September 20, 2025 • 24 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Use your head. Bounty hunter sheriff wants me alive. You
kill me, you'll never collect that money.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel headquarters. A
man called Paladin.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Morning, Hey boy, Oh you finished breakfast? Already? I finished.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
There is a gentleman whishes to see you. He said,
very important.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh what's his name? Don't know so he didn't say,
didn't say o. Where is he?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Our room two three three just down the hall. He
he gives hey boy five dollars to find you five
dollars years. Well, if he's.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That free with his money, maybe he's anxious to part
with a great deal more. Oh thank you, hey boy. Yes,
and I see two three three. Yeah. My name is Paladin.
(01:44):
I understand you wanted to see me.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Oh yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Come on in.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Thanks. What's sit down over there? What's the idea?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Just do like I tell you say, I don't like guns.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Who are you? Simpson? Is my name?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Jake Simpson?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
What's the reason for this? Really? Had reason?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Enough?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Wanted poster? That's right, a wanted poster.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
There's five hundred dollars on you Paladin, dead or alive,
I aim to collect it.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
That's a warning signal for all drivers, and that can
be a warning signal for drowsy drivers on long, monotonous trips.
You see, driving can make you drowsy no matter how
much sleep you get, and driving and dozing just don't mix.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Why take chance?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
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Safe no dose keeps drivers a week, and alert helps
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any emergency.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How does no does do it? Ask your doctor.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
He'll tell you that no Dose contains a safe and
accurate amount of caffeine, the same refreshing stimulant you get
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(03:34):
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Speaker 1 (03:49):
Trapped in my own hotel without a gun in the
light of the morning, was unexpected, to say the least,
with this six gun at my back, chigged. Simpson forced
me down the corridor, the backstairs the delivery stable across
the alley. Realizing that he was a body hunter of
the worst kind. I was very careful not to try
to get away or to attract attention. We were out
(04:11):
of San Francisco and on the Northeast trail before the
impact of this predicament began to make any sense at all.
Surprised you good did not ballot him. Where are we
headed him?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Little town up the Six Rivers country place called Hogland, Hobland.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That sheriff uppairs short, don't like you none, Sheriff his
name Walker, That's right, Sheriff Judd Walker.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He's the one give me the poster.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I don't suppose you bothered to find out what
it was all about.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
You know, it don't matter to me, he said it
give me five hundred dollars if I brung you in.
So that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That poster is a faith, That's what they all say.
Listen to me. I killed a man in Hogan about
four weeks ago, young wild kid who's been bullying everybody.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And oh, sure, I suppose you killed him just to
save the town.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Huh. I killed him to save my life. He forced
me to draw. I had no choice.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Ballad and I never know the wanted man who didn't
claim he was innocent.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There were plenty of witnesses. Nobody tried to stop me
from leaving.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh yeah, but where was Sheriff Walker whilst all the
shooting was going on?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Is out of town. That's probably the only reason I
got out of there alive. Sheriff Walker owns that town.
You know that. I don't know nothing.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
I come riding through air.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You give me this poster. That's good enough for me.
You know, most bounty hunters have a few brains choulding.
I guess they missed you.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Oh yeah, Well, if you're so stinking innocent, how come
that sheriff wants.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You back so bad because the man I killed was
his son?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Oh all up a.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Horse now telling you listen here? To me, I don't
care if you're innocent or not. That just don't matter
to me none at all. What does matter is that
reward money I'm gonna get for bringing you in.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You'll never collect it.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
And there's another thing you better chew on. I'm getting
Mida sick of your Yeah, now, fake are real? The
poster says, dead are alive? And I ain't particular how
it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Aren't you going to unsaddle the horses?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What forore?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Going on to Holglan as soon as I fixed myself
something to eat and rest up a spell.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're tired too. You know you talk awful lot, Chig?
What hole did you crawl out of?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
M h.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Now you just shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Why aren't you? Don't you just kill me? Now, Chig,
save yourself and try.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I've been thinking of it, and the more I think better,
I lack idea.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Sure you do that, and then you just try to
collect that money. Don't you know? The sheriff Walker wants
me alive, he.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Said, dead or alive, and he is gonna get you alive.
I've taken all I'm going to from you.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You get up now, Gold care up. That's gonna be now,
it's going to be right now. What's the matter cha?
You say? Yellow? You haven't got the nerve to cut
my hands loose before you murder me?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Yeller?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, I'll show you.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Turn around, leave me at the core hip better this
way anyway?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Paladin? All right, the ropes off.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
You start running anytime you want, and you can't say
I ain't giving you a chance?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, some chance, easy boy?
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Come on boy, Come on, Martha.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
What do you hear from your sister? She's coming for
a visit.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
And I dreaded with a nagging back ache and muscular
ages and pains I've had lately.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I feel worn out.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Nobody feels very spry with that discomfort. So do something
for relief.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But how Try Don's pills.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Good advice.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
That's Done's pills an analgesic and mild diuretic to the kidneys.
Nagging backache, also headache, dizziness, and muscular aches and pains
may come on with over exertion, emotional upsets, or everyday
stress and strain. Doane's pain relieving action is often the answer,
and they also offer mild diuretic.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Actions through the kidneys.
Speaker 12 (09:19):
So if nagging backache is making you feel worn out,
tired and miserable with restless sleepless nights, don't wait. Try
Done's pills. You successfully by millions for over sixty years.
See if they don't bring you the same welcome relief.
Get Done's pills today to save money by Done's big economy.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Size here, drink your health.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Hice Easinough. Who who are you?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Jason? Doctor Jason? You crawled into my office last night.
You've been hurt bad? Oh yeah, I remember Sheriff Walker
brought you down here to jail. Sheriff Walker, this is hogloo.
That's right. You had a bullet in you, mister Paladin.
I always tell the sheriff about things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know my name.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The sheriff found a card on you. That's when he
brought you to jail. Yeah, you're You're the one who
shot his son, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I had no choice. I know, I know I heard
about it. Did you well tell me something? Doctor? Why
do you people let Sheriff Walker bully you the way
he does?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Judd Walker is a powerful man, mister Paladin. I guess
there's no one willing to go against you. Sooner or later,
somebody's gonna have to.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Will you come to you, doc?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I say it has Oh yeah, didn't waste any time
throwing me in jail, or did you walk her?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And I ain't gonna waste the time hanging you from
a robe.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Neither. Making up fake posters on a man's one thing,
Murdering him is another. You talk about murder.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You murdered my boy now, now, look sheriff, maybe you
should check into that a little more. I mean a
lot of folks saw that fight and they said that, well,
that it really wasn't Paladin's fault.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You listen to me talk.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You got a little black bag you can carry around
and fix people up with when they ain't feeling right.
But that's all that gives you title to. So don't
you tell me how to run that term?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Sure, there's just one thing I want from you.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
How long for it?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Staying on his feet? It's hard to say how long?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Weak?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Maybe you better make it less time in that doc.
I don't think I can wait a week here bat here?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Oh sure, if I got to talk to you, it's
about that palette dude, Well wait all about that?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah you had a long walk, didn't Yeah, long enough?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I sure didn't count on you getting this far.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Maybe you're not as good as shot as you figured
you were.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, it don't matter none. You're caught, So that titles
me to my money, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Sure, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
What do you mean? I'm talking about the reward money
for bringing him palatine.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I didn't see you bring him in.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He didn't see me. Well, now look you're here, walker.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I brung him all the way from San Francisco as.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Far as I could see coming by itself.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
No such of a.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Thing I wrong him, I tell you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
When you heard him say yourself, I was the one shoting.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I didn't hear nothing.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But look listen, Sheriff, you promised me five hundred dollars if.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I got him.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well I got him.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Now you better pay up.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Get out of here, Chiggen, I said.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I don't want you in town no more.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Oh oh, you ain't gonna get away with this walker.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You're gonna stop me?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Well, you owe me five hundred dollars share I'm gonna
collect it one way or another.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And now here at Gergan and Charlie McCarthy.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Say, Charlie, isn't that your French girlfriend coming into the
service department? Yeah, Bergan, isn't she a dogmas you?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
I don't wish to bother you.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
I'll think nothing of it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Beautiful women always bother me.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
If you my automobile, she has this squeak.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Poor thing.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
It probably needs one of our quality Guardian maintenance lubrications. Fantastic,
how did you know that specialized training, ma'am?
Speaker 13 (14:27):
Specialized training.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
We the servicemen at all Chevrolet, Pontiac Goles will be
a Buick, Cadillac, Chevy and GMC truck dealers get special training.
That's what makes them guardian maintenance servicemen. They're trained to
know your GM product best.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
You are so wonderful.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Oh, I must tease you gladly.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Oh no, Now did you learn to gees.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Like that specialized training?
Speaker 14 (14:56):
Ma'am?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You're coming along fine, Miss Pellagin.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
How long do you think it can install? Doc? What
do you mean? I can get up now? And you
know it. Judd Walker is bound to figure it out too. Well.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I had to do something. Maybe you'll have a chance
this week.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Chance locked in the jail cell, watched by a man
who is crazy mad because I killed his son.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
What else could I do?
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Look, Palette, do you finish with him? Doc? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yes, I am. How much long is it going to be? Well,
he's still pretty sick. He don't look sick to me.
You know, I'm beginning to get me a feeling about you.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Doc.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Sure if this man has a bad bullet wound, yeah, well,
let's see.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Get up, Helen.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, no, no, don't. If he gets up, that wound
will open and you'll bleed to death inside a Now, okay,
I'm gonna listen to you just as once more. But
you better not be fooling me, because if you are,
you're gonna hurt. You're gonna hurt real bad Paladin. Paladin?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Who's there me?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Doctor Chason? I got the keys?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
What are you doing here this time of night?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I've been thinking about it all day, Paladin. I can't
let him hang you, no matter what. I can't let him.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Where's the sheriff? Now?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I just saw him down at the saloon.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
If he finds out, he'll probably kill you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You hurry, he may come back any minute. I got
your horse.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Hop back, Wait a minute, matter. I want to see
if there's a gun.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
No, no, he never keeps guns in here, Sheriff. Hey,
you take one more step, I'll blow you clean in half.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You sniffle a little skunk.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You was gonna turn him loose? All right, Sheriff. Maybe
you're gonna kill me. I don't know, but I do
know I'm not gonna bow to you anymore, not ever.
You bow right now? Why you you still ain't strong enough.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
To beat me.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You didn't have to pistol whip the doc. Why not
now and he wakes up. You'll have something to think
about someday. The people in this town are gonna step.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
All over you Walker.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well if they do, you ain't gonna be here to
see it, because tonight you are night to hang. Now
you just pick yourself up off that floor and move
on out of here. I got me a special place
to string you leap, real special. Oh, get down, Peladin,
(18:24):
Now move on in the ahead of me.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You always hang people in a graveyard, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
There's something I want you to see, all right, hold it.
See a headstone, Pelattin, I see it. We'll get a
little closer and read it out. Go on. There's enough moonlight.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Thatch Walker born eighteen fifty six nine eighteen seventy five,
murdered by man called Holladen. That's what you wanted me
to see. Yeah, and something else.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You see that tree Limb mayre hanging out over my
boy's grave. Yeah, I swore the man to kill my
son was gonna hang for Matt Limb. You're a sick walker. Well,
you just keep saying that when you're dancing on the
end of that girl.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Who's that me?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Jack Simpson? I thought I told you to get out
of town.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I've been hiding the sheriff watching.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
I see you come out here.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I followed you, all right, you followed, not get No.
I told you you owe me five hundred dollars. I
ain't a collected.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well are you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Why don't you step out so I can see it?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I will as soon as you drop that gun.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Paladin might get away.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I ain't no concern of mine.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Nah.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Now look check I was fixing to pay all along.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sure, I bet you no, it's a fact.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Look I got a roll of money right here in
my pocket. It ain't all of it, but I'll give
you the rest when we get back to town. Well,
come on out, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
All right, I'm coming out to get it. But you
stand easy, Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Just keep your gun pointed right to palat him.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But I'll kill you if you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I don't think you will. Check you, sheriff done fool?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Hit me?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Did I get him?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah? Dead?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Let's back and go and hang. You have to hope
Ellen looks that way. It's funny, ain't it? Dining in
beside my boy's grave and steady you it's real fun.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No, Sheriff, I don't think it's funny at all.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Get the really lightly.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
This is where I talk, Hey, Get the really light refreshment.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
That's pepsicola.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Of course, I just wanted to say, be sociable, Charles.
Of course K be sociable. Have a pepsi on the
road or at home. It always refreshes without filling. Pick
up extra cartons. Now, pepsi is so delicious, it goes fast.
That's why you should keep plenty of oops.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Maybe i'd better sing, be sure to say keep pepsi handy, Yes, Charlie,
But the song says it's sociably.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
Be sociable, look slarge, keep pop up to name with
thempsy drink like refreshing pepsy. Stay up, be sociable, have
a pepsy.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
What K means is get plenty of pepsi next time
you shop.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Well, Yes, have gun will trouble.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rolf, is produced and
directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
greg as Miss Wong. Tonight's story was specially written for
Have Gun Will Travel by Ray Kemper. Featured in the
cast were Laurence Dodkin, Vick Parron, and Harry Bartel. This
(23:22):
is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again next
week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 14 (24:09):
Cra
Use your head. Bounty hunter sheriff wants me alive. You
kill me, you'll never collect that money.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Have Gone, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel headquarters. A
man called Paladin.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Morning, Hey boy, Oh you finished breakfast? Already? I finished.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
There is a gentleman whishes to see you. He said,
very important.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh what's his name? Don't know so he didn't say,
didn't say o. Where is he?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Our room two three three just down the hall. He
he gives hey boy five dollars to find you five
dollars years. Well, if he's.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That free with his money, maybe he's anxious to part
with a great deal more. Oh thank you, hey boy. Yes,
and I see two three three. Yeah. My name is Paladin.
(01:44):
I understand you wanted to see me.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Oh yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Come on in.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Thanks. What's sit down over there? What's the idea?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Just do like I tell you say, I don't like guns.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Who are you? Simpson? Is my name?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Jake Simpson?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
What's the reason for this? Really? Had reason?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Enough?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Wanted poster? That's right, a wanted poster.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
There's five hundred dollars on you Paladin, dead or alive,
I aim to collect it.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
That's a warning signal for all drivers, and that can
be a warning signal for drowsy drivers on long, monotonous trips.
You see, driving can make you drowsy no matter how
much sleep you get, and driving and dozing just don't mix.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Why take chance?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Take No Dose Stay Awake tablets millions of times a year.
Safe no dose keeps drivers a week, and alert helps
you bounce back so that you feel sharp, ready for
any emergency.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How does no does do it? Ask your doctor.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
He'll tell you that no Dose contains a safe and
accurate amount of caffeine, the same refreshing stimulant you get
in your coffee or tea, but safe no dose acts faster,
is handier, and more reliable. Best of all, it is
not habit forming, and no Dose is so safe it
is legally sold on a national basis without a prescription.
Get No Dose Stay Awake tablets to help you stay
(03:34):
awake and alert. It could save your life.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Trapped in my own hotel without a gun in the
light of the morning, was unexpected, to say the least,
with this six gun at my back, chigged. Simpson forced
me down the corridor, the backstairs the delivery stable across
the alley. Realizing that he was a body hunter of
the worst kind. I was very careful not to try
to get away or to attract attention. We were out
(04:11):
of San Francisco and on the Northeast trail before the
impact of this predicament began to make any sense at all.
Surprised you good did not ballot him. Where are we
headed him?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Little town up the Six Rivers country place called Hogland, Hobland.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That sheriff uppairs short, don't like you none, Sheriff his
name Walker, That's right, Sheriff Judd Walker.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He's the one give me the poster.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I don't suppose you bothered to find out what
it was all about.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
You know, it don't matter to me, he said it
give me five hundred dollars if I brung you in.
So that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That poster is a faith, That's what they all say.
Listen to me. I killed a man in Hogan about
four weeks ago, young wild kid who's been bullying everybody.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And oh, sure, I suppose you killed him just to
save the town.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Huh. I killed him to save my life. He forced
me to draw. I had no choice.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Ballad and I never know the wanted man who didn't
claim he was innocent.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There were plenty of witnesses. Nobody tried to stop me
from leaving.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh yeah, but where was Sheriff Walker whilst all the
shooting was going on?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Is out of town. That's probably the only reason I
got out of there alive. Sheriff Walker owns that town.
You know that. I don't know nothing.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
I come riding through air.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You give me this poster. That's good enough for me.
You know, most bounty hunters have a few brains choulding.
I guess they missed you.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Oh yeah, Well, if you're so stinking innocent, how come
that sheriff wants.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You back so bad because the man I killed was
his son?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Oh all up a.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Horse now telling you listen here? To me, I don't
care if you're innocent or not. That just don't matter
to me none at all. What does matter is that
reward money I'm gonna get for bringing you in.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You'll never collect it.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
And there's another thing you better chew on. I'm getting
Mida sick of your Yeah, now, fake are real? The
poster says, dead are alive? And I ain't particular how
it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Aren't you going to unsaddle the horses?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What forore?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Going on to Holglan as soon as I fixed myself
something to eat and rest up a spell.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're tired too. You know you talk awful lot, Chig?
What hole did you crawl out of?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
M h.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Now you just shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Why aren't you? Don't you just kill me? Now, Chig,
save yourself and try.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I've been thinking of it, and the more I think better,
I lack idea.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Sure you do that, and then you just try to
collect that money. Don't you know? The sheriff Walker wants
me alive, he.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Said, dead or alive, and he is gonna get you alive.
I've taken all I'm going to from you.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You get up now, Gold care up. That's gonna be now,
it's going to be right now. What's the matter cha?
You say? Yellow? You haven't got the nerve to cut
my hands loose before you murder me?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Yeller?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, I'll show you.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Turn around, leave me at the core hip better this
way anyway?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Paladin? All right, the ropes off.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
You start running anytime you want, and you can't say
I ain't giving you a chance?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, some chance, easy boy?
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Come on boy, Come on, Martha.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
What do you hear from your sister? She's coming for
a visit.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
And I dreaded with a nagging back ache and muscular
ages and pains I've had lately.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I feel worn out.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Nobody feels very spry with that discomfort. So do something
for relief.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But how Try Don's pills.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Good advice.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
That's Done's pills an analgesic and mild diuretic to the kidneys.
Nagging backache, also headache, dizziness, and muscular aches and pains
may come on with over exertion, emotional upsets, or everyday
stress and strain. Doane's pain relieving action is often the answer,
and they also offer mild diuretic.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Actions through the kidneys.
Speaker 12 (09:19):
So if nagging backache is making you feel worn out,
tired and miserable with restless sleepless nights, don't wait. Try
Done's pills. You successfully by millions for over sixty years.
See if they don't bring you the same welcome relief.
Get Done's pills today to save money by Done's big economy.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Size here, drink your health.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Hice Easinough. Who who are you?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Jason? Doctor Jason? You crawled into my office last night.
You've been hurt bad? Oh yeah, I remember Sheriff Walker
brought you down here to jail. Sheriff Walker, this is hogloo.
That's right. You had a bullet in you, mister Paladin.
I always tell the sheriff about things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know my name.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The sheriff found a card on you. That's when he
brought you to jail. Yeah, you're You're the one who
shot his son, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I had no choice. I know, I know I heard
about it. Did you well tell me something? Doctor? Why
do you people let Sheriff Walker bully you the way
he does?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Judd Walker is a powerful man, mister Paladin. I guess
there's no one willing to go against you. Sooner or later,
somebody's gonna have to.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Will you come to you, doc?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I say it has Oh yeah, didn't waste any time
throwing me in jail, or did you walk her?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And I ain't gonna waste the time hanging you from
a robe.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Neither. Making up fake posters on a man's one thing,
Murdering him is another. You talk about murder.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You murdered my boy now, now, look sheriff, maybe you
should check into that a little more. I mean a
lot of folks saw that fight and they said that, well,
that it really wasn't Paladin's fault.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You listen to me talk.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You got a little black bag you can carry around
and fix people up with when they ain't feeling right.
But that's all that gives you title to. So don't
you tell me how to run that term?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Sure, there's just one thing I want from you.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
How long for it?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Staying on his feet? It's hard to say how long?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Weak?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Maybe you better make it less time in that doc.
I don't think I can wait a week here bat here?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Oh sure, if I got to talk to you, it's
about that palette dude, Well wait all about that?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah you had a long walk, didn't Yeah, long enough?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I sure didn't count on you getting this far.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Maybe you're not as good as shot as you figured
you were.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, it don't matter none. You're caught, So that titles
me to my money, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Sure, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
What do you mean? I'm talking about the reward money
for bringing him palatine.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I didn't see you bring him in.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He didn't see me. Well, now look you're here, walker.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I brung him all the way from San Francisco as.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Far as I could see coming by itself.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
No such of a.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Thing I wrong him, I tell you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
When you heard him say yourself, I was the one shoting.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I didn't hear nothing.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But look listen, Sheriff, you promised me five hundred dollars if.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I got him.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well I got him.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Now you better pay up.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Get out of here, Chiggen, I said.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I don't want you in town no more.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Oh oh, you ain't gonna get away with this walker.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You're gonna stop me?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Well, you owe me five hundred dollars share I'm gonna
collect it one way or another.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And now here at Gergan and Charlie McCarthy.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Say, Charlie, isn't that your French girlfriend coming into the
service department? Yeah, Bergan, isn't she a dogmas you?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
I don't wish to bother you.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
I'll think nothing of it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Beautiful women always bother me.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
If you my automobile, she has this squeak.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Poor thing.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
It probably needs one of our quality Guardian maintenance lubrications. Fantastic,
how did you know that specialized training, ma'am?
Speaker 13 (14:27):
Specialized training.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
We the servicemen at all Chevrolet, Pontiac Goles will be
a Buick, Cadillac, Chevy and GMC truck dealers get special training.
That's what makes them guardian maintenance servicemen. They're trained to
know your GM product best.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
You are so wonderful.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Oh, I must tease you gladly.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Oh no, Now did you learn to gees.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Like that specialized training?
Speaker 14 (14:56):
Ma'am?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You're coming along fine, Miss Pellagin.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
How long do you think it can install? Doc? What
do you mean? I can get up now? And you
know it. Judd Walker is bound to figure it out too. Well.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I had to do something. Maybe you'll have a chance
this week.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Chance locked in the jail cell, watched by a man
who is crazy mad because I killed his son.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
What else could I do?
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Look, Palette, do you finish with him? Doc? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yes, I am. How much long is it going to be? Well,
he's still pretty sick. He don't look sick to me.
You know, I'm beginning to get me a feeling about you.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Doc.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Sure if this man has a bad bullet wound, yeah, well,
let's see.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Get up, Helen.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, no, no, don't. If he gets up, that wound
will open and you'll bleed to death inside a Now, okay,
I'm gonna listen to you just as once more. But
you better not be fooling me, because if you are,
you're gonna hurt. You're gonna hurt real bad Paladin. Paladin?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Who's there me?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Doctor Chason? I got the keys?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
What are you doing here this time of night?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I've been thinking about it all day, Paladin. I can't
let him hang you, no matter what. I can't let him.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Where's the sheriff? Now?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I just saw him down at the saloon.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
If he finds out, he'll probably kill you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You hurry, he may come back any minute. I got
your horse.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Hop back, Wait a minute, matter. I want to see
if there's a gun.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
No, no, he never keeps guns in here, Sheriff. Hey,
you take one more step, I'll blow you clean in half.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You sniffle a little skunk.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You was gonna turn him loose? All right, Sheriff. Maybe
you're gonna kill me. I don't know, but I do
know I'm not gonna bow to you anymore, not ever.
You bow right now? Why you you still ain't strong enough.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
To beat me.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You didn't have to pistol whip the doc. Why not
now and he wakes up. You'll have something to think
about someday. The people in this town are gonna step.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
All over you Walker.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well if they do, you ain't gonna be here to
see it, because tonight you are night to hang. Now
you just pick yourself up off that floor and move
on out of here. I got me a special place
to string you leap, real special. Oh, get down, Peladin,
(18:24):
Now move on in the ahead of me.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You always hang people in a graveyard, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
There's something I want you to see, all right, hold it.
See a headstone, Pelattin, I see it. We'll get a
little closer and read it out. Go on. There's enough moonlight.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Thatch Walker born eighteen fifty six nine eighteen seventy five,
murdered by man called Holladen. That's what you wanted me
to see. Yeah, and something else.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You see that tree Limb mayre hanging out over my
boy's grave. Yeah, I swore the man to kill my
son was gonna hang for Matt Limb. You're a sick walker. Well,
you just keep saying that when you're dancing on the
end of that girl.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Who's that me?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Jack Simpson? I thought I told you to get out
of town.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I've been hiding the sheriff watching.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
I see you come out here.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I followed you, all right, you followed, not get No.
I told you you owe me five hundred dollars. I
ain't a collected.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well are you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Why don't you step out so I can see it?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I will as soon as you drop that gun.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Paladin might get away.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I ain't no concern of mine.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Nah.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Now look check I was fixing to pay all along.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sure, I bet you no, it's a fact.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Look I got a roll of money right here in
my pocket. It ain't all of it, but I'll give
you the rest when we get back to town. Well,
come on out, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
All right, I'm coming out to get it. But you
stand easy, Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Just keep your gun pointed right to palat him.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But I'll kill you if you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I don't think you will. Check you, sheriff done fool?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Hit me?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Did I get him?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah? Dead?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Let's back and go and hang. You have to hope
Ellen looks that way. It's funny, ain't it? Dining in
beside my boy's grave and steady you it's real fun.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No, Sheriff, I don't think it's funny at all.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Get the really lightly.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
This is where I talk, Hey, Get the really light refreshment.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
That's pepsicola.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Of course, I just wanted to say, be sociable, Charles.
Of course K be sociable. Have a pepsi on the
road or at home. It always refreshes without filling. Pick
up extra cartons. Now, pepsi is so delicious, it goes fast.
That's why you should keep plenty of oops.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Maybe i'd better sing, be sure to say keep pepsi handy, Yes, Charlie,
But the song says it's sociably.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
Be sociable, look slarge, keep pop up to name with
thempsy drink like refreshing pepsy. Stay up, be sociable, have
a pepsy.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
What K means is get plenty of pepsi next time
you shop.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Well, Yes, have gun will trouble.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rolf, is produced and
directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
greg as Miss Wong. Tonight's story was specially written for
Have Gun Will Travel by Ray Kemper. Featured in the
cast were Laurence Dodkin, Vick Parron, and Harry Bartel. This
(23:22):
is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again next
week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 14 (24:09):
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