Classic Radio 09-27-25 - Helping Hand, Coward, and Like Father - 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):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
As my classic radios Theater, the.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
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Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 6 (00:31):
If your host Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 7 (00:34):
Good evening, friend, Savionna.

Speaker 8 (00:36):
Tank Western's on this Saturday episodes of gun Smoke, Jimmy
Stewart as the six shooter. We'll also have have Gun
will travel and we'll hit a little more north than
west with Paul Sutton in the Challenge of the Yukon.
And while we're up north, we'll come back a little
further south and stop often. See what's going on with

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Bibber McGee and my that's coming up on this Saturday,
twenty second day of twenty seventh day, rather of September
two hundred and seventieth day of the year ninety five
days left. In twenty twenty five nineteen oh three, the
Wreck of the Old ninety seven, a crash made famous
by the song of the same name, took place on
this date in nineteen oh three. Glenn Miller and his

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orchestra performed for the last time on this date in
nineteen forty two, before Miller entered the Army. It was
on this date in nineteen fifty four the nationwide debut
Up Tonight, hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.

Speaker 9 (01:35):
Thank you you're just joining us. This is tonight, and
I can't think it too much to tell you about it,
except I want to give you the bad news first.
This program is going to go on forever. Why you
think you're tired now win, Here's see one o'clock roll around.
It's a it's a long show goes on from eleven

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thirty here in the East, that is from eleven thirty
to one morning. And we especially selected this particular theater.
This is a New York theater called the Hudson, and
we especially selected us for this very late show because
the theater, oh, I think it sleeps about eight hundred people.

Speaker 8 (02:17):
The show actually started at eleven to fifteen pm Eastern.
At first fifteen minutes was a New York show that
was sponsored by and I want to say it was
Nick or Bocker beer. And they continued that show eleven
to fifteen all the way till one o'clock in the

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morning their time. And of course in those days in
nineteen fifty four, you only had a fifteen minute late newscast.
In later years, stations went to a half hour first
fifteen minutes neglected when Johnny Carson took over the show
after Jack Parr had it. That first fifteen minutes was

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done for most of the time by Ed McMahon and
either Skitch Henderson, or once Skitch left the show, it
was done by Doc Severnson, and they did music and
they did silly stuff to fill the fifteen minutes. Finally,
Johnny Carson got rid of that fifteen minutes, and so

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it became a ninety minute show. Later it would become
a one hour show. Tonight's Show Beginning on this date
in nineteen fifty four, Steve Allen and you have to look.
Steve Allen was a wonderful, amazing host. Jack Parr was
an amazing host. Johnny Carson was the best of the bunch,

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and since then it hasn't been nearly as good. Also
on this date, in nineteen fifty four, Senator Joseph McCarthy
responded to a report from a Senate committee that found
him in an unfavorable light for his anti communist campaign
and his methods.

Speaker 10 (04:03):
I am not setting myself above any law, but telling
her I just will none about it by any inficuacy
directive of anyone. I think you and I have and Willison.

Speaker 11 (04:15):
President coming goal.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
We have a to do our job, even though we
may differ with.

Speaker 10 (04:22):
A perfectly honest version of what the president thinks his job.

Speaker 8 (04:28):
Now, the Senate Committee for Report call McCarthy's behavior as
a committee chairman inexcusable, reprehensible, vulgar, and insulting. Now, let's
be honest. Senator McCarthy was doing what he thought was right,
but not remaining within the bounds of the rules. And

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he was much more acerbic than he needed to be,
and he would accuse people of things if they hadn't
really done. And because he did on the floor of
the Senate, he could get away with saying whatever he
wanted to. Senate censured him on December Tewod McCarthy died
in May of nineteen fifty seven of acute hepatitis. He

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was forty eight. One of the things that people are
not aware of is that congressmen, senators and both representatives
can get away with saying most anything on the floor
of the House or the Senate without any any anything

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other than what the House or Senate might do to them.
They can't be charged with liable slander for what they
say on the House or Senate floor. And that is
why sometimes they will say things on the House of
Senate floor that you or I could not get away
with saying in public. The Warrant Commission on this date

(05:55):
in nineteen sixty four released its report concluding that Lee
Hard Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Speaker 12 (06:05):
The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor John
Connolly of Texas were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting
completely alone for reasons of his own which may never
be fathomed.

Speaker 8 (06:18):
Reporter Richard C. Hoddle It and quite frankly hoddle It
a reporter an anchor, and I wouldn't trade hoddle It
for a dozen of today's people in the news media.
Nineteen sixty eight, the stage musical Hair opened at the
Shaftesbury Theater in London. It played almost two thousand performances

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nineteen hundred and ninety eight and the closure not because
of lack of ticket sales. Roof collapsed on July nineteenth.
In July nineteen seventy three. Now it was on this
Sunday in nineteen eighty seven, the very first ball Sunday,
and by years without pro football players went on strike

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and bands were not happy.

Speaker 13 (07:06):
I think the players they should be playing. They're making
enough money.

Speaker 14 (07:08):
They need to be out there playing.

Speaker 8 (07:10):
And that band from Washington, and you know Washington didn't
have a great team at that time, but band wanted
to see him. Nineteen eighty eight, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson
stripped of his gold medal in the one hundred meters
at the Soul Summer Olympics after test revealed he had
taken steroids.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
The IC Medical Commission recommends disqualification of his competitor from
the games of the twenty fourth Olympiad in Sioul.

Speaker 8 (07:41):
Michelle Verdier, speaking for the International Olympic Committee on this
date back in nineteen eighty eight. In Afghanistan, on this
date in nineteen ninety six, the Taliban captured the capital
city Cobble after driving out the president and executing their
former leader, Mohammad uh Naja Bulah. Google established on this

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date in nineteen ninety eight, and on that same date,
Mark McGuire hit his seventieth home run of the season.
That was a new record.

Speaker 15 (08:14):
So is the right end alles on him and the
first one to two A big men.

Speaker 8 (08:34):
Mike Shannon with the call over km Ox and Saint Louis.
The record would be broken three seasons later by Barry Bonds,
who hit seventy three in the season. It was on
this date in twenty twelve a mass shooting took place
at Accent Signing Systems in Minneapolis. Six people killed, including

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the gunman who committed suicide. Two others were wounded. It
was on this state in two twenty eighteen, during a
day long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine blossy
Ford said she was one hundred percent certain that she
was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when
they were teenagers.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Prett groped me and tried to take off my clothes.

Speaker 16 (09:18):
I believed he was going to rap me.

Speaker 8 (09:21):
Cavanaugh told senators he was one hundred percent certain that
didn't happen.

Speaker 17 (09:26):
This is a circus.

Speaker 18 (09:29):
The consequences will extend long past my nomination.

Speaker 8 (09:33):
Kavanaugh confirmed strictly along party lines. Along those passing away
on this David History actor Lloyd Noland, Donald lo Connor, actor, singer, dancer,
Hugh Hepner, publisher and founder of Playboy, the co founder
of the band Jefferson Airplane, Marty Balen and a triple

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Crown actress. She won Oscars, she won Emmys, and she
wanted Tony Maggie Smith passing away a year ago today.
Birthdays on this date include revolutionary leader Samuel Adams, political
cartoonist Thomas Nast, magician Harry Blackstone. Senior Jane Meadows born

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on this date. She passed away fifteen years after the
death of her wonderful husband Steve Allen. Actor William Conrad,
whom we will hear coming up in a few moments
as Marshall Matt Dillon. Also another magician, very funny Carl Ballantine,
actor Rogers C. Carmel, Mission Impossible's Greg Morris, actor Wilford Brimley.

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Also Don Cornelius of Soul Trained Pain and meet Loaf
Al those folks born on this date in history, they
have all left the building.

Speaker 14 (10:50):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements.

Speaker 19 (10:54):
The following people are now officially older than dirt.

Speaker 8 (10:58):
From the guests who and Bachman Turner Overdrive Randy Bachman
eighty two years old today from General Hospital, One Life
to Live, Days of Our Lives and Queen of the South.
Most recently, A Martinez is seventy seven teen Idol Sean
Cassidy sixty seven years old today, the eldest son of

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Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy, and his older half brother
was singer actor David Cassidy. Sean Cassidy sixty seven today
from Agents of Shield and Bones. Tamarra Taylor fifty five,
Gwyneth Paltrow fifty three Today.

Speaker 20 (11:38):
Welcome to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

Speaker 21 (11:41):
Please remain seated until the aircraft has.

Speaker 17 (11:43):
Come to a complete stop and the captain has turned
off the fasten seat outside.

Speaker 8 (11:48):
From the movie View from the Top Gwyneth Paltrow fifty
three from the Band Three Doors Down. Brad Arnold is
forty seven from True Blood and Pitch Perfect and a
Campus forty three. Singer Avril Lavine is forty one and
the Wonderful actress Jenna Ortega. Her career took off after

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she got on the show Netflix, and she told NBC
in an interview she knew fans would still think of
Christina Ricci's Wednesday from the nineteen ninety one movie, So
she made the Wednesday that she does her own.

Speaker 22 (12:29):
The script that was given to me was very reminiscent
of nineties Wednesday. And it's also hard when the generations
that grew up watching Christina Ricci are excited about the
franchise still in the story because you know, there's that
nostalgic aspect where you don't really want to let go
of that, which I completely understand because I feel a
similar way.

Speaker 21 (12:50):
So it was a weird kind of balancing.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Act of introducing new qualities and traits and doing it
in a subtle manner so that it didn't throw anybody off,
and it was still reminiscent of the Wednesday that they
grew up knowing and loving, but also showing more of her.
She's only ever been a one liner character, so's you know,
there's more to know about her and more to see
from her year.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
I think this show Wednesday will continue for a long
time to come. Jenna or Tago doing a wonderful job
with the character, and she's just twenty three. Though just
a few the people celebrating the twenty seventh day of
September is their birthday. If this is your birthday, happyday.

Speaker 23 (13:32):
Happy.

Speaker 14 (13:49):
You know.

Speaker 8 (13:50):
One of the things I do is when and I
am not a big I love music, I adore music,
but I do not stay on top of ball of
today's pop music, and so sometimes I don't hear about
a song until it's been out forever for a very
very long time. The best example of that was the

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big hit Die with a Smile, and it was a
wonderful song and it made you appreciate Lady Gaga as
being a great musician. The collaboration she and Bruno Mars
did was so wonderful. But I get very, very bizarre

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when I find a song that I enjoy, and I
will dig into YouTube and I will look for covers.
And the main reason I look for covers is to
find people who have taken the song and made it
their own. And I whiled the song that Bruno Mars
and Lady Gaga did it's wonderful. It's like the song

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that Jake did Golden Hour, wonderful, wonderful, romantic song. And
yet I found a young lady in the Ukraine that
did the song on the voice, and she gave it
her own spin and it was wonderful. You know, I
love hit songs, but the thing is, the songs are

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not and the artists that originally do them are not
to be all an end all. It's a matter of
finding a cover that goes to the next level and
makes the song something even bigger and better and broader
and more beautiful than ever. Okay, let's let's get off that.
I don't know why I had to bring that. Oh

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I brought that up because of Wednesday. And that's what
That's what Jenna Orteika did. She took a great character
that Charles Adams came up with or for the Adams family,
and that character was refined by Christina Ricci in the

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nineteen ninety one movie. And now she's taken Wednesday and
taken it and made it an even bigger character. And
that's the great part of it. It's like I could
understand Gun Smoke going to television, and this is where
we tie the two together. Most of you know, I'm

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not a tremendous fan of the television Gun Smoke because
they did not take the show and make it their own.
They tried to do what William Conrad and the other
cast did and they were not as good at it,

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my opinion, as William Conrad and the crew did on radio.
And we'll hear that in the moment. Gun Smoke, seventy
one years ago, the helping hand. That's next.

Speaker 24 (17:04):
Let's look ahead to nineteen sixty six. And there you
are in your beautiful new home. You've got automatic gadgets everywhere.
There's a sparkling new dream car in your garage. The
youngsters are in a fine college. All's right with the world.
Is this just an idle dream?

Speaker 7 (17:18):
Now?

Speaker 24 (17:19):
This is a real future that you can start building
right now, a secure, carefree, prosperous future built with the
United States Savings bonds. In ten years, you will get
back four dollars for every three dollars you've invested. Join
the payroll savings plan where you work, or buy bonds
where you bank. Start in nineteen fifty six to make
nineteen sixty six the beginning of the golden years.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
Now gun smoke from seventy one years ago, September twenty seventh,
nineteen fifty four, William Conran in the helping hand.

Speaker 17 (17:52):
There's double barreled action for you this week. Tonight gun Smoke,
Saturday Night gun smoke again the end of tonight's show,
I'll give you the details.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Gun Smoke brought to you by Chester Piel, America's most
popular two way cigarette. What a pair, Chesterfield King Size
at the new law Price, Chesterfield Regular. Around Dodge City
and in the territory on West, there's just one way

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to handle the killers and the spoilers. And that's where
the US Marshall and the Smell of gun smoke. Gun Smoke,

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starring Wind Conrad, transcribed story of the violence that moved
west with young America and the story of a man
who moved with it.

Speaker 17 (19:08):
I'm that man, Matt Dyllan, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.

Speaker 11 (19:47):
I swear with your Dylan. Seems like we've been riding
for that Cottonwood Grove last two hours.

Speaker 17 (19:52):
That's because you started thinking about it before you even
saw it. Chester.

Speaker 14 (19:56):
It's water I've.

Speaker 11 (19:57):
Been thinking about I won't never make get the Dodge
without water.

Speaker 17 (20:02):
He will make it, not saying I won't wait amount
of Chester.

Speaker 11 (20:06):
Look over there, h really, what are they doing in there?

Speaker 17 (20:13):
The man on the paint horses, Bill Pence, Emmitt Bowers foreman.
The other two must be riders or his Heah, but.

Speaker 11 (20:18):
That kid they've got Look, his hands is tied behind
his back.

Speaker 17 (20:23):
They haven't seen us yet, Chester, let's ride closer.

Speaker 25 (20:28):
What's Pence taking down his rope for what? Well, mister Dolan,
you know what they're doing.

Speaker 17 (20:33):
Yeah, only they're not gonna do it. They've seen us now, Hello, Pence?

Speaker 26 (20:46):
What are you doing out here?

Speaker 13 (20:47):
Marshall?

Speaker 17 (20:48):
I'm on my way in the dodge. Bowers know what's
going on out here? Marshall.

Speaker 26 (20:57):
I'm foreman of this outfit a ball. Don't question how
I handle things.

Speaker 17 (21:02):
Those horses. That kid sitting on the boy there.

Speaker 14 (21:06):
Is that his horse?

Speaker 11 (21:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (21:08):
Geez horse?

Speaker 17 (21:08):
Whychester, Sir, go and tie his hands. Wait a minute,
and if anybody interferes, whether you I'll shoot him?

Speaker 13 (21:16):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (21:16):
Game done.

Speaker 17 (21:20):
You're making trouble, Marshall. Bence you know me. You know
I want to stand for the luncheon and you know
I'll kill you if I have to.

Speaker 26 (21:28):
Yeah, I think you would. But this still ain't none
of your business.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Marshall.

Speaker 26 (21:33):
I caught that boy.

Speaker 17 (21:34):
I don't care what you caught him trying to do
I'm taking him in the dodge, and if you want
to ride in and make your charges against him legally,
he'll be there. You can thank you. Look, I came
by here before you got your own neck and a
noose because I had to caught you for this spencer,
and I had apology to California for it. Now you
get out of here, all three of you. Morning. Justin Dillon,

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how's the boy this morning?

Speaker 11 (22:25):
Fine? Kept he's wondering when you're gonna turn and move?

Speaker 17 (22:28):
And I saw him at Bars and Bill Pence righting
up the street when I came in. Maybe we'll learn
the truth about all.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
This now the boy swears he ain't lying.

Speaker 17 (22:37):
Yeah, maybe he isn't.

Speaker 27 (22:38):
No they.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
Marshall, Dylan Chester, Mori, mich Boars.

Speaker 17 (22:47):
Hello, Bars Fence.

Speaker 26 (22:50):
I told mister Bowers the whole story, Marshall, did you
he did?

Speaker 14 (22:54):
Marshall?

Speaker 13 (22:55):
Would you call the lyncheon?

Speaker 28 (22:56):
Wasn't gonna be no lyncol at all?

Speaker 11 (22:58):
No no, or just a hanging.

Speaker 28 (23:02):
Pencil.

Speaker 29 (23:03):
Then two riders a man caught that pillow trying to
run off a bunch.

Speaker 11 (23:06):
Of my cattle.

Speaker 26 (23:07):
That's cattle, Thieven Marshall, And where I come from.

Speaker 28 (23:10):
That's a hanging.

Speaker 17 (23:10):
A fifth the law bars, the law decide to hangs,
and who doesn't.

Speaker 26 (23:14):
The law is too slow now cale thieves has got
to be hung when.

Speaker 17 (23:18):
You get I told you yesterday venture to lunch anybody
out there, and I'll come after you. I don't care
what you call it. I'm not gonna argue about this, gentleman.

Speaker 30 (23:27):
We'll worry about that later.

Speaker 13 (23:29):
Right now, I want to know what you're going to
do with a thief.

Speaker 17 (23:32):
I haven't decided yet, Bars, but i'll tell you what
he told me. I ain't interested in what he told
you lesson anyway. He said he didn't steal any caws.
And what's more, he wasn't gone.

Speaker 26 (23:43):
Well, let's a lie, Marshal. Me and the men watched
him cut fifteen head out.

Speaker 17 (23:48):
And then did he leave him and start to ride
away or didn't he?

Speaker 26 (23:50):
Oh sure he start to ride away either seen this
or or he was coming back and drive him off
at night?

Speaker 14 (23:56):
Was it?

Speaker 17 (23:57):
He says, he changed his mind. He realized he couldn't
do it, even though he started to.

Speaker 29 (24:01):
You believe a thieving kid rather than a man like
Bill Pence Marshall.

Speaker 17 (24:08):
I don't know who I believe yet, bo.

Speaker 29 (24:11):
Let's get out of here pen. Yes, sir Marshall stillans.
I'll be mighty interested in what you decide to do
about this. Don't well every other cattleman I know of.

Speaker 17 (24:30):
I want to talk to that boy Chester.

Speaker 11 (24:32):
You can drive back there waiting.

Speaker 17 (24:39):
Oh, Marshall, unlock the south Chester. Yes, said, your name
is Steve Elser? Is that true?

Speaker 31 (24:57):
I got no reason to lie about my name, Marshall.
Where you're from, sam Juaran Mountain? Marshall over in Colorado?

Speaker 17 (25:05):
What are you doing in Kansas?

Speaker 31 (25:06):
I'm eighteen a third. It was time to leave home.
Why I'd have killed my power. He'd have killed me
if I'd stayed.

Speaker 28 (25:15):
Yeh.

Speaker 31 (25:16):
He ain't let me sleep in the house since I
was ten, Marshall. Sometimes you don't even let my mask
sleep in the house.

Speaker 17 (25:22):
Why not?

Speaker 11 (25:23):
Oh, nothing my parw does makes much sense. I think
he got his brains knocked lose about ten years back time,
a grizzly barry slapped him in the head. It most
like to kill him, and I wished it had I see.

Speaker 17 (25:39):
Tell me about those kettle of him at bars Altera.
You admit you started to steal it?

Speaker 31 (25:43):
Oh shucks, I'd have never done it, Marshall.

Speaker 13 (25:46):
Knock.

Speaker 11 (25:47):
Really, I was just kind of seeing how easy it'd be.

Speaker 17 (25:50):
How did you found out that so and his writers
were watching you the whole time? I know they told me, well,
there's one thing about you. At least you don't carry
a gun.

Speaker 11 (26:01):
Maybe i'd better no, Buck, I Sair.

Speaker 17 (26:05):
I believe you, and I'm going to turn you loose.
But on one condition. What's that you get a job,
work at it, prove your honest. I'm going to give
you a week to find one.

Speaker 11 (26:20):
Oh, Marshall, I've been working all my life.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
I'm tired.

Speaker 17 (26:23):
I'll give you a week, I'll say, and if you
don't have a job by then, you're gonna have to
leave the country.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Who do you like in the world series New York Giants, Cleveland,
Indian Well, I guess that question is on everybody's mind
right about now.

Speaker 30 (26:51):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
The series starts Wednesday at New York's famous Polo Ground,
Then the action moves to Cleveland's Great Municipal Stadium. You
fans who have been to the great ballparks, No, they
have one thing in common. The giant Chesterfield scoreboard sign,
which instantly flashed the official scorer's decision. It's a hit, yes, sir,

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Speaker 17 (28:15):
Evening, Matt Oh, it's hodd On don oh, thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 31 (28:22):
Oh man, the street looks pretty quiet tonight, doc Oh said,
chester was telling me about that boy else.

Speaker 17 (28:35):
Ah, and I hope that was right turn of named
loose this morning.

Speaker 31 (28:40):
Uh huh, Well matter, it sounds to me like he's
one of those fellows that's just about to go bad.
A push one way or the other can make the
whole difference.

Speaker 17 (28:49):
I I guess it's worth a chime stuck.

Speaker 31 (28:51):
Most all of us have had little help somewhere is
along the way, Otherwise there'd be nothing but thieves and
crooks walking around. I bet you did Matt wouldn't.

Speaker 11 (29:00):
Be trying to help this boy.

Speaker 31 (29:04):
Maybe well anyway, he didn't steal those cows.

Speaker 17 (29:09):
No, but he came a lot closer to it than
a man shoult, Doctor.

Speaker 25 (29:14):
Dylan, hold on, jest, you better step into the hour
for a gameger mister Dylan.

Speaker 11 (29:19):
Pants is in.

Speaker 25 (29:20):
They're about to have a fight with young Elcher. What
there's not a gun fight else rained arm, but he's
making pants awful man.

Speaker 17 (29:27):
I would see you later, doctor, So long, man, what's
else are up to?

Speaker 32 (29:32):
Chester?

Speaker 26 (29:33):
Well?

Speaker 11 (29:33):
Ster, he's been bragging the pants about his not getting
to hang in, about not being in jail and all.
It ain't improving pants as tempt or none.

Speaker 17 (29:40):
Oh, hello Marshall, Hello Donna. Else are drunk?

Speaker 11 (29:45):
He been drinking, but he ain't rune.

Speaker 17 (29:48):
Hell he wants to find a job hanging around saloons?

Speaker 11 (29:51):
No, sure, there's all over there at the bar. You're dying?

Speaker 14 (30:00):
Are you?

Speaker 28 (30:01):
Just shut up and get yourself out of here?

Speaker 11 (30:03):
Little I ain't a thief. I ain't a murder either
of him. Oh I told you for the last time.

Speaker 33 (30:08):
Els All right, that's sun up. Don't kick him, so
throw him and sere where belonged to Marshall. I just
ain't gonna listen to his talk.

Speaker 17 (30:21):
You don't have to. I'll handle him.

Speaker 26 (30:23):
You'll handle him, sure done, fine, so far?

Speaker 34 (30:28):
Hit me.

Speaker 11 (30:29):
I'll kill you for this.

Speaker 17 (30:30):
Pen shout up, Elzer. I got up on your feet.

Speaker 31 (30:33):
I didn't hurt you, but I sure well next time,
and there won't be no Marshall around the nursey, Ulcer.
I didn't come to dogs get kicked around, not no more,
not never doing even got happy?

Speaker 28 (30:47):
What's coming to you?

Speaker 17 (30:48):
Clear him along fence? You well, sir, I told you
to go find a job. You remember a job?

Speaker 11 (30:55):
Get the gun. I'm gonna find me. He wouldn't hit me.
If i'd been carrying a gun.

Speaker 17 (30:59):
You'll start worry. I got and I'll throw it in
the ark Kansas, and you went after it. Come over here,
a miss. I'm giving you a chance to make good, Elcer,
but it's not gonna last forever. Now you get out
of here and start doing something about it. The next day,

(31:28):
I had to go up to Fort and Larnett on
government business, but before I left I talked to a
couple of ranchers who were in town about hiring on
Steve Eltzer. However, they'd heard about him and said I
was making a big mistake trying to help a boy
that was headed for the end of a rope. Well,
I argued with him, but it was no use, and

(31:48):
I decided I'd try to find him a job in
town to start with. I was gone two days, and
the night I got back, I went over to the
Texas Trail looking for Chester. He wasn't there, but Kitty was.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
I saw Chester about an hour ago.

Speaker 14 (32:05):
Matt.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
He didn't expect you back to tom All.

Speaker 17 (32:08):
I didn't take as much time as a thought. Kitty, Oh,
tell me about things here?

Speaker 28 (32:11):
Huh.

Speaker 20 (32:12):
Well, nobody's been shot or hung I know of. There's
one thing I don't like, though, Oh what's that kiddy?

Speaker 5 (32:21):
You know Ben Hander?

Speaker 17 (32:23):
For one reason or another, I've thrown Ben Hander in
jail at least ten times.

Speaker 20 (32:29):
Well, he and Steve Else are been running together the
last couple of days.

Speaker 17 (32:33):
What that's mighty poor company for Else.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
I think you're wasting your time trying to help that kid.

Speaker 35 (32:42):
Math.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
As much as I admire your reason, he isn't.

Speaker 17 (32:45):
Wearing a gun?

Speaker 6 (32:46):
Is he not?

Speaker 28 (32:47):
So far?

Speaker 17 (32:49):
I don't like this kiddy. Could be that all Ben
Hender needs to get into real troubles. A partner, somebody
just like Elster who will kind of look up to
him A game on. Yeah, yeah, I was hoping the
boy done something about finding a job.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Maybe you've been too easy on him, Matt.

Speaker 17 (33:10):
I've done what I thought was right, Kiddy. I know,
has Bill Pence been around or Bowers?

Speaker 32 (33:19):
No?

Speaker 5 (33:20):
But I heard Bowers has spread it all over the country.
How the law turned a kowthy?

Speaker 17 (33:25):
Sure I expected that.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
You can't blame people for wondering about it.

Speaker 17 (33:28):
No, but I can sure blame bars for backing up
Pence and a luncheon. He's going to talk about the law.
Why doesn't he start with that?

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Matt look around, headed to the bar.

Speaker 17 (33:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna have a talk with him, Kitty, I'll
see you later. Sure, hello, I'll say.

Speaker 11 (33:56):
Oh, Marshall, I heard yous out town.

Speaker 17 (34:00):
I got back tonight.

Speaker 14 (34:02):
Are you gonna buy us a drinks? Marshall?

Speaker 17 (34:07):
Not likely?

Speaker 26 (34:08):
And yeah, it ain't very friendly.

Speaker 17 (34:13):
You found a job yet, el say.

Speaker 11 (34:14):
No, No, I ain't. You've been looking no somewhere here.

Speaker 32 (34:23):
And there.

Speaker 17 (34:25):
Where.

Speaker 11 (34:27):
Oh it's no use, Marshall. First man, I asked that
nobody'd hire me anyway, there's no law. Man's got to
have a job.

Speaker 17 (34:34):
You got to have one, lay off in Marshall.

Speaker 14 (34:38):
He ain't done nothing.

Speaker 11 (34:39):
Of course, ain't. Why is everybody always kicking me around?

Speaker 17 (34:44):
Now? You think that's what I'm doing?

Speaker 11 (34:45):
Everybody is makes me ashamed. Nobody will trust me, el Sir.

Speaker 17 (34:51):
I'll help you find a job tomorrow around Dodge somewhere.
But I told you no people will trust you as
soon as you'll prove to them.

Speaker 11 (34:58):
If they can, they won't. Besides, I don't want no job.
I just don't want one.

Speaker 17 (35:03):
There's no other way, Elsa. You find a job by
tomorrow night or get out.

Speaker 14 (35:08):
Oh you can't do that.

Speaker 28 (35:11):
You give him a week before.

Speaker 17 (35:12):
I change my mind. Henderson, he's mat you. What's that
got to do with it? Yeah? No good? And sooner
or later he'll be in trouble. So he's got to
move faster. Now.

Speaker 14 (35:25):
You got no right to talk that wave me, Marshal.

Speaker 17 (35:29):
Why not?

Speaker 13 (35:34):
Well?

Speaker 17 (35:36):
Why not?

Speaker 31 (35:38):
Oh leave me be, Marshall, leave me be too. I'll
make god all i'd always do.

Speaker 17 (35:43):
Are you're made out fine and not cotton would grow?
I'll say, so far, you're not doing much better here.
Now you come see me tomorrow night, and you have
a job. And if you think I don't mean what
I say, you ask candor here knows me.

Speaker 28 (36:19):
Today.

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Speaker 27 (37:29):
M hm.

Speaker 17 (37:46):
Maybe Kitty was right about my being too easy on
young el servant, But as I found out next day,
being hard on him didn't work any better. I just
had breakfast at a little Mexican place at the edge
Town and I was walking back into the plaza when
I noticed a small crowd in front of the Overland
Express Company. I started across to find out what was

(38:08):
going on when Chester spotted me and came running over.

Speaker 26 (38:11):
He shot him, mister Dylan.

Speaker 11 (38:14):
He shot the clerk in there. Go shot it, Ben Hendrick.
He tried to hold place up about ten minutes ago.

Speaker 17 (38:19):
Where is it he got away?

Speaker 25 (38:20):
Well, they say some men chased him down, throwcase stable
and they've got him trapped in there. All right, come on,
I talked to the clerk got with him. Now it
has been Hander alone, mister Dylan. Elcher wasn't with him.

Speaker 17 (38:31):
Huh he got any money, no, sir.

Speaker 11 (38:34):
Some men hurt shooting, come run across the plaza right away,
and Hander got scared and left.

Speaker 17 (38:39):
I wonder where the boy is.

Speaker 11 (38:41):
Nobody ain't seen him. I talk to.

Speaker 17 (38:45):
How bout it's a clerk Chester.

Speaker 11 (38:46):
Oh, he took one bullet and the shoulder.

Speaker 25 (38:48):
It's gonna hurt somebody, it won't kill him. Look there,
the army's doing four or five of them. Looks like
spread out around stable.

Speaker 28 (38:56):
Errors.

Speaker 11 (38:57):
I guess he must be waiting for you. Good hey,
iving right there?

Speaker 36 (39:03):
Ain't that Bill pen.

Speaker 17 (39:04):
Yeah it is fence, hey, Bill, fence.

Speaker 28 (39:13):
Yeah, we got him, Marshall.

Speaker 13 (39:17):
He's in that stable air a way for him.

Speaker 11 (39:20):
Relieve, I'm getting shot.

Speaker 17 (39:22):
Okay. I want you and the other men to stay
where you are at fence. I'll go in after him.

Speaker 14 (39:28):
Well, he's arm Marshall.

Speaker 26 (39:30):
Sure we could set fire to the police with the
horses in there. Oh, I forgot about them.

Speaker 17 (39:40):
Wait until I yell for you. Huh.

Speaker 11 (39:41):
Well, mister Dinan's okay. I'd like to come up to
the door with you, all right.

Speaker 17 (39:47):
Sure if he gets past us, Pence shoot him, we
sure will, Marshall. That door swings out Chester. Now that
you're here, you can pull it open, but stay behind it.

(40:10):
I'll go on alone, okay, sure, hand her hander, Marshall, Dylan.

Speaker 30 (40:28):
You stay where you are, Marshall.

Speaker 17 (40:30):
You can't get away, and another are five men waiting
out here for you, and I don't be a fool
that clerk. Your shot isn't hurt bad. If you try
to run now, you'll die for it. I didn't kill him, No,
I'm coming in, Hander.

Speaker 30 (40:54):
It won't do you.

Speaker 17 (40:55):
And you got to shoot my hander, so you might
as well give up now. You take your choice. You
go to prison for a few years or die this morning.

Speaker 13 (41:06):
Don't shoot Marshall.

Speaker 17 (41:09):
I'm quitting all right. Then walk up here with your
hands in the air.

Speaker 30 (41:13):
I'm coming you.

Speaker 11 (41:17):
What's that, Oh you're talking to it's me, Marshall, Elsie.

Speaker 17 (41:26):
Then you come out with your hands up to Elsa.
We're coming, Jesster, come out in here, all right. That's
far enough you too. It's down right there, Elcha.

Speaker 28 (41:43):
So you was in on me?

Speaker 27 (41:45):
No he was.

Speaker 14 (41:47):
He wasn't anywhere near that express off.

Speaker 17 (41:49):
He's wearing a gun.

Speaker 11 (41:51):
I got right, wear a gun just like any other man.

Speaker 26 (41:53):
You had nothing to do with that robbery, Marshall, Clerk
and those men that followed me here.

Speaker 17 (41:58):
Continue you right, he was waiting here with your horses.
You can't prove that more. Why are you standing up
for him Hander, he's a good boy, people. Let him alone.

Speaker 11 (42:11):
I ain't done a thing.

Speaker 17 (42:12):
Just take Hander's gun.

Speaker 11 (42:17):
I've got a mister, Dylan. What about Elsa?

Speaker 17 (42:20):
No, leave him alone? Step over here, Hander, Elser, what Marsham,
I still think you were waiting here to get away
with Hander. But he's right about it being hard to prove.

Speaker 11 (42:35):
I ain't done a thing.

Speaker 17 (42:36):
Marsha no, but you would have anyway. I'm going to
give you one more chance. I'm taking handr to jail now,
and while I'm doing it, I want you to get
out of Dodge for good and don't come.

Speaker 11 (42:49):
Back kicking me around.

Speaker 17 (42:51):
Ben Ah, I've done all I can for you. I said,
that's nothing more I can do. You're on your own now,
all right, Hander, you know where the jail is. Start walking?
Sure we shooting so long, let's go, Hander, Mister Dylon.

Speaker 11 (43:22):
He was he was drawing on you, Mister Dylan. He
he was gonna shoot you in the back.

Speaker 14 (43:35):
He dead.

Speaker 11 (43:37):
He died before he hit the ground. Hander, I could
see it from where eyes standing.

Speaker 17 (43:46):
Thanks for wanting may Chester.

Speaker 25 (43:48):
I was just starting to follow you and I seen
him move out of the corner of my eye.

Speaker 17 (43:52):
I had a feeling he might try it.

Speaker 13 (43:54):
You did.

Speaker 17 (43:55):
That's why I was half ready for us. Anyway. It's
the first time I've been right about him. I sure
guessed wrong up till now.

Speaker 11 (44:06):
But it was worth it, Miss Dylan trying to help him.

Speaker 17 (44:10):
Aman, No, not him testing. It was already too late
to help him. I should have known that. And now

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Act one of the six Shooter, starring James Stewart.

Speaker 13 (51:50):
I had a.

Speaker 28 (51:51):
Grandstand, set a rock and chair on the front porch
of the Temple Citi Hotel. Not that there was much
to watch. A couple of women looking at the bonnets
in the windows of Bradley's Murcanteal, and some kids playing
mumbletypeg over in the alley next to the bank, and
the checker game in the shadow of a big elm
across the street. But it was a couple of days

(52:12):
before I was due to pick up some cattle in
Atterbury for Missus Pritchard, and well, Temple City seemed as
good a play as they to stop over. I was
considering taking a little nap when I saw well, at
least that's who I thought it was. He was coming
out of the general store carrying a bunch of groceries.

(52:34):
I couldn't be sure, though, because just as he started
to climb into a wagon, another man rode up alongside
and shut off my view.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Well, look who's in town. You're doing the marketing? Will
thought the women usually did that. But I guess in
your case it ain't such a bad idea to switch
things around.

Speaker 11 (52:53):
Hope, I'll i'd run into your temple.

Speaker 30 (52:55):
Two of my cows had been killed this week. You
mean your wife's cow, don't you will? It wasn't two three.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
The boys found another one raising on my side of
the creek this morning. You're gonna have to do something
about that fancy or you won't have no stock.

Speaker 13 (53:09):
Weptit, Paul.

Speaker 30 (53:10):
That fence was all right yesterday, Maybe this is today.
Now you listen to me, Temple. I figured it's about
time you done the listening.

Speaker 17 (53:18):
Will.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
I want your wife's ranch and made no bones about it.
She was willing to sell until you came along.

Speaker 30 (53:25):
She ain't willing enough. I'll give you two dollars an acre.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
That's more in a fair price. Anybody will tell you
that we're not gonna.

Speaker 30 (53:31):
Be shoved off that land up for two dollars an.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Acre or twenty, and maybe i'd better talk to Sarah,
seeing it's how it's her properly.

Speaker 11 (53:37):
No, no, I'm warning you.

Speaker 38 (53:42):
You stay away from our ranch, in our cattle or
up or I'll.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Well go on, tell me what you'll do, will I'd
be real interested to find out.

Speaker 13 (53:52):
Come on, do.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Sarah given him the warning, I might take it seriously,
seen as how she wears the pants.

Speaker 28 (53:59):
And the wagon moved in closer to where I was sitting.
I got a good look at him.

Speaker 17 (54:07):
Now.

Speaker 28 (54:08):
He'd changed a lot since the last time we met up.
He was older, and there were a couple of those
squint wrinkles between his eyes. Even so, he still could
have been more than twenty three or four, seeing us
how he was only about twenty when we worked on
the West Star round up together.

Speaker 11 (54:24):
Way, Well, well, hey, well, I.

Speaker 28 (54:29):
Thought he'd recognize me, but I well, I guess i'd
changed some too. I wasn't getting aged or something like that,
but I'd ripened up a bit again. Anyway, we'll kind
of glanced my way and then drove on, and from
the way he was holding those reins, I had a
pretty good idea of what he was thinking. This Temple.

(54:50):
Fully he'd pushed him too far, and if I knew
well he was getting ready to do something about it,
well there was no point in trying.

Speaker 17 (54:57):
To run him down.

Speaker 28 (54:58):
Now we'd probably meet up.

Speaker 13 (54:59):
La.

Speaker 28 (55:00):
Yeah. Oh. I went into the hotel and walked around
for places. Toda clerk behind the desk was playing again
the solitaire.

Speaker 31 (55:12):
Ah, there conset something I can do for you?

Speaker 28 (55:15):
No, no, no thanks, so real all right, yeah, fine,
real fine, real.

Speaker 31 (55:20):
Pleasure having you standing with this.

Speaker 28 (55:21):
Anything you'd like the Black Queen, huh, the pleasure on
the King of Diamonds. Oh, oh, thank you.

Speaker 31 (55:30):
I like to look at gun for paper. Just came
in on the stage.

Speaker 28 (55:33):
No, no thanks, the same. I I sort of figured
on a little snooze, a little too little, too much
racket outside.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I know what you mean.

Speaker 39 (55:42):
No, Temple has got a voice that carries all right.
I could hear him and will getting clear, Yeah, trowing
him out to nothing.

Speaker 31 (55:49):
Concert had been squaring.

Speaker 28 (55:51):
Off like that ever since We'll moved the.

Speaker 39 (55:52):
Town married Sam Blake. Oh, It's like I'm stuck. Every
think I'm not playing the game, and huh, i'd be out.

Speaker 28 (55:58):
Of fifty bucks. I see.

Speaker 39 (56:01):
No he's got the idea of buying his Harris ranch,
and there's gonna be no stopping him to the buyer.

Speaker 28 (56:05):
Would he need her alone for any reason?

Speaker 31 (56:07):
Sure thinks he does.

Speaker 39 (56:09):
They can just get me the ace of stage forty
years ago I Noah's grandfather started this time.

Speaker 28 (56:15):
He owned all the acres between the.

Speaker 31 (56:16):
Foothills and the creek outside old Temple.

Speaker 30 (56:19):
Said he was named for him.

Speaker 28 (56:20):
A matter of fact, that's all the.

Speaker 31 (56:22):
Old man's son, Fred Well, he wasn't much good person,
you know. He'd sold off nearly everything his dad had
left him.

Speaker 39 (56:29):
Noah took over. He swore he'd get all the temple
property back again.

Speaker 28 (56:33):
I guess it sort of stuck in his craw.

Speaker 31 (56:35):
The Temples wasn't the biggest outfit in the valley no more.

Speaker 30 (56:38):
And I got on that black seven.

Speaker 28 (56:40):
Ow's nor Temple than Doon.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
Well.

Speaker 31 (56:42):
First folks didn't take him serious. They thought he was
just a talker like his father, But he surefooled him.

Speaker 39 (56:48):
To day, He's got more acres than his granddaddy ever had.
There's only one piece of the original temple set up.

Speaker 28 (56:54):
He ain't been able to buy back that land that. Oh, sure, was.

Speaker 31 (56:58):
A surprised when Will wouldn't.

Speaker 28 (56:59):
Let us sell it.

Speaker 39 (57:01):
Nobody ever figured he'd stand up to Noah, a man
like him?

Speaker 28 (57:05):
Was something wrong with him? He said, a man was then?

Speaker 39 (57:10):
Oh, well, you see, mister Will's a coward. And this
see as he's yellow clear through. He won't ever wear
a gun. If there's a posse, be informed, but he
don't go wrong. And if there's a fight, he lays low.
You can call him names.

Speaker 31 (57:25):
You can sell him the way, know what, Temple then
he just takes it.

Speaker 28 (57:29):
She that sure don't sound like him to me, you know.
Will mister used to those two a couple of years ago.
We worked around up together.

Speaker 31 (57:38):
Oh that must have been before he moved to Temple City.

Speaker 28 (57:40):
Yeah, he has done Texas back there, Willie Techmann wasn't
afraid of nobody or nothing. And for a youngster, he's
mighty fancy with a gun technic. That's right.

Speaker 31 (57:51):
Yeah, but that ain't his name, mister Pontet.

Speaker 28 (57:54):
Will's name is Fetter. Oh yeah, Will Fetter.

Speaker 39 (57:59):
I don't know running you were surprised about him being yellow,
You got the wrong man.

Speaker 28 (58:04):
Uh huh, Well they must look alike. It's a friend
of yours and real fat. Yeah, yeah, I guess I do.

Speaker 23 (58:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (58:22):
I went upstairs to my room started to pull my
boots off. You know, it's funny. I hadn't been doing
anything but sit all day, and my feet hurt worse
than it have been walking twenty miles.

Speaker 11 (58:34):
Oh.

Speaker 28 (58:44):
I looked out the window. Last sun is just about
even as the church steeple. I'd be around three o'clock
and I had a couple hours for supper. So let
myself down in a bed. Hmm yeah, yeah, walk, come

(59:07):
on in, come on. Oh excuse me, ma'am. I didn't
know it was a lady.

Speaker 40 (59:13):
I'm sorry to bother you, mister p Well, not.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
All, not all.

Speaker 28 (59:16):
I wasn't exactly what you'd call busy, won't you ste
thank you? Yeah, wait, I'll get those boots.

Speaker 30 (59:22):
Tell you what, mister Ponson.

Speaker 18 (59:26):
I'm Will's wife.

Speaker 28 (59:27):
Oh oh, I'm pleased to make you, ma'am.

Speaker 40 (59:29):
Will Will told me you were in town today. He
saw you, and you saw.

Speaker 28 (59:34):
Him, didn't you, Yes, ma'am, at least I thought I did.

Speaker 40 (59:38):
Well, you can't tell anyone he's here, mister Pson. You
didn't come to Temple City looking for Will, did you?

Speaker 18 (59:44):
Will?

Speaker 40 (59:44):
Thought maybe that was the reason we heard about what
happened in Prescott last winter when you came across bar Cleaver.

Speaker 28 (59:50):
Well you heard wrong, ma'am. I didn't come across clear,
he came across me.

Speaker 27 (59:53):
Man.

Speaker 28 (59:53):
It's for a while. He he's made a new life here,
a good life.

Speaker 40 (59:58):
If he has to go back to prison.

Speaker 28 (01:00:00):
Prison.

Speaker 40 (01:00:02):
Oh you knew about the bank robbery and Austin and
about him breaking up before you knew, didn't you?

Speaker 35 (01:00:11):
No?

Speaker 28 (01:00:11):
Man, Oh, I haven't been back that way.

Speaker 40 (01:00:14):
You wouldn't have told the marshall. But we thought we
were sure.

Speaker 28 (01:00:27):
I just take it easy.

Speaker 41 (01:00:29):
If I hadn't come.

Speaker 40 (01:00:30):
To see you, nobody would have known it was Will Sichman.

Speaker 28 (01:00:33):
You know, thanks have a way of coming out sooner
or later. How much longer was Will supposed to serve?
Two years? Huh, Well that's not so long when you're young.

Speaker 40 (01:00:47):
We're going to have a baby in this post. But
almost wouldn't want to have him if he was going
to grow up known as father's been in prison. Why
should Will have to go back?

Speaker 30 (01:00:58):
Why?

Speaker 27 (01:00:59):
Well, I I guess maybe you'd better ask the judge
who sentenced him.

Speaker 17 (01:01:02):
Man.

Speaker 40 (01:01:04):
What I mean is they say it's so a man
will live a decent, respectable life when he comes out.
And Will's already living a decent, respectable life. He works hard,
he never makes trouble for anybody. He doesn't even wear
a gun, and he promised me he never will.

Speaker 28 (01:01:20):
Was that your idea, not wearing a gun?

Speaker 40 (01:01:23):
Before we were married, he told me about the trouble
in Austin and how it broke out of prison.

Speaker 28 (01:01:29):
I suppose I should have made him go back, but
I was so.

Speaker 40 (01:01:32):
Much in love I couldn't. So I asked him to
give me his word he'd never use a gun again,
never even carry one.

Speaker 28 (01:01:40):
It must have been kind of hard on a fella
like Well to keep holding himself back that way.

Speaker 40 (01:01:47):
I've heard with men like Noah Temple calling, but Will
takes it.

Speaker 27 (01:01:51):
He's kept his word.

Speaker 28 (01:01:52):
Their falla Temple, And all the way he and Will
were going out of today, it sounded like they were
heading for trouble.

Speaker 27 (01:01:58):
Won't be anything serious.

Speaker 40 (01:02:00):
Will just doesn't want us to be pushed off of
the ranch. You can't hold that against.

Speaker 28 (01:02:05):
Him, No, no, no, it's not.

Speaker 40 (01:02:09):
Then you You won't tell the marshall over in Addaburry
or anybody.

Speaker 28 (01:02:14):
Well, I don't imagine Marshall Sanders like me mixing into
his business. This is his district. I guess he can
take care of it anyway he has so far.

Speaker 40 (01:02:24):
But now look here, I thank you, mister, thanks for Wilson.

Speaker 28 (01:02:30):
Wait wait, just well, after all, you know, most of
what she said was true. Sending Will back to prison
might do more harm and good. But and it wasn't
enough for me to sit judgment on him. I was
going to be leaving town up there so anyway, and

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if anything happened after that wouldn't be my concern. Of course,
a man does have certain duties, even if he's not
wearing a bad man of sponsor, wanted criminal. He's supposed
to report it, and I always had before I scraped

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some of the mud off my boots and washed my face,
put on a clean shirt, and went downstairs in the lobby.
Clerk was still playing solitaire.

Speaker 39 (01:03:26):
Just beat myself again, mister Pondon. I was playing in
the game and now ahead of a one hundred and
forty dollars. It's pretty good for one afternoon there.

Speaker 28 (01:03:33):
Ah, yeah, real good by time supper a.

Speaker 39 (01:03:36):
Reda and mallyo hes ye got baked ham Man. Fine,
I'll say miss ponct. Yeah, remember us talking about Will
Fetter and him being afraid to carry again? Ah want
the darns things just happened or wasn't in the moon
fifteen minutes ago. I guess everybody's talking about he went
into Bradley's working team and he brought himself a car being.

Speaker 31 (01:03:56):
Oh, of course he's just trying to bluff.

Speaker 28 (01:03:58):
Know a temple.

Speaker 39 (01:04:00):
Folks are giving ten to one. Will don't even know
how to load the rifle. It will arms posed dining room,
go there.

Speaker 28 (01:04:07):
I guess maybe I'm not hungry. I'd say whereabouts as
well as ranch. I think maybe I'll take a little ride,
maybe work up an appetize.

Speaker 37 (01:04:25):
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Speaker 37 (01:05:40):
Now Act two of the six Shooter, starring James Stewart
as Brett Ponson.

Speaker 28 (01:06:06):
The Better Ranch was about two miles south of town,
and from the outside, looking neat comfortable, we all kept
up the ground, stretching out behind those good raising lands
or worth at least five dollars an acre or maybe more.
My tide scard to a cottonwood in the yard and
walked up The door.

Speaker 40 (01:06:35):
Is about time you got home. Will come on here.

Speaker 28 (01:06:43):
Well's not here.

Speaker 40 (01:06:44):
No, he was gone when it came back.

Speaker 42 (01:06:45):
You must be in the south.

Speaker 28 (01:06:47):
Uh huh, what's wrong?

Speaker 40 (01:06:52):
You haven't changed your mind, haven't?

Speaker 28 (01:06:53):
Where's the Temple ranch?

Speaker 17 (01:06:55):
Live?

Speaker 28 (01:06:56):
From here?

Speaker 27 (01:06:57):
It's all around, all four sizes of ournes.

Speaker 28 (01:07:00):
And Temple's ranch house. Where is that?

Speaker 31 (01:07:03):
Dewey?

Speaker 43 (01:07:04):
But what's that got to do with it?

Speaker 28 (01:07:06):
What's happened? Will was in town this evening. He bought
a rifle.

Speaker 18 (01:07:11):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 40 (01:07:12):
He promised me. You're wrong, mister paid. Will isn't gunning
for Noah Temple. He's out tending stopped. He'll be home
any minute, he'll see.

Speaker 28 (01:07:22):
Maybe where are you going here? Temple got quite knob,
says the worst time of a visit.

Speaker 18 (01:07:28):
You won't find Will there.

Speaker 40 (01:07:30):
He gave me his word he'd never use a gun again.

Speaker 34 (01:07:33):
You won't find him.

Speaker 28 (01:07:48):
I had a due east for about a quarter of
a mile, and uh. When I came to the edge
of Will's property, outsaw sorrel t other to a fence post.
Looked like Will had decided to go the rest of
the way on foot. So I climbed out of the
saddle and looked around. There was a big break in
the fence, but the cattle hadn't made it, and barbed

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wire had been cut, and there were four heifers and
a couple of steers lying just over the Temple boundary.
They just wasn't much questioned about it. They'd been shot.
So I crawled through the opening and went right past
a big sign that said Temple Ranch trespassers will be shot.

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The found some footprints. I figured they were wills. About
thirty minutes later I caught sight of the ranch houses,
built about halfway up the side of a pretty steep hill,
big brawling building. There was a light inside and I
could just barely make out noise at the desk working

(01:08:53):
on some papers and where it was well if you
had plenty of time to get here. And I heard
a step just went around one of Temple's hands, pacing
up and down near the stable outside the house. The
way he was holding the rifle, it looked like an
army sepri instead of a cow, And all of a

(01:09:13):
sudden he gave a little gaff. I saw a shadow
tighten around his throat. The seer went down and there
was a struggle, not very noisy, though not noisy enough
for Temple to hear it.

Speaker 27 (01:09:23):
And then everything was quiet. The shadow stood up. It
was Will Techman. He was inching his way toward the house,
toward the window where Temple was sitting. I came up
behind him and pulled on my gun. He was starting
to aim his rifle. Well drop it, Well, yeah, I

(01:09:54):
might have known you turn up, give me a rifle.
Well could get off his shot me even not a temple.

Speaker 28 (01:10:03):
Temple gets arranged and I go to prisoners d it
and we'll talk all about that as so as we
get back to your place. Now, come on. I carried
Will's rifle and led the way. About twenty minutes later
we passed another one on Temple's guards. He was goze

(01:10:23):
and didn't notice it until I had a couple of
miles ago. Before we reached the fence where we left
the horses. Will was sort of panting for breath. All right,
let's rest myne okay, thought you promise your wife you'd
never take up a gun.

Speaker 44 (01:10:42):
Yain, Well, mister posid, she didn't dead. Held for silver
by the fence. Yeah, had about wipes our heart out.

Speaker 45 (01:10:55):
I found my I have to do something as long
as as you knew who I was anyway, as long
as I was going back to prison, I had to
fix it so Sarah wouldn't have the ranch taken away
from him.

Speaker 28 (01:11:07):
I wouldn't think a piece of land that'd be worth
everybody getting too excited about it.

Speaker 38 (01:11:12):
I've been shoved around rid ever since I was a kid.
I've been shoved around. Even when I held up the
Austin Bank. I wasn't the one who the one who was.

Speaker 28 (01:11:23):
Nothing nothing.

Speaker 38 (01:11:26):
Since I married Sarah, well, I've had to take a
lot that other man wouldn't put up with.

Speaker 30 (01:11:30):
Because of her, and because her knowing what I.

Speaker 38 (01:11:33):
Was sting with, Temple got under my skin. I made
up my mind to stand up to him. A man's
got to take a stand sometime somewhere.

Speaker 28 (01:11:43):
I'm sorry, Well, hey, what's that?

Speaker 11 (01:11:46):
Get down?

Speaker 30 (01:11:46):
Well to write better?

Speaker 34 (01:11:52):
First passion, I ain't a long temple rit pantest with me?

Speaker 11 (01:11:59):
I write, tap, well, I I don't know better.

Speaker 17 (01:12:02):
Come along like just four of us and take care
of you.

Speaker 14 (01:12:07):
He won't be much the opponent in a fight, Okay, boy.

Speaker 28 (01:12:16):
I could see one of his boys firing from behind
a tree behind him, so I aimed at his arm.
Hit him on the shoulder, and he lurched forward. Not
only three of them now, but they were closing. Will
still didn't say anything. He was waiting for me to
make the next move. I tossed him the rifle, Thanks GrITT.

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He got to his knees and started across a little clearing.
He was still all right when he died behind a boulder.
I knew where he was heading to. Noah Temple had
been shooting from behind a clump of pines about fifty
yards back for a couple of minutes. I didn't get
a chance to watch him. Temple's two guards were on
either side of me. Now, one of them was worn
eight ten feet away. I saw the barrel of his

(01:13:03):
car being rised up and behind the bush. Only one
guard left at that time. It seemed like he'd had
enough anyway. I moved across the claar and towards the
pine trees where Will had disappeared. Pulled up behind a rock.

(01:13:25):
There was no Temple, crouched down low, his gun ready.
Little bit of movement the brush caught my eye. It
was Will. He was right behind Temple. The Temple did
not he was looking my way. Will had a perfect
shot I saw Will's finger curl around the drigger.

Speaker 32 (01:13:47):
But.

Speaker 28 (01:13:48):
Will didn't fire. I couldn't figure out what's got into him.
He didn't fire, and then he threw his rifle to
one side and let out a yell. Temple turned and
got off his sh got he was surprised. He couldn't
do much aiming. And then Will was on top of
and twisting the gun out of his hands. And after
that I saw fight the like of which I'd never

(01:14:09):
seen before in my life. Lard Will hit the Temple
across the face and he went over backwards. And then
Temples kicked and his foot lifted Will right off the ground.
But before Temple could pick himself up, Will Will was
right on top of him again, and Temple tried to
reach for his gun, and Will brought his book right
down on Temple's hand. Temple quit reagion, and then Will

(01:14:32):
backed away and let Temple up again. And as soon
as Temple was study again, Will drove his stick right
into Temple's stomach, and Temple's hand threw a party was
wide open. Will hit him again and hit him, hit
him again and again, and finally finally Temple managed to
send his fist into Will's face him. Will looked like
maybe he was going to go on, but he still

(01:14:53):
had a fight left to land the right that snapped
Temple tail right back, and it was Temple to And
then I knew he wasn't going to get up again,
not for quite a while. Feel better, Well, yeah, yeah,

(01:15:19):
that's better. You had your chance to kill him, You
had a perfect shot. You didn't have to fight him
this way. It's the only way I could fight him. Brett, Huh.

Speaker 45 (01:15:30):
I had him in my sight. Something kept me from
pulling the trigger. Maybe you think I'm crazy.

Speaker 28 (01:15:41):
I kept remembering what I promised Sarah, I wouldn't use
the gun again. I couldn't pull that trigger, Brett.

Speaker 11 (01:15:52):
I just couldn't.

Speaker 28 (01:15:54):
Uh huh. Well, let's let's see if we can't get
Temple here to a doctor. You know, it looks like
he needs one of us. We left now with the

(01:16:23):
Temple City and I started off Radburry. I've I've made
up my mind to tell the Marshal about Will, all
about him. Sarah and Will, they agreed. They the an
shook food. But then again, the way I see it
right now, the state of Texas is looking for a

(01:16:45):
gun Totin bank lover named Will Techman, and I just
don't think Marshall Sandy would be very much interested in
the law Biden ranchard. He's called Will Feather.

Speaker 37 (01:17:15):
I'd like to take a minute here to remind you
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to the delightful music of the Railroad Hour as they
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Speaker 30 (01:17:38):
Have entertained for so many years. Gordon macray will be your.

Speaker 37 (01:17:41):
Host and star, and during weeks to come, you'll have
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the six Shooter. Mister Stewart may currently be seen in
the Universal International picture Thunder Bay. Others in the cast
were Michael Ann Barrett, Herbellis, Howard mcneer, and Will Wright.
The Six Shooter is an NBC Radio Network production in
association with Review Productions, and it is based on a
character created by Frank Burke and today's transcribed story.

Speaker 28 (01:18:46):
Was written by him.

Speaker 30 (01:18:48):
Special music was by Basilasmm and the entire production is
under the direction of Jack Johnstone.

Speaker 37 (01:18:54):
All characters and incidents were fictitious and any resemblance to
actual characters or incidents is purely co incidental.

Speaker 8 (01:19:01):
Helli Colbyn also sponsored some other Western shows on NBC
seventy two years ago September twenty seventh to nineteen fifty three,
Jimmy Stewart as the six Shooter on our Sunday program

(01:19:24):
We'll Have Comedy, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bobby Ellis, and
the Aldrich family Father Knows And that's from their final
season of the show. By the Way, Father Knows Best
from nineteen fifty and Jack Parr from nineteen forty seven.
Dramas on Monday with episodes of Yours to Lead, Johnny
Dallar in Suspense from nineteen fifty seven, Wanted from nineteen fifty,

(01:19:47):
The Whistler from nineteen forty eight, and the return of
Claudia five days a week on Classic Radio Theater Westerns
again on Tuesday, we'll have another episode of Guns and
Fort Laramie, both from nineteen fifty six, and then from
nineteen fifty episodes of Melody Ranch and Tales of the
Texas Rangers, while also on Tuesday be releasing a special podcast,

(01:20:11):
The Last Days of Radio, with the final episodes of
Suspense and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and an Example of
what radio would be with Orson Wells in commentary. That
would be from the thirtieth day of September nineteen forty five.
On Wednesday, The Shadow The Adventures of Philip Marlow starring

(01:20:32):
Gerald Moore, Herbert Marshall as the Man called X, and
Lon Clark as Nick Carter Master Detective. More comedy on
Thursday with Fiber and Molly from nineteen forty five, The
Great Giller Sleep from nineteen forty six, Bill Harris from
nineteen fifty three, and ar Miss Brooks from nineteen forty nine.
On Friday, we'll hear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with

(01:20:56):
John Stanley and Alfred Shirley from nineteen forty eight, Jan
Clark as Nick Carter Master Detective, an episode of counter Spy,
Don McLaughlan Mandel Kramer, and the first episode of Theatre
Royal from nineteen fifty three, and it features Orson Wells
in an episode entitled The Queen of Spades. Wells returns

(01:21:21):
on Saturday with an episode of the Lives of Harry
Lime the from nineteen fifty one, Jack Webb and Dragnet
from nineteen fifty The Big thirty eight Filo Bands starring
Jackson Beck in The Bulletin Murder Case and Frontier Gentleman
John Dayner in the Story of the Library. That's all

(01:21:42):
coming up. The Days Ahead here on Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatt Cox. Now in a moment, we will hear
from John Dayner as Paladin, and we go to San
Francisco for an episode of Habgun Will Travel.

Speaker 35 (01:22:04):
You know this is still the season for Carefree holidays
and vacations, but don't be carefree on the highway with
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(01:22:25):
and your judgment. So don't drive too many hours at
a stretch. Plan your trip so that you can stop
frequently and get plenty of rest. And when you start
that trip, resolve that you're going to obey traffic laws
and regulations.

Speaker 30 (01:22:38):
Don't gamble with safety. Remember the life you save may
be your own.

Speaker 17 (01:22:44):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:22:45):
The only radio show that came from television, and yes,
I know we could make you taste that my Little Marge.

Speaker 26 (01:22:52):
He came to.

Speaker 8 (01:22:56):
Radio from television. But this is the one that really
is standing as the big example because it became fairly
successful on radio, John Dayner starring as because the other
one was same actors. Here, instead of Richard Boone as Paladin,
you had John Dayner taking the role of Paladin and

(01:23:19):
making it his own. Have Gone Will Travel sixty six
years ago, September twenty seventh, nineteen fifty nine.

Speaker 14 (01:23:27):
Like father, if you didn't commit this murder, he'll go free.
If you did, I'll see that you hang.

Speaker 19 (01:23:57):
Have gun, Will travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel headquarters of
a man called Paladin.

Speaker 28 (01:24:24):
M M m.

Speaker 12 (01:24:26):
M.

Speaker 14 (01:24:31):
Well, good morning, Miss Wong.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
Miss Paladin, I was just coming to your room. Must
see you on matter of great importance.

Speaker 42 (01:24:38):
When you look disturbed, Miss Paladin, you talk to lady
for miss wall Well what lady?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
She very sick and now has great trouble. Could you
see her?

Speaker 32 (01:24:47):
Please?

Speaker 42 (01:24:47):
Miss One already tell her you will come if you
think I should.

Speaker 3 (01:24:51):
Oh, very good, come please.

Speaker 14 (01:24:54):
But miss One? Who is this lady?

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
She's guest, a hotel doctor come to her every day.

Speaker 21 (01:25:00):
She's very sick in bed.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
No, she's very sad.

Speaker 14 (01:25:04):
You see.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
In here, please, missus Thomas. Here's mister Paladin. I told
you he would come. Thank you, dear, mister Paladin. Here's
Missus Thomas.

Speaker 17 (01:25:23):
How do you do?

Speaker 14 (01:25:23):
Miss Wang says you'd like to talk to me?

Speaker 42 (01:25:25):
Yes, won't you have a seat, mister Peladin? Thank you,
Miss Wang, must go now, Missus Wong. I appreciate your
bringing mister Pelladin to see me. Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Oh, very welcome.

Speaker 42 (01:25:40):
Good morning, mister Peladin. I'm missus Clall Thomas. I've been
under a doctor's care here in the hotel for several days.
This morning I received this telegram. It explains why I
want to see you. You may read it here.

Speaker 14 (01:26:03):
I'm holding Clell for murder of Bill Watkins. You shouldn't
come home as soon as possible. Clell does not know
I am telegraphing you signed Sheriff Miller Clell your husband.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Yes, mister Pelladin, I don't know what this is all about.

Speaker 14 (01:26:22):
And you want me to take you home? Is thatt it?

Speaker 28 (01:26:24):
No?

Speaker 42 (01:26:25):
No, I've been ill and I couldn't possibly travel now.
We live in Wairrica. I want you to go there
for me.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
I'll pay you one thousand dollars a thousand.

Speaker 14 (01:26:37):
Well, why what can I do prove that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:39):
My husband didn't commit murder? Will you do it?

Speaker 14 (01:26:45):
What makes you think he didn't, Missus Thomas.

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
A woman knows her husband Clell is strong, impulsive, But
mister Paladin, he wouldn't commit murder. A mistake is being made.

Speaker 14 (01:27:01):
Please all right, I'll do what I can.

Speaker 19 (01:27:14):
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(01:27:35):
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(01:27:55):
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Speaker 14 (01:28:22):
Wayrika, California was a long ride north from San Francisco
through valleys of golden wheat and tall Timothy I spent
half a day in the shadow of Mount Shasta, and
then beyond into the mountains, where I finally came to
a bustling town of placer miners and leather tongue bullwhackers.
I pulled up at a hitch rail near the jail.

(01:28:48):
We got room for two horses. Here go get a
boat eighty. Come on, yeah, I see him, Jack, Hey, stranger,
sittle down. Hey you, yeah, I can hear without your
honoring if you're talking to me.

Speaker 23 (01:29:08):
He's as smart all of kind.

Speaker 11 (01:29:10):
Hey, Henry, Yeah, I better teach him something. Hey, that's
it's my horse you kicked.

Speaker 14 (01:29:18):
As a boy, Henry, I didn't kick that horse.

Speaker 11 (01:29:21):
Nobody touches my horse.

Speaker 14 (01:29:25):
I'm gonna cut you open like a melon. You've had
a little too much to drink, mister. I'll put that
knife away.

Speaker 23 (01:29:33):
You ain't gonna take that a Henry.

Speaker 32 (01:29:37):
I am.

Speaker 14 (01:29:38):
Oh no, I listen. I warned, you'll keep back. I
don't want to hurt you, now, son, Come.

Speaker 23 (01:29:42):
On hurt me. You ain't gonna hurt me.

Speaker 14 (01:29:51):
Hey, Henry, Henry, Henry, you ain't getting up. You're his friend.
You better dump him in that horse trough and get
him sobered up.

Speaker 11 (01:29:59):
You didn't need to hit him so hard.

Speaker 14 (01:30:00):
I'd be all right. Let me do her time.

Speaker 31 (01:30:03):
You can't hear what happened, I'll I'll tell you what happened, Sheriff.

Speaker 17 (01:30:06):
Henry has been beat up.

Speaker 14 (01:30:08):
Yeah, she did. This man that he came at me
with a knife. Show, don't listen to him, shoff.

Speaker 46 (01:30:12):
This stranger owning started kicking Henry's horse around.

Speaker 14 (01:30:15):
And let he jump Henry.

Speaker 13 (01:30:16):
Oh he did.

Speaker 46 (01:30:17):
Henry was only trying to protect himself.

Speaker 14 (01:30:19):
We don't cotton with troublemakers in this town. Mister. What
brings you here anyway? I didn't start the trouble. I
came here to see a man named Clell Thomas.

Speaker 47 (01:30:26):
You'll seem real soon light. He's in the same cell
that you're going to. I'm arresting you for assaultant battery
on whose complaint right now?

Speaker 48 (01:30:34):
On my own?

Speaker 14 (01:30:35):
And Henry Thomas is there when he wakes up Thomas.
Is any relation to Clell Thomas?

Speaker 17 (01:30:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:30:40):
Soon I start walking. What's your name, mister Paladin?

Speaker 28 (01:30:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:30:57):
In here you can hand over that gun. Paladin. It'll
be real safe with me till you get out of jail.
I guess I have no choice here, you say, I'd
be in the same cell as mister Thomas. That's right.

Speaker 47 (01:31:16):
I'm making it real convenient for you to talk to him.
Roger some company, Clive, Now you'll have someone to swear
it besides me.

Speaker 14 (01:31:34):
Nine, Well, get in there, Jeb.

Speaker 48 (01:31:41):
What's the doctor say about judge?

Speaker 14 (01:31:43):
Baker says he's well enough to hold the bail here.

Speaker 48 (01:31:46):
And it's about time. I've been waiting a week?

Speaker 14 (01:31:49):
When is it this afternoon? Out the judge's wrench. Doc
won't let him come to town. That is a judge.

Speaker 49 (01:31:56):
Now, I want the city council sitting his grand jury.

Speaker 14 (01:31:58):
He knows there.

Speaker 48 (01:32:01):
Then it ought to come off just fine.

Speaker 47 (01:32:03):
Uh, Claire, this man I've arrested his name, Paladin said,
you once talked to you?

Speaker 14 (01:32:09):
Ah, what about your wife? Sent me? Mary?

Speaker 48 (01:32:15):
Where'd you see Mary?

Speaker 14 (01:32:16):
San Francisco? I wish she she's better, but she won't
be able to travel for a few days.

Speaker 48 (01:32:24):
Well, there's one consolation. All this will be over with
for she knows about it.

Speaker 14 (01:32:28):
She knows about it now she does. Oh, well, someone
someone sent her a telegram, Claile, Maybe I better get
this man out of.

Speaker 48 (01:32:39):
Shut up, Jeb? Who sent her a telegram? Paladin?

Speaker 14 (01:32:44):
She didn't tell me who it was.

Speaker 48 (01:32:45):
Why did she send you?

Speaker 14 (01:32:47):
She wants me to prove that you didn't commit murder.

Speaker 48 (01:32:52):
Jeb, why do you arrest this man?

Speaker 14 (01:32:55):
He beat up on Henry?

Speaker 13 (01:32:56):
Henry?

Speaker 17 (01:32:57):
Is he all right?

Speaker 14 (01:32:58):
All right, Claile, don't worry, mister.

Speaker 48 (01:33:00):
You stay away from my son. If you don't, you'll
have to answer to me, and you better teach him
some manners.

Speaker 14 (01:33:07):
Jeb.

Speaker 48 (01:33:08):
I want this man out of here.

Speaker 14 (01:33:10):
Sure, I'll turn him loose if you say so.

Speaker 48 (01:33:13):
And you, Paladin, I want you out of town in
an hour.

Speaker 14 (01:33:16):
Look, your wife has hired me to come here, and
I won't leave until my job is finished.

Speaker 48 (01:33:20):
My wife doesn't run my affairs, Paladin, I do, and
I don't need you or anybody else to keep me
from the short end of a rope. I'll get out
of this in my own way.

Speaker 50 (01:33:31):
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should because filter.

Speaker 51 (01:33:42):
Blend front up front, ahead of the filter, and the
fire you get. Dela Winston cigarette comes from filter blend.

Speaker 23 (01:33:49):
Filtern means fine, and I will filter lend up fronting.

Speaker 17 (01:33:53):
I'm the fire you get.

Speaker 52 (01:33:54):
Dela Winston cigarette comes from filter blend.

Speaker 53 (01:33:57):
Filter blend is a mighty good reason for you to
say smoke Winston because it means tobaccos specially processed for filter.
Smoking a Winston secret you get Winston's own pure white
modern filter, plus the rich, delightful flavor of fine tobacco.

Speaker 51 (01:34:17):
There's stilter blend up front, up front, ahead of the filter,
and the fun you get in a Winston cigarette comes
funk felter glint and.

Speaker 23 (01:34:25):
Makes Winston taste food like a saga rat.

Speaker 51 (01:34:28):
Should Winston taste food like a cigarette should?

Speaker 14 (01:34:38):
Sheriff Miller was more than willing to go along with
Kell's demand, so I was released from jail. I hadn't
learned very much about the murder charge placed against cal Thomas,
but I knew the local saloon would be a good
place to hear the latest gossip. As it turned out,
the saloon was owned by a girl named Sally Morgan,
an old friend of mine from San Francisco. She had
owned a place on the barbaric coast until the PLA

(01:35:00):
peticians decided to help her spend the profits, so she
just closed up and dropped out of sight. It's good
to see her, and he talked over a cool picture
of lager.

Speaker 54 (01:35:09):
Beard, so cwell threw you out of jail.

Speaker 14 (01:35:14):
Yeah, Tariff Miller doesn't seem to have much to say
when it comes to Closton.

Speaker 54 (01:35:18):
Then wow, they're good friends. Well's a big important man
in his town. He gets whatever he wants.

Speaker 14 (01:35:24):
Oh does that mean he wants to be in jail?

Speaker 21 (01:35:27):
I think he does.

Speaker 14 (01:35:28):
Too.

Speaker 54 (01:35:28):
Many people are against him since they think he killed
Bill Watkins. He'll get out on bail as soon as
they have a hearing. In the meantime, it looks good
like Sheriff Miller is doing his duty. You know, you're
lucky Clell wanted you out of jail, especially after you
tangle with Henry.

Speaker 14 (01:35:44):
Yeah, what's the money with that boy?

Speaker 54 (01:35:47):
He tries to be like his father, but he can't
bring it off. Henry's a weakling. Cleil sticks up for
him no matter what I fixed Henry though. Oh well,
one thing Clell doesn't hold with his gambling. Henry owed
me a heap of losses. So I threatened to tell
his dad if.

Speaker 55 (01:36:03):
He didn't pay up.

Speaker 14 (01:36:04):
What did he ever pay? Oh you sure did.

Speaker 54 (01:36:07):
Three days ago, thirty.

Speaker 14 (01:36:08):
Five hundred dollars thirty five Does the boy have that
kind of money?

Speaker 54 (01:36:13):
No, but Clell's got plenty Henry probably cooked up some story.

Speaker 14 (01:36:18):
Tell me about the murder.

Speaker 54 (01:36:20):
Selling well next to Clell, Bill Watkins was the biggest
cattleman around here. Last week he and Clell got into
an argument over a broken fence between their spreads and
almost shot each other on the spot. Next day, Watkins
was found in his house, shot in the back. People
figure Clell took care of Watkins the easy way. They'd
had trouble before.

Speaker 14 (01:36:42):
Do you think Clell didn't Well.

Speaker 54 (01:36:45):
I never thought he'd shoot anybody in the back, but
everybody says he must have. That day, somebody saw his
horse tied up outside of watkins house. Well, how long
are you going to be in town, Paladin?

Speaker 14 (01:36:57):
Oh, I don't know. Clell's wife hired me to prove
he didn't commit murder. Oh, I'll stay till I find out.
Who did you know?

Speaker 28 (01:37:04):
Paladin?

Speaker 54 (01:37:05):
One thing I can't figure out is why Clell doesn't
want you to help clear him.

Speaker 14 (01:37:10):
I can't either unless Hee, Sally, you said mister Watkins
was shot in his home.

Speaker 5 (01:37:15):
That's right?

Speaker 14 (01:37:16):
Is anyone there now?

Speaker 32 (01:37:17):
No?

Speaker 54 (01:37:18):
He lived alone since his wife died.

Speaker 14 (01:37:19):
What i'd like to have look around the house.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
Well, it's locked up.

Speaker 54 (01:37:23):
Sheriff Miller has the keys, but I bet he'd take
you out there if I were to ask him to.
Would you mind not for an old friend like you, Paladin?

Speaker 14 (01:37:43):
Here we are, I remember, Paladin, I ain't doing this
for you.

Speaker 47 (01:37:49):
It's for Sally. No show for mister Thomas. You's a
fine woman. I'm sure she is, Clail now he's one
of my best friends. No matter what he done, he
wouldn't like me showing you around here?

Speaker 7 (01:38:01):
Though?

Speaker 14 (01:38:01):
Caref where was Watkins killed? This very room? I found
him lying face down in front of the fireplace here.
I figure he was reaching for his rifle when he
was shot. You see where does this door lead to closet?

(01:38:21):
What are you doing that for? Are you nothing in there?

Speaker 28 (01:38:24):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:38:28):
What are you hoping to find? Paladin? I'm not sure
and you won't find nothing. And I left this place
over real good? Maybe not? And what's this the loose
floor board? That doing me?

Speaker 32 (01:38:43):
Nothing? Does it?

Speaker 14 (01:38:44):
Maybe not?

Speaker 26 (01:38:50):
Say?

Speaker 14 (01:38:52):
How come there ain't dirt under there? Look? Here will
be a cedar wood platform built under that floor. You
think it's got something to do with the killin' Paladin?
Sheriff and mister Watkins bank his money in Wayrika, I

(01:39:13):
wouldn't know about that. You're thinking he kept it here
and somebody stole it from him. Good baying, Come on,
let's get back to town. At the bank, I learned
that mister Watkins was considered something of a miser. He
would make deposits of nearly ten thousand dollars twice a year.

(01:39:34):
When he was killed, he hadn't been in for five months.
I went to the jail and found that the sheriff
had taken Clell out to Judge Baker's ranch for the
bail hearing. But the time I got there was almost
dark and the hearing was over. Bailing Judge was in
his study, lying on the couch, resting from the strain
of the proceedings.

Speaker 36 (01:39:52):
Uh, sit down, Paladin, thank you, Sir Clall's gone back
to town to celebrate Jerry let him out on bail.

Speaker 14 (01:39:59):
Yeah, they wouldn't. Or what's your business, peaden Judge? Do
you think Clelle Thomas would steal?

Speaker 17 (01:40:06):
No, No, he wouldn't do that.

Speaker 28 (01:40:08):
Why would he.

Speaker 36 (01:40:09):
He's got as much money as any man needs.

Speaker 14 (01:40:11):
Well, I wouldn't steal, But I do think he's capable
of murder. Well, I have reason to believe this was
a killing for money?

Speaker 26 (01:40:18):
Whoa you know? It makes you think?

Speaker 14 (01:40:19):
So I found where mister Watkins had hidden a large
sum of money. It was gone. You know what's going
on outside?

Speaker 32 (01:40:26):
Huh?

Speaker 14 (01:40:27):
Don't see? Two men are hurting cattle into your pasture?
Well why I didn't order that done? Hey, judge, that's
a stampede. Well how can it be? Cattle don't stampede
in their own background? Out of control?

Speaker 17 (01:40:44):
Gunshots?

Speaker 34 (01:40:45):
What's going on?

Speaker 14 (01:40:46):
I don't know, judge, but I'll find out for you. Outside.
I mounted my horse and raced down to the pasture.
But before I could help, one of the men did
a foolish thing. He went to the point of the
herd and tried to stop them. His horse tripped and
he went down. I managed to get my horse into
position to prevent some of the herd from passing over him.
It was then I realized that the man on the

(01:41:06):
ground was Henry Thomas. The best I could do was
make him comfortable. His friend Juck came up and stood nearby.

Speaker 15 (01:41:13):
Oh is he hurt bad?

Speaker 14 (01:41:16):
Yeah, I'm afraid. So is he going to die?

Speaker 17 (01:41:19):
Henry?

Speaker 11 (01:41:21):
Henry, you're paladin, you're a friend of Mar's.

Speaker 14 (01:41:30):
Yes, I'm dying, and now you just just rest easy.

Speaker 17 (01:41:39):
Tell her.

Speaker 14 (01:41:41):
Till mo.

Speaker 11 (01:41:42):
I'm sorry, Peladon, Yes, don't let him hang paw.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
It was me I killed Watkins.

Speaker 14 (01:41:55):
I needed the money. You still, I'm here, Henry. I
can't see you no more.

Speaker 32 (01:42:03):
I a can't see nothing.

Speaker 17 (01:42:11):
Is he dead?

Speaker 14 (01:42:14):
He is dead? Jug. This herd of cattle? Why were
you bringing them here? Was a bribe fifty head. His
old man told Henry to do it, so that was
his way to influence the judge at the murder trial.
Judge didn't know about it. Jug. You heard what Henry
said before he died. Yeah, if you had to testify

(01:42:36):
in court, what would you say? I guess I'd have
to tell it the way I heard it for you.
Just be sure you remember that. All right? Here, give
me a hand. I'd better take Henry back to his father.

Speaker 32 (01:42:48):
Ah ooh, noh.

Speaker 28 (01:43:09):
I have a good time, folks, the drinks around me.

Speaker 32 (01:43:12):
Good night.

Speaker 14 (01:43:12):
See you are Clell?

Speaker 17 (01:43:16):
Hellat it?

Speaker 14 (01:43:17):
I thought, I told well, it's Henry.

Speaker 17 (01:43:21):
What about Henry told you to stay away from him.

Speaker 14 (01:43:25):
That's Henry across my horse. He's dead.

Speaker 48 (01:43:30):
Hella didn't.

Speaker 17 (01:43:30):
I'll kill you.

Speaker 14 (01:43:31):
Listen to me, Clell'll kill you with my bare hands.
Well stop the only boy I got, and you killed him.
I didn't, cell, I warned you, let me go. Well
you listen to me. You killed Henry? What if anybody
killed him? You did the cattle you were sending the
judge Baker stampeded. Henry tried to stop them. No, Palette,

(01:43:55):
don't say that. Don't say it. You knew he killed Watkins.

Speaker 49 (01:44:00):
He'd had to be him. He took my horse that day.
I was trying to help him, protect him. It's what
a father's for, is it.

Speaker 48 (01:44:13):
I was going to let people think I did it.

Speaker 49 (01:44:16):
They'd never have convicted me.

Speaker 14 (01:44:18):
Maybe nothing, clell I'll help you with your boy.

Speaker 48 (01:44:26):
No, no, I'll take care of him. I'll take care
of Henry.

Speaker 14 (01:44:47):
Oh, miss Apoladi, uh helloa boy ah?

Speaker 36 (01:44:56):
Did you tell me see Thomas?

Speaker 14 (01:44:58):
Yes? I told her. She very sad. Now, yes, yes
she is. I'm afraid that I had to leave when
she started to cry. Miss Wong is with her.

Speaker 36 (01:45:07):
Now, oh, yes, Miss Wong will be very understanding.

Speaker 14 (01:45:13):
You have dinner yet, No, I thought i'd go for
a walk first.

Speaker 36 (01:45:16):
Will you please to follow?

Speaker 14 (01:45:17):
Hey boy, hey boy, please all right my own room.

Speaker 36 (01:45:28):
Please to enter all right, Missa Paladie's dinner all prepared
much better here.

Speaker 14 (01:45:35):
Hey boy, what a surprise did you go to all
this trouble?

Speaker 36 (01:45:39):
Oh lord, much trouble. Should have to cook your favorite
dinner for me? Crab meat so file at pull let allah, Dennis?
What pull let allah Dennis?

Speaker 14 (01:45:48):
Oh, hey boy, you won't believe this all the way back.
This is the very meal I dreamed about, the very meal.

Speaker 55 (01:45:56):
Oh he's all.

Speaker 36 (01:45:57):
Hey boy, know, hey boy, believe Misa Palaly didn't see now?

Speaker 14 (01:46:00):
Have do you know? Yes? Hey boy?

Speaker 36 (01:46:02):
Hey yeah, here boy know how to take care of you?

Speaker 19 (01:46:20):
Have Gun Will Travel? Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Roff.
His produced stand directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris, and
stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey
Boy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wan. Tonight's story was
specially written for Have Gun Will Travel by Tom Hanley.

(01:46:43):
Featured in the cast were Anne Morrison, Shirley Mitchell, Ralph Moody,
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Speaker 8 (01:48:25):
And unlike the television version of Paladin. The show did
have a wrap up on radio. When the show came
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John Markham was a prosperous and successful banker in the
city of Seattle.

Speaker 17 (01:52:46):
The elderly man knew that after.

Speaker 34 (01:52:48):
The death of her father, Margie Winton would need help.

Speaker 7 (01:52:51):
Though there were many demands.

Speaker 34 (01:52:53):
On his time, he left the bank to call on
the bereaved girl to offer sympathy and assistance.

Speaker 18 (01:52:58):
Mister Maam, I'm so glad to you. I've wanted to
send you for taking over and hemman seem arrangements.

Speaker 34 (01:53:05):
Oh no, Margie, there's no need to thank me.

Speaker 13 (01:53:09):
Your dad was my friend.

Speaker 34 (01:53:10):
Yes, I know he was a fine man.

Speaker 13 (01:53:13):
His only fault was that he was.

Speaker 34 (01:53:14):
Just two stubborns take ad by about money. Yes, I
remember pleading with him several times to let me invest
the money to it.

Speaker 18 (01:53:22):
I know how dad was about money, mister marchamis just
didn't even mean anything to us.

Speaker 52 (01:53:27):
I came here, my.

Speaker 34 (01:53:28):
Dear, to tell you that if there's anything I can
do to help you settle your dad's affairs and make
plans for Excuse me, I've been.

Speaker 18 (01:53:34):
Thinking about that, mister Marcolm. Before he died, Dad told
me to go to my uncle Ben's. Dad said that
Uncle Ben would take care of me. Oh.

Speaker 13 (01:53:41):
Yes, Ben went to the Yukon.

Speaker 18 (01:53:44):
Dad rub safety. Uncle Ben struck it rich a short
time ago, and he wrote Dad to tell him that
he was giving him.

Speaker 34 (01:53:49):
Half instance in his claim, your dad does have a
small balance.

Speaker 26 (01:53:53):
At the bank.

Speaker 34 (01:53:54):
There's enough there to buy the clothing you need. I'll
take care of whatever arrangements are necessary, until he asked
amounted police to meet you in Darton. Now don't worry
about the thing, Margie, everything is going to work out.

Speaker 13 (01:54:06):
Just to hear Dad would have wanted it.

Speaker 34 (01:54:09):
Two weeks later, Margie went and sailed from Seattle in
the care of Captain Winker.

Speaker 13 (01:54:14):
The trip was a long and uneventful one.

Speaker 34 (01:54:20):
Margie spent most of her time in the pilot house
talking to the kindly captain in whose care she was traveling.
Captain Winker knew of her father's death, and he did
his best to help her forget her grief by telling
her of his adventures as a favorite.

Speaker 13 (01:54:33):
And that was how I came to stay home from
the China Sea.

Speaker 18 (01:54:37):
Sure, that's write a story, Captain the Pman. Have you
ever been to Camden Creek in the.

Speaker 13 (01:54:42):
Yukon Cameron Dree, the last that's.

Speaker 18 (01:54:44):
In one Yes, I know that's where my uncle Ben
has his claim.

Speaker 13 (01:54:48):
I have never been there.

Speaker 18 (01:54:49):
Marjorie I wish you could tell me something about it.

Speaker 13 (01:54:52):
You think him maybe you won't like it.

Speaker 18 (01:54:53):
The Oh no, it isn't best. But you see, I
don't really know my uncle Ben. Perhaps he won't be
happy about me going to ten.

Speaker 7 (01:55:00):
You'll put that.

Speaker 13 (01:55:01):
Thought right out of your pretty head. You'll be welcome,
no delicacy.

Speaker 34 (01:55:07):
When the steamship arrived in Dawson, Sergeant Preston at Yukon
King were waiting to board him the Bobby.

Speaker 30 (01:55:13):
He found it difficult the shoulder his way through the
good natured crowd of dissembled at the top.

Speaker 55 (01:55:17):
I mean, so please sure, thanks, I'd like to avoid
that ship coming, so please thank you. Yes, i'd like
to see your skipper ye lingers a three falling. Oh yes,
I see him, Captain Waker prest and oils.

Speaker 14 (01:55:39):
Ay your glad to see it.

Speaker 13 (01:55:41):
You'll can bind it.

Speaker 14 (01:55:43):
And King there your poor leg good table.

Speaker 34 (01:55:48):
Looks make the winners done. You good deferres as handsome
as a new means.

Speaker 7 (01:55:52):
You'll spoiled King with us flattery.

Speaker 13 (01:55:54):
Well seriously, President and glad. See how things going in
the Yukon.

Speaker 7 (01:55:59):
Oh, I needs to keep busy.

Speaker 13 (01:56:01):
You're going to be busier when the landlovers have just landed.
Get into circulation. They're a bad lot.

Speaker 7 (01:56:05):
Do have a person the name Margie Winton?

Speaker 14 (01:56:07):
As I do.

Speaker 34 (01:56:09):
She's below taking her cabin.

Speaker 14 (01:56:11):
How do you know about her?

Speaker 55 (01:56:12):
It's face to receive the telegrams from the bank in
Seattle asking us to meet the girl and see that
she reaches an uncle who lives at Cameron Creek.

Speaker 34 (01:56:20):
It was a banker who brought hers a boat. The
girl's father died and left just about enough to pay.

Speaker 13 (01:56:24):
A pat Come along, I'll take you to the cabin.

Speaker 7 (01:56:27):
Come on, do you know ben Win, the girl's uncle?

Speaker 14 (01:56:31):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:56:32):
Do you know the Cameron Creek area where he lives?

Speaker 32 (01:56:34):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:56:34):
I don't. But Constable Blake spin there he made a
map for.

Speaker 13 (01:56:37):
Me castle stepping through the hatch cabins below.

Speaker 55 (01:56:43):
The uncle has a goold claim, supposed to be fairly
well off, and I'm glad to hear that.

Speaker 7 (01:56:48):
With your travel busch led captain.

Speaker 13 (01:56:50):
Here we are.

Speaker 34 (01:56:53):
It's when it's captain leader, Yes, captain, Oh what.

Speaker 13 (01:57:02):
Is Margine? This is Sergeant Preston. Chargeant missus Marjorie.

Speaker 7 (01:57:06):
Went, oh, well how are you doing?

Speaker 13 (01:57:08):
How do you do?

Speaker 18 (01:57:09):
Sergeant?

Speaker 13 (01:57:10):
What's the matter?

Speaker 7 (01:57:11):
I said, Well, uh, understood as the girl is younger.

Speaker 18 (01:57:14):
Sergeant, do you think twenty is terribly old?

Speaker 17 (01:57:18):
No, not at all.

Speaker 7 (01:57:19):
I mean I have the impression you were a child.

Speaker 34 (01:57:22):
Sergeant Preston is to see that you reach your uncle
saved from something.

Speaker 18 (01:57:24):
How nice. I couldn't help wondering who would be meeting you,
your king. Do you know my uncle Dan? Sergeant? No,
I don't neither do I. I mean I've never seen
a picture of him.

Speaker 21 (01:57:41):
You see, he was always.

Speaker 18 (01:57:42):
Presling, but he never came to Seattle, where we lived
a few years ago. He wanted to come here to
search for gold. He had no money, had a drubstation.
When Uncle Dan's fan goes, he goes and said, half
of it belong to dad.

Speaker 13 (01:57:54):
Now, since your father died, it's yours.

Speaker 18 (01:57:56):
Yes, Oh, I'm so anxious to meet Uncle Dan.

Speaker 13 (01:57:59):
How can Well, you'll need clothing.

Speaker 18 (01:58:02):
For the time, everything heart muscles.

Speaker 34 (01:58:06):
Oh well, in that case, I'll go ashore and line
up the team. I'll call for you in thirty minutes.
We'll continue our adventure in just a moment. Say, kids,

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how about you and your whole family going to the
baseball game. You will have the time of your lives
seeing those smashing home runs, watching exciting couple of plays, strikeouts,
eating peanuts and cracker jack. Why not go this very
week come out to the ball game as guest of
a major or minor league team.

Speaker 13 (01:58:41):
YEP.

Speaker 30 (01:58:42):
Admission is absolutely.

Speaker 34 (01:58:43):
Free if you are twelve years or younger and bring
bomb or Dad or another paying adult and you can
get your free ticket immediately, no mailing, no waiting.

Speaker 57 (01:58:51):
Free baseball tickets.

Speaker 34 (01:58:52):
Are right inside packages of Quaker pop wheat, Quaker pop rice,
and muffet spreaded wheat. In Quaker Packo ten, you get
two free tickets. Names of the teams and dates of
the games are on every ticket. Remember, the more packages
of these delicious Quaker cereals Mom gets, the more free
baseball tickets you get. So tell Mom you want to
eat lots of Quaker pop weed or pop rice, moffett

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shredded whet our Quaker pack O ten and just think
the fun you'll have the ball game, see real star players.

Speaker 30 (01:59:19):
In person and cheering for whole runs.

Speaker 34 (01:59:29):
Now to continue. Cameron Creek was a past flowing stream
of turbulent water that never froze. It raced along the
center of a wide canyon in a desolate part of the.

Speaker 7 (01:59:39):
You can't on the rim of the canyon.

Speaker 13 (01:59:42):
Then Winter was at work on a strange looking contrivance.

Speaker 34 (01:59:46):
It was a metal cylinder about a pot diameter, supported
on a frame of heavy timbers.

Speaker 17 (01:59:51):
A rope wound around the drum and.

Speaker 34 (01:59:53):
Then extended over the edge of the canyon down to
the bank of the creek fifty people below.

Speaker 17 (01:59:58):
Then the sword in his work.

Speaker 34 (02:00:00):
You know that's a powerfully built man.

Speaker 17 (02:00:04):
She'd loosen me.

Speaker 14 (02:00:06):
Oh, how they changer.

Speaker 34 (02:00:09):
I didn't hear you coming, and took me somewhat by surprise. Sure,
if I go right, I'm glad to see a human.

Speaker 13 (02:00:15):
It's mighty loadsome around here traveling light.

Speaker 34 (02:00:19):
I had bad look my dog he was cutting a
slew a sledge and swift into a ravine.

Speaker 13 (02:00:23):
I lost my dogs my sliding. Oh my dear, that
sure was bad luck. Hungry I should do with some grub.
I have leave, and you have come to the right place.
I'm just the man to figure. My name's went to
Ben win I'm glad to know you with me. Kobe
Wurkle's right.

Speaker 34 (02:00:40):
Just stick around a couple of minutes while I finished
working this winch and we'll go inside I'll drub a
few layers of grease off my hands and lay out
of meal that looks like at the ball, And that's
just what it is.

Speaker 13 (02:00:51):
I ricked it up myself.

Speaker 34 (02:00:52):
I got this metal drop and dust came from an
old ship or it was used to wind up the handkerchief.

Speaker 13 (02:00:58):
I see, I've been trying to s and so it
worked easier.

Speaker 34 (02:01:01):
I will see you how it operates. I'd take hold
of this crank and turn and saw.

Speaker 13 (02:01:09):
You can't see how the ropes winding up.

Speaker 34 (02:01:12):
And needs more grief.

Speaker 13 (02:01:14):
Luke goes to the floor of the canyon. Then yeah,
what's on the end? Big bucket?

Speaker 34 (02:01:20):
Em Now I'll try again.

Speaker 13 (02:01:24):
Now it seems to work without squeaking down. Look's fine.
Now you hold water from the lowers that did water
and that in your life. I hauled gold.

Speaker 34 (02:01:33):
Oer go lord, Just so you'll see in a minute,
I build the bucket a little while ago.

Speaker 13 (02:01:40):
Where does your come from? In my claim? The richest
door I ever saw? Where is your cliff?

Speaker 21 (02:01:46):
Down below?

Speaker 34 (02:01:48):
There's a tunnel into the canyon wall. I found the
tunnel a few years ago and used for shelter during
the storm.

Speaker 13 (02:01:54):
I started poking at the walls and found gold.

Speaker 11 (02:01:56):
Oer it did?

Speaker 13 (02:01:59):
Did you find him yet? I took care of that
when I saw it. The ore assay.

Speaker 34 (02:02:04):
Now when we get to the cabin, I'll show you
how I refine the ore and get the gold out.

Speaker 13 (02:02:10):
One of these days I'll have enough to go to
dors And and buy some real machine rates. How do
you how do you get below?

Speaker 34 (02:02:16):
And there's a path over yonder one hundred yards or
so beyond the house over there, But can you waller
slamp and instead of straight down? And their paths are
all right unless you're carrying one hundred pounds of war.

Speaker 13 (02:02:28):
Then it's a mighty tough playment there. Here's the bucket
right at the rim. I fastened the winch. Pis dropping
this lever into the codway. Let's see cliberal hoist you
break up? It works first rate.

Speaker 34 (02:02:44):
You see I go below, fill the bucket, then come
here and hoist her up. Let's the bucket over the
rim and unhook their open tow it to the house.

Speaker 13 (02:02:52):
Huh yeah, fine, if you want a job, I could
do some helper out here. Well, thank you.

Speaker 34 (02:02:58):
Marko watched them and kneel at the edge of the
canyon to reach for the heavy oar filled the bucket.
His brain was suddenly inflamed by greed.

Speaker 17 (02:03:06):
Gold was his for the taking.

Speaker 34 (02:03:08):
It might be months, perhaps a year, before anyone learned
of Ben Whitton's death. By that time, Merkell could be
in the States, a wealthy man. Acting on sudden impulse.
He stepped forward, placed the hand on Ben's back, and
shut he. Merkell hurried to the house and made himself
at home. In the shed he found partially refined gold

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in a leather pouch, a simple homemade refinery, and a
supply of ore. He fought an ample supply of food
and made a meal. Then he went through Ben Winton's
letters and papers and learned much about the dead man's background.

Speaker 30 (02:03:41):
Finally, he took a coat from a peg.

Speaker 13 (02:03:43):
In the wall and tried to do his first rate.
He did even use his clothes.

Speaker 34 (02:03:48):
I'll find that pat and go below. He's probably somewhere
in the tune of the.

Speaker 7 (02:03:52):
Head and budding.

Speaker 14 (02:03:56):
So much.

Speaker 34 (02:03:57):
Merkle stood at the open door, frowning joppy as he
watched the coaching sled drawn by a strong dog team.
He saw a girl on the sled and a moley
traveling behind me. The confronted looking girl on the sled
waved one hand. Michael responded half heartedly, Hello, hello.

Speaker 13 (02:04:20):
You you see you are Margie. Surprised you are?

Speaker 7 (02:04:25):
Ben went in my joy?

Speaker 13 (02:04:27):
Yeah yeah, sure an Uncle Ben.

Speaker 18 (02:04:28):
This is starting Preston. He was kind enough to bring
me some Dawson and this is his league dog Tan King.
H you shake hands with Uncle Ben. Don't be afraid
of King Uncle Ben. He's very gentle.

Speaker 14 (02:04:41):
He doesn't make gentle to me.

Speaker 55 (02:04:43):
If you'll go inside, miss Winton, I'll join you as
soon as I've taken care of the dog.

Speaker 18 (02:04:46):
All right, you are going to ask as as your
uncle Ben?

Speaker 13 (02:04:51):
Well, yeah, yeah, you're thinking the step inside.

Speaker 18 (02:04:54):
I don't wonder you Uncle Ben. Funny, isn't it. We're
close relationship, we're try strangers. Am I anything like you expected?

Speaker 13 (02:05:03):
We sure did.

Speaker 18 (02:05:05):
I thought you'd remembled dead. But you don't have a bis.
Uncle Dan. I have bad news. Father passed away three
months ago.

Speaker 13 (02:05:14):
Your father died. That my my brother Bill.

Speaker 18 (02:05:18):
Yes, it was unexpected.

Speaker 13 (02:05:19):
I'm sure to hear that.

Speaker 34 (02:05:22):
I never looked for Bim to die. In fact, he
was reading his last letter over again just a little
while ago.

Speaker 13 (02:05:26):
He didn't save his amen.

Speaker 18 (02:05:28):
Before did he did? So want to come here and
works the claim with you?

Speaker 13 (02:05:32):
To work the claim?

Speaker 32 (02:05:33):
Was it?

Speaker 40 (02:05:34):
Well?

Speaker 18 (02:05:34):
Yes, in your last letter a long time ago you
told the finding goals. You reminded Dad that passed the
claim with him for grubs taking, for grubstaking you and
ask us to come up here. Yes, that's so, but
don't you remember?

Speaker 7 (02:05:47):
Sure?

Speaker 13 (02:05:48):
No, I remember.

Speaker 18 (02:05:49):
As to the funeral, I talked to mister Martham. He's
a banker in Seattle. He suggested that I come here
and find out just what the craim amongs to.

Speaker 13 (02:05:56):
Well, I'll tell you it's somewhat disappointed.

Speaker 17 (02:05:59):
It's what I thought it would be.

Speaker 7 (02:06:01):
Oh to have become acquaintance.

Speaker 55 (02:06:08):
We're making progress, press, went, isn't the shore hammer?

Speaker 13 (02:06:13):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (02:06:14):
Also this can of Greece.

Speaker 55 (02:06:15):
I found them both beside to a hoist, but I
forgot that I was working on the hoist.

Speaker 7 (02:06:20):
Your work seems to have been interrupted.

Speaker 55 (02:06:22):
Why do you say that footprints from the snow They
leads from the trail to the vicinity of the house.

Speaker 7 (02:06:28):
Where the snow is packed down. I looked over the
edge of the canyon.

Speaker 30 (02:06:32):
Went, Pression.

Speaker 18 (02:06:33):
Is something wrong?

Speaker 7 (02:06:34):
I'm sure your uncle has something to tell me the matter.

Speaker 34 (02:06:37):
Where are you Budgie with sargeant pression become at the
edge of the canyon. He show it did man, it
was anction in start impression there. I meant to tell
you what happened as soon as I had the chase,
tell me now, but I was working on the hoist.
I didn't see the man until he was right up close.
He introduced himself and started talking. He seemed real friendly.
His name he called himself Michael.

Speaker 13 (02:06:58):
Huh go on.

Speaker 34 (02:06:59):
He'd heard about my claimant, was asking for work. Meanwhile,
I hold up a bucket the boy.

Speaker 7 (02:07:04):
I saw that the edge of the.

Speaker 13 (02:07:05):
Cloth, Yeah, it's still there.

Speaker 34 (02:07:07):
I went to reach for it to lift at the
solid ground when this merkle came rushing at me. It
was a one look at his siety, look at a killer.
I only had a split second glance.

Speaker 29 (02:07:16):
But I'll never forget that look as long as I live.

Speaker 34 (02:07:19):
I saw him, just didn't try to drop flight of
my pace and hurt the ground. Well, he missed me,
went over the edge.

Speaker 18 (02:07:26):
He deserted.

Speaker 13 (02:07:27):
I'm telling you, I was many scared day. I was
shaking like a leaf. I came here to the house
to step to get ahold of myself.

Speaker 7 (02:07:34):
It didn't go below them. I'm sure the man was
beyond the hell. I didn't need to certain persons.

Speaker 13 (02:07:38):
It's rocked down there. I could see by looking down
that the man was dead.

Speaker 34 (02:07:42):
I intended to get down later, but you would mud.

Speaker 13 (02:07:45):
You came along out up along there's a path that
kepleund the judge, you know who has.

Speaker 7 (02:07:49):
I must bring up the body who left. You use
the oys, allow the bucket and go.

Speaker 55 (02:07:54):
Down the trailing person and I rolled around the dead man.
When I return, will hoist him.

Speaker 13 (02:07:57):
Up, churge him, press an ass. I never made a
hand that man.

Speaker 18 (02:08:00):
It's just like a tool starting to leave.

Speaker 7 (02:08:03):
So far, there's no reason to doubt the story. Don't
they have work to do him?

Speaker 34 (02:08:12):
Sergeant Preston went first to the homemade winch and lowered
the bucket. Then he followed the path of hard packed
snow along the canyon rim until he reached the place
where it was possible to descend.

Speaker 7 (02:08:22):
With king at his heels, he moved along the bank of.

Speaker 34 (02:08:25):
The stream to within the tunnel.

Speaker 30 (02:08:27):
There was no doubt that the man who lay on
the rocks near the tunnel's mouth was dead.

Speaker 55 (02:08:32):
Oh hold the bucket, King and play at the end
of the rope around the body the mouth.

Speaker 17 (02:08:36):
He was about to untie the rope, and he.

Speaker 34 (02:08:37):
Knows that the dead man's upflung hand, which lay palm up,
the fingers were black with fresh grease throwing. He looked
at the other hand, it too, gave evidence of having
worked on machinery. Both hands were hard and callous.

Speaker 7 (02:08:49):
The hands of the man who uses a pick and shovel,
a laboring man. Pressed and thought for a moment.

Speaker 34 (02:08:54):
Then he stood back and studied the man's face from
several ankles.

Speaker 7 (02:08:57):
The nose and forehead very similar to Margy's.

Speaker 17 (02:09:01):
And then he realized the truth.

Speaker 7 (02:09:03):
King, this was no accident. This was murder.

Speaker 17 (02:09:06):
Oh, this man is wits.

Speaker 30 (02:09:17):
Will continue our adventure in just a moment.

Speaker 8 (02:09:26):
Here it goes into the right field stands.

Speaker 57 (02:09:28):
It's a hover. Oh boy, kids, what fun it is
at the ballpark.

Speaker 30 (02:09:33):
Come on out to the game.

Speaker 34 (02:09:34):
Come nalla as guest of a major or minor league team.
It's your chance to get free baseball tickets. If you
are twelve years or younger, you can see a major
or minor league baseball game free with a paying us
out like Mom or Dad. Bring the whole family and
make a big day of it this very day or
first thing tomorrow morning.

Speaker 28 (02:09:53):
You can get a free.

Speaker 34 (02:09:54):
Baseball tickets, no mailing, no waiting. It's right inside a
package of Faker puff wheat or Baker puffed rice or
Buffet shreaded wheat or by Quaker packle ten and get
two free baseball tickets. Names of teams and dates on
every ticket. Hurry to get your free baseball ticket in
a special package of Quaker puff wheat or rice, muffet

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shreaded wheat or Quaker packle ten.

Speaker 13 (02:10:27):
Now to continue.

Speaker 34 (02:10:29):
After Sergeant Preston left the cabin, the man who called
himself Ben Winton was increasingly uneasy. He walked through a
small window and the mouth. He moved along the canyon
rim and started to descent. Then for some time he
paced the floor. His replies to Margy's questions were vague.

Speaker 18 (02:10:45):
Finally, the girl said, Uncle Dan, is there any reason
for you to be so worried? He won't blame you
for the death of that man, Mercael, This sharp would
have been justified. It would have been self dispensed.

Speaker 7 (02:10:56):
Learned the truth.

Speaker 13 (02:10:57):
He's wont to lift foot. Princes of the snow.

Speaker 34 (02:11:00):
You know the man for the boy who see a
family resemblance in the public seat with the dead man
who was working the wind.

Speaker 13 (02:11:06):
May as well know the truth. I'm not your uncle.
My name is work. No, it's your uncle down there
on the canyon floor. Panic filled the girl's heart.

Speaker 34 (02:11:14):
For a moment, you could only stare incredulously at the
man who had moved close.

Speaker 7 (02:11:17):
To the chair in which she sat.

Speaker 13 (02:11:18):
Hey kill him.

Speaker 34 (02:11:18):
Yeah, they're trying to figure out way out the way deceived,
my nickel, that killing you.

Speaker 13 (02:11:22):
Imprison There is no way you wouldn't kill They could
only hang me one.

Speaker 34 (02:11:27):
But he's staring at at the start and hate Bill's
face of the killer saw Michael's hands reached toward her throat.
Then everything went black when he slumped in the chair unconscious.

Speaker 13 (02:11:38):
Let makes it easier, say he to do it, But
it's my life for hers and.

Speaker 34 (02:11:42):
Pressage justin Merkle saw Sergeant Preston passed the window and
hurled him.

Speaker 13 (02:11:46):
He's quite too sure. Left to take care of him,
and then the girl.

Speaker 34 (02:11:50):
The killer leaped back from the chair and down a
stick of firewood, holding it at the club. He took
a position close to the door Preston's hand was on
the latch outside, Merkle raised the club. Sergeant Preston had
returned to the cabin with a knowledge that the man
inside was not Van Winton. He knew that Wynton lay
dead on the floor of the canyon, and that reason

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to suppose he had been murdered. King was at the
Mounty's side when Preston drifted a goanov oh.

Speaker 13 (02:12:16):
I think the great dog.

Speaker 34 (02:12:17):
Sense the danger was close at hand, but Preston had
no way of knowing that Merkle was waiting just inside
the door with an upraised club. To see what that
man has to say for himself, Preston pushed the door
and took one step, and then the club descended.

Speaker 57 (02:12:34):
King read the Sergeant Preston tower.

Speaker 34 (02:12:39):
He tried to swing the.

Speaker 13 (02:12:40):
Club again, but King was much too fast.

Speaker 34 (02:12:42):
Dog closed his jaws and Uncle zare The club fell
of the poor mercles, each for the three half of
the King's cloath. King shook free and tighten your strip
on the man's arms. Mirkele stumbled against the table. The
ageles spilled, and then both man and dog went down.
Burkel was fighting for his life. He tried to gain
his feet. He reached a knife on a nearby chair.
But King was aroused that he's never been before. He

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had never known such hate as that he felt for
the man who had probbed his master.

Speaker 17 (02:13:09):
There was no.

Speaker 30 (02:13:09):
Familiar voice to water down King.

Speaker 34 (02:13:12):
King wanted to bring all the pressure of his mighty
jaws the beil on Merkle's arm. He wanted to bring
his pangs together and then move his attack of a
more vico places.

Speaker 13 (02:13:19):
But training conquered anything.

Speaker 34 (02:13:21):
King had been taught to attack, to hold, but not
to kill it. Meanwhile, Sergeant Preston's eyelids fluttered. His hat
had taken some of the fort from Merkle's clothes. He
was the first only vaguely conscious of the wild struggles
close at hand.

Speaker 13 (02:13:34):
Then his brain cleared.

Speaker 34 (02:13:35):
He saw King struggling with Merkle's inch I inch Merkle's
squirm near for the knife. He reached up with his
free hand.

Speaker 30 (02:13:42):
He flipped the weapons.

Speaker 34 (02:13:43):
He was turning it toward King when Margie opened her
eyes and screamed, And then Sergeant Preston fired from the hip.

Speaker 7 (02:13:50):
Oh I can't, no boy, I'll take a man.

Speaker 57 (02:13:53):
King's heart thrilled to the sound of that voice.

Speaker 2 (02:13:56):
His partner was alive.

Speaker 57 (02:13:59):
He schmers where we were kill my uncle and me.

Speaker 44 (02:14:05):
I must.

Speaker 7 (02:14:07):
All right.

Speaker 55 (02:14:10):
Address his wounds and take him in the Dawson after
I returned for your uncle's.

Speaker 7 (02:14:14):
Boddy, I'll take you to the expressive.

Speaker 55 (02:14:16):
He'll help you make plans to sell or work the
gold ran shut up, No, my jans much to be done,
good girl, All right, Jane, I don't take care of
the prisoner. That's the few details, and then we'll say this.

Speaker 7 (02:14:28):
Case is full.

Speaker 34 (02:14:41):
Sergeant Preston, return it just a moment with a word
about our next exciting adventure. The hills and canyons of
the Old West echoed the exploits of one of the
truly great trail placers of the mid nineteenth century, the
daring and fearless wild Bill Hiccock, back in the days
when the West was young and ruthlessness was at the
end of US six shooter, wild Bill began his career

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as an Indian scout. Later, he became a stage driver
along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trail and was known
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of the Party Wine.

Speaker 58 (02:19:29):
It's time for Fiber McGhee and Molly. Sundays through Thursdays,
MBC brings you Fiber McGhee and Bally transcribed. The show
has written by Phil Leslie and Ralph Goodman and directed
by Max Huddle. Before we get into it today's story,

(02:20:04):
let's look over Molly's shoulder at today's newspaper.

Speaker 21 (02:20:06):
Reading the papers these days sure gives me the willies McGee.
Look at these headlines. Hospital's handling more patients than ever.
Accident rate equals nineteen fifty two high common coal.

Speaker 52 (02:20:18):
Sure does make a man stop and think. You know,
maybe that's why a lot of folks are buying prudential
sickness and accident plans these days, just to make sure
there will always be every day living money coming in
when they're laid up.

Speaker 21 (02:20:28):
And especially when you consider all that prudential sickness and
accident plans can do for a family.

Speaker 52 (02:20:33):
Yeah, if you qualify, they can pay you a regular,
tax free income while you're sick or injured and unable
to work at your job. Or they can help pay
your hospital and surgical expenses. They'll even do both if
you set.

Speaker 28 (02:20:44):
It up that way.

Speaker 21 (02:20:45):
Well, that's an advantage, sure is.

Speaker 52 (02:20:48):
But most important of all, the prudential income protection plan
covers you for just about every kind of accident and
every type of sickness or disease.

Speaker 21 (02:20:56):
So friends, call your prudential agent tomorrow about these wonderful
plans provided by the company. With the strength of Gibraltar,
they won't make sickness an accident of pleasure, but they
sure can take a lot of the worry out of it.

Speaker 52 (02:21:08):
Oh my gosh, Jeeves, what time is it, Molly?

Speaker 21 (02:21:20):
Quarter to seven?

Speaker 52 (02:21:21):
Why dog gone it? I forgot to call herb Travis,
you know, to go bowling with me and Doc and
less than Wally Whimple tonight on account of Doc's not
going and we need somebody to take his place herb Mmm. Oh,
I forgot to mention that I was going bowling, didn't I?
Me and Doc and less than Wally Wimple. Only Doc
can't go.

Speaker 11 (02:21:38):
I forgot to tell you.

Speaker 21 (02:21:39):
Well, I sort of had a hunch you might be going.
You did just intuition, I suppose. H Yeah, it sort
of popped into my mind when you came in to
dinner in your T shirt and bowling shoes and asked
me to help you get your thumb out of your
bowling ball.

Speaker 52 (02:21:52):
You ought to be a detective kiddle.

Speaker 21 (02:21:55):
Incidentally, how is your thumb swelling? Go down?

Speaker 52 (02:21:57):
Yeah, it's okay, But the next time Teeny comes in
here with a water chewing gum hide my bowling ball,
will you took me an hour to get that goose
scraped out of the thumb hole.

Speaker 21 (02:22:05):
Well, now you go ahead and make your phone call.
I like to see you boy's bowl. It keeps you
off the streets and in the alleys.

Speaker 52 (02:22:12):
Oh who'd you say?

Speaker 21 (02:22:14):
Is going?

Speaker 52 (02:22:15):
Me and Doc and lesson Wally Wimple is the team?
Only Doc can't go. That's why I gotta call HERB.
Doc's canceled out emergency at the hospital. Oh where's our
phone list?

Speaker 11 (02:22:23):
O't hear this?

Speaker 32 (02:22:26):
Sure?

Speaker 52 (02:22:26):
Hope HERB can go. He's a good borer. Let me
see HERB Travis this eight three nine five. I should
have called him an hour ago because we all no.

Speaker 21 (02:22:36):
What is it not chewing gum in the telephone?

Speaker 48 (02:22:38):
Listen to this?

Speaker 43 (02:22:39):
And then she said to me, really, my mind there?
Do you think I'd say a thing like that behind
your back?

Speaker 28 (02:22:43):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (02:22:43):
Dear the party line again?

Speaker 43 (02:22:44):
So I said, well, I know one thing, Ellen, or
you never have nerve enough.

Speaker 52 (02:22:47):
To say it to my face, wouldn't you know it?

Speaker 21 (02:22:49):
Just when I got bang it up Megie, Well.

Speaker 43 (02:22:50):
You should have seen her expression. I tell you, Helen,
I Ashley felt sorry for after all, she is my
very close friend, and I never.

Speaker 52 (02:22:57):
Ah head just when I get an important call.

Speaker 21 (02:23:01):
You can try again in a few minutes.

Speaker 52 (02:23:03):
I'll say, I'll try again in a few minutes, and
that party line better be off of there, because.

Speaker 21 (02:23:06):
Maybe this is one of your bowlers. Now come in.
Oh it's the old timer.

Speaker 23 (02:23:11):
Oh their care Ti daughter?

Speaker 52 (02:23:12):
Hi Johnny, Hi, old timer, Hey you want a bowl tonight?
We got a vacancy on account.

Speaker 46 (02:23:16):
Of Oh, I can't make it tonight, Johnny go on
to a reunion, reunion, going to get together once again
with that old gang. Mine. Gee, I'll be so glad
to see that old gang of mine. Never tell you
about that whole gang.

Speaker 52 (02:23:32):
Kiss heven thousand times, and I'm too busy to listen now,
because yeah.

Speaker 46 (02:23:36):
It was a great old gang.

Speaker 36 (02:23:37):
Daughter.

Speaker 46 (02:23:37):
There was Raymond and Pete and Damon and Skeets. There
was Lonnie and Will and Johnny and Cleopatras schnapp Fried.

Speaker 21 (02:23:45):
Cleopatras Schnopfried.

Speaker 52 (02:23:47):
Did she get in the gang?

Speaker 46 (02:23:48):
Her papa run the Calaboos. That's where we held our meeting.
She become very famous afterwards, Cleo.

Speaker 6 (02:23:54):
Did beauty Queen, really.

Speaker 21 (02:24:00):
I care something?

Speaker 40 (02:24:00):
Oh?

Speaker 46 (02:24:01):
What happened was her family moved to California and her
papa went to the wine making business out there. Seemed
like all the wine. He turned out get kind of
a mood on top of it, though, like vinegar does.

Speaker 11 (02:24:11):
Yeah, moldy eh, yep.

Speaker 13 (02:24:13):
Sure.

Speaker 46 (02:24:14):
When they have the big great festival that year and
run off the beauty contest, Cleopatra Schnappfried was elected Miss
Wine Mold of eighteen eighty four. This off, I gotta
run along now, kids, Just stop to buy your old
man lynn Johnny man the Lynn. Oh that's busted, Okay,
skip it. None of us play the man lun anyhow. Gee,

(02:24:35):
but I'll be shocked glad to see that old.

Speaker 52 (02:24:40):
Hand me the phone with you. I got to get
hold of her, Travis to bull with us off of
that rabbit.

Speaker 59 (02:24:45):
And you know what she said to me, Grace, She said, mine, dear,
do you think i'd say anything like that behind your back?

Speaker 21 (02:24:50):
Still at it?

Speaker 52 (02:24:50):
Huh yeah, I got a good no, no, no, you
hang it up.

Speaker 43 (02:24:53):
So I said, well, I know one thing, you'd never
have nerve enough to say it to my face.

Speaker 52 (02:24:57):
I'm gonna give her just five more minutes, and if
she off of that party line in.

Speaker 60 (02:25:01):
Five minutes, back to westvil Vista in a minute.

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Speaker 21 (02:26:22):
Not Jet McGee. You just hung the phone up two
minutes ago, after.

Speaker 52 (02:26:25):
All, Jeez, this is urgent, Molly. If I can get
herb Travis to bowl with me, he'll be my partner
and he's good. And if I can't get him, I'll
have to call Kramer or more tubes than we're lousy.

Speaker 11 (02:26:34):
I mean they are well.

Speaker 21 (02:26:36):
I can see it's an emergency, but give the party
line a chance.

Speaker 48 (02:26:39):
A chance.

Speaker 52 (02:26:39):
They've been on there for an hour already.

Speaker 11 (02:26:41):
And then she said to me.

Speaker 52 (02:26:42):
Do you think I ta thing like that behind your back?
My gosh, a story like that usually takes forever. And
she'll be on that called at a minute.

Speaker 21 (02:26:48):
Come in.

Speaker 6 (02:26:50):
I have miss McGhee, Miss McGee here, hello last year?

Speaker 52 (02:26:53):
All right, last come on, and you ready to go?

Speaker 4 (02:26:56):
I bought me a new bowling ball last week and
I'm just itching to try it out. Did you get
somebody to take doctor Gamble's place?

Speaker 28 (02:27:02):
All right?

Speaker 14 (02:27:03):
Not yet.

Speaker 52 (02:27:03):
Somebody's hogging our phone less you know, the party line
been on and ever since dinner and I can't call
out to lay hang up.

Speaker 4 (02:27:09):
It's too bad doctor Gamble couldn't come.

Speaker 13 (02:27:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 52 (02:27:12):
Well that's the life of a doctor. Had to be
at the hospital tonight for an emergency. Doc's a nice
guy and a good bowler too. If I had him
on my side, we'd beat you guys.

Speaker 21 (02:27:20):
Niggie, the phone is clear now they hung up.

Speaker 52 (02:27:22):
Swell, give me it.

Speaker 21 (02:27:24):
I told you all you had to do was wait
a few minutes. You're so impatient.

Speaker 52 (02:27:27):
Well we're doing at that bowling alley in eight fifteen.
And what's Herb's number? I forgot Herb's number. I hope
he's home because the phone Molly, where's the phone? Can
I borrow the phone?

Speaker 21 (02:27:35):
Well, doctor Gamble, I had doctor.

Speaker 52 (02:27:37):
I hate to break in on you like this, Molly,
but this is urgent and old.

Speaker 13 (02:27:40):
There it is.

Speaker 3 (02:27:40):
Let me have that phone.

Speaker 48 (02:27:41):
McGhee.

Speaker 14 (02:27:42):
It's an emergence.

Speaker 52 (02:27:42):
Ah hot gee, where's I'm trying to call herbe Travis.

Speaker 62 (02:27:44):
I gotta call the hospital right away. Yeah, but I
just came from there and I've got it. Hello, doctor Gamble, Yes,
connect me with surgery right away.

Speaker 21 (02:27:52):
Oh dear, I hope it's not something serious.

Speaker 4 (02:27:54):
Well, he must have sowed his hat up inside of
a patient or something the way surgery.

Speaker 17 (02:27:58):
Ms Cuddleton.

Speaker 48 (02:28:00):
Oh, hi is Snookie.

Speaker 26 (02:28:01):
This is Georgie boy.

Speaker 11 (02:28:02):
Georgie boy. Oh bruh?

Speaker 62 (02:28:04):
Did you say you want to chocolate a pistachio on
that ice cream cone? I was halfway down to Kramer's
drug store and.

Speaker 11 (02:28:09):
I what is that the big emergency?

Speaker 6 (02:28:11):
McGhee.

Speaker 26 (02:28:12):
I'm talking on the phone.

Speaker 6 (02:28:13):
We can't hear him, mister McGhee.

Speaker 11 (02:28:15):
What'd you say, snooky?

Speaker 26 (02:28:17):
Oh strawberry?

Speaker 52 (02:28:18):
Okay, I'll be right back by cuddles. Oh God, hand
me that phone book. I'll cuddles him right between those
pointed ears. The big fat wolf.

Speaker 4 (02:28:27):
He's quite a castle overay, isn't he?

Speaker 62 (02:28:29):
Thanks, Mommy, I gotta run.

Speaker 52 (02:28:31):
So this is why you canceled out on your bowling date. Emergency?

Speaker 62 (02:28:34):
Huh, come back here, you big fat in emergency. She
was going out with one of the interns.

Speaker 23 (02:28:38):
Strawberry, strawberry, strawberry.

Speaker 52 (02:28:41):
Oh that's the last time I asked that big nurse
chaser the ball with me. Boy of all the jurneys.

Speaker 21 (02:28:46):
Ah, he's here, look cute in his new gray suit
and that hand fitted necktime.

Speaker 4 (02:28:50):
Yeah, did you see that carnation in his button holes?

Speaker 14 (02:28:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (02:28:53):
I don't think he had his mind on bowling tonight.
Well you better call HERB now, Why you can't?

Speaker 13 (02:28:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 52 (02:28:59):
What's herb's numbering?

Speaker 13 (02:29:00):
Again?

Speaker 14 (02:29:00):
Eight?

Speaker 31 (02:29:00):
Nine?

Speaker 11 (02:29:01):
Three?

Speaker 35 (02:29:01):
Oh no?

Speaker 21 (02:29:01):
Eight?

Speaker 52 (02:29:02):
Oh yeah, thanks. He's probably gone out somewhere by now.

Speaker 43 (02:29:06):
Say a thing like that behind your back?

Speaker 52 (02:29:07):
Oh no, she's at it again, Oh dear, So, I said, well,
I know one thing.

Speaker 43 (02:29:11):
You'd never have nerve enough to say it to my face.

Speaker 52 (02:29:13):
Hang it up, McGee, I got a good notion to raise.

Speaker 4 (02:29:15):
What don't you come on next door to my house,
mister McGee. We can call her from there.

Speaker 59 (02:29:18):
I wish you could have seen her expression. I really
felt sorry for a filma. I mean, after all, she
is my very closest friend.

Speaker 52 (02:29:25):
It's a good thing you took that phone out of
my hands, Molly, one more second than i'd have blasted
that dame's ear zone.

Speaker 21 (02:29:30):
I know, I recognize that look in your eye, and
I don't blame you. People who use a party line
should be more considerate. It's a shame.

Speaker 14 (02:29:37):
Yeah, it sure is.

Speaker 6 (02:29:39):
Come on, I'll take your bowling ball and we can
leave from my house.

Speaker 14 (02:29:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 52 (02:29:42):
Well, we'll see you later, Molly.

Speaker 21 (02:29:43):
We have a good time. Boys.

Speaker 52 (02:29:44):
I'm gonna talk to that phone company about this tomorrow. Bye, George.
When a guy has to go to the neighbors to
make a phone call because his dad rat a party line.

Speaker 56 (02:29:51):
Has got.

Speaker 4 (02:30:05):
Oh right this way, mister McGee, the phone's in the
dam Thanks last week, Benn, hurry, I'd sure like to
meet whoever that is when you're party lying. I had
to teach that woman a little politeness to you, Lester. Yeah, shallie,
mister McGee came over to use me with you in
a minute.

Speaker 63 (02:30:19):
Yes, Emily, I phoned Helen and the other girls about it,
and like I say, I actually felt sorry for I mean,
after all, she is my closest friend and for someone
like that to say a thing.

Speaker 52 (02:30:27):
Like that behind my back, Oh, this is ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (02:30:30):
She's the one, Bebra and Bally will be right back.

Speaker 64 (02:30:50):
Busy day, busy day, busy busy busy day.

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Speaker 63 (02:32:00):
I certainly am sorry, mister McGee. I had no idea
we run the same party line. Not that that's any excuse.

Speaker 52 (02:32:05):
Well, I did want to make this call, Sally. I've
been trying to reach herb for an hour.

Speaker 21 (02:32:09):
Well, here you go, right ahead.

Speaker 63 (02:32:11):
I've delayed you long enough.

Speaker 52 (02:32:12):
Well thanks you. It'll just take a minute. Maybe it's
still not too late. If herbs out, I'll call Kramer
or Mabel.

Speaker 21 (02:32:18):
McGee's been trying to make the call all evening. And
then she says, after all, she is my closest friend.

Speaker 52 (02:32:24):
Then for someone like that to say a thing like that, Ah,
for the love of Mike.

Speaker 21 (02:32:27):
Just a minute, Mabel, there's some live not on our
party line.

Speaker 23 (02:32:30):
Sir, whoever you are?

Speaker 14 (02:32:31):
I with me?

Speaker 48 (02:32:32):
Molly?

Speaker 52 (02:32:33):
You McGee, how did you never mind?

Speaker 13 (02:32:36):
Skip it?

Speaker 11 (02:32:36):
Good night?

Speaker 21 (02:32:37):
Good night all.

Speaker 14 (02:32:51):
Biver.

Speaker 58 (02:32:51):
McGee and Molly is an NBC Radio Network production transcribed
with Bill Thompson as the old timer, Arthur Q. Brant
as Doctor Gamble, Robert Eastle's less and Mary Lou Harrington.

Speaker 17 (02:33:01):
This out.

Speaker 58 (02:33:03):
This is John Wall urging you to be with us
again tomorrow night. As McGee gets the governor over a
barrow and hits him.

Speaker 6 (02:33:09):
For saf state job.

Speaker 60 (02:33:11):
Does he get it? I'll tune in and see.

Speaker 8 (02:33:32):
Our you today will never know what it was like
to have to wait for somebody to get out the
party line. Seventy one years ago September twenty seventh, nineteen
fifty four, Bibver, McGhee and Molly on Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatt Cox. We'll have more comedy tomorrow George and Gracie,
Bobby Ellis as Henry Aldridge and the Aldridge Family Father

(02:33:55):
Knows Best, Jack Parr and Lemon Abner. See you tomorrow
for more. You are a great classic radio theater. I'm Wyatcox.

Speaker 15 (02:34:06):
Hm hm hm

Speaker 23 (02:34:13):
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