August 30, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Around Dot City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US Marshall and the smell of
gun smoke, gun smoke, storrying William Conrad. The transcribed story
(00:40):
of the Violence that moved West with Young America. The
story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylan,
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Marshall, Quiet night, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, except for that kayo. He's wailing his head off
out there, mad at the moon.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I guess poor in love maybe, Oh yes, to the
way I've noticed it. Anytime you find a man or
an animal out squalling around in the dark.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's usually love.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, but this one sounds kind of mournful.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Chester Wilster. Love is mournful sometimes, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, so I've heard mat is that you? Oh good evening,
miss Marlene.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Have you been that?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh fine? Fine? Thank you? You down here on front
straight this time of night.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Alone, I'm looking for Red Laws and he's a new man,
works for AL. I was meeting him sometime after midnight
and they're going out on a cattle bytom trip.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I want to talk to him first. You're satisfied.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Wow, it's said this is no place for a woman alone,
Miss Morley. Uh, maybe you better go home.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
There are other women down here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They belong here, Miss Morley, they work here.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Oh, don't be so stuffy mad and call me Eva
for once. Everybody else does well.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Your husband might take exception to that, Miss Morning.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Now you're blaming me for what happened before, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm not blaming you for anything this morning.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I didn't tell him to get into a gunfight over me.
It wasn't my fault.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I didn't say it was.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Chester.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You better see that Miss Morley gets home all right.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yes, I can get home by myself.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
My she's pretty as a picture. It makes you wonder, and.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Maybe you were right Chester. With a woman like that,
love might be kind of mournful.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
So I just give my rope a cup of turns
around that Jennifer stump and I jerk back and that.
Oh hi, Marshall, I wonder if I could see you
for a minute. Huh yeah, sure, be right backwards. What's
on your mind, Marshall, Boston.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I just ran into Miss Morley in the street outside
he did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I suggested she'd go home. She's got no business being
down here this time of night. It might be a
good idea, but you'd tell her that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Seems to me it's up to her husband.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Look, you're new here, lost, and I guess you didn't know.
Fred Curtis and the Santa Fe kid.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I heard about it. A couple of fools as far
as I can see.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, I guess they were after they met missus Morley.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hey, love, Marshall. What's yours taking this?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I got no stick what miss Morley does as her
own business, as long as it doesn't cause any trouble.
I'm just trying to keep a peace.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
That's I I feel kind of sorry for. It's all
treats her like a dog.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Uh huh. Fred and the kid used to talk the
same way, Like I said, A couple of fools. I'm
not I hope not.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Stay around Marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, sure, are you kiddy? Could I speak to him?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh? Sure, man?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Excuse me, boy, I'll be back. But man, giddy as hell.
Morley been in tonight?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Oh no, I haven't seen him. Math Should he have
been wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Not necessarily? He and Lawson are writing not around midnight
on a cattle buying trip. I just thought they might
be meeting here.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Oh well, not yet anyway. Jesse Wells didn't know what
the plans are though. Jesse Wells, you have the bartender
down there at the end of the Young One, you
know him?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh yeah, sure, sure, Why would he know?
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Well, he's going along. I'll ask him to help out there,
gonna follow the lazy being round up, try to get
in ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Of the buyers from Chicago.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh yeah, he uh, he's a nice looking kid. I
wonder if.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah, he's another friend Avis.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh what hold.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Marshall, Marshall, dyn Oh, come awake, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
All right, all right, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh is it Jesse you Wells? Marshall opened the.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Door, all right, just the second, so I'll get it.
What's the trouble, Wells, al Morley Marshall, then you better
get your horse because we got to ride back out
there where what happened? Buffalo fletch? We can't there wait
for the round up crew. And now he's dead, Marshall.
He's knife in the back. Did you do no? It
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was Red Loss and he knife down.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
He stole the money we're gonna use to buy cat.
What in the world is going on? Miss Dylon?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You better saddle up. Chester, We got a ride. What's
the trouble? Ah, the usual, nothing new, but the names
seems Red loss and turned out to be a fool
in spite of himself or that way, Marshall. The characters
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right there, but I plumbstick all right?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He daylight in another twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh boy, he's laying over there.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Bushes.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, I see him. Whose knife is a Jesse? It's ours.
We were all asleep. We built a fire, made some
coffee and turned in and wait for daylight. And lazy
b bunch planned to work their stock up this week.
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And I see here Chester wrapped a knife from something
and hang on to it. Yes, don't go on, Jesse.
What happened? Well, well, like I said, Marshall didon. We
were all asleep. I guess it was the sound of
the horses. Horse woke me up and Red lost and
he was pulling out. I run over the Al shook
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him to wake him up and tell him. Then I
saw the knife. He was dead. Why were you asleeping, Jesse? Well,
oh right about here, I guess Red was across the
fire over there, and Al was where's Lena? What about
the money? How'd you know it was gone. Well, I
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thought about it right off. I figured that's why I
Red had done it. Al was caring about ten thousand
dollars in a little leather sack he'd stuck under the
blanket before we'd gone to sleep. So I went and
looked for it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You figure Red killed him for the money, then, well, sure,
because I doubt he meant that though. I think Red
was trying to ease this sack out from under the
blanket when I woke up and caught him.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
It's possible be light enough to start tracking him in
a few minutes, mister Dillon.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, sun's poking up over there. Now looks like it's
gonna be a clear day. Which way to loss? In
the head out Jesse East seemed to be following the
wagon tracks.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh you're bad, mister Dillon. He's got quite a start
on it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
They're too much of a start. Well, let's load the
pack mule Chester. I think we'll ride back in the
Dodge and then take the train from there to apply
and then work back from the east.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Say that's a good idea. Lowson probably won't be expecting
anybody ahead of it.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I can't understand it. I just can't understand how anybody
could could do a.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Thing like this.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It sounds like a metal ark. Chester.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yes, he just flew into those bushes.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Red seemed a pretty nice fella as far as I
could tell. It's a funny time a year for a
medal ark, and it just ten thousand dollars was just
too much temptation.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh, some of them hangs around all winter, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Sure it sounds a lot better than kyote Helen. All right,
Chester got a hold of his feet. Un, let's fload him.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Up, shoe mac crick Water tanks right around the bend
up ahead of us. There along we stop here about
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five minutes long enough, take on water. That's who all relaxed, Marshal.
It's long ways you have the abilene while we ain't.
But twenty four miles from dark City feels.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
More like a hundred. He's seat your harder in a saddle.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Yeah, say yeah, this here, fella, you boy's looking for
I guess he's a real mean or unh.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Huh oh yeah, lean enough.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
Well, it's just like old say it's Ray Country never
gonna be a.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Law abiding place to live.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Every time I pulled out of Kansas City on a
run west. I'm expect never meant to be shot or
hung or scowled Chester.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Matter of mister Dylan, look out the window here around
the bend there for the water tank.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
H looks like we don't have to go to Abiline.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
Oh yeah, only there's so fell away to catch a train.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I guess you boys recognize. Is he the one?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, his horse's head that hide there with the tank.
Must have decided on a quicker way traveling hard luck sat.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
All right, Chester, he won't be expecting us. That's got
out in the vestibule. And then drop off and take
him as soon as the train stops.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yet more so, whatever you do, let me get on
the train.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Just keep the passengers away from the windows in the way.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It's too bad, mister Dillon. His mother would have really
enjoyed that ten thousand dollars. You're guessing Chester's.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And he hasn't seen us yet.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
All right, let's go, boss, Get your hands up. Still
you're under arrest. Got your hands up. No, he's running
for his horse. Mister Dillan, you can't get away on the.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Lot.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Come on, Chester, that's a cutting it off with Then
mister Dylan giving him.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Man, three chances for you haul down on him.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
We're still on our feet.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He's not. Yeah, but it's a push in the odds though.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, I guess all right, pick up his gun there,
will you?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You can, Lawson?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Are you still alive, mister Dylan?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Lawson? Sure? Sure?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Actually hear.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There's a sack of money. Looks like you're going out
of his cool.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, I see it, Lasso. There's no doctor on the train.
We're going to try to stop the bleeding and do
the best we can for you. There'll be a train
back toward Dodge sitting about a half hour. We'll wait
for it. Is that all right with you?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I don't don't have any choice.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
No, I guess you don't. You made your choice last night.
Was she worth it? Let me see? Oh? Oh that's
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a bad one, Matt.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yes, i'd say. The bullets lying righting against his heart and.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I just tried to wing him dark but we were
both moving. You can't always call him, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I guess Well, I'm afraid that's about all I can
do for him.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Man, it's not enough, is that it?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You won't live an hour?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I wish he was conscious. I want to talk to him.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
The stumming it might take effect, and then again might not.
Well this kind of acase you ever known? What is
it you're after?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Miss Morley accessory before the fact, she could have been.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, I'm broken down, old man mad. But if that
woman ruled rise with me just once, well, uh, I know,
I do not know.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I just might. Yeah, Lawson, Lowson, can you talk? Can
you hear me?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Lawton? Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Was missus Morley in on it? Nobody was in on it.
Did she know you were gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
She had, She had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Was she going to meet you somewhere later?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
She had nothing to do with it. It was my I,
nobody else.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Blossolasson. Listen to me. You're dying. Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah? Yeah, I know, I can feel it.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
She wasn't in on it, all right, that's the way
you wanted. At least I won't treat her like a
dog anymore. What do you mean? I mean a dead
man can't bother anybody. I'll you ought to know you
killed him?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, no, no, but.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
He was asleep.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I took the money and rode away. They were both asleep.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I didn't touch you. You're telling the truth. I swear
I didn't care him.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I only stole the money and that I didn't get. Yeah,
I guess I was wrong. Man.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Bullet was closer to his heart and I thought, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I was wrong about something myself.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Ok.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I thought this was the end of it. Now it's
wide open again, wide open.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I don't see why you got me here.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Just ask the same things all over again, Marshall, because
I told you how it happened.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I know you.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Caught Red laws and with the money on him.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Now what more proof.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Do you need? But only proofs he took the money, Jesse.
It doesn't prove he killed al What do you mean, Chester,
You better punch that fire up over there? A little
on does seem to be getting chilly in here?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Marshall?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You killed out yourself, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Jesse?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're out of your mind. You woke up and saw
a red steal the money and take off. And I
give you ideas you slipped over a knife down in
his sleep. Your knew loss had got the blame for it. Well, sure, sure,
because he did it. He said he didn't. Well, Marshall,
did you expect him to tell the truth he was dying,
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Jesse knew he was dying. I think he told the truth.
I see his word against mine, word.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Of a thief.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I didn't say I could prove it, Jesse, but you
did it though we both know that, and sooner or
later I'm going to get you for it. Chester. I
think it a draw better if you'd opened the damper.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Quiet night, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It was a quiet night last night, and two.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Men who were alive last night are gone tonight. Sure
makes you stopping wonder well.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
At least one thing hasn't changed that Kyot's still there.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I guess we'll all we be. Kyle's around, mister Dylon.
What are you gonna do about Jessie Wells?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I don't know, Chester. He's guilty. You could see it
written all over him, but there'd be no use of
bringing him in. I haven't got one piece of evidence.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yes, she's quite a woman, Mercy, quite a woman.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yes she is that all right? Matt? Is that you
good evening? Miss Warley? Were you looking for tonight? Can't
be red Loss and he's.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Dead, so is my husband.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You forgotten my deepest sent Oh.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Father, you know better.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I am sorry about Red though he was nice.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You're the one who did it onto matter.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, yeah, I killed him. Oh yeah, I couldn't do
anything else.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
I don't know why you're say for me. It wasn't
my fault.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, sure, I know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You don't know anything.
Speaker 12 (20:25):
You don't know how it feels to sit in the
house alone with your husband dead, knowing in town coming
near you, like he was poisonous something. Sure I don't
feel sorry about her, but I would have once. He's
the one who changed me, made me feel different.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I know it wasn't your fault.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
And you didn't even come to tell me he was dead.
Why not? It's part of your job, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I didn't come and tell you, miss Morley, because I
figured that you chester. Yes, I would you mind walking
on my head? I meet you on the Texas Trail
in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well all right, mister Dylon, if you say so.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Why'd you send him away? Man?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I I'm just wondering if you were going to be
home later tonight, I could be around the ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Say sure, man, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well are you Kitty?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Just and I were trying to think of some way
to rescue you from avers.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Question only one thing, though, mister Milan, I wasn't sure
you wanted to be rescued.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Kitty has Doc Ben and tonight I haven't seen him Manchester.
When you see if you can find him and have
him meet me here?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yes, you're right away, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Dillon, kitygot I wonder if you'd helped me with something. Sure, Matt,
drop a hint to that bartender Jesse Wells that it
might be smart to slip out of here and pay
a visit to Miss Morley's around.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
I'll say tonight, all right, is it anything you can
talk about?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I don't exactly know how to talk about a kiddy?
I got a murder on my hands. I know who
the killer is, and I can't touch him, so so
I'm gonna try to make him touch me.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
All right, Matt, I'll take care of him.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Would you be around for one?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, I'll be here about ten. It's Matt, Dylan. What'd
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you think just a minute. We'll hurry up. Let me in,
all right, Dylan, come Oni? Well, Jesse, I thought you
were working. I was until just a few minutes ago. Well,
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what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Well, I I think mister Dylan probably wants to ask
me some questions.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do as a matter of fact,
h Jesse Wells for instance. So he didn't tell me
he was gonna be here?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Even what do you mean she didn't tell you? Well? Ava,
what a out this you were expecting? You knew he was.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Coming, cause you knew I was coming. You and Matt.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Dillon for how long?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And what kind of a fool does that make me?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'm afraid you were born a fool, Jesse. That's why
she picked you so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
You said, if only Al didn't stand in our way.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I didn't tell you to kill him. I didn't mention once.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You didn't have to, just kept dropping hints, leading me on,
and all the time, you and Matt Dillon. He's still
smart for you, Jesse. You should have realized that. Yeah,
And instead, I played right into your hands, both of
them now, Jesse, killing Ale, getting.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Them out of your way, given the tool, you a
clear field.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You're under arrest for murder, Jessa. Oh you'd like that,
wouldn't you? Both of you would sit.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Around and laugh about it while you're waiting for me to.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Hang set your under arrest. Hand over your gun.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh, you don't dyl him.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You're not going to carry you that far. You're not
taking me in for something.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Both you wanted me to join.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Over your gun, Jesse, Oh my god, you got to
take it away from me. He got away from the door.
Oh sure, I'll get away from Are you all right? Chester?
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Yes, sir, it was closed, but he missed me. Oh,
you two didn't miss him. I don't know which one
of you fired first. Eve A bullet would have done it.
And then you got his confession, all right, mister Dylan. Doc,
and I heard every word from the front porch chair.
Speaker 11 (25:30):
We sure did only one thing, though, Mad, He he
didn't implicate the woman in it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, I know. Oh you'll take charge, doctor.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
Oh sure, be glad to part of my job, you know,
Mad All right, Chester, let's go, Man.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Could I see you for a minute before you go?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Man?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
What's it add up to, mister Dylon? Three men had
been killed since the same.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Time last night?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Yeah, and you know, mister Dolon, I think maybe it's
kind of all hurtful.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And you can't pin a thing on.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
My hell is one lucky thing. There aren't many women
like Her.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Gun Smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory featured in the cast where
Lillian Baia with Harry Bartel, Lawrence Dobkin and Jack Krusian,
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Speaker 2 (27:11):
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Join us again next week as Matt Dillon US Marshall
fights to bring wall and order out of the wild
violence of the West in Gunsmoke
Around Dot City and in the territory on West. There's
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and that's with a US Marshall and the smell of
gun smoke, gun smoke, storrying William Conrad. The transcribed story
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of the Violence that moved West with Young America. The
story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylan,
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Marshall, Quiet night, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, except for that kayo. He's wailing his head off
out there, mad at the moon.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I guess poor in love maybe, Oh yes, to the
way I've noticed it. Anytime you find a man or
an animal out squalling around in the dark.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's usually love.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, but this one sounds kind of mournful.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Chester Wilster. Love is mournful sometimes, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, so I've heard mat is that you? Oh good evening,
miss Marlene.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Have you been that?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh fine? Fine? Thank you? You down here on front
straight this time of night.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Alone, I'm looking for Red Laws and he's a new man,
works for AL. I was meeting him sometime after midnight
and they're going out on a cattle bytom trip.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I want to talk to him first. You're satisfied.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Wow, it's said this is no place for a woman alone,
Miss Morley. Uh, maybe you better go home.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
There are other women down here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They belong here, Miss Morley, they work here.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Oh, don't be so stuffy mad and call me Eva
for once. Everybody else does well.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Your husband might take exception to that, Miss Morning.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Now you're blaming me for what happened before, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm not blaming you for anything this morning.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I didn't tell him to get into a gunfight over me.
It wasn't my fault.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I didn't say it was.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Chester.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You better see that Miss Morley gets home all right.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yes, I can get home by myself.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
My she's pretty as a picture. It makes you wonder, and.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Maybe you were right Chester. With a woman like that,
love might be kind of mournful.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
So I just give my rope a cup of turns
around that Jennifer stump and I jerk back and that.
Oh hi, Marshall, I wonder if I could see you
for a minute. Huh yeah, sure, be right backwards. What's
on your mind, Marshall, Boston.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I just ran into Miss Morley in the street outside
he did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I suggested she'd go home. She's got no business being
down here this time of night. It might be a
good idea, but you'd tell her that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Seems to me it's up to her husband.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Look, you're new here, lost, and I guess you didn't know.
Fred Curtis and the Santa Fe kid.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I heard about it. A couple of fools as far
as I can see.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, I guess they were after they met missus Morley.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hey, love, Marshall. What's yours taking this?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I got no stick what miss Morley does as her
own business, as long as it doesn't cause any trouble.
I'm just trying to keep a peace.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
That's I I feel kind of sorry for. It's all
treats her like a dog.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Uh huh. Fred and the kid used to talk the
same way, Like I said, A couple of fools. I'm
not I hope not.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Stay around Marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, sure, are you kiddy? Could I speak to him?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh? Sure, man?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Excuse me, boy, I'll be back. But man, giddy as hell.
Morley been in tonight?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Oh no, I haven't seen him. Math Should he have
been wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Not necessarily? He and Lawson are writing not around midnight
on a cattle buying trip. I just thought they might
be meeting here.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Oh well, not yet anyway. Jesse Wells didn't know what
the plans are though. Jesse Wells, you have the bartender
down there at the end of the Young One, you
know him?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh yeah, sure, sure, Why would he know?
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Well, he's going along. I'll ask him to help out there,
gonna follow the lazy being round up, try to get
in ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Of the buyers from Chicago.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh yeah, he uh, he's a nice looking kid. I
wonder if.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah, he's another friend Avis.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh what hold.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Marshall, Marshall, dyn Oh, come awake, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
All right, all right, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh is it Jesse you Wells? Marshall opened the.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Door, all right, just the second, so I'll get it.
What's the trouble, Wells, al Morley Marshall, then you better
get your horse because we got to ride back out
there where what happened? Buffalo fletch? We can't there wait
for the round up crew. And now he's dead, Marshall.
He's knife in the back. Did you do no? It
(07:08):
was Red Loss and he knife down.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
He stole the money we're gonna use to buy cat.
What in the world is going on? Miss Dylon?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You better saddle up. Chester, We got a ride. What's
the trouble? Ah, the usual, nothing new, but the names
seems Red loss and turned out to be a fool
in spite of himself or that way, Marshall. The characters
(07:45):
right there, but I plumbstick all right?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He daylight in another twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh boy, he's laying over there.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Bushes.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, I see him. Whose knife is a Jesse? It's ours.
We were all asleep. We built a fire, made some
coffee and turned in and wait for daylight. And lazy
b bunch planned to work their stock up this week.
(08:25):
And I see here Chester wrapped a knife from something
and hang on to it. Yes, don't go on, Jesse.
What happened? Well, well, like I said, Marshall didon. We
were all asleep. I guess it was the sound of
the horses. Horse woke me up and Red lost and
he was pulling out. I run over the Al shook
(08:49):
him to wake him up and tell him. Then I
saw the knife. He was dead. Why were you asleeping, Jesse? Well,
oh right about here, I guess Red was across the
fire over there, and Al was where's Lena? What about
the money? How'd you know it was gone. Well, I
(09:10):
thought about it right off. I figured that's why I
Red had done it. Al was caring about ten thousand
dollars in a little leather sack he'd stuck under the
blanket before we'd gone to sleep. So I went and
looked for it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You figure Red killed him for the money, then, well, sure,
because I doubt he meant that though. I think Red
was trying to ease this sack out from under the
blanket when I woke up and caught him.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
It's possible be light enough to start tracking him in
a few minutes, mister Dillon.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, sun's poking up over there. Now looks like it's
gonna be a clear day. Which way to loss? In
the head out Jesse East seemed to be following the
wagon tracks.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh you're bad, mister Dillon. He's got quite a start
on it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
They're too much of a start. Well, let's load the
pack mule Chester. I think we'll ride back in the
Dodge and then take the train from there to apply
and then work back from the east.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Say that's a good idea. Lowson probably won't be expecting
anybody ahead of it.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I can't understand it. I just can't understand how anybody
could could do a.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Thing like this.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It sounds like a metal ark. Chester.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yes, he just flew into those bushes.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Red seemed a pretty nice fella as far as I
could tell. It's a funny time a year for a
medal ark, and it just ten thousand dollars was just
too much temptation.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh, some of them hangs around all winter, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Sure it sounds a lot better than kyote Helen. All right,
Chester got a hold of his feet. Un, let's fload him.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Up, shoe mac crick Water tanks right around the bend
up ahead of us. There along we stop here about
(10:58):
five minutes long enough, take on water. That's who all relaxed, Marshal.
It's long ways you have the abilene while we ain't.
But twenty four miles from dark City feels.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
More like a hundred. He's seat your harder in a saddle.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Yeah, say yeah, this here, fella, you boy's looking for
I guess he's a real mean or unh.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Huh oh yeah, lean enough.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
Well, it's just like old say it's Ray Country never
gonna be a.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Law abiding place to live.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Every time I pulled out of Kansas City on a
run west. I'm expect never meant to be shot or
hung or scowled Chester.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Matter of mister Dylan, look out the window here around
the bend there for the water tank.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
H looks like we don't have to go to Abiline.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
Oh yeah, only there's so fell away to catch a train.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I guess you boys recognize. Is he the one?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, his horse's head that hide there with the tank.
Must have decided on a quicker way traveling hard luck sat.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
All right, Chester, he won't be expecting us. That's got
out in the vestibule. And then drop off and take
him as soon as the train stops.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yet more so, whatever you do, let me get on
the train.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Just keep the passengers away from the windows in the way.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It's too bad, mister Dillon. His mother would have really
enjoyed that ten thousand dollars. You're guessing Chester's.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And he hasn't seen us yet.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
All right, let's go, boss, Get your hands up. Still
you're under arrest. Got your hands up. No, he's running
for his horse. Mister Dillan, you can't get away on the.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Lot.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Come on, Chester, that's a cutting it off with Then
mister Dylan giving him.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Man, three chances for you haul down on him.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
We're still on our feet.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He's not. Yeah, but it's a push in the odds though.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, I guess all right, pick up his gun there,
will you?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You can, Lawson?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Are you still alive, mister Dylan?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Lawson? Sure? Sure?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Actually hear.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There's a sack of money. Looks like you're going out
of his cool.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, I see it, Lasso. There's no doctor on the train.
We're going to try to stop the bleeding and do
the best we can for you. There'll be a train
back toward Dodge sitting about a half hour. We'll wait
for it. Is that all right with you?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I don't don't have any choice.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
No, I guess you don't. You made your choice last night.
Was she worth it? Let me see? Oh? Oh that's
(14:11):
a bad one, Matt.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yes, i'd say. The bullets lying righting against his heart and.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I just tried to wing him dark but we were
both moving. You can't always call him, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I guess Well, I'm afraid that's about all I can
do for him.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Man, it's not enough, is that it?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You won't live an hour?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I wish he was conscious. I want to talk to him.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
The stumming it might take effect, and then again might not.
Well this kind of acase you ever known? What is
it you're after?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Miss Morley accessory before the fact, she could have been.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, I'm broken down, old man mad. But if that
woman ruled rise with me just once, well, uh, I know,
I do not know.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I just might. Yeah, Lawson, Lowson, can you talk? Can
you hear me?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Lawton? Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Was missus Morley in on it? Nobody was in on it.
Did she know you were gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
She had, She had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Was she going to meet you somewhere later?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
She had nothing to do with it. It was my I,
nobody else.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Blossolasson. Listen to me. You're dying. Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah? Yeah, I know, I can feel it.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
She wasn't in on it, all right, that's the way
you wanted. At least I won't treat her like a
dog anymore. What do you mean? I mean a dead
man can't bother anybody. I'll you ought to know you
killed him?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, no, no, but.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
He was asleep.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I took the money and rode away. They were both asleep.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I didn't touch you. You're telling the truth. I swear
I didn't care him.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I only stole the money and that I didn't get. Yeah,
I guess I was wrong. Man.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Bullet was closer to his heart and I thought, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I was wrong about something myself.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Ok.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I thought this was the end of it. Now it's
wide open again, wide open.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I don't see why you got me here.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Just ask the same things all over again, Marshall, because
I told you how it happened.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I know you.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Caught Red laws and with the money on him.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Now what more proof.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Do you need? But only proofs he took the money, Jesse.
It doesn't prove he killed al What do you mean, Chester,
You better punch that fire up over there? A little
on does seem to be getting chilly in here?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Marshall?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You killed out yourself, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Jesse?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're out of your mind. You woke up and saw
a red steal the money and take off. And I
give you ideas you slipped over a knife down in
his sleep. Your knew loss had got the blame for it. Well, sure, sure,
because he did it. He said he didn't. Well, Marshall,
did you expect him to tell the truth he was dying,
(18:19):
Jesse knew he was dying. I think he told the truth.
I see his word against mine, word.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Of a thief.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I didn't say I could prove it, Jesse, but you
did it though we both know that, and sooner or
later I'm going to get you for it. Chester. I
think it a draw better if you'd opened the damper.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Quiet night, mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It was a quiet night last night, and two.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Men who were alive last night are gone tonight. Sure
makes you stopping wonder well.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
At least one thing hasn't changed that Kyot's still there.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I guess we'll all we be. Kyle's around, mister Dylon.
What are you gonna do about Jessie Wells?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I don't know, Chester. He's guilty. You could see it
written all over him, but there'd be no use of
bringing him in. I haven't got one piece of evidence.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yes, she's quite a woman, Mercy, quite a woman.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yes she is that all right? Matt? Is that you
good evening? Miss Warley? Were you looking for tonight? Can't
be red Loss and he's.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Dead, so is my husband.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You forgotten my deepest sent Oh.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Father, you know better.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I am sorry about Red though he was nice.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You're the one who did it onto matter.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, yeah, I killed him. Oh yeah, I couldn't do
anything else.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
I don't know why you're say for me. It wasn't
my fault.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, sure, I know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You don't know anything.
Speaker 12 (20:25):
You don't know how it feels to sit in the
house alone with your husband dead, knowing in town coming
near you, like he was poisonous something. Sure I don't
feel sorry about her, but I would have once. He's
the one who changed me, made me feel different.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I know it wasn't your fault.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
And you didn't even come to tell me he was dead.
Why not? It's part of your job, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I didn't come and tell you, miss Morley, because I
figured that you chester. Yes, I would you mind walking
on my head? I meet you on the Texas Trail
in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well all right, mister Dylon, if you say so.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Why'd you send him away? Man?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I I'm just wondering if you were going to be
home later tonight, I could be around the ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Say sure, man, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well are you Kitty?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Just and I were trying to think of some way
to rescue you from avers.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Question only one thing, though, mister Milan, I wasn't sure
you wanted to be rescued.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Kitty has Doc Ben and tonight I haven't seen him Manchester.
When you see if you can find him and have
him meet me here?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yes, you're right away, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Dillon, kitygot I wonder if you'd helped me with something. Sure, Matt,
drop a hint to that bartender Jesse Wells that it
might be smart to slip out of here and pay
a visit to Miss Morley's around.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
I'll say tonight, all right, is it anything you can
talk about?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I don't exactly know how to talk about a kiddy?
I got a murder on my hands. I know who
the killer is, and I can't touch him, so so
I'm gonna try to make him touch me.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
All right, Matt, I'll take care of him.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Would you be around for one?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, I'll be here about ten. It's Matt, Dylan. What'd
(23:12):
you think just a minute. We'll hurry up. Let me in,
all right, Dylan, come Oni? Well, Jesse, I thought you
were working. I was until just a few minutes ago. Well,
(23:33):
what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Well, I I think mister Dylan probably wants to ask
me some questions.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do as a matter of fact,
h Jesse Wells for instance. So he didn't tell me
he was gonna be here?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Even what do you mean she didn't tell you? Well? Ava,
what a out this you were expecting? You knew he was.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Coming, cause you knew I was coming. You and Matt.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Dillon for how long?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And what kind of a fool does that make me?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'm afraid you were born a fool, Jesse. That's why
she picked you so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
You said, if only Al didn't stand in our way.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I didn't tell you to kill him. I didn't mention once.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You didn't have to, just kept dropping hints, leading me on,
and all the time, you and Matt Dillon. He's still
smart for you, Jesse. You should have realized that. Yeah,
And instead, I played right into your hands, both of
them now, Jesse, killing Ale, getting.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Them out of your way, given the tool, you a
clear field.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You're under arrest for murder, Jessa. Oh you'd like that,
wouldn't you? Both of you would sit.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Around and laugh about it while you're waiting for me to.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Hang set your under arrest. Hand over your gun.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh, you don't dyl him.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You're not going to carry you that far. You're not
taking me in for something.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Both you wanted me to join.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Over your gun, Jesse, Oh my god, you got to
take it away from me. He got away from the door.
Oh sure, I'll get away from Are you all right? Chester?
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Yes, sir, it was closed, but he missed me. Oh,
you two didn't miss him. I don't know which one
of you fired first. Eve A bullet would have done it.
And then you got his confession, all right, mister Dylan. Doc,
and I heard every word from the front porch chair.
Speaker 11 (25:30):
We sure did only one thing, though, Mad, He he
didn't implicate the woman in it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, I know. Oh you'll take charge, doctor.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
Oh sure, be glad to part of my job, you know,
Mad All right, Chester, let's go, Man.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Could I see you for a minute before you go?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Man?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
What's it add up to, mister Dylon? Three men had
been killed since the same.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Time last night?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Yeah, and you know, mister Dolon, I think maybe it's
kind of all hurtful.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And you can't pin a thing on.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
My hell is one lucky thing. There aren't many women
like Her.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Gun Smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory featured in the cast where
Lillian Baia with Harry Bartel, Lawrence Dobkin and Jack Krusian,
party vair Is Chester, Howard mcneer's dock, and Georgia Ellis
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