September 10, 2025 • 24 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US marshal and the smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoked, starring William Conrad, The Story of
(00:41):
the Violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm that dry.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I could fair spit cotton, miss Billing.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Or you can fill up at the Oilipraganza when we
got back to Dodge Chester.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yes, sir, but.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Right now I've settled for a drink of water. You
can't be that thirsty.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm about to stampede.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
Do you think there might be a spring in that
plumper elder up ahead?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Other?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Might I swear next time I'm gonna carry a water bag.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
And keep it wrapped in your pillow.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I suppose I'm in a Chester time.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Life has made you mighty soft.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
That's far enough for.
Speaker 8 (01:50):
He's gonna rifle, mister gillons Yuh, who are you men?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
We're looking for water? Is there a spring in there?
Speaker 6 (02:06):
I said, who are you? What's your name? Matt Dylan?
And I'm just you're proud for you don't worry me
and I never heard no Dylan, And.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Then you shouldn't mind if we get a little water.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, but you'll have to drop them gun belts first,
one at a time.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Sorry, you heard me. You can't shoot both of us, mister,
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Harp?
Speaker 9 (02:36):
One of them's called Dylan, Dylan from Dodge, You from Dodge, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
What he says. Well, bring him in here. He'll help us.
He's a US Marshall, A Marshall.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
That's right, Harp.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
And instead of us stating here about to shoot each other,
why don't you tell me why you need help? I'm
Joe Harp Marshall. Okay, who's your friend Harry? I never
heard of him either once the matter? Has he been
shot or something?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I busted his leg? Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I was a doctor and Dodge.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I can't get him there alone.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I will help you if you'll put that rifle down.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, okay, I found him lying out there on the
prairie this morning.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Horse throwed him when I drug him into the shade here.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You mean you're not traveling with him?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
No, I just stopped to help him, Are you really?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Marshall?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Dylon, I am, but I don't remember you.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I ain't never been to Dodge. I heard your name.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Though you live around here.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Spinner.
Speaker 9 (03:48):
No, I've been working in a saloon down in Tascosa.
Want to chains so I bought me a horse and
rode north. But it shouldn't have come alone. I don't
know nothing about I hate him.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
We better get you in the dodge.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I suppose you aim to drag me the dodge. Well,
I've been drug as far as.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I'm gonna be.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Well, I had to get you out of the Sun's Speiner.
It was mighty rough about it.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Well, he saved your life, mystery. Why shouldn't he save
my life? Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
I'm grateful, mean Camber.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
He's been like that all day.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
By figure, it's because his leg hurts, and of course
it hurts.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I busted mine once. I know what it feels like.
Poor fella.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You want to help get him into Dodge, Harper, you
want to keep going?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
No, No, Marshall, I kind of like to see Dodge anyway.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Okay, then let's get busy.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Luckily Speiner had broken only one bone in his leg,
and after we've rigged up a splint for it, we
managed to get him mounted. It was night before we
reached Dodge, but by the time he got there he
was too weak to complain anyway. I was more interested
in Joe Harp, but all I could find out was
that he was a cowboy.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Drifting aimlessly through the country, like so many of his kind.
He said he had a little money from his last job,
and that's why he'd been so wary of strangers.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And he seemed honest enough. That's six weeks later. He
was still in Dudge, gambling son and making friends with
most everybody in town. Doc and I were talking about
him one day in the office.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Do you know what he did?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Mad about three of four weeks?
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Agoo?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
What uh?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Why?
Speaker 10 (05:32):
He came and offered to pay Speiner's bill. He said,
the poor fella wouldn't be able to work for some time.
As long as he'd saved him. He felt he hard
to help take care of him.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Why did you take his money?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I did not.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
Speiner can pay me himself, and he'd better get to
work soon, true, because he was already walking around without
a king.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I uh take it. You don't like Speiner much? Oh right,
do you? Well?
Speaker 10 (05:58):
Nobody does, and I know of I don't believe he's
even thank Joe Hart for saving his life.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Now, well, man, mister Santa Fee, just come inder the mayor,
mister Dillon, no doctor.
Speaker 10 (06:10):
Hello, just did oh see that brown envelope looks official?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
It is you an old mit now, mister Doning.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, I bet I might have my paycheck in it.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
M yeah, thanks?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Uh, no check, just some new wanted circulars.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
What what is it.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Here? Have a look?
Speaker 11 (06:40):
Chester?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Oh my goodness, what is that?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Doctor?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Huh? How do you see this?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
As you say?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Want it dead or alive? Reward five hundred dollars for bankrupting
and murder while escaping Joseph harp.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Joseph harp Age thirty two.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
Sandy here, six feet tall, blue eyes.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
That's him.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
I signed by the Sheriff City of Denver, Colorado Territories.
You can arrest him.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Mat Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Can't you pretend you didn't get it or something?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Mister Dillon, you can stay here if you like, Chester, Oh,
most I didn't mean nine.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Alright, tell you take.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
The aliferg Anasa, the long Horn, and the Oasis. I'll
look in this boarding house at to get your town.
Then I'll come back to the Texas trail. Meet me
there if you see him first. Yes, alright, that.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
Movie m a kitty, you look like you've been eating cockleberds.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Mat Uh, I don't see Joe Harp around anywhere, Kitty,
Well he left?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Why has Chester got here yet?
Speaker 10 (08:20):
No?
Speaker 13 (08:22):
Was the trouble of some kind.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I I'm after Harp, Kitty, how long ago to leave?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
A little while ago?
Speaker 14 (08:29):
He was over there gambling as usual, and then that
Speiner came running in and said something to him, and
they both left. Speiner somebody ought to take him out
and bury him somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Uh, I couldn't find him. No, where's mister Dillon to
tell him?
Speaker 13 (08:43):
He's Kitty Chester? What's this all about? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Harp's wanted for murder, for murder, Joe Harp. That's just
what Speiner said when I told him.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
He just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
You told Spiner and Chester?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Why, yes, Sir?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I ran into him and I h.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Go get our horses.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Chester.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'll pick up the rifles and hurry.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They've had time to get out of town already.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Mister Dylan, what.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
My I guess I just wasn't thinking when I told
Spener about Joe Harp.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I didn't know he was gonna.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Run off and warn him next time, i'll send you
out with a potato ramped in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yes, sir, I feel so bad. I wish you would.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I forgot that Chester at least it chose. Spinner isn't
as bad as we all thought. I guess he was
just waiting for a chance to do Harp a real
good turn.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Well he sure did it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Hold it up a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Look, Oh, well it's Speiner, mister Dillon. He's got his
hands up.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yeah, come on, get your rifle out of Chester and
keep your eyes open as.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
You now, don't you, Marshall, I ain't done nothing where
it's Harper. He's in that drawer behind me.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Any tricks and you'll die.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Spinner, I ain't no outlaw, and Harp ain't gonna pull
no tricks neither.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
He just follow me, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And that's where I don't understand this at all.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Mister Dillon, just following Chester. Yes, there's his horse, Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
There he is.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Well he's been hurd he sure has o well as
your man, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Did you do this, Speinner?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I tried to talk.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Him into giving himself up, but he wouldn't listen, and
then he tried to draw on me.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Spinner.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I can tell from here the way he's lying that
you shot him in the back.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
What difference it make?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
He's an outlaw and he.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, five hundred dollars worth of outlaw, Spinner, if you
live to collect it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, the Red Cross campaign
for this year is nearing an end. Have you answered
the call? Remember this year the Red Cross needs you
as well as your contribution. Go to your local Red
Cross chapter and while you're there, join and serve. Now
the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
We buried Joe Harp on the prairie where he'd been
killed the road back to Dodge. That night, I wrote
out I wired to the sheriff and Denver claiming the
reward for Harry Speener. Then I showed it to Speener
and told him to keep it quiet and I'll sort
of stay out of nice sight.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And he did.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Now about a week later I had to send Chester
to find him and bring him into the office.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Here's mister Dylon. Come over here, Spinner.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I've been waiting, Like you said, Marshall, I ain't talk
to nobody.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I had a wire from Denver this afternoon's Spinner. Everything's alright.
The money will be here in another week or so.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Oh, I thought i'd come. Now there it is, But
I I thought you said it wasn't hear yet.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'm paying you out a government funds.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Oh well that's fine.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Yeah, I didn't think you'd mind very much how you
got the.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Money now, Marshall, I have only done my counted. Oh
that's alright, I'm sure it's all here, Marshall.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
Count it, I said, yes, sir, one, two three, m find.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Here satisfied five hundred. That's right, Spinner. Nobody knows about
this yet. They think I killed Joe Harp, But before
they learn who did and how it was done, I
advise you to clear out a dodge and stay out.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Why I didn't do nothing to tell.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Me something, Spinner? Is Harp the first man you have killed,
of course he is. Oh, there are men around here
who've killed ten or a dozen and think nothing of it.
But I won't guarantee how they gonna take the year.
Having killed one man.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
They can't do nothing about it.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
It was plumb legal, Yeah, yeah, it was legal.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
I iron this money and before I leave, Dodge, I'm
gonna double it gambling, and there ain't nobody gonna stop me.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Okay, Spinner, I warn you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'm gonna get rich.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
Marshall, I'll show 'em real. Rick, get out of here.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
I'm going, is it, Matt?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Oh? Thanks, Kitty drank No?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
No, no thanks?
Speaker 13 (15:28):
Speener was in?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Now?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Was that?
Speaker 10 (15:30):
So?
Speaker 13 (15:31):
He left?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Though?
Speaker 14 (15:32):
They closed the game on him when he started bragging
about how he got his money.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I kinda figured they might.
Speaker 13 (15:37):
Why'd you keep it such a secret, Matt? What were
you protecting him for that?
Speaker 9 (15:42):
No?
Speaker 13 (15:42):
Delivered little sneak.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now, the law doesn't separate people that way, Kitty. But
now that he's been paid and he's been warned about
what might happen, he's on his own.
Speaker 14 (15:51):
Well, I hope somebody does shoot him. Just think, Mad,
it was Joe Harp who saved his life.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Had a car harpeny.
Speaker 13 (16:01):
I know somehow that's different.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Yeah, that's a lot different. And okay, that's a pretty
dress you were wearing.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
Close your eyes, ma'am, close him. Go on.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Okay, what's his for now?
Speaker 13 (16:23):
Tell me what colored his dress is?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
M Uh, well it's uh.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Uh it's blue man blue? Sure, I was just about
to say that.
Speaker 13 (16:36):
I know, speaking of colors. Look what's coming?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Huh oh it's Spain it I don't nobody's shot him yet.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Never too late, Marshall, Dilla, Yeah, Marshall, I just tried
to buy a drink over at the otherp again.
Speaker 13 (16:53):
And they wouldn't serve your gun.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
I'm not talking to you, Marshall. Two men threatened kill
me right there at the bar.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
That's funny. What do you mean Most men around here
don't waste much time on threats.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Marshall. Had demand protection, and I won't spend the night
hiding in jail.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Either, Okay, and you come with me?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
No what, I can't protect you anymore than I have already, Spinner.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
But I'll tell you one thing. If you take off
your gun, nobody.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Can claim self defense for shooting you, and I'll have
to go after him. If that's any satisfaction.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
For you, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I'm a citizen and I had the man out of town.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Spinner, get out, now, what do Yeah? Could you lend
me a dollar?
Speaker 15 (17:54):
I went broke last night gambling. Yes, sir, all right
here you are Chester, thank you? Hey, wait a minute,
you told me you swore off gambling a week ago.
You even took an oath I did, I sure I did.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
Was that?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
How come you went broke gambling last night?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
I no, sir, I said I went broke, And you
said gambling, And I sugges, sir, But I didn't say
I was gambling.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Well, Chester, keep that dollar, just go spend it somewhere.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Yes, but you don't understand. You see, I've got it
all figured out. I swore off gambling, all right. So
what to do now is to hire a fella and
I give him the money.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Then he goes and sits in a game far you see.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Uh, Hello, Claire Marsha.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
What horse come back? But what horse? To one?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Speiner bought off me when he left town. Spinner's been
gone five days, Clay, Well, no, but my horse come back,
Marshall alone saddle, yes, sir, but it ain't my saddle.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
It's Speiner's.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Means somebody must have caught up with him, mister Dylon.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
All right, we'll start looking for him. I can tell
you where to look, Marshall. What that horse has got
red mudd all over his legs. There's only one place
I know where he'd get into red mud around here.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Now that watering hole Grande Springs.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
So that's right, Marshall. Say, do I get to keep
the horse now?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I don't know, Kay, I don't tell you when I
got back.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You know, I just had a thought, mister Dylon Rochester, Well,
Granby Springs is only thirty mile.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Spiner must have made it easy the first morning he left.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I saw.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
So if he was killed there, how come nobody ain't
found him and reported it yet?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I don't know Chester, that there, it is right over there.
We'll soon find out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yes, that team, mister Dillon.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
He sure looks dead.
Speaker 16 (20:19):
Yeah, I don't see no bullet hole.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
No, he's still breathing.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Chester. Uh, go fill up your hat and throw some
water on him.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Huh yes, spinner.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
A spinner huh h spinner, m can you hear me? Oh? Uh?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Pour a little on his had Chester, Maybe that will
do it.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And uh what Marshall Marshall.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yeah, yeah, what happens? Meaner, Well, what's the matter? What happened?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Horse?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Kick me, kick me in, belly, busted me up inside?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I hate horses. Oh when did this happen?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
First day I got off to get me a drink.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Here, I hung on to the there's the rains. Uh, yesterday,
that was two.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Weak mister Dylan. What these fresh tracks all around here?
Not just then? Maybe that horse of his is neither
sure the first tracks, what.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Three or four men been by here? Three or four men.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
They they just sat and looked at me, Marshall. They
didn't sing it, I didn't just sat and looked at me.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
And then they rode off, every one of 'em.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
They seen who was mister Dillon. That's what Yuh?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
It too late now, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
I'm gonna gonna die.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Iw We'll try to get your back speinner.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Oh, it's too he's dead, Jester, yes, s.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
He wasn't as lucky as when he busted his leg.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Was he?
Speaker 8 (22:57):
But you'd think one of them writers might have helped him.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
They do not, except for us. I guess there's no
man in the country to them helped him this time Chester.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
Harry Bartel, James Nusser and John Dayner, Parley Bear is Chester,
Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kiddy. Gun
(23:58):
Smoke has been selected by the Armed Forces Radio Service
to be heard by our troops overseas. Join us again
next week as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights to bring
law and order out of the wild violence of the
West in gun Smoke. Later tonight, here Herb Shriner on
(24:26):
two for the money, remember one for the fun, two
for the quiz. Here two for the Money on most
of the same stations. Later tonight George Walsh speaking Stay
tuned for Gangbusters, which follows in a few minutes over
most of these same stations, or mystery mixed with merriment.
Joined Mister and Missus North Tuesday evenings on the CBS
Radio Network.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US marshal and the smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoked, starring William Conrad, The Story of
(00:41):
the Violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm that dry.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I could fair spit cotton, miss Billing.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Or you can fill up at the Oilipraganza when we
got back to Dodge Chester.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yes, sir, but.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Right now I've settled for a drink of water. You
can't be that thirsty.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm about to stampede.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
Do you think there might be a spring in that
plumper elder up ahead?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Other?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Might I swear next time I'm gonna carry a water bag.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
And keep it wrapped in your pillow.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I suppose I'm in a Chester time.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Life has made you mighty soft.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
That's far enough for.
Speaker 8 (01:50):
He's gonna rifle, mister gillons Yuh, who are you men?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
We're looking for water? Is there a spring in there?
Speaker 6 (02:06):
I said, who are you? What's your name? Matt Dylan?
And I'm just you're proud for you don't worry me
and I never heard no Dylan, And.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Then you shouldn't mind if we get a little water.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, but you'll have to drop them gun belts first,
one at a time.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Sorry, you heard me. You can't shoot both of us, mister,
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Harp?
Speaker 9 (02:36):
One of them's called Dylan, Dylan from Dodge, You from Dodge, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
What he says. Well, bring him in here. He'll help us.
He's a US Marshall, A Marshall.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
That's right, Harp.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
And instead of us stating here about to shoot each other,
why don't you tell me why you need help? I'm
Joe Harp Marshall. Okay, who's your friend Harry? I never
heard of him either once the matter? Has he been
shot or something?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I busted his leg? Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I was a doctor and Dodge.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I can't get him there alone.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I will help you if you'll put that rifle down.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, okay, I found him lying out there on the
prairie this morning.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Horse throwed him when I drug him into the shade here.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You mean you're not traveling with him?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
No, I just stopped to help him, Are you really?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Marshall?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Dylon, I am, but I don't remember you.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I ain't never been to Dodge. I heard your name.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Though you live around here.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Spinner.
Speaker 9 (03:48):
No, I've been working in a saloon down in Tascosa.
Want to chains so I bought me a horse and
rode north. But it shouldn't have come alone. I don't
know nothing about I hate him.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
We better get you in the dodge.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I suppose you aim to drag me the dodge. Well,
I've been drug as far as.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I'm gonna be.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Well, I had to get you out of the Sun's Speiner.
It was mighty rough about it.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Well, he saved your life, mystery. Why shouldn't he save
my life? Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
I'm grateful, mean Camber.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
He's been like that all day.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
By figure, it's because his leg hurts, and of course
it hurts.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I busted mine once. I know what it feels like.
Poor fella.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You want to help get him into Dodge, Harper, you
want to keep going?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
No, No, Marshall, I kind of like to see Dodge anyway.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Okay, then let's get busy.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Luckily Speiner had broken only one bone in his leg,
and after we've rigged up a splint for it, we
managed to get him mounted. It was night before we
reached Dodge, but by the time he got there he
was too weak to complain anyway. I was more interested
in Joe Harp, but all I could find out was
that he was a cowboy.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Drifting aimlessly through the country, like so many of his kind.
He said he had a little money from his last job,
and that's why he'd been so wary of strangers.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And he seemed honest enough. That's six weeks later. He
was still in Dudge, gambling son and making friends with
most everybody in town. Doc and I were talking about
him one day in the office.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Do you know what he did?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Mad about three of four weeks?
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Agoo?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
What uh?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Why?
Speaker 10 (05:32):
He came and offered to pay Speiner's bill. He said,
the poor fella wouldn't be able to work for some time.
As long as he'd saved him. He felt he hard
to help take care of him.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Why did you take his money?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I did not.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
Speiner can pay me himself, and he'd better get to
work soon, true, because he was already walking around without
a king.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I uh take it. You don't like Speiner much? Oh right,
do you? Well?
Speaker 10 (05:58):
Nobody does, and I know of I don't believe he's
even thank Joe Hart for saving his life.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Now, well, man, mister Santa Fee, just come inder the mayor,
mister Dillon, no doctor.
Speaker 10 (06:10):
Hello, just did oh see that brown envelope looks official?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
It is you an old mit now, mister Doning.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, I bet I might have my paycheck in it.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
M yeah, thanks?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Uh, no check, just some new wanted circulars.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
What what is it.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Here? Have a look?
Speaker 11 (06:40):
Chester?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Oh my goodness, what is that?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Doctor?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Huh? How do you see this?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
As you say?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Want it dead or alive? Reward five hundred dollars for bankrupting
and murder while escaping Joseph harp.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Joseph harp Age thirty two.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
Sandy here, six feet tall, blue eyes.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
That's him.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
I signed by the Sheriff City of Denver, Colorado Territories.
You can arrest him.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Mat Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Can't you pretend you didn't get it or something?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Mister Dillon, you can stay here if you like, Chester, Oh,
most I didn't mean nine.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Alright, tell you take.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
The aliferg Anasa, the long Horn, and the Oasis. I'll
look in this boarding house at to get your town.
Then I'll come back to the Texas trail. Meet me
there if you see him first. Yes, alright, that.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
Movie m a kitty, you look like you've been eating cockleberds.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Mat Uh, I don't see Joe Harp around anywhere, Kitty,
Well he left?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Why has Chester got here yet?
Speaker 10 (08:20):
No?
Speaker 13 (08:22):
Was the trouble of some kind.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I I'm after Harp, Kitty, how long ago to leave?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
A little while ago?
Speaker 14 (08:29):
He was over there gambling as usual, and then that
Speiner came running in and said something to him, and
they both left. Speiner somebody ought to take him out
and bury him somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Uh, I couldn't find him. No, where's mister Dillon to
tell him?
Speaker 13 (08:43):
He's Kitty Chester? What's this all about? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Harp's wanted for murder, for murder, Joe Harp. That's just
what Speiner said when I told him.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
He just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
You told Spiner and Chester?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Why, yes, Sir?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I ran into him and I h.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Go get our horses.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Chester.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'll pick up the rifles and hurry.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They've had time to get out of town already.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Mister Dylan, what.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
My I guess I just wasn't thinking when I told
Spener about Joe Harp.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I didn't know he was gonna.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Run off and warn him next time, i'll send you
out with a potato ramped in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yes, sir, I feel so bad. I wish you would.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I forgot that Chester at least it chose. Spinner isn't
as bad as we all thought. I guess he was
just waiting for a chance to do Harp a real
good turn.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Well he sure did it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Hold it up a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Look, Oh, well it's Speiner, mister Dillon. He's got his
hands up.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yeah, come on, get your rifle out of Chester and
keep your eyes open as.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
You now, don't you, Marshall, I ain't done nothing where
it's Harper. He's in that drawer behind me.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Any tricks and you'll die.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Spinner, I ain't no outlaw, and Harp ain't gonna pull
no tricks neither.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
He just follow me, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And that's where I don't understand this at all.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Mister Dillon, just following Chester. Yes, there's his horse, Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
There he is.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Well he's been hurd he sure has o well as
your man, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Did you do this, Speinner?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I tried to talk.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Him into giving himself up, but he wouldn't listen, and
then he tried to draw on me.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Spinner.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I can tell from here the way he's lying that
you shot him in the back.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
What difference it make?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
He's an outlaw and he.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, five hundred dollars worth of outlaw, Spinner, if you
live to collect it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, the Red Cross campaign
for this year is nearing an end. Have you answered
the call? Remember this year the Red Cross needs you
as well as your contribution. Go to your local Red
Cross chapter and while you're there, join and serve. Now
the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
We buried Joe Harp on the prairie where he'd been
killed the road back to Dodge. That night, I wrote
out I wired to the sheriff and Denver claiming the
reward for Harry Speener. Then I showed it to Speener
and told him to keep it quiet and I'll sort
of stay out of nice sight.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And he did.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Now about a week later I had to send Chester
to find him and bring him into the office.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Here's mister Dylon. Come over here, Spinner.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I've been waiting, Like you said, Marshall, I ain't talk
to nobody.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I had a wire from Denver this afternoon's Spinner. Everything's alright.
The money will be here in another week or so.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Oh, I thought i'd come. Now there it is, But
I I thought you said it wasn't hear yet.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'm paying you out a government funds.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Oh well that's fine.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Yeah, I didn't think you'd mind very much how you
got the.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Money now, Marshall, I have only done my counted. Oh
that's alright, I'm sure it's all here, Marshall.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
Count it, I said, yes, sir, one, two three, m find.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Here satisfied five hundred. That's right, Spinner. Nobody knows about
this yet. They think I killed Joe Harp, But before
they learn who did and how it was done, I
advise you to clear out a dodge and stay out.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Why I didn't do nothing to tell.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Me something, Spinner? Is Harp the first man you have killed,
of course he is. Oh, there are men around here
who've killed ten or a dozen and think nothing of it.
But I won't guarantee how they gonna take the year.
Having killed one man.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
They can't do nothing about it.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
It was plumb legal, Yeah, yeah, it was legal.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
I iron this money and before I leave, Dodge, I'm
gonna double it gambling, and there ain't nobody gonna stop me.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Okay, Spinner, I warn you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'm gonna get rich.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
Marshall, I'll show 'em real. Rick, get out of here.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
I'm going, is it, Matt?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Oh? Thanks, Kitty drank No?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
No, no thanks?
Speaker 13 (15:28):
Speener was in?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Now?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Was that?
Speaker 10 (15:30):
So?
Speaker 13 (15:31):
He left?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Though?
Speaker 14 (15:32):
They closed the game on him when he started bragging
about how he got his money.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I kinda figured they might.
Speaker 13 (15:37):
Why'd you keep it such a secret, Matt? What were
you protecting him for that?
Speaker 9 (15:42):
No?
Speaker 13 (15:42):
Delivered little sneak.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now, the law doesn't separate people that way, Kitty. But
now that he's been paid and he's been warned about
what might happen, he's on his own.
Speaker 14 (15:51):
Well, I hope somebody does shoot him. Just think, Mad,
it was Joe Harp who saved his life.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Had a car harpeny.
Speaker 13 (16:01):
I know somehow that's different.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Yeah, that's a lot different. And okay, that's a pretty
dress you were wearing.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
Close your eyes, ma'am, close him. Go on.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Okay, what's his for now?
Speaker 13 (16:23):
Tell me what colored his dress is?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
M Uh, well it's uh.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Uh it's blue man blue? Sure, I was just about
to say that.
Speaker 13 (16:36):
I know, speaking of colors. Look what's coming?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Huh oh it's Spain it I don't nobody's shot him yet.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Never too late, Marshall, Dilla, Yeah, Marshall, I just tried
to buy a drink over at the otherp again.
Speaker 13 (16:53):
And they wouldn't serve your gun.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
I'm not talking to you, Marshall. Two men threatened kill
me right there at the bar.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
That's funny. What do you mean Most men around here
don't waste much time on threats.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Marshall. Had demand protection, and I won't spend the night
hiding in jail.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Either, Okay, and you come with me?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
No what, I can't protect you anymore than I have already, Spinner.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
But I'll tell you one thing. If you take off
your gun, nobody.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Can claim self defense for shooting you, and I'll have
to go after him. If that's any satisfaction.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
For you, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I'm a citizen and I had the man out of town.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Spinner, get out, now, what do Yeah? Could you lend
me a dollar?
Speaker 15 (17:54):
I went broke last night gambling. Yes, sir, all right
here you are Chester, thank you? Hey, wait a minute,
you told me you swore off gambling a week ago.
You even took an oath I did, I sure I did.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
Was that?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
How come you went broke gambling last night?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
I no, sir, I said I went broke, And you
said gambling, And I sugges, sir, But I didn't say
I was gambling.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Well, Chester, keep that dollar, just go spend it somewhere.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Yes, but you don't understand. You see, I've got it
all figured out. I swore off gambling, all right. So
what to do now is to hire a fella and
I give him the money.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Then he goes and sits in a game far you see.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Uh, Hello, Claire Marsha.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
What horse come back? But what horse? To one?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Speiner bought off me when he left town. Spinner's been
gone five days, Clay, Well, no, but my horse come back,
Marshall alone saddle, yes, sir, but it ain't my saddle.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
It's Speiner's.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Means somebody must have caught up with him, mister Dylon.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
All right, we'll start looking for him. I can tell
you where to look, Marshall. What that horse has got
red mudd all over his legs. There's only one place
I know where he'd get into red mud around here.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Now that watering hole Grande Springs.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
So that's right, Marshall. Say, do I get to keep
the horse now?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I don't know, Kay, I don't tell you when I
got back.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You know, I just had a thought, mister Dylon Rochester, Well,
Granby Springs is only thirty mile.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Spiner must have made it easy the first morning he left.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I saw.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
So if he was killed there, how come nobody ain't
found him and reported it yet?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I don't know Chester, that there, it is right over there.
We'll soon find out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yes, that team, mister Dillon.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
He sure looks dead.
Speaker 16 (20:19):
Yeah, I don't see no bullet hole.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
No, he's still breathing.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Chester. Uh, go fill up your hat and throw some
water on him.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Huh yes, spinner.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
A spinner huh h spinner, m can you hear me? Oh? Uh?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Pour a little on his had Chester, Maybe that will
do it.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And uh what Marshall Marshall.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yeah, yeah, what happens? Meaner, Well, what's the matter? What happened?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Horse?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Kick me, kick me in, belly, busted me up inside?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I hate horses. Oh when did this happen?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
First day I got off to get me a drink.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Here, I hung on to the there's the rains. Uh, yesterday,
that was two.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Weak mister Dylan. What these fresh tracks all around here?
Not just then? Maybe that horse of his is neither
sure the first tracks, what.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Three or four men been by here? Three or four men.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
They they just sat and looked at me, Marshall. They
didn't sing it, I didn't just sat and looked at me.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
And then they rode off, every one of 'em.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
They seen who was mister Dillon. That's what Yuh?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
It too late now, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
I'm gonna gonna die.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Iw We'll try to get your back speinner.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Oh, it's too he's dead, Jester, yes, s.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
He wasn't as lucky as when he busted his leg.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Was he?
Speaker 8 (22:57):
But you'd think one of them writers might have helped him.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
They do not, except for us. I guess there's no
man in the country to them helped him this time Chester.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
Harry Bartel, James Nusser and John Dayner, Parley Bear is Chester,
Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kiddy. Gun
(23:58):
Smoke has been selected by the Armed Forces Radio Service
to be heard by our troops overseas. Join us again
next week as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights to bring
law and order out of the wild violence of the
West in gun Smoke. Later tonight, here Herb Shriner on
(24:26):
two for the money, remember one for the fun, two
for the quiz. Here two for the Money on most
of the same stations. Later tonight George Walsh speaking Stay
tuned for Gangbusters, which follows in a few minutes over
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