November 6, 2025 • 29 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Odd City and in the territory on West, there's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
(00:40):
the violence that moved west with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Chester had been helping me with some paperwork after the
regular day ended, and we didn't get through until about
ten o'clock, and we were both kind of tired.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I sure never did think i'd hold out, mister Dylon.
I got a cramp in my hand and a creek
in the neck.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What I need to beer, I'll join it, Chester. I
locked up the office and walked down to the Texas
Trail with Chester. I guess the best thing that could
be said for the night was it was still not cold,
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not warm, somewhere in that between that make sure we
should be one thing or the other. Or maybe it
was because we were tired that it didn't feel right.
The bar wasn't crowded, and right off Kitty came over
to our table with beer. I thought she looked kind
of worried hard damn it. Oh no, not not much.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh, I declare him, hiss, kitty, This beer tastes darker
than usual new brew, probably Chester.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, I suppose, Saint Matt. You ever seen the stranger
before the tall one bar?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Huh huh No, no.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
My heavens, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He is a lofty man, and that's for sure. Look
at him stretch out.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, what about him, kitty?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I don't know. Sam gave me the eye a
bitter go just before you came in.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
H he's trying to make trouble.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Sam's not sure. Fellas have been drinking straight for more
than two hours, and he doesn't say anything. He just
looks like he's getting ready, maybe waiting for something.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, is the woman with him?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He was a lean, almost stringy man, better than usual, tall,
and he might have served in the army once because
he wore his gun butt forward. As we sat Chester
and Me drinking our Beerry turned around a couple of
times and looked at the door. I never saw a
man with eyes as gray, or with a skin to
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his face so dry and tough you'd swear you could
get sparks off it with a Flint. The woman standing
next to him talked loud and often, but he didn't
appear to be listening much. It was like Kitty said,
he he was waiting. About an hour went by and
the place began to quiet down. Most of the men
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drifted out, uh whatever, their way was taken off.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh excuse me, mister Dylon.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You uh want to go on back Chester?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yes, orir, I was thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
His beer is so dark it's making me sleepy.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Right, Well, you'll go ahead. I'll see you in the morning.
You staying, Yeah, yeah, for a while, I think what
kind of that tall thuh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Maybe I guess I'll get a little whiskey and sugar
might keep me awake.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No, you'll go on Chester? Sorry, Jack? How long?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
If it's all the same to you, mister Dylan, I
ain't sleepy, Jack, Okay.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There's a hotel down the way, miss that could put
you up. He shut up. Nobody asked you that, Jackie.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You ain't got no call to talk to the man
like that. Just be you see mister Dillon Chester.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Because I'm tired, I don't wanna go to bed. Yeah,
trip on the stage, travel him all day.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I swear I've never been talk too much.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Don't today be quiet staying there with me? But h
been talking ever since we come in here. Stop where
I'm gonna hit.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You might not be a bad thing if you did,
mister Dillon. There's anything in this world I hate, it's
a woman who does nothing but a collaborate or gun
uh keddy.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I bet he is miserable to be wed to?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Though, What do you reckon dealing him?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't know chester you're still here? Who not? Uh? Yeah?
I sat on a minute, will you kidding?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You? Uh don't know their names today? No.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I came in on a six o'clock stage from Oklahoma Territory.
That's all I know. She's been talking a lot about
mostly about clothes and liquor. He don't say anything.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You think they're married.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
She's wearing a ring. M I never seen a man
drink as much, Mad. It's like water with honey. Hey
you honey? Uh yeah, excuse.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Me, mad?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, sure drink?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
What do you want to grid that? Thank you? Where
do you think you're going?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm gonna fresh milk?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Shout mm, I'm coming right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Back, you do. The woman had just got out of
sight when we heard the horses coming down the street outside.
There were only six of us left in the place, Sam,
Kitty Chester and me, the stranger at the bar, and
a cowboy sleeping it off at the table across the room.
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The tall man called Jack, the son of the horses,
turned to the door, and there was a gun in
his hand.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You fellows at the table, get up, come over here.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And I kind of wondered what you were waiting for.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
I know you've been wondering. That's why you've been hanging around.
I don't want no trouble with you.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Stay out of the way. You won't get hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Why don't you put your gun away, mister.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Don't bother me. There's trouble coming through that door any minute.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Put it back. I don't allow gun playing dodge.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
What you allow ain't up to you now, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
If you're in trouble, it's my job to protect you
and your wife.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
It's just private trouble. You want part of it, I'll
give it to you right now in the belly.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Jack, But here outside we can get out the back.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I ain't running no more you either. I wanna get
behind the bar.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, you two fellas want to hit your belts, leave
them lay where they fall.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Why, honey, you give me a gun, will you. I'll
give you. I'll give you one.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Wait a minute, Okay, you two get around behind the bar,
all right at the.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
End, you, you and a lady.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, listen, you can't shoot up this place. Sam, do
what he says. Chester and I did as we were
told and got behind the bar along with Kitty and
Sam the tall man, and then picked up our guns
and tossed one to the woman and then dropped the
others beside him on the floor. And then we waited,
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all of us behind the bar except for the cowboy
drunk asleep at the table.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
On mean, you had that mirror in for a month.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's gonna be busted for sure, Honey.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We should have kept going.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Got the train in the morning for the West.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
We had to stop somewhere. This is as good a
place as at it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Listen, mister, I'm going over and get the boy sleeping
at the table there. He's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You move an inch from where you're at. Now, shoot you.
I shut up all of you.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah you agree, I am not there.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yeah, start shooting.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
When the door swings in, mister Dillon, stay down, kidding,
don't worry that stop off and dark. They'll be in
a saloon. True, Oh I know, barrel. Well, come on,
you might as well start looking in here for you.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Okay, that's really right.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
There. An. The shooting went on for about five seconds,
and when the glass got it to come down behind us,
we covered up, And at that I felt a warm
trickle along the side of my face where a splinter
had slash me. There wasn't anybody behind the bar hurt
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beyond a scratch or two from the glass. But out
there by the door, and sprawled out beyond on the
walk were four men. They never had a chance, they'd
never have another.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Watch out for the glass.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Jack We got them, We got 'em.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yeah, we got them.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Honey, when I'm still alive, who is it which acted?
Let me?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Never did like him more.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Let's go all right, Jackie, Sorry messed up your place, Honey.
Don't you try coming after us. Mister Jack's had a
taste of blood.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Come on, Jackie, we're.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Gonna have to ride now.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh honey, I'm tired. You all right, kitty, I think,
don't look at that mirror, just look at it.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Just get some guns from the office. Saddle up and
get back here.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yes, all right, now, folks, there's been a little shooting.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Kitty, Get Doc quick.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Man? This man isn't dead. We'll go on, hurry up,
will you? Well, yeah, sure, she ran out into the
night for Doc. I stayed in the Texas trail watching
the life flow out of them. Bullet hole in the
chest of the man. The killers are called acton.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
We will return for the second act of gun smoke
in just a moment. But first, you can help your
fighting men and our children win the fight for life
if you act now on the battle front. Our fighting
men need blood to replace the precious substance they have
so valiently lost. Only through contributions to your Red Cross
fund drive can we keep up that lifeline of blood
to our wounded men. But time is running out. Give now.
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Your Red Cross must also have funds to transform blood
into anti polio sirum. The polio season is just around
the corner. Red Cross Gamma globulin is the one weapon
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your neighbors, perhaps your own child can be saved from
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the horrible effects of the dread disease. If we do
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government health agencies. There will not be enough to protect
every child this year, but many thousands will be spared
polio paralysis this summer because you gave to your Red Cross.
When your Red Cross Fund volunteer calls give generously, do
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it today you give. They live now the second act
of gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
His eyes were opened, but he didn't see me, and
when I talked to him, he didn't hear. While I
waited for Doc, I went through his papers. His name
was Brad Acton. That's all I can find. About two
minutes later, Kitty came back with Doc. Didn't take Doc
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long to shake his head.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And Uh, poor fella, he's done matter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
There's not a living chance if I could just get
him to talk. I gotta find out who he is
and what they've done those two.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I don't know. He's putting here gone.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We can't Yeah, acting acting? Can you hear me acting? Acting? Acting?
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That fella Jack Farrow? He and the woman what did
they do? Use me? Actings? Now listen to me acting,
Matt acting? Who are they? Why did they shoot you?
Just trying the poor devil heat? Come on, come on
now you're wasting time. I gotta get after him. Now
what did they do? I'm dying. I'm dying. We've all
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got to die. That ain't kindly mischief. I want you
to wake up. He hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, if I.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Was on my feet, now, listen to me. Pharaoh. I
heard you call him Pharaoh and the woman? Now what
about him? Why did you come gunning for him? Yeah?
Had it come? Why? What did they do? Don't matter?
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It matters if you're gonna die, get it off yourself. Now,
come on, you and your pals there. If you did
nothing wrong, you'll die more comfortable.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Mad.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Let's hear be it's not mad? What about it? Acting? Acting?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Uh, California, California.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Pharaoh, me and the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Boys, we held up a stage and fair. He took
the money and led it out with that woman. We've
been followed. Look out for she's mean with a gun.
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Martha Loo. Yeah, he's gone, Matt h Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Guess you had to do it that way.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But but what.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
All?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Right? Chester?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You going after a mate?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Why not? They don't murder, haven't they. You have to
figure the odds of a man forgiving you for what
you do when a thing has to be done, and
then you split the difference, and dependent on the reasons
for doing it, you feel better or worse. I had
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to do what I did because I had to find
out about them. But it didn't help even if he
was a gunman. I'd given no peace to a dying man,
and for that he had to die harder a man
A long way from home, Chester, and I rode out
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into the east the way we figured Pharaoh and his
wife would be headed.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Son's coming up, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I got eyes. Yes, there's a homestead up are on
the bench. We'll stop and find out if they've seen anything.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
No more than a half hour ago, Marshall. I was
fixing to fetch some water when I heard them.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
They stopped. Huh Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
The woman looked tuckered out. Never see a woman with
all them skirts ride.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Ride the way she did. It was some picture. How
long did I stay?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Five minutes?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Maybe wife had some coffee and they drank.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It, scald and and took off, had a easton.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Yeah, they wanted to know how far tot Kinsley, or
maybe they wanted to know the next station, and I
told him Kinsley. I don't know Santa Fee is doing
there for Hutchinson about eight.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
They do something wrong, Marshall. Just four murders back in
the dodge. Come on, Chester. The Pharaohs had enough start
on us that if they got the train in Kinsley
before we caught up, we'd have to use the telegraph.
I hope they could be stopped further down the line.
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With killers like that, there'd be a lot of shooting,
and I forget it was my job to be there
when it happened. We rode hard Lacked a couple of
minutes before eight. When we saw the smoke of the engine.
We still had a couple of miles to go to
reach the station, and she was moving out. When we
got there. I swung aboard and held out a hand
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for Chester. My running like that, give me.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
A stitch in the side and the puffs.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Take it easy, Chester.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I'm sure wish we'd.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Have had time to find out if there was on
this train, mister Dylon thing we've lost them.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Good.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, we'll see now. Look, there's a lot of people
in those cars up ahead. The pharaoh see us, and
they're gonna start shooting, and I don't want that, so
go slow. We see them first, get out of sight.
We'll wait until they got off the train. Yes, okay, No, Chester,
put away the gun. No shooting on the train, Yes,
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mister Dylon. We started from the last car and moved
up that way. They wouldn't see us first. I hoped
we could get them without any gun play at all,
mostly for folks who would get hurt. But I didn't
have any stomach for shooting a woman, even though she
wasn't killer. We got to the third car when Chester
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spotted them there they are all right, get back. Okay,
we'll just stay here.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Conductor's coming this way.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Good. How did marshall mister Hinson, you want a pleasure
ride or business? Business? Mister Heinson. That couple they're in
the fourth, fifth seat from the front, were tall yet yeah?
And the woman?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah. I wondered about them when they got on.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Sure, funny pair. She looks, Bubble. We're out. They've both
done murder. Marshal. There's kids in the car. I want
to get them without any shooting. As long as they
don't see us, it'll be all right. Now, where's your
next stop? About thirty miles down the line. Now, well,
we'll try to figure something out. I hope you can, Marshall.
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The train rolled on. I saw miss Pharaoh take a
kid on her lap play with it, and the mother
in the next seat looked on with fond eyes. I
wonder what she would have said if she knew. Jack
Farah just looked out the window. We didn't make a move.
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At the next stop, two men got off, and there
was still some twenty people left in the car besides
the killers. About fifteen miles beyond, the train pulled up again.
I could see a big herd of cattle crossing the tracks.
It was going to take a few minutes. Mister Heinsen
came down the aisle to the platform where we were standing.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Hey, Marshall, I got an I d see what you think. Yeah,
we'll be about ten minutes wait until that herd gets crossed.
How about if I tell the folks in the car
that can get out stretched legs for a bit, my gid,
you changed all right?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Go ahead and there.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They're off and there's little delay for count rossing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
If you want to get offers fell stretch out.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
A ben y glass.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We watched slowly. One of the time they made up
their minds, the women glad to let the kids work
off steam, the men to size up the strange land
or somebody else's heard, and they straggled out. There was
one old couple that wouldn't move though, and I saw
mister Heinson making an eye and a shrug at me,
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and then they changed their minds and hobbled off, And
I left the car empty except for the pharaohs Chester,
mister Heinson, and me.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
And it's your deal, Marshall. Lucky they didn't decide to
get off.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I didn't think they would. Alright, go ahead, mister Heinson,
and get those people down the line a bit. Huh, yes, alright, Chester.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Wow, you see nothing like California's jacket. I haven't seen
anything so flat.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
How far you think it goes like this?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I ain't gonna take me back.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Wanna take my gun for a while, take 'em in
the rib.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Ry, I said, hold on toward alright, get your hands
up over your high and don't turn around. But she
must have had her gun already in her hand, wanting
to give it to Pharaoh the hole. She was fast
one minute, she was upright in the segment. She was
gone fire any of us from behind the seat, Shaggy Jackie,
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all right, throw at your gun, miss Pharaoh, Throw at
your gun and stand up. I don't want to hurt you.
I'll kill you. I'll kill you.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Look at what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
She's going for his body. Chester, give me a hand.
I'll stop it, stop it, stop it. I'll tell you.
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She was like a crazy woman. It took both of
us to hold her, and we couldn't even do that
right until we had our handcuffed to the seat, and
then she shut up. He just sat there looking at
her husband's body. When we got off at the next
step to wait for the next train back to Dodge,
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Jack Farrow was taken away in a wagon to be buried.
His wife stood to the tracks, watching it as he
moved off, and it wasn't until the wagon became a
dusk cloud out on the plane that she started to.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Cry gun smoke. Under the direction of Norman McDonald stars
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William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall, Tonight's story was
specially written for gun Smoke by Anthony Ellis, with music
composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast
were Michael Ann Barrett and Tom Tully with John Dayner,
Lawrence Dobkin and Jack Krushian Harley is Chester, Howard mcneer
is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy. Gun Smoke is
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heard by our troops overseas through the facilities of the
Armedforces Radio Service. Join us again next week as Matt
Dillon US Marshall fights to bring law and order out
of the wild violence of the West in gun Smoke.
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Speaker 2 (27:54):
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Speaker 1 (27:55):
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Speaker 7 (29:00):
The CA
Around Odd City and in the territory on West, there's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
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the violence that moved west with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Chester had been helping me with some paperwork after the
regular day ended, and we didn't get through until about
ten o'clock, and we were both kind of tired.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I sure never did think i'd hold out, mister Dylon.
I got a cramp in my hand and a creek
in the neck.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What I need to beer, I'll join it, Chester. I
locked up the office and walked down to the Texas
Trail with Chester. I guess the best thing that could
be said for the night was it was still not cold,
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not warm, somewhere in that between that make sure we
should be one thing or the other. Or maybe it
was because we were tired that it didn't feel right.
The bar wasn't crowded, and right off Kitty came over
to our table with beer. I thought she looked kind
of worried hard damn it. Oh no, not not much.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh, I declare him, hiss, kitty, This beer tastes darker
than usual new brew, probably Chester.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, I suppose, Saint Matt. You ever seen the stranger
before the tall one bar?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Huh huh No, no.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
My heavens, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He is a lofty man, and that's for sure. Look
at him stretch out.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, what about him, kitty?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I don't know. Sam gave me the eye a
bitter go just before you came in.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
H he's trying to make trouble.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Sam's not sure. Fellas have been drinking straight for more
than two hours, and he doesn't say anything. He just
looks like he's getting ready, maybe waiting for something.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, is the woman with him?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He was a lean, almost stringy man, better than usual, tall,
and he might have served in the army once because
he wore his gun butt forward. As we sat Chester
and Me drinking our Beerry turned around a couple of
times and looked at the door. I never saw a
man with eyes as gray, or with a skin to
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his face so dry and tough you'd swear you could
get sparks off it with a Flint. The woman standing
next to him talked loud and often, but he didn't
appear to be listening much. It was like Kitty said,
he he was waiting. About an hour went by and
the place began to quiet down. Most of the men
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drifted out, uh whatever, their way was taken off.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh excuse me, mister Dylon.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You uh want to go on back Chester?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yes, orir, I was thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
His beer is so dark it's making me sleepy.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Right, Well, you'll go ahead. I'll see you in the morning.
You staying, Yeah, yeah, for a while, I think what
kind of that tall thuh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Maybe I guess I'll get a little whiskey and sugar
might keep me awake.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No, you'll go on Chester? Sorry, Jack? How long?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
If it's all the same to you, mister Dylan, I
ain't sleepy, Jack, Okay.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There's a hotel down the way, miss that could put
you up. He shut up. Nobody asked you that, Jackie.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You ain't got no call to talk to the man
like that. Just be you see mister Dillon Chester.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Because I'm tired, I don't wanna go to bed. Yeah,
trip on the stage, travel him all day.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I swear I've never been talk too much.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Don't today be quiet staying there with me? But h
been talking ever since we come in here. Stop where
I'm gonna hit.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You might not be a bad thing if you did,
mister Dillon. There's anything in this world I hate, it's
a woman who does nothing but a collaborate or gun
uh keddy.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I bet he is miserable to be wed to?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Though, What do you reckon dealing him?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't know chester you're still here? Who not? Uh? Yeah?
I sat on a minute, will you kidding?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You? Uh don't know their names today? No.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I came in on a six o'clock stage from Oklahoma Territory.
That's all I know. She's been talking a lot about
mostly about clothes and liquor. He don't say anything.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You think they're married.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
She's wearing a ring. M I never seen a man
drink as much, Mad. It's like water with honey. Hey
you honey? Uh yeah, excuse.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Me, mad?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, sure drink?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
What do you want to grid that? Thank you? Where
do you think you're going?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm gonna fresh milk?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Shout mm, I'm coming right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Back, you do. The woman had just got out of
sight when we heard the horses coming down the street outside.
There were only six of us left in the place, Sam,
Kitty Chester and me, the stranger at the bar, and
a cowboy sleeping it off at the table across the room.
(06:59):
The tall man called Jack, the son of the horses,
turned to the door, and there was a gun in
his hand.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You fellows at the table, get up, come over here.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And I kind of wondered what you were waiting for.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
I know you've been wondering. That's why you've been hanging around.
I don't want no trouble with you.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Stay out of the way. You won't get hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Why don't you put your gun away, mister.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Don't bother me. There's trouble coming through that door any minute.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Put it back. I don't allow gun playing dodge.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
What you allow ain't up to you now, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
If you're in trouble, it's my job to protect you
and your wife.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
It's just private trouble. You want part of it, I'll
give it to you right now in the belly.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Jack, But here outside we can get out the back.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I ain't running no more you either. I wanna get
behind the bar.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, you two fellas want to hit your belts, leave
them lay where they fall.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Why, honey, you give me a gun, will you. I'll
give you. I'll give you one.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Wait a minute, Okay, you two get around behind the bar,
all right at the.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
End, you, you and a lady.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, listen, you can't shoot up this place. Sam, do
what he says. Chester and I did as we were
told and got behind the bar along with Kitty and
Sam the tall man, and then picked up our guns
and tossed one to the woman and then dropped the
others beside him on the floor. And then we waited,
(09:08):
all of us behind the bar except for the cowboy
drunk asleep at the table.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
On mean, you had that mirror in for a month.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's gonna be busted for sure, Honey.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We should have kept going.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Got the train in the morning for the West.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
We had to stop somewhere. This is as good a
place as at it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Listen, mister, I'm going over and get the boy sleeping
at the table there. He's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You move an inch from where you're at. Now, shoot you.
I shut up all of you.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah you agree, I am not there.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yeah, start shooting.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
When the door swings in, mister Dillon, stay down, kidding,
don't worry that stop off and dark. They'll be in
a saloon. True, Oh I know, barrel. Well, come on,
you might as well start looking in here for you.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Okay, that's really right.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
There. An. The shooting went on for about five seconds,
and when the glass got it to come down behind us,
we covered up, And at that I felt a warm
trickle along the side of my face where a splinter
had slash me. There wasn't anybody behind the bar hurt
(10:32):
beyond a scratch or two from the glass. But out
there by the door, and sprawled out beyond on the
walk were four men. They never had a chance, they'd
never have another.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Watch out for the glass.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Jack We got them, We got 'em.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yeah, we got them.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Honey, when I'm still alive, who is it which acted?
Let me?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Never did like him more.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Let's go all right, Jackie, Sorry messed up your place, Honey.
Don't you try coming after us. Mister Jack's had a
taste of blood.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Come on, Jackie, we're.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Gonna have to ride now.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh honey, I'm tired. You all right, kitty, I think,
don't look at that mirror, just look at it.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Just get some guns from the office. Saddle up and
get back here.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yes, all right, now, folks, there's been a little shooting.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Kitty, Get Doc quick.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Man? This man isn't dead. We'll go on, hurry up,
will you? Well, yeah, sure, she ran out into the
night for Doc. I stayed in the Texas trail watching
the life flow out of them. Bullet hole in the
chest of the man. The killers are called acton.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
We will return for the second act of gun smoke
in just a moment. But first, you can help your
fighting men and our children win the fight for life
if you act now on the battle front. Our fighting
men need blood to replace the precious substance they have
so valiently lost. Only through contributions to your Red Cross
fund drive can we keep up that lifeline of blood
to our wounded men. But time is running out. Give now.
(12:46):
Your Red Cross must also have funds to transform blood
into anti polio sirum. The polio season is just around
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that will spare our children from death or the crippling
paralysis of polio this summer. Polio won't wait. Your community,
your neighbors, perhaps your own child can be saved from
(13:07):
the horrible effects of the dread disease. If we do
something now, your Red Cross will not distribute the anti
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government health agencies. There will not be enough to protect
every child this year, but many thousands will be spared
polio paralysis this summer because you gave to your Red Cross.
When your Red Cross Fund volunteer calls give generously, do
(13:30):
it today you give. They live now the second act
of gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
His eyes were opened, but he didn't see me, and
when I talked to him, he didn't hear. While I
waited for Doc, I went through his papers. His name
was Brad Acton. That's all I can find. About two
minutes later, Kitty came back with Doc. Didn't take Doc
(14:15):
long to shake his head.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And Uh, poor fella, he's done matter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
There's not a living chance if I could just get
him to talk. I gotta find out who he is
and what they've done those two.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I don't know. He's putting here gone.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We can't Yeah, acting acting? Can you hear me acting? Acting? Acting?
(14:54):
That fella Jack Farrow? He and the woman what did
they do? Use me? Actings? Now listen to me acting,
Matt acting? Who are they? Why did they shoot you?
Just trying the poor devil heat? Come on, come on
now you're wasting time. I gotta get after him. Now
what did they do? I'm dying. I'm dying. We've all
(15:20):
got to die. That ain't kindly mischief. I want you
to wake up. He hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, if I.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Was on my feet, now, listen to me. Pharaoh. I
heard you call him Pharaoh and the woman? Now what
about him? Why did you come gunning for him? Yeah?
Had it come? Why? What did they do? Don't matter?
(15:57):
It matters if you're gonna die, get it off yourself. Now,
come on, you and your pals there. If you did
nothing wrong, you'll die more comfortable.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Mad.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Let's hear be it's not mad? What about it? Acting? Acting?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Uh, California, California.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Pharaoh, me and the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Boys, we held up a stage and fair. He took
the money and led it out with that woman. We've
been followed. Look out for she's mean with a gun.
(16:48):
Martha Loo. Yeah, he's gone, Matt h Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Guess you had to do it that way.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But but what.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
All?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Right? Chester?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You going after a mate?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Why not? They don't murder, haven't they. You have to
figure the odds of a man forgiving you for what
you do when a thing has to be done, and
then you split the difference, and dependent on the reasons
for doing it, you feel better or worse. I had
(17:44):
to do what I did because I had to find
out about them. But it didn't help even if he
was a gunman. I'd given no peace to a dying man,
and for that he had to die harder a man
A long way from home, Chester, and I rode out
(18:10):
into the east the way we figured Pharaoh and his
wife would be headed.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Son's coming up, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I got eyes. Yes, there's a homestead up are on
the bench. We'll stop and find out if they've seen anything.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
No more than a half hour ago, Marshall. I was
fixing to fetch some water when I heard them.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
They stopped. Huh Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
The woman looked tuckered out. Never see a woman with
all them skirts ride.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Ride the way she did. It was some picture. How
long did I stay?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Five minutes?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Maybe wife had some coffee and they drank.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It, scald and and took off, had a easton.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Yeah, they wanted to know how far tot Kinsley, or
maybe they wanted to know the next station, and I
told him Kinsley. I don't know Santa Fee is doing
there for Hutchinson about eight.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
They do something wrong, Marshall. Just four murders back in
the dodge. Come on, Chester. The Pharaohs had enough start
on us that if they got the train in Kinsley
before we caught up, we'd have to use the telegraph.
I hope they could be stopped further down the line.
(19:56):
With killers like that, there'd be a lot of shooting,
and I forget it was my job to be there
when it happened. We rode hard Lacked a couple of
minutes before eight. When we saw the smoke of the engine.
We still had a couple of miles to go to
reach the station, and she was moving out. When we
got there. I swung aboard and held out a hand
(20:17):
for Chester. My running like that, give me.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
A stitch in the side and the puffs.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Take it easy, Chester.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I'm sure wish we'd.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Have had time to find out if there was on
this train, mister Dylon thing we've lost them.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Good.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, we'll see now. Look, there's a lot of people
in those cars up ahead. The pharaoh see us, and
they're gonna start shooting, and I don't want that, so
go slow. We see them first, get out of sight.
We'll wait until they got off the train. Yes, okay, No, Chester,
put away the gun. No shooting on the train, Yes,
(21:00):
mister Dylon. We started from the last car and moved
up that way. They wouldn't see us first. I hoped
we could get them without any gun play at all,
mostly for folks who would get hurt. But I didn't
have any stomach for shooting a woman, even though she
wasn't killer. We got to the third car when Chester
(21:23):
spotted them there they are all right, get back. Okay,
we'll just stay here.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Conductor's coming this way.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Good. How did marshall mister Hinson, you want a pleasure
ride or business? Business? Mister Heinson. That couple they're in
the fourth, fifth seat from the front, were tall yet yeah?
And the woman?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah. I wondered about them when they got on.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Sure, funny pair. She looks, Bubble. We're out. They've both
done murder. Marshal. There's kids in the car. I want
to get them without any shooting. As long as they
don't see us, it'll be all right. Now, where's your
next stop? About thirty miles down the line. Now, well,
we'll try to figure something out. I hope you can, Marshall.
(22:12):
The train rolled on. I saw miss Pharaoh take a
kid on her lap play with it, and the mother
in the next seat looked on with fond eyes. I
wonder what she would have said if she knew. Jack
Farah just looked out the window. We didn't make a move.
(22:32):
At the next stop, two men got off, and there
was still some twenty people left in the car besides
the killers. About fifteen miles beyond, the train pulled up again.
I could see a big herd of cattle crossing the tracks.
It was going to take a few minutes. Mister Heinsen
came down the aisle to the platform where we were standing.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Hey, Marshall, I got an I d see what you think. Yeah,
we'll be about ten minutes wait until that herd gets crossed.
How about if I tell the folks in the car
that can get out stretched legs for a bit, my gid,
you changed all right?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Go ahead and there.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They're off and there's little delay for count rossing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
If you want to get offers fell stretch out.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
A ben y glass.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We watched slowly. One of the time they made up
their minds, the women glad to let the kids work
off steam, the men to size up the strange land
or somebody else's heard, and they straggled out. There was
one old couple that wouldn't move though, and I saw
mister Heinson making an eye and a shrug at me,
(23:42):
and then they changed their minds and hobbled off, And
I left the car empty except for the pharaohs Chester,
mister Heinson, and me.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
And it's your deal, Marshall. Lucky they didn't decide to
get off.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I didn't think they would. Alright, go ahead, mister Heinson,
and get those people down the line a bit. Huh, yes, alright, Chester.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Wow, you see nothing like California's jacket. I haven't seen
anything so flat.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
How far you think it goes like this?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I ain't gonna take me back.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Wanna take my gun for a while, take 'em in
the rib.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Ry, I said, hold on toward alright, get your hands
up over your high and don't turn around. But she
must have had her gun already in her hand, wanting
to give it to Pharaoh the hole. She was fast
one minute, she was upright in the segment. She was
gone fire any of us from behind the seat, Shaggy Jackie,
(25:02):
all right, throw at your gun, miss Pharaoh, Throw at
your gun and stand up. I don't want to hurt you.
I'll kill you. I'll kill you.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Look at what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
She's going for his body. Chester, give me a hand.
I'll stop it, stop it, stop it. I'll tell you.
(25:42):
She was like a crazy woman. It took both of
us to hold her, and we couldn't even do that
right until we had our handcuffed to the seat, and
then she shut up. He just sat there looking at
her husband's body. When we got off at the next
step to wait for the next train back to Dodge,
(26:04):
Jack Farrow was taken away in a wagon to be buried.
His wife stood to the tracks, watching it as he
moved off, and it wasn't until the wagon became a
dusk cloud out on the plane that she started to.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Cry gun smoke. Under the direction of Norman McDonald stars
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William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall, Tonight's story was
specially written for gun Smoke by Anthony Ellis, with music
composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast
were Michael Ann Barrett and Tom Tully with John Dayner,
Lawrence Dobkin and Jack Krushian Harley is Chester, Howard mcneer
is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy. Gun Smoke is
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