September 12, 2025 • 27 mins
Ride into the Wild West with "Gunsmoke," the legendary radio drama that set the gold standard for Western storytelling. Follow U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon as he enforces law and order in Dodge City, facing outlaws, gunfights, and frontier justice. With gripping stories and rich characters, this is the ultimate Western experience for fans of classic radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Spoke, starring William Conrad. The story of
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the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watch foo and a little lonely. H Where am I? Oh?
(01:33):
How about kidding? Why'ce you got the crowd? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Some trail herd just came in circle B I think.
Come on upstairs and have a drink with me. I
gotta get a clear of her for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Alright, let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You forget fed up with it, Matt, everything, Come on in,
make yourself down.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Thank you? What's bothering you? Kidding? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Nothing special? Just the womb lams I kiss?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Who is to drinking?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay? You know, so yours are fed up? Why don't
you get out of it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Go back east and get married and settle down.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Nice, quiet, bank, clerk, tubble.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Wash, cook stove, and kids. I like kids.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Let's say that drink.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Huh huh, hey yeah thanks.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh I'm not getting out neither.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Of you, so let's live while we still.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh if that's some drunken hurt us, I help me out.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yes, sit downstairs, and Marshall was up there.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Come in, mam, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I thought maybe you could give me some information, Marshall,
I'm looking for some folks named Crale, mister missus John
Crale on standing. They got a place around Dodge somewhere.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I'm miss Crale. Does John Crale died about three
years ago?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
No, are you old?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Friends? Are theirs?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
They're my folks, my moun pap. Huh, I'm Billy Crale.
Maybe they've mentioned me?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I yeah. Your mother's always said that you'd come home
some day. She's never given up hoping.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
How is she, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now she's not too good. She's got a big ranch
on her hands, been trying to run it alone since
your dad died. Uh you think she'll wreck it? Measure? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
She might not at first.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's been seventeen years since I run away from home.
But I'll convinced. So alright, hey, you probably will.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, you've been all these years.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Really just drifting here there, you know how it goes?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Uh, how do I get out to the place I'm
anxious to see you?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's about five miles east of town. Follow down the river.
You can't miss it.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh, thanks a lot much.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I guess we'll see each other there again, since I'm
gonna settle down here. Ah sure, tell on, alright, let's
have it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, do you mean, kitty?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Something was wrong there?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Or was it just this kitty? A few years ago Ms.
Crayle asked me to try to trace her son. I
did it, and I didn't have the heart to tell
her tell her what I got a report back from
the War Office. Billy Craile had joined the Union Army
at the start of the war. He was killed in
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action at the Battle of Shiloh.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Dog it all, Miss Joe and I went through these
cussined circulars lying blue in the face. His cutthroats, cattle wrestlers,
horse thieves, bank robbers, everything you can think of. Fain't
narrow one of them fit the description of that kraale fella.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Uh, keep looking Chester, It might be two or three
years back. But I've seen that face is somewhere, and
it has to be in one of these circulars.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And I just don't understand how he figures to get
away with it. You can't. Pool Man's own mom.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Might in this case. She hasn't seen him since he
was a boy. She's pretty old or eye sight's failing her.
Her memories none too good.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
What with that ranch, all the money she got put
by he sure stand.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, Chester, when something miss
John Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, I thought so.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Well insured, I look like Mark.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It is m Chester three years ago, height six one,
wait one eighty five Sandy Complexion sure wanted in Lubbock
for questioning and connection with the hold up of the
Lone Star Bank. Previous arrests bickus crossing or cattle theft.
Acquitted for lack of evidence. Convicted san antone eight years ago,
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armed robbery, served four years parole. Non associate's Nate Barger
Poker City.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Kid reward one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Calls himself Johnny Red cyle Ester. Let's go get him.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Higgin Dsham.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Here.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
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Speaker 8 (07:36):
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Speaker 8 (07:50):
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Speaker 2 (08:14):
Love that bird.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I don't seem no words around.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But I was hoping I could talk to Miss Craile first.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Reckon, he'll put up a fight, Miss gun.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Who is it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's Marshall Dylan Man.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Well it's this sain't surprise now come on in set
spell Marshall, h thank you, Miss Crale. Good to see you, Marshall,
and you too, mister proutfoot, Ain't it yes, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I wasn't too sure.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Miyes ain't quite come on in, gentlemen, land sakes, I
do like company. Seems like nobody ever comes out this
way no more. Now set yourselves down there now, I
thank you, Rest your feet. I'll get you a cup
of coffee.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Uh uh no, don't bother missus crayle. We don't have
much time.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
No time won't take no time God already made. Just
fixing to have some to self. Lie godbody can't do
something per company. She ain't fit to have none.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Huh as why my uh? I guess it does get
pretty lonesome out here.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Well, did I got a big surprise to tell you
about Marshall?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You mean your son shocks the way God.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Supplies round Dodge City. Body don't have a chance to
get ahead of it.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
He's come home.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
It's like I always knew he would, has a Has
he changed much? Miss grimm Oh, good heaven jess. He
was just a boy when he went away. Now he's
a grown up man, fine, strong, But there's.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
No doubt in your mind that this really is Billy.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Oh Why that's downright silly, Marshall. You can't fool a mother.
She can always tell her own. Why the second billy
walked up on that porch and said, how are Yama?
I knew him just like that. I see you know,
I've been sort of going downhill since John passed on.
The work was hard and seemed like i'd kind of
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lost my reason for living. I don't think i'd lasted, Marshall,
well not, but it's different now.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Why I'm happier and i've been in years.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
How you sure seemed to be My son has come home.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Could a mother ask for more?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, ma'am, I guess not. I suppose that's all that matters.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Oh, I'm sorry Marshall here, I've been talking to leg
off of you and haven't even thought to ask what brings.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You out this way?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Oh? Nothing, miss Crayle. As a matter of fact, we
just wrote out for a friendly little visit.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Well I'm mighty glad you did, Marshall. You just stopped
by anytime, you too, mister proudput, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Man, goodbye, my screw goodbye.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You couldn't have done nothing else. That's John I had
broke her heart, you'd have told her.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I guess so. But she's gonna find out anyway, sooner
or later when he steals her blind and then runs
out on her. And that's a bad deal, truester anyway
you look at.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
It, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
But well, huh and uh sets you a problem now
doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And I may set a few problems for you before
I'm done with you, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And break an old lady's heart.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I don't think so, Marshall. And the name is Billy,
by the way, Billy Crale, not in Lubbock, Lubbock, where's that?
Don't worry, Johnny. When I send you back, there'll be
somebody along to show you the way.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I don't know why you keep on calling me Johnny,
because that's your name, Johnny, red Bank, Robert Gunman, cattle thief.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You fill out the list.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Maybe you could get my mother to fill it out.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Miss Craile's an old woman. She doesn't know that her
son was killed at the Battle of Shiloh.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
That report was a mistake, Marshal, but I figured it
was best to let it stand. I deserted two weeks
before Shiloh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, sure you did.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I don't know where you got this crazy idea. I'm
somebody named Johnny Red, a man's own mother or no,
And before you go off half cocked, I'd say it
might be a good idea to check with the sheriff
and love it. Meanwhile, I figured it's like your friend
there was saying you wouldn't wanna break an old woman's heart, now,
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would you?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Afternoon Mac, come on and die? How are you?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Terrible, terrible? That lost another patience? Afternoon?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Oh somebody die?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
No, no, no, no, you figure on that happening, But
you don't come. I'm getting well on.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You, and they don't very often. Who was it that
pulled this mean trick.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
On you, old lady Craile? Oh, a month ago, I
wouldn't begin to live through the winter even thought you
might leave me something, and I will, But dark one
it she was jumping around out there this morning. Chip
was young for me, threw away all her medicine, told
me not to even bother coming out anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
She's a young mother. Now.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
It's no joke, man, That's exactly what it is. That
boy he has been home three weeks now, and it's
made a new woman out of her.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, only he's not really her boy.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Doc, He's not really What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He's an ex convict from Texas. I had a reward
circler on him from Lubbock.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh no, wait a minute, man, Now he might be
able to fool other people, but his own mother.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I know, I know, Doc, A mother can always tell
her own and that's right. Or maybe this is the
exception that proves the rule.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Well, if you if you really think that, and if
he's wanted, well, then why don't you go out there
arrest him?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Because I got no charge against him? A wired Lubbock.
It seems that he was wanted, but he's not anymore.
They'd already picked him up and then they turned him
loose for lack of evidence.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No, no, I just can't believe that matter. If he's
not Billy Crall, then what's he up to?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You know how much that ranch is worth? Doc? Missus
Cradle keeps ever since she's got out there at the
place because she doesn't trust banks. Now what more reason
would a man like that be?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
You better come quickly, fro Dylan, what's wrong Chester? Jake
just brought Simmer on stage in He got held up
right outside of town. They shot the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Guard I may get through here. Please, Pa, where you
stand aside? Plase?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Let Doc get in here. Please, Well Marshall, He finally
got to me. How it happened, Jake, the boldest.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Thing I ever seen.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
About three miles out of town. They throwed some cottonwood
limbs across the trail so i'd have to pull up,
and that's when they jumped me. I'm an a of them,
just two couple I never seen before, brass seers. Sin
didn't even bother to wear masks. And they hauled off
and shot Barney there without even giving them a chance.
(16:24):
But what had they got the cash box? I don't
know how much was in it, Matt, Yeah, doctor, there's
nothing I can do for her. Mat Two bullets right
under the ribs, and I doubt if he even knew
what he had.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well take charge of it, doctor.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Somebody said Bonnie got shot.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, he's dad kidding. Jack. Would you recognize either of
those men? I sure would.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
One of them was a tall skin fella, the other
one was kind of a kid. Tall one called him
Punker Punker.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
They were strangers, though they ain't from around here.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That sounds like a couple of fellows I saw on
the Long Branch today talking to Billy Crale. Oh, Billy
finally left and they stayed another hour, so talking real
serious together.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Those two gunmen, Jake, where did they head for when
they left you?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Well it was a funny thing. I figured they'd make
you run south, but instead they rode east down river.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Now that trail don't lead nowheres.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That's right, nowhere's except for the Craile Ranch.
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Speaker 4 (19:09):
I sound like mcdone looks real quiet?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, too quiet.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Maybe ain't no lights beating. I'll let's walk from here, alright, alright,
now watch yourself, Chester, that's sure.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I will.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
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Speaker 2 (20:02):
Alright, Chester, come on and see if he can find
the lamp.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I think he was one over here on the able
other day out.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Okay, here it is, alright, light it and bring it
over here. Yes sure he uh.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
Oh, oh my.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Hold the lamp down, Chester, Mirjan.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, she's dead.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
She's been beat bad too.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah. Well it's not questioning and he's wanted for an Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's murder rich who how about it?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Hoo oh.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
About you, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Were you expecting Johnny and they barker in the pocket
city kid?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
That's right down there, digging by the river bank.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
But they'll be back.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
They won't find what they're looking for.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, who shot you?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I don't know which one of 'em it was. It
don't matter, though.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'll last till they get back, but not long enough
for murder charge, Marshall. I don't try for your gun, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm not that much of a fool, not with yours
on my back.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I wouldn't wanna shoot you.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I got nothing personal against you, but you're a way
of handling this aint the way. I ain't too put
out that lamp. They're coming back. They out there now.
You stay where you are and stay quiet. I gotta
get to a window, alright, Ester, let's see he's out
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the back way.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Come on, yees see.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Over here. Stake close to the house. They'll walk toward
the porch. We'll have a chance to take him from
the side.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I'll bet your life here.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And she's still alive.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
She's sure.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Don't lie about it.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
This kind of a hot.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Brand and iron might go all right. Hold that you're
covering over there, Pocky'll get him. I drop that gun, bark,
I drop.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It, alright, alright, I did.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I I'll give up.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Don't shoot.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Keep your hands up, that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And they keep him up high, Johnny, Do say hold
a punk up for me, Johnny guy. I had my
hands up.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Now you drop your gun, Johnny.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Sure, Marshal, I'm through with it now.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He had his hands in the air. You had no
call to shoot him.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You'da took him alive.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
You mighta get out of it. This way works out better,
more sure, Johnny. Ay Marshall, And.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I guess you know how it is styed. You don't
have a chance.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
It don't matter. I lasted til it was finished.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Once started it an argument over the split. There wasn't
no split.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I wasn't in with him.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
They followed me here from Texas. That's right, Marshall. I'm
Johnny Red.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I never doubted it.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
They thought I was double crossing him. The laid bore
me out here at the ranch. They thought they'd kill
me and her.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
They beat 'em.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Marshall trying to find out where she kept her money,
but sh she wouldn't tell.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
She lied to 'em.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Said it was buried down by the river bank or
is it buried no place? I took it into the
bank for last week.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You what.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I figured it wasn't safe for her to keep it here.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah? Yeah, so you.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
You still think her mother can't tell her she were marshall.
I've been called Johnny Red for years now, but my
real name is Billy Craile. I wasn't wasn't lying.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
About that.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
She was my mother? She mll that's that.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
He was when they cry, after all, Yeah, would be
the only just stayed away, hadn't come back home, she'd
still be alive. It was her own son. You might
say that colored her death.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Doc says she wouldn't have lived through the winter anyway,
and that he made her happy for one month at least.
I don't know, trust, I don't know.
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Directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, William Conrad.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
As Matt Villan Us Marshalls.
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The story were specially written for Gun Smoked by Ross
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There is Chester, Howard mcneer is doc, and Georgia Ellis
is kidding.
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You to join us again next week when CBS Radio
presents another story on gun Smoke.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Spoke, starring William Conrad. The story of
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the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watch foo and a little lonely. H Where am I? Oh?
(01:33):
How about kidding? Why'ce you got the crowd? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Some trail herd just came in circle B I think.
Come on upstairs and have a drink with me. I
gotta get a clear of her for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Alright, let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You forget fed up with it, Matt, everything, Come on in,
make yourself down.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Thank you? What's bothering you? Kidding? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Nothing special? Just the womb lams I kiss?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Who is to drinking?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay? You know, so yours are fed up? Why don't
you get out of it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Go back east and get married and settle down.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Nice, quiet, bank, clerk, tubble.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Wash, cook stove, and kids. I like kids.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Let's say that drink.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Huh huh, hey yeah thanks.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh I'm not getting out neither.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Of you, so let's live while we still.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh if that's some drunken hurt us, I help me out.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yes, sit downstairs, and Marshall was up there.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Come in, mam, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I thought maybe you could give me some information, Marshall,
I'm looking for some folks named Crale, mister missus John
Crale on standing. They got a place around Dodge somewhere.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I'm miss Crale. Does John Crale died about three
years ago?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
No, are you old?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Friends? Are theirs?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
They're my folks, my moun pap. Huh, I'm Billy Crale.
Maybe they've mentioned me?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I yeah. Your mother's always said that you'd come home
some day. She's never given up hoping.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
How is she, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now she's not too good. She's got a big ranch
on her hands, been trying to run it alone since
your dad died. Uh you think she'll wreck it? Measure? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
She might not at first.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's been seventeen years since I run away from home.
But I'll convinced. So alright, hey, you probably will.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, you've been all these years.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Really just drifting here there, you know how it goes?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Uh, how do I get out to the place I'm
anxious to see you?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's about five miles east of town. Follow down the river.
You can't miss it.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh, thanks a lot much.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I guess we'll see each other there again, since I'm
gonna settle down here. Ah sure, tell on, alright, let's
have it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, do you mean, kitty?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Something was wrong there?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Or was it just this kitty? A few years ago Ms.
Crayle asked me to try to trace her son. I
did it, and I didn't have the heart to tell
her tell her what I got a report back from
the War Office. Billy Craile had joined the Union Army
at the start of the war. He was killed in
(05:10):
action at the Battle of Shiloh.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Dog it all, Miss Joe and I went through these
cussined circulars lying blue in the face. His cutthroats, cattle wrestlers,
horse thieves, bank robbers, everything you can think of. Fain't
narrow one of them fit the description of that kraale fella.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Uh, keep looking Chester, It might be two or three
years back. But I've seen that face is somewhere, and
it has to be in one of these circulars.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And I just don't understand how he figures to get
away with it. You can't. Pool Man's own mom.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Might in this case. She hasn't seen him since he
was a boy. She's pretty old or eye sight's failing her.
Her memories none too good.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
What with that ranch, all the money she got put
by he sure stand.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, Chester, when something miss
John Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, I thought so.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Well insured, I look like Mark.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It is m Chester three years ago, height six one,
wait one eighty five Sandy Complexion sure wanted in Lubbock
for questioning and connection with the hold up of the
Lone Star Bank. Previous arrests bickus crossing or cattle theft.
Acquitted for lack of evidence. Convicted san antone eight years ago,
(06:45):
armed robbery, served four years parole. Non associate's Nate Barger
Poker City.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Kid reward one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Calls himself Johnny Red cyle Ester. Let's go get him.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
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Speaker 5 (07:14):
Here.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
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Speaker 8 (07:50):
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Speaker 2 (08:14):
Love that bird.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I don't seem no words around.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But I was hoping I could talk to Miss Craile first.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Reckon, he'll put up a fight, Miss gun.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Who is it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's Marshall Dylan Man.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Well it's this sain't surprise now come on in set
spell Marshall, h thank you, Miss Crale. Good to see you, Marshall,
and you too, mister proutfoot, Ain't it yes, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I wasn't too sure.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Miyes ain't quite come on in, gentlemen, land sakes, I
do like company. Seems like nobody ever comes out this
way no more. Now set yourselves down there now, I
thank you, Rest your feet. I'll get you a cup
of coffee.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Uh uh no, don't bother missus crayle. We don't have
much time.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
No time won't take no time God already made. Just
fixing to have some to self. Lie godbody can't do
something per company. She ain't fit to have none.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Huh as why my uh? I guess it does get
pretty lonesome out here.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Well, did I got a big surprise to tell you
about Marshall?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You mean your son shocks the way God.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Supplies round Dodge City. Body don't have a chance to
get ahead of it.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
He's come home.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
It's like I always knew he would, has a Has
he changed much? Miss grimm Oh, good heaven jess. He
was just a boy when he went away. Now he's
a grown up man, fine, strong, But there's.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
No doubt in your mind that this really is Billy.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Oh Why that's downright silly, Marshall. You can't fool a mother.
She can always tell her own. Why the second billy
walked up on that porch and said, how are Yama?
I knew him just like that. I see you know,
I've been sort of going downhill since John passed on.
The work was hard and seemed like i'd kind of
(10:42):
lost my reason for living. I don't think i'd lasted, Marshall,
well not, but it's different now.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Why I'm happier and i've been in years.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
How you sure seemed to be My son has come home.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Could a mother ask for more?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, ma'am, I guess not. I suppose that's all that matters.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Oh, I'm sorry Marshall here, I've been talking to leg
off of you and haven't even thought to ask what brings.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You out this way?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Oh? Nothing, miss Crayle. As a matter of fact, we
just wrote out for a friendly little visit.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Well I'm mighty glad you did, Marshall. You just stopped
by anytime, you too, mister proudput, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Man, goodbye, my screw goodbye.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You couldn't have done nothing else. That's John I had
broke her heart, you'd have told her.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I guess so. But she's gonna find out anyway, sooner
or later when he steals her blind and then runs
out on her. And that's a bad deal, truester anyway
you look at.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
It, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
But well, huh and uh sets you a problem now
doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And I may set a few problems for you before
I'm done with you, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And break an old lady's heart.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I don't think so, Marshall. And the name is Billy,
by the way, Billy Crale, not in Lubbock, Lubbock, where's that?
Don't worry, Johnny. When I send you back, there'll be
somebody along to show you the way.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I don't know why you keep on calling me Johnny,
because that's your name, Johnny, red Bank, Robert Gunman, cattle thief.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You fill out the list.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Maybe you could get my mother to fill it out.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Miss Craile's an old woman. She doesn't know that her
son was killed at the Battle of Shiloh.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
That report was a mistake, Marshal, but I figured it
was best to let it stand. I deserted two weeks
before Shiloh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, sure you did.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I don't know where you got this crazy idea. I'm
somebody named Johnny Red, a man's own mother or no,
And before you go off half cocked, I'd say it
might be a good idea to check with the sheriff
and love it. Meanwhile, I figured it's like your friend
there was saying you wouldn't wanna break an old woman's heart, now,
(13:21):
would you?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Afternoon Mac, come on and die? How are you?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Terrible, terrible? That lost another patience? Afternoon?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Oh somebody die?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
No, no, no, no, you figure on that happening, But
you don't come. I'm getting well on.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You, and they don't very often. Who was it that
pulled this mean trick.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
On you, old lady Craile? Oh, a month ago, I
wouldn't begin to live through the winter even thought you
might leave me something, and I will, But dark one
it she was jumping around out there this morning. Chip
was young for me, threw away all her medicine, told
me not to even bother coming out anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
She's a young mother. Now.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
It's no joke, man, That's exactly what it is. That
boy he has been home three weeks now, and it's
made a new woman out of her.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, only he's not really her boy.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Doc, He's not really What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He's an ex convict from Texas. I had a reward
circler on him from Lubbock.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh no, wait a minute, man, Now he might be
able to fool other people, but his own mother.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I know, I know, Doc, A mother can always tell
her own and that's right. Or maybe this is the
exception that proves the rule.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Well, if you if you really think that, and if
he's wanted, well, then why don't you go out there
arrest him?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Because I got no charge against him? A wired Lubbock.
It seems that he was wanted, but he's not anymore.
They'd already picked him up and then they turned him
loose for lack of evidence.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No, no, I just can't believe that matter. If he's
not Billy Crall, then what's he up to?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You know how much that ranch is worth? Doc? Missus
Cradle keeps ever since she's got out there at the
place because she doesn't trust banks. Now what more reason
would a man like that be?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
You better come quickly, fro Dylan, what's wrong Chester? Jake
just brought Simmer on stage in He got held up
right outside of town. They shot the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Guard I may get through here. Please, Pa, where you
stand aside? Plase?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Let Doc get in here. Please, Well Marshall, He finally
got to me. How it happened, Jake, the boldest.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Thing I ever seen.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
About three miles out of town. They throwed some cottonwood
limbs across the trail so i'd have to pull up,
and that's when they jumped me. I'm an a of them,
just two couple I never seen before, brass seers. Sin
didn't even bother to wear masks. And they hauled off
and shot Barney there without even giving them a chance.
(16:24):
But what had they got the cash box? I don't
know how much was in it, Matt, Yeah, doctor, there's
nothing I can do for her. Mat Two bullets right
under the ribs, and I doubt if he even knew
what he had.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well take charge of it, doctor.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Somebody said Bonnie got shot.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, he's dad kidding. Jack. Would you recognize either of
those men? I sure would.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
One of them was a tall skin fella, the other
one was kind of a kid. Tall one called him
Punker Punker.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
They were strangers, though they ain't from around here.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That sounds like a couple of fellows I saw on
the Long Branch today talking to Billy Crale. Oh, Billy
finally left and they stayed another hour, so talking real
serious together.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Those two gunmen, Jake, where did they head for when
they left you?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Well it was a funny thing. I figured they'd make
you run south, but instead they rode east down river.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Now that trail don't lead nowheres.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That's right, nowhere's except for the Craile Ranch.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
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Speaker 4 (19:09):
I sound like mcdone looks real quiet?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, too quiet.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Maybe ain't no lights beating. I'll let's walk from here, alright, alright,
now watch yourself, Chester, that's sure.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I will.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
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in fast, I'll keep you covering McDon.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Alright, Chester, come on and see if he can find
the lamp.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I think he was one over here on the able
other day out.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Okay, here it is, alright, light it and bring it
over here. Yes sure he uh.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
Oh, oh my.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Hold the lamp down, Chester, Mirjan.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, she's dead.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
She's been beat bad too.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah. Well it's not questioning and he's wanted for an Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's murder rich who how about it?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Hoo oh.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
About you, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Were you expecting Johnny and they barker in the pocket
city kid?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
That's right down there, digging by the river bank.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
But they'll be back.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
They won't find what they're looking for.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, who shot you?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I don't know which one of 'em it was. It
don't matter, though.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'll last till they get back, but not long enough
for murder charge, Marshall. I don't try for your gun, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm not that much of a fool, not with yours
on my back.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I wouldn't wanna shoot you.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I got nothing personal against you, but you're a way
of handling this aint the way. I ain't too put
out that lamp. They're coming back. They out there now.
You stay where you are and stay quiet. I gotta
get to a window, alright, Ester, let's see he's out
(21:52):
the back way.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Come on, yees see.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Over here. Stake close to the house. They'll walk toward
the porch. We'll have a chance to take him from
the side.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I'll bet your life here.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And she's still alive.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
She's sure.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Don't lie about it.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
This kind of a hot.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Brand and iron might go all right. Hold that you're
covering over there, Pocky'll get him. I drop that gun, bark,
I drop.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It, alright, alright, I did.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I I'll give up.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Don't shoot.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Keep your hands up, that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And they keep him up high, Johnny, Do say hold
a punk up for me, Johnny guy. I had my
hands up.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Now you drop your gun, Johnny.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Sure, Marshal, I'm through with it now.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He had his hands in the air. You had no
call to shoot him.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You'da took him alive.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
You mighta get out of it. This way works out better,
more sure, Johnny. Ay Marshall, And.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I guess you know how it is styed. You don't
have a chance.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
It don't matter. I lasted til it was finished.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Once started it an argument over the split. There wasn't
no split.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I wasn't in with him.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
They followed me here from Texas. That's right, Marshall. I'm
Johnny Red.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I never doubted it.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
They thought I was double crossing him. The laid bore
me out here at the ranch. They thought they'd kill
me and her.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
They beat 'em.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Marshall trying to find out where she kept her money,
but sh she wouldn't tell.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
She lied to 'em.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Said it was buried down by the river bank or
is it buried no place? I took it into the
bank for last week.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You what.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I figured it wasn't safe for her to keep it here.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah? Yeah, so you.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
You still think her mother can't tell her she were marshall.
I've been called Johnny Red for years now, but my
real name is Billy Craile. I wasn't wasn't lying.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
About that.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
She was my mother? She mll that's that.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
He was when they cry, after all, Yeah, would be
the only just stayed away, hadn't come back home, she'd
still be alive. It was her own son. You might
say that colored her death.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Doc says she wouldn't have lived through the winter anyway,
and that he made her happy for one month at least.
I don't know, trust, I don't know.
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