October 26, 2025 • 25 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 Dodd City and the territory on West.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
There's just one way to handle.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
The killers in the Swallers, and that's with the US
Marshal and the.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Spell of gun Smoke, Guns Smoke Story William Conrad, The
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transcribed story of the violence that moved West with Young America,
The story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon,
United States Marshalls.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Ain't we never gonna make camp, mister Dylon. We'll ask
whoever's living in that cabin if I head if there's
any water around here, Chester.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Most likely there Ain't These settlers put up a cabin
just anywhere, and then you start praying for rain.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh we could have camped back on Smoky Hill River.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No, sir, I'd.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Rather go die as long as we make Dodge.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But tomorrow night we'll make it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I never seen such place that Fort Wallace, mister Dillon,
man could go plumb out of his mind living there.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't build army posts for pleasure loving people like you, Chester.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I've been in the army.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh huh uh like it?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We didn't always see eyed eye me in the army,
but at least I didn't get killed cause a lot helps.
I'll bet you look pretty bold in the uniform.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Jesse.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh my, I surely did.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I wonder present anybody home here?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Place looks deserted, mister Dylan. Yeah, uh, here, hold my horse, Chester,
I'll take a look.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Ain't nobody home?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
There's a man in her Chester lying on the floor.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
What he's dead?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Somebody killed him?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Little put the fire out now, mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, we better get started.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
It's like rain this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It's too early to tell for sure. It's too bad we.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Don't know that poll name.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
Mister Dillon sure will heat to bury a man and
not even put a marker.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
On his grave.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'd rather know the name of the man that killed him.
H it's off easy to get by with killing the
man way out here? Yeah, too easy.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Say look over there, mister Dylon.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Go on, there comes a couple of riders.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yea, I see him. Well you suppose there carrying rifles
for stand over there Chester, about ten feet from me.
Huh yes, and keep the hair out of your eyes.
Speaker 11 (03:55):
Yes, well, what are you men doing here?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Do you own this place?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I would live in a shack like that.
Speaker 12 (04:17):
We got a reel house over on Turkey Ben, But
that don't answer my question.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Mister, what are you doing here?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
We found a dead man in the cabinet last night,
so we stopped to bury him.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
The dead man that must have been Riley.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What happened to him? He got shot?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Who woulda shot a nice fella.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Like Bob Riley?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Maybe they'd done a deverer it.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Probably did you.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Maybe we ought to hang It'd.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Be easier to shoot him and leave him here as
a kind of a warning.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
H good idea at.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Jib you move that rifle one inch my sternye O
die for it now, go ahead, mister you're calling it.
He ain't with it?
Speaker 10 (05:00):
Chance alright, mister whoever you are, you and your friend
getting mining.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Right out of here.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You're Giles huh and Deva.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That's right.
Speaker 12 (05:08):
We don't want people around here not getting nighty. To
settle down and you two start riding and right now.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Uh Chester, Yes, that coffee you made this morning was
weak as well. Water got that fire going again and
do some more.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Okay, see.
Speaker 12 (05:26):
Sure got a lot of nerve, mister.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
You don't even blink.
Speaker 11 (05:30):
Deva look at it.
Speaker 12 (05:33):
We'll be by here, lady, mister. We won't ride up
so close. Next time you better be nowheres around. Come on, God,
h I.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Almost stop beatings John.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was two against Tolchester. We'd have made out alright, Yes,
I know, but it's the waiting that chills me.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
See you know something, I'll bet anything.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It was then that killed a fellow that lived here maybe,
And I'm sure I could know more about those two
right now. We better got started a dodge. They're sure
we'll get the horses Chester and I got mounted and
rode maybe a mile and a half when we came
across a sort of a can. There was a man there,
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a tall man with long yellow hair and bright blue
eyes that seemed always to be looking into the distance.
He had a mule, had an old wagon, and some
hogs that he kept in a well built, partly covered pin.
But he hadn't put up a shoulder of any kind
for himself, and it didn't look as though.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He was about to.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We got down and walked over to where he was
standing by a small fire.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
Sat down, man, I got no coffee, but you welcomed
that pot of chick rea.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
There's a poon full of my glasses in it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, thank you. But we just stopped to say hello.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
No need to hurry off, mister. My name's Obie Ridges.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well I know you're Richards. I'm Matt Dullo. This is
Chester crowdfoot now you do.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I don't meet many people out here?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Are you're raising hugs all my life? Not here though?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Where do you live?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Ridgie?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You you've got a house?
Speaker 11 (07:16):
Some word.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
I ain't lived in a house since I was nine
years old. I like it outside.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I need to breathe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well, you're outside here.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
All right, and I ain't gonna move no matter what
they say.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Uh, no matter what who says them? Two fellows up
on Turkey, Ben h Charles and Deaver.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Name is the one?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Uh tell me, Richards. There's a cabin about a mile
and a half north of here. You know the man
that lives there, Riley?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
He comes by here now and then?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Or we buried him last night. Somebody shut him. Mmm.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It's bad, It's real bad. You better tell the law
about it if you're going anywhere, mister. I don't hold
with murdering a man.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, I'm a US Marshall Richards than well man, don't
you ever got another dodge?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
We never have? But I'm going today, boy in that
wagon it'll take you a week.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
No, sir, I'm going horseback, so I swear I don't
see no horse right out there.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Feller, here he comes.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Now there's Jim Branch leading him.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Jim talked me into going to Dodge with him, but
I know I won't like it.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I'm just doing it for Jim's sake, kind of coddling
him along, making him feel good.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What does us Jim Branch live.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
He's got a little place over west here somewhere. Jim's
nothing but a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Marshall, you'll be.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Drifting on one of these days, kind of like me
that way.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh got copy, Jim?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Who you ready to go be?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I'm all dressed up like a sore or some can't
you see you? What you do?
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Change your songs?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Uh? This here is the US Marshall, Jim, I forget
his name.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm glad to know you.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'm just proud.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, how'd you do?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Heading for Dodge, Marshall and we'll ride in with you
if you like.
Speaker 13 (09:08):
Good.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It's a big day. I've been talking ob in to
going to town for three months. He claims you don't
like towns. Wait, least he's Dodge.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
I'm happy right here with my hogs.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I don't need no time.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Your hogs won't miss you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, let's get started.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
I gotta be back in three days, Jim, Like you
promise them hogs will starve.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
If I ain't, you'll be bad. Oh, thank the Marshall
here tells me Riley got shot. No, there's Giles and
Diva done.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Now wait a minute, Richards. It looks like they did.
But if I could prove it, I'd be taking them
in for trial right now.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, it's too bad you can't, Marshall. They're no good
then for us.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I can't wait. They don't make a mistake somewhere earlier.
But we better got going. It's sixty miles to dodge.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
M good, even, Kitty, sit down.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Last, I'm gonna drink and no thanks. I just had dinner.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
That reminds me fella brought me.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It doesn't quail to day.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Oh, I can cook them for dinner tomorrow. They're gonna
be around.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, that sounds great. I'll be here. They ought to
be ripe enough by then. You know, I never saw
as many quail as there are this year. Riding in
yesterday we put up clouds up.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
That Jim branch.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Seems like a nice fellow. Obie Ridges too.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, they are, kitty. They sure make a funny pair maybe,
but still they're kind of like brothers.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Look at them over there at the bar.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Opie's getting spookier every minute he's here.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Obie likes it outdoors, right out on the ground.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Dowd, he'll ever come into town again.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Jim told me he still hasn't been able to get
him to take a meal in a restaurant. He has
to bring it outside for him. Say they can drink inside.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
But that's all.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh, maybe we'd all be better off if we live
that way, Kitty, not me.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I don't want to live like an animal.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Don't you?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hello, miss Kitty, Hello, Jim Marshall. Something bad's happened, What Jim, Oh,
this fellow here just rode into town from up north.
We come by Obie's camp, Marshall. Somebody shot Obi's mule
and burnt up his wagon and killed all his howks.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
That's right, Marshall. Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Giles and Deva again. It's Obie.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I'm worried about.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I never should have made him coming down, Marshall. He'll
kill him.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Fellas now I know you will. I'll ride out with you,
Jim right now.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment.
Speaker 13 (12:12):
But first, this coming Tuesday night on most of these stations,
CBS Radio turns John lundloose on his latest case of
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. In the Woodward, Manila matter, Dollar
launches a search for a missing man and a missing fortune,
and when the chips are all totaled up, the missing
man and the missing money, each somewhat depleted.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Are accounted for.
Speaker 13 (12:33):
Don't forget this Tuesday Night at the Star's address, Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now the second act of gun Smoke. I wanted to
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ride out the Ridgers camp that night, but Obie insisted
on staying in Dodge. He even tried to have a
good time for Jem's sake. Next day. However, on the
ride up Lay, he has set his horse and stared
straight ahead and never said a word. We reached his
camp after dark, and we could see his mule and
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his hogs lying there in the moonlight, and the remains
of his wagon charred and ghost like. And there was
nothing we could do then, So he lay down on
the ground and went to sleep. But That was our
worst mistake, because I discovered when Chester woke me next morning,
Obie had disappeared, and he'd taken his rifle with him.
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We saddled up and rode for Turkey Bend.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
How much?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Why there is Jim just beyond in trees?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Chester?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I told Jobie was drunk. Hilly's fellows, Marshall, maybe they're
not here.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
If they're not, he'll find him.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Let's pull up, m.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I don't see no cabbage. It's right in there. There
there it is.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
See it's oh god, Wait a minute, look over there
behind that log he dopy, Hey, Hobe, we better walk
over Oka, say, what are you doing on me? Come
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on right, Let's run for it.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Eving there. I got him.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Trapped, Look over it. I'll handle this. You can't kill
these men.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I gotta kill Gibs already.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
That's him laying right by the door over there, Hopie,
you do the top of his head off?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Ob I gotta put you under arrest. Now, give me
your rifle.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Wait till I kill Deva. Can't hang twice.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Give me that rifle, Obi, Now.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You mean it, don't you?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I do all right?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I won't fight you, ye, but i'd sure like to
kill devil.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Ches to take this rifle and keep an eye on him.
I'm going after deeper. He say, you'll kill you, Marshall. No,
he'll be too curious at first. I'll walk over there
with my hands up. But you'll wait here to like yell, Dever,
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don't shoot. I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
That's far oo.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Come outside, Obie's underguard. He won't shoot. I'm a US Marshal, Dever.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
You're the fella we run into the outher damp or
Riley's captain.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I am now come on out.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Oh, if they were talking about you, I.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Got all be under arrest. They where he admits killing Giles.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Here you kill him.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The Jew, and Giles slaughter his mule and his hogs.
There ain't no reason to murder a man. No, no,
it isn't. But tell me about you the Jew murder
of Riley. Well wait a minute, we're going back to
Dodge with a stewer. Oh no, not to keep you
a hand away from that gun.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Let's see how good you really are, Marcia.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
No, do not good for you, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Good you kill him?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Now?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
They both did?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, they're both said, but you murdered one of them.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Modi jail.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I can't go to jail, Marshal. I'd go crazy. I'd
go crazy in jail. Don't you understand I can't go
to jail.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It was a hard thing to do, but I had
no choice, and I took Obe back to Dodge.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And locked him up.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
A few weeks later he went on trial, and after
long deliberation, the judge sent us into life imprisoned with
Obie stood up and said he'd rather be hung, and
I took him back to jail and I sat there
with him for a while.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I thank you for everything, he said, Marshall, you didn't
have to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I just tried to get the judge to believe you
weren't crazy. And he didn't know what you were doing
over here.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I knew what I was doing. I told him I did.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Why wouldn't he let him hang me? Marshall?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And he did what he thought was just Oby. He
didn't think he deserved hanging.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I don't know how I stood it this long in jail.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I I'm sorry over here. I wish I could help you.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
They got windows in the penitentiary.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Marshall, Sure, sure, sure that I haven't, But I I
I'll be around later.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Over.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I was taking a doing and that's pretty hard on him.
Chester's Jim Branch anyway, I ain't seen him through the
trials over, and maybe he'll come around later. Uh, I'm
gonna suffer with Doc Chester.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
We'll be at del Monaco's alright, seem uh man like
that could go crazy?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Locked up man, Ah, that happened before.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
There's nothing I can do about a duck.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Well, I know I didn't mean adad was mat?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Pass away the beans with you.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
These are peas, Matt.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
But you're welcome to all right peas peas?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Then thank you.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Why don't you take a vacation, Mat, and I'll go
back east somewhere. We'll kind of like Saint Louis or
Kansas City or something. I said.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Maybe I don't like Tom's either. Well that's just.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
What I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You need a vacation, all right? Old, yeah, Well, if
I were a rich croaker, maybe I could take one.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Rich crooker croak o or croaker man?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
How could you say it? All right? Would take it
like you bust something.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It's a fine thing when a mere policeman can insult
the noblest profession to make.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I was insulting you doc, not the brother, Oh croak, Oh,
I might have known what to be like having suffer.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
With you to nage.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I'll buy you a drink after Huh.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Well, I don't know. Well, I'll think a bit of dyling.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
What's the matter of Chester Wobi Ridgers? He's dead?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But I heard a shot out back and I run
into his cell and he would.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Laying there dead. There's a gun on the floor. I
don't know where he got hold of it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You better come look.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Uh, he's dead all right now.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You think he killed himself?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Done?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
The gun was held right close to his head. Maybe
somebody called him over to the window and shut him maybe,
but he could have done himself.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
The bullet ended right here.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Man. Yeah, yeah, Now you're saying it could be either
murder or suicidal. That's right.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Why would anybody murder?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Mister done it?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Don't make said.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And it could be somebody who understood how will be
felt about being cooped up the rest of his life?
Jesse and somebody who liked him, a good friend, m
Jim Brain. I don't know who used that gun, but
he'll be dead and I'm gonna find Jim Jim Branch
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wouldn't talk one way or the other. So I charged
him with both murder and abetting his suicide, and he
was brought to trial. The trial didn't last long, it
was lack of evidence in Jim's free left the country
soon after, and I never heard of him again. And
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as Kitty had said, he and Obie were kind of
like brothers.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Guns Vote transcribed under the direction of Norman McDonald's ours
William Conrad as Matt Dylan 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 Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dubkin, Jack Krushan and John Dayner,
Parley Bears Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis
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Is Kiddy Roy Rowan speaking join us again next week
as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights to bring law and
order out of the wild violence of the West.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
In Gunsmoke, from all corners of the Globe comes the news,
edited and reported for your listening pleasure on CBS Newsroom
Sunday Desk every Sunday afternoon on most of these same
CBS radio stations, three top reporters bring you the latest,
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up to the minute news in their specialized fields. Dick
Joy tells you about news at home and overseas, Tom
Harmon handles sports, and George Fisher reports the movieland news
at CBS Newsroom Sunday Desk. Tomorrow at the Star's address,
Eve varden As, our Miss Brooks teaches you how to
laugh tomorrow on the CBS Radio Network.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
I W
Around Dodd City and the territory on West.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
There's just one way to handle.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
The killers in the Swallers, and that's with the US
Marshal and the.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Spell of gun Smoke, Guns Smoke Story William Conrad, The
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transcribed story of the violence that moved West with Young America,
The story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon,
United States Marshalls.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Ain't we never gonna make camp, mister Dylon. We'll ask
whoever's living in that cabin if I head if there's
any water around here, Chester.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Most likely there Ain't These settlers put up a cabin
just anywhere, and then you start praying for rain.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh we could have camped back on Smoky Hill River.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No, sir, I'd.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Rather go die as long as we make Dodge.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But tomorrow night we'll make it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I never seen such place that Fort Wallace, mister Dillon,
man could go plumb out of his mind living there.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't build army posts for pleasure loving people like you, Chester.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I've been in the army.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh huh uh like it?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We didn't always see eyed eye me in the army,
but at least I didn't get killed cause a lot helps.
I'll bet you look pretty bold in the uniform.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Jesse.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh my, I surely did.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I wonder present anybody home here?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Place looks deserted, mister Dylan. Yeah, uh, here, hold my horse, Chester,
I'll take a look.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Ain't nobody home?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
There's a man in her Chester lying on the floor.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
What he's dead?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Somebody killed him?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Little put the fire out now, mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, we better get started.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
It's like rain this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It's too early to tell for sure. It's too bad we.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Don't know that poll name.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
Mister Dillon sure will heat to bury a man and
not even put a marker.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
On his grave.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'd rather know the name of the man that killed him.
H it's off easy to get by with killing the
man way out here? Yeah, too easy.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Say look over there, mister Dylon.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Go on, there comes a couple of riders.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yea, I see him. Well you suppose there carrying rifles
for stand over there Chester, about ten feet from me.
Huh yes, and keep the hair out of your eyes.
Speaker 11 (03:55):
Yes, well, what are you men doing here?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Do you own this place?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I would live in a shack like that.
Speaker 12 (04:17):
We got a reel house over on Turkey Ben, But
that don't answer my question.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Mister, what are you doing here?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
We found a dead man in the cabinet last night,
so we stopped to bury him.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
The dead man that must have been Riley.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What happened to him? He got shot?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Who woulda shot a nice fella.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Like Bob Riley?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Maybe they'd done a deverer it.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Probably did you.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Maybe we ought to hang It'd.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Be easier to shoot him and leave him here as
a kind of a warning.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
H good idea at.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Jib you move that rifle one inch my sternye O
die for it now, go ahead, mister you're calling it.
He ain't with it?
Speaker 10 (05:00):
Chance alright, mister whoever you are, you and your friend
getting mining.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Right out of here.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You're Giles huh and Deva.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That's right.
Speaker 12 (05:08):
We don't want people around here not getting nighty. To
settle down and you two start riding and right now.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Uh Chester, Yes, that coffee you made this morning was
weak as well. Water got that fire going again and
do some more.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Okay, see.
Speaker 12 (05:26):
Sure got a lot of nerve, mister.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
You don't even blink.
Speaker 11 (05:30):
Deva look at it.
Speaker 12 (05:33):
We'll be by here, lady, mister. We won't ride up
so close. Next time you better be nowheres around. Come on, God,
h I.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Almost stop beatings John.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was two against Tolchester. We'd have made out alright, Yes,
I know, but it's the waiting that chills me.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
See you know something, I'll bet anything.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It was then that killed a fellow that lived here maybe,
And I'm sure I could know more about those two
right now. We better got started a dodge. They're sure
we'll get the horses Chester and I got mounted and
rode maybe a mile and a half when we came
across a sort of a can. There was a man there,
(06:23):
a tall man with long yellow hair and bright blue
eyes that seemed always to be looking into the distance.
He had a mule, had an old wagon, and some
hogs that he kept in a well built, partly covered pin.
But he hadn't put up a shoulder of any kind
for himself, and it didn't look as though.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He was about to.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We got down and walked over to where he was
standing by a small fire.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
Sat down, man, I got no coffee, but you welcomed
that pot of chick rea.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
There's a poon full of my glasses in it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, thank you. But we just stopped to say hello.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
No need to hurry off, mister. My name's Obie Ridges.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well I know you're Richards. I'm Matt Dullo. This is
Chester crowdfoot now you do.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I don't meet many people out here?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Are you're raising hugs all my life? Not here though?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Where do you live?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Ridgie?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You you've got a house?
Speaker 11 (07:16):
Some word.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
I ain't lived in a house since I was nine
years old. I like it outside.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I need to breathe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well, you're outside here.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
All right, and I ain't gonna move no matter what
they say.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Uh, no matter what who says them? Two fellows up
on Turkey, Ben h Charles and Deaver.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Name is the one?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Uh tell me, Richards. There's a cabin about a mile
and a half north of here. You know the man
that lives there, Riley?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
He comes by here now and then?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Or we buried him last night. Somebody shut him. Mmm.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It's bad, It's real bad. You better tell the law
about it if you're going anywhere, mister. I don't hold
with murdering a man.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, I'm a US Marshall Richards than well man, don't
you ever got another dodge?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
We never have? But I'm going today, boy in that
wagon it'll take you a week.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
No, sir, I'm going horseback, so I swear I don't
see no horse right out there.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Feller, here he comes.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Now there's Jim Branch leading him.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Jim talked me into going to Dodge with him, but
I know I won't like it.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I'm just doing it for Jim's sake, kind of coddling
him along, making him feel good.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What does us Jim Branch live.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
He's got a little place over west here somewhere. Jim's
nothing but a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Marshall, you'll be.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Drifting on one of these days, kind of like me
that way.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh got copy, Jim?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Who you ready to go be?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I'm all dressed up like a sore or some can't
you see you? What you do?
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Change your songs?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Uh? This here is the US Marshall, Jim, I forget
his name.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm glad to know you.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'm just proud.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, how'd you do?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Heading for Dodge, Marshall and we'll ride in with you
if you like.
Speaker 13 (09:08):
Good.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It's a big day. I've been talking ob in to
going to town for three months. He claims you don't
like towns. Wait, least he's Dodge.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
I'm happy right here with my hogs.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I don't need no time.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Your hogs won't miss you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, let's get started.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
I gotta be back in three days, Jim, Like you
promise them hogs will starve.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
If I ain't, you'll be bad. Oh, thank the Marshall
here tells me Riley got shot. No, there's Giles and
Diva done.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Now wait a minute, Richards. It looks like they did.
But if I could prove it, I'd be taking them
in for trial right now.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, it's too bad you can't, Marshall. They're no good
then for us.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I can't wait. They don't make a mistake somewhere earlier.
But we better got going. It's sixty miles to dodge.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
M good, even, Kitty, sit down.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Last, I'm gonna drink and no thanks. I just had dinner.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
That reminds me fella brought me.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It doesn't quail to day.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Oh, I can cook them for dinner tomorrow. They're gonna
be around.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, that sounds great. I'll be here. They ought to
be ripe enough by then. You know, I never saw
as many quail as there are this year. Riding in
yesterday we put up clouds up.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
That Jim branch.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Seems like a nice fellow. Obie Ridges too.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, they are, kitty. They sure make a funny pair maybe,
but still they're kind of like brothers.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Look at them over there at the bar.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Opie's getting spookier every minute he's here.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Obie likes it outdoors, right out on the ground.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Dowd, he'll ever come into town again.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Jim told me he still hasn't been able to get
him to take a meal in a restaurant. He has
to bring it outside for him. Say they can drink inside.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
But that's all.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh, maybe we'd all be better off if we live
that way, Kitty, not me.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I don't want to live like an animal.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Don't you?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hello, miss Kitty, Hello, Jim Marshall. Something bad's happened, What Jim, Oh,
this fellow here just rode into town from up north.
We come by Obie's camp, Marshall. Somebody shot Obi's mule
and burnt up his wagon and killed all his howks.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
That's right, Marshall. Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Giles and Deva again. It's Obie.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I'm worried about.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I never should have made him coming down, Marshall. He'll
kill him.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Fellas now I know you will. I'll ride out with you,
Jim right now.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment.
Speaker 13 (12:12):
But first, this coming Tuesday night on most of these stations,
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and when the chips are all totaled up, the missing
man and the missing money, each somewhat depleted.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
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Speaker 13 (12:33):
Don't forget this Tuesday Night at the Star's address, Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now the second act of gun Smoke. I wanted to
(12:59):
ride out the Ridgers camp that night, but Obie insisted
on staying in Dodge. He even tried to have a
good time for Jem's sake. Next day. However, on the
ride up Lay, he has set his horse and stared
straight ahead and never said a word. We reached his
camp after dark, and we could see his mule and
(13:19):
his hogs lying there in the moonlight, and the remains
of his wagon charred and ghost like. And there was
nothing we could do then, So he lay down on
the ground and went to sleep. But That was our
worst mistake, because I discovered when Chester woke me next morning,
Obie had disappeared, and he'd taken his rifle with him.
(13:42):
We saddled up and rode for Turkey Bend.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
How much?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Why there is Jim just beyond in trees?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Chester?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I told Jobie was drunk. Hilly's fellows, Marshall, maybe they're
not here.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
If they're not, he'll find him.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Let's pull up, m.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I don't see no cabbage. It's right in there. There
there it is.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
See it's oh god, Wait a minute, look over there
behind that log he dopy, Hey, Hobe, we better walk
over Oka, say, what are you doing on me? Come
(14:33):
on right, Let's run for it.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Eving there. I got him.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Trapped, Look over it. I'll handle this. You can't kill
these men.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I gotta kill Gibs already.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
That's him laying right by the door over there, Hopie,
you do the top of his head off?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Ob I gotta put you under arrest. Now, give me
your rifle.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Wait till I kill Deva. Can't hang twice.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Give me that rifle, Obi, Now.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You mean it, don't you?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I do all right?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I won't fight you, ye, but i'd sure like to
kill devil.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Ches to take this rifle and keep an eye on him.
I'm going after deeper. He say, you'll kill you, Marshall. No,
he'll be too curious at first. I'll walk over there
with my hands up. But you'll wait here to like yell, Dever,
(15:39):
don't shoot. I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
That's far oo.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Come outside, Obie's underguard. He won't shoot. I'm a US Marshal, Dever.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
You're the fella we run into the outher damp or
Riley's captain.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I am now come on out.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Oh, if they were talking about you, I.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Got all be under arrest. They where he admits killing Giles.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Here you kill him.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The Jew, and Giles slaughter his mule and his hogs.
There ain't no reason to murder a man. No, no,
it isn't. But tell me about you the Jew murder
of Riley. Well wait a minute, we're going back to
Dodge with a stewer. Oh no, not to keep you
a hand away from that gun.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Let's see how good you really are, Marcia.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
No, do not good for you, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Good you kill him?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Now?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
They both did?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, they're both said, but you murdered one of them.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Modi jail.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I can't go to jail, Marshal. I'd go crazy. I'd
go crazy in jail. Don't you understand I can't go
to jail.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It was a hard thing to do, but I had
no choice, and I took Obe back to Dodge.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And locked him up.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
A few weeks later he went on trial, and after
long deliberation, the judge sent us into life imprisoned with
Obie stood up and said he'd rather be hung, and
I took him back to jail and I sat there
with him for a while.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I thank you for everything, he said, Marshall, you didn't
have to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I just tried to get the judge to believe you
weren't crazy. And he didn't know what you were doing
over here.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I knew what I was doing. I told him I did.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Why wouldn't he let him hang me? Marshall?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And he did what he thought was just Oby. He
didn't think he deserved hanging.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I don't know how I stood it this long in jail.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I I'm sorry over here. I wish I could help you.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
They got windows in the penitentiary.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Marshall, Sure, sure, sure that I haven't, But I I
I'll be around later.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Over.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I was taking a doing and that's pretty hard on him.
Chester's Jim Branch anyway, I ain't seen him through the
trials over, and maybe he'll come around later. Uh, I'm
gonna suffer with Doc Chester.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
We'll be at del Monaco's alright, seem uh man like
that could go crazy?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Locked up man, Ah, that happened before.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
There's nothing I can do about a duck.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Well, I know I didn't mean adad was mat?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Pass away the beans with you.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
These are peas, Matt.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
But you're welcome to all right peas peas?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Then thank you.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Why don't you take a vacation, Mat, and I'll go
back east somewhere. We'll kind of like Saint Louis or
Kansas City or something. I said.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Maybe I don't like Tom's either. Well that's just.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
What I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You need a vacation, all right? Old, yeah, Well, if
I were a rich croaker, maybe I could take one.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Rich crooker croak o or croaker man?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
How could you say it? All right? Would take it
like you bust something.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It's a fine thing when a mere policeman can insult
the noblest profession to make.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I was insulting you doc, not the brother, Oh croak, Oh,
I might have known what to be like having suffer.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
With you to nage.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I'll buy you a drink after Huh.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Well, I don't know. Well, I'll think a bit of dyling.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
What's the matter of Chester Wobi Ridgers? He's dead?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But I heard a shot out back and I run
into his cell and he would.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Laying there dead. There's a gun on the floor. I
don't know where he got hold of it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You better come look.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Uh, he's dead all right now.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You think he killed himself?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Done?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
The gun was held right close to his head. Maybe
somebody called him over to the window and shut him maybe,
but he could have done himself.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
The bullet ended right here.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Man. Yeah, yeah, Now you're saying it could be either
murder or suicidal. That's right.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Why would anybody murder?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Mister done it?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Don't make said.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And it could be somebody who understood how will be
felt about being cooped up the rest of his life?
Jesse and somebody who liked him, a good friend, m
Jim Brain. I don't know who used that gun, but
he'll be dead and I'm gonna find Jim Jim Branch
(22:10):
wouldn't talk one way or the other. So I charged
him with both murder and abetting his suicide, and he
was brought to trial. The trial didn't last long, it
was lack of evidence in Jim's free left the country
soon after, and I never heard of him again. And
(22:30):
as Kitty had said, he and Obie were kind of
like brothers.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Guns Vote transcribed under the direction of Norman McDonald's ours
William Conrad as Matt Dylan 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 Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dubkin, Jack Krushan and John Dayner,
Parley Bears Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis
(23:17):
Is Kiddy Roy Rowan speaking join us again next week
as Matt Dylan US Marshall fights to bring law and
order out of the wild violence of the West.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
In Gunsmoke, from all corners of the Globe comes the news,
edited and reported for your listening pleasure on CBS Newsroom
Sunday Desk every Sunday afternoon on most of these same
CBS radio stations, three top reporters bring you the latest,
(23:47):
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Joy tells you about news at home and overseas, Tom
Harmon handles sports, and George Fisher reports the movieland news
at CBS Newsroom Sunday Desk. Tomorrow at the Star's address,
Eve varden As, our Miss Brooks teaches you how to
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