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Speaker 1 (00:14):
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with Young America, and the story of a man will
moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall,
the first man they look for and the last.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They want to meet.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's a chancery job, and it makes a man watchful and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
A little lonely hard to get a little for share.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In his office. Oh oh, oh, oh, what's the matter, Tesser.
Oh my gracious Hughes, you got trouble, mister Doling, These
why you're gonna have That's usually a pretty safe prediction.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That red head down chat girl one made that no
good swim adele.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
A cherry o'don she come in here, she.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Sure is with her eyes of smapping and her curls
are flying. Why she's maddering? Pretty right now? She's ever
been mister doing though? Oh she must have been reeling
so the distant look out here she comes.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What is what of Dylan? Uh? Marn Cherry?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
What kind of a town are you running, Marshall when
a decent married woman can't walk down the street without without.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Without being insullid?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Why don't you sit down, Cherry?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I don't want to sit down all right?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Which one of the boys do you want to have
me hang this time? Matt.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I didn't come here to be laughed at.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, you want somebody thrown in jail, somebody that made
the mistake of paying here a normal human compliment.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I'm a married woman, and I'll thank the man in
this town to respect me is one Cherry.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Slim has been gone for nearly two years. A lot
of people don't think he's ever coming back.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Ah, he'll come back, all right, don't you worry none
about that. And when he does, these grin and loaferes
are going to be mighty sorry that they talked out.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
A turn like me, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You see you've got a nerve.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Coming here, I reckon, I'm the cause of this young
lady being all riled up.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
See, I told her I was aiming to marry.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's what I meant, A complete stranger right on the
street in broad daylight.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
If you please, well, not Cherry. I thought if anybody
had call it an insult. You think it's funny, don't you,
all three of you?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But maybe if you with me, you wouldn't think so.
If you've waited a year in eight months not knowing
check hearing stories?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Why about your man cheer?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I don't know why I come here. I don't know
why I.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Even fought Cherry.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wait why, uh Marshall, my name's Red Leonard. I'm Matt
dullon uh Chester crowdy? How are you just riding through?
I didn't have any actual plans, Marshall. If I came
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face to face with missus O'Dell up the street there,
uh as O'Dell Well, I knew who she was for.
I even spoke to her, ought to I've been carrying
her picture with me for three weeks now, Eh, how'd
you got this from her husband after he was dead dead? Oh?
(04:37):
My goodness, that's what I came to Dodge for, to
let her know he was dead, as said, tell me
something to swim a dell.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
How did he die?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I was Engines renegade up in the Platte River country
about a month back. Yeah, sure that I was there.
Me and him was partners on a trap line. He
almost got me too. Chester, hand me that bulletin at
back of the desk.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hey, I.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Got word of Slim's death too. Read the sheriff's bulletin
came about three weeks ago. I looked in the post
office here. It wasn't any bolting. Uh, yeah, I know.
I haven't said anything about it, not even the cherry
Slimmerdel was shot to death trying to hold up the
North plat broken eraw stagecoach. His partner got away. No name,
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no description, Marshal. That's why I kept the news to myself.
I figured his partner might head for dodge and try
to get Slim's wife to alibi in someway. Now just
a minute, you'll get your hands right while they are read.
You're under arrest for attempted robbery and for the murder
of two stage line guards. Take his gun. Chester, free
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was a pretty nervy customer walking into my office and
telling me a lot of lies about slam Odell being
killed by Indians. The strangest thing of all about it
was that I was sure he knew I wouldn't believe him,
But whatever he had in mind, I decided not to
take any chances with him. When I told Chester to
take his gun, he stepped back a few feet. For
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a minute, I thought I was going to have a
fight on my hands. Now, wait, Marshall, I reckon, we
better back up a little here. Get out of the way. Chester.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Listen to me, will you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We both made a mistake here. How is that some
I came to dodge for the same reason you kept
quiet about that wanted bulletin. I figured Slim Odell's partner
might make for here to hide out. I thought you
said you were his partner. Read now I'm the man
who killed him. It was a special agent for the
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Wells Fargo Stage Company. My credentials are in my hip pocket.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, uh huh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, I guess these could be legitleman Enough, Marshall, this
is O'Dell's hometown. It's just possible you were friends and
you might cover for him. I wasn't sure whose side
you'd be on. Well, I'm not on his side. Read.
He left here just one jump ahead of arrest. Said down.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You were there when Slim and his partner tried to
hold up that stage. Yeah, we were bringing through a
Lord of Bullion. Two men had jump one of our
stages the week before, so the company took the regular
driver off and put an extra guard, and hear his place.
I was riding inside, just the three of them, I see.
But O'Dell and his partner out smarter this, Marshall. He
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just came riding out of the brush, one on each side,
shot the two guards in the back without saying a word.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I dropped O'Dell the other man got away.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Got a look at him, just barely about average height
and build.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, he could be one thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Miles away from here, and maybe we got nothing else
to go on. Truth is, Marshall, I reckon. I had
to come here on my own after seeing that girl's picture,
Cherry Orzel, and I thought maybe you were just using
her to get to her husband's partner. Tell me she's
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still in love with Odell maybe, and maybe she just
thinks she is. Jerry's a boring rebel. Always figured she
married Slim mostly to spite her family. They were only
together about two months. He tried homesteading until he found
that there was work to it, and he left Tom
with Yancey cliber Clive. He's the partner you're looking for him.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
At least I.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Heard four or five months ago they were still together.
I've been watching for him since I got that bullet him,
but he hasn't showed yet. And Marshall, I'm a plain man,
and I don't know much about women, but I meant
just what I told that girl, I'm gonna marry you
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shot her husband, Red. That's not gonna help. What do
you figure she would do when she hears I'm knowing her,
she will try to kill him. Man, I sent a
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boil up for you a while ago, and I got
to sell over the jail waiting pas. Oh what's the trouble. Well,
I'm not sure, but Matt, do you know somebody by
the name of Larner, Redlawner. I just hit town this afternoon.
He's here on business. Fine, what about it? Well, Jerry
Adele was in here looking for in here, Yeah, looking
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for this Red Lanner. And that's all she'd say, Matt.
She that can half wild. She had a run end
with Red earlier this afternoon. Oh god, god, it's the
long brand. She ain't getting to be the most law
abiding place and Dodge at least that's where them all
bides most of because the allies. That's how I am.
(11:54):
Very funny kidding. You're looking pretty in the young Philly
and a few, but thank you. You're just watching this
old look, Kenny. The only thing he really thinks is
pretty is a bad case of jaundice or a family
down woman. Now that I'd allow you to buy me
a drink for that, just may do that. Yeah, let
us you better come quick and YouTube doctor, all right,
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what's the matter with that fellow Red Liners.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They just found him laying back of the looper stable.
He's been shot in the back.
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Speaker 1 (14:06):
Easy enough watching the.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Top step there Chester, Yes, I got.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Him, Mark, I have to do it all him.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That's about stretch him out over here on the table.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Then all right, doctor, All right, easy, chesty's good. I
had to cut that shirt to get off his shoulder.
Sounds like he's coming to doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yes it does. I had no scissors. Yes to please,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Now let me see. Oh, let's take it easy, Take
it easy now, Son.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's how I look at you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
What do you think, doctor? Well, that'd been a.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Couple of inches lower, a little to the right, and
I had myself a columis fee as it is there.
I guess probably live well, Donald sm so disappointed. I
had many of those four sets? Will you please just
do do you think that's right?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Like you can you hear me read? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Now there's no use fooling your son. This is gonna
hurt a little bit. Uh, we've got to get that
bullet out.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Go aead hit over me.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'll wet a minute. Duc be alright if I ask
him a couple of questions. First, if you minutes, you
go ahead. A few minutes won't hurt anything. I've got
the bullet and stopped. Right.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Do you feel like talking? I felt more like it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It won't do any good anyhow, Marshall, what do you mean?
I went over to the stable getting a horse. I
was even to ride out the cherry's place. I felt
the bullet hit me, and that's all. He didn't see
who it was.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
No, now they were behind me. I didn't see anybody
doing my shall that's the fact. Can't you believe me.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I got no reason not to write if you claim
that's what happened, and that's the way it is. That's
all I know about it, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
All right, right, good luck, Thanks, go ahead time Chester,
raise yourself now, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Once we get to go out, you a few Chester,
go saddle a couple of horses with him. We'll ride
out the cherries. Do you see any him? Missus John,
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she's here all right?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Who's out here?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It's Matt Dulham Cherry Chesters with me.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
A cup of coffee?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Maybe have a talk with him?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
No, no, Matt, you can't come in.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh why not? Because because I'm here alone, it's late.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It just wouldn't be right. You come back tomorrow when
it's daylight.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, I think it's all right, Cherry. Since this is
more or less official.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I hear you were in town earlier the night looking
for Red Leernard.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What of it?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why did you find him? No?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
No, I didn't find him.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What did you want with him? Cherry?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
But it might be mine too in a way. You
know who he is.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
He's a brute that thinks all he has to do
is grinted a girl and he's dat her. Oh and
along with it, he's a sneak, king, cowardly killer.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
He is.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Redline had shot my husband in the back, didn't even
give him a chance.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And Red made up the story.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That Slim was trying to rob a stagecoach.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Made it up. Huh why did he shoot Slim in
the first place? Cherry Red was trying to hold him up?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Slim and Yancy.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Slim had twenty thousand dollars in gold.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Dust that he took from the diggings at Grady Fork,
that he worked hard for. Why should that's where he's
been for the last year. Slim a dull working, Surey
was working. All them stories about him was lie Cherry's.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Slim hasn't been pinning gold for the last Jerry's been
wrestling cattle, holding up banks. He and the Nancy Clyber together. No,
I've tried off it enough to tell her he was
no good, But you wouldn't believe it, or at least
you wouldn't admit it. Actually, I think he knew. I
think you know it a week after you married him.
That's not true. Slim was killed during an attempt at
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hold up of the stage coach between North plattin Broken Arrow.
He was shot by a Wells Fargo agent and not
in the back hit. Two men were shot in the back,
all right, the two guards Cherry Red Larned is a
special agent for Wills Fargo.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, it's true, and I got the sheriff's bulletin on
a robbery. You've known me for a long time, Cherry.
Have you ever known me to lie to you?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All right, Yancey Cliver told you that wild story, didn't
he No he's here somewhere, isne Cherry?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No he's not.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You're wrong, marshall. You know what he did, don't you.
He shot Red land at a half hour ago, and
Toddy shot him in the back, the same as those
guards known. No does he come back yet? Is he
there in the house, No.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
He's not in the house, teach.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He's there at the corner.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Of the coach. He got even showed me to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, go see the unjust him. Yes, I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I believe I was willing to hide him out. It's
all right, Cherry him for him to sneak into town,
him kill Red one, I said he shot Red Cherry.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I didn't say he killed.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Him reads alive.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Alie was lying on Doc's office when we left.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Then he's gonna be all right.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, I'm sure he is.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Maybe I should go see him.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe he should.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You do you think he'll be all right?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Well, I don't know why not? Oh uh, Cherry, Well
you seeing he might explain to him that it wasn't
you that shot him.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
He thinks that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Oh oh, he makesn't think that he Just.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Where is she going, mister.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Dahan, I had a saddle horse. I imagine Chester right
in the town.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My gracious, I just won't never understand women.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Chester, and not alone in a moment, Our Star, William Conrad,
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there's a place for you in the ground Observer Corps.
The Air Defense Command wants to know what's going on
in the air over our country at every hour of
the day and night. Radar stretches out to investigate in
every direction. But people are needed too, alert people who
will man the spotting posts that spread out east, west,
north and south in a great network of vigilance on
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city rooftops, in suburban yards, on hilltops far out in
the country. Your fellow citizens are manning these posts now,
night and day twenty four hours out of.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Every twenty four Even if you have only a few
hours a week to give.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You will be a welcome member of the team. To
join the Ground Observer Corps, all you have to do
is call your local Civil Defense office and ask when
and where you can.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Be most useful.
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Don't waste those sharp eyes and keen ears of yours
when with a brief training period you can take the
place that's waiting for you in operations SkyWatch. Reach for
the phone first chance you get and call Civil Defense
to volunteer. This has been a public service message from
CBS Radio and now William Conrad. You know, Christmas on
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the frontier usually meant just a little more than the usual,
and it was far from the time of goodwill toward men.
But next week, now let touch a real Christmas comes
to Dutch And that was the West. Gun Smoke brodierced
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Gillan u S. Marshall. The story was specially written for
Gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Leston.
The music was composed and conducted by Rex Cory sound
patterns by Tom Henley and Bill James. Featured in the
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Speaker 6 (23:39):
Bear Is Chester, Howard mcneher is doc.
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And Georgia Ellis is kidding. Join us again next week
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Speaker 4 (24:15):
For
Guns Smoke brought to you by L and M. The
modern cigarette that lets you get full of exciting flavor
through the modern miracle of the pure white miracle. Tip live,
modern smoke, le and m around Dodge City and in
(00:34):
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 Guns Smoke, Gun Spoke, starring
(01:03):
William Conrad. The story of the violence that moves west
with Young America, and the story of a man will
moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall,
the first man they look for and the last.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They want to meet.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's a chancery job, and it makes a man watchful and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
A little lonely hard to get a little for share.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In his office. Oh oh, oh, oh, what's the matter, Tesser.
Oh my gracious Hughes, you got trouble, mister Doling, These
why you're gonna have That's usually a pretty safe prediction.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That red head down chat girl one made that no
good swim adele.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
A cherry o'don she come in here, she.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Sure is with her eyes of smapping and her curls
are flying. Why she's maddering? Pretty right now? She's ever
been mister doing though? Oh she must have been reeling
so the distant look out here she comes.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What is what of Dylan? Uh? Marn Cherry?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
What kind of a town are you running, Marshall when
a decent married woman can't walk down the street without without.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Without being insullid?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Why don't you sit down, Cherry?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I don't want to sit down all right?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Which one of the boys do you want to have
me hang this time? Matt.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I didn't come here to be laughed at.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, you want somebody thrown in jail, somebody that made
the mistake of paying here a normal human compliment.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I'm a married woman, and I'll thank the man in
this town to respect me is one Cherry.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Slim has been gone for nearly two years. A lot
of people don't think he's ever coming back.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Ah, he'll come back, all right, don't you worry none
about that. And when he does, these grin and loaferes
are going to be mighty sorry that they talked out.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
A turn like me, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You see you've got a nerve.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Coming here, I reckon, I'm the cause of this young
lady being all riled up.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
See, I told her I was aiming to marry.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's what I meant, A complete stranger right on the
street in broad daylight.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
If you please, well, not Cherry. I thought if anybody
had call it an insult. You think it's funny, don't you,
all three of you?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But maybe if you with me, you wouldn't think so.
If you've waited a year in eight months not knowing
check hearing stories?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Why about your man cheer?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I don't know why I come here. I don't know
why I.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Even fought Cherry.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wait why, uh Marshall, my name's Red Leonard. I'm Matt
dullon uh Chester crowdy? How are you just riding through?
I didn't have any actual plans, Marshall. If I came
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face to face with missus O'Dell up the street there,
uh as O'Dell Well, I knew who she was for.
I even spoke to her, ought to I've been carrying
her picture with me for three weeks now, Eh, how'd
you got this from her husband after he was dead dead? Oh?
(04:37):
My goodness, that's what I came to Dodge for, to
let her know he was dead, as said, tell me
something to swim a dell.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
How did he die?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I was Engines renegade up in the Platte River country
about a month back. Yeah, sure that I was there.
Me and him was partners on a trap line. He
almost got me too. Chester, hand me that bulletin at
back of the desk.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hey, I.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Got word of Slim's death too. Read the sheriff's bulletin
came about three weeks ago. I looked in the post
office here. It wasn't any bolting. Uh, yeah, I know.
I haven't said anything about it, not even the cherry
Slimmerdel was shot to death trying to hold up the
North plat broken eraw stagecoach. His partner got away. No name,
(05:29):
no description, Marshal. That's why I kept the news to myself.
I figured his partner might head for dodge and try
to get Slim's wife to alibi in someway. Now just
a minute, you'll get your hands right while they are read.
You're under arrest for attempted robbery and for the murder
of two stage line guards. Take his gun. Chester, free
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yourself of old fashioned ideas. Why don't you modern modern
free price it up your taste.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
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was a pretty nervy customer walking into my office and
telling me a lot of lies about slam Odell being
killed by Indians. The strangest thing of all about it
was that I was sure he knew I wouldn't believe him,
But whatever he had in mind, I decided not to
take any chances with him. When I told Chester to
take his gun, he stepped back a few feet. For
(07:49):
a minute, I thought I was going to have a
fight on my hands. Now, wait, Marshall, I reckon, we
better back up a little here. Get out of the way. Chester.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Listen to me, will you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We both made a mistake here. How is that some
I came to dodge for the same reason you kept
quiet about that wanted bulletin. I figured Slim Odell's partner
might make for here to hide out. I thought you
said you were his partner. Read now I'm the man
who killed him. It was a special agent for the
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Wells Fargo Stage Company. My credentials are in my hip pocket.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, uh huh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, I guess these could be legitleman Enough, Marshall, this
is O'Dell's hometown. It's just possible you were friends and
you might cover for him. I wasn't sure whose side
you'd be on. Well, I'm not on his side. Read.
He left here just one jump ahead of arrest. Said down.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You were there when Slim and his partner tried to
hold up that stage. Yeah, we were bringing through a
Lord of Bullion. Two men had jump one of our
stages the week before, so the company took the regular
driver off and put an extra guard, and hear his place.
I was riding inside, just the three of them, I see.
But O'Dell and his partner out smarter this, Marshall. He
(09:22):
just came riding out of the brush, one on each side,
shot the two guards in the back without saying a word.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I dropped O'Dell the other man got away.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Got a look at him, just barely about average height
and build.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, he could be one thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Miles away from here, and maybe we got nothing else
to go on. Truth is, Marshall, I reckon. I had
to come here on my own after seeing that girl's picture,
Cherry Orzel, and I thought maybe you were just using
her to get to her husband's partner. Tell me she's
(10:00):
still in love with Odell maybe, and maybe she just
thinks she is. Jerry's a boring rebel. Always figured she
married Slim mostly to spite her family. They were only
together about two months. He tried homesteading until he found
that there was work to it, and he left Tom
with Yancey cliber Clive. He's the partner you're looking for him.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
At least I.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Heard four or five months ago they were still together.
I've been watching for him since I got that bullet him,
but he hasn't showed yet. And Marshall, I'm a plain man,
and I don't know much about women, but I meant
just what I told that girl, I'm gonna marry you
(10:45):
shot her husband, Red. That's not gonna help. What do
you figure she would do when she hears I'm knowing her,
she will try to kill him. Man, I sent a
(11:14):
boil up for you a while ago, and I got
to sell over the jail waiting pas. Oh what's the trouble. Well,
I'm not sure, but Matt, do you know somebody by
the name of Larner, Redlawner. I just hit town this afternoon.
He's here on business. Fine, what about it? Well, Jerry
Adele was in here looking for in here, Yeah, looking
(11:34):
for this Red Lanner. And that's all she'd say, Matt.
She that can half wild. She had a run end
with Red earlier this afternoon. Oh god, god, it's the
long brand. She ain't getting to be the most law
abiding place and Dodge at least that's where them all
bides most of because the allies. That's how I am.
(11:54):
Very funny kidding. You're looking pretty in the young Philly
and a few, but thank you. You're just watching this
old look, Kenny. The only thing he really thinks is
pretty is a bad case of jaundice or a family
down woman. Now that I'd allow you to buy me
a drink for that, just may do that. Yeah, let
us you better come quick and YouTube doctor, all right,
(12:17):
what's the matter with that fellow Red Liners.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They just found him laying back of the looper stable.
He's been shot in the back.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
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Speaker 2 (13:10):
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Speaker 2 (13:35):
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Speaker 1 (14:06):
Easy enough watching the.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Top step there Chester, Yes, I got.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Him, Mark, I have to do it all him.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That's about stretch him out over here on the table.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Then all right, doctor, All right, easy, chesty's good. I
had to cut that shirt to get off his shoulder.
Sounds like he's coming to doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yes it does. I had no scissors. Yes to please,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Now let me see. Oh, let's take it easy, Take
it easy now, Son.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's how I look at you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
What do you think, doctor? Well, that'd been a.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Couple of inches lower, a little to the right, and
I had myself a columis fee as it is there.
I guess probably live well, Donald sm so disappointed. I
had many of those four sets? Will you please just
do do you think that's right?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Like you can you hear me read? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Now there's no use fooling your son. This is gonna
hurt a little bit. Uh, we've got to get that
bullet out.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Go aead hit over me.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'll wet a minute. Duc be alright if I ask
him a couple of questions. First, if you minutes, you
go ahead. A few minutes won't hurt anything. I've got
the bullet and stopped. Right.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Do you feel like talking? I felt more like it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It won't do any good anyhow, Marshall, what do you mean?
I went over to the stable getting a horse. I
was even to ride out the cherry's place. I felt
the bullet hit me, and that's all. He didn't see
who it was.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
No, now they were behind me. I didn't see anybody
doing my shall that's the fact. Can't you believe me.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I got no reason not to write if you claim
that's what happened, and that's the way it is. That's
all I know about it, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
All right, right, good luck, Thanks, go ahead time Chester,
raise yourself now, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Once we get to go out, you a few Chester,
go saddle a couple of horses with him. We'll ride
out the cherries. Do you see any him? Missus John,
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she's here all right?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Who's out here?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It's Matt Dulham Cherry Chesters with me.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
A cup of coffee?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Maybe have a talk with him?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
No, no, Matt, you can't come in.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh why not? Because because I'm here alone, it's late.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It just wouldn't be right. You come back tomorrow when
it's daylight.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, I think it's all right, Cherry. Since this is
more or less official.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I hear you were in town earlier the night looking
for Red Leernard.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What of it?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why did you find him? No?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
No, I didn't find him.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What did you want with him? Cherry?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
But it might be mine too in a way. You
know who he is.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
He's a brute that thinks all he has to do
is grinted a girl and he's dat her. Oh and
along with it, he's a sneak, king, cowardly killer.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
He is.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Redline had shot my husband in the back, didn't even
give him a chance.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And Red made up the story.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That Slim was trying to rob a stagecoach.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Made it up. Huh why did he shoot Slim in
the first place? Cherry Red was trying to hold him up?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Slim and Yancy.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Slim had twenty thousand dollars in gold.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Dust that he took from the diggings at Grady Fork,
that he worked hard for. Why should that's where he's
been for the last year. Slim a dull working, Surey
was working. All them stories about him was lie Cherry's.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Slim hasn't been pinning gold for the last Jerry's been
wrestling cattle, holding up banks. He and the Nancy Clyber together. No,
I've tried off it enough to tell her he was
no good, But you wouldn't believe it, or at least
you wouldn't admit it. Actually, I think he knew. I
think you know it a week after you married him.
That's not true. Slim was killed during an attempt at
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hold up of the stage coach between North plattin Broken Arrow.
He was shot by a Wells Fargo agent and not
in the back hit. Two men were shot in the back,
all right, the two guards Cherry Red Larned is a
special agent for Wills Fargo.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, it's true, and I got the sheriff's bulletin on
a robbery. You've known me for a long time, Cherry.
Have you ever known me to lie to you?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All right, Yancey Cliver told you that wild story, didn't
he No he's here somewhere, isne Cherry?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No he's not.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You're wrong, marshall. You know what he did, don't you.
He shot Red land at a half hour ago, and
Toddy shot him in the back, the same as those
guards known. No does he come back yet? Is he
there in the house, No.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
He's not in the house, teach.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He's there at the corner.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Of the coach. He got even showed me to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, go see the unjust him. Yes, I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I believe I was willing to hide him out. It's
all right, Cherry him for him to sneak into town,
him kill Red one, I said he shot Red Cherry.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I didn't say he killed.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Him reads alive.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Alie was lying on Doc's office when we left.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Then he's gonna be all right.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, I'm sure he is.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Maybe I should go see him.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe he should.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You do you think he'll be all right?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Well, I don't know why not? Oh uh, Cherry, Well
you seeing he might explain to him that it wasn't
you that shot him.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
He thinks that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Oh oh, he makesn't think that he Just.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Where is she going, mister.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Dahan, I had a saddle horse. I imagine Chester right
in the town.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My gracious, I just won't never understand women.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Chester, and not alone in a moment, Our Star, William Conrad,
(21:52):
there's a place for you in the ground Observer Corps.
The Air Defense Command wants to know what's going on
in the air over our country at every hour of
the day and night. Radar stretches out to investigate in
every direction. But people are needed too, alert people who
will man the spotting posts that spread out east, west,
north and south in a great network of vigilance on
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city rooftops, in suburban yards, on hilltops far out in
the country. Your fellow citizens are manning these posts now,
night and day twenty four hours out of.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Every twenty four Even if you have only a few
hours a week to give.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You will be a welcome member of the team. To
join the Ground Observer Corps, all you have to do
is call your local Civil Defense office and ask when
and where you can.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Be most useful.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Don't waste those sharp eyes and keen ears of yours
when with a brief training period you can take the
place that's waiting for you in operations SkyWatch. Reach for
the phone first chance you get and call Civil Defense
to volunteer. This has been a public service message from
CBS Radio and now William Conrad. You know, Christmas on
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the frontier usually meant just a little more than the usual,
and it was far from the time of goodwill toward men.
But next week, now let touch a real Christmas comes
to Dutch And that was the West. Gun Smoke brodierced
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and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt
Gillan u S. Marshall. The story was specially written for
Gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Leston.
The music was composed and conducted by Rex Cory sound
patterns by Tom Henley and Bill James. Featured in the
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Speaker 6 (23:39):
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