August 13, 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. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Guns Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
(00:41):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful,
not a little lone man.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, no, no, sir, It just isn't right.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Just mm, it just isn't right. What ain't right?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
What are you talking about? Doc? What I'm talking about?
Matt our traps and all over the country after some
killer maybe get themselves shot on mind and hear you
say it's sunning yourself with your feet popped up on
the porch rail, half.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Asleep, and you just look here.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Shameful, just shameful.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That doctor, you know, Miss Dillon told me to stay
here and watch act. Well, then it seems like you
could find something more useful to do with your time.
You know, I'd feel a little bit guilty if I
were you, Doc, you're just playing cantanker set that you are.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh what, oh man?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Look at that well, it looks like we made it
busy me that pa. Now there's a pair of real
beauty when they look like they both come.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Up a hog farm.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hey you right, he's yelling at us.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You not with me?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Hey you talking to me? Mister wore time that they're
the Dodge House. It's got a sign says it real clear.
Folks tell me that that there's don't understand place you
got in Dodge City? That's right? Do you mean a hotel?
I suppose that's right. You suppose it seems like you'll
know if you belong here. Mister. I belong here, all right,
(02:38):
but maybe you don't. I go where I please? Sonny Well,
with an attitude like that, you ain't gonna go far.
Who's gonna stop me? Now, Paul, mister, if you wasn't
so old and strownie, I I swear i'd throw you
right out in the middle of that street where. Don't
let nothing stop me from trying. Right, Wait just a
minute here, who are you, Doc Adams. It seems to
me that you walked up here with a put big
(03:00):
chip on your shoulder. Now that ain't no concern to her.
So you just keep shutting now here. You listen, You
cause any trouble and I'll throw you in jail. You
cool off, some jail. How you gonna do that? You
ain't no long man. Well I'm the only law they
are and Dodge right now? You yes me? Well, well,
no offense, man. I mean we've been on the trail
for quite a spell, and sometimes well sometimes a man
(03:24):
gets the right shark, you know, And I don't give
you no right to go around smart enough at folks
like that. You're right, Marshall. You're purely right then, And
I'm sorry Wilter. Is my name sedge Wilk and this
here's my very own daughter. Step up here, Bessy me.
I'm right, please, I do man. And what might your
name be? Marshall? Uh Chester proudfoot? But I haven't seen
(03:47):
it be a Marshall before. Well, look see, I figure
Messy May and me might stay right here in Dodge.
Why well that would be nice, But I want to
tell you that I ain't like a fine town, real fine,
ain't that show? Bessy mean? Sherry is pa you know
it just might be we're gonna find what we're looking
for here in Dodge City. Yes, sir, it just might be.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh Chester, you drinking along?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Did you want some company?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well home, miss Kitty, Sime bringing it there with you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You're you want number Winchester?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, no, thank you? No you heard the match? No, Ma,
min ain't seems like he's been gone and awful long time.
Better than a week now. Yah, you're excitty, I thanks, Sam,
You're welcome there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Wonder if the matter ever caught the.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Man who was after Cliff Matters, I sure do hope
so then folks up in Hay City got a road
pointing for him. Feelings runs pretty hig when a man
kills a whole old family just to steal a few dogs.
I hope Matt Captain, you know, if he's gonna get caught,
mister Dilan can do it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Sure do.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Wish I could have went with him. Well, somebody had
to stay and keep the town from Burnham down. Says yeah,
Well I suppose he gets Oh my, what.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
That form the old saddenbuster?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Said Wilker, Hey child, I've been looking all over for
you Chester. You have yeah, Oh, Ain't you gonna introduce
me to the lady. Oh well, business kitty.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
She she owned a long branch.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh I do, man, Wilker's my name, said Wilker, And
I said, Welker, Hey, this is the right nice place
you got here, right nice, mister Wilker.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You said you was looking for.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Mees, sure that's true enough. Bessie May is waiting for you.
Bessie May's what ye Yeah, she went and found herself
a cook stove, and then she baked the pie. Well,
I find, mister Wilker. Well, the fact is, Bessie May,
she baked that pie for you, kind of make up
for all them things. I said, oh well, now that
ain't necessary. Who yes tis we figure we owe you
(06:02):
a proper apology. This is our way of showing it.
I will cry. You ain't going to refute our apology areas.
She May has got herself all fancied up. She'll be
mighty proud to she is. I'll go on chester some
piles of your good will. Now that part's on fid
escape to tell the truth. That ain't what's concerning me.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
H oh huh, what's the oh ah, I alight, who
is this?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's just her?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Open up, mister dug her.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Back the middle of the afternoon. What have you got
the door locked for?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I've been hiding. What how I can explain?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh? Never mind, Chester, all right, get him metters an.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Old push meadows.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah so your meadows. I knew miss Dulner'd get you.
Catching me in and holding me is two different things,
you drum must to me. You chase him all over
the Chatorum's dune. You've been gone for the best part
of two weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, lock him up, Chester, I'm gonna keep him here
a couple of days before taking h the Hayes City.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Alright, come on, you get your hands up now.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I've been pushed around just all I aim to be.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You can walk or get carried, but you're gonna go
into that so okay.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But it's a long time between this free bit town
and Hayes City. Marshall, you better remember that.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
M alright, met us go all through eating.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I'll take that trade. I ain't gonna pool with you, mister. Now.
You just pick up that tray and things and slide
'em through these bars right now.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's touchy, ain't you.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You ain't making it easy not to be. And I'll
tell you something else. It's gonna be mighty nice to
get you out of here. You ain't done nothing but
trouble to me. Since Mr don't wrung you in, well
you better just hope I don't get loose before he
takes me to Hayes City.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I just might come looking for you.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, you ain't gonna get loose, or don't fret about
five chest yet, don't no chans u uh uh, yes,
Bessie May.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Why tis I just been looking everywhere?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's for you, Bessie. Maybe you aren't not to come
back here?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Why?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, this is where the prisoners is at. Oh he's
a prisoner, Yes he is not going come on right
of here.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
I got everything ready, m the buggy and all buggy
outside work for you're gonna take me on a ride
going on? On?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
No, no, no, I tell you that that's the only
way I. Oh, hello, Chess, see Bessie May. We'll say
maybe we ought to leave now.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, maybe you're right?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
No, no, no, you come back here? Well, uh, Chess
take it. We wouldn't wanna interrupt me. You were gone
for a buggy ride. Ooh buggy, right, Bessie May. I
told you the buggy rides are nice this time of year. Buggy, right,
mister Donn what whoa yeah, yeah, this here's Bessie May Wilkirk.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
How are you miss Wilkir?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I do uh? She was done, her and her power
come to Dodge and they just I mean, she just
well will you just tell her? I got too much
to do to go on no buggy.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Ride, Chester, I can't very well do it somewhere where
you can.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
You can too, You can send me down to the depot
or something. How come you're doing that Chester?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Huh, dude, I.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Mean asking him for orders and such.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You're the Marshall, Marshall him. Well, now that's another thing
with Bessie May and her. Paul thinks I'm Marshall at
Dodge City. I've been trying to tell him, oh now Chester,
I have, I have, but they wouldn't listen, and you
show wasn't helping nothing, Yes, yea, Bessie May. Bessie May,
I ain't going on, No, Buggy, I ain't talking about that.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
It's what you just said about not being Marshall.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Mister Dillon's the Marshal, he always has been.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
But you when we come to Dodge us, I ain't
never neither.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I said. I was the only law in town at
that time. And that's because Miss Dilne was gone after
that Cliff Meadows fella. That that prisoner right back there.
And you just ain't been telling the truth about nothing,
Bessie May just a proud foot. You're awful. You just
off out hearing out you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, thinking you were a marshall seemed to mean a
good deal to her.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Chester, Yes, sir, but I never told her no such
a thing, not really.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh, she's just mad.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Maybe she should get over it.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Well, i'd assume she didn't. I tell you was done.
That woman was near driving me out of my mind
past few days. She is the lady I was hiding
from the day you come home. And she likes your chest, Well,
I don't like her. I swear I've saw pretty her
faces on a war hog all now, Chester, Well I have.
Then she started painting her face off. I tell you,
it's just become pitiful.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Maybe she's never had a mind a quarter before. Chester.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You should be kind of easy, are I have a
hard enough time just keeping hidden from her couple.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'll buy you a documented.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, that's a good idea, and my throat, Yes, feel
a little dry. You know, I still can't figure out
Bessie may act in the way she's done.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It just don't make no.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Well, it's like I said, she says she likes you.
It hurts her when she found out that you weren't
what she fought you. Well, it seems funny though, Oh, Chester,
Oh nothing, Bessie mays, yeah, I knew what i'd find
you crawling around somewhere, crawling around. If you ain't crawling now,
you will be when I finished with it. Now you look,
hear me, Steel, there's anything I hate. It's a liar.
(12:21):
I suppose you were talking about me not being Marshall.
You bet I am Betty. They just told me. I
explain all that to you before. It ain't my fault
if you wouldn't listen. Now, oh it ain't high. Well
I think you've done in the purpose. Now I'm calling
you a dirty liar.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
All right, Well, care that's enough.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I tell him?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Get in? Oh oh, then you're the reed of Marshall lumpus. Right, well,
this Chester's a cheap I said.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's enough.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Now, it ain't not fair enough. Ain't nobody gonna make
a fool out of seats. Well her, Nobody ain't trying
to make no fool out of you, liar. I've took
just about all I'm gonna take off of you. Yeah,
you ain't. There's a lot more, and I tell you
when I get show it, you dog, I crazy old fool.
Ooh what's he wanna get so riled up about something
that don't really matter?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
For seems like it does matter to him that best.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
He may.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
At a cocky's kind of weak, any miss Dune.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh huh, there's fine to me.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
They ain't got much of a bite to it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh, it doesn't grab you and throw you down, if
that's what you mean.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
No, no, no, what I mean, as soon.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
As you're finished? What did you mean?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Well, they just kind of weak.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
No, as soon as you're finished.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Let's get some food over the cliff matters.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I wanna get a highly start for Hayes City, Marshall. Marshall, Yeah,
you got to come quick.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That doesn't matter.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
The bank's been robbed.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I just opened up with the day I went in
and there was.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
The safer was wide open. Mister Buckin lying on the
floor unconscious stair Go get doctor. Yes, Marshall, I know
who did it. He was not prisoner of yours. I'd
seen him once before, so I knew what he looked like.
Cliff Matters, Yes, sir, just a few minutes ago I
saw him riding out of town, riding just as fast
as he could go over Herchester.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That him is done.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's him.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I been thinking, how in the world use foods he
ever got out of jail in birthplace?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I don't uh come on alright, holed right there, Matters,
what don't try anything?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Where'd you come from? We been following him for two days. Oh,
I ain't going back to Dodge Marsh. You'll go. How
do you wanna tell me how you got out of jail?
A pitch you'd like to.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Know, and I'll find out not from me, you won't.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You didn't break out. Somebody opened that cell for you.
Yea a fact. I ride unbuckle the belt and drop
your gun.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Like I said, I ain't going back to Didde and
I ain't going to Hayes City.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You neither you gonna go back with us, So we're
gonna bury you right here now you decide.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I already had or be a fool.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
I ain't gonna hang you should have waited for your trial.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Matters. Maybe maybe you'll like it better like this.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
But as you do with the bank money, it won't
do you any good now. Bank money, the DoD City bank.
You robbed at the bank till I saw you right
out of town.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I didn't rob no bank. He was seen.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
No, you didn't do it, and your partner didn't, the
one who turned you a little.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I don't have no partner. Didn't you even know the
old fella who taught me these old fella what old
fella was? Scrawny?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Old coot come in and said something about that lion Chester,
and he unlocked myself. Well for our bad about that trial, Marshall,
I don't think I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Just doing the man that let him out of jail.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
You you don't suppose it was a sage walker?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, I think maybe it was Chester.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Keep doing making sense, mice. You it said Wilker snut
in and turned Meadows loose and maybe even robbed the bank.
He shore wouldn't still be hearing bot.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Nobody really saw who robbed the bank. Nobody saw who
turned Matters little.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So yes, I know, but it seems like they just
cut out and run.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's a zerom.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yes, but what do you want?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I wanna talk to you walking so about the time.
I'm busy.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well we'll talk now.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
What do you mean busting in? You ain't got no right?
Oh what are they doing here? You and Bessie may
Pack in the lead, saying what if we are take
none of your business?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Wanw did you do it?
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You turn Cliff Meadows loose from.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Jail, Tell oh, you're crazy? Why would I do that?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So you could rob the bank and everybody And to
think medals didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Well he did. Everybody seen him, find him, and you
will find a robber.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
We did find him, yeah, huh, I had to kill him.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Oh wait, wait then, what troll the fuss about that?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Just before he died, he told us that you would
let him out of jail.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Alright, alright, so I turned him loose. I wanted to
get back at you in gesture, But that don't prove
I rob no bank.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
We been asking around, Tom Walker, you bought over a
hundred dollars or other things in the past two days.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What did you get some money to do that?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Where did I get it?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I uh shah shaved atuch what we had us a
farm and n and we wrote things it won't work,
such as too much against you. You ain't gonna take
my money, not after all I went through. You ain't.
I'll kill your first.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I don't Why did you do it?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Such?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Never never had nursing mercia, never had nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
A lot of people don't, bess you May, I'm I'm
right here.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Take care of yourself. You hear, and I you he
take care Paul.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm sorry, Bessie Man.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
He didn't mean no harm, Marshall. It didn't mean no
harm at all. Just got tired of scratching in the
ground for a living and never quite making it. Yeah,
I was awful smart though.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Did you know that you mean blaming Clifton Meows for
the robbery?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
I know that was an accident, like a real plan,
was me you? I was sposed to fix up all
pretty like and shine up to the marshal. What you know? Uh,
he'd be too busy to notice when Paul was robbing
the bank.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Bessie May, you you mean is that why you was
tagging after me all the time?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
But you was the only Marshall in town then Chester,
but you lied.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You wasn't no Marshal at all, and never I tried
to had anything for that.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Everything would have worked out just like Paul said.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
But it all went wrong, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, I bessy, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
It is.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Guns Smoke but Houston.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The story was specially written for
Gun Smoke by Ray Kemper, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody, Gene Bates, John
Dayner and Barney Phillips. Barley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer
(20:57):
is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kidding
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Interton, the rector in ind
Around Dodge 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 Marshall and the Smell of
Guns Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
(00:41):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful,
not a little lone man.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, no, no, sir, It just isn't right.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Just mm, it just isn't right. What ain't right?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
What are you talking about? Doc? What I'm talking about?
Matt our traps and all over the country after some
killer maybe get themselves shot on mind and hear you
say it's sunning yourself with your feet popped up on
the porch rail, half.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Asleep, and you just look here.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Shameful, just shameful.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That doctor, you know, Miss Dillon told me to stay
here and watch act. Well, then it seems like you
could find something more useful to do with your time.
You know, I'd feel a little bit guilty if I
were you, Doc, you're just playing cantanker set that you are.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh what, oh man?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Look at that well, it looks like we made it
busy me that pa. Now there's a pair of real
beauty when they look like they both come.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Up a hog farm.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hey you right, he's yelling at us.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You not with me?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Hey you talking to me? Mister wore time that they're
the Dodge House. It's got a sign says it real clear.
Folks tell me that that there's don't understand place you
got in Dodge City? That's right? Do you mean a hotel?
I suppose that's right. You suppose it seems like you'll
know if you belong here. Mister. I belong here, all right,
(02:38):
but maybe you don't. I go where I please? Sonny Well,
with an attitude like that, you ain't gonna go far.
Who's gonna stop me? Now, Paul, mister, if you wasn't
so old and strownie, I I swear i'd throw you
right out in the middle of that street where. Don't
let nothing stop me from trying. Right, Wait just a
minute here, who are you, Doc Adams. It seems to
me that you walked up here with a put big
(03:00):
chip on your shoulder. Now that ain't no concern to her.
So you just keep shutting now here. You listen, You
cause any trouble and I'll throw you in jail. You
cool off, some jail. How you gonna do that? You
ain't no long man. Well I'm the only law they
are and Dodge right now? You yes me? Well, well,
no offense, man. I mean we've been on the trail
for quite a spell, and sometimes well sometimes a man
(03:24):
gets the right shark, you know, And I don't give
you no right to go around smart enough at folks
like that. You're right, Marshall. You're purely right then, And
I'm sorry Wilter. Is my name sedge Wilk and this
here's my very own daughter. Step up here, Bessy me.
I'm right, please, I do man. And what might your
name be? Marshall? Uh Chester proudfoot? But I haven't seen
(03:47):
it be a Marshall before. Well, look see, I figure
Messy May and me might stay right here in Dodge.
Why well that would be nice, But I want to
tell you that I ain't like a fine town, real fine,
ain't that show? Bessy mean? Sherry is pa you know
it just might be we're gonna find what we're looking
for here in Dodge City. Yes, sir, it just might be.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh Chester, you drinking along?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Did you want some company?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well home, miss Kitty, Sime bringing it there with you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You're you want number Winchester?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, no, thank you? No you heard the match? No, Ma,
min ain't seems like he's been gone and awful long time.
Better than a week now. Yah, you're excitty, I thanks, Sam,
You're welcome there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Wonder if the matter ever caught the.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Man who was after Cliff Matters, I sure do hope
so then folks up in Hay City got a road
pointing for him. Feelings runs pretty hig when a man
kills a whole old family just to steal a few dogs.
I hope Matt Captain, you know, if he's gonna get caught,
mister Dilan can do it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Sure do.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Wish I could have went with him. Well, somebody had
to stay and keep the town from Burnham down. Says yeah,
Well I suppose he gets Oh my, what.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
That form the old saddenbuster?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Said Wilker, Hey child, I've been looking all over for
you Chester. You have yeah, Oh, Ain't you gonna introduce
me to the lady. Oh well, business kitty.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
She she owned a long branch.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh I do, man, Wilker's my name, said Wilker, And
I said, Welker, Hey, this is the right nice place
you got here, right nice, mister Wilker.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You said you was looking for.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Mees, sure that's true enough. Bessie May is waiting for you.
Bessie May's what ye Yeah, she went and found herself
a cook stove, and then she baked the pie. Well,
I find, mister Wilker. Well, the fact is, Bessie May,
she baked that pie for you, kind of make up
for all them things. I said, oh well, now that
ain't necessary. Who yes tis we figure we owe you
(06:02):
a proper apology. This is our way of showing it.
I will cry. You ain't going to refute our apology areas.
She May has got herself all fancied up. She'll be
mighty proud to she is. I'll go on chester some
piles of your good will. Now that part's on fid
escape to tell the truth. That ain't what's concerning me.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
H oh huh, what's the oh ah, I alight, who
is this?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's just her?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Open up, mister dug her.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Back the middle of the afternoon. What have you got
the door locked for?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I've been hiding. What how I can explain?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh? Never mind, Chester, all right, get him metters an.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Old push meadows.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah so your meadows. I knew miss Dulner'd get you.
Catching me in and holding me is two different things,
you drum must to me. You chase him all over
the Chatorum's dune. You've been gone for the best part
of two weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, lock him up, Chester, I'm gonna keep him here
a couple of days before taking h the Hayes City.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Alright, come on, you get your hands up now.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I've been pushed around just all I aim to be.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You can walk or get carried, but you're gonna go
into that so okay.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But it's a long time between this free bit town
and Hayes City. Marshall, you better remember that.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
M alright, met us go all through eating.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I'll take that trade. I ain't gonna pool with you, mister. Now.
You just pick up that tray and things and slide
'em through these bars right now.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's touchy, ain't you.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You ain't making it easy not to be. And I'll
tell you something else. It's gonna be mighty nice to
get you out of here. You ain't done nothing but
trouble to me. Since Mr don't wrung you in, well
you better just hope I don't get loose before he
takes me to Hayes City.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I just might come looking for you.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, you ain't gonna get loose, or don't fret about
five chest yet, don't no chans u uh uh, yes,
Bessie May.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Why tis I just been looking everywhere?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's for you, Bessie. Maybe you aren't not to come
back here?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Why?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, this is where the prisoners is at. Oh he's
a prisoner, Yes he is not going come on right
of here.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
I got everything ready, m the buggy and all buggy
outside work for you're gonna take me on a ride
going on? On?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
No, no, no, I tell you that that's the only
way I. Oh, hello, Chess, see Bessie May. We'll say
maybe we ought to leave now.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, maybe you're right?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
No, no, no, you come back here? Well, uh, Chess
take it. We wouldn't wanna interrupt me. You were gone
for a buggy ride. Ooh buggy, right, Bessie May. I
told you the buggy rides are nice this time of year. Buggy, right,
mister Donn what whoa yeah, yeah, this here's Bessie May Wilkirk.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
How are you miss Wilkir?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I do uh? She was done, her and her power
come to Dodge and they just I mean, she just
well will you just tell her? I got too much
to do to go on no buggy.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Ride, Chester, I can't very well do it somewhere where
you can.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
You can too, You can send me down to the depot
or something. How come you're doing that Chester?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Huh, dude, I.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Mean asking him for orders and such.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You're the Marshall, Marshall him. Well, now that's another thing
with Bessie May and her. Paul thinks I'm Marshall at
Dodge City. I've been trying to tell him, oh now Chester,
I have, I have, but they wouldn't listen, and you
show wasn't helping nothing, Yes, yea, Bessie May. Bessie May,
I ain't going on, No, Buggy, I ain't talking about that.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
It's what you just said about not being Marshall.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Mister Dillon's the Marshal, he always has been.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
But you when we come to Dodge us, I ain't
never neither.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I said. I was the only law in town at
that time. And that's because Miss Dilne was gone after
that Cliff Meadows fella. That that prisoner right back there.
And you just ain't been telling the truth about nothing,
Bessie May just a proud foot. You're awful. You just
off out hearing out you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, thinking you were a marshall seemed to mean a
good deal to her.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Chester, Yes, sir, but I never told her no such
a thing, not really.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh, she's just mad.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Maybe she should get over it.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Well, i'd assume she didn't. I tell you was done.
That woman was near driving me out of my mind
past few days. She is the lady I was hiding
from the day you come home. And she likes your chest, Well,
I don't like her. I swear I've saw pretty her
faces on a war hog all now, Chester, Well I have.
Then she started painting her face off. I tell you,
it's just become pitiful.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Maybe she's never had a mind a quarter before. Chester.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You should be kind of easy, are I have a
hard enough time just keeping hidden from her couple.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'll buy you a documented.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, that's a good idea, and my throat, Yes, feel
a little dry. You know, I still can't figure out
Bessie may act in the way she's done.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It just don't make no.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Well, it's like I said, she says she likes you.
It hurts her when she found out that you weren't
what she fought you. Well, it seems funny though, Oh, Chester,
Oh nothing, Bessie mays, yeah, I knew what i'd find
you crawling around somewhere, crawling around. If you ain't crawling now,
you will be when I finished with it. Now you look,
hear me, Steel, there's anything I hate. It's a liar.
(12:21):
I suppose you were talking about me not being Marshall.
You bet I am Betty. They just told me. I
explain all that to you before. It ain't my fault
if you wouldn't listen. Now, oh it ain't high. Well
I think you've done in the purpose. Now I'm calling
you a dirty liar.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
All right, Well, care that's enough.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I tell him?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Get in? Oh oh, then you're the reed of Marshall lumpus. Right, well,
this Chester's a cheap I said.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's enough.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Now, it ain't not fair enough. Ain't nobody gonna make
a fool out of seats. Well her, Nobody ain't trying
to make no fool out of you, liar. I've took
just about all I'm gonna take off of you. Yeah,
you ain't. There's a lot more, and I tell you
when I get show it, you dog, I crazy old fool.
Ooh what's he wanna get so riled up about something
that don't really matter?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
For seems like it does matter to him that best.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
He may.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
At a cocky's kind of weak, any miss Dune.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh huh, there's fine to me.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
They ain't got much of a bite to it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh, it doesn't grab you and throw you down, if
that's what you mean.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
No, no, no, what I mean, as soon.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
As you're finished? What did you mean?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Well, they just kind of weak.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
No, as soon as you're finished.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Let's get some food over the cliff matters.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I wanna get a highly start for Hayes City, Marshall. Marshall, Yeah,
you got to come quick.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That doesn't matter.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
The bank's been robbed.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I just opened up with the day I went in
and there was.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
The safer was wide open. Mister Buckin lying on the
floor unconscious stair Go get doctor. Yes, Marshall, I know
who did it. He was not prisoner of yours. I'd
seen him once before, so I knew what he looked like.
Cliff Matters, Yes, sir, just a few minutes ago I
saw him riding out of town, riding just as fast
as he could go over Herchester.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That him is done.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's him.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I been thinking, how in the world use foods he
ever got out of jail in birthplace?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I don't uh come on alright, holed right there, Matters,
what don't try anything?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Where'd you come from? We been following him for two days. Oh,
I ain't going back to Dodge Marsh. You'll go. How
do you wanna tell me how you got out of jail?
A pitch you'd like to.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Know, and I'll find out not from me, you won't.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You didn't break out. Somebody opened that cell for you.
Yea a fact. I ride unbuckle the belt and drop
your gun.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Like I said, I ain't going back to Didde and
I ain't going to Hayes City.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You neither you gonna go back with us, So we're
gonna bury you right here now you decide.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I already had or be a fool.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
I ain't gonna hang you should have waited for your trial.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Matters. Maybe maybe you'll like it better like this.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
But as you do with the bank money, it won't
do you any good now. Bank money, the DoD City bank.
You robbed at the bank till I saw you right
out of town.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I didn't rob no bank. He was seen.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
No, you didn't do it, and your partner didn't, the
one who turned you a little.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I don't have no partner. Didn't you even know the
old fella who taught me these old fella what old
fella was? Scrawny?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Old coot come in and said something about that lion Chester,
and he unlocked myself. Well for our bad about that trial, Marshall,
I don't think I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Just doing the man that let him out of jail.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
You you don't suppose it was a sage walker?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, I think maybe it was Chester.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Keep doing making sense, mice. You it said Wilker snut
in and turned Meadows loose and maybe even robbed the bank.
He shore wouldn't still be hearing bot.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Nobody really saw who robbed the bank. Nobody saw who
turned Matters little.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So yes, I know, but it seems like they just
cut out and run.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's a zerom.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yes, but what do you want?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I wanna talk to you walking so about the time.
I'm busy.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well we'll talk now.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
What do you mean busting in? You ain't got no right?
Oh what are they doing here? You and Bessie may
Pack in the lead, saying what if we are take
none of your business?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Wanw did you do it?
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You turn Cliff Meadows loose from.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Jail, Tell oh, you're crazy? Why would I do that?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So you could rob the bank and everybody And to
think medals didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Well he did. Everybody seen him, find him, and you
will find a robber.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
We did find him, yeah, huh, I had to kill him.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Oh wait, wait then, what troll the fuss about that?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Just before he died, he told us that you would
let him out of jail.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Alright, alright, so I turned him loose. I wanted to
get back at you in gesture, But that don't prove
I rob no bank.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
We been asking around, Tom Walker, you bought over a
hundred dollars or other things in the past two days.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What did you get some money to do that?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Where did I get it?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I uh shah shaved atuch what we had us a
farm and n and we wrote things it won't work,
such as too much against you. You ain't gonna take
my money, not after all I went through. You ain't.
I'll kill your first.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I don't Why did you do it?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Such?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Never never had nursing mercia, never had nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
A lot of people don't, bess you May, I'm I'm
right here.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Take care of yourself. You hear, and I you he
take care Paul.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm sorry, Bessie Man.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
He didn't mean no harm, Marshall. It didn't mean no
harm at all. Just got tired of scratching in the
ground for a living and never quite making it. Yeah,
I was awful smart though.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Did you know that you mean blaming Clifton Meows for
the robbery?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
I know that was an accident, like a real plan,
was me you? I was sposed to fix up all
pretty like and shine up to the marshal. What you know? Uh,
he'd be too busy to notice when Paul was robbing
the bank.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Bessie May, you you mean is that why you was
tagging after me all the time?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
But you was the only Marshall in town then Chester,
but you lied.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You wasn't no Marshal at all, and never I tried
to had anything for that.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Everything would have worked out just like Paul said.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
But it all went wrong, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, I bessy, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
It is.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Guns Smoke but Houston.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
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Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The story was specially written for
Gun Smoke by Ray Kemper, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody, Gene Bates, John
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