Each of the strong mona.

Speaker 13 (02:00:13):
We're here to stay, maybe for a couple of days,
maybe for a couple of weeks.

Speaker 9 (02:00:18):
You can't stay here, what mom? Die here?

Speaker 13 (02:00:21):
You're a little too flip boy. Maybe this will teach
you a lesson alone. Next time come seeks to you
answer respectfully, you'll be a lesson to him. Next time
I'll hit him harder.

Speaker 2 (02:00:34):
Go away and leave the moan.

Speaker 18 (02:00:36):
This is right. I'll give you the fact.

Speaker 13 (02:00:38):
We're dodging the mounting, judging the mounting. Yeah, we need
a place to hide.

Speaker 19 (02:00:44):
Now.

Speaker 13 (02:00:44):
Maybe if you know more about us, you'll realize we
mean business. If you can't ever cross us and stay alive,
we're wanted for robbery and murdy. One of the men
we killed with the mountain. We shot him this morning.
We don't want to do any more killing missus, right,
but we will look. Do you understand? Yes, I understand Verry,
you and Slim search a place for weapons, right? But

(02:01:05):
can I send you? Right? What if someone comes.

Speaker 31 (02:01:08):
Here looking for you?

Speaker 9 (02:01:08):
You'll never be tasking.

Speaker 18 (02:01:10):
We'll fight it out.

Speaker 13 (02:01:11):
But you know if if anyone is following you, we
know Sergeant Preston's on our trails. Whist yeah, what about
it or nothing?

Speaker 9 (02:01:19):
I've heard you.

Speaker 13 (02:01:20):
The storms likely wipe out our tracks.

Speaker 18 (02:01:22):
But he may have that dog he his with him.

Speaker 13 (02:01:25):
If he comes here, he'll have to get asked six
of us, because if he doesn't, we'll get him. Meanwhile,
Johnny's uncle had hounded nearly impossible to withstand the punishment
of the stinging wind and blinding snowstorms attend different Fresh
from the States, ed Wright wasn't used to the hardships

(02:01:47):
of the Yukon. After struggling to keep pace with Sergeant Preston,
he'd probably ask the Mardy to seek shelters, prest him
and snoop snow from a giant drift into the icy cavern.

Speaker 8 (02:01:58):
He carried the body of Bill Bucklem and then.

Speaker 13 (02:02:01):
While King lay at his master's feet and the rest
of the team curled up outside, the two men waited
for the storm to subside.

Speaker 22 (02:02:07):
Dry.

Speaker 18 (02:02:07):
I had to sew your down. So it is make
some experienced stroo to make his way through the Yukon storms.
You'll get used to the father.

Speaker 28 (02:02:15):
I never thought i'd find the inside of a snow
drifted cosey.

Speaker 18 (02:02:18):
When you were called milk and conte all all this
makes a fine service.

Speaker 28 (02:02:22):
Too bad that snow has covered the tracks of the
men who murdered your friend.

Speaker 18 (02:02:26):
At least we older attracts of six men as the
scene of the ambush.

Speaker 13 (02:02:29):
How far would cub Western his killers have to travel
to get out of the terre double one hundred miles.
If I'd killed him many, I couldn't get out of
the Yukon trast.

Speaker 8 (02:02:38):
He might do that.

Speaker 18 (02:02:39):
You don't sound convinced. Before I left, person, I studied
the file of information on Club West. What do you
find if all these escape clup to all these used
by doing the unexpected?

Speaker 22 (02:02:50):
Where are you going? And if the storm's over? And
go outside and look it wrong? I still snowing, but
the storm's over. Hey, the first covered?

Speaker 13 (02:03:04):
Where do we go from here the boons clabn's doing
no dangling at the dogs up for.

Speaker 18 (02:03:10):
The gabin and.

Speaker 22 (02:03:11):
Bringing all the on our way.

Speaker 8 (02:03:15):
It was late afternoon.

Speaker 13 (02:03:17):
Cub West and his gang had made themselves at home,
and Merry writes cabin.

Speaker 22 (02:03:21):
Johnny was bringing in a supply of wood from.

Speaker 8 (02:03:23):
The shed behind the house when the man named Fello said, happened?

Speaker 13 (02:03:27):
Come on ahead of the winner is the fir looks
like someone's coming. H two men and a dun team.
There's a free lead running ahead of those husky.

Speaker 5 (02:03:35):
I saw him.

Speaker 13 (02:03:36):
Boy, hey, boys one, there's many a certain pest. Let
me see he walks in.

Speaker 9 (02:03:41):
All six of us and have to drop it.

Speaker 13 (02:03:44):
And the boy here all opened the door for.

Speaker 19 (02:03:48):
The door.

Speaker 13 (02:03:49):
Be sensible, Johnny. You wouldn't want to stop a bullet,
would it come of Maddy Parsby? Come here, Johnny. Cub
West and the men with him were trying to watch
them out. He's part rest without getting too close.

Speaker 18 (02:04:01):
To the windows.

Speaker 13 (02:04:02):
Johnny left his mother's side and started toward cub West,
but as the boy passed the door leading to the woodshed,
he rushed toward him. Johnny snatched the door open and
slimmed it quickly.

Speaker 18 (02:04:11):
As he rushed from the house to the outside.

Speaker 13 (02:04:13):
He kept close to the house so the outlaws couldn't
see him, and as he handed he shouted, where we
didn't hurt the warning. He swung his team to the
protection of large boulders that had been placed to form
a fence and wind break around the cabin.

Speaker 8 (02:04:29):
The bounty ducklow and sharted.

Speaker 13 (02:04:30):
Head right hit the ground, but that right was too slow.
The outlaws open fire from the windows of the cabin.
Just then Johnny, coming from the opposite direction, reached the
shelter of the huge boulders. He hurried the sergeant Preston's side.

Speaker 18 (02:04:42):
Thanks for the warning, gun.

Speaker 1 (02:04:43):
Can you tell the house.

Speaker 13 (02:04:44):
Taking press how.

Speaker 24 (02:04:45):
West did hold down me?

Speaker 13 (02:04:47):
And he walked into a trap?

Speaker 22 (02:04:48):
Heather, you all right, they hit me, it's just shooting.

Speaker 18 (02:04:53):
Don't worry. They can't hit us as one. As we
stay behind these boulders.

Speaker 8 (02:04:56):
That they might get out of the house without a
scene signal warnings.

Speaker 18 (02:04:59):
If they try the it's the fresh one, then I'll
see what I can for it. As for you, young fellow,
I had a spare part that listens on my sled.
You'd better put them on. Yes, A couple of prices
to thak for you. They still be warm the son.

Speaker 13 (02:05:16):
Are you selling right?

Speaker 2 (02:05:17):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (02:05:19):
Your uncle told me about you. My un I'm your uncle, Janny.

Speaker 13 (02:05:23):
Golly, Mom and I knew you were coming, but we
believe be coming.

Speaker 31 (02:05:26):
A staging pressing.

Speaker 13 (02:05:29):
Jo pretty killers say, and I have some bandage here.
I'll get addressing on that one starting press.

Speaker 2 (02:05:36):
He is shandy.

Speaker 9 (02:05:37):
Those outmost they gommany.

Speaker 13 (02:05:39):
They already kill one.

Speaker 1 (02:05:40):
Any want to kill you.

Speaker 13 (02:05:53):
We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. You should
have been at the ball game today. I we'sw three
home runs and guess what I got one of the
home run balls. Fellas and girls, why don't you get
a pre baseball ticket?

Speaker 23 (02:06:07):
It's easy.

Speaker 13 (02:06:08):
Come out to the ball game as guessable major or
minor league team. Your free ticket is waiting for you
right now inside packages of Quaker popped Wheat, Quaker pop
rice muffet shredded wheat, and Quaker Paco ten which has
two free baseball tickets. Yes, if you are twelve years
or younger, just bring mom or Dad or another paying
adults and see wonderful major or minor league baseball games.

(02:06:29):
Free names of teams and dates are on every ticket.
Get as many free tickets as you want. No mailing,
no waiting. When mom buy's breakfast cereal, just be sure
she gets the kind with a free baseball ticket. Inside
that's Quaker pop wheat and rice and muffet shredded wheat.
You get two free baseball tickets inside Quaker Paco ten.

(02:06:51):
So don't miss out another day. See the star players
wallop those home runs. Now to continue inside the right cabin,

(02:07:15):
cub West raids his the turnable events that had upset
his plan. Amount he's safe behind those boulders out there.
If we have trapped cur and he has us trapped.
Not only that, but he could go on the straight
line from the boulders to the main trail, we wouldn't
be able to see him.

Speaker 8 (02:07:27):
The boulders cut off the view of the.

Speaker 13 (02:07:29):
Trail, and I thinks back in my shoves, of course
he won't. What do we do, boy, we're a waitless dark.
I have a plan for it, and I guarantee we'll
get that mounting. Meanwhile, behind the bowlders at the side
of the cabin, sergeant pressed him and made ed ride
as comfortable as possible.

Speaker 18 (02:07:48):
How do you feel it.

Speaker 27 (02:07:50):
I'll be all right, Tack, don't worry about me.

Speaker 13 (02:07:53):
I can press the mountainside the cabin orift.

Speaker 18 (02:07:57):
I'll try to get cub westerns yang before they heard him.

Speaker 1 (02:07:59):
Mother, How will you do that?

Speaker 22 (02:08:01):
We all have to go to town and got help.

Speaker 18 (02:08:03):
That's there only chance, Jim wait to well, that isn't necessary.
You'll ride my pleasure, but I can't. King will handle
the don you tell King where to go.

Speaker 9 (02:08:14):
He'll do the red.

Speaker 13 (02:08:15):
I mean, I ensure I'm one.

Speaker 8 (02:08:17):
What's that I press too deep?

Speaker 18 (02:08:19):
Johnny. You couldn't break tail to it. We have to
close in on that gang before dark.

Speaker 9 (02:08:24):
That's right, Johnny.

Speaker 18 (02:08:25):
It'll be dark in about three hours after it start.
Those cooks might be able to escape.

Speaker 13 (02:08:30):
I can use the tourne I just can't hear.

Speaker 18 (02:08:32):
And not to wounded, Johnny, you can't travel.

Speaker 13 (02:08:36):
Couldn't kingle the health before?

Speaker 18 (02:08:39):
Only one he knew where to go.

Speaker 13 (02:08:41):
He's never been in this part of the country. He
doesn't know anyone in town. Johnny, what's john prison? I
will free I try not to do it.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
I tell you, please, let.

Speaker 13 (02:08:54):
Me try to go to John King.

Speaker 18 (02:08:57):
Johnny, this is King King.

Speaker 13 (02:09:00):
You from Sergeant Preston's manner that Johnny was a friend.
But as he stood close to his master, the great
dog sensed Johnny's fear. King wanted to be friends with
the boy, and he tried to tell.

Speaker 18 (02:09:10):
Himself, King, this is Johnny. I don't be frightened, Johnny.
He's just saying hello. Close to He won't hurt you.
A great dog moved close to the boy and nuzzled the.

Speaker 13 (02:09:23):
Small hand encased in the large mystics, why.

Speaker 18 (02:09:29):
Don't you set him well?

Speaker 13 (02:09:31):
Let me do that.

Speaker 18 (02:09:33):
Try to see kying like that. He must like you, Johnny.
He won't let many people do that.

Speaker 13 (02:09:41):
Gosh, I think he's like you.

Speaker 18 (02:09:44):
No, do you think King is as dangerous to you
as those cooks inside the house. No, you're not afraid
of King, Johnny. You're not afraid of any other dogs.
That's when your mother's life is at stake.

Speaker 19 (02:09:56):
You're right right a town.

Speaker 18 (02:09:59):
Good for you, Johnny. I'll help if I him on
the sled the King. Johnny, you and King of partners.
This dog will lay down his life to help you.
He's your friends. He's going to help you save your mother.
Bryan Simon, how you give King the orders? Tell him
where to go find them?

Speaker 22 (02:10:20):
Oh my God, needs to drive ices.

Speaker 18 (02:10:22):
I'll try to bring help before dark. And Johnny, keep
these boulders between you and the house so the outlaws
won't see you.

Speaker 27 (02:10:29):
I will.

Speaker 13 (02:10:40):
An hour passed, and then another from time to time
a gun box. If one of the outlaws tried to
leave the cabin, then the gathering darkness made it difficult for.

Speaker 8 (02:10:49):
Sergeant trust him to watch the house. In the kitchen,
cub West.

Speaker 13 (02:10:53):
Pulled one of Merry Wright's skirts over his own clothing
and placed the shawl over his head. We go out
the front door with me dressing his skirt and shawl.
The mon he'll hold his fire because you'll think I'm
missus right, I had that slick idea captain. I'll have
my gun beneath the show. As soon as I get
close to Preston, I'll open fire. And the rest of
you hear the gunplay rushing open the door a parrel.

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I'll up about it. Okay, PSA, hold your fire. I'm saying,
that's us right out with me, all right, give your
hands up and walk fully. I still boy light from
the open door silhouetted the two figures leaving the cabin.
When ed Wright saw the short, heavy set figure and
the woman's skirt. He called out, open fire.

Speaker 7 (02:11:42):
Up.

Speaker 13 (02:11:43):
Western Pharaoh dropped to the ground, hearing the gun play.
The rest of the game rush from the house, firing
as they came. The rustling Come, what list, someone's coming?

Speaker 18 (02:11:52):
Press Muster said.

Speaker 13 (02:12:00):
More than a dozen towns when joined Sergeant Preston, and
the battle is followed. Cub West and his gang of
killers were completely outnumbered. Those who hadn't been wounded realized
the hopelessness of continuing the fight.

Speaker 2 (02:12:10):
I quit.

Speaker 13 (02:12:12):
You have hed enough for all about the rest of
your gang. Man left turn thrusted presens. But as long
as I can use the other one, I've guessed it.
Both of your arms are broken, Cubs, and here's the
rest of your want. Gun play looks like cup Worston
is carrying her through Shag and Preston thanks to Johnny

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and King is marm all right?

Speaker 28 (02:12:34):
There's your answer, Johnny.

Speaker 23 (02:12:35):
She's coming from the house right now.

Speaker 9 (02:12:37):
Johnny, john where's my ball?

Speaker 13 (02:12:41):
Three?

Speaker 19 (02:12:41):
More right?

Speaker 13 (02:12:42):
Thank you? Martin?

Speaker 8 (02:12:44):
Hello Mary?

Speaker 9 (02:12:45):
When did you get here?

Speaker 13 (02:12:47):
He was the saging fuss all the time, disarmed these killers.
Now what are you gonna do with them?

Speaker 18 (02:12:52):
We'll take them into the house, bandie their wounds, hand
custom and take them to town. So you're on trial
for robbery and murder.

Speaker 24 (02:13:00):
Dodge and press couple toward Johnny need that they'd killed him.

Speaker 18 (02:13:03):
On that I have found Corporal Butchon's body on the trail.

Speaker 13 (02:13:06):
We try to kill you too, only at the t
on you'll get along into the house with you. Get
mooing out, Johnny.

Speaker 18 (02:13:13):
If you saved our lives when you got help from down.

Speaker 13 (02:13:16):
Gosh, Sagan Preston, I didn't do anything.

Speaker 18 (02:13:18):
Can get all the worse?

Speaker 24 (02:13:19):
Did you say, Johnny brought outcome?

Speaker 13 (02:13:21):
That's right, man, I go tragic Preston's dogs to come.

Speaker 18 (02:13:25):
You mean you handle the dog?

Speaker 9 (02:13:27):
Oh, Johnny, I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 18 (02:13:30):
You have reason to be proud, missus Rice. Real courage
is needed to do a thing you're afraid to do.

Speaker 1 (02:13:35):
How never do you afraid of another?

Speaker 13 (02:13:36):
John Why? There you a good friend?

Speaker 18 (02:13:39):
You learned a fine reward for yourself, Johnny for what
for the catch to the cub West and his game.
He'll get about three thousand dollars three.

Speaker 9 (02:13:49):
Thousand dollars dolling, just enough to start operating the mine
gage and cresting the boy from town.

Speaker 13 (02:13:55):
Have those killers lined up and ready for handcuff.

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And now let's see what's going on down in pine Ridge.

Speaker 9 (02:20:22):
Well Squires Skimp took it upon himself to send a
copy of the coat of arms in the baby's locket
to a genealogical research bureau in an effort to learn
something about the baby's family. Lum and Abner were a
little upset about this because they fear that now the
Squire will discover that the baby is the heir to
a kingdom. However, they are pretty anxious to hear any

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information that the Squire is able to get from the
research Bureau. As we look in on the little community today,
we find the old fellows in their jottam down store
and library.

Speaker 5 (02:20:52):
Lum is telephoning.

Speaker 9 (02:20:55):
Listen, it ain't done yet. Huh well, how soon will
it be ready?

Speaker 8 (02:21:00):
Killer?

Speaker 4 (02:21:02):
All right?

Speaker 9 (02:21:03):
Well, I reckon, that'll be a avenue stop. Wells, then
while I'm on my phone. Oh excuse me? What was that?
Kler little? Oh yeah, well, let me know when it's done.
I'll come over and try it on. Yeah all right, Keller, goodbye?
What are you going over to calebs and try on along? Nothing?

Speaker 13 (02:21:24):
Well?

Speaker 9 (02:21:24):
What is it?

Speaker 13 (02:21:25):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (02:21:25):
Just something Killer's making for me, something I need when
we start running the Baby's kingdom for me? Oh, something
Killer's making for you? Yeah? Well, all he makes will
wear at that blacksmith's shop is horseshoes.

Speaker 1 (02:21:39):
You ain't aiming on wearing them, are you?

Speaker 9 (02:21:41):
Oh? For goodness sake? Is that what they're wearing castles
horseshoes horse not Well, I'm glad they don't.

Speaker 21 (02:21:47):
I know.

Speaker 9 (02:21:48):
I don't want nobody kneeling nothing like that on the
bottom of my feet. Well, you can get the silliest eyed.
He's there everyone human I ever knowed in my life. Well,
what do you have in keler? Make you some horseshoes, firm,
You ain't making me no horseshoes. He's making me a sword.
A sword, yes, sir, I figure I already be wearing
one of them around the castle. Uh like to have

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one with gold handle, but that costs too much. Well here,
I'll better be get me one of them too, ortn't
I No, just the kings and the assistant kings wearing him.
You're just a duke or will be. Yeah, sorry, Quila
ain't got enough stuff to make another night out of nowhere?
He huh. And I had to take that old pick
axe we had around the store here over there so
he'd have enough to make my sword out of. Well,

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maybe I can find another pickaxe. No, I don't bother
if you need a sword anytime, or let you all
on your mind. Well, I believe I already had one
of my own lum, I know why. I saw a
picture of the Duke's holt and sword. No, them was
kings and knights. They was killing dragoons with her. Well,
I believe I'll call up Grandpapy spars and see if

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he's got old pickaxe. No, I don't go calling grandpap Wait, wait,
ain't at him coming across. No, no, no, squires Squire
hell right too. And he must have got that report
from Chicago report. Yeah, is the one from that outfit
that looks up insiganies and coats, arms and family histories
and cities at oh general all iyear, whatever you call it. Yeah,

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that's the one he read in for any Yeah, I'm
sort of anxious to hear this so as we can
find out all about the baby and what kingdom he's from.

Speaker 5 (02:23:20):
Yep, me too, Me too.

Speaker 9 (02:23:22):
But I hate for Squire to learn that he's a
orphan king man. I do too, that Squire I want
to get hisself in on his kingdom somewhere. I know him. Well,
all we can do is just face it now. Yeah,
don't see nothing about us. Amen on him going to
whatever country it is and helping the baby get the
king job back again. Oh no, no, I won't say
it was wrecking. Squire's got an old pickaxe, Abner, forget

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that now? Uh right out here he comes, well, gentleman, General, Yeah,
hid the squire. I'm all back, Squire. Did you hear
from that family history outfit in Chicago? Yes? I did, Long,
it's what I came over for. The report came in
this morning, and I must say it contains some very

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interesting information, very interesting. Indeed, well I figured it would. Well,
I'll admit I was quite a maid drum is. And
I'll tell you, man, if the cards are played properly,
i'd say that your young charge, your infant, for it,
has quite a future ahead of him. Indeed, we know
that well likely, what does the report says? Square, Yeah,

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let's get down the brass nails here.

Speaker 19 (02:24:29):
What was?

Speaker 34 (02:24:30):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (02:24:31):
I know you're anxious to hear all the detail? And
there's see now word that I put that letter. I
know I had it with me here here here where
it were these Sallisbury Genealogical Institute and Research Bureau. Is
it's got an impressive name. I'll say that fir No
is now long. Some of this is rather long and involved.

(02:24:55):
So while just a summarize some part of it. Yeah,
that's a good idea. Do whatever you said. Well, now,
first of all, they discovered at the Coat of Arms,
I send them a coffee that one you found a
baby's lockage here? You told us about that. Well, they
discovered that it belongs to an old, well established family

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by the name of Worthington Worning. Yes, the family dates
back to the American Revolution, and for the most part,
the various generations of this family lived in the New
England States, principally in Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Yes, that ain't no
foreign country where old No, of course, not long one

(02:25:36):
of the thirteen original states. As a matter of fact, Well,
how could the baby be a knyah? What's that happening?
He weren't saying nothing, squire gone. What else does the
report say? Well, it goes on the various members of
the Worthington family tree, bringing it down to the present day,
where we find that the original or Worthington's has practically

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died out, died out. Yes, it seemed that the last
members possessing the family name had two daughters, but no sons.
Little is known about one of the two daughters, but
the other one moved out west, apparently to regain her health. Squire,
are you sure they sent you the right report? Oh? Yes, yes,

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and the lum is now let me finish this now.
The daughter who went out west settled in the Black
Hills region of South Dakota. And now she married a
man by the name of she here L W. Kateret Katerant. Yes,
and I might not sure they've made a mistake there,

(02:26:45):
summer square. No, we don't know they have lum nor.
Now where did you hear the rest of this? Mister
Katarret was a gold prospector who had the very good
fortune of making a strike and later became the owner
of a very lucrative Golma Goma. Yes, and Grannie, this
is getting more interested. Go on, squy, let's hear the

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rest of them. It will. It seems that mister Kirstart died,
leaving the mind to his witer. Naturally, Oh yeah, naturally.
Well did she have any young Well, no, not by
mister Concharret Loan. However, the report stage that there was
a secret marriage. Missus Cantarret married a never do well

(02:27:29):
writer who disappeared a short time after. Now, this marriage
was never made public, but it has since been confirmed
by court record. What's his name? And let's see now
it's right down there, some blues this here she is
right here, Augustrie Norwood, Gustrie and he last had anyone

(02:27:50):
heard of him? Why he was in Kansas City? Kansas City? Yea, grannie,
you don't reckon he was the one? What's that long? No,
it couldn't have been told on square they see now
where were we?

Speaker 12 (02:28:03):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (02:28:04):
Yeah, it is if it was rumored that there was
a child by this marriage. However, this has not been confirmed. No.
Does it say about how old a young man would
be if they was?

Speaker 5 (02:28:17):
You want?

Speaker 9 (02:28:18):
No, No, it doesn't rum However, it couldn't be very old,
since the Gustriye married took place just a little over
two years ago. I wonder I know just what you're
thinking them, But this one hit missus. Catart herself died
about a month and a half ago, And evidently there's

(02:28:41):
some trouble over the ownership of the mine. It seems
that the sister has appeared on the scene and put
in the clean board she had. Yeah, I grant it's
in that fella I talked to on the long distance
from was Right's right? He told me I mean sister
of the baby's mama was trying to get something waiting
the baby. He never said what we now here's community alam.

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What fellow is he the one in Kansas City that
got shot while he was talking to me on the phone. Oh?
And I know he was too. He was that Gusrie Feller.
That's just about who he was. Just about long I
recollect now. He said he couldn't tell me who he
was because it was some kind of a secret. Yeah. Yeah,
And he said the baby's mama was dead and he

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was trying to help the baby get something back that
belonged to him. That shaddled it in long, That shattled
it without a doubt. This baby that you have is
missus Gustrie's child and the right flair to the gold mine.
Why of course you were here. How else would he
have that in sigaen in his locket. My dog is
hot goolma, yes, sir, and we're leaving right tomorrow to

(02:29:46):
get it back for him too. Well, now hold on
our lam just a minute now. You can't do that.
This aunt evidently has established a fairly strong claim for
the mine. And there's old for another matter matter of
proving that the baby is actually mess guitarist Charles. Oh, yes, yes,

(02:30:07):
I believe it's going to take the help of some
very good lawyers to prove it too long. Well, well,
we don't know no lawyers to give. Well, why don't
you let me help you this. I'm a queen. It's
with several very excellent and highly successful attorney and with
my connection influence, I'm sure I can get them handle
the case for you. Would you do that crash on

(02:30:28):
a scrab boy, Yes, yes, long, be moren happy to
apply that. Grannie hits a deal in How soon can
you get hold of him? Boy, Well, i'll go right
home writer especial delivery letter right this minute. Well good,
send it out right away. Yes, I'll do that. Well,
I better be running along and and I'll let you
know the minute I'll get an answer back. Yeah, do that,

(02:30:48):
squire So long, So long, gentlemen. Now Grannie's aving a
gold man that's even better than a kingdom. I believe
donast on these days ain't much money. Oh no, what
gold miner? Wait a minute, I believe it's all ring.
I'll get it out of you. Go ahead, Hello, John

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him down store library, have nor peabody doing the talking.
Huh oh, hello Caleb, what Chad?

Speaker 19 (02:31:19):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (02:31:20):
Just a minute long? Caleb says he's got that pick
axe made into a sword and he wants to know
if you're coming over to look at it. Uh tell
him no, huh, tell him to change the sword back
to a pickaxe. Well, we'll have to agree that lum
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Speaker 6 (02:32:44):
Yeah, you had to get Squire into the middle. That
it's gonna be a bigger mess now. Eighty three years
ago August twelfth, nineteen forty two, Lemon Abner here on
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcout's visit our webpage at Classicradio
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