guns.1953.05.02_Tacetta

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Around god City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The Story of

(00:38):
the Violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylan, United
States Marshall.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Mister Dylan, I never saw a street like that.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Huh, what do you mean, Chester, dusty, sir, just plain dusty.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
It's only spring, and already the plaza's just vulgar with dust.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Streets and Texas are all grass Chester, No, sure, but
they're better than this.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
You think there'd be somewhere fixing it.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Dodger's growing Chester. Maybe someday it won't look so bad
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't even live that longer.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I'm glad you got that much figured out anyway, I
surely have yo.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Now wait, that's not what I'm meant to either.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Don't let it worry you. Chester. You got those posters
down to mister hight Tower.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yes, he said they'll be ready about noon tomorrow, all right,
pick them up then with yes, Oh my goodness, mister
Dilan nearly forgot no, well, forget what. After I left
mister high Towers, I thought I'd just take a glass
of beer.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I had to get all.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
That dust out of them, and so you know how
bad it is walking around knee deeping that stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
And I was, yeah, yeah, all right, Chester, Well what
is it you forgot?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Well, sir, I dropped into the Texas Trail and Miss
Kitty was there, and she said she thinks there might
be trouble over there before long.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
And she said, to.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Tell you, uh, what kind of trouble?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
All the usual thing, some men fighting over girl.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, you don't seem to be very worried about it.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm tired of people fighting.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I wish they'd all just go away some words and
kill each other off and have done with it.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
That'd be fine, as long as they don't do it
and Dodge. Oh come on, Chester, let's go over and
see what it's all about.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Mersade is a new girl. Math she's shy as a twelve.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
I don't know what you're doing here anyway.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
How do you know the name of the man.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Dorgan says. I tried to get her away from him, but.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
I think she's too scared.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, and maybe she likes him. Did you ever think
of that?

Speaker 5 (03:16):
I hope not anyone who won't let anyone else dance
with her. Two over at the bar your chest are there?
They've tried twice.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I know one of those men, the tall one. His
name is Horn.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
Who is he?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah? He's a gunman pretty fast too, so I've heard.

Speaker 7 (03:36):
Well.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
I was over there with to say the last time
I came up, and somehow from the way they talked,
I got to feel them they're more interested in the
dorgan than her.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
How you mean they're trying to draw him into a fight.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
That's my guest man.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right, kiddy, I'll see what I can do, h
missr Sato. Yes, I'm Matt Dylan. I'd be proud if
you dance with me.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, I don't think i'd better go ahead.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
To say that's all right, you can dance with him.

Speaker 7 (04:12):
Mister.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
You told those others that I.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Hello Horn. This here is Watson Horry Marshall. How are you.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Now?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
What's on your mind? Horn? You just want to let
you know, Marshall, if there's any trouble here, we ain't responsible.
Leave me alone. There won't be any trouble. All we want, Marshall,
is our turn with the girl here? And Dorgan's had
her hog the whole evening and that ain't fair, and
that's all. What's funny Marshall. Now you sound like a

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man of the church social I'm trying to be peaceable
about it. It's all i've seen you when you didn't
try horn. What are you looking for an excuse to
work this man into a gunfight?

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yea, sure is my I ain't gonna take much more
from him or watch than either.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
What's the real trouble between you? There's no trouble, Marshall.
We just want to dance with that girl. That's all
you want to tell me, Dargan, Nothing, Marshall, nothing, All right,
say go over there and sip with Kitty.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Now, wait, I minute Marshall to say this my girl,
I've been buying her drinks.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
She's staying right here, Joe. I had to say that
going over with Kitty.

Speaker 6 (05:35):
I don't know which one.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Just go to say that. Nobody will stop you.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
All right then, thank you for the drinks, mister Dargan.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Chester, you got a great way of handling things.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
All I can say, what is mister Dylan?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Take their guns chests.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Oh no, you all, well, you're gonna let them do that.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
We ain't looking for trouble. Hey are smarter than I figured. Horn,
am I Marshall? Get him Chester, Your guns will be
at the jail. You can pick them up in the
morning when you leave. Tom Leave all three of you,

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good night, gentlemen. Taking his gun from a man like
Horn was the fastest way in the world to get
him out of the saloons and off the streets and
behind covers somewhere. There were too many men who might
show up out of his past and suddenly make their
claim on him, and Horn was the one that really mattered.

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Either dorgun or watch and look like real gunmen. So
I thought I'd been pretty smart till next morning. They
were just crossing the plaza when I ran into Kitty
and Chester fast smart.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
We've been trying to find you.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh what's the matter? Kitty's to say, I.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Don't know where she is.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Fine.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
I looked in her room this morning and she'd gone.
Nobody's seen her anywhere.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Oh maybe she went out to buy some clothes or something.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
She was afraid to go out alone. I always had
to go with her. I just know something's happened to her,
Like what Dorgan? He was real sweet on him, Mat,
and I don't trust him at all.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Oh, Doorg can come out of the office real early,
mister Dylon. I gave him his gun and he van moved.
He was in a big hurry to go someplace.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
And I told him to leave town this morning.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
But he didn't tell him to take the sata with him.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Did they got back together last night?

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (07:35):
Just as soon as Horn and Watson left, I couldn't
stop it.

Speaker 8 (07:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
See, uh tell me, Kitty, can she ride?

Speaker 8 (07:43):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (07:44):
No, I asked him to go out with me once.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
All right. It was a stage west this morning. Go
see if they got on a Willia Chester.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
All right, Kenny.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
If she did leave with Dorgan, maybe it's because she
wanted to.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Oh maybe she wouldn't say anything about him last night.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
One way to the other.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
I told you I think she's a fighter him, Matt.
But even if she did want to go, well, she
isn't his kind.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well. That may be, Kitty, but it's not the law's
job to chaperone every girl that hits Dodge.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
What if she didn't want to go, man, what if
he forced it?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
To that'd be different, a whole lot different, you bet
it was.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
They was on mister doing the agent described him exactly left.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
An hour ago, right on time.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
Knew it, I knew it.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Will I get our horses shoe, No, no, wait a minute, Chester,
Dargan might put up a fight, and if he does,
we can't shoot around that girl.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
Well then how can you stop him that?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, somehow, I don't figure. Dorgan is a really brave man.
I think we can bluff him. He might try to
fight two of us. But if there were more, say
maybe a dozen, man, you mean, we'll take a posse
and well, this time it might just work. Chester, But
I'll pick him man, I can trust not to do
any hasty shooting.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Chester, You'll go round up Arnold Winters and John Kim
Mardy Walter and Bob Gast and I'll get the rest
of them and tell them we'll all meet at the
jail in twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Everybody's here, mister Dylon, all.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right, I'm coming, sister, I'm all right. Men, all right,
listen to me now. Now I've picked you men because
I know that you're steady, every one of you. There's

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a girl on that stage, and whatever happens, we can't
return fire. Is that clear? All right? I'll figure out
how we're gonna stop him when we get there. Mark, Well,
what are you doing here, Marshall? Watson heard you needed
help and I told you to get out of town. Horn. Oh,

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we just want to be sure you've got Dorgan before
we left. Marshall, I don't need your help, and don't
you be here when I get back either one again?

Speaker 8 (10:15):
Like that?

Speaker 7 (10:17):
All right?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Then alright, let's go.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
You' the coming mister Dillon.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
All right, Chester men, spread out my half circle. When
the stage comes out of those cottonwoods, Chester and ile
right forward and stop her. And then you're closing around us.
I got it, all right, let's go. What's Marshall? It's

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all right, Jim. I just want to talk to a
couple of your passengers. You old Dargan, come on out.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
You try anything to say that'll be right in front
of me.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
Marshall.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
I figured that Argan come on out anyway, all I
I just said it. Get out.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
You're standing right here to say it, and don't move.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (11:31):
Mishaell?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I want to enough to say this here because she
wants to be that's all. Tell him to say that,
all right, tell him, just tell me the truth, to
say that. If you want to go with him, you may,
But if he's forcing you to go, then we're here
to take you back to Dodge. You wouldn't want her
death on your conscience, would you?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Marshall?

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Don't get me out to me? Hi, I can't because
I wanted to.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, that's a good answer to say that. Go on
back to Dodge and leave us alone. I guess you
didn't hear the same thing I did, Dogan. I'm wanting you.
You haven't got a chance. How long do you think
you can use that for cover?

Speaker 6 (12:17):
Now?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
I got twelve men here, Dorgan, and we'll follow you
from here to California if necessary? Is that right? Men?
You know she should get killed. I'll just let you
imagine what we will do to you. Now. You'll drop
your gun though, right where you are, and step forward
and do it now, all right? Get his guns just alright,

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one of you men, get rid of your guns and
put Dorgan out behind you. Doing.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
What are we gonna do with to say that she
can't ride anyway? Espasically in those flow?

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Wow? The blood sell places a couple of miles from here.
Go over there and borrow their buckboard, Chester, and for
your trouble, will let you drive her back to town?

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yes, sir, my, well you wait right here, miss hid
and I'll be back in no time at all.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Why am mister Dylon?

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh? Chester? What time did you got back with to sayo?
Last night? Chester?

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Now, a buckboard ain't like a horse. You can't drive
it a loop all the way. That's all right, Chester,
What have you got there?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Here?

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Dorgan's breakfast and you'll probably have to wake him up.
He hasn't made a sound so far. Oh, there are
the keys on the desk.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
It's going yeah, come here quick, but open the cell, Chester, hurry,
you might still be alive. I got a knife, all right,
cutting free, I'll hold it.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Uh, he's been dead a long time now.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Who'd have thought he'd go hang hisself?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
He didn't, Chester? What there's no rope in his cell.
Somebody called him overhead of the window, knocked him in
the head and slipp the rope around his neck and
tided him tight to the bars. This isn't suicide. It's murder.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Horn horn and that fellaw wats and they did it.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
We are the only ones I know who've been walking
him dead. Will we go arrest him? Yeah, they just
go free again. I got no evidence to co it
would accept now if.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Those two don't think any more stranger than a man
and shoot no wolf and throwing his skin over fence.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
And they're killer's chesting. But right now they got nobody
to kill except maybe me.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
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Speaker 3 (16:06):
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Speaker 3 (16:12):
Now the second act of gun Smoke, when I found
out that Horn and Watson were still in Dutch. I

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figured that they were probably waiting for me to run
them out, and that they'd be glad for the excuse
if I did, even Dorgan's murder behind them. Instead, I
did nothing, and I said nothing, hoping it send their
nerves and maybe drive them to a bottle and some
loose talk that night, pretending there was nothing in the

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world in our minds. Chester and I walked into the Texas.

Speaker 8 (17:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
There is crowded the night, mister Dylon.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, see there's the Sata. See her get like a
fall hog at the ripe acorn. Chester.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Well, now, my grageous.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
It wouldn't be polite for me not say hello, would it.
I'll see you later. H that fellow who just left,
is he coming back? Kidding?

Speaker 6 (17:33):
He wouldn't broke. Sit down there, you're drinking.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
No, not tonight, expecting trouble.

Speaker 8 (17:45):
Hum.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, maybe.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
The yest and the Sata that I sure wish it's
twice a quieter.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
I give anything to know what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
It may get noisier. Right Look over there, Watson just
came in.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh say, he's drunk, man, He's real drunk.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah, he's just couldn't start trouble again.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Look, he started to say.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
That, I don't see horn.

Speaker 6 (18:19):
Horn hasn't been in the night.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
I said I was gonna dance with her.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
You're a little drink walking Get out of here.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
He's a lady alone.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
What lady you take that?

Speaker 8 (18:30):
Batman?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Are you from Texas?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Mister here, yes, I am.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well now if ires from Texas, i'd certainly keep it
to myself.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
You're wrong watching.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
There's a lot of good decent people in Texas.

Speaker 7 (18:44):
Maybe since you left, that's the one you can even
get a woman like this.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Don't you be judging?

Speaker 6 (18:50):
The people are texting.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
I get out of the way. Let me throw him.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
He drew on, mister Dolan.

Speaker 6 (19:10):
How was only gonna fight him? I didn't think he'd draw.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Everybody saw at Chester he had his gun out first.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
I shot him twice.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
He didn't even fire. How come he didn't kill?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
To take it easy? Chester? To set him. Don't get
him a drink with it? Uh Watson, Uh Watson, little
Texas brower. He shot me, Watson. Watson listened to me

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the juice strangled Argon Dargon.

Speaker 9 (19:54):
We killed him me in the horror, right, Rue, Jay,
There it comes.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
If i'd take Horn alive, I'll call on some of
you member's witnesses to Watson's confession here. Well, uh, a
couple of you take him up back Chester. You are right,
he'll look peak.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
I got him distuputers like you said, drink it.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Down, Chester, mister Dylan. Yeah, mister, if.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
He hadn't been drunk, I couldn't have shot him.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
All that may be, Chester, but don't forget one thing.
Drunk as he was, he drew to kill you. If
you'd given him another second, he would have. You had
to shoot him. It was self defense, pure and simple. Yes,
that's sure true, But I how you stay here for
a while.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
I'll be out in the plaza to say, to get
me one more drinks.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
The word of the gunfight would spread faster than Dodge,
and the word of the dying man's confession even faster.
Wherever Horn was, I knew you'd hear about it. And
since he was a gunman of an entirely different breed
from men like Watson and dorg and it could be
depended on it. Instead of running, he shoot it out
with me. It was a simplement or of vanity, and

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there was no way to stop him. The only thing
I could do was wait expectantly. The plaza cleared, but
before Horn showed up, Chester came out of the Texas
Trail and walked over to me. Mister Ding, you are
right now, Chester.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I'm fine.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
But say I just traded that Horns gone and got
himself a shotgun. How's that so you can't meet him
like this? I'll go get you one out office. No,
but mister Dillon a shot I know. But if Horn's
done that, he's lost his nerve. It means he can't
face me any other way.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, but you haven't got a chance against a shotgun.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
I will soon find out Harry comes. He does have
a shotgun, mister Dylon. All right, got off the street, Chester,
I don't like go on?

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yes you.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Evening Marshall. You're well armed one yeah, any this is
the first time, isn't it? First time? What you had
to get behind a shotgun? I ain't taking no chances, Marshall. Sure,

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and from what I've heard, that never bothered you before.
Meaning you're fast enough with a six gun to have
lived this long. Horn, you must be pretty good. But
your throne now you've lost your nerve. You're not a
gunman anymore. You're just ordinary dirt common. That's nothing that

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I could find a dozen men like you in any
saloon in town. It was different before horn. You kind
of stood out a little. Nobody's gonna worry about you.
After this, you think, Nah, you think I need this shotgun?
Caush you needed. Everybody can see that. I ain't scared

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of you, Marshalls. I ain't scared. No man alive talks cheap,
ain't talking.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yeah, Now, I ain't got no shotgun. Now, don't you
tell me I'm scared. You don't have to draw a horn.
It can still take your chances in court.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
It was right, Marshall. I was scared. I ain't no more. Look,
I'm giving you a chance. Why don't you take it?
Never mind?

Speaker 8 (24:51):
Oh you all right?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Me yan, Yeah, yeah, been along day. Let's go somewhere
and try and prick at it.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan us Marshall. Tonight's story was especially
written for Gun Smoke by Johnson, with music composed and
conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in the cast were Tom Tully,
Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov and Lillian Bayan Parley, bear Is,
Chester and Georgia Ellis Is Kiddy. Gun Smoke is heard

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