October 4, 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 (00:13):
You came to me with a gun. You call it righteousness.
Call it by its right name. Murder, Have Gun, Will Travel,
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starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five.
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm sorry, I frightened you didn't Isa.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I was going to knock on your door, and all
of a.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Sudden you come up.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh you surprise, Miss you Wong.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You're making the rounds a little earlier this morning, aren't you, Minita?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Many extra rooms to be clean for new guests.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Big convention for railroad men begins today.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh that's right, I forgot. It looks like i'll miss
all the excitement.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Where you going, mister Pilodon the Greenwood?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oh is that long way from San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, not far, about thirty miles.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I then maybe you come back before convention and uh,
miss Wong, if it's like that last convention we had
at the Carlton, I just as soon stay away until
it is over. Oh Ita, missy Wang, remember plenty noisy,
I'll say it. I'll say it was me, mister Wang.
Remember something else too?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What's that they make?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Plenty big mess rooms.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well that stage you'll be leaving in a few minutes.
I better get downstairs now.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Don't work too hard.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Mis Warmita, you have a nicey chap.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
For some years now, we've been asking you to send
your dollars to care to help the hungry and needy overseas.
Here's what some of those dollars have done. They've bought
milk and sterilization equipment so that one hundred thousand school
children in Israel can have a glass of milk every day.
Thanks to this equipment, Israel is now providing its own
milk for these children. So the next care dollars can
(02:43):
go to help another needy area. Your care dollars have
sent medical instruments and laboratory equipment to a new small
hospital being built in the Philippines. This hospital will bring
the first medical care to this area in centuries. Care
dollars have furnished farm tools, machinery, cotton cloth, and other
needs so that refugees in Vietnam could erect twenty seven villages.
(03:06):
But there's much more to be done and many more
people to be helped in all parts of the world.
Won't you continue to help? Won't you continue to send
your dollars to care New York sixteen, New York. It
(03:30):
had been two years since I had seen Clem Brady,
the Sheriff of Greenwood. Now he was asking for my help.
His letter seemed urgent. I welcomed the opportunity to renew
his friendship and to get away from San Francisco for
a few days. Clem wasn't in his office when I arrived,
so I went over to the local dining room for
a late midday meal and a cup of coffee. The
place was empty except for a young couple sitting on
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the other side of the.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Room, A rather unusual couple. The girl the most.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Strikingly beautiful young lady I'd ever seen. My admiration must
have been fairly obvious, for at one point she returned
an embarrassed smile. This prompted her escort to step over
to my table.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Hey, you, yes, keep your eyes off my girl.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I I suppose I was staring with no harm intended.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
You're new here, ain't you.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, let me warn you don't be flirting with her again.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I wasn't flirting.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Call it what you like. Just remember what I said.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now, you look mister Hey, Clam clam Brady. Oh he
told me you were buy the office.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
What's going on here? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This young man and I were just having a friendly conversation.
Looked to me like he was about to tear at
each other's throat. It's a matter of Sam, nothing, sure,
nothing at all. I didn't know he was a friend
of yours.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Uh, just a misunderstanding, Clem.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I was admiring the young lady over there, and he
got the wrong impression.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Sam. I've told you to time and again.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're gonna get yourself in a pack of trouble if
you don't stop being so hard nose jealous.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You gotta be careful boy.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yeah, I guess I was in the wrong again, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Sorry, Remember what I say, Sam? That boy protects her
like a bandy rooster. Maybe he's got a good reason.
She's point of beauty, ain't she though? Now sit down, Clem,
have a cup of coffee with me. Yeah, well, we
will get you a cup of that waiter ever comes
out of the kitchen. Oh he'll be out. Oh it
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sure is good to see your paladin. I didn't know
whether you'd be able to come or not.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Why not? About time we met up again, my sheriff, Oh,
Chef Clem Hello, Martha nol My, my, my, she is
a charmer.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, it's pitiful, though pitiful. Well, she's part of the
reason I asked you to come up here. How's that
it was her husband that was killed and not more
than six weeks ago? Just a boy Palatine barely turned
to sure set this town on its haunches.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh, I get pressures all around me to clear this up.
How did it happen?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The boy been gambling at the saloon. He won a
lot of money and left the table around midnight, was
ambushed in an alley about a block away, robbed. Yeah,
poor kid was back east. Him and Martha Nell had
just been here a couple of months. So far, there
hasn't been one lead I could nail down.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What about the men who lost money to him that night?
Every one of them is a good alibi.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Maybe it was a stranger passing through, so the boy
winning and then waited for him to leave.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We don't have many visitors in this town, especially on
a Monday night, and that's when it happened.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
I'm sure it was somebody right here in town. Do
you think he's still here.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Nobody's left town or acted suspicious or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How'd the girl take him?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Pretty bad at first, But Sam's been a lot of
help to her.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, how does he figure in this?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh, he'd known her husband back east. He's the only
one they knew when they came out to settle here
after the killing. He sort of took charge. He's done
a good job of it too. From the looks of things,
they'll probably end up getting married. Sam's a nice boy,
except he's a little hot headed. Where do I start, Clem,
The main thing is to get to know the people
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who was in the saloon that night. Maybe with a
fresh mind on it, you might discover something I've overlooked.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
M it was the boy in the habit of gambling. No,
it's just it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It was the first time anyone ever knew of him
visiting the saloon. Marthaelle can tell you about that. Then
I should go have a talk with her first. That's
a good idea. She works over at the general store. Right, Well,
if I'm gonna have a cup of coffee with you,
and better go in the kitchen and get it myself.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
And you change missus.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Butler's thank you Martin, Now bye bye.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I'm sorry she took so long, mister Palladin, I'm sorry
now I've forgotten the last question you asked.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yes, you are going to tell me why your husband
went to the saloon that night.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yes, well, it was kind of a celebration for Roy.
He'd gotten his first paycheck from the freight office, and
I just gotten my job here at the store. Seemed
that everything was beginning to come our way. He and
Sam came by for me when the store closed, and
the three of us went over to the dining room.
Roy bought us the biggest steak suppers on the menu.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Your husband worked with Sam at the freight office.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yes, Sam got him the job there.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What happened after supper?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Roy wanted to buy Sam with celebration drinks, so they
took me back to the rooming house and left to
go to the saloon. That's the last time I saw
Roy alive.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Why didn't Sam come home with him?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Roy was having such good luck at the gaming tables,
he didn't want to leave, so Sam came on back
to the rooming house.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What does he live at the same place you do?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
He did? Then he had the room across the Hall
from ours. When he came back, he knocked on my
door and told me Roy'd be home later. Was it
more than an hour after that when Sheriff Clym came
and told me what had happened? Oh? Sam, Hi, you
got off early.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Yeah, I thought maybe we could take a ride out
to will Of Grove.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
All right, but you'll have to wait till we close.
I have to lock up tonight.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
You'll buying up the store, mister Paladin, Sam, Well, he's
been in here long enough.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Do you keep tabs on everybody who comes into this store? Sam?
Speaker 7 (09:44):
There ain't much going on in Greenwood that I don't
know about, especially when it concerns Martha Noll.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Sam. Mister Paladin was just asking me some questions about
Roy's murder. He's helping Sheriff Clym.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Look, Paladin, sheriff knows as much about this as Marthaell.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Does.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
You let him give you all the answers.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
There's no need for you to get her all upset.
It's better she forget about this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I don't mind answering questions, Sam, if it will help
them find the killer.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I know what's best for you. Just let me handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
May be right, Martha Noll, I guess I did take
up quite a bit of your time.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I didn't mind, really, mister.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Thanks anyway, perhaps I'll be seeing you again before I
leave town.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Good day, goodbye, commander. Welcome my boy.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
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Speaker 2 (11:31):
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Speaker 8 (11:32):
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Because the cleaner the tobacco, the better it tastes noticeably better.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Have a commander, Welcome my boy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I spent the first two days in Greenwood getting acquainted
with a man who had been at the poker table
with Marthonelle's husband the night he was killed as far
as I could determine, Sheriff Brady was right.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
They all had good alibis, and they were all anxious
to help us find the man who did it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I also spend a couple of hours each night in
the saloon talking to the regulars, to the barkeep. No, sir,
mister Paladin, if they'd been a stranger in here that night,
I had remembered strangers stick out like sore thumbs in
this town.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Care for another drink? No, no, thank you. Has there
been any suspicious rumors about who could have done it?
Not to drive hurt?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh Palatine, Hi, Hello, Clamor, Well, you've been all day
out in the countryside talking to some of the men
who were in here that night.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Care for a drink?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Sure? Yeah, and make it ry bunny, Yes, sir, what'd
you find out?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Same thing you did? Nothing new?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, it's a tough one, all right, sure, no thanks, yep, clem,
let me ask you something we've been going on the
basis that he was killed for the money robbery. Now,
could there have been any other reason? Well, he was
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rob yeah, I know, I know, But did he have
a run in with anybody? He was just a newcomer,
Like I told you, him and his wife have only
been here a couple of months, just happy little love
birds trying to get a start in life. I was robbery,
pure and simple. Tell me more about this boy, Sam,
Would he have any reason?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Not likely? He was Roy's best friend.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Oh, he's also pretty cozy with Roy's wife now that
he's dead. Well, I suppose you could make something out
of that if you want to do. But is a
natural thing to happen. I'll admit it cross my mind
at one time, But don't forget. He was in bed
when it happened.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How can you be sure?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
When I went over to give Martha Noll the bad news,
he came out of his room across the hall, said
he heard the commotion.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He'd been in bed, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Did she also tell you that he stopped by earlier
to tell her that Roy.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Was still at the saloon?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
She did, and that was proof enough to eliminate him.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
When it did cross my.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Mind, Uh, well, hmm, it's been a long day, clem
When I think I'll go back the hotel and get
some sleep, all.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Right, madam?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
All right, I'm gonna stay here for one more drinking
and I'll help you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Doing the same. See you in the morning. Midnight, good night.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
If somebody took a shot out of me? If they
ran down that alleyway?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
A couple of you men look down there.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
See if you can find anybody? Pass you hurt bad?
I don't think so. Can you walk up to your room? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Sure, somebody go get the doctor, tell him to meet
us at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Let me give you a hand. Pat Oh, there must
do that. I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Thanks, doctor, you keep your arm not slaying for a
few days, you'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Goods claim. Did your men find anybody? H No, I
was sore. It's too bad. Well, good night, gentlemen. Died doctor.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
If you come by the office tomorrow, mister Paladin, I'd
like to take another look at your arm.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'll do that, doctor, Thank you. Well. Clam whoever shot me,
he could very well be the same man we're looking
for him. Yeah, you can't figure out what they have
against you?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, maybe I've asked you too many questions the last
couple of days, but you don't have any ideas.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, I'll let you get some rest. Maybe we'll come
up with something in the morning. I'll give it a
lot of thought, can I clem?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Eh h?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's me Marthaell? May I come in?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Sure? Uh here, let me turn up the light.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
No, leave it, lowe, someone may see us.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's kind of lady for you to god alone, isn't it? Well?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I heard what happened. I wanted to see if you
were all right.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I was very thoughtful. But that isn't the only reason
you came, isn't What do you mean you want to
tell me about Sam?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Don't you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yes, I guess I should.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You've been covering for him. He's the one that killed
your husband.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
How did you know?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Why haven't you told the sheriff? Martha?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Now I've been too afraid of.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Did someone follow you here?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Not that I know of? Why?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
There's somebody outside my door? Get over behind that chest.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Don't open the door, mister pallad Huh, keep quiet, don't
open the door.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You give me that gun, don't over, I'll shoot.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Come in.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Watch it, Clem. Get down, you.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Are right, clem?
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What's going on in here? Oh? Martha? Now pull the
gun on me. Marthall, I'm not a very good shot.
If you were, you would have killed me. Tonight in
the alley. It was you, wasn't it, Yes, Martha Nell,
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Yes it was me, Sir.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I killed Roy too?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yes? I killed Roy and then I took his money to
make it look like he was robbed.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
But why.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Roy would never let me leave him? He was the
only way I could have Sam.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Does Sam know? No?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
When he came back that night and went to his room,
I slipped out and waited till Roy left the saloon.
Everything worked out just as I hoped it Wouldn'tntil you
came into town, I started stirring things up again. She
hadn't done that.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'll go get the doctor.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Uh, it's too late, Clym. She's dead. Oh no, what
a pity.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I can't believe a pretty little thing like that to
shoot her own husband.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Why would she do it?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Like she said she was in love with Sam. H
just doesn't make sense. Love can do strange things, Clym,
especially a young girl like her.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
M Oh, oh.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Here we are as Paladin.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, thank you driver.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Here's my priighter.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Okay, Oh it's a parady.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well hello, hey boy, hey boy, I wonder when you
come back here?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I take your suitcase. Thanks. Ohy, you got sling on
your arm. Oh, just relaxed and nothing serious. That's good.
You come home just in time, on time for what
to miss? A big railroad convention. Everybody left last night.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Hey boy, that's the best news I've had all week.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, don't you be happy to know?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
How's miss Wong holding up?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Oh not so good.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You not come to work today, all tired, But she'd
be back to more.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I warned her not to work too hard.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Hey boy, take my suitcase up of the room with
the prieze. I'm gonna stop in the bar and get
a drink. My throat's a little dusty.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
He's a miss a paladin. Yeah, very pretty young lady in.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
There, he taught.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Hey boys, you like to meet you sometimes. Maybe you
have drink with heart. Oh how pretty? Oh, very pretty.
I'm very young. You'll see how well.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Hey boy, this may come as a surprise to you,
but today I'm not interested the very pretty and.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
The very young.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
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Created by Herb Metow and Sam Rolf is prudial stand
directed in Hollywood by Frank Paris, and stars John Dayner
as Kaladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
greg as Miss Wan. Tonight's story was specially written for
Have Gun Will Travel by mister Parris Eaching in the
cast were Jack Moyles Sam Edwards, Charlie Lung, Bartlet Robinson
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and Anne Whitfield. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to
join us again next week when CBS Radio presents have
Gun Will Traveler
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Lo the
You came to me with a gun. You call it righteousness.
Call it by its right name. Murder, Have Gun, Will Travel,
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starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five.
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm sorry, I frightened you didn't Isa.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I was going to knock on your door, and all
of a.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Sudden you come up.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh you surprise, Miss you Wong.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You're making the rounds a little earlier this morning, aren't you, Minita?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Many extra rooms to be clean for new guests.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Big convention for railroad men begins today.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh that's right, I forgot. It looks like i'll miss
all the excitement.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Where you going, mister Pilodon the Greenwood?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oh is that long way from San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, not far, about thirty miles.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I then maybe you come back before convention and uh,
miss Wong, if it's like that last convention we had
at the Carlton, I just as soon stay away until
it is over. Oh Ita, missy Wang, remember plenty noisy,
I'll say it. I'll say it was me, mister Wang.
Remember something else too?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What's that they make?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Plenty big mess rooms.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well that stage you'll be leaving in a few minutes.
I better get downstairs now.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Don't work too hard.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Mis Warmita, you have a nicey chap.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
For some years now, we've been asking you to send
your dollars to care to help the hungry and needy overseas.
Here's what some of those dollars have done. They've bought
milk and sterilization equipment so that one hundred thousand school
children in Israel can have a glass of milk every day.
Thanks to this equipment, Israel is now providing its own
milk for these children. So the next care dollars can
(02:43):
go to help another needy area. Your care dollars have
sent medical instruments and laboratory equipment to a new small
hospital being built in the Philippines. This hospital will bring
the first medical care to this area in centuries. Care
dollars have furnished farm tools, machinery, cotton cloth, and other
needs so that refugees in Vietnam could erect twenty seven villages.
(03:06):
But there's much more to be done and many more
people to be helped in all parts of the world.
Won't you continue to help? Won't you continue to send
your dollars to care New York sixteen, New York. It
(03:30):
had been two years since I had seen Clem Brady,
the Sheriff of Greenwood. Now he was asking for my help.
His letter seemed urgent. I welcomed the opportunity to renew
his friendship and to get away from San Francisco for
a few days. Clem wasn't in his office when I arrived,
so I went over to the local dining room for
a late midday meal and a cup of coffee. The
place was empty except for a young couple sitting on
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the other side of the.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Room, A rather unusual couple. The girl the most.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Strikingly beautiful young lady I'd ever seen. My admiration must
have been fairly obvious, for at one point she returned
an embarrassed smile. This prompted her escort to step over
to my table.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Hey, you, yes, keep your eyes off my girl.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I I suppose I was staring with no harm intended.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
You're new here, ain't you.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, let me warn you don't be flirting with her again.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I wasn't flirting.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Call it what you like. Just remember what I said.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now, you look mister Hey, Clam clam Brady. Oh he
told me you were buy the office.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
What's going on here? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This young man and I were just having a friendly conversation.
Looked to me like he was about to tear at
each other's throat. It's a matter of Sam, nothing, sure,
nothing at all. I didn't know he was a friend
of yours.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Uh, just a misunderstanding, Clem.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I was admiring the young lady over there, and he
got the wrong impression.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Sam. I've told you to time and again.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're gonna get yourself in a pack of trouble if
you don't stop being so hard nose jealous.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You gotta be careful boy.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yeah, I guess I was in the wrong again, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Sorry, Remember what I say, Sam? That boy protects her
like a bandy rooster. Maybe he's got a good reason.
She's point of beauty, ain't she though? Now sit down, Clem,
have a cup of coffee with me. Yeah, well, we
will get you a cup of that waiter ever comes
out of the kitchen. Oh he'll be out. Oh it
(05:31):
sure is good to see your paladin. I didn't know
whether you'd be able to come or not.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Why not? About time we met up again, my sheriff, Oh,
Chef Clem Hello, Martha nol My, my, my, she is
a charmer.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, it's pitiful, though pitiful. Well, she's part of the
reason I asked you to come up here. How's that
it was her husband that was killed and not more
than six weeks ago? Just a boy Palatine barely turned
to sure set this town on its haunches.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh, I get pressures all around me to clear this up.
How did it happen?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The boy been gambling at the saloon. He won a
lot of money and left the table around midnight, was
ambushed in an alley about a block away, robbed. Yeah,
poor kid was back east. Him and Martha Nell had
just been here a couple of months. So far, there
hasn't been one lead I could nail down.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What about the men who lost money to him that night?
Every one of them is a good alibi.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Maybe it was a stranger passing through, so the boy
winning and then waited for him to leave.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We don't have many visitors in this town, especially on
a Monday night, and that's when it happened.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
I'm sure it was somebody right here in town. Do
you think he's still here.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Nobody's left town or acted suspicious or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How'd the girl take him?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Pretty bad at first, But Sam's been a lot of
help to her.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, how does he figure in this?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh, he'd known her husband back east. He's the only
one they knew when they came out to settle here
after the killing. He sort of took charge. He's done
a good job of it too. From the looks of things,
they'll probably end up getting married. Sam's a nice boy,
except he's a little hot headed. Where do I start, Clem,
The main thing is to get to know the people
(07:18):
who was in the saloon that night. Maybe with a
fresh mind on it, you might discover something I've overlooked.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
M it was the boy in the habit of gambling. No,
it's just it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It was the first time anyone ever knew of him
visiting the saloon. Marthaelle can tell you about that. Then
I should go have a talk with her first. That's
a good idea. She works over at the general store. Right, Well,
if I'm gonna have a cup of coffee with you,
and better go in the kitchen and get it myself.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
And you change missus.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Butler's thank you Martin, Now bye bye.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I'm sorry she took so long, mister Palladin, I'm sorry
now I've forgotten the last question you asked.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yes, you are going to tell me why your husband
went to the saloon that night.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yes, well, it was kind of a celebration for Roy.
He'd gotten his first paycheck from the freight office, and
I just gotten my job here at the store. Seemed
that everything was beginning to come our way. He and
Sam came by for me when the store closed, and
the three of us went over to the dining room.
Roy bought us the biggest steak suppers on the menu.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Your husband worked with Sam at the freight office.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yes, Sam got him the job there.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What happened after supper?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Roy wanted to buy Sam with celebration drinks, so they
took me back to the rooming house and left to
go to the saloon. That's the last time I saw
Roy alive.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Why didn't Sam come home with him?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Roy was having such good luck at the gaming tables,
he didn't want to leave, so Sam came on back
to the rooming house.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What does he live at the same place you do?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
He did? Then he had the room across the Hall
from ours. When he came back, he knocked on my
door and told me Roy'd be home later. Was it
more than an hour after that when Sheriff Clym came
and told me what had happened? Oh? Sam, Hi, you
got off early.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Yeah, I thought maybe we could take a ride out
to will Of Grove.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
All right, but you'll have to wait till we close.
I have to lock up tonight.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
You'll buying up the store, mister Paladin, Sam, Well, he's
been in here long enough.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Do you keep tabs on everybody who comes into this store? Sam?
Speaker 7 (09:44):
There ain't much going on in Greenwood that I don't
know about, especially when it concerns Martha Noll.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Sam. Mister Paladin was just asking me some questions about
Roy's murder. He's helping Sheriff Clym.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Look, Paladin, sheriff knows as much about this as Marthaell.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Does.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
You let him give you all the answers.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
There's no need for you to get her all upset.
It's better she forget about this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I don't mind answering questions, Sam, if it will help
them find the killer.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I know what's best for you. Just let me handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
May be right, Martha Noll, I guess I did take
up quite a bit of your time.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I didn't mind, really, mister.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Thanks anyway, perhaps I'll be seeing you again before I
leave town.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Good day, goodbye, commander. Welcome my boy.
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Speaker 2 (11:31):
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Speaker 2 (11:43):
Have a commander, Welcome my boy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I spent the first two days in Greenwood getting acquainted
with a man who had been at the poker table
with Marthonelle's husband the night he was killed as far
as I could determine, Sheriff Brady was right.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
They all had good alibis, and they were all anxious
to help us find the man who did it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I also spend a couple of hours each night in
the saloon talking to the regulars, to the barkeep. No, sir,
mister Paladin, if they'd been a stranger in here that night,
I had remembered strangers stick out like sore thumbs in
this town.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Care for another drink? No, no, thank you. Has there
been any suspicious rumors about who could have done it?
Not to drive hurt?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh Palatine, Hi, Hello, Clamor, Well, you've been all day
out in the countryside talking to some of the men
who were in here that night.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Care for a drink?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Sure? Yeah, and make it ry bunny, Yes, sir, what'd
you find out?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Same thing you did? Nothing new?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, it's a tough one, all right, sure, no thanks, yep, clem,
let me ask you something we've been going on the
basis that he was killed for the money robbery. Now,
could there have been any other reason? Well, he was
(13:12):
rob yeah, I know, I know, But did he have
a run in with anybody? He was just a newcomer,
Like I told you, him and his wife have only
been here a couple of months, just happy little love
birds trying to get a start in life. I was robbery,
pure and simple. Tell me more about this boy, Sam,
Would he have any reason?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Not likely? He was Roy's best friend.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Oh, he's also pretty cozy with Roy's wife now that
he's dead. Well, I suppose you could make something out
of that if you want to do. But is a
natural thing to happen. I'll admit it cross my mind
at one time, But don't forget. He was in bed
when it happened.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How can you be sure?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
When I went over to give Martha Noll the bad news,
he came out of his room across the hall, said
he heard the commotion.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He'd been in bed, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Did she also tell you that he stopped by earlier
to tell her that Roy.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Was still at the saloon?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
She did, and that was proof enough to eliminate him.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
When it did cross my.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Mind, Uh, well, hmm, it's been a long day, clem
When I think I'll go back the hotel and get
some sleep, all.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Right, madam?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
All right, I'm gonna stay here for one more drinking
and I'll help you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Doing the same. See you in the morning. Midnight, good night.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
If somebody took a shot out of me? If they
ran down that alleyway?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
A couple of you men look down there.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
See if you can find anybody? Pass you hurt bad?
I don't think so. Can you walk up to your room? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Sure, somebody go get the doctor, tell him to meet
us at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Let me give you a hand. Pat Oh, there must
do that. I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Thanks, doctor, you keep your arm not slaying for a
few days, you'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Goods claim. Did your men find anybody? H No, I
was sore. It's too bad. Well, good night, gentlemen. Died doctor.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
If you come by the office tomorrow, mister Paladin, I'd
like to take another look at your arm.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'll do that, doctor, Thank you. Well. Clam whoever shot me,
he could very well be the same man we're looking
for him. Yeah, you can't figure out what they have
against you?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, maybe I've asked you too many questions the last
couple of days, but you don't have any ideas.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, I'll let you get some rest. Maybe we'll come
up with something in the morning. I'll give it a
lot of thought, can I clem?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Eh h?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's me Marthaell? May I come in?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Sure? Uh here, let me turn up the light.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
No, leave it, lowe, someone may see us.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's kind of lady for you to god alone, isn't it? Well?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I heard what happened. I wanted to see if you
were all right.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I was very thoughtful. But that isn't the only reason
you came, isn't What do you mean you want to
tell me about Sam?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Don't you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yes, I guess I should.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You've been covering for him. He's the one that killed
your husband.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
How did you know?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Why haven't you told the sheriff? Martha?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Now I've been too afraid of.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Did someone follow you here?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Not that I know of? Why?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
There's somebody outside my door? Get over behind that chest.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Don't open the door, mister pallad Huh, keep quiet, don't
open the door.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You give me that gun, don't over, I'll shoot.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Come in.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Watch it, Clem. Get down, you.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Are right, clem?
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What's going on in here? Oh? Martha? Now pull the
gun on me. Marthall, I'm not a very good shot.
If you were, you would have killed me. Tonight in
the alley. It was you, wasn't it, Yes, Martha Nell,
(18:17):
Yes it was me, Sir.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I killed Roy too?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yes? I killed Roy and then I took his money to
make it look like he was robbed.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
But why.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Roy would never let me leave him? He was the
only way I could have Sam.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Does Sam know? No?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
When he came back that night and went to his room,
I slipped out and waited till Roy left the saloon.
Everything worked out just as I hoped it Wouldn'tntil you
came into town, I started stirring things up again. She
hadn't done that.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'll go get the doctor.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Uh, it's too late, Clym. She's dead. Oh no, what
a pity.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I can't believe a pretty little thing like that to
shoot her own husband.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Why would she do it?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Like she said she was in love with Sam. H
just doesn't make sense. Love can do strange things, Clym,
especially a young girl like her.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
M Oh, oh.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Here we are as Paladin.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, thank you driver.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Here's my priighter.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Okay, Oh it's a parady.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well hello, hey boy, hey boy, I wonder when you
come back here?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I take your suitcase. Thanks. Ohy, you got sling on
your arm. Oh, just relaxed and nothing serious. That's good.
You come home just in time, on time for what
to miss? A big railroad convention. Everybody left last night.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Hey boy, that's the best news I've had all week.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, don't you be happy to know?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
How's miss Wong holding up?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Oh not so good.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You not come to work today, all tired, But she'd
be back to more.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I warned her not to work too hard.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Hey boy, take my suitcase up of the room with
the prieze. I'm gonna stop in the bar and get
a drink. My throat's a little dusty.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
He's a miss a paladin. Yeah, very pretty young lady in.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
There, he taught.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Hey boys, you like to meet you sometimes. Maybe you
have drink with heart. Oh how pretty? Oh, very pretty.
I'm very young. You'll see how well.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Hey boy, this may come as a surprise to you,
but today I'm not interested the very pretty and.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
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