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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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 Move spoil, starring William Conrad, The story

(00:42):
of the violence that moved.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
West for young America and the story of a man
who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt dellon the
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 and a little lonely.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Mister Dunn, would you mind if we stop at the
Long Bank here for a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Study early in the day? Is Manchester? Oh, I don't
want no drink.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Barkeeps holding some money for me.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I want a little last night and I didn't want
to put it back into the game.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
If you want to get a now so you can
put it back tonight?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Is that as Sam fraid?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Okay? Sam? Come for your money? Chester? Oh there, Marshall, goodon,
Hi Sam? Well here you are just here? You buy
yourself a drink? Sure will see night Chester. You're yuh

(02:01):
excuse me?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, well I heard the bartender call you, Marshall. Dylan, Ah, Sir,
I got something to tell you, Marshall. I'll go ahead.
It's important. Okay, you're going to die, Marshall. Who are you,

(02:23):
mister Wilbur Hawkins. I'm a whiskey drummer. First time I've
been to dodge, though I worked around Saint Louis till
they sent me out here. I liked it better in St.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Louis.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Lots of important people there.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Wait a minute, what are you talking about.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
You're going to die, Marshall. I heard them sing.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
So, I heard whose saying so.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
I don't know their names. It was dark and they
weren't there very long. I didn't dare say anything, or
they didn't known I was listening. And of course I
never heard of you till just now.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That is.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
You ain't a making mine sense, mister, Oh, it makes
sense all right.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You see.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I rode the train out here from Saint Louian one night.
I was all wrapped up trying to sleep, and these
two men came by and stood there in the aisle,
and one gave the other three hundred dollars. He said
it was to kill Marshall divon, but he didn't say
where so of course I didn't know it.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Will just now? Is that all you know about it?

Speaker 4 (03:23):
That's all, Marshall. I've done my duty now I'll be
going good bye. Oh ever more, what do you make
of that?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I don't know? Chester?

Speaker 4 (03:39):
He acts it crazy like I don't know whether to
believe him or not.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
And I suppose we'll find out. So enough.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Sound asleep already? And it ain't only just got darker
all he's got nothing else to do with Tom Smith
gets here? Is that who you're holding him for? Oh?
I thought I told you that, Chester?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, but Tom's this cheff a tescos ain't Yeah, why well?
I thought this bow was one in.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
A no Chester. They never heard of him in Apoline.
That's why I wired Tom. Well, I'm going out back
for him in a Chester. I think I left my
new bridle on the hitching rail. Aren't here?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'm better get your face swept up a little.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's a good idea. Stay there, Chester, stay where you are.

(04:51):
You've been shot. I was just trying to play foss
on Chester. I wanted to get him to come up
where I could see him. Thought he's gone. Now you're scared.
My way friend down the alley there he'll be lost
in the crowd. But no, I thought I got sire.
Doesn't matter. Probably thinks I'm dead, So I'll just go
on playing tussle. I mean, that's going up to Doc's office.

(05:13):
I'll tell you there. What did you say?

Speaker 4 (05:29):
That whiskey Drummer's name is.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Man Bilbert Hawkins, Doc, But you never heard of him.
This is his first time in Dodge, you know, Doc.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
He kind of acts like maybe he got hit by
lightning in some worse See, when he's standing.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Still, he gives you the feeling he's hurt.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
A walking sideway, he kind of ooches along like a crab.
But you know what I mean, No, I don't, but
I surely think twice before asking you to explain, Yester,
what is.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
It that you have in mind to do now? Matt? Nothing? Nothing? Yeah,
Trust is going to do the work for a while,
And I'm just gonna sit up here in your office
and wait, wait for it. Chust spreads the word around
and I'm dead or whoever wants me that way. He's
gonna make his play come out of the open and
do whatever he's got planned. Man, I'm gonna give him

(06:14):
a little surprise.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't think whatish going after?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
A wonderful I didn't out Why.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Didn't I think? Yeah? God, just sure. I'm kind of
anxious to meet this man, him and his gunman, that's sure.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
He one thing, ain't the boys like to run wild?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
And the here you ain't around keep the lid on things.
They might. They would have to take a chance. I'll
get started, you know, man, just his rightful once. There's
a lot of men and Dodge who are just waiting
for an excuse like this. If it gets too bad, doctor,

(06:51):
I'll just have to come to life again. What time

(07:11):
is it getting to be done? Let me see near
the midnight might be. How long are you going to
wait up? Something happens again? Chester, Let me know, really,
time seems cried enough so far. Maybe nothing's gonna happen.

(07:32):
They didn't try to kill me just for the fun
of it. No, yes, no answer? A dog. After I
get to the back room. Maybe it's a patient. I'll
be older. I got out him anyway, coming, I'm coming, Uh, kitty,

(07:53):
what are you doing here at this time of night?

Speaker 5 (07:54):
And I tell you he asked me, and don.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Of course come in, Come in, kiddy.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Well where's the corpse?

Speaker 4 (08:03):
What the body?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
I expected to find him all laid out?

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh, oh, you mean Mass. You don't seem too upset about.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
That corpse, Kitty, Oh, I'm not all that talk didn't
fool me. That just didn't make sense. Chester running around
telling everybody who'd been killed?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh why not?

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Oh? I know Chester too well, you were dead. He
wouldn't be acting like that, but most everybody else believes it.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Mass.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
I don't know what you're up to, but I figured
someone's been trying to kill.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Him, right, Yeah, Ambush, Kitty.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
That's not the way he's telling them.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Not the way who's telling I never saw him before.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
But there's a man standing at the bar the long branch,
bragging about out drawing you.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
You mean he's admitting that he killed me.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
I kind of thought you'd like to know.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, that's your mess. This is what you've been waiting for.
Is anybody with him, Kiddy?

Speaker 5 (08:58):
No, he's alone as far as I know. Anyway, You
better come to life again, Matt. There's gonna be trouble.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You don't maybe, yeah, but I'm not waiting any longer.
I'd like to take that gunman's employer along with him.
Though you can find out who it is, not doesn't
beat it out of him. You better come with me, kitty,
so you can find the man out and you can
take cover in case he wants to fight. Any man
who's called enough to shoot you in the dark isn't
gonna fish it up. Maybe not dark, but you never know.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
There.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
He is math tall fellow in the black Cat. He's
kind of drunk.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Okay, Kitty, you wait outside. You see how he's going
to behave like good luck. I'm Marshall Dulham. Mister. Who
are you? I'm Joe Rogers. I thought you was dead, Marshall.

(10:05):
I understand you've been bragging about shooting me. Just talk, Marshall.
I didn't mean nothing by it. I was just talking.
I had a dangerous talk. Don't you think.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Everybody said you were dead?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
But I was waiting for you to come out of
your hole. Rogers. I don't like getting ambushed, Marshall. I
never even seen you before. I didn't them, but I
didn't face the bar Rogers while I take your gun turround. Sure,
I ain't gonna try nothing.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Just this old man, Marshall.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
All right, you can turn around again. You can't arrest
the man, just for talk of jails. Right across the street, Rogers,
you lead the way. It was just talk. I tell
you can't prove that yet. Gone, I swear I didn't
try to kill you, Marshalls. Straight ahead, Rogers. And when
we get there, you're gonna do some more talking. I
want them out. Who hired you?

Speaker 5 (10:49):
No, but he hired me.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I ain't even got a job, mister Dallan, what are
you doing here? Who's this? Though? His name is Rogers Chester,
he's been bragging about shooting le. I was just having
a little fun. I ain't no gunling. It doesn't take
much of a gunman to try to ambush a man, Rogers.

(11:10):
But I didn't do it, Marshall. I heard them talking
about it, and I don't know why I started saying,
I've gone, mister Joni.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Mister doone. I was on the way up the dogs.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
I was coming to tell you something. Well, well, i've
been over the lady Gay.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I swear, I just don't understand.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Say, well, there's a fellow over there and he's making
his brags about shooting you too.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
What that's right?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
He's saying he out Roger and killed you. Of course,
he's a little wrong. Yeah, yeah, of course he is.
So it was Rogers, head less, scared name of sober. Sure,
I've been drinking Martians. I wouldn't have talked like that
if I'd been plumb sober. Here here's your gun, Rogers.
You're turning me loose, like you say, you're just a

(11:55):
big talker. Yeah, but what about the fellow over the
lady game. I don't even want to see him, shall say?
You shut up faster than one of he hears. I'm
still around all right, Rochester going back to the barn
unless the men in there laughing right out of town. Yes, sir,
I'm sure Swy I done a marshall. I get going, Sure,
I'm going. I don't know what's the matter with the

(12:19):
Chester not figuring this. I might have known there'd be
at least a couple of drunks wanting the reputation of
having killed me issue. And now we're right back where
we're starving front cat Amy.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
The whiskey drummer were lying too.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Now you're forgetting I got shot at Chester and there's
a man somewhere and Doug still waiting. They killed me?

(13:00):
Did you come in the back way? Chester?

Speaker 3 (13:02):
I almost forgot to give you this telegraph, miss Films
and Jeff Thomman.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I wasn't say, well, I couldn't read it that close.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
But he's coming for his prisoner.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
He'll be here on the stage.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Today the way I today. Let me see that. Ye
must have got delayed somewhere along the line. You know
Thomas here today, that's right, And the telegrams.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
You just can't count on these new things contracting anymore.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
What time is it, Chester, reckon? That's stage. I'll be
here right now. Let's go see there is must have
moved in just minutes ago a little past.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Here's milling around like a bunch of kids.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah. Look, ain't that Toomsman? Yeah that's him.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Who's got other fellow he lives tiny.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
That's Robert Hawkins, whiskey drummer.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
I've been wondering where he's being.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
But hello, Tom, Well, all right, Matt, hellout Chester, Fine, Mark,
I'm sure glad that trip's over.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Next time I'll come worse. Back stage is easier when
you're taking a prisoner back there. Now. I hope you
still got him. You hate to make this trip for nothing.
He's here anytime you want it.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
See where Hilbert Hawkins going look at her.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Ain't even gonna say hello.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
You know that little fellow? Yeah, you know, he told
me he's staying at the Dodge House. Strangers talking man
ever room him. He means, well, time maybe, but he
tells some mighty crazy stories.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
How what do you mean?

Speaker 6 (14:42):
Well, he said he heard a couple of minutes in
a bar talking about me. He didn't know what I
meant until I introduced myself on the stage and he
recognized my.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Name, and then he.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well, what are you looking like? Go ahead, Tom, go ahead,
what the Hawking's here?

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, you said this one fellow was going to give
the other fellow three hundred dollars to shoot me.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
He got the darnness thing. It sure is. I don't know, Matt.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
There's a lot of men who'd like to kill me,
but I don't believe they'd be standing.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Around talking about it that way. I kind of think
he made it all up. Now he didn't make it up, Tom,
not quite. You know something about this? You mean someone
is out to shoot me? Yeah? Who Look, I'll tell
you about it on the way where the Dodge House.

(15:32):
All right, you wait here Chester, just in case he
gets past to us. Huh, you ain't gonna get terance
to us. But when I can't figure man, that's why
Hawkins didn't want to kill you and me. It doesn't
make much sense. Time here it is stop smithing, Matt

(15:52):
Dillon Hawkins. We want to talk to you. Come out,
up and out, Hawkins, get out of the way. Town.
You tried to kill us, Luck, I can kick the
door open with one foot. You cover me? Huh? Tried

(16:21):
you kill him? I tried not to, Hawkins.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
I'm hit.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm going to die. I had to shoot Hawkins. Why
did you want to kill us? Smith?

Speaker 6 (16:36):
Me?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
A lot of people want to I hear them sing.
Nobody said anything. You made all that up? Hok and
you took a shot at me last week? Didn't you?
Didn't you die?

Speaker 4 (16:52):
I can't kill anybody?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
No? Why did you want to? Hawkins? Tell me?

Speaker 4 (16:59):
I killed got a ment he important me. I told
him about it first, and I killed him.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
And why Hawkins? I don't know. I had to. I
had to do. He's dead, Matt. What was he talking about?

(17:32):
I don't have time, but it doesn't matter much.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
I don't understand it. I never saw him before yesterday.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Hawkins was a murderer time. The kind of doesn't need
any particular reason. Nobody'll ever know why he did what
he did. Anyway, it's crazy. If you like him, you
sure was crazy.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
You think he's done a lot of killing man and
probably it's.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
The most dangerous kind of in their eads. Tom the
murderer was no reason at all, innocent, looking a little
whiskey dollar gunsmoke.

Speaker 6 (19:10):
We're used and directed by Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad
as Matt Dylan US Marshall.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Featured in the cast were Barley Bear as Chester, Howard
McGhee as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
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