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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Around Dodd City and in the territory on west. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with the US Marshal and the smell of
gun smoke, Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad. The Story of
(00:47):
the Violence that moved West with Young American, The Story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Chester and I had left Dodge about nine that morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
There was a good day, clear with a snap in
the air. The horses fell at two and they wanted.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
To move fast, not in the lope that we were
holding them to. Chester took a couple of deep breasts
and liked what he smelled.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It purely is.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
A fine day, mister Billin, A fine day.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I had some government papers to take over to Bill
Holton at the post office in Pierceville Place, about forty
miles west of Dodge. Chester and I figured we'd stop
overnight and ride back the next day. We followed the
trail along the Arkansas and with it as it left
the river at Cemarron and cut across the prairie.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Looks like a big wagon paint up ahead there at
the cross and mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, sure, looks like at Chester. Chester was right.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But dust cloud we'd seen became thirty more wagons taking
the Cimarron crossing. It was a shortcut of the Santa
Fe trail leading on southwest toward Rattone Pass. We passed
them and our trail swung back to the Arkansas again.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
We rested what are the horses?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A couple of times, and by afternoon we could see
the warehouse, the store, and the post office, and a
few of the other buildings of the town. It wasn't
a big place, Pierceville, maybe fifty people regularly living there.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Funny, Oh, I don't know. It looks peculiar. Yeah, I
just don't rightly know, sir. Just funny, it's peculiar.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You mean nobody around, Yeah, sir, that's what I was thinking,
And that's what I thought, mister Dylan.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
What do you figure them horses they are doing down there?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
It ain't right they should wander around like that without
a mister Dylan.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
They got their saddles on too.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The horses were down the street and as they heard us,
their heads jerked up and they wheeled about and trotted
off away and around out of sight, and we stopped,
they listened. There was nothing to hear, an empty place,
nothing to seem that there was a.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Feeling in the town. You couldn't figure what.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We walked the horses over to throw Holton's post office.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Do you think maybe everybody in town is sick, mister Dillon, No,
or maybe dead? No, couldn't be that. The no crows
nor buzzards. Bill, Hey, Bill, mister Dylan, Look you onder
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the safe's open.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Huh. But he wouldn't leave the place like this.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Come on, Chester, Sure there's a funny thing, mister Dylan.
I swear it gives me the will he was.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I never seen anything like it, not a living soul
of Chester.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Did you hear something?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I just wait a minute, thought I heard a kid crying.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hey, alright, anybody along.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Maybe we are to try the store, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Huh, hey, uh, all right, keep your eyes open, Chester, Yes,
we'll take a look in the saloon first. The saloon
was about two hundred feet back up towards the end
of town, but we didn't get that far. They stepped
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out behind us as we passed the livery stable, and
we never had a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
To draw up high and hold man.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We did, and I felt my guns lifted away, and
then we got a look at what had crawled into
pierced Bill.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
There were three of them and.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
They were killers. Man gets to know the look in
the eye of a killer. If you're lucky, you see
it in time. And we weren't lucky that day.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
It's the law real, eh, Where you from, mister.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Dodge?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Dodge? Hey, that's Dylan, No, it sure is, are you
Dylan Marshall? Dylan from Don.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Okay, got up cart.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You wanna try that again?
Speaker 9 (07:17):
We will. Don't fret yourself about that dealer moving taking
the warehouspital, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Beside, better to get rid of him, if you ask me.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I don't think so, not right now. It might be
able to help.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
I've always wanted the US Marshall to help me. Listen,
will take away his gun.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You watch him.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
He be on his belly begging to help.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
They took us to the warehouse and we found out
what had happened to the folks who lived in Pierceville.
They were all in there, the kids, the six months
old baby, the women, and the men.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Inside. There were six more hard.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Faced men leaning against the wall near the door, their
guns hold.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Lazily in their hands.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
They'd taken over the whole town and for some reason
they were holding it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Shut up. Have a one of you shut up?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Lady told you to keep that kid quiet. Want me
to do it for you.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Mister Dalon speaking.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Yes, asking you again? Which one of you shot my
kid brother? You know what I'm saying? Which one?
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Al right?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Maybe you know this fellow just walked in here with
this path. He's a US marshal out of Dodge.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
His name is Dylan.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
I'm gonna make him countable for what you may come
to do.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The man does a killing, his countable. Think that's so Marshall,
that's so okay.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
One of these folks killed my kid brother. No, unless
he talks up, there's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Of killing around here.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You get that. Now you talk to him, Dylan, you
explain the law.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'm a fair man. I'm gonna give you a.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Couple of minutes.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
Don't nobody try nothing, because we'll be right outside.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Don't try nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh Chester, there's Bill Holton over there.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Come on, they helped us, the marshals. Please high Matt,
how are you? Bill?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Could be worse? I guess, mister.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Holton, your face, what'd the do do you?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I was the first one they worked.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, you tell us what's happened, Bill.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well, they rolled in early this morning, whole outfit.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
I figured him for trouble when I saw him straight
off anew couple of 'em held me, knocked me around,
the others grabbed three women kind of for hostage.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I guess brill he's the leader. He cleaned out the safe.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
What about the killer?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Three or four of our.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
Boys came up, saw what was happening, started in shooting,
and these snakes haul the women folk over the post office
door and kept him in front for shoes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Here boys stopped shooting, and.
Speaker 10 (10:52):
Yeah, sure dropped the guns where they stood. Bruce Kidd brother.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Was already dead. Then real kind of went crazy. He
swore he'd kill the women, burn.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
The town, and I fit rounded up a couple more
women after that. Everybody else none of us wanted to
see the women hurt.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yes, we gave up too easy on account of his brother.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
He calls it murder.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You heard they've kept you locked up in her ever since?
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, he says it would take us out two
at a time and shoot us if we don't tell.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Do you know who it was?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:31):
No, Like I say, three or four fellas were shooting,
even they don't know which one of them it was.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Let's RuSHA I'm deve, Maximo. Hi, I gotta place outside
of town. Listen, we gotta do something quicker. Yeah, sure,
take it easy.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
My wife, that's her over there, she's got the baby.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
We're coming this morning, gets something at the store.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You gotta do this, right, mister Maxim. I just take
it easy, will you.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Well, just thirty of us, the man were we could
rush on some of us to kill me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I'm thinking all of us I got killed and that's
not the way.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
We gotta do something.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, I know, Okay, what's.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
It gonna be. That'll step over here.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Yeah, well what do you say?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It seems to me you came here and broke the
Lawge the chance your brother took when he got.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Killed, that was murder.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
He was shot in the back.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe he got turned around looking for somebody to kill himself.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
It was murder. I ain't will stand here arguing with you, wister.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Who did.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
You think I'm bluffing? I tell you I ain't bluffing.
If I have to wipe out this whole stinking town.
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
That doesn't get your brother back.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You and the habit of killing women and kids, shut up?
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, Santa's cargo, start with two of them.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Take him outside, that fella, you.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And him, no.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Day shut down.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
By you do this and they want even a hanger,
you'll be torn to piece. You won't be around to
see it, all right, go on, get him outside. Well,
anybody got anything the same? Anybody gonna say, who killed
my brother?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I'll tell you something, your.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
Godless anybody else? Okay, he don't tell We still need
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to you you owld him.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Go on.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They're both am outside.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They took the two men out, and we stood there,
some of us looking at the body of Maxim with
his wife sobbing over it. Other's staring at the closed door.
It happened so quickly there wasn't time to think to
figure anything. There wasn't any waiter shut out the sound
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of what happened outside.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I gotta do something, no film, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, a skid can be
tragic if the road is wet or icy. A faulty
windshield wiper that's a nuisance in a shower can be
your nemesis in a snowstorm. The summoned substance of our
message being take extra care when you're driving under winter conditions.
Make sure your car is prepared for winter, and then
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drive it with twice your usual caution.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Now for the second act of gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Except for Maxim's wife and another woman whose husband had died,
there there was a quiet now in a warehouse. The
killers didn't come back in again. Maybe for what they'd done,
they didn't have the nerve right then takes nerve to
look at the faces of the ones who were left.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I found out that there's been twelve of them who have.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Ridden in now with the one who was gone or eleven.
I talked to the boys who had done the shooting
at the gang. Two of them were willing to give up,
but two others weren't, and I didn't blame 'em. We
waited Chester, Bill Holten and me in a corner trying
to make up plane.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
An hour went by.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The early evening child found its way into the warehouse.
I think they'll do it again. Two more of us
now for a while. Maybe that kind of get liquored
up first and makes 'em brave.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I still think that.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Maybe now it's a chance to get outside, mister Dillon.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Yeah, it might be what scares me Thoughways, they'll start
with the women and kids. Yeah, there's always a chance
somebody will ride in, maybe see what's happening and send for.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Help like us. H m m, yeah, decides to take
too long.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Mister Dilon, Let me try it. I don't wanna hear
no more of these women doing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Man, just let me think chess.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
They're coming back.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But alright, come on quick.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
There's two of them. You can see through the crack.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, it's the ones that got our guns. Bruh. Listen
with 'em.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Chester, get on the other side of the door, Yes, sir,
you mister and Bill behind me right, you know when
they come in, grab 'em time.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Look, I want everybody to keep real quiet, do you understand?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Alright, now wait until they're inside.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Do you think the others might be around the bank.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't know. We'll take the chance.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Whoever gets hold of 'em, don't let 'em yell.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
They let me have a drink?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
We in Yeah, h what do.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
You think what in there?
Speaker 9 (19:05):
How should I know?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
When?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
We shouldn't hang around too long?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Figure, we ought to start riding.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Well, you know, brell it was a kid, he thought,
a lot of 'em.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Yeah yeah, Hey, Hey there's one woman in there though,
did you see her talling? No?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
No, with the old man, the pretty one, the little Oh?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Maybe we get her out here and the the others
will talk.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Might be I I ain't saying as we'll make him talk,
But a lot of men in there are soft about women.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
What about brill? Now you don't care. He wants to
find out who kills a kid. May maybe we can
get him to talk. Sure, might be fun. Hey miss, no, no, no,
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you over there? Come on. Uh, we won't hurt you.
We wanna talk to you outside.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Come on. Uh, he said to come here. She don't
want to cover me with you. I'll go get her
all right now? Alright, got the knock closs?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Mine only one done, mister Llen.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh, this one's got two? All right?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Which one of you here can handle a gun? Right, donnelly?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Here we'll split up the cartridges chest take it over,
but the crack there and keep.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
A lookout Yes, one of the kids found an eggs
behind those empty creeks.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Good, see if they can find anything else.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yeah, well three of us, now, nine of them with guns.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, except that we know that and they don't.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Donally, you're gonna have to stay here, Chester, and I'll
try to get some more guns. Now, you got a
good chance to knock out a couple more of 'em
if they come in, shoot to kill 'em.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You understand, I understand.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Wait a minute, Matt, I'm coming with you. No, listen,
I used to throw an axe pretty good. I get
close enough to one of them boys, I can split him.
I'm coming with you. It's our only chance. You start shooting,
and the whole bunch of beyond your neck.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
This is quieter, Okay, let's go. You see anybody Chester closer.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
You must be up to saloon all.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right, and open the door. Now. If we hear any
shots back here, Donald, We'll come running. I take it.
You see.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Now we got outside and made a run over to
some dugouts up the street. We could hear the killers
still drinking their courage back.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
There.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Had just been the three of us against them, we
might have taken a chance. But with the women and
kids in the warehouse. We couldn't do that. We'd have
to pick them off if we could, one by one.
The first shot we fired, there was going to be trouble.
Up to the left of the warehouse in the evening shade.
I saw the bodies of the two men they shot down.
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A dog was moving around whimpering. A couple of minutes
went by, and then we started around the back and
made our way up behind the saloon.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
If we get in with the back door, mister Dillon,
you think we get surprised him.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
We can't take the chance, Chester, not with only two guns,
they'd get us.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
And you know what happened.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Yes, one of 'em is coming out. Look, Yeah, it's
the fellow shot, Dave Maxinger.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
He's heading his way.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
You think he's g oh.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Bill, Yeah, I think you can get him from here.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
A little closer. Maybe not from here.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He's got two guns on him. We need him. Stay
and hang with the post. We'll cover you, okay. I
saw Holden's big fist tightened around the axe handle. They
moved up and down the alley and lanning with a post,
and the killer never looked up. He just stood there,
head down, swaying a bit, and Holden stopped.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
His arm raised up.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Back, and the axe got a gleam of light and
must have thrown it into the killer's eye. He had
just time to look up and see the thing before
they caught him square.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I I haven't done that for a long time. I
only throw trees and boards. I never did it to
me before. I never killed'em.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Minion like there, Chester, get the other gun. Yes, alright
here here, Bill, take this harr We got four and
our out out to fix us. Now.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Look, I don't like what we're gonna do, but it's
the safest way. We go in there shooting. Get 'em
fast in the leg anywhere, and try not to kill,
but don't give.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
'em a chance to shoot back.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Yes you sure?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Man?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You okay? Bill? You wanna wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I'm okay, alright, I know O.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'm telling you I leave for a man.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Kill My brother gets you the same way.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Drank up.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
We're going back.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Now. See if they changed their minds, all right, would
mean you think of Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Now this time you had.
Speaker 12 (25:11):
That deputy, many marshals around this country.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
And all right, that's up, that's up.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Keep your hands from the off.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Bro Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
All right, Chester, take the guns. Yes, I'm arresting you
for murder. Bro Rest, I'm with you.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Killed my brother, got him in the back, my brother.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
They murdered him.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You know something, if I wasn't a Marshall, I'd do
the same thing that you.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Right now, it's too bad, I can't. I hope it
hurts when they hang you, Brill.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And it was over, and I got a feeling like
it never happened, that there hadn't been time for it
to happen. But the dead men's women knew that it.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Wasn't a dream.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
The next day, a half a dozen of the fellows,
Chester and myself took the outlaws back to Dodge. Most
of them had been hit back in a saloon. One
died in Cimarron before we could get into the dock,
but not Brill. He was alive when he went to
Hayes City with the rest of the boys.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I was there when they tried.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Him, and I was there when they hanged him.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke. By Anthony Ellis, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
Lawrence Doabkin, Vic Perrin, Bob Sweeney, John Dayner, Lou Krugman,
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Michael Ann Barrett, and Ted Bliss, Parley bear Is Chester.
Gun Smoke is heard by our troops overseas through the
facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Join us again
next week as Matt dylon Us Marshall fights to bring
law and order out of the.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Wild violence of the West. In gun Smoke.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
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Remember Theater of Stars Tomorrow night premiere performance on CBS Radio.
This is Roy Rowan Speaking America now listens to one
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hundred five million radio sets and listens most to the
CBS Radio network.
Around Dodd City and in the territory on west. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with the US Marshal and the smell of
gun smoke, Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad. The Story of
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the Violence that moved West with Young American, The Story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Chester and I had left Dodge about nine that morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
There was a good day, clear with a snap in
the air. The horses fell at two and they wanted.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
To move fast, not in the lope that we were
holding them to. Chester took a couple of deep breasts
and liked what he smelled.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It purely is.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
A fine day, mister Billin, A fine day.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I had some government papers to take over to Bill
Holton at the post office in Pierceville Place, about forty
miles west of Dodge. Chester and I figured we'd stop
overnight and ride back the next day. We followed the
trail along the Arkansas and with it as it left
the river at Cemarron and cut across the prairie.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Looks like a big wagon paint up ahead there at
the cross and mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, sure, looks like at Chester. Chester was right.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But dust cloud we'd seen became thirty more wagons taking
the Cimarron crossing. It was a shortcut of the Santa
Fe trail leading on southwest toward Rattone Pass. We passed
them and our trail swung back to the Arkansas again.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
We rested what are the horses?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A couple of times, and by afternoon we could see
the warehouse, the store, and the post office, and a
few of the other buildings of the town. It wasn't
a big place, Pierceville, maybe fifty people regularly living there.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Funny, Oh, I don't know. It looks peculiar. Yeah, I
just don't rightly know, sir. Just funny, it's peculiar.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You mean nobody around, Yeah, sir, that's what I was thinking,
And that's what I thought, mister Dylan.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
What do you figure them horses they are doing down there?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
It ain't right they should wander around like that without
a mister Dylan.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
They got their saddles on too.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The horses were down the street and as they heard us,
their heads jerked up and they wheeled about and trotted
off away and around out of sight, and we stopped,
they listened. There was nothing to hear, an empty place,
nothing to seem that there was a.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Feeling in the town. You couldn't figure what.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We walked the horses over to throw Holton's post office.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Do you think maybe everybody in town is sick, mister Dillon, No,
or maybe dead? No, couldn't be that. The no crows
nor buzzards. Bill, Hey, Bill, mister Dylan, Look you onder
(04:44):
the safe's open.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Huh. But he wouldn't leave the place like this.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Come on, Chester, Sure there's a funny thing, mister Dylan.
I swear it gives me the will he was.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I never seen anything like it, not a living soul
of Chester.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Did you hear something?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I just wait a minute, thought I heard a kid crying.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hey, alright, anybody along.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Maybe we are to try the store, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Huh, hey, uh, all right, keep your eyes open, Chester, Yes,
we'll take a look in the saloon first. The saloon
was about two hundred feet back up towards the end
of town, but we didn't get that far. They stepped
(06:05):
out behind us as we passed the livery stable, and
we never had a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
To draw up high and hold man.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We did, and I felt my guns lifted away, and
then we got a look at what had crawled into
pierced Bill.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
There were three of them and.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
They were killers. Man gets to know the look in
the eye of a killer. If you're lucky, you see
it in time. And we weren't lucky that day.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
It's the law real, eh, Where you from, mister.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Dodge?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Dodge? Hey, that's Dylan, No, it sure is, are you
Dylan Marshall? Dylan from Don.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Okay, got up cart.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You wanna try that again?
Speaker 9 (07:17):
We will. Don't fret yourself about that dealer moving taking
the warehouspital, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Beside, better to get rid of him, if you ask me.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I don't think so, not right now. It might be
able to help.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
I've always wanted the US Marshall to help me. Listen,
will take away his gun.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You watch him.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
He be on his belly begging to help.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
They took us to the warehouse and we found out
what had happened to the folks who lived in Pierceville.
They were all in there, the kids, the six months
old baby, the women, and the men.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Inside. There were six more hard.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Faced men leaning against the wall near the door, their
guns hold.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Lazily in their hands.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
They'd taken over the whole town and for some reason
they were holding it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Shut up. Have a one of you shut up?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Lady told you to keep that kid quiet. Want me
to do it for you.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Mister Dalon speaking.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Yes, asking you again? Which one of you shot my
kid brother? You know what I'm saying? Which one?
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Al right?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Maybe you know this fellow just walked in here with
this path. He's a US marshal out of Dodge.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
His name is Dylan.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
I'm gonna make him countable for what you may come
to do.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The man does a killing, his countable. Think that's so Marshall,
that's so okay.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
One of these folks killed my kid brother. No, unless
he talks up, there's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Of killing around here.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You get that. Now you talk to him, Dylan, you
explain the law.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'm a fair man. I'm gonna give you a.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Couple of minutes.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
Don't nobody try nothing, because we'll be right outside.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Don't try nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh Chester, there's Bill Holton over there.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Come on, they helped us, the marshals. Please high Matt,
how are you? Bill?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Could be worse? I guess, mister.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Holton, your face, what'd the do do you?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I was the first one they worked.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, you tell us what's happened, Bill.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well, they rolled in early this morning, whole outfit.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
I figured him for trouble when I saw him straight
off anew couple of 'em held me, knocked me around,
the others grabbed three women kind of for hostage.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I guess brill he's the leader. He cleaned out the safe.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
What about the killer?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Three or four of our.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
Boys came up, saw what was happening, started in shooting,
and these snakes haul the women folk over the post office
door and kept him in front for shoes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Here boys stopped shooting, and.
Speaker 10 (10:52):
Yeah, sure dropped the guns where they stood. Bruce Kidd brother.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Was already dead. Then real kind of went crazy. He
swore he'd kill the women, burn.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
The town, and I fit rounded up a couple more
women after that. Everybody else none of us wanted to
see the women hurt.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yes, we gave up too easy on account of his brother.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
He calls it murder.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You heard they've kept you locked up in her ever since?
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, he says it would take us out two
at a time and shoot us if we don't tell.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Do you know who it was?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:31):
No, Like I say, three or four fellas were shooting,
even they don't know which one of them it was.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Let's RuSHA I'm deve, Maximo. Hi, I gotta place outside
of town. Listen, we gotta do something quicker. Yeah, sure,
take it easy.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
My wife, that's her over there, she's got the baby.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
We're coming this morning, gets something at the store.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You gotta do this, right, mister Maxim. I just take
it easy, will you.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Well, just thirty of us, the man were we could
rush on some of us to kill me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I'm thinking all of us I got killed and that's
not the way.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
We gotta do something.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, I know, Okay, what's.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
It gonna be. That'll step over here.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Yeah, well what do you say?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It seems to me you came here and broke the
Lawge the chance your brother took when he got.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Killed, that was murder.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
He was shot in the back.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe he got turned around looking for somebody to kill himself.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
It was murder. I ain't will stand here arguing with you, wister.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Who did.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
You think I'm bluffing? I tell you I ain't bluffing.
If I have to wipe out this whole stinking town.
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
That doesn't get your brother back.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You and the habit of killing women and kids, shut up?
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, Santa's cargo, start with two of them.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Take him outside, that fella, you.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And him, no.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Day shut down.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
By you do this and they want even a hanger,
you'll be torn to piece. You won't be around to
see it, all right, go on, get him outside. Well,
anybody got anything the same? Anybody gonna say, who killed
my brother?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I'll tell you something, your.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
Godless anybody else? Okay, he don't tell We still need
(14:23):
to you you owld him.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Go on.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They're both am outside.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They took the two men out, and we stood there,
some of us looking at the body of Maxim with
his wife sobbing over it. Other's staring at the closed door.
It happened so quickly there wasn't time to think to
figure anything. There wasn't any waiter shut out the sound
(15:02):
of what happened outside.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I gotta do something, no film, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, a skid can be
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(16:00):
drive it with twice your usual caution.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Now for the second act of gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Except for Maxim's wife and another woman whose husband had died,
there there was a quiet now in a warehouse. The
killers didn't come back in again. Maybe for what they'd done,
they didn't have the nerve right then takes nerve to
look at the faces of the ones who were left.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I found out that there's been twelve of them who have.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Ridden in now with the one who was gone or eleven.
I talked to the boys who had done the shooting
at the gang. Two of them were willing to give up,
but two others weren't, and I didn't blame 'em. We
waited Chester, Bill Holten and me in a corner trying
to make up plane.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
An hour went by.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The early evening child found its way into the warehouse.
I think they'll do it again. Two more of us
now for a while. Maybe that kind of get liquored
up first and makes 'em brave.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I still think that.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Maybe now it's a chance to get outside, mister Dillon.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Yeah, it might be what scares me Thoughways, they'll start
with the women and kids. Yeah, there's always a chance
somebody will ride in, maybe see what's happening and send for.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Help like us. H m m, yeah, decides to take
too long.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Mister Dilon, Let me try it. I don't wanna hear
no more of these women doing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Man, just let me think chess.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
They're coming back.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But alright, come on quick.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
There's two of them. You can see through the crack.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, it's the ones that got our guns. Bruh. Listen
with 'em.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Chester, get on the other side of the door, Yes, sir,
you mister and Bill behind me right, you know when
they come in, grab 'em time.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Look, I want everybody to keep real quiet, do you understand?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Alright, now wait until they're inside.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Do you think the others might be around the bank.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't know. We'll take the chance.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Whoever gets hold of 'em, don't let 'em yell.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
They let me have a drink?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
We in Yeah, h what do.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
You think what in there?
Speaker 9 (19:05):
How should I know?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
When?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
We shouldn't hang around too long?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Figure, we ought to start riding.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Well, you know, brell it was a kid, he thought,
a lot of 'em.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Yeah yeah, Hey, Hey there's one woman in there though,
did you see her talling? No?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
No, with the old man, the pretty one, the little Oh?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Maybe we get her out here and the the others
will talk.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Might be I I ain't saying as we'll make him talk,
But a lot of men in there are soft about women.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
What about brill? Now you don't care. He wants to
find out who kills a kid. May maybe we can
get him to talk. Sure, might be fun. Hey miss, no, no, no,
(20:09):
you over there? Come on. Uh, we won't hurt you.
We wanna talk to you outside.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Come on. Uh, he said to come here. She don't
want to cover me with you. I'll go get her
all right now? Alright, got the knock closs?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Mine only one done, mister Llen.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh, this one's got two? All right?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Which one of you here can handle a gun? Right, donnelly?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Here we'll split up the cartridges chest take it over,
but the crack there and keep.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
A lookout Yes, one of the kids found an eggs
behind those empty creeks.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Good, see if they can find anything else.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yeah, well three of us, now, nine of them with guns.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, except that we know that and they don't.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Donally, you're gonna have to stay here, Chester, and I'll
try to get some more guns. Now, you got a
good chance to knock out a couple more of 'em
if they come in, shoot to kill 'em.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You understand, I understand.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Wait a minute, Matt, I'm coming with you. No, listen,
I used to throw an axe pretty good. I get
close enough to one of them boys, I can split him.
I'm coming with you. It's our only chance. You start shooting,
and the whole bunch of beyond your neck.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
This is quieter, Okay, let's go. You see anybody Chester closer.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
You must be up to saloon all.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right, and open the door. Now. If we hear any
shots back here, Donald, We'll come running. I take it.
You see.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Now we got outside and made a run over to
some dugouts up the street. We could hear the killers
still drinking their courage back.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
There.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Had just been the three of us against them, we
might have taken a chance. But with the women and
kids in the warehouse. We couldn't do that. We'd have
to pick them off if we could, one by one.
The first shot we fired, there was going to be trouble.
Up to the left of the warehouse in the evening shade.
I saw the bodies of the two men they shot down.
(22:38):
A dog was moving around whimpering. A couple of minutes
went by, and then we started around the back and
made our way up behind the saloon.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
If we get in with the back door, mister Dillon,
you think we get surprised him.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
We can't take the chance, Chester, not with only two guns,
they'd get us.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
And you know what happened.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Yes, one of 'em is coming out. Look, Yeah, it's
the fellow shot, Dave Maxinger.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
He's heading his way.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
You think he's g oh.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Bill, Yeah, I think you can get him from here.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
A little closer. Maybe not from here.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He's got two guns on him. We need him. Stay
and hang with the post. We'll cover you, okay. I
saw Holden's big fist tightened around the axe handle. They
moved up and down the alley and lanning with a post,
and the killer never looked up. He just stood there,
head down, swaying a bit, and Holden stopped.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
His arm raised up.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Back, and the axe got a gleam of light and
must have thrown it into the killer's eye. He had
just time to look up and see the thing before
they caught him square.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I I haven't done that for a long time. I
only throw trees and boards. I never did it to
me before. I never killed'em.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Minion like there, Chester, get the other gun. Yes, alright
here here, Bill, take this harr We got four and
our out out to fix us. Now.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Look, I don't like what we're gonna do, but it's
the safest way. We go in there shooting. Get 'em
fast in the leg anywhere, and try not to kill,
but don't give.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
'em a chance to shoot back.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Yes you sure?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Man?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You okay? Bill? You wanna wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I'm okay, alright, I know O.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'm telling you I leave for a man.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Kill My brother gets you the same way.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Drank up.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
We're going back.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Now. See if they changed their minds, all right, would
mean you think of Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Now this time you had.
Speaker 12 (25:11):
That deputy, many marshals around this country.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
And all right, that's up, that's up.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Keep your hands from the off.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Bro Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
All right, Chester, take the guns. Yes, I'm arresting you
for murder. Bro Rest, I'm with you.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Killed my brother, got him in the back, my brother.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
They murdered him.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You know something, if I wasn't a Marshall, I'd do
the same thing that you.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Right now, it's too bad, I can't. I hope it
hurts when they hang you, Brill.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And it was over, and I got a feeling like
it never happened, that there hadn't been time for it
to happen. But the dead men's women knew that it.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Wasn't a dream.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
The next day, a half a dozen of the fellows,
Chester and myself took the outlaws back to Dodge. Most
of them had been hit back in a saloon. One
died in Cimarron before we could get into the dock,
but not Brill. He was alive when he went to
Hayes City with the rest of the boys.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I was there when they tried.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Him, and I was there when they hanged him.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
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Gun Smoke is heard by our troops overseas through the
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Speaker 3 (27:54):
Wild violence of the West. In gun Smoke.
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