May 10, 2025 • 24 mins
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Luke Slaughter of Tombstone debuted on February 23, 1958 and, sadly, only ran for a total of 16 episodes. Sam Buffington played Luke Slaughter, a Civil War cavalry officer, turned cattle rancher, in post-Civil War Arizona Territory near Fort Huachuca and the town of Tombstone, not far from the U.S. southern border. This was a well-received program but was cut short due to the pressure of television at the time. At the beginning of each show we hear "Slaughter's my name, Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a tough business, it's a big business. I got a big stake in it. And there's no man west of the Rio Grande big enough to take it away from me."
Luke Slaughter of Tombstone debuted on February 23, 1958 and, sadly, only ran for a total of 16 episodes. Sam Buffington played Luke Slaughter, a Civil War cavalry officer, turned cattle rancher, in post-Civil War Arizona Territory near Fort Huachuca and the town of Tombstone, not far from the U.S. southern border. This was a well-received program but was cut short due to the pressure of television at the time. At the beginning of each show we hear "Slaughter's my name, Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a tough business, it's a big business. I got a big stake in it. And there's no man west of the Rio Grande big enough to take it away from me."
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Slaughter's my name. Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a
tough business, it's big business. I've got a big stake
in it. There's no man west of the Rio Grand
big enough to take it from me.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Civil War
cavalryman turned Arizona cattleman. Across the territory from Yuma to
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Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Watchukas, and below the
border through Chihuahua and Sonora. His name was respected or feared,
depending on which side of the law you were on.
Man of vision, man of legend, Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Lots of people back east think us Western is a rough,
uncouth and ild mannered. Although it might not appear so
to a stranger, we do live by a fairly rigid
set of manners. For instance, we don't care what a
man was, but what he is. All of us have
come out to this new country from somewhere else, and
why we came as our own business. Of course, sometimes
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a stranger may drift into town who reminds us of
things we just as soon forget, like the time Wichita
and I was sitting out front of the Cosmopolitan Hotel
waiting for the dinner, gone to rain.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sure he's gonna be good to tie on a store
bought feedbag.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Luke, I'm a little hungry myself.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, well, I wasn't thinking of quantity so much as quality.
I don't trust that pigtailed bean wrangler you got down
to ranch. I swear there was cat meeting that son
of a gun stew he made supper last night.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I doubted Chinese are supposed to be excellent cooks.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
If somebody should get that message through the lum Chung,
maybe you ought to bring him up here for.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
A feed sometime so he can learn what a large
fried steak auditory stack. Yeah, and mash turnips too, without lumps.
When are they gonna ring at during dinner?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Bell?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'm starving myself just thinking about it.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Morning.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Look Ali Wichita, Well, miss allis what brings you down
from the mine in the middle of the day. I'm
ee in the stage expecting a business associate in from
the east.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Here you struck water up with the little giant mister Wallace.
That's right, what's going on up there on the hill? First,
the sulfarette strikes water.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And then contention, now you it seems that there's an
underground lake at the five hundred foot level.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
We can sure use some more.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Water out in this desert, but it's never going to
bring in as much as silver.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, I don't imagine mister Wallace is gonna let a
little water interfare with a silver production, which do not for.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
A single minute.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
We're go and install the biggest pumps west of the Mississippi.
Matter of fact, that's why the man I'm going to
meet is coming all the way out here from Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He bringing the pumps? Wism on the stage.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
No, it's it all.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
But after I've convinced him that we can lick the water,
and I will, he's going to put up the money
for the pumps.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
He knows that yet.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
No, but he knows a good thing when he sees it.
And believe me, boys, Tombstone's a good thing. A dollar
invested in Tombstone today will be worth ten dollars in
a year, and one hundred dollars by the end of
the century.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, I think I'll hold on my dollar.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I ain't calculating on being around come nineteen or one hundred.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, here's the stage and right on time too. That
don't impress mister Albert W. Norton on how we do
things out here?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Did you say, Albert W.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Norton, Yes, he's the man I'm eeting very important in
banking circles back in Saint Louis.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
No, now it couldn't be what couldn't be loup nothing
with the tailor just thinking out loud.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Wo see you're keeping right on schedule.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
M the water.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah, I could have saved the horses from night and
been a bit late.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Only I got a passenger, and there I'm ankery to
get rid of fronto. Alright, mister, get down, get the
end of the line.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
And you were out of a job, my good man.
If I have to buy this stage line to be
sure you're discharged, God.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Drier, Welcome to Tombstone, mister Norton, Hello there, Wallace.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Had a pleasant trip.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
I can't say I have since I transferred from the
steam cars to this devil's conveyance driven by a man.
Now don't here, why old aad here.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Is one of the best six horse drivers in the territory.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Then I can see that there is room for great
improvement out here.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Well, that may be so, but I'm sure after you've
been with us for a few days you will find
that there are a lot of things in our favor.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Come on with it, tow, let's go.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Let's go work. They ain't rung a dinner bell yet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We can eat back at the ranch.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But look, the large fried steaks at the Cosmopolitan are
the best in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And you eat mine too. I'm getting out of town
before I commit murder.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Murder who you figured on?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Murdered him? Mister Albert W. Norton, or coffee wit your town?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No Ah, I understand they got a new show with
the Birdcage high kickers.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
They tell me if you like riding in the town tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I don't think so. Which it like it fine? Right
here in the ranch.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
You must.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You ain't been in town for more in a week,
that's right, ever since the day that Eastern dude pulled
in right again. I am a patient man, are you well?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Patient is the next? But my patiences are running out?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And just what are you getting impatient about? Luke?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Luke? It ain't fair. You ain't never told me why
you got it in for that. Albert W. Norton friend,
of mister Wallace.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That's right. I never have will and most likely I
never will now, Luke, which I guess there isn't a
single one of us out here that doesn't carry around
memories that hurt things we'd like to forget. Maybe that's
why people like you and me have drifted west where.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
In my case, I know I wouldn't be here if
it wasn't fair.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You want to hear about it.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I don't mind telling you. I got no secrets from you.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes you have, and you keep them.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
All right, if that's the way you feel.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Appears we got visitors, No, no.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Just young buckerin here. Why don't you give him.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The evening noise? I didn't. He was going to the
town to spark Ellie May Wallace.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, his spark must have fizzled out. It ain't even
dark yet and.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
He's back home.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Evening, Buck, evening, Luke, ain't you back on my early son?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Seems pretty dull up in town.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Yeah for me, anyway, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Buck? You want to tell us?
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
I gotta talk to somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh and you just said right down here in the
stoop and spell it.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Well, I guess it ain't any news to you that
I have. I've been sweet on Ellie May Wallace for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well you haven't exactly been keeping it a secret, Buck.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I guess not. But well, it's more than just being
sweet on her, Luke. Well I'm in love with her.
You sure, son, Sure, I'm sure?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well you better be.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
A woman can be as treacherous as a sidewinder, and the.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Younger and partier she used a more sidewine.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Than she can be.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, Wich? Uh, you know if everybody felt like
you do about women, where would.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
The world be better off?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Don't pay any attention to the old massage in this Buck?
What's that woman? Hate her?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
That's me?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
How about Elie May? Buck? Does she love you?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Yes, Luke, she does.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, And you haven't got anything to worry about.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Oh, yes I have. She's not allowed to see me anymore.
What that's right, Luke.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
I called at her house like I do every Wednesday,
and her father answered the door, and he told me
that Ellie May was busy tonight, and she'd be busy
every other night, and that if I was smart, I
wouldn't come back anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Why the Turkey give any explanation? No?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
No, just slammed the door in my face. But I've
found out the explanations. It's right here in tonight's epitaph.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Look, John Wallace, proprietor of the Little Giant Mine, has
announced the engagement of his daughter Ellie May, to Albert W.
Norton of Saint Louis. So Norton's done it again?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
What, Luke?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Only this time he isn't gonna.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Get away with it?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Settle my horse with your town?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'm gonna have a little talk with our friend, mister Wallace.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It's sure good of you to do this for me, Luke.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm doing it for myself.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
But I don't understand you don't have.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
To Well you want me to ride in with you?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Luke?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now, what's your time? I'm going alone? Only here, keep
my guns for me?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You going into town without your shooting arms?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's right. I'm still afraid I might be tempted to
keep a promise to myself. What promise to kill Albert W. Norton? Evening,
(10:13):
mister Wallace, Why, Luke slaughter?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
What brings you into town at this hour?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Maybe it is a little late, but I want to
talk to you, you man if I come in, No, of.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Course, not I do come in please?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So no?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Well, luke, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I read in tonight's epitaph that your daughter is going
to marry this Norton fellow.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
That's right, a week from Saturday in Saint Paul's Episcopal Church.
Looks like you don't believe in long engagements, Not when
it's love at first sight, is it?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Of course? Isn't this a rather late hour for congratulations.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I didn't come here to congratulate you. I came to
try to talk you out of it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Aren't you sticking your nose into something that is apps
litely none of your business?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Maybe? And maybe not. Oh, by the way, where is
your future son in law? He might be interested in
what I've got to say.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
I have no idea you went downtown this evening.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Oh that's right. I heard there was a new troop
of high kickers at the Birdcade.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
And I don't keep tabs on the comings and goings
of mister Norton.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Maybe you should before you give him your daughter. Just
what do you know about this Norton? Enough?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He's a highly successful Saint Louis Financia, and his price
for bailing out your mind is a girl young enough
to be his daughter slaughter. I don't have to sit
here in my own house and listen to such dirty insinuation.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You don't, but you're will now hold on, eh, I apologize,
mister Wallace. You're right this is none of my business
from your point of view, But from my point of view,
it is because I happen to know Ellie May is
in love with a young fellow named Buck Rainier.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
That wrangler that works for you.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's Dragon. I threw him off my premises to night.
I know that's why i'm here. Buck is very much
in love with your daughter. Mister Wallace, well, you'll have
to get over it.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I certainly would never permit Elie May to marry a
forty dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Cow, and mister Wallace, I've never been married. I've never
had any children. But if I ever do have a son,
I'd like him to be the kind of boy BUCkies
and back up that statement. When he marries your daughter,
I'll make him a wedding present of a couple of
sections of land and enough cattle to set him up
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in business.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Very touching, Slaughter. But Norton's holding the high hand in
this game.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He usually does, but this time I don't think he'll win.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
I'd like to see what's going to stop him.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You will, Wallace, when the hand is played.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Are you threatening me?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Not at all? But I'm asking you once more to
give your daughter a chance to be happy.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
That's exactly what I am doing, and that's why she's
going to marry Albert Norton.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's your final word. It is all right, Wallace. I tried.
I hope I haven't kept you up too late, but
you might try to sleep on this. If Ellie May
were my daughter, I'd rather see her entertaining the boys
of the Occidental Saloon than married to Albert Wnaton. Mister
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mister Slaughter, Ellie May, I overheard you talking to Papa.
Mister Slaughter.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Elly May? Are you really in love with Buck?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:45):
Yes, I'll die if I have to marry that awful
old mister Norton.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But you want to marry Buck?
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Oh yes, so very very much. What am I going
to do, mister Slaughter?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You just go ahead and do what your fin that
tells you. Smile and be pleasant and act like you
with the first blushing bride in the history of the world.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
But I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes you can, because Ellie May, I promise you you
will never be missus Albert W.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Norton in a moment Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns Tonight
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(15:07):
of William and Robson's production of Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
To hear the Tombstone epitaph tell it, the wedding of
Elimy Wallace and Albert W. Norton was going to be
the biggest thing since Queen Victoria took Prince Albert to husband.
Every edition carried another tantalizing tidbit. The bridal gown was
coming by fast express from San Francisco. The bride's father
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had brought up all the French champagne in town for
the reception. The nuptials were to be solemnized by the
Bishop of Arizona himself.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
And listen to this and tonight's paper. The happy pair
will spend their honeymoon in the East, where they will
be transported by private railway car provided by mister Wallace.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Doesn't say anything anywhere about what the grooms providing.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Does it no, But he must have something to offer.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Sure he does a line of plavor like a lightning
rod salesman.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Just a shame.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It looks like three of ours are the only people
in Tombstone who won't beat the wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Don't be too sure about that, Wichitan.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
I don't want to go. I don't want to see.
It happened to early May.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You don't have to go, Buck, But I think maybe, Wichitan,
I'll make an appearance.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Ha.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We ain't got any invites, And after the way you
talked to Wallace the other night, I don't figure we're
going to get any.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Who said we needed any This is a free country.
In Saint Paul's Church is a house of worship open
to any sinner with a contrite heart. We're going to
the wedding Wichita, but I'm not sure we'll be able
to stay for the reception. I had my own preparations
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to make that. They didn't involve Bishop and Champagne and
such frills. They were relatively simple, and they were all
completed by Saturday morning.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Got the horses all saddled and waiting.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Luke, which time?
Speaker 8 (17:11):
I want to stay here and let you do it all, Luke,
let me come along.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You just do as I tell you, but you'll have
plenty to do later.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
But what if it don't work?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Then your where you ought to be, where I want
you to be, in the clear. Let's go with you
have see in a couple of hours. Buck if we
pull it off?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Yeah, will Luke?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Don't cheam ride going to a wedding and work cloth?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why not? Which when they got work to do? If
there be any among you who knows why this is
marriage should not be performed? This is our que If
him speak now hold his peace, then I guess this
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is the moment for me to speak. Bishop, what's going on?
I know plenty of reasons why this wedding shouldn't be
held Slaughter.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
This is a private ceremony, Slaughter.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Not any longer, Wallace. I'm making it public, and mister
Norton knows why.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
Oh, mister Slaughter, you kept your promise.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You sure about that, Norton? You're sure you don't remember
a young lawyer named Lucian Slaughter back in Peoria, Illinois,
just after the war.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yes, I am a little heavier maybe, and a little
less hair. And the name Lucian was just a little
bit flossy for the cattle country. So it's somehow got
whittled down to luke. Mister Slaughter, if you have something
to say, please say it quickly.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
You have interrupted one of the Church's most sacred sacraments.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'm sorry about that. Bishop Folks, I know this man Norton.
He's been married before. What you didn't tell me that, Norton?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
What of it? My wife has been dead for years,
so I heard.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And what did she die of?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Oh, consumption? I think it was.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You think didn't she die of humiliation and a broken
heart after you deserted her?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
That's not true. I did not desert her. My business
took me to Saint.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Louis, and you thought a small town girl like her
would be a drawback, so you never sent for her.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I don't see what all this has to do with
anything has to.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Do with a no good grifter will make your daughter's
life as unhappy as he did his first wife.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Mister Wallace, are you going to permit this boor to interfere?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I certainly am not. You've had your saylaughter, Now get
out all right.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I'm going in a minute cover that side of the church,
which it does. Mister Slaughter, you have desecrated the house
of the Lord. I'll settle with the Lord later. Come on,
Eli May Slaughter. This is kidnapping, is it? Or is
it an act of mercy? Keeping covered till I get
to the horses which I got him. Come on out
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this way, Eli May going with a ah, Folks, I
don't hang her to desecrate the house of the Lord
further with gunfire, but I will if you folks don't
quiet down and stay put.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Well, there's Buck waiting for us out in front of
the branch.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
House, yep. And there's the padre from Disbee with him,
just in case you want to make use of his
services Telly made.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Oh do mister slaughter, I do?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Are you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Hell helly made?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Sweethearse.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Hurry up, buck, get your bride down from this horse,
hadi padre.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Good afternoon, Luke.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I think you can tie the nut for these two
in five minutes.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You better, guys. I figure that's about all the lead
we've got on that wedding party.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
And I'll pronounce you man, and what helly.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
My husband, my very own husband.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Now I can wait until later. You got the rest
of your life for smooching.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You better get out of here now for your.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Preppy gets here.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You get your horses out and back like I told
you about it.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Luke.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Then you two hit the trail. I'll stall off the
angry citizens. Oh, mister slaughter, how can I ever?
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Don't bother ride?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
And you which you talk? Well, no, you might name
the first one after me and I'll get hit.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Come on, darling, see you later.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Loop.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Well, what's your time? Let's welcome our visitors?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
What have you done with my daughter?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
She isn't here, mister Wallace?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Caught she here?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
We followed your trail.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well, she was here. But she just left on her honeymoon.
What why youah, I'm afraid you're too late. Wallace elly
May has been missus buck Rin here for at least
five minutes.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I'll have the marriage or not.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I don't see how you can do that. Wallis. The
girl's over age, and the ceremony was legal in every respect,
wasn't it, Padje.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Indeed it was, Luke.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'd ask you and the losing bridegroom in for refreshments
on it. Oh, by the way, I don't see mister
Norton in your party. What happened to him?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
He fell off his horse.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I'm not surprised. Well, as I was saying, i'd ask
you in only I'm sure you have much more adequate
refreshments you'll be wanting to consume at what was to
have been the wedding reception. So if you'll excuse us,
which atan, I are going to have a biteeat. We've
had a very busy day.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Would you still haven't told me?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Told you what?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well? How you happen to know so much about that
Norton fellow?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Well, which I suppose I'm not as well? Tell you
you'll never stop gnittering me. You see back in Illinois
fifteen years ago, there was this young lawyer just starting
out in the world, this young girl. They were very
much in love and they wanted to get married. The
young girl's father had other ideas, ambitious ideas. He made
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the girl marry a fast talking young fellow named Albert W. Norton. Oh,
and the young lawyer left town swearing he'd kill Norton
if he ever saw him again. Only you know which
you are, and I get better this way. Killing's too
good for a rat like him.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, I guess you're right, which is only one
thing about the whole subang.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
And I don't like what's that they left in such
a hurry.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I didn't get to kiss your bride, Luke.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Slaughter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, was written and directed
by William N. Robeson. Supporting mister Buffington were Norma G. Nilson,
Junius Matthews, Normalden, Barney Phillips, Ben Wright and Charles Seal.
Editorial supervision by Tom Henley, with music composed and conducted
by Wilbur Hatch. This is the CBS Radio Network
Slaughter's my name. Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a
tough business, it's big business. I've got a big stake
in it. There's no man west of the Rio Grand
big enough to take it from me.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Civil War
cavalryman turned Arizona cattleman. Across the territory from Yuma to
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Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Watchukas, and below the
border through Chihuahua and Sonora. His name was respected or feared,
depending on which side of the law you were on.
Man of vision, man of legend, Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Lots of people back east think us Western is a rough,
uncouth and ild mannered. Although it might not appear so
to a stranger, we do live by a fairly rigid
set of manners. For instance, we don't care what a
man was, but what he is. All of us have
come out to this new country from somewhere else, and
why we came as our own business. Of course, sometimes
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a stranger may drift into town who reminds us of
things we just as soon forget, like the time Wichita
and I was sitting out front of the Cosmopolitan Hotel
waiting for the dinner, gone to rain.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sure he's gonna be good to tie on a store
bought feedbag.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Luke, I'm a little hungry myself.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, well, I wasn't thinking of quantity so much as quality.
I don't trust that pigtailed bean wrangler you got down
to ranch. I swear there was cat meeting that son
of a gun stew he made supper last night.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I doubted Chinese are supposed to be excellent cooks.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
If somebody should get that message through the lum Chung,
maybe you ought to bring him up here for.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
A feed sometime so he can learn what a large
fried steak auditory stack. Yeah, and mash turnips too, without lumps.
When are they gonna ring at during dinner?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Bell?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'm starving myself just thinking about it.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Morning.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Look Ali Wichita, Well, miss allis what brings you down
from the mine in the middle of the day. I'm
ee in the stage expecting a business associate in from
the east.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Here you struck water up with the little giant mister Wallace.
That's right, what's going on up there on the hill? First,
the sulfarette strikes water.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And then contention, now you it seems that there's an
underground lake at the five hundred foot level.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
We can sure use some more.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Water out in this desert, but it's never going to
bring in as much as silver.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, I don't imagine mister Wallace is gonna let a
little water interfare with a silver production, which do not for.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
A single minute.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
We're go and install the biggest pumps west of the Mississippi.
Matter of fact, that's why the man I'm going to
meet is coming all the way out here from Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He bringing the pumps? Wism on the stage.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
No, it's it all.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
But after I've convinced him that we can lick the water,
and I will, he's going to put up the money
for the pumps.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
He knows that yet.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
No, but he knows a good thing when he sees it.
And believe me, boys, Tombstone's a good thing. A dollar
invested in Tombstone today will be worth ten dollars in
a year, and one hundred dollars by the end of
the century.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, I think I'll hold on my dollar.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I ain't calculating on being around come nineteen or one hundred.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, here's the stage and right on time too. That
don't impress mister Albert W. Norton on how we do
things out here?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Did you say, Albert W.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Norton, Yes, he's the man I'm eeting very important in
banking circles back in Saint Louis.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
No, now it couldn't be what couldn't be loup nothing
with the tailor just thinking out loud.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Wo see you're keeping right on schedule.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
M the water.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah, I could have saved the horses from night and
been a bit late.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Only I got a passenger, and there I'm ankery to
get rid of fronto. Alright, mister, get down, get the
end of the line.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
And you were out of a job, my good man.
If I have to buy this stage line to be
sure you're discharged, God.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Drier, Welcome to Tombstone, mister Norton, Hello there, Wallace.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Had a pleasant trip.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
I can't say I have since I transferred from the
steam cars to this devil's conveyance driven by a man.
Now don't here, why old aad here.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Is one of the best six horse drivers in the territory.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Then I can see that there is room for great
improvement out here.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Well, that may be so, but I'm sure after you've
been with us for a few days you will find
that there are a lot of things in our favor.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Come on with it, tow, let's go.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Let's go work. They ain't rung a dinner bell yet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We can eat back at the ranch.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But look, the large fried steaks at the Cosmopolitan are
the best in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And you eat mine too. I'm getting out of town
before I commit murder.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Murder who you figured on?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Murdered him? Mister Albert W. Norton, or coffee wit your town?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No Ah, I understand they got a new show with
the Birdcage high kickers.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
They tell me if you like riding in the town tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I don't think so. Which it like it fine? Right
here in the ranch.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
You must.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You ain't been in town for more in a week,
that's right, ever since the day that Eastern dude pulled
in right again. I am a patient man, are you well?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Patient is the next? But my patiences are running out?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And just what are you getting impatient about? Luke?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Luke? It ain't fair. You ain't never told me why
you got it in for that. Albert W. Norton friend,
of mister Wallace.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That's right. I never have will and most likely I
never will now, Luke, which I guess there isn't a
single one of us out here that doesn't carry around
memories that hurt things we'd like to forget. Maybe that's
why people like you and me have drifted west where.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
In my case, I know I wouldn't be here if
it wasn't fair.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You want to hear about it.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I don't mind telling you. I got no secrets from you.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes you have, and you keep them.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
All right, if that's the way you feel.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Appears we got visitors, No, no.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Just young buckerin here. Why don't you give him.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The evening noise? I didn't. He was going to the
town to spark Ellie May Wallace.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, his spark must have fizzled out. It ain't even
dark yet and.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
He's back home.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Evening, Buck, evening, Luke, ain't you back on my early son?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Seems pretty dull up in town.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Yeah for me, anyway, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Buck? You want to tell us?
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
I gotta talk to somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh and you just said right down here in the
stoop and spell it.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Well, I guess it ain't any news to you that
I have. I've been sweet on Ellie May Wallace for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well you haven't exactly been keeping it a secret, Buck.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I guess not. But well, it's more than just being
sweet on her, Luke. Well I'm in love with her.
You sure, son, Sure, I'm sure?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well you better be.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
A woman can be as treacherous as a sidewinder, and the.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Younger and partier she used a more sidewine.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Than she can be.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, Wich? Uh, you know if everybody felt like
you do about women, where would.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
The world be better off?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Don't pay any attention to the old massage in this Buck?
What's that woman? Hate her?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
That's me?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
How about Elie May? Buck? Does she love you?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Yes, Luke, she does.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, And you haven't got anything to worry about.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Oh, yes I have. She's not allowed to see me anymore.
What that's right, Luke.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
I called at her house like I do every Wednesday,
and her father answered the door, and he told me
that Ellie May was busy tonight, and she'd be busy
every other night, and that if I was smart, I
wouldn't come back anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Why the Turkey give any explanation? No?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
No, just slammed the door in my face. But I've
found out the explanations. It's right here in tonight's epitaph.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Look, John Wallace, proprietor of the Little Giant Mine, has
announced the engagement of his daughter Ellie May, to Albert W.
Norton of Saint Louis. So Norton's done it again?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
What, Luke?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Only this time he isn't gonna.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Get away with it?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Settle my horse with your town?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'm gonna have a little talk with our friend, mister Wallace.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It's sure good of you to do this for me, Luke.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm doing it for myself.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
But I don't understand you don't have.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
To Well you want me to ride in with you?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Luke?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now, what's your time? I'm going alone? Only here, keep
my guns for me?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You going into town without your shooting arms?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's right. I'm still afraid I might be tempted to
keep a promise to myself. What promise to kill Albert W. Norton? Evening,
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mister Wallace, Why, Luke slaughter?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
What brings you into town at this hour?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Maybe it is a little late, but I want to
talk to you, you man if I come in, No, of.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Course, not I do come in please?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So no?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Well, luke, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I read in tonight's epitaph that your daughter is going
to marry this Norton fellow.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
That's right, a week from Saturday in Saint Paul's Episcopal Church.
Looks like you don't believe in long engagements, Not when
it's love at first sight, is it?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Of course? Isn't this a rather late hour for congratulations.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I didn't come here to congratulate you. I came to
try to talk you out of it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Aren't you sticking your nose into something that is apps
litely none of your business?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Maybe? And maybe not. Oh, by the way, where is
your future son in law? He might be interested in
what I've got to say.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
I have no idea you went downtown this evening.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Oh that's right. I heard there was a new troop
of high kickers at the Birdcade.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
And I don't keep tabs on the comings and goings
of mister Norton.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Maybe you should before you give him your daughter. Just
what do you know about this Norton? Enough?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He's a highly successful Saint Louis Financia, and his price
for bailing out your mind is a girl young enough
to be his daughter slaughter. I don't have to sit
here in my own house and listen to such dirty insinuation.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You don't, but you're will now hold on, eh, I apologize,
mister Wallace. You're right this is none of my business
from your point of view, But from my point of view,
it is because I happen to know Ellie May is
in love with a young fellow named Buck Rainier.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
That wrangler that works for you.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's Dragon. I threw him off my premises to night.
I know that's why i'm here. Buck is very much
in love with your daughter. Mister Wallace, well, you'll have
to get over it.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I certainly would never permit Elie May to marry a
forty dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Cow, and mister Wallace, I've never been married. I've never
had any children. But if I ever do have a son,
I'd like him to be the kind of boy BUCkies
and back up that statement. When he marries your daughter,
I'll make him a wedding present of a couple of
sections of land and enough cattle to set him up
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in business.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Very touching, Slaughter. But Norton's holding the high hand in
this game.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He usually does, but this time I don't think he'll win.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
I'd like to see what's going to stop him.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You will, Wallace, when the hand is played.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Are you threatening me?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Not at all? But I'm asking you once more to
give your daughter a chance to be happy.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
That's exactly what I am doing, and that's why she's
going to marry Albert Norton.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's your final word. It is all right, Wallace. I tried.
I hope I haven't kept you up too late, but
you might try to sleep on this. If Ellie May
were my daughter, I'd rather see her entertaining the boys
of the Occidental Saloon than married to Albert Wnaton. Mister
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mister Slaughter, Ellie May, I overheard you talking to Papa.
Mister Slaughter.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Elly May? Are you really in love with Buck?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:45):
Yes, I'll die if I have to marry that awful
old mister Norton.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But you want to marry Buck?
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Oh yes, so very very much. What am I going
to do, mister Slaughter?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You just go ahead and do what your fin that
tells you. Smile and be pleasant and act like you
with the first blushing bride in the history of the world.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
But I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes you can, because Ellie May, I promise you you
will never be missus Albert W.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Norton in a moment Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns Tonight
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of William and Robson's production of Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
To hear the Tombstone epitaph tell it, the wedding of
Elimy Wallace and Albert W. Norton was going to be
the biggest thing since Queen Victoria took Prince Albert to husband.
Every edition carried another tantalizing tidbit. The bridal gown was
coming by fast express from San Francisco. The bride's father
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had brought up all the French champagne in town for
the reception. The nuptials were to be solemnized by the
Bishop of Arizona himself.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
And listen to this and tonight's paper. The happy pair
will spend their honeymoon in the East, where they will
be transported by private railway car provided by mister Wallace.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Doesn't say anything anywhere about what the grooms providing.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Does it no, But he must have something to offer.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Sure he does a line of plavor like a lightning
rod salesman.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Just a shame.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It looks like three of ours are the only people
in Tombstone who won't beat the wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Don't be too sure about that, Wichitan.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
I don't want to go. I don't want to see.
It happened to early May.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You don't have to go, Buck, But I think maybe, Wichitan,
I'll make an appearance.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Ha.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We ain't got any invites, And after the way you
talked to Wallace the other night, I don't figure we're
going to get any.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Who said we needed any This is a free country.
In Saint Paul's Church is a house of worship open
to any sinner with a contrite heart. We're going to
the wedding Wichita, but I'm not sure we'll be able
to stay for the reception. I had my own preparations
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to make that. They didn't involve Bishop and Champagne and
such frills. They were relatively simple, and they were all
completed by Saturday morning.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Got the horses all saddled and waiting.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Luke, which time?
Speaker 8 (17:11):
I want to stay here and let you do it all, Luke,
let me come along.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You just do as I tell you, but you'll have
plenty to do later.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
But what if it don't work?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Then your where you ought to be, where I want
you to be, in the clear. Let's go with you
have see in a couple of hours. Buck if we
pull it off?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Yeah, will Luke?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Don't cheam ride going to a wedding and work cloth?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why not? Which when they got work to do? If
there be any among you who knows why this is
marriage should not be performed? This is our que If
him speak now hold his peace, then I guess this
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is the moment for me to speak. Bishop, what's going on?
I know plenty of reasons why this wedding shouldn't be
held Slaughter.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
This is a private ceremony, Slaughter.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Not any longer, Wallace. I'm making it public, and mister
Norton knows why.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
Oh, mister Slaughter, you kept your promise.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You sure about that, Norton? You're sure you don't remember
a young lawyer named Lucian Slaughter back in Peoria, Illinois,
just after the war.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yes, I am a little heavier maybe, and a little
less hair. And the name Lucian was just a little
bit flossy for the cattle country. So it's somehow got
whittled down to luke. Mister Slaughter, if you have something
to say, please say it quickly.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
You have interrupted one of the Church's most sacred sacraments.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'm sorry about that. Bishop Folks, I know this man Norton.
He's been married before. What you didn't tell me that, Norton?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
What of it? My wife has been dead for years,
so I heard.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And what did she die of?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Oh, consumption? I think it was.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You think didn't she die of humiliation and a broken
heart after you deserted her?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
That's not true. I did not desert her. My business
took me to Saint.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Louis, and you thought a small town girl like her
would be a drawback, so you never sent for her.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I don't see what all this has to do with
anything has to.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Do with a no good grifter will make your daughter's
life as unhappy as he did his first wife.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Mister Wallace, are you going to permit this boor to interfere?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I certainly am not. You've had your saylaughter, Now get
out all right.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I'm going in a minute cover that side of the church,
which it does. Mister Slaughter, you have desecrated the house
of the Lord. I'll settle with the Lord later. Come on,
Eli May Slaughter. This is kidnapping, is it? Or is
it an act of mercy? Keeping covered till I get
to the horses which I got him. Come on out
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this way, Eli May going with a ah, Folks, I
don't hang her to desecrate the house of the Lord
further with gunfire, but I will if you folks don't
quiet down and stay put.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Well, there's Buck waiting for us out in front of
the branch.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
House, yep. And there's the padre from Disbee with him,
just in case you want to make use of his
services Telly made.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Oh do mister slaughter, I do?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Are you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Hell helly made?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Sweethearse.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Hurry up, buck, get your bride down from this horse,
hadi padre.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Good afternoon, Luke.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I think you can tie the nut for these two
in five minutes.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You better, guys. I figure that's about all the lead
we've got on that wedding party.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
And I'll pronounce you man, and what helly.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
My husband, my very own husband.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Now I can wait until later. You got the rest
of your life for smooching.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You better get out of here now for your.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Preppy gets here.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You get your horses out and back like I told
you about it.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Luke.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Then you two hit the trail. I'll stall off the
angry citizens. Oh, mister slaughter, how can I ever?
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Don't bother ride?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
And you which you talk? Well, no, you might name
the first one after me and I'll get hit.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Come on, darling, see you later.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Loop.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Well, what's your time? Let's welcome our visitors?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
What have you done with my daughter?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
She isn't here, mister Wallace?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Caught she here?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
We followed your trail.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well, she was here. But she just left on her honeymoon.
What why youah, I'm afraid you're too late. Wallace elly
May has been missus buck Rin here for at least
five minutes.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I'll have the marriage or not.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I don't see how you can do that. Wallis. The
girl's over age, and the ceremony was legal in every respect,
wasn't it, Padje.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Indeed it was, Luke.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'd ask you and the losing bridegroom in for refreshments
on it. Oh, by the way, I don't see mister
Norton in your party. What happened to him?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
He fell off his horse.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I'm not surprised. Well, as I was saying, i'd ask
you in only I'm sure you have much more adequate
refreshments you'll be wanting to consume at what was to
have been the wedding reception. So if you'll excuse us,
which atan, I are going to have a biteeat. We've
had a very busy day.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Would you still haven't told me?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Told you what?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well? How you happen to know so much about that
Norton fellow?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Well, which I suppose I'm not as well? Tell you
you'll never stop gnittering me. You see back in Illinois
fifteen years ago, there was this young lawyer just starting
out in the world, this young girl. They were very
much in love and they wanted to get married. The
young girl's father had other ideas, ambitious ideas. He made
(23:17):
the girl marry a fast talking young fellow named Albert W. Norton. Oh,
and the young lawyer left town swearing he'd kill Norton
if he ever saw him again. Only you know which
you are, and I get better this way. Killing's too
good for a rat like him.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, I guess you're right, which is only one
thing about the whole subang.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
And I don't like what's that they left in such
a hurry.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I didn't get to kiss your bride, Luke.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Slaughter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, was written and directed
by William N. Robeson. Supporting mister Buffington were Norma G. Nilson,
Junius Matthews, Normalden, Barney Phillips, Ben Wright and Charles Seal.
Editorial supervision by Tom Henley, with music composed and conducted
by Wilbur Hatch. This is the CBS Radio Network
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