August 11, 2025 • 21 mins
Gunsmoke was a beloved American radio Western drama series centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad. The program aired from 1952 to 1961 and is widely considered one of the greatest western series ever produced for radio or television. It was gritty, featuring tough and sometimes very violent subject matter. Gunsmoke is a treasured classic that left a permanent mark of the history of radio and westerns.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
There is just one way to.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a
US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke, gun boots
(00:38):
Boot starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that
moved west with young America and the story of a
man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they looked for and the last they.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Want to meet.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
at a.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Little lonely.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Ain't Grant Lucas coming to town?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Grant?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I'm fine, Sam?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Just fine?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
First drinks on the house?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Where do you have? Well? I was gonna have him there?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
One whiskey coming up?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They miss Kenny around today, Sam.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, she upstairs. She's gonna be coming down soon. How's
my bet?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Wys fine?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Fine? You were gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Be in town?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Long, Grant? Just the laugh of the trial, huh oh yeah,
I plumb forgot you and the Marshall are testifying against
the Siah Welsh.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Ain't you that way?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Are go ahead and make yourself at home? Tack Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sam? Uh there's this.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Nettle girl in the bar.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh her, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
May tell me some looker, n if you let her
looking every time I come in here?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Ooh, she didn't waste any time sparking you either.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I see your grand thanks?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
He Hello. Hello, that's a big bottle you've got.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, want to help me with it.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I hate to see a man drink alone, Sam, glad,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I may tell me you're grand looker, don't you now?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How do you know that?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Heard Sam say? Ever seen you come in? Cheers?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Cheers?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You know? I like the way you smiled. Run.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There's other things I'd rather be admired for, mane.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We could talk about it to dinner.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Dinner.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Didn't you ever take a lady to dinner?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I did once.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Wasn't that much of a hardship.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was all right till her husband walked in and
started pot shooting at her. That wasn't so darn funny.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I tell you, well, don't worry about me. I ain't married.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Good.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I got a room at the Grand's hotel.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I thought the mercy had taken over that place. That's
why I like.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
It real quiet?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Do you mind eating late?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I guess night?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Pick me up? About ten to nights. I might even
give you a drink. Alright, I'm on the ground floor,
fifth window.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
To the right of the entrance, fifth window.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
We'll just wrap on it all come out.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You don't want me seen in the lobbies at it.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
People gossip about the lone wood.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Alright, mate, Oh oh, don't look that.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
The Marshall just came in and he saw you. You
went in trouble, Not hardly.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He's a friend of mine.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Oh well, then I'll leave you.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Don't tuh get too drunk now, don't you worry.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I'll be there at ten.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I'll be waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was grind to look at How are you?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Why?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
And Matt?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
How are you? Oh good? You're in town early.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The trials four days are there's a good excuse to get.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Away from my k amp of my mind.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I just turned the horse loose and.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Rode in, and I'm glad you didn't. You'd stay out
of trouble now, yah?
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Oh well, d him was by the gall of drink
so far.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yuh sure takes one old thief to catch another, don't oh, grant.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Matt, oh kiddy, what are you.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Doing in town?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Grint?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I come in for sy Welsh's trials.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well, that's right, you two are witnesses against him.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Mount yuah for once, duty's gonna be a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Kidding.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, I've never liked cy Welch.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I hope I hang 'em.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I hang in charge.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Well, they killed old Charlie Upside.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
He didn't kill let me, just robbed him of his
stock and his land.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Oh, Old Charlie died.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It was a natural death.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Grant and I were right there, sure was.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's what he told us. House Side forced him into
side and over his ranch. How come Sy Welsh hadn't
been in jail all the time the judge let him
out on bail.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Kitty, Then why hasn't he run for it?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
He'll get a place. Didn't tell me about it this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I think you've got a prison all right.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But why he hasn't run, I don't know. Maybe you
think the judge was quite an anything, But that's an
open and shut case against him. Once the judge hears
from Granting me, well, why sure think so? And sorry
must have an age of some kind of it's clu.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I soon find out.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, it's dark here, it's just wonder.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Three or.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Five here, Glad it's me.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh, you're right on time.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Why ain't want keep anyway?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Anybody see you?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Nobody good? Hey you're not dressed to go to dinner.
You ain't ready yet?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
You're wrong about that.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I'm ready, I'm always ready.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But you let me throw your folks.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I would just stand back place.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What happened here?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Who killed grand lookers?
Speaker 7 (06:49):
I did?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I shied?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
But why what for?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I didn't know it was him? I didn't know who
it was.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Look at that window, Marshal busted window.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You're saying that Grant did that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
He didn't get that weight by itself.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You mean he tried to break in here?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yes, I suppose you told me the.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Whole story, then sure I will.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I keep that gun because of this martia a brooch.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yes, there's a diamond at an heirloom from my mother,
worth a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
But I never parted with it.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh, what's that's got to do with Grant Lucas.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I met him at the Long Branch today. We got
to talking, and fool that I am.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I I told him about this.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You tried to tell me that Grant Lucas came over
here to rob you.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I was in bed the light was out and he
smashed the window. He didn't think anybody was here. I see,
what are he gonna do to me, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Nothing, I guess me.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I can't very well arrest a woman for defending her
property and then you do behieve me? Oh is there
any reason the why I shouldn't No, Marshall, No, there isn't.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Ooh ooh there, oh there, Well just hold their dog.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Well, you don't hit the stable robbing the plays.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
No, I ain't robbing the plates.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
I want them older have a little game card with
monster me h.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
The same day, Squere's mars say.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I guess he must have went out some worse.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Uh, it's too bad.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I wanted him to take the buggy.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Road man can't even unhit his own buggy.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You are get yourself a coatsman, doc, I just got work.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
What you club work?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Well, I guess somebody's gotta help a poor, busted down
old sarbones who don't know nothing. Come on, let go,
you get hold of He had dark eye's work.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
You know, sleeve lines? Could the sure stand a little side?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Soo?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Doc h chester mm isn't that sire welts poor?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, I wonner what he's doing in town?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Up to no good board? Let me?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Uh oh they're dark Chester, are you gir?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I was fine, I don't now, and it's coming to town.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But then I haven't seen the Marshall around. He rode
out to Grant Lucas's place.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Won't be back till real late.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, I heard about Grant. It's too bad some
girl did it?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Uh slung down or at long branch, hm Downright's shame for.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
A man to go like that, leaven a bad name
of it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That's a fine thing for you to be saying. Side welch,
what do you mean.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
You couldn't care less about his dancers, reputation anything?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Alright, alright, I didn't like the man. He was gonna
go into court in a couple of days to lie
about me, wasn't he? And he brought all this trouble
on me in a first place. Now, that doesn't mean
I can't feel bad about the way he died.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I'd feel that about any man.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He Look, he was all glad he's dead and you
know it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Well, how did it making a difference to me? Mm
Marshall Bylan still testifying against me, UNI one less witness
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah that's true, thank you, But don't think.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm not gonna win that case anyway and make the
Marshall look like a fool.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You seem awful.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Sure yourself off, doc, I'd been in California by now.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
If I wasn't sure.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Yeah, you're all the kind he'd run out alright.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, I've been called a lot of things maybe, but
never a fool to see at the trial.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well that's one fella.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I sure would hate the claim as a friend or
as an enemy.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Chester bar, keep bring me a beer, yes.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Sir, once the company, mister, have got my beer?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No thanks, I like to drink alone.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
All right, then drink along. I know you're kind, mister
fancy clothes and empty pocket.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You just leave me alone, will you?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Why?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Will y'all alright with you?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
If I stand at the same box, I'm stand anywhere
you like.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Thanks, I'm fine right here here you are?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thanks a new girl. You've got real anxious all right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh, don't get edgy, mister.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He just being friendly if you don't mean no, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
May yeah, there's only two days left. I know that
you don't turn around to me. Now, what about the marshal.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
He's like a cat, and I don't think anybody could
shoot him, even in the back.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I don't let that badge fool you.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
He's just a man. You coulda shot him by now
and got away easy. Nobody suspect a woman.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
He already suspect me. What Grand Lucas, I know he.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I should have hired a man for this job.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Go ahead and hire one, but you pay me first.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I pay you nothing if you don't finish him.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And you try that now too, well in a hang yourself.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It might be worth it to have you hang with me.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Can you listen to me? Mane you get that Martian?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You get him tonight one way or another, or so
help me.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'll carve you up. So no, man, I'll ever look
at you again.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I'll bet you.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I mean it may oh right.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
I'll get it.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Quit worrying.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I quit worrying after his dad.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You just have the money ready tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Is that you my shore? Ah?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I love Moss.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I've been waiting for he.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
How you need to have I can put the horse.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh, I'll take him.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You had a long enough date.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Uh you get things took care of?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Did you did what I could grant.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Lucas he's a good man.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
He must have been drunk or something.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, uh, I.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Gotta go to bad moss. Can I good night for
a sleeping huh as?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I it's no moon.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I can't remember a night as black as this one.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I oh, yeah, I can.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I good night boy?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Who?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Alright? Who's there?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
No, don't shoot, it's I.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's it's it's me, Marshall. May tell me? May oh
you doing back there in the alley?
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Huh I I I I didn't know what it was you.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I I was afraid. I I I was trying to hide.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I almost shot you. Well, I was.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I was trying to get to Maroomer.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I I got I got lost.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Who had too many drinks?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I guess you alone?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Good?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Tell him alone. I I simply got lost.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
I tell you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Don't you believe me?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I believe you man.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You wanna tell me the truth.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I might even believe that I I am.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Telling the truth. I got lost. Oh, marshal, that that
that awful business. That not I I am the my
shelf today. I haven't been able to think or anything.
I can't get it out of my mind.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Alright, may come on, I'll see you to your room.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Oh that's going ter.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
How about dark?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yeah, Matt hard to go.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And everything's taken care of.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Grant had some relatives back east tomorrow. I have mister
buck in contact 'em and subtley estate.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
M U sure's away. So when a man like Grant
Lucas has to go, what are you doing, upsilate?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Oh thought, don't stop buying.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I have a couple of coffee a Chester before I
turned in.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
It's a dead town tonight, madam. There weren't more than
six men over the long branch.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
They were just closing up on the left, and I
guess that's why may they left early.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
No, she wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, I know. I ran into her on the way
from the stable. I took her to her room. What Yeah,
she said she was lost. I think maybe she had
a little too much to drink.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Mis John cutting cy Wells.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Was in town today.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh that's good. Trial's day after tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
You know, if he asked me, the law has been
a long time catching up with that man.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It's only been a few months though.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I don't mean just this business here.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I I mean from years back, from years back, when
I first ran into him. He wasn't any good then either.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Why no, you didn't ever tell us you knew sy
Wells before?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh I I just knew him in passing.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
He he never was the kind of a crook that
I have any admiration for him.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Where was this that you do him?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
On the river?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
There were a fousand just like him?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
The river?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
You mean the Mississippi?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
This is now?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
What other river would I be talking about it?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Miss doing? What's buying?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You may tell me more about it. Kidd had told
me that she used to work the river boats.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I tried she did by I thing I remember now
She used.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
To Well that's mighty interesting, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah? Doctor, sure is chester?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And she put on your hat.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We're gonna call on a lady?
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It's me?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Open the door.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You shouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I suppose you're gonna tell me you've got the Marshall
coming here. Huh, and try to pull the same trick
on him you did on that Grand Lucas.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Of course, not.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well then what are you gonna do? What are you
gonna get rid of the Marshall?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Make why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I'll leave you alone?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Or I give you a thousand dollars, just like I promised,
and then I'll leave you alone for good and all.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But first you've got to finish your job.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
No, it's not all right, all right, you're scared.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
No, you're here. I think you're so scared that Marshall,
you're not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
No, that's right, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
No, it is stop lying on me.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Rotten basted. I will tell him.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I'll tell him everything.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Let him get me.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Bee'll get you too.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Oh, they're not gonna give you. What are you doing?
Show you what are done?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
All off?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You were gonna shoot me. You were gonna kill me
A woman like you kill me? Dark?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Hey you.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Marshall, come in, Marshall, come in.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I'm not to kill you now, mad.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
No, Marshall, he dead.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, he's dead.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
He was doing it because she used too may.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
May can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
H hm?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Hurt much bad? Always sent for doctor. No it's too late, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What ma I was.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Gonna kill you?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, then I got scared.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Hm, can't heading out?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
We like.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Like Mark too?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
He did?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, My goodness, What a time to worry.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
About getting paid.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
As she got paid all right, Chester, she got paid good.
I just wonder if the job was with it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Gun Smoked, but Used and directed in Hollywood by Norman
McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon us Marshall. The
story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston and
adapted for radio by Frank Harris. Featured in the cast
were Lynn Allen, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel and John Dayner,
Harvey bear Is Chester, Howard mc neer is doc, and
(21:14):
Georgia Ellis's Kiddy
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
There is just one way to.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a
US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke, gun boots
(00:38):
Boot starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that
moved west with young America and the story of a
man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they looked for and the last they.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Want to meet.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
at a.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Little lonely.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Ain't Grant Lucas coming to town?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Grant?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I'm fine, Sam?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Just fine?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
First drinks on the house?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Where do you have? Well? I was gonna have him there?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
One whiskey coming up?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They miss Kenny around today, Sam.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, she upstairs. She's gonna be coming down soon. How's
my bet?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Wys fine?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Fine? You were gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Be in town?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Long, Grant? Just the laugh of the trial, huh oh yeah,
I plumb forgot you and the Marshall are testifying against
the Siah Welsh.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Ain't you that way?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Are go ahead and make yourself at home? Tack Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sam? Uh there's this.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Nettle girl in the bar.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh her, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
May tell me some looker, n if you let her
looking every time I come in here?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Ooh, she didn't waste any time sparking you either.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I see your grand thanks?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
He Hello. Hello, that's a big bottle you've got.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, want to help me with it.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I hate to see a man drink alone, Sam, glad,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I may tell me you're grand looker, don't you now?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How do you know that?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Heard Sam say? Ever seen you come in? Cheers?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Cheers?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You know? I like the way you smiled. Run.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There's other things I'd rather be admired for, mane.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We could talk about it to dinner.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Dinner.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Didn't you ever take a lady to dinner?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I did once.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Wasn't that much of a hardship.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was all right till her husband walked in and
started pot shooting at her. That wasn't so darn funny.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I tell you, well, don't worry about me. I ain't married.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Good.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I got a room at the Grand's hotel.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I thought the mercy had taken over that place. That's
why I like.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
It real quiet?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Do you mind eating late?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I guess night?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Pick me up? About ten to nights. I might even
give you a drink. Alright, I'm on the ground floor,
fifth window.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
To the right of the entrance, fifth window.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
We'll just wrap on it all come out.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You don't want me seen in the lobbies at it.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
People gossip about the lone wood.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Alright, mate, Oh oh, don't look that.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
The Marshall just came in and he saw you. You
went in trouble, Not hardly.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He's a friend of mine.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Oh well, then I'll leave you.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Don't tuh get too drunk now, don't you worry.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I'll be there at ten.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I'll be waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was grind to look at How are you?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Why?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
And Matt?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
How are you? Oh good? You're in town early.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The trials four days are there's a good excuse to get.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Away from my k amp of my mind.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I just turned the horse loose and.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Rode in, and I'm glad you didn't. You'd stay out
of trouble now, yah?
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Oh well, d him was by the gall of drink
so far.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yuh sure takes one old thief to catch another, don't oh, grant.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Matt, oh kiddy, what are you.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Doing in town?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Grint?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I come in for sy Welsh's trials.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well, that's right, you two are witnesses against him.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Mount yuah for once, duty's gonna be a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Kidding.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, I've never liked cy Welch.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I hope I hang 'em.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I hang in charge.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Well, they killed old Charlie Upside.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
He didn't kill let me, just robbed him of his
stock and his land.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Oh, Old Charlie died.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It was a natural death.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Grant and I were right there, sure was.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's what he told us. House Side forced him into
side and over his ranch. How come Sy Welsh hadn't
been in jail all the time the judge let him
out on bail.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Kitty, Then why hasn't he run for it?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
He'll get a place. Didn't tell me about it this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I think you've got a prison all right.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But why he hasn't run, I don't know. Maybe you
think the judge was quite an anything, But that's an
open and shut case against him. Once the judge hears
from Granting me, well, why sure think so? And sorry
must have an age of some kind of it's clu.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I soon find out.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, it's dark here, it's just wonder.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Three or.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Five here, Glad it's me.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh, you're right on time.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Why ain't want keep anyway?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Anybody see you?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Nobody good? Hey you're not dressed to go to dinner.
You ain't ready yet?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
You're wrong about that.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I'm ready, I'm always ready.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But you let me throw your folks.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I would just stand back place.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What happened here?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Who killed grand lookers?
Speaker 7 (06:49):
I did?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I shied?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
But why what for?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I didn't know it was him? I didn't know who
it was.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Look at that window, Marshal busted window.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You're saying that Grant did that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
He didn't get that weight by itself.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You mean he tried to break in here?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yes, I suppose you told me the.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Whole story, then sure I will.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I keep that gun because of this martia a brooch.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yes, there's a diamond at an heirloom from my mother,
worth a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
But I never parted with it.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh, what's that's got to do with Grant Lucas.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I met him at the Long Branch today. We got
to talking, and fool that I am.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I I told him about this.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You tried to tell me that Grant Lucas came over
here to rob you.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I was in bed the light was out and he
smashed the window. He didn't think anybody was here. I see,
what are he gonna do to me, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Nothing, I guess me.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I can't very well arrest a woman for defending her
property and then you do behieve me? Oh is there
any reason the why I shouldn't No, Marshall, No, there isn't.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Ooh ooh there, oh there, Well just hold their dog.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Well, you don't hit the stable robbing the plays.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
No, I ain't robbing the plates.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
I want them older have a little game card with
monster me h.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
The same day, Squere's mars say.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I guess he must have went out some worse.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Uh, it's too bad.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I wanted him to take the buggy.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Road man can't even unhit his own buggy.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You are get yourself a coatsman, doc, I just got work.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
What you club work?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Well, I guess somebody's gotta help a poor, busted down
old sarbones who don't know nothing. Come on, let go,
you get hold of He had dark eye's work.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
You know, sleeve lines? Could the sure stand a little side?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Soo?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Doc h chester mm isn't that sire welts poor?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, I wonner what he's doing in town?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Up to no good board? Let me?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Uh oh they're dark Chester, are you gir?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I was fine, I don't now, and it's coming to town.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But then I haven't seen the Marshall around. He rode
out to Grant Lucas's place.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Won't be back till real late.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, I heard about Grant. It's too bad some
girl did it?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Uh slung down or at long branch, hm Downright's shame for.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
A man to go like that, leaven a bad name
of it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That's a fine thing for you to be saying. Side welch,
what do you mean.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
You couldn't care less about his dancers, reputation anything?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Alright, alright, I didn't like the man. He was gonna
go into court in a couple of days to lie
about me, wasn't he? And he brought all this trouble
on me in a first place. Now, that doesn't mean
I can't feel bad about the way he died.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I'd feel that about any man.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He Look, he was all glad he's dead and you
know it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Well, how did it making a difference to me? Mm
Marshall Bylan still testifying against me, UNI one less witness
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah that's true, thank you, But don't think.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm not gonna win that case anyway and make the
Marshall look like a fool.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You seem awful.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Sure yourself off, doc, I'd been in California by now.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
If I wasn't sure.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Yeah, you're all the kind he'd run out alright.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, I've been called a lot of things maybe, but
never a fool to see at the trial.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well that's one fella.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I sure would hate the claim as a friend or
as an enemy.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Chester bar, keep bring me a beer, yes.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Sir, once the company, mister, have got my beer?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No thanks, I like to drink alone.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
All right, then drink along. I know you're kind, mister
fancy clothes and empty pocket.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You just leave me alone, will you?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Why?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Will y'all alright with you?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
If I stand at the same box, I'm stand anywhere
you like.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Thanks, I'm fine right here here you are?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thanks a new girl. You've got real anxious all right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh, don't get edgy, mister.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He just being friendly if you don't mean no, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
May yeah, there's only two days left. I know that
you don't turn around to me. Now, what about the marshal.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
He's like a cat, and I don't think anybody could
shoot him, even in the back.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I don't let that badge fool you.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
He's just a man. You coulda shot him by now
and got away easy. Nobody suspect a woman.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
He already suspect me. What Grand Lucas, I know he.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I should have hired a man for this job.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Go ahead and hire one, but you pay me first.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I pay you nothing if you don't finish him.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And you try that now too, well in a hang yourself.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It might be worth it to have you hang with me.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Can you listen to me? Mane you get that Martian?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You get him tonight one way or another, or so
help me.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'll carve you up. So no, man, I'll ever look
at you again.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I'll bet you.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I mean it may oh right.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
I'll get it.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Quit worrying.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I quit worrying after his dad.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You just have the money ready tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Is that you my shore? Ah?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I love Moss.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I've been waiting for he.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
How you need to have I can put the horse.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh, I'll take him.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You had a long enough date.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Uh you get things took care of?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Did you did what I could grant.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Lucas he's a good man.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
He must have been drunk or something.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, uh, I.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Gotta go to bad moss. Can I good night for
a sleeping huh as?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I it's no moon.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I can't remember a night as black as this one.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I oh, yeah, I can.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I good night boy?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Who?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Alright? Who's there?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
No, don't shoot, it's I.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's it's it's me, Marshall. May tell me? May oh
you doing back there in the alley?
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Huh I I I I didn't know what it was you.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I I was afraid. I I I was trying to hide.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I almost shot you. Well, I was.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I was trying to get to Maroomer.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I I got I got lost.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Who had too many drinks?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I guess you alone?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Good?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Tell him alone. I I simply got lost.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
I tell you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Don't you believe me?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I believe you man.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You wanna tell me the truth.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I might even believe that I I am.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Telling the truth. I got lost. Oh, marshal, that that
that awful business. That not I I am the my
shelf today. I haven't been able to think or anything.
I can't get it out of my mind.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Alright, may come on, I'll see you to your room.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Oh that's going ter.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
How about dark?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yeah, Matt hard to go.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And everything's taken care of.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Grant had some relatives back east tomorrow. I have mister
buck in contact 'em and subtley estate.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
M U sure's away. So when a man like Grant
Lucas has to go, what are you doing, upsilate?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Oh thought, don't stop buying.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I have a couple of coffee a Chester before I
turned in.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
It's a dead town tonight, madam. There weren't more than
six men over the long branch.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
They were just closing up on the left, and I
guess that's why may they left early.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
No, she wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, I know. I ran into her on the way
from the stable. I took her to her room. What Yeah,
she said she was lost. I think maybe she had
a little too much to drink.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Mis John cutting cy Wells.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Was in town today.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh that's good. Trial's day after tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
You know, if he asked me, the law has been
a long time catching up with that man.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It's only been a few months though.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I don't mean just this business here.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I I mean from years back, from years back, when
I first ran into him. He wasn't any good then either.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Why no, you didn't ever tell us you knew sy
Wells before?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh I I just knew him in passing.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
He he never was the kind of a crook that
I have any admiration for him.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Where was this that you do him?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
On the river?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
There were a fousand just like him?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
The river?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
You mean the Mississippi?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
This is now?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
What other river would I be talking about it?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Miss doing? What's buying?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You may tell me more about it. Kidd had told
me that she used to work the river boats.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I tried she did by I thing I remember now
She used.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
To Well that's mighty interesting, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah? Doctor, sure is chester?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And she put on your hat.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We're gonna call on a lady?
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It's me?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Open the door.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You shouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I suppose you're gonna tell me you've got the Marshall
coming here. Huh, and try to pull the same trick
on him you did on that Grand Lucas.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Of course, not.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well then what are you gonna do? What are you
gonna get rid of the Marshall?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Make why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I'll leave you alone?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Or I give you a thousand dollars, just like I promised,
and then I'll leave you alone for good and all.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But first you've got to finish your job.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
No, it's not all right, all right, you're scared.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
No, you're here. I think you're so scared that Marshall,
you're not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
No, that's right, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
No, it is stop lying on me.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Rotten basted. I will tell him.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I'll tell him everything.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Let him get me.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Bee'll get you too.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Oh, they're not gonna give you. What are you doing?
Show you what are done?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
All off?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You were gonna shoot me. You were gonna kill me
A woman like you kill me? Dark?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Hey you.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Marshall, come in, Marshall, come in.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I'm not to kill you now, mad.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
No, Marshall, he dead.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, he's dead.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
He was doing it because she used too may.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
May can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
H hm?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Hurt much bad? Always sent for doctor. No it's too late, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What ma I was.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Gonna kill you?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, then I got scared.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Hm, can't heading out?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
We like.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Like Mark too?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
He did?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, My goodness, What a time to worry.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
About getting paid.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
As she got paid all right, Chester, she got paid good.
I just wonder if the job was with it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Gun Smoked, but Used and directed in Hollywood by Norman
McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon us Marshall. The
story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston and
adapted for radio by Frank Harris. Featured in the cast
were Lynn Allen, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel and John Dayner,
Harvey bear Is Chester, Howard mc neer is doc, and
(21:14):
Georgia Ellis's Kiddy
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