October 14, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's hop Along Cassidy. With action and suspense. Out of
the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all,
hop Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd. The ring of the
(00:24):
silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride
the prairies of the early West, hop Along Cassidy. This
famous hero thrills his sixty million fans with action and
dangerous adventure in the role of Popolong. Cassidy is the
popular star of the motion picture series William Boyd and
appearing as that laughable old character California is Andy Clyde.
(00:51):
Not to our story the failure, no question about it.
Branch Patterson was a spellbind, a quiet crafty man.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
For three years out of every four.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
When an election year came around, he blossomed out, slapped
folks on the back, became the good good friend of
every citizen of Shotwell. So right now, in this good
year of eighteen eighty six, Branch is in his glory
as usual on the speaker's platform among the red, white
and blue Bunton, letting the people know is only Branch
can I've told you a.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Lot about Iike Iris. I like to call him honest
Iike Iris, Yes boy, oh, but I'm not through Ulcer,
not by alongsight. I have here a letter from old
Evan Harden, our beloved sheriff, who's retiring from August after
so many years of good service to this community.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
And you'll know Old Evan's taking it easy back in
the big city, New York, he says. Here, dear branch,
I want you to know I'm getting along fine here
in New York. The weather has been fine the past
two weeks, and I'm having myself a good rest. The
reason I am writing is to congratulate you and the
rest of the folks in Shotwell on your choice of
(02:21):
Ike Iverson is my successor. There ain't a man in
Shotwell can fill my boots better than I and I
wish him all the luck in the world, Signed Evan k. Hart.
I can't add much to that, but I think you
don't know but now, but a vote for honest Ike
Iverson is a vote for law and order in Shotwell County.
(02:45):
I think that steers about done to a turn. And
there's plenty a roasted corn and free drinks for all.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He puts on a nice show.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He sure does happy once every four years I wonder.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now if it was worth the ride. I went off
a long ways from the bar to it.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, by the way, where's California?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I left him behind? The run thing for me? This
election is kind of a personal thing with me anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
But what can we do?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
That's a good question. Oh, don't mean to bud in.
I just saw you sit in the air, and I
figured there must be three of us around to see
through that four flusher.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, and we won't count much in an election. Oh,
I'm hop along Cassidy. And this is Jennie Molloy.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Jenny runs the newspaper here in Shockwell.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
My name's Ted. I have a ranch over to Cootaway
on the Little Missouri, Or I had one.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What do you mean I just sold it.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I guess I'm a failure at ranch in two waiting
a minute. Don't get me wrong. I'm not giving up
twenty eighth. You know, got a few good years left
in it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, I should think so.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I thought i'd drop by here before I take the
train back east. You get a look at Western politics
in action. I'm a little disappointed.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You mean it's different back there, No.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
It's the same. Give people a good time, a free barbecue,
promise him the moon, and get yourself elected. Say who's
running against honest Tyke?
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Well, it just.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Might be a very fine, upstanding young man named Bill Dixon,
who also happens to be Jennie's fiance.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
M he's luckier in love than he is in politics.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Sit around and let this barbecuer run off with the election?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Brent Patterson owns this time from one end of Main
Street to the other, and.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
It should be a delightful battle.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Delightful huh.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I've already decided to let my trip east wait for
a while. Mister Patterson comes first. We must defeat him.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Ah good, You just tell us out there.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
You tell me this. How did Patterson get along with
mister Harden, the former sheriff.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Not at all?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Harden was the only man in towny couldn't control.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What about the letter ted? Sound right to you?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Now there's a chink in mister Patterson's armor, I'm afraid.
According to the letter, mister Harden is comfortably retired in
New York, delighted with the weather there. Well, according to
a friend who just wrote to me, it's been raining
cats and dogs there for a solid month, which means,
of course, that mister Harden isn't in New York or
(05:20):
any place near it. And if he isn't there, where
is he?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
A man from the east, a man who calls himself
a failure has foked Poppy's curiosity about the common election
for Sheriff of Shotwell County and the letter from Evan Harden,
the outgoing sheriff, supposedly written from New York. It's late
at night after the barbecue that Hoppy walks through the
Star Saloon to Branch Patterson's office.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Hi, he Hoppy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He, how I am Huppy?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Hell?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
All come in.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And all Branch whore half along?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Cassidy? Why you old vomit? I haven't seen you for
he is, Yeah, yeah, have cigar?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No thanks French?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
What brought you to shot Well? Happy?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Maybe I come to get a free dinner. And maybe
it's just that I'm curious about you and old Evan Harden?
What about me and Evan Harden? Last I heard you
two at each other's throats. Seem as the sheriff office
was the only thing in time you couldn't control.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Oh, me and Evan had an understanding. Finally he mellowed
as he got older.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
He must have melowed awful fans. He used the bar
twenty a few months ago and told me we was
going to get your hide. Like I said, he changed
a lot maybe so. By the way, Uh what bird
Bert Bert Holiday used to be your number one assistant.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Oh, Birch going to Colorado. Yeah, go and open up
a new place for me there. I see, Well, Cassidy,
I want to rush you off, but I've got a
lot of work to clear up here and I sure.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh, just one other thing, mind if I take a
look at that letter from Evan for any particular reason. Yeah,
I owed the old boy some money. I want to
send it to him in New York.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I see, I don't want to open the safe now.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
But he's living at the Hudson View Hotel there on
the sixty fifth Street.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Thanks French spout. How to do it? Oh in, Cassidy, Yeah, when.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You write to him, send him my love?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Will you sure?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh there you are well?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Any lucky?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Patterson says he's living at the Hudson View Hotel, the
place on sixty fifth.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Come on, let's get down to the telegraph office.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Ash message gone to New York.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yeah, here, I'll read it to you. Mister Joseph Hollerwood
six 't eighty four Park Avenue, New York City, urgent.
You wired description of man residing Hudson View Hotel under
name of Evan K. Harden Hire Pinkerton Operative if necessary. Oh,
here's my name. I'm staying here at the Golden.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Oh, I know it, hoppy, But you can't win an
election on suspicion.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What about that? Then?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
So they add against Boss Tweed to begin with you.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
You don't know this time France patter and owns it.
The voters are behind him.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
To a man.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
We had our branch pattersons in New York State. We
got rid of them, and I don't think voters out
here any different.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Hell, what do you want me to do? Get up
and tell them Branch Patterson is a crook. But I
think the letter from Harden's a forgery.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Bill. By the time we're through, you'll be able to
tell him more than that. Like what we don't think
Evan Harden's alive?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Huh? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We're got an idea Branch killed lemon Flake that trip
to New York.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Hey, that's pretty strong stuff. Can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We're gonna try. How do you feel about running?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Sure I'll run.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You'd give me the ammunition.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, it might take some digging, but we'll get it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No, mystic Cassidy.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Of first, you've gone up to bed.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Sorry, Miss Anderson, I didn't mean to starting well, I.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Just ain't used to having rumors round again.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Sure, it's only been a month or so since Sheriff Harden.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Please don't talk about Sheriiff Hardner. I missed him to much.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
He was a room in here for a long time,
twenty years.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, I wonder why he sudden decided he'd like it
better in New York.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I ain't a mind reader, mister Cassidy, And I'm running
a room in house, not an information bureaus.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Kind of jumping, aren't you? I ain't jumping, Okay, Miss Anderson,
I don't want to upset you. It's just that I'm
mighty find of Oleven Hardened too.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
He it was a wonderful man, was well. I mean,
it's almost like he's gone forever, way off in New York.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Sure, I know. Did you see him off? What do
you mean the night I left town, did you help
him pack or anything?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I didn't see him to around midnight when he was
about to leave, his horse was saddled outside waiting.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Remember what he had on?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Now see here, mister Cassidy, you can't.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I'm just testing your Remember, miss Anderson.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He had on a salt and pepper suit of black
stetson red time ten high heeled boots. And that's all
the talking iron tend to do about Sheriff hardin sy.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I guess I'm just naturally nosy, mighty nice jelly. You
guys here looks new dad must have cost a piece
of money.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I'd just come into a legacy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah that's what I thought.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Okay, I'm sorry, mister Cassidy. I didn't get the question.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I just asked if you knew Evan Harden.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Sheriff Harden. Sure, sure, I knew Evan. I still know him.
I reckon that easy if I ever see him again.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, you want to duty here at the station of
the night he took the trainees?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, I took number sixty eight.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
I remember old Evan rolling up in that book board
of his come up and shook my hand, and there
was tears in his eyes.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Hated to leave shot Well after twenty years.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, I guess he did. Do you remember what he
was wearing?
Speaker 10 (12:05):
Sure is salt and pepper suit, black stetson, red tie,
and tan high heeled boots.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
He's city going close.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I reckon for the strike. You are strange. Haven't pulling
out for the East after all these years?
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Not strange, sensible? Just what I'm going to do next week? Oh,
going to leave this burg and head east myself? Time
I started taking life easy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You must have saved your money.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, I saved my money.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I like, what's the latest.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
We've tailed Cassidy day and night for a week now.
You've been asking questions all over town. Look, French, I'm
getting uneasy about that up.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
I told you ad it fixed and it's gonna stay fixed.
Someone's gonna spirit get it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
They won't talk because they know what will happen if
they do.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I hope you are right.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah, have a cigar? Right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Like that's better.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
You're my boy.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
You're gonna win this election, and you're gonna stay right
in my pocket where you belong. We'll do big things
together here in Shotwell County. Now you leave Cassidy to me,
run out and slap a few more backs after all,
Like you're the town hero, aren't you the people's choice?
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Hell hopye, it's you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Hellovill Jenny, Dad.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Hop along, Cassidy, private investigator.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well how'd you come up? I'm a horse from ask
some questions and I've got so up. But I got
a lot of answers to. Harden left the rooming house
at eleven thirty, took the creek road to the station,
got there at the midnight, or so the stories go. Uh, witnesses,
that's the funny part where two test anders lit the
rooming house and the ticket agent at the station no.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
One else, no one? Well, nothing wrong with that, but
late at night.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Only he must have passed the Peter's place on the way.
Mike was Harden's best friend around here, and he was
up all that night with a fallen there. Why didn't
Harden stop him to say goodbye? And he has another thing?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Ted, Yeah, I guess you better tell him?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
What's the matter? What's eating all of you?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Afraid we made a slight error? Happy?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Wire came today?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Read it?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Tim? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
See here it says checked Evan K. Harden about sixty five,
gray hair, six feet, one hundred and eighty pounds, black
guyed mustache, brown eyes, scar and left cheeks, smokes corn pop.
Hope this is sufficient, Joseph Alderwood. That's satisfied your happy?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, it sure does.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
It's Harding's description to a tea.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It satisfies me that there's another guy in Patterson's bought
out gang. I hadn't figured on who's that? The telegraph
operator that Wyn never left his office. He ran up
to Patterson's office withdn't let him figure out the answer.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Maybe he's right?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Sure, I'm right. The land lady and the ticket agent
were bought and paid for. I can see the money
in their eyes. Both of them had the same description
of Harden on the night he left, word for word.
Can you remember what Genie Ward? Thirty days ago? Bill?
Can you whoa?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Well?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Happy? But you can't?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And another thing. According to their stories, Harden left the
boarding house at eleven thirty on horseback and pulled up
the station forty five minutes later, driving a buck board by.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
George Hoppy Bully for you?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, where do we go from here?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Ted? Can you leave for New York? Tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Right, hate to rush off, but I suppose I can.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Good. You've got a job to do back there. What
do you mean better get comfortable. I want to get
things straight before Ted goes, because if it comes off, yeah,
Padison will go up for the murder of Evan Harden
and you'll be Sheriff of Shotwell County.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
It's late at night and the eastbound number sixty eight
is puffing up the grade. A few miles out of
Shotwell taught a pair of riders waiting in the shadows
near the track.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, here she comes, Ted, right on time. I'm just continued,
taking her on the fly. This way. We couldn't risk
having you've seen leaving for the east.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Still think we're taking a chance.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Everything's a gamble in this country. A lot will depend
on you, though.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I can take care of that. George has done me
a lot of good watching you fellas work. Don't feel
like a failure anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I don't believe you ever did.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Matter of fact, there are a couple of pieces of
unfinished business in the east.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I think I'll tackle.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I'm back.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Give it the old Cassidy treat.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You forget about grab that here you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Go now, got it.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Hey, I'm going to shoot my backage.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm fast, great along, mister, mister, mister h say what
was that fella's last name?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Branch Well, Cassidy, I'm kind of late for a sash
parrilla drinker.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Aren't you had a man run? Huh?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Off hand, I can't think of anything I like to
do least and eat crow Branch, but sometimes last be done.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I'm a willing listener.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I made some cracks I'm sorry for. I want to apologize. Really, yeah,
I may as well laid on the line, Branch. I
thought Evan Harden was dead. I thought that letter you
read the barbecue was a fun Yes, I'm just naturally
not a trusting soul. So I sent a wire in
New York and got my ears pinned back. Pardon's living
with the Hudson View, all right, fit as a fiddle.
(18:11):
Why are you telling me all this, Cassidy, Because I
might have done you some damage asking questions around town
at all. I had a good reason, of course, what reason?
Miss Anderson? You knew I was staying at her rooming house?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
What about Miss Anderson?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
First night I stayed there, she woke me up walking
down the Hallway and her sleep, talking a mile a
minute about Evan Harden being murdered. Ah said, so, yeah,
seems to me she mentioned your name a couple of times.
I couldn't quite make it out. Anyway, That's what started
me off on the wrong foot.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Is she does she say anything else?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Well, she did it almost every night for a week,
did an awful lot of talking. Said she was afraid
someone was going to kill her because she knew too much.
Long about then I realized she was crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
That all.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, toward the last she got pretty wild, said murder
been committed in her house, and she was an avenging angel.
Oh that was last night, just before she took off.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Took off.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, I'm goodd what Miss Anderson ran off earlier this morning?
Nobody knows where she went. Well, anyway, I wanted you
to know the whole story. Branch. Hear anybody spreading gospel
around about you, just send them to me and I'll
straighten them out.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yeah, sure, thanks, good night, Branch.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Night. I can't old lady Anderson's gone crazy, run off
somewhere crazy?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What do you don't know? I don't know, but she's talking.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
I'll get the boys together, tell them to get in
the saddle and stay there until they find her.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Confounded.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I quick pace on the floor.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Shut up, Branch, oh.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Getting smart, getting too big via breeches.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
I've had a belly full of you and your crazy schemes.
Don't worry I.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They won't talk.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
They're afraid of me, big bad Branch Patterson.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
I got the Indian sign on it. That won't do
you no good, Branch. Nah, nothing's gonna do us any good. Now,
shut up me, knock off harden, bribe yourself a set
of witnesses, and grab the sheriff's office just like that.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I don't look so easy, now does it? With that
dame running around the hills for a week? Now offer
nuts screaming that we killed him.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Okay, I put the gun down, Branch. He wouldn't plug
me in the back room of your own saloon, would you. Ah,
that wouldn't be smart. You'd have me shot out in
the hills somewhere and bribe yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
A few witnesses did.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
To be that.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Branch. Fight, stop up, drop the.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Gunch, chirk.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Okay, what is it? Willis?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Look?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Why are you just came in down to the telegraph,
offers Lucky I was on, dude, instead of the reading
what is it?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
That's from New York Holiday?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Hester Anderson arrived here, went to authorities, told them where
Harden lives, Anker and should arrive shot well tomorrow holiday.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Where Hard lives?
Speaker 9 (21:35):
I couldn't say more on a wire, she told them more.
We put the body and the mind shaft that Connor's bluff.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
What are we gonna do, Branch, we better get out
of here.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, no, that's no good.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
They can't get us if they can't find Harden's body.
Ruby's dead, you mean the gir Come on, we're going
out and get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
It's time for keeps. Hold the light up. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
I think it's farther on.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Yeah, you were too scared that night to remember. Yeah,
here's the place. I remember that quartz vain on the wall.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Hurry, we have much turn Come on, I.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Hold deeper, sir, I never mind that just moved rocks.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Pull that light off, Willis I'm doing?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Can wait a minute? Listen that noise somebody's over there
gets like Willie.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Oh you don't stay right where you are. You ought
to know better than that, Branch.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Okay, Cassidy, how'd you get here.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
We've been telling you all week, waiting for you to
get our telegram. Your telegram, Yeah, a friend of our
New York Senate and signed Holladay's name. Uh, he's in custody.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
By the way, what about miss Anderson, she's resting comfortably
out of Bill Dixon's ranch.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
By the way, Bill's outside will apply faith. I wanted
me to tell you how much he appreciated you're leading
us the sheriff Harden's body just in time for the election.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's election night and Shotwell and the citizens are gathered
on the rodeo grounds for a talks live celebration. Understand happy.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I'm so proud, I could split.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He's going to make a good sheriff. Jenny wouldn't be
surprised if there were some pretty drastic changes around here,
what with you and your weekly editorials and Bill in
charge of the law.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It was a long.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Chance, a lot of guesswork, but we won. Yeah, thanks
to Deed. That wire from New York couldn't have come
at upout.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Everyone, Oh, here we go, fight Everyone quiet.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
I've got a lot to say to you and I
about what we're.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Gonna do together to make shot Well a better place
to live, you know.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
At another rally here not long ago, a young fellow
walked up to us and told us Branch Patterson was
a skunk and it was high time someone got up
enough nerd.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
To lick him.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Well, that fellas in.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
New York now, and I just got a telegram from
him that I'd like.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
To read, Bill Dixon, Sheriff Shotwell County.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Hope voters there have learned that good government is more
important than a.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Free barbecue every four year.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Congratulations on your election, Hope I have as much luck
this November when I run for mayor of New York City.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Regards Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
We hope you'll be with us next time, when hop
Along Cassidy will again ride out from the bar twenty
for another dangerous and exciting adventure of the Old West.
Hop Along Cassidy Starren William Boyd, is transcribed and produced
in the West by Walter White Junior. The Failure was
written by Harold Swanton. All stories are based upon the
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characters created by Clarence E.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Multer.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
This is a Commodore production.
It's hop Along Cassidy. With action and suspense. Out of
the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all,
hop Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd. The ring of the
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silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride
the prairies of the early West, hop Along Cassidy. This
famous hero thrills his sixty million fans with action and
dangerous adventure in the role of Popolong. Cassidy is the
popular star of the motion picture series William Boyd and
appearing as that laughable old character California is Andy Clyde.
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Not to our story the failure, no question about it.
Branch Patterson was a spellbind, a quiet crafty man.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
For three years out of every four.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
When an election year came around, he blossomed out, slapped
folks on the back, became the good good friend of
every citizen of Shotwell. So right now, in this good
year of eighteen eighty six, Branch is in his glory
as usual on the speaker's platform among the red, white
and blue Bunton, letting the people know is only Branch
can I've told you a.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Lot about Iike Iris. I like to call him honest
Iike Iris, Yes boy, oh, but I'm not through Ulcer,
not by alongsight. I have here a letter from old
Evan Harden, our beloved sheriff, who's retiring from August after
so many years of good service to this community.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
And you'll know Old Evan's taking it easy back in
the big city, New York, he says. Here, dear branch,
I want you to know I'm getting along fine here
in New York. The weather has been fine the past
two weeks, and I'm having myself a good rest. The
reason I am writing is to congratulate you and the
rest of the folks in Shotwell on your choice of
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Ike Iverson is my successor. There ain't a man in
Shotwell can fill my boots better than I and I
wish him all the luck in the world, Signed Evan k. Hart.
I can't add much to that, but I think you
don't know but now, but a vote for honest Ike
Iverson is a vote for law and order in Shotwell County.
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I think that steers about done to a turn. And
there's plenty a roasted corn and free drinks for all.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He puts on a nice show.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He sure does happy once every four years I wonder.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now if it was worth the ride. I went off
a long ways from the bar to it.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, by the way, where's California?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I left him behind? The run thing for me? This
election is kind of a personal thing with me anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
But what can we do?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
That's a good question. Oh, don't mean to bud in.
I just saw you sit in the air, and I
figured there must be three of us around to see
through that four flusher.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, and we won't count much in an election. Oh,
I'm hop along Cassidy. And this is Jennie Molloy.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Jenny runs the newspaper here in Shockwell.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
My name's Ted. I have a ranch over to Cootaway
on the Little Missouri, Or I had one.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What do you mean I just sold it.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I guess I'm a failure at ranch in two waiting
a minute. Don't get me wrong. I'm not giving up
twenty eighth. You know, got a few good years left
in it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, I should think so.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I thought i'd drop by here before I take the
train back east. You get a look at Western politics
in action. I'm a little disappointed.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You mean it's different back there, No.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
It's the same. Give people a good time, a free barbecue,
promise him the moon, and get yourself elected. Say who's
running against honest Tyke?
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Well, it just.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Might be a very fine, upstanding young man named Bill Dixon,
who also happens to be Jennie's fiance.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
M he's luckier in love than he is in politics.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Sit around and let this barbecuer run off with the election?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Brent Patterson owns this time from one end of Main
Street to the other, and.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
It should be a delightful battle.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Delightful huh.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I've already decided to let my trip east wait for
a while. Mister Patterson comes first. We must defeat him.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Ah good, You just tell us out there.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
You tell me this. How did Patterson get along with
mister Harden, the former sheriff.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Not at all?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Harden was the only man in towny couldn't control.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What about the letter ted? Sound right to you?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Now there's a chink in mister Patterson's armor, I'm afraid.
According to the letter, mister Harden is comfortably retired in
New York, delighted with the weather there. Well, according to
a friend who just wrote to me, it's been raining
cats and dogs there for a solid month, which means,
of course, that mister Harden isn't in New York or
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any place near it. And if he isn't there, where
is he?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
A man from the east, a man who calls himself
a failure has foked Poppy's curiosity about the common election
for Sheriff of Shotwell County and the letter from Evan Harden,
the outgoing sheriff, supposedly written from New York. It's late
at night after the barbecue that Hoppy walks through the
Star Saloon to Branch Patterson's office.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Hi, he Hoppy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He, how I am Huppy?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Hell?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
All come in.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And all Branch whore half along?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Cassidy? Why you old vomit? I haven't seen you for
he is, Yeah, yeah, have cigar?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No thanks French?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
What brought you to shot Well? Happy?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Maybe I come to get a free dinner. And maybe
it's just that I'm curious about you and old Evan Harden?
What about me and Evan Harden? Last I heard you
two at each other's throats. Seem as the sheriff office
was the only thing in time you couldn't control.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Oh, me and Evan had an understanding. Finally he mellowed
as he got older.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
He must have melowed awful fans. He used the bar
twenty a few months ago and told me we was
going to get your hide. Like I said, he changed
a lot maybe so. By the way, Uh what bird
Bert Bert Holiday used to be your number one assistant.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Oh, Birch going to Colorado. Yeah, go and open up
a new place for me there. I see, Well, Cassidy,
I want to rush you off, but I've got a
lot of work to clear up here and I sure.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh, just one other thing, mind if I take a
look at that letter from Evan for any particular reason. Yeah,
I owed the old boy some money. I want to
send it to him in New York.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I see, I don't want to open the safe now.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
But he's living at the Hudson View Hotel there on
the sixty fifth Street.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Thanks French spout. How to do it? Oh in, Cassidy, Yeah, when.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You write to him, send him my love?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Will you sure?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh there you are well?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Any lucky?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Patterson says he's living at the Hudson View Hotel, the
place on sixty fifth.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Come on, let's get down to the telegraph office.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Ash message gone to New York.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yeah, here, I'll read it to you. Mister Joseph Hollerwood
six 't eighty four Park Avenue, New York City, urgent.
You wired description of man residing Hudson View Hotel under
name of Evan K. Harden Hire Pinkerton Operative if necessary. Oh,
here's my name. I'm staying here at the Golden.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Oh, I know it, hoppy, But you can't win an
election on suspicion.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What about that? Then?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
So they add against Boss Tweed to begin with you.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
You don't know this time France patter and owns it.
The voters are behind him.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
To a man.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
We had our branch pattersons in New York State. We
got rid of them, and I don't think voters out
here any different.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Hell, what do you want me to do? Get up
and tell them Branch Patterson is a crook. But I
think the letter from Harden's a forgery.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Bill. By the time we're through, you'll be able to
tell him more than that. Like what we don't think
Evan Harden's alive?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Huh? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We're got an idea Branch killed lemon Flake that trip
to New York.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Hey, that's pretty strong stuff. Can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We're gonna try. How do you feel about running?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Sure I'll run.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You'd give me the ammunition.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, it might take some digging, but we'll get it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No, mystic Cassidy.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Of first, you've gone up to bed.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Sorry, Miss Anderson, I didn't mean to starting well, I.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Just ain't used to having rumors round again.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Sure, it's only been a month or so since Sheriff Harden.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Please don't talk about Sheriiff Hardner. I missed him to much.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
He was a room in here for a long time,
twenty years.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, I wonder why he sudden decided he'd like it
better in New York.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I ain't a mind reader, mister Cassidy, And I'm running
a room in house, not an information bureaus.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Kind of jumping, aren't you? I ain't jumping, Okay, Miss Anderson,
I don't want to upset you. It's just that I'm
mighty find of Oleven Hardened too.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
He it was a wonderful man, was well. I mean,
it's almost like he's gone forever, way off in New York.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Sure, I know. Did you see him off? What do
you mean the night I left town, did you help
him pack or anything?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I didn't see him to around midnight when he was
about to leave, his horse was saddled outside waiting.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Remember what he had on?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Now see here, mister Cassidy, you can't.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I'm just testing your Remember, miss Anderson.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He had on a salt and pepper suit of black
stetson red time ten high heeled boots. And that's all
the talking iron tend to do about Sheriff hardin sy.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I guess I'm just naturally nosy, mighty nice jelly. You
guys here looks new dad must have cost a piece
of money.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I'd just come into a legacy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah that's what I thought.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Okay, I'm sorry, mister Cassidy. I didn't get the question.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I just asked if you knew Evan Harden.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Sheriff Harden. Sure, sure, I knew Evan. I still know him.
I reckon that easy if I ever see him again.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, you want to duty here at the station of
the night he took the trainees?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, I took number sixty eight.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
I remember old Evan rolling up in that book board
of his come up and shook my hand, and there
was tears in his eyes.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Hated to leave shot Well after twenty years.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, I guess he did. Do you remember what he
was wearing?
Speaker 10 (12:05):
Sure is salt and pepper suit, black stetson, red tie,
and tan high heeled boots.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
He's city going close.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I reckon for the strike. You are strange. Haven't pulling
out for the East after all these years?
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Not strange, sensible? Just what I'm going to do next week? Oh,
going to leave this burg and head east myself? Time
I started taking life easy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You must have saved your money.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, I saved my money.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I like, what's the latest.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
We've tailed Cassidy day and night for a week now.
You've been asking questions all over town. Look, French, I'm
getting uneasy about that up.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
I told you ad it fixed and it's gonna stay fixed.
Someone's gonna spirit get it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
They won't talk because they know what will happen if
they do.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I hope you are right.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah, have a cigar? Right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Like that's better.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
You're my boy.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
You're gonna win this election, and you're gonna stay right
in my pocket where you belong. We'll do big things
together here in Shotwell County. Now you leave Cassidy to me,
run out and slap a few more backs after all,
Like you're the town hero, aren't you the people's choice?
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Hell hopye, it's you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Hellovill Jenny, Dad.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Hop along, Cassidy, private investigator.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well how'd you come up? I'm a horse from ask
some questions and I've got so up. But I got
a lot of answers to. Harden left the rooming house
at eleven thirty, took the creek road to the station,
got there at the midnight, or so the stories go. Uh, witnesses,
that's the funny part where two test anders lit the
rooming house and the ticket agent at the station no.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
One else, no one? Well, nothing wrong with that, but
late at night.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Only he must have passed the Peter's place on the way.
Mike was Harden's best friend around here, and he was
up all that night with a fallen there. Why didn't
Harden stop him to say goodbye? And he has another thing?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Ted, Yeah, I guess you better tell him?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
What's the matter? What's eating all of you?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Afraid we made a slight error? Happy?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Wire came today?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Read it?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Tim? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
See here it says checked Evan K. Harden about sixty five,
gray hair, six feet, one hundred and eighty pounds, black
guyed mustache, brown eyes, scar and left cheeks, smokes corn pop.
Hope this is sufficient, Joseph Alderwood. That's satisfied your happy?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, it sure does.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
It's Harding's description to a tea.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It satisfies me that there's another guy in Patterson's bought
out gang. I hadn't figured on who's that? The telegraph
operator that Wyn never left his office. He ran up
to Patterson's office withdn't let him figure out the answer.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Maybe he's right?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Sure, I'm right. The land lady and the ticket agent
were bought and paid for. I can see the money
in their eyes. Both of them had the same description
of Harden on the night he left, word for word.
Can you remember what Genie Ward? Thirty days ago? Bill?
Can you whoa?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Well?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Happy? But you can't?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And another thing. According to their stories, Harden left the
boarding house at eleven thirty on horseback and pulled up
the station forty five minutes later, driving a buck board by.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
George Hoppy Bully for you?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, where do we go from here?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Ted? Can you leave for New York? Tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Right, hate to rush off, but I suppose I can.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Good. You've got a job to do back there. What
do you mean better get comfortable. I want to get
things straight before Ted goes, because if it comes off, yeah,
Padison will go up for the murder of Evan Harden
and you'll be Sheriff of Shotwell County.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
It's late at night and the eastbound number sixty eight
is puffing up the grade. A few miles out of
Shotwell taught a pair of riders waiting in the shadows
near the track.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, here she comes, Ted, right on time. I'm just continued,
taking her on the fly. This way. We couldn't risk
having you've seen leaving for the east.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Still think we're taking a chance.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Everything's a gamble in this country. A lot will depend
on you, though.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I can take care of that. George has done me
a lot of good watching you fellas work. Don't feel
like a failure anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I don't believe you ever did.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Matter of fact, there are a couple of pieces of
unfinished business in the east.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I think I'll tackle.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I'm back.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Give it the old Cassidy treat.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You forget about grab that here you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Go now, got it.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Hey, I'm going to shoot my backage.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm fast, great along, mister, mister, mister h say what
was that fella's last name?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Branch Well, Cassidy, I'm kind of late for a sash
parrilla drinker.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Aren't you had a man run? Huh?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Off hand, I can't think of anything I like to
do least and eat crow Branch, but sometimes last be done.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I'm a willing listener.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I made some cracks I'm sorry for. I want to apologize. Really, yeah,
I may as well laid on the line, Branch. I
thought Evan Harden was dead. I thought that letter you
read the barbecue was a fun Yes, I'm just naturally
not a trusting soul. So I sent a wire in
New York and got my ears pinned back. Pardon's living
with the Hudson View, all right, fit as a fiddle.
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Why are you telling me all this, Cassidy, Because I
might have done you some damage asking questions around town
at all. I had a good reason, of course, what reason?
Miss Anderson? You knew I was staying at her rooming house?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
What about Miss Anderson?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
First night I stayed there, she woke me up walking
down the Hallway and her sleep, talking a mile a
minute about Evan Harden being murdered. Ah said, so, yeah,
seems to me she mentioned your name a couple of times.
I couldn't quite make it out. Anyway, That's what started
me off on the wrong foot.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Is she does she say anything else?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Well, she did it almost every night for a week,
did an awful lot of talking. Said she was afraid
someone was going to kill her because she knew too much.
Long about then I realized she was crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
That all.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, toward the last she got pretty wild, said murder
been committed in her house, and she was an avenging angel.
Oh that was last night, just before she took off.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Took off.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, I'm goodd what Miss Anderson ran off earlier this morning?
Nobody knows where she went. Well, anyway, I wanted you
to know the whole story. Branch. Hear anybody spreading gospel
around about you, just send them to me and I'll
straighten them out.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yeah, sure, thanks, good night, Branch.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Night. I can't old lady Anderson's gone crazy, run off
somewhere crazy?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What do you don't know? I don't know, but she's talking.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
I'll get the boys together, tell them to get in
the saddle and stay there until they find her.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Confounded.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I quick pace on the floor.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Shut up, Branch, oh.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Getting smart, getting too big via breeches.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
I've had a belly full of you and your crazy schemes.
Don't worry I.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They won't talk.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
They're afraid of me, big bad Branch Patterson.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
I got the Indian sign on it. That won't do
you no good, Branch. Nah, nothing's gonna do us any good. Now,
shut up me, knock off harden, bribe yourself a set
of witnesses, and grab the sheriff's office just like that.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I don't look so easy, now does it? With that
dame running around the hills for a week? Now offer
nuts screaming that we killed him.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Okay, I put the gun down, Branch. He wouldn't plug
me in the back room of your own saloon, would you. Ah,
that wouldn't be smart. You'd have me shot out in
the hills somewhere and bribe yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
A few witnesses did.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
To be that.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Branch. Fight, stop up, drop the.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Gunch, chirk.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Okay, what is it? Willis?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Look?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Why are you just came in down to the telegraph,
offers Lucky I was on, dude, instead of the reading
what is it?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
That's from New York Holiday?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Hester Anderson arrived here, went to authorities, told them where
Harden lives, Anker and should arrive shot well tomorrow holiday.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Where Hard lives?
Speaker 9 (21:35):
I couldn't say more on a wire, she told them more.
We put the body and the mind shaft that Connor's bluff.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
What are we gonna do, Branch, we better get out
of here.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, no, that's no good.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
They can't get us if they can't find Harden's body.
Ruby's dead, you mean the gir Come on, we're going
out and get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
It's time for keeps. Hold the light up. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
I think it's farther on.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Yeah, you were too scared that night to remember. Yeah,
here's the place. I remember that quartz vain on the wall.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Hurry, we have much turn Come on, I.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Hold deeper, sir, I never mind that just moved rocks.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Pull that light off, Willis I'm doing?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Can wait a minute? Listen that noise somebody's over there
gets like Willie.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Oh you don't stay right where you are. You ought
to know better than that, Branch.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Okay, Cassidy, how'd you get here.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
We've been telling you all week, waiting for you to
get our telegram. Your telegram, Yeah, a friend of our
New York Senate and signed Holladay's name. Uh, he's in custody.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
By the way, what about miss Anderson, she's resting comfortably
out of Bill Dixon's ranch.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
By the way, Bill's outside will apply faith. I wanted
me to tell you how much he appreciated you're leading
us the sheriff Harden's body just in time for the election.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's election night and Shotwell and the citizens are gathered
on the rodeo grounds for a talks live celebration. Understand happy.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I'm so proud, I could split.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He's going to make a good sheriff. Jenny wouldn't be
surprised if there were some pretty drastic changes around here,
what with you and your weekly editorials and Bill in
charge of the law.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It was a long.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Chance, a lot of guesswork, but we won. Yeah, thanks
to Deed. That wire from New York couldn't have come
at upout.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Everyone, Oh, here we go, fight Everyone quiet.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
I've got a lot to say to you and I
about what we're.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Gonna do together to make shot Well a better place
to live, you know.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
At another rally here not long ago, a young fellow
walked up to us and told us Branch Patterson was
a skunk and it was high time someone got up
enough nerd.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
To lick him.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Well, that fellas in.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
New York now, and I just got a telegram from
him that I'd like.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
To read, Bill Dixon, Sheriff Shotwell County.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Hope voters there have learned that good government is more
important than a.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Free barbecue every four year.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Congratulations on your election, Hope I have as much luck
this November when I run for mayor of New York City.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Regards Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
We hope you'll be with us next time, when hop
Along Cassidy will again ride out from the bar twenty
for another dangerous and exciting adventure of the Old West.
Hop Along Cassidy Starren William Boyd, is transcribed and produced
in the West by Walter White Junior. The Failure was
written by Harold Swanton. All stories are based upon the
(25:27):
characters created by Clarence E.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Multer.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
This is a Commodore production.
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