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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Dodd City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke Guns, starring William Conrad, the story of the
(00:41):
violence that moved west with young America, and the story
of a man who moved with him.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm that man, Matt.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Dylon, United States Marshall, the first man they look for
and the less they want to meet. It's a chancey job,
and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
If you want, I should go stable.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Hark it's gone, I might as well Chester.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Well, I'll come in and get stold one first, I
short said, use cup coffee, frying it back?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, all its yelling, Well, are you gonna shoot me
or not? I stillant if I was as jumpy as
you are at sleep with the door locked, even there
was a marshals off, Matt yours some guy away in there.
(01:46):
You ain't rolled an inch, And I'm a whole lot
smarter though, Oh ain't they sure of that? I could
have put a bullet in you easy just now, DNA said,
that's Nate Tatum. Whole friend of mine by Chester.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
You had me kindly worried there for me.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Hey, yeah, I got a bad habitat all? Right, I
don't night, What are you done? And Dodge? I'm at
for California. And Matt just stopped him and say, oh,
tell us, Marshall, aren't you us?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Marshall?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oklahoma Territory Chester?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The last four years wherever I or mine?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No? No, not anymore though I quit? Quit? And what
for it? Scared against? Scared you? Well, maybe that ain't
the word, but I began to get the feeling my
number was coming up, and I still haven't. It's a
real strong feeling. I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You must have made a lot of enemies back in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What little man doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That's true, ain't me?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Still? I ruined too many of their games back there.
They ain't forgetting. You mean you think somebody will follow
you there after me? I'm sure, but it won't be
anybody i'd recognize. They'll hire some stranger for the job.
Now I expect you to handle him. Well, head on.
I face anybody in the world who's getting shot in
the back that bothers me, You know? To me, this
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pretty heavy talk for this time of day. Besides, I
got some alkali to wash out of my throat. How
about a drink name? God wouldn't mind. I will be
at the Long Branchester. You take care of things here.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Thank you? Thanks so oh.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I sure envy you name going to California?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Have you been there San Francisco? Huh?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I've always wanted to go back.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
If you were in San Francisco, you'd start wanting to
be back in Dodge.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Maybe, but I'd like to find out for myself.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But you're making money here, Miss p looks for me
like you've got good business.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Money is everything some people it is can't be to you.
You just quit a good job, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It didn't pay much? Ask Matt now. I guess Washington
figures if a Marshall's doing his job, he won't have
time for more than one would be here. That's about
the size of the cat.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Evening Kitty, Oh Fannie, he came to work early, nothing
else to do, Bonnie. This is Marshall, Dylan and Nate Tatum.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
No no wait, I got her idea. Uh huh are
your excuses, miss Kitty? For sure?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
First things on the house?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, thank you, Bonnie. Shall we go to the bar.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Wherever you say.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Knights meeting you, Marshall, nice meeting you.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Now there's a man who.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Knows what he wants. Nate never was one of her
wasting time. Who's the girl, kiddy?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Fannie just arrived a few days ago through Abilene. He's
trying to get estates to go to California.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh maybe she's found the right man, isn't Heate?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
No, No, I'm afraid not. She told me her Man's
coming from Abilene in the day, so I'm gambling.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh that's all right. Nate's traveling pretty lad these days. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
He looks like a good man, mate.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, the best you're not kill you. There's something
that you might do for me while he's here.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Keep an eye open for strangers, anybody you think might
be carrying a gun.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
From money after Nat him?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
What a rockney the world.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Ms. John mc joan, all right, Oh what is the testing,
you guess? Oh what's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
He's been shooting?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Needn't die. He was way down in the front street.
I was having a nightcap, laid again. Somebody stuck his
head in hard something about shooting God for I don't know.
All he said was this man had been shot.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Come for you right away. Yeah, the man who was
sharp all about him?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It was Nate Tatum.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Anybody said, what's happened to?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He was shot back and doing just like he said
he'd be.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, let our way over there would be a
good place time.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Bush a man from want me to go take a
look at him?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now? Used Chester? Whoever did it wouldn't be around now.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Uh, it's John. There's somebody still up over there at
the room and house.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, I'm gonna go over there and ask you questions. Chesse.
We get a couple of these men to help you
carry Nate up to the docs. Huh, yes, I will.
(07:18):
Who is it Marshall Vellum? Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That what Bonnie? Do you live here?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
I got a room here a few days ago?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You all alone?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Landlady and her husband went off to visit some friends
in the country.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
They won't be back till tomorrow. What happened, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What about the other rooms here?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I'm the only one right now. I heard the shop
that I was afraid to go out.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Tell me what happened?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Please?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Nate Tatum he's dead. Oh no, was Nate with you earlier? Bunny?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, they walked me home.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
We had a drink, just one, and then he left.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I see you ever been in Oklahoma?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I was, Marshall. I had nothing to do with this.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You can't blame me for Nate's death.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Somebody must have followed it, come up here, looked in
the window, and then waited for him.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You keep the shades up all the time, do you no?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Of course, now that you could have heard our voices?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah? Sure, any idea who it was? Bunny? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Being unfair Marshall, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Maybe, but you're the only thing I gotta go on.
I want you where I know you're safe.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
He talking about jail, that's right, I am. He was
a good friend of yours, wasn't he? All right, I'll
be right out.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh, don't try to run out the back way, Bunny,
wouldn't do you any good.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I want, Marshall mean, oh mine, okay, I do for you.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'm looking for a sloan.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well straight, you've come the right town. Just about everybody
play heirs has slown.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I'm looking for a particular one long branch. Oh girl
I know is going to get a job there, Bonnie
van Demon Bonnie. Well, Bonnie ain't at the Long Branch, mister.
She run into a little bay of trouble last night. Trouble.
What happened?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You better ask Marshall? Doing about that? He's right inside?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh where is Bonnie? She all right?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh, she's fine. He didn't mine spending the night in jail.
Tall in jail?
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You sure took your time telling me my girls in jail.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Well, I didn't have to tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are tall? Are you? Marshall? Dylan? That's right? Well, I
want to know what you got. Bonnie van Liemon in
jail for now. The man got murdered here last night, mister.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
My name is Miles Cody, all right, Cody, Well, Marshall,
what has this man's debt.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Got to do with Bonnie? Why are you holding her?
And I've been thinking about that myself. I got nothing
on Bonnie and she hasn't been able to tell me
a thing. At Chester has to bring Bonnie out here
with him, you, uh, the gambler. Bonnie has been expecting
from Emily right as sure as a mighty pour away
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to arrive in town.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Is she hasn't done?
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Smiles, Oor, Bonnie, you got here.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Eh, not soon enough where it looks. What's this all about?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It was a man got killed in the street where
I lived, shot in the back.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But you didn't have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Of course I didn't.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well, you've got no right holding her, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I'm not holding her. She can leave anytime. I don't
understand any of u.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Nate Tatum, the man that was killed was a good
friend of the Marshalls.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Marshall was pretty upset.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
He had to do something about it, and well I
was the most available, I guess, so he locked me up.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
We had to talk about it earlier this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh well, I I got a little short tempered there, Marshalls.
Get I understand now, no hard feeling, no hard feelings.
Really well, I sure wish you luck. That's a bad thing,
shooting man in the back. Yeah, but I'll get him,
(11:53):
so relative I'll get him. Bonnie Marshall just came in.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Yeah to him.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You still think you can swing it?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Ah, we things to be nice to the law m
and you go be nice to him and good luck.
Thanks Now, evening, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I had to more like I've got something to ask
yet I go ahead, y, Mar's and I trying to
get to California, and we're pretty broke right now.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
We need to stay.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You're working in Miles as his job dealing and pharaoh.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Ah sure, but I I wanna get out of here.
I wanna get to California.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Now. What I got to do with me?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Miles A good deal of Marshall.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
They could be a whole lot better if you didn't
watch him still. Clothes wouldn't take him more.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Than a week going real easy, said, there'd be no trouble.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Sorry, bouny, no crooked gambler.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I could uh make it worth a while.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I can't be bought, bunny, not anywhere at all.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Now I could change your mind.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You know where to find me?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah? Well, hello there, Matt, Hello, doctor, where's kiddy? Oh?
Uh see?
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Oh she's in the office talking to a whiskey drummer.
Sit up, you were tired. Yeah, but he's still looking
for Nate Tatum's murdery.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's a real waste of time, doctor, Just there is
a whole lot you can do about it. I get him, doctor,
if I have to go back to Oklahoma Territory and
start from there. Oh you can't do that makes you
got a job here? Somehow? It doesn't interest me very much. Doctor.
I want the man who killed Nate, and I don't
(14:13):
care how many days or months or years it takes
upon him. H John, here's a telegraph for you.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh, he just come in from that dumping epos.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And it looks like Washington came through with something for once.
What do you mean? I sent him a telegram about
Nate and the War Department's offering five hundred dollars for
his murderer.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's a keep a month. See, that's right. He was
a US March, wouldn't he. Yeah, just the first thing
tomorrow morning. Take us over to the printers and get
some posters made up, would you? Yes? I sou Will
you know that's five hundred dollars reward? Just might small
god our killer?
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Hello Marshall, Ah Bonnie, can I say down?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's on your mind.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Money.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You don't change much, do you.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Now when it comes to money, Marshall? And right now,
money can buy my way to California.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Know me something? Why is California is so important to you?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
It's been a dream of mine ever since I was
a kid. And now I'm going you can send me.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh is that so?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Five hundred dollars a lot of money? That's what you're
offering for Nate's killer, aren't you are?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The government? Go on? That's all, hm. I knew I
had a reason for jailing you.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
I didn't tell you many lies, Marshal. I just didn't
tell you all I know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, but for five hundred dollars you will a woman
like me.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Here's a lot of things, gets to know a lot.
I can lead you straight to the murderers. Let's go
the money first.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
You don't expect me to have that much money right here?
Do you?
Speaker 7 (16:25):
You want the murderer, doesn't you?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you can, yeah, If I can't, you.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Don't pay me.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
I'll beat the long brands this evening. You bring the
money there and then we'll go find your murderer. See
you tonight, Marshall. H evening Marsel to get the money.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I got it. He was gonna find our man. That
you're gonna have it.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You You wouldn't trick.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Me with your Marshal, not about this all right? There
he is at the Faroh table.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You don't mean Miles Cody, I do well I thought
he was your man.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, there's a lot of men, marshl but I don't
get a chance at five hundred dollars very often.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The way you feel about people, you should get a
lot of chick Now, all right, tell me about Toddy.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Well only reached Dodge that night. He rode back out
and came in again in the morning, took for show going.
He knew where I lived. I sent him a telegram.
He came there and he must have hurt Nate and me.
Talking from outside the window, I see the most jealous
man I ever met outside of business.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
He wasn't hired to do the job. I no, I
just told you so. He waited for Nate to pass
that alley and then he put a bullet in his back.
Is that it?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
That's how I forged marsh Well, don't you know? I
know he told me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
All about it. Yeah, he must trust you a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Let's go get him.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, Marshall been taking over our proposition.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Bonnie's mine about running a crooked game. And no, that
isn't it, COOTI what is it, Bonnie? What you tell him?
Did you kill Nate Tatum CULTI? I asked you if
you killed Nate Tatum.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
So you sold me out, Bonnie. I saw the ward
work boasters today.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You sold me out.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Eh, there's your confession, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'll take your gun code, all right, go ahead and take.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
He tried to shoot me.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
A couple of men, give a hand, get code the job.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
He tried to kill me. Marshall, Hi, dirty dog.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
How do you feel better about it? If you came
to us hanging?
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I didn't need any any electures from you. Why is
that money?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Money? Here's your money?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Now? Don't you gonna let count it?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Why I truck people, Marshall?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Don't you.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I feel sorry for you, Bunny, sorry for me?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Why I'm headed for California? Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But you're gonna hate it, Bunny, even you. You're gonna
hate every minute of it. Mm hmmm. Done.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Smoke but Houston, directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald's story
William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshal. The story was
specially written for Gun Smoke by John Lesson and adapted
for radio by Norman mcconne.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Featured in the cast with.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Laurence Stopkins, Virginia Christine and John Damer. Marley bare Is
Chester Howard mcneher is doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding.
Around Dodd City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke Guns, starring William Conrad, the story of the
(00:41):
violence that moved west with young America, and the story
of a man who moved with him.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm that man, Matt.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Dylon, United States Marshall, the first man they look for
and the less they want to meet. It's a chancey job,
and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
If you want, I should go stable.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Hark it's gone, I might as well Chester.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Well, I'll come in and get stold one first, I
short said, use cup coffee, frying it back?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, all its yelling, Well, are you gonna shoot me
or not? I stillant if I was as jumpy as
you are at sleep with the door locked, even there
was a marshals off, Matt yours some guy away in there.
(01:46):
You ain't rolled an inch, And I'm a whole lot
smarter though, Oh ain't they sure of that? I could
have put a bullet in you easy just now, DNA said,
that's Nate Tatum. Whole friend of mine by Chester.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
You had me kindly worried there for me.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Hey, yeah, I got a bad habitat all? Right, I
don't night, What are you done? And Dodge? I'm at
for California. And Matt just stopped him and say, oh,
tell us, Marshall, aren't you us?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Marshall?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oklahoma Territory Chester?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The last four years wherever I or mine?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No? No, not anymore though I quit? Quit? And what
for it? Scared against? Scared you? Well, maybe that ain't
the word, but I began to get the feeling my
number was coming up, and I still haven't. It's a
real strong feeling. I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You must have made a lot of enemies back in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What little man doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That's true, ain't me?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Still? I ruined too many of their games back there.
They ain't forgetting. You mean you think somebody will follow
you there after me? I'm sure, but it won't be
anybody i'd recognize. They'll hire some stranger for the job.
Now I expect you to handle him. Well, head on.
I face anybody in the world who's getting shot in
the back that bothers me, You know? To me, this
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pretty heavy talk for this time of day. Besides, I
got some alkali to wash out of my throat. How
about a drink name? God wouldn't mind. I will be
at the Long Branchester. You take care of things here.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Thank you? Thanks so oh.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I sure envy you name going to California?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Have you been there San Francisco? Huh?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I've always wanted to go back.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
If you were in San Francisco, you'd start wanting to
be back in Dodge.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Maybe, but I'd like to find out for myself.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But you're making money here, Miss p looks for me
like you've got good business.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Money is everything some people it is can't be to you.
You just quit a good job, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It didn't pay much? Ask Matt now. I guess Washington
figures if a Marshall's doing his job, he won't have
time for more than one would be here. That's about
the size of the cat.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Evening Kitty, Oh Fannie, he came to work early, nothing
else to do, Bonnie. This is Marshall, Dylan and Nate Tatum.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
No no wait, I got her idea. Uh huh are
your excuses, miss Kitty? For sure?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
First things on the house?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, thank you, Bonnie. Shall we go to the bar.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Wherever you say.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Knights meeting you, Marshall, nice meeting you.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Now there's a man who.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Knows what he wants. Nate never was one of her
wasting time. Who's the girl, kiddy?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Fannie just arrived a few days ago through Abilene. He's
trying to get estates to go to California.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh maybe she's found the right man, isn't Heate?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
No, No, I'm afraid not. She told me her Man's
coming from Abilene in the day, so I'm gambling.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh that's all right. Nate's traveling pretty lad these days. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
He looks like a good man, mate.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, the best you're not kill you. There's something
that you might do for me while he's here.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Keep an eye open for strangers, anybody you think might
be carrying a gun.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
From money after Nat him?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
What a rockney the world.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Ms. John mc joan, all right, Oh what is the testing,
you guess? Oh what's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
He's been shooting?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Needn't die. He was way down in the front street.
I was having a nightcap, laid again. Somebody stuck his
head in hard something about shooting God for I don't know.
All he said was this man had been shot.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Come for you right away. Yeah, the man who was
sharp all about him?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It was Nate Tatum.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Anybody said, what's happened to?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He was shot back and doing just like he said
he'd be.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, let our way over there would be a
good place time.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Bush a man from want me to go take a
look at him?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now? Used Chester? Whoever did it wouldn't be around now.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Uh, it's John. There's somebody still up over there at
the room and house.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, I'm gonna go over there and ask you questions. Chesse.
We get a couple of these men to help you
carry Nate up to the docs. Huh, yes, I will.
(07:18):
Who is it Marshall Vellum? Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That what Bonnie? Do you live here?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
I got a room here a few days ago?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You all alone?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Landlady and her husband went off to visit some friends
in the country.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
They won't be back till tomorrow. What happened, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What about the other rooms here?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I'm the only one right now. I heard the shop
that I was afraid to go out.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Tell me what happened?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Please?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Nate Tatum he's dead. Oh no, was Nate with you earlier? Bunny?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, they walked me home.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
We had a drink, just one, and then he left.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I see you ever been in Oklahoma?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I was, Marshall. I had nothing to do with this.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You can't blame me for Nate's death.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Somebody must have followed it, come up here, looked in
the window, and then waited for him.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You keep the shades up all the time, do you no?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Of course, now that you could have heard our voices?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah? Sure, any idea who it was? Bunny? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Being unfair Marshall, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Maybe, but you're the only thing I gotta go on.
I want you where I know you're safe.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
He talking about jail, that's right, I am. He was
a good friend of yours, wasn't he? All right, I'll
be right out.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh, don't try to run out the back way, Bunny,
wouldn't do you any good.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I want, Marshall mean, oh mine, okay, I do for you.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'm looking for a sloan.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well straight, you've come the right town. Just about everybody
play heirs has slown.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I'm looking for a particular one long branch. Oh girl
I know is going to get a job there, Bonnie
van Demon Bonnie. Well, Bonnie ain't at the Long Branch, mister.
She run into a little bay of trouble last night. Trouble.
What happened?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You better ask Marshall? Doing about that? He's right inside?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh where is Bonnie? She all right?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh, she's fine. He didn't mine spending the night in jail.
Tall in jail?
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You sure took your time telling me my girls in jail.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Well, I didn't have to tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are tall? Are you? Marshall? Dylan? That's right? Well, I
want to know what you got. Bonnie van Liemon in
jail for now. The man got murdered here last night, mister.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
My name is Miles Cody, all right, Cody, Well, Marshall,
what has this man's debt.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Got to do with Bonnie? Why are you holding her?
And I've been thinking about that myself. I got nothing
on Bonnie and she hasn't been able to tell me
a thing. At Chester has to bring Bonnie out here
with him, you, uh, the gambler. Bonnie has been expecting
from Emily right as sure as a mighty pour away
(10:49):
to arrive in town.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Is she hasn't done?
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Smiles, Oor, Bonnie, you got here.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Eh, not soon enough where it looks. What's this all about?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It was a man got killed in the street where
I lived, shot in the back.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But you didn't have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Of course I didn't.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well, you've got no right holding her, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I'm not holding her. She can leave anytime. I don't
understand any of u.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Nate Tatum, the man that was killed was a good
friend of the Marshalls.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Marshall was pretty upset.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
He had to do something about it, and well I
was the most available, I guess, so he locked me up.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
We had to talk about it earlier this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh well, I I got a little short tempered there, Marshalls.
Get I understand now, no hard feeling, no hard feelings.
Really well, I sure wish you luck. That's a bad thing,
shooting man in the back. Yeah, but I'll get him,
(11:53):
so relative I'll get him. Bonnie Marshall just came in.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Yeah to him.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You still think you can swing it?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Ah, we things to be nice to the law m
and you go be nice to him and good luck.
Thanks Now, evening, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I had to more like I've got something to ask
yet I go ahead, y, Mar's and I trying to
get to California, and we're pretty broke right now.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
We need to stay.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You're working in Miles as his job dealing and pharaoh.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Ah sure, but I I wanna get out of here.
I wanna get to California.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Now. What I got to do with me?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Miles A good deal of Marshall.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
They could be a whole lot better if you didn't
watch him still. Clothes wouldn't take him more.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Than a week going real easy, said, there'd be no trouble.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Sorry, bouny, no crooked gambler.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I could uh make it worth a while.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I can't be bought, bunny, not anywhere at all.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Now I could change your mind.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You know where to find me?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah? Well, hello there, Matt, Hello, doctor, where's kiddy? Oh?
Uh see?
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Oh she's in the office talking to a whiskey drummer.
Sit up, you were tired. Yeah, but he's still looking
for Nate Tatum's murdery.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's a real waste of time, doctor, Just there is
a whole lot you can do about it. I get him, doctor,
if I have to go back to Oklahoma Territory and
start from there. Oh you can't do that makes you
got a job here? Somehow? It doesn't interest me very much. Doctor.
I want the man who killed Nate, and I don't
(14:13):
care how many days or months or years it takes
upon him. H John, here's a telegraph for you.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh, he just come in from that dumping epos.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And it looks like Washington came through with something for once.
What do you mean? I sent him a telegram about
Nate and the War Department's offering five hundred dollars for
his murderer.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's a keep a month. See, that's right. He was
a US March, wouldn't he. Yeah, just the first thing
tomorrow morning. Take us over to the printers and get
some posters made up, would you? Yes? I sou Will
you know that's five hundred dollars reward? Just might small
god our killer?
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Hello Marshall, Ah Bonnie, can I say down?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's on your mind.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Money.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You don't change much, do you.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Now when it comes to money, Marshall? And right now,
money can buy my way to California.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Know me something? Why is California is so important to you?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
It's been a dream of mine ever since I was
a kid. And now I'm going you can send me.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh is that so?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Five hundred dollars a lot of money? That's what you're
offering for Nate's killer, aren't you are?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The government? Go on? That's all, hm. I knew I
had a reason for jailing you.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
I didn't tell you many lies, Marshal. I just didn't
tell you all I know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, but for five hundred dollars you will a woman
like me.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Here's a lot of things, gets to know a lot.
I can lead you straight to the murderers. Let's go
the money first.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
You don't expect me to have that much money right here?
Do you?
Speaker 7 (16:25):
You want the murderer, doesn't you?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you can, yeah, If I can't, you.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Don't pay me.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
I'll beat the long brands this evening. You bring the
money there and then we'll go find your murderer. See
you tonight, Marshall. H evening Marsel to get the money.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I got it. He was gonna find our man. That
you're gonna have it.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You You wouldn't trick.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Me with your Marshal, not about this all right? There
he is at the Faroh table.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You don't mean Miles Cody, I do well I thought
he was your man.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, there's a lot of men, marshl but I don't
get a chance at five hundred dollars very often.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The way you feel about people, you should get a
lot of chick Now, all right, tell me about Toddy.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Well only reached Dodge that night. He rode back out
and came in again in the morning, took for show going.
He knew where I lived. I sent him a telegram.
He came there and he must have hurt Nate and me.
Talking from outside the window, I see the most jealous
man I ever met outside of business.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
He wasn't hired to do the job. I no, I
just told you so. He waited for Nate to pass
that alley and then he put a bullet in his back.
Is that it?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
That's how I forged marsh Well, don't you know? I
know he told me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
All about it. Yeah, he must trust you a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Let's go get him.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, Marshall been taking over our proposition.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Bonnie's mine about running a crooked game. And no, that
isn't it, COOTI what is it, Bonnie? What you tell him?
Did you kill Nate Tatum CULTI? I asked you if
you killed Nate Tatum.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
So you sold me out, Bonnie. I saw the ward
work boasters today.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You sold me out.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Eh, there's your confession, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'll take your gun code, all right, go ahead and take.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
He tried to shoot me.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
A couple of men, give a hand, get code the job.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
He tried to kill me. Marshall, Hi, dirty dog.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
How do you feel better about it? If you came
to us hanging?
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I didn't need any any electures from you. Why is
that money?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Money? Here's your money?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Now? Don't you gonna let count it?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Why I truck people, Marshall?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Don't you.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I feel sorry for you, Bunny, sorry for me?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Why I'm headed for California? Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But you're gonna hate it, Bunny, even you. You're gonna
hate every minute of it. Mm hmmm. Done.
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