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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around that city and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle litulars and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Guns, starring William Conrad, The story of the
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violence that moved west with young America and the story
of a man who moved with it. I'm that man,
Matt Dylan, United States Marshall, the first man they look
for and the last thing.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Want to meet.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's a chance a job to make a man watchful,
a little old man, it seems to you do Riley,
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if you would have brought your wife this far, you
had brought her on into Dodge.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
For me to care for. I sure would have liked to.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Do that, Doc, But Cassie just carried on about it
something terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
She said, she just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Stand another turn of them wagon wheels. So I come
to get.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You where you bound.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We ain't decided on where to settle dot just head
and wet, someplace where.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
To be dry. But Cassie, oh, well.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Your prove them for your wife's health, Hied. Yeah, Doc,
that's the reason for it.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You see.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Cassie's been ailing for a year or two back home,
and finally we just figured to light out yonder and
see if it is to help her something. When did
she start to sicken?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Must be a week now, Dot.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
First she tried to keep on going, but it just
got to be so she couldn't stand it to ride
the wagon no more.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So we stopped and.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
See her. What are the sentos? How's that again? What
seems to be wrong with your wife? Is she in pained?
And did she keep her food down?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I ain't much up on what day it was women Dot,
but she's coughing and awful light for one thing, she's
awful weak and hardly move around. And uh, I'll examine it.
As the wagons around the next ben Dot down by
the stream. Uh, I was beginning to think it was
in the next county down there, Dot turned down there.
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Now I'll hid in right here under this tree. Heard.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
H h uh that's good, Doc.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Uh you going into the wagon Now, I'll unhitch my
horse from behind the buck alright, ridy h Yeah, it's
coming a hot day to be unto all that canvas. Yeah,
missus Riley, I'm Doc Adams. Your husband brought me from dodge.
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Missus Riley's m he's you know, missus Riley. I I'm
gonna turn you over this way.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh what a my name.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Hordy Fridy, Come here quick?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What's the matter, doc?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
He's you alrighty, it's a matter of doc.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm sorry, Di, she's dead.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But can't you do nothing?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
No? I can't do anything. She's been murdered enough, cause
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it does get something export killing grave with and hurt
nobody nothing to stomp off their boot before he comes inside?
You know what's that?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Dog? Where have you been at? We was looking for
you having times just since I gotta find Matt Worthy.
Hold your horses. He's right back there, Oh Matt, Yes,
you'd have to ride out these time right away.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh what's the trouble?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He's been a murder a woman name a Tassy LaVey.
Why that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh how did you know about it?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Doc?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Her husband came to Dodge to get me, wanted me
to go out and treaty. They were on my way
west in a wagon and she got sick. When I
got out there she was dead.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You say she was murdered, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
She'd been beaten to day.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Oh where's the husband?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And I brought him in with me.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He he's up in my office. I better have a
talk with it.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, no, I won't do much goodness, Why not for
the terial truth? May I gave him a bottle of
whiskey in and told him to drink himself to sleep.
He was in terrible shape, and he still might be
able to tell me something. Chester, And see, got the
Russes ready. I'll meet you at the stable. And I
feel with it, she my doc. I left everything out
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there just the way it was.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Mad.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I didn't move her anything.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's good. You don't have to bury him that. Yeah,
that's the one thing I've learned how to do.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That is I down there and that goes. He's doing
seem right. Everybody riding off. And we even heard laying
alone in that wagging down there.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Rick Jolling co Riley is staying. Wasn't a dunner any gut?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Chester?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, he told you about some trapper being around, didn't he.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I don't know if he told me or not.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He was muttering about a trapper that has made a
camp with him all night.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But your kirl gonna look for him, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I'm gonna look for him.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I ain't gretty sure he was quiet? An't yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
As sure as.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Who's gonna barry right here?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Mc jon, I.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Don't think schester, why the body's gone? Why don't you
don't think somebody stole that poor woman? Clean away?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I started telling him maybe that's an is there?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Why look over there? Why I took a platform like
up on the pool w doing?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I looks like one of them pa negros built up
that way, don't it, I suld h, Come on, righty fair,
I ain't never heard of Indian soptn burial? Quiet? Have
you met young? No? That framework don't look like it's
been up there very long day? No, wood's fresh Cuttner, alright, Tuster,
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you hold that study well? I take a look, Hun't
you have wa I'm killing him? Why behind you disturbing graves?
A seemly.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Who were you?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Then?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Just passed on?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Got a right to rest on the US Marshal. It's
my job to find out who's up there. I can
tell you that I thought you were unrest in her,
But you tell me who you are first?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Uh call me Ben? Don't you have a last name?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Not that I never heard Mr.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
A you a trapper?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Or I trade some in pelts and skins?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Uh huh?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I teld me who's up there?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
A girl?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Woman? Who put her there?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I did?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Mr?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The Indian Grave?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How come you buried upon East style?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
The Pawnees rigged me, mister.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I learned their ways.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And their bury instricts me.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
His sight nicer than digging.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
In the ground.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
The Jew killer almost I didn't kill it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He blooded up like you could have done it. Alright,
mister Dylan doesn't look good for you, Ben, Oh, I reckon,
maybe it don't. I'm gonna have to take you along
with it till I find out about this into town
the Dodge City. You gonna lock me out until I find.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Out who did this?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh, I had never been locked up.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Chester got his gun?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Ask you.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Alright, hand it over. You're slow asking how that I
could have shot the pair of you before if i'd
been a mind. That's right. It's knowing he could have
done just that.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All right, Come on, man, hello, kitty, shut down. I've
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got time, kitty, and I'm looking for a man named Riley.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You know this him in here?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, I'll say I have ohs he caused trouble.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
No, I'm not trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I guess before.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Man's got a right to take on. So I'm losing
his wife that way. But I can't help thinking.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You're overdoing it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
What do you mean, there's just he's always up the
bar drinking and carrying on about his wife. Yes, I
just expect a man to stand things.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
But him, Uh, you know, sometimes you expect a lot
of that's kiddy.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Sometimes I get a little I guess I better go
talk to him, and he's down at the end of
the rod.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Thanks getting.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Riley. My name is Riley all right?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Who were you bringing that, Dylan us Marshall. I came
to see you the day doc. I don't brought you in.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The sun and I don't remember that not.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It doesn't matter. I'm sorry about your wife, Riley.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You're too late, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Say to help if you tell me what you know.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I know, I know that my poor wife lies murdered.
My poor wife said I was bringing West to get well.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Well, she's sick.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
She's sick, and all the way West, Marshall, I was
bringing the.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Doctor to her when we found it for a week
and and saying.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So when you got there.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
She was the beaten, Marshall, beaten. Uh huh. That's a
terrible thing for a man to see.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, I'd just like to get me that trapper.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
What about the trapper, That trapper fella's the one that
had done it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
We shared fires two nights.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Back, and he was laying at poor Tassie the whole time.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And you figure Apollo trailer.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Sure, Marshall, couldn't have been nothing else.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You didn't take out after the trapper. But no, Marshall,
tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I was just plumb sick, and when the doc had
to give me a powder, I sure would like to
get my.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Hands on and know.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And that's a fact.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
You may get the chance.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
What do you mean he's in jail, Come on, i'
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tell you, Marshally giving me the sickness again, just thinking
and seeing that trapper.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
He'll be alright, Riley.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I was wondering as if I had not a stop
by docks first. Let's stop out here first. He's back there, hello, Riley. Alright, Riley,
do you recognize him a certain shoe?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
He does, mister.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
He camped the same fire.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Two nights running.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
He's a trapper.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Made me mighty sorrow for coming on your wife that way.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Didn't seem hardly like it could be, seeing her living
and so strong just the night before.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Riley says, you did it?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Been why?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He bad mistook? He said you were following him?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Or was that?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
But uh?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
A man shouldn't point no finger, mustn't. He's certain, sure,
he seemed sure, Rady, you bad mistook, Marshall. Ut we
was friends, Riley.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You well, you ain't got no cause to suspicion me.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Marshall had sickens me to look at him. I I
feel the need to get outside.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Alright, all right, Rally you can go, but stay in
town now. Need you to talk to the judge.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Sure, Marshall, sure, mister, yeah, I been. A man shouldn't
tell if he can't prove out, and he thinks he can.
Maybe it's his grieving that makes him so bad mistook,
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and maybe it is. Here's your victuals man.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'll be pleased to eat.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Now. I'll say this much for you. You sure ain't
no problem to feed.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I ain't one the fuss down over eating the yard.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I ain't trying like the usual on the people I
get in here'mall belly, can I guess you'd think I
was feeding them straight out of a hog pen. As
long as you're fetching me free food, I won't complain nothing. Well,
I had no charge for it. That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I tell you the truth, man.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I I don't find it too easy to figure you out.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, what scroll of you?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well, you seem like a nice niecent kindy fella, and
you ain't no bother tall and that hell, you ain't
snarling and mean no awhile what I don't em to be.
And yet you could go and do a thing like
killing that poor little sick lady out there playing on
what was maybe heard that bead? But you ain't talking
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about Tassie well sure being ailing? Why you know that
man Riley was bringing doc out here when he found
her killed. He said she's sick and so all the way, well,
she couldn't hardly move no more. Who told her? White
Riley told her the course, he is the one to know.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
He was her husband, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Uh? He chest, Well, I gotta get on back.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I'm mindful of that.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But I I figured you'd have to know about that
loose bar.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What loose bar was bar up to that window?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh my gracious, I certainly shouldn't nobody remembertter a look
at it.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
You can climb up on that bunk. The you it sure?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It don't make no sense to have a loose bar
in jail with it about which one edit man.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, all hate to do this gesture.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Listen here, then let me go out.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Man, I just got to tie you up a chestrets. Oh,
it's about it. These felts will have to do.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You can't go and do a thing like this, man,
all that ought to hold.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I ain't happy about this, Chester, you tell the marshal.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I was trking, but I ain't used to being kept
in And now I got to move out of here. Oh,
I ain't gonna do you no good. He'll find you,
he'll bring you badger.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I reckon, he'll have to try a Chester being his job, and.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
All you bet your dog on boot you Well, we're
all I have to move in our own way.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Chester.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Now you just dressed these in till he comes.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And let you loose.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Wonder what's keep in mind? I wouldn't worry about Matt's
missing a meal of kiddy. He consider's eating as much of.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
A duty as his job.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Here. He'll be here I guess every sure. I'm right
by the way Matt and ches to eat. They'd need
a chuck wagon all the rong on a cattle buy.
You against eating that? Oh no, no, But I don't
specialize in it the way those do do one? Not
the kicks thine they don't matter if kiddy, No, I
don't have no money. Here's man, some mats sad. You
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have to take it on little nouragement to you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It ain't doc.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
As a matter of fact, I do a job.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Bring me some steak and potatoes and a piece of pie.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Await kitty.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
He was worrying about you, man.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I think I.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Convinced her that you wouldn't miss a meal.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I've been talking with a judge.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You al what you mean about that trapper that you
got locked up?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It looks like he did the thing, didn't he?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
How dogt does well?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I hope you have more than Riley's word for it.
That man giving me the creeps before, he's been trying on.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
He's taking it hard.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Alright.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm glad I won't have to be seeing him anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Well? He was in the long Branch this morning. He
had had a few of them then, and he told
Sam he was taking his last strength and dodge. It's
too hard for him to stay a roarms or close
to where his wife was killed.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
He was leading.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
H told Sam he's gonna pick up his things at
the dodge house and move on. They excuse me kidding
and Doc, I'm gonna try and catch him chatter certain
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we got I got moved the chat sir, I'm back
here with jong h.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, what in the would you?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I'm tiny sleet in the stone. I don't in the
world that you got a nuts mess.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Only was that fella band turn around or what happened?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, he put me in the climb up to look
at that window, he said, one of the bars.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
And come loose, and then they jumped you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yes, sir, he sure didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Uh. She did tell me to tell her he was
sorry to have to do it a lot help. Uh,
thank you. Well, he was just as nice as candy,
but he he said he had to move on.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well that next two of 'em. Riley moved on to
let's go get our horses.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Which one of them are we taking out after? First?
It's Jones.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I'm hoping a little finding together.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Why if you real bad about letting them get away
when she's doing, she'll be awful hard to tract. Seems
he used to this country at all.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Better if he got clean away, he's not trying.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
They got clean away.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Why look there, Why it's being and he's got right.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, I figured that'd be. They got to come up
post pretty all right. Then it's why they go Let
it go? How what's it's all about?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's proved up Marshall, Marshall, let him talk rightly. It
was him, Marshall, him, his own woman. I know that
as soon as I learned he was spreading stories about.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
How ailing she was. Why she went ailing, mister.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
She was a young, strong woman and done all this
caring and fetching.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And it was him when I learned that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And then it come to me while he was doing it,
so as he could make like he was away fetching
the duck.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I bought it riding, but there ain't no.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Truth to it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
If you'd give me leave, mister, I could make him
tell her I ain't one for hurting creatures, but it
would come easy with him.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Maybe that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
No, no, if you keep him away, Minsel, keep him away.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You got something to say rider now and I got
had been all right?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
All right? I killed her. I killed her.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
She been making moon eyes at him, saying how nice and.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Generally he was.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
No, A man don't have to take that from his woman.
A man doesn't have to kill her her that Chester,
take him away, mister, Yeah, I been. I'm sorry for
the fuss back at the jail. Come to me that
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I couldn't do nothing in them four wars. Yeah, Ben,
I'm sorry about that. You was doing, which you figured
was the right thing. Man can't always know for certain.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh, man can't always know for certain. Come on, Ben,
I'd like to buy you a drink.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
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