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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 smoke. The story of the violence that moved
west with young American and the story of a man
who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And seeing Am Bonnie don't hardly get a chance today
is booting a man whn't have no calls.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Never mind Chester, I will take care of it all.
Thank you, mister Dylan. And I'd like to see the Marshall.
I'm a Marshall. Come in. My name is Cassius maythew
I'm sorry to disturb you with this hour of mister Dylan.
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Matt Dylan, that's all right, mister Mayhew. Won't you sit on?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What can I do for you? My journey westward has
been interrupted by the illness of my wife. Oh I'm
sorry to hear that, and I'm gravely worried. I was
taking her through a dry climate for her health. That's
the purpose of the trip. It seems to me, mister Mayhew,
that you need a doctor more than you need a Marshall. Yes,
I was hoping you'd be able to put me in
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touch with one. Oh, sure I can. Doc Adam is
a very good friend of mine. I'll go roust him
on for you right now. Oh, Marshall Dillon, Yeah, there's
another purpose for my visit to your office. Oh so
what's that this suitcase? I'd be obliged if you keep
it for me, keep it locked up. I mean there's
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something valuable on that. I take it. Yes, there is
all the family treasures that we were able to bring
on our journey. They mean a lot to missus Meeke Hugh,
I feel better if they were kept here. Well, I
suppose I can do that for you. You will know
how long you're going to be in Dodge. Well that
depends on my wife and your doctor, Marshall. But yeah,
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I'll take care of the suitcase for you, and i'll
go get dog Adams too. Go ahead, Doc eat that
Chester told me that he had three helpings of that.
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Well that's no recommendation. Chester's got four stomachs like a camera,
and it doesn't look as bad as all that, Doc,
not as bad as usual anyway? Maybe not, man, but
I'm not very hungry. I don't want to get back
up to the dodge house to see missus. Mayhew. Now,
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how's she getting on? Good manute?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Not a bit.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Still can't travel with her. He knew me be a
long time before she's able to head west. How's the
old man taking it? He's taken it hard, man. Oh,
he's the soul of devotion and taking care of his wife.
Nobody could be kinder more patient. But it's clear to
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me that he's mighty anxious to move on. He he
trying to hurry your dock. So you will say that
she can travel, Oh, oh, no, he's too fond of
hurt you do anything like that. I can just kind
of sense it, though, after all, you can't blame him.
It's uh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, I would expect to find the Marshal in his
office in the middle of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Marshall has a right to eat his dinner. That's all right.
Talk who you? My name is Henry Brails, and I'd
like a word with you in private. How're been going
along there? Take your time, Doc, take your time. No,
I'm late now unless you need me, no doc. You
go ahead, I'll see you later. Yeah, all right, okay,
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mister Braile's what do you want? And office is the
proper place to transact business? If you don't have anything
to say to me, you're wasting both our time. All right, Marshall,
But we'll have to go to your office anyway. What
for right to open the suitcase? Of course? Are we
going to open the suitcase? Right? Certainly the suitcase left
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with you by Cassius Mayhew the other night. Well, I
go on, mister Brailes. You seem to have this all
worked out. It's perfectly simple, Marshall. Cassius Mayhew is my
brother in law. He left the family home very suddenly
to take this trip. I followed him.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I want to be sure that he's not making off
with some of the things that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Belonged to me. Missus Mayhew is your sister. She is?
Did you know that she's a very sick woman? So
I understand you haven't been a seer nor Marshall.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
When I accosted Mayhew and he told me you had
the suitcase, I felt it was important to see you
at once.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now, if you'll come with me and we can open it,
nester minute, Braills, I can save you the walk. What
do you mean, I'm not going to open that suitcase
unless Mayhew himself tells me to do it. But I
tell you I have a right to see what's in there.
I'm a member of the family, not acting much like one. Well,
I certainly a sound to me like you're more interested
in the suitcase than your sister Marshall. It is your duty.
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It's my duty to protect property around here, including anything
left in my care. Now you better go on, mister Brail's.
I want to finish my dinner, but the law. You'll
let me worry about the law. Jack, you got time,
I'll have another cup of coffee, Sure, sure, coming right up.
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It's an honously twittering nightmare. I enjoyed the walk, so
did I, kiddy. You know it's the first time I
can remember that I've walked one headed in the half suit.
You suppose you're just got on all right without you?
I sure hope. So that's a I wouldn't want to
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make a habit of covering much ground without anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You're coming in for a drink, man, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, thanks, kitty. I think I'm going back to the arms.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I thought you said to jail with him to it
is of people doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, es, excuse me, he's kitty oh ses donut.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Fellow Braills is fixing to raise an awful row at
the dodgehouse, trying to get in.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Seeing his maid. Uh huh, I better come with you,
kiddy night mass and thank your horse for me. What
you mean by that? Never mind, chess, tell me what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well, it's don't own there at the desk, you know,
talking to mister Adobe about trying to buy one of his.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Hotel fellows off her mind, getting.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Awesome, All right, go on, just well, this fella Braills
come in and he tells mister Zobe he wants to
know what room is.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
His maid wanted Adobe tell it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, see he didn't late on, he noted me. He
was terrible sake. So he tried to tell Braills.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
To come back in the morning. Leave not by a
judge pool he would.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
He gets right on, mister Dovid and person who mister
may you come out on the land and Brails and
him start heading up the stairs, and that's when to
come for you Chester.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's going no right.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Going in that room, you Henry, He's going in a
little danger.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Ye hold that up there. You better put that gun down,
mister Mayhew. I demand to see my sister. He should
picked up funny time for it.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He has no right to keep her locked up in
a strange town, not letting her be seen.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
By a member of her own family. I am protecting
her health, Marshaled. I don't intend to allow her to
be distressed by anyone.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You mean you don't want to ask any questions about
what's in that suitcase?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's what you mean. Get down these stairs, brails. I
wouldn't want to to push it. This is outrageous treatment, Marshals.
I'll get a lot more outrageous if you don't know
what I say and I go on get out of here.
I'll go for now. But no country, Marshal is going
to deprive me of my rights. I'll be back. You
can count on that. I'll be here. Thanks for your assistance, Marshall.
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Dilland you spared my wife an ugly scene, and I
think I keep that derryger in my pocket if I
were you. And I'm not a shooting man, Marshall, I've
never even owned a pistol before. But missus mayh youth
thought I might need protection on the journey. Yeah, sometimes
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a man needs protection from his own gun, mister Parrish.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Marshall, and I understand it will not happen again.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I'm gonna make you howl.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I'm talking. I don't know why you got your information
from doctor, mind stopping, stopping your pet people looking alive
and grown man stage a riot outside of her door.
I'll tell you it just makes you one. No, I
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don't blame you a talking. I'm sorry it happened. I uh,
I meanted to talk to you about him as may was.
I'm glad you came by. Well, I can only tell
you that she's she's a very sick woman, too sick
to talk to me. She was sick to talk to anyone.
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What in the word would you have to say to
her doctor? This whole business is a little hard to understand.
One half of a family against the other half. Braill's
accused of Mayhew and Mayhew keeping him up a gunpoint.
I thought, maybe miss Mayhew could give me a couple
of answers to a couple of questions so that I
could get Brails out of here for good. Maybe she
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couldn't have, but I couldn't be responsible for what it
might do to her that scene. I was had her
door last night, almost finished her off. All right, doc,
never mind, thank.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You man dropped may almost gone photog.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
We're gone long enough to write some of it. Chester, Well,
I was noticing things. Man can't hurt yourself when he's noticing. No,
of course not. And what did you find to notice
this morning?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And there's lots of things going on in one paper?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yet that word yo.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Sometimes it doesn't pay to be a baculine. And I
king that Brail from I was a doing y the
first one to see that. We find out Russell Dylon,
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Marscell Dillon.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You can go get the suitcase now we've come to
open it. This is Sheriff Dia from Saint Louis. Hello,
Sheriff Marshall. You're a long way from home.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Share the suitcase is right inside, right inside the Marshall's office.
To Braills, I'll handle list. That's what I've come to do.
Well handle it. Then you've come all the way from
Saint Louis. I i've that suitcase, Yes, Marshall Dylan, I
have my office received telegram. Yeah, I bet you did.
I don't deny sending it. Maybe I should explain a
little further. Both mister Braile's and mister may Who are
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from those Saint Louis families. I've known them personally for
years and you'll probably know that missus may He was
a very sick woman. And indeed I do uh here
my credentials. You don't mind. Let's you and me have
looked at that suitcase. You know that Mayhew doesn't want
Brailes to open it, and mister Braile's won't be opening it. Marshall,
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we will all right, come on inside, I have suitcases
and back. You'll stay here, Brails, I think it would
be best if you followed Marshall Dillon's advice. Mister Braile's,
come on, Sherfon's suitcases in here.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
A.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I've got a couple of keys and I think will fit.
Uh's some fits it'll open.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Uh ah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't see any of the family valuables the Braids
was talking about, but that looks like an awful lot
of money to me. It should be just about twenty
thousand dollars. You're telling me this isn't Mayhew's money. He
worked in the same bank in Saint Louis for many years, Marshall.
He left in kind of a hurry, and he told
me his wife was sick, and this money disappeared on
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the same day. I see. I'm sorry, really sorry. Mister
Mayhew was a highly respected man. It's hard to blame
a man for trying to save his wife, isn't it?
And it is for a fact. Well, Marshall, shall we
go across the street. I've got a right to know it.
There's nothing here that concerns you. Mister Braile's. That money
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Cassio stole. I knew there was something wrong. I was right.
I bet you feel fine about this, mister Braile's. I
think you better go, Marshall. I'll go with you. As
Marshall Dillon said, this does not concern you. I have
a right to confront him as you wanted to confront
your dying sister. You stay away from me, Braill's. From
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now on the room at the top of the stairs, Sheriff, Oh, man,
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I want to see may you talk. I don't want
to bother his wife. You can't, she's dead. I'm sorry
to ask. This is at the time, doctor, but would
you tell mister mayh that I'm here? Man? Ah, this
is Sheriff dire from Saint Louis. Talk well all right, Matt,
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he's in pretty bad shape. I am able to face
up my responsibilities. Hello, Sheriff Dire. He wrons to may you.
I'm m sorry about your wife, sir. Thank you. Do
you know why I'm here? Yes, yes, yes, I know.
The money. I took it to give her a chance
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at a new life. Now her life has gone. Mine
is gone with it. I'm sorry, mister.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm sorry too, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Sorry for imposing on your good faith and kindness. Sorry
for betraying your trust. Ms Mayhew. She uh, she never
knew that you took the money.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
No, she never knew. That's one thing she never knew,
and she never will.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan us Marshall. The story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision
by John Meston.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody and Harry Bartel,
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia
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