August 1, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around odd City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Gun Smoke, Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, the transcribe story
(00:43):
of the violence that moved west with young America, the
story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylan,
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Marshall, mind if I sit here?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Awhile Marshall, of course, not sit down, Billy.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You look worried, billy boy like you shouldn't look worried.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'm twenty one. That's a man's age in the Chester.
Oh sure, twenty one, pretty old billy, old enough for
frog mouth Kate. Anyway, every time I come to town,
that woman won't give me a minute's peace.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well maybe she's sleet on you, billy.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Sweet on me.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Look at her at the bar over there. She come
to and miss me pretty soon, old enough to be
my mother.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Well then why do you stay here? Why don't you
go over to the Longhorn or someplace.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Oh, Kate's all right when she's sober. Just when she
gets drunk, she's such a nuisance.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, she sure looks drunk.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Un she is, And when she's like this, there's no
worse woman in the whole world. I gotta kill her
when she gets like this.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Somebody's always gonna kill somebody around here.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh that's that's just a way of talking, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I hate to tell you, Billy, but I think frog
mouth Kate has spotted you.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I knew she would. She gets loan someome awful fast,
that woman.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's where you went, Billy, leaving me all alone. Shame
on you, honey.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I gotta catch my breath once in a while, Kate,
em catch your.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
Breath with me, honey, not with Marshall, Dylon and Chester
and all the rest of them.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
No, I can't take it easy.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Take it easy, you and me.
Speaker 10 (02:45):
Take it easy in Saint Louis, Billy boy.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And quit talking about Saint Louis all the time. I
ain't about to go to Set Louis. I'm broke right
here in Dodge.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
I got the money, Billy almost, I got it almost.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
And you and me having.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh Kate, why don't you pick on somebody who can
at least buy you a few drinks.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
They've been buying me drinks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't care about them anyway, Let's get.
Speaker 11 (03:14):
Married, Billy boy.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Huh?
Speaker 10 (03:16):
You and me?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
See what I mean, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
She likes you, Billy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Sure, We're a couple of real love birds. And I'll
stop there. I'll break your head open.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Hi, acute Billy love him?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Jolly h it out.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Well, if you'll excuse us, we better be moving on.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Uh Chester. Well, all right, Chester, Yes, sir, so long
Billy Kate.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Now you never mind them, Billy boy.
Speaker 12 (03:58):
They're just a couple of crow like everybody else except you, lady,
You and me.
Speaker 13 (04:05):
Hi, My.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Poor Billy.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well, he's got to learn somehow.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I suppose.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
The town seems pretty quiet Chester. I think I'll go
to bed, good I.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Do, mister.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I'll sleep in the office tonight.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Good night.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Mhm h.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, who is it the Chesters are open up?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Oh? Oh, well just mother Chester.
Speaker 14 (05:03):
M oh.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Oh, other's a Chester.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
There's been a shooting, sir, in that room and house
next to the alpha Ganza.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Oh well, I got dressed. Come on his side.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's been raining a little, mister Dylan.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yeah, God, I like that lamp. There were you testing it? Yesir?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They sent for darc and he woke me up on
his way out.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
You know what it was all about? It?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He just said it was in that room in house.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
What time is it anyway?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh, we'll be daylight soon. Must be about four thirty.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Four thirty. It's pretty late at night for a gunfight,
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Or that's what I thought.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
There? All right, Chester, I'm ready to blow the lamp out, Sir.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That rained sure helped. Wouldn't it be fun if it
stayed this cool all day?
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Mister Dillon, you'll be lost if you couldn't complain about
the heat.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Chester, Well, I'd be willing to think of something else.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Yeah, I suppose Mark Tarvis just still runs this rooming house,
doesn't Sure?
Speaker 11 (06:17):
Last I heard she did?
Speaker 14 (06:24):
Marshall?
Speaker 13 (06:25):
Down here, Marshall, Dylan, it's my torres draw all right?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
How about Ma?
Speaker 15 (06:33):
Right here?
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Marshall?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 15 (06:35):
Ma?
Speaker 9 (06:35):
From mont Kate?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
She got shot? Kate.
Speaker 14 (06:43):
It's no use match.
Speaker 13 (06:44):
She hasn't said a word and she's not likely to.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Now, who does it?
Speaker 9 (06:52):
I was asleep, Marshal, hurt a shot and come right down,
send everybody else back to.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Bed, and told him to stay there.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
You don't know who he must have jumped out.
Speaker 13 (07:00):
I had window right there.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
You go, Getty Marshall.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
He's got a heads card.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Already, ole kid, Billy don't must have been.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Why do you think it was Billy?
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Because he was drinking with her all night over at
the Alephaganza. That's why been with her all yesterday. I
heard too, couldn't mean nobody else.
Speaker 13 (07:17):
He stole the money too.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
How do you know he did?
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Mo She showed me once. She kept it right under
the mattress there, and it's gone. She had quite a
lot of it saved up too. Everybody knew that she's
planning on going back to Saint Louis with it.
Speaker 15 (07:33):
She wanted Billy to go.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
With her, but I I guess they couldn't wait a
little rat. I sure hope I see him hung.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Chester, start looking for him. I'll join you in a
few minutes, Yes, sir, I'll well back for.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
She's dead man all that.
Speaker 13 (07:51):
Poor girl so wonders she lived this long being shot
so close up.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
She didn't say anything.
Speaker 14 (08:01):
She was unconscious of old time.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yeah, well, I'll chip in toward Barry and her doc,
seeing as how she sort of broke.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
When she did nonsense.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Kate was a good girl, and I'll be responsible for
her getting a fine burial, fine.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
As there is.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
But you catch that devil, Billy Daunt, Marshall, don't you
let him get away.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
We'll find him, Ma, Are you sure better?
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well let me know if you hear anything. I'll see
you later, Doc sure.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Mat Chester and I spent the next couple of hours
looking for Billy Daunt, but nobody had seen him since
he and Kate had left the elepher Aganza together the
night before. We did learn, however, that he'd been riding
for Luke Atkins, and since it was our only lead,
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we decided to go out to the ranch and have
a talk with Luke. It was mid morning when we
rode up to the main house, and at first the
place was deserted.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Anyway, it's cool here under the cottonwood.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Maybe looks out on the prairie somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Well, if he's smart, he's keeping away from the sun
right there.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
In the house.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Who leave the horses? Chester? Else? Stead?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Who's there?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
It's Matt Dillon.
Speaker 14 (09:30):
Look, oh, just rested in living marsh room.
Speaker 13 (09:35):
Hello, Chester, Look, it's cooler out here. Sit down, my gracious,
what happened to you?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Does it look bad, bad enough to skip church this Sunday?
Look black eye?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Huh, I ain't got a mirror.
Speaker 12 (09:52):
Your jaws swollen too oo? Kid had never saw him
like that before. Must have been drunk, Billy don he's
been spending his parent guards.
Speaker 14 (10:02):
The last couple of days, and say that way you're here, marshall,
Billy get in trouble.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Their maybe what he beat you up for it? Look?
Speaker 12 (10:12):
Well, I just rode in here this morning early and
said he needed a better horse than his and wanted
my buckskin yielding. He was all excited and I started
to argue with him, and he jumped me before I
knew what was happening, knocked me out for a minute.
I guess he's gone there. Huh, chur, he's gone. I
came up to the house he hadn't got my rifle
(10:32):
and watched him go. Funny thing, though he didn't.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Leave right away.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
What do you mean?
Speaker 12 (10:39):
He fooled around down there on the barn for most
of an hour. I don't know what he was up to,
but I just sat here on the porch with my
rifle in case he got any more crazy ideas. He
finally rode also headed west. Well we're after a book bill.
Speaker 14 (10:56):
Didn't bad trouble? Marshall?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Yeah, it looks like it.
Speaker 14 (11:00):
How did you hear that?
Speaker 12 (11:01):
He's always been a pretty good boy. Why the rest
of your men look still in dodge Marshalls spending their pain?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, well you take care of that.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
I so on.
Speaker 14 (11:13):
Good bye Marshall, Chester, Bye, lukey?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
How about Hell?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
There's not much question about Billy, now, is there?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Yeah? That sure isn't start looking for tracks?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Chester, Yes, sir, I have been.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
The ground's still damped from the rain last night. We
ought to cut this trail easy.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I look there over there. Those are fresh tracks.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, they're fresh, all right, but they lead toward the ranch,
not away from it.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yeah, let's follow him anyway, Chester, what come on? Let's ride.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Chester figured either Billy was riding backwards or I was crazy,
But he stopped arguing after a couple of hours, and
we rode in silence the rest of the day.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Long. About dusk, I figured we were catching.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Up with him, but we couldn't afford to lose the trail,
and when night came we made camp. Next morning a
daylight we went on. By noon it was clear Billy
hadn't taken any rest at all. A couple of hours
later we began to wonder how much longer his horse
could hold out.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
This is the dog bondist, and I was ever on.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Billy just isn't very smart, that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It must be half crazy, beating up Luke Atkins like that.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
When a man's in a panic, he'll do almost anything. Chess, Well, you'd.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Think he'd at least have sense enough to rest his horse.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Now, man, that'll be easier for us if he doesn't. Chester,
Look up ahead there, hey, by having it's a horse. Huh,
that's a buckskin. It's not the saddle.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
There isn't a thing around, sir, this side of that
bluff anyway.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
The bluff's too far away for an ambush. The horse
doesn't look very good, does he.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
He's not even eating?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
May never be any good again.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That fool Kit Well, he can't be very far away
unless he's found another horse.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Look at the buckskins hooves.
Speaker 13 (14:03):
Chester, Why he isn't even show Billy pulled.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
His shoes when he left him. He sure made a
mistake though, that's what he was doing in Luke's barn,
putting the shoes on backwards.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Now he's pulled them. He wouldn't fool anybody. All it
did was help wear his horse out even more.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
He had me fools for a while. Anyway, we will
catch him pretty soon now.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
And his tracks lead toward the bluff there, probably into
that clump of trees.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, that's where he is.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
He can see us, all right.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
We'll ride in from different directions. He can't get both
of us. A half hour later, Chester and I had
reached the trees about the same time, and without being
shot at. There was this spring there in a tiny cabin, deserted.
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One set of footprints led up to the place, and
two sets led away from it. Billy had taken whoever
lived there along with him, figuring there wasn't too much hurry.
Now we watered our horses and let him breathe for
a while.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The way I figured, mister Billy was here about dawn
this morning.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Oh, they won't be far away, not more than fifteen
or twenty miles at the moose. As he's found a horse.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
That's why he's carrying his saddle, isn't he.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Yeah, Only Billy isn't carrying the saddle. What he's saving
his strength? Whoever was in this cabin is doing the
hard work.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You mean Billy who came along just to carry his saddle.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
He found himself a pack horse. Chester.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Mister Dylon, I'm getting to have less use for Billy.
Dont every minute con Let's ride him down.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
For it's too late for this poor fellow, whoever he is.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
All right, Chester, all our horses are in good shape.
We ought to catch him in a few hours, I
sure hope. So now you take the side of the trail,
Chester track about ten yards behind me.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
All right, all right, let's go.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Don't bother to watch the trail anymore. Chester gets headed
right for that nester's shack there, so keep your eyes open.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You think Billy might still be there?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
How he might be? Oh maybe he's.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Inside, mister Dylan.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Yeah, let's spread out.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
A little alright, you know, I'll wait a minute the door.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Who are you.
Speaker 14 (17:09):
All right?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Are you alone? Man?
Speaker 15 (17:13):
You the law.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
And Marshall Dylan from Dodge.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
You're too late, Marshal.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
You mean he's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Take a look around at the side, Marshall, right around there,
go on.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Look both of you.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Oh my goodness, mister Dylan.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah, he was killed with a knife.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yah see he sure what.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
That's your husband, ma'am. Yeah, I'm sorry it happened, but
it's any comfort to you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
We'll catch that boy, I promise you.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Then don't matter now.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Uh. He had another man with him.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Percy inside. I've been trying to fix him up. It
was near dead when they.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Got here, poor old Claive. Claive seventy five years old, Marshall.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
And that's too old to be used like an animal,
rotten kid.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I'd like to talk to him, man, come on inside.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
It's all right, Claives. Marshall Dylan from Dodge.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
We've known Clave for ten years, Marshall, ever since we've
been here, never hurt nobody.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
Sure, can you talk a little, Claip, I'll be all right, Marshall.
Speaker 15 (19:01):
And just kind of wore out twenty miles packing his
saddle in this weather, fast too, had me walk fast?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
How long ago the boy leave here?
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Three four hours? Marshall took our mule, but he won't
get far.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh, when I was too old?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
After ten miles just quit.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Your husband tried to stop him, is that it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, got mad when he saw what the boy had
done to Clay.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
And the boy knifeed him. Never gave him a chance.
Speaker 13 (19:36):
He's wild crazy.
Speaker 15 (19:38):
He sure is. Marshall scared too. I never saw anybody's scared.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
He's in a real panic, Clay. But how come he
he is the knife?
Speaker 15 (19:49):
That doesn't sound right, and so he's got that's why
what he ain't armed except for that knife.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
He doesn't have a guy.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
He took our rifle, but there's no ammunition for it.
Run out took it anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
But when he came to your place, Clave, didn't he
have a sixth gun?
Speaker 15 (20:08):
Oh sure you're that knife? That's all ahead. I got
no old maybe pistol, but it's busted. I ain't been
able to get it fixed.
Speaker 14 (20:19):
I sure don't understand that, mister Dillon.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
He's like a wild animal, that's what he is. He
oughtn't to be loose.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
He won't be for long, man Claive. I hope he'll
be all right.
Speaker 15 (20:31):
M And I'm just plumb wore out.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Clave's gonna stay right here. Marshall too old to be
living by himself anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Good.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Oh well, we'll be going now, ma'am. But uh, we'll
bury your husband first.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Now, if you'll just show us where you'd like to
have the grave.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Thank you, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
The woman wanted her husband buried right where he'd fallen,
so we dug the grave there and laid him into it.
She watched straight faced, without a tear. Then she said
goodbye and went back into the house. It was just
(21:26):
after sunset when we caught up with Billy. Just as
the woman had said, the mule had gone ten miles
and quit. Billy saw us coming, started running across the
prairie on foot. His panic had made him as nearly
brainless as a man could get.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Look at him, mister Villan, did you ever see anything
like it?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
He still got a knife. Chester.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh, Billy, you can't get away.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Right up on the other side of him, Chester, yesterday,
run far enough, Billy.
Speaker 13 (22:01):
You have to choose me.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
Marchao.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
No, we won't take your rub down. Chester.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Good ideas.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
All right? Chester, let's rope it. Yeah, we forgot it.
Now stay on your horse, Chester, Just keep your up.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Tight touch you, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Let's go to night, really.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
All right, Chester, slack up a little, all right, top
your rough Chester, I'll tie him up with you.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Store me. You're a wild one, Billy.
Speaker 12 (22:42):
You never get me back?
Speaker 8 (22:43):
But why you won't never?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I think we will let's make you walk back, mister
old what you can.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Drag me for? No, we'll thram across your horse. Chester.
You and I can write double till we make camp.
Maybe that'll calm me down.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That Billy won't eat a thing that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You've just been crouched over there, looking like a corner
down and ever since I woke him up this morning.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Still pretty spooky.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Uh, he sure, let's go talk to him.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
There.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Uh, there's some bacon over there, Billy, if you want it,
aren't you hungry?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Billy?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I didn't kill her, a marshall, Oh.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Think you've been running off or hard for an innocent man.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I didn't kill her. I tell you.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
We'll let the judge decide that Billy.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I was waiting for her outside and I heard the
shi yeah.
Speaker 14 (24:01):
And I went around.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Her window was open and she was lying there.
Speaker 14 (24:07):
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And why did you run? Billy?
Speaker 14 (24:13):
I knew you'd be after me.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
I had to get away. I ain't going back to Dodge.
I ain't going Yeah, all right, let's.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Get back to up Chester. How is he? Chester?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
You just keep standing there looking up sell bars?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But he did drink some of the coffee left him.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I don't know, Chester. Sometimes I think just the act
of running itself makes a maunt of for a The
more a runs, the more panic that he gets.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Anyway, getting healthier young boy like Billy.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Well maybe you'll come out of it in time. And Marshall, yes,
mister Green, you're up early, mister Green.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
And I heard you brought Billy donning last night, Marshall,
so I figured i'd better turn this over to you.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
A six gun. Who's this is? It's Billy's gun, Marshall.
I've been fixing it for him. Billy's gone.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
That's right, mister John.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Billy didn't have a gun.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Remember how long have you had that, mister Green.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Oh he brought in the first day came to town, Marshall.
The cylinder was loose and shaven lead. It's okay, now,
I'll fix it. Fine, you've had it all the time.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Yes, sir, I'll just keeping it firm. So I heard
he'd been arrested. I see.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
H Well, thanks, mister Green. I'll see that you're paid
for your work. Well, sure, Marshall, that's all right, I.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Think goodbye, Oh yeah, goodbye, mister Green.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Looks like Billy was telling the truth.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Yeah, I sure can't convict a man of his shooting
if he didn't.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Have a gun.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
But there's that nester. He killed m and know for nothing.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
Yes, Malchester, it's pretty hopeless now. But let's see if
we can find out who did kill Kate.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Probably just some thieves heard about her money, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
Probably.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Guns folk.
Speaker 16 (26:55):
Under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as
Matt Dillon US Marshall. Tonight's story was specially written for
gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed and conducted
by Rex Cory Harley, Bear Is Chester, Georgia Ellis, Is Kiddy,
and Howard mcneer is Docked.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
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Around odd City and in the territory on West. There's
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of the violence that moved west with young America, the
story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylan,
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Marshall, mind if I sit here?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Awhile Marshall, of course, not sit down, Billy.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You look worried, billy boy like you shouldn't look worried.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'm twenty one. That's a man's age in the Chester.
Oh sure, twenty one, pretty old billy, old enough for
frog mouth Kate. Anyway, every time I come to town,
that woman won't give me a minute's peace.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well maybe she's sleet on you, billy.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Sweet on me.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Look at her at the bar over there. She come
to and miss me pretty soon, old enough to be
my mother.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Well then why do you stay here? Why don't you
go over to the Longhorn or someplace.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Oh, Kate's all right when she's sober. Just when she
gets drunk, she's such a nuisance.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, she sure looks drunk.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Un she is, And when she's like this, there's no
worse woman in the whole world. I gotta kill her
when she gets like this.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Somebody's always gonna kill somebody around here.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh that's that's just a way of talking, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I hate to tell you, Billy, but I think frog
mouth Kate has spotted you.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I knew she would. She gets loan someome awful fast,
that woman.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's where you went, Billy, leaving me all alone. Shame
on you, honey.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I gotta catch my breath once in a while, Kate,
em catch your.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
Breath with me, honey, not with Marshall, Dylon and Chester
and all the rest of them.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
No, I can't take it easy.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Take it easy, you and me.
Speaker 10 (02:45):
Take it easy in Saint Louis, Billy boy.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And quit talking about Saint Louis all the time. I
ain't about to go to Set Louis. I'm broke right
here in Dodge.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
I got the money, Billy almost, I got it almost.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
And you and me having.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh Kate, why don't you pick on somebody who can
at least buy you a few drinks.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
They've been buying me drinks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't care about them anyway, Let's get.
Speaker 11 (03:14):
Married, Billy boy.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Huh?
Speaker 10 (03:16):
You and me?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
See what I mean, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
She likes you, Billy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Sure, We're a couple of real love birds. And I'll
stop there. I'll break your head open.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Hi, acute Billy love him?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Jolly h it out.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Well, if you'll excuse us, we better be moving on.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Uh Chester. Well, all right, Chester, Yes, sir, so long
Billy Kate.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Now you never mind them, Billy boy.
Speaker 12 (03:58):
They're just a couple of crow like everybody else except you, lady,
You and me.
Speaker 13 (04:05):
Hi, My.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Poor Billy.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well, he's got to learn somehow.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I suppose.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
The town seems pretty quiet Chester. I think I'll go
to bed, good I.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Do, mister.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I'll sleep in the office tonight.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Good night.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Mhm h.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, who is it the Chesters are open up?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Oh? Oh, well just mother Chester.
Speaker 14 (05:03):
M oh.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Oh, other's a Chester.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
There's been a shooting, sir, in that room and house
next to the alpha Ganza.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Oh well, I got dressed. Come on his side.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's been raining a little, mister Dylan.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yeah, God, I like that lamp. There were you testing it? Yesir?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They sent for darc and he woke me up on
his way out.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
You know what it was all about? It?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He just said it was in that room in house.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
What time is it anyway?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh, we'll be daylight soon. Must be about four thirty.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Four thirty. It's pretty late at night for a gunfight,
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Or that's what I thought.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
There? All right, Chester, I'm ready to blow the lamp out, Sir.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That rained sure helped. Wouldn't it be fun if it
stayed this cool all day?
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Mister Dillon, you'll be lost if you couldn't complain about
the heat.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Chester, Well, I'd be willing to think of something else.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Yeah, I suppose Mark Tarvis just still runs this rooming house,
doesn't Sure?
Speaker 11 (06:17):
Last I heard she did?
Speaker 14 (06:24):
Marshall?
Speaker 13 (06:25):
Down here, Marshall, Dylan, it's my torres draw all right?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
How about Ma?
Speaker 15 (06:33):
Right here?
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Marshall?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 15 (06:35):
Ma?
Speaker 9 (06:35):
From mont Kate?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
She got shot? Kate.
Speaker 14 (06:43):
It's no use match.
Speaker 13 (06:44):
She hasn't said a word and she's not likely to.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Now, who does it?
Speaker 9 (06:52):
I was asleep, Marshal, hurt a shot and come right down,
send everybody else back to.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Bed, and told him to stay there.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
You don't know who he must have jumped out.
Speaker 13 (07:00):
I had window right there.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
You go, Getty Marshall.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
He's got a heads card.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Already, ole kid, Billy don't must have been.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Why do you think it was Billy?
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Because he was drinking with her all night over at
the Alephaganza. That's why been with her all yesterday. I
heard too, couldn't mean nobody else.
Speaker 13 (07:17):
He stole the money too.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
How do you know he did?
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Mo She showed me once. She kept it right under
the mattress there, and it's gone. She had quite a
lot of it saved up too. Everybody knew that she's
planning on going back to Saint Louis with it.
Speaker 15 (07:33):
She wanted Billy to go.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
With her, but I I guess they couldn't wait a
little rat. I sure hope I see him hung.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Chester, start looking for him. I'll join you in a
few minutes, Yes, sir, I'll well back for.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
She's dead man all that.
Speaker 13 (07:51):
Poor girl so wonders she lived this long being shot
so close up.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
She didn't say anything.
Speaker 14 (08:01):
She was unconscious of old time.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yeah, well, I'll chip in toward Barry and her doc,
seeing as how she sort of broke.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
When she did nonsense.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Kate was a good girl, and I'll be responsible for
her getting a fine burial, fine.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
As there is.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
But you catch that devil, Billy Daunt, Marshall, don't you
let him get away.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
We'll find him, Ma, Are you sure better?
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well let me know if you hear anything. I'll see
you later, Doc sure.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Mat Chester and I spent the next couple of hours
looking for Billy Daunt, but nobody had seen him since
he and Kate had left the elepher Aganza together the
night before. We did learn, however, that he'd been riding
for Luke Atkins, and since it was our only lead,
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we decided to go out to the ranch and have
a talk with Luke. It was mid morning when we
rode up to the main house, and at first the
place was deserted.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Anyway, it's cool here under the cottonwood.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Maybe looks out on the prairie somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Well, if he's smart, he's keeping away from the sun
right there.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
In the house.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Who leave the horses? Chester? Else? Stead?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Who's there?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
It's Matt Dillon.
Speaker 14 (09:30):
Look, oh, just rested in living marsh room.
Speaker 13 (09:35):
Hello, Chester, Look, it's cooler out here. Sit down, my gracious,
what happened to you?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Does it look bad, bad enough to skip church this Sunday?
Look black eye?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Huh, I ain't got a mirror.
Speaker 12 (09:52):
Your jaws swollen too oo? Kid had never saw him
like that before. Must have been drunk, Billy don he's
been spending his parent guards.
Speaker 14 (10:02):
The last couple of days, and say that way you're here, marshall,
Billy get in trouble.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Their maybe what he beat you up for it? Look?
Speaker 12 (10:12):
Well, I just rode in here this morning early and
said he needed a better horse than his and wanted
my buckskin yielding. He was all excited and I started
to argue with him, and he jumped me before I
knew what was happening, knocked me out for a minute.
I guess he's gone there. Huh, chur, he's gone. I
came up to the house he hadn't got my rifle
(10:32):
and watched him go. Funny thing, though he didn't.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Leave right away.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
What do you mean?
Speaker 12 (10:39):
He fooled around down there on the barn for most
of an hour. I don't know what he was up to,
but I just sat here on the porch with my
rifle in case he got any more crazy ideas. He
finally rode also headed west. Well we're after a book bill.
Speaker 14 (10:56):
Didn't bad trouble? Marshall?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Yeah, it looks like it.
Speaker 14 (11:00):
How did you hear that?
Speaker 12 (11:01):
He's always been a pretty good boy. Why the rest
of your men look still in dodge Marshalls spending their pain?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, well you take care of that.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
I so on.
Speaker 14 (11:13):
Good bye Marshall, Chester, Bye, lukey?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
How about Hell?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
There's not much question about Billy, now, is there?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Yeah? That sure isn't start looking for tracks?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Chester, Yes, sir, I have been.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
The ground's still damped from the rain last night. We
ought to cut this trail easy.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I look there over there. Those are fresh tracks.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, they're fresh, all right, but they lead toward the ranch,
not away from it.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yeah, let's follow him anyway, Chester, what come on? Let's ride.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Chester figured either Billy was riding backwards or I was crazy,
But he stopped arguing after a couple of hours, and
we rode in silence the rest of the day.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Long. About dusk, I figured we were catching.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Up with him, but we couldn't afford to lose the trail,
and when night came we made camp. Next morning a
daylight we went on. By noon it was clear Billy
hadn't taken any rest at all. A couple of hours
later we began to wonder how much longer his horse
could hold out.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
This is the dog bondist, and I was ever on.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Billy just isn't very smart, that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It must be half crazy, beating up Luke Atkins like that.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
When a man's in a panic, he'll do almost anything. Chess, Well, you'd.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Think he'd at least have sense enough to rest his horse.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Now, man, that'll be easier for us if he doesn't. Chester,
Look up ahead there, hey, by having it's a horse. Huh,
that's a buckskin. It's not the saddle.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
There isn't a thing around, sir, this side of that
bluff anyway.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
The bluff's too far away for an ambush. The horse
doesn't look very good, does he.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
He's not even eating?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
May never be any good again.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That fool Kit Well, he can't be very far away
unless he's found another horse.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Look at the buckskins hooves.
Speaker 13 (14:03):
Chester, Why he isn't even show Billy pulled.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
His shoes when he left him. He sure made a
mistake though, that's what he was doing in Luke's barn,
putting the shoes on backwards.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Now he's pulled them. He wouldn't fool anybody. All it
did was help wear his horse out even more.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
He had me fools for a while. Anyway, we will
catch him pretty soon now.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
And his tracks lead toward the bluff there, probably into
that clump of trees.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, that's where he is.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
He can see us, all right.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
We'll ride in from different directions. He can't get both
of us. A half hour later, Chester and I had
reached the trees about the same time, and without being
shot at. There was this spring there in a tiny cabin, deserted.
(15:05):
One set of footprints led up to the place, and
two sets led away from it. Billy had taken whoever
lived there along with him, figuring there wasn't too much hurry.
Now we watered our horses and let him breathe for
a while.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The way I figured, mister Billy was here about dawn
this morning.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Oh, they won't be far away, not more than fifteen
or twenty miles at the moose. As he's found a horse.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
That's why he's carrying his saddle, isn't he.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Yeah, Only Billy isn't carrying the saddle. What he's saving
his strength? Whoever was in this cabin is doing the
hard work.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You mean Billy who came along just to carry his saddle.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
He found himself a pack horse. Chester.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Mister Dylon, I'm getting to have less use for Billy.
Dont every minute con Let's ride him down.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
For it's too late for this poor fellow, whoever he is.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
All right, Chester, all our horses are in good shape.
We ought to catch him in a few hours, I
sure hope. So now you take the side of the trail,
Chester track about ten yards behind me.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
All right, all right, let's go.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Don't bother to watch the trail anymore. Chester gets headed
right for that nester's shack there, so keep your eyes open.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You think Billy might still be there?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
How he might be? Oh maybe he's.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Inside, mister Dylan.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Yeah, let's spread out.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
A little alright, you know, I'll wait a minute the door.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Who are you.
Speaker 14 (17:09):
All right?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Are you alone? Man?
Speaker 15 (17:13):
You the law.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
And Marshall Dylan from Dodge.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
You're too late, Marshal.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
You mean he's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Take a look around at the side, Marshall, right around there,
go on.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Look both of you.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Oh my goodness, mister Dylan.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah, he was killed with a knife.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yah see he sure what.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
That's your husband, ma'am. Yeah, I'm sorry it happened, but
it's any comfort to you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
We'll catch that boy, I promise you.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Then don't matter now.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Uh. He had another man with him.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Percy inside. I've been trying to fix him up. It
was near dead when they.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Got here, poor old Claive. Claive seventy five years old, Marshall.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
And that's too old to be used like an animal,
rotten kid.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I'd like to talk to him, man, come on inside.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
It's all right, Claives. Marshall Dylan from Dodge.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
We've known Clave for ten years, Marshall, ever since we've
been here, never hurt nobody.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
Sure, can you talk a little, Claip, I'll be all right, Marshall.
Speaker 15 (19:01):
And just kind of wore out twenty miles packing his
saddle in this weather, fast too, had me walk fast?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
How long ago the boy leave here?
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Three four hours? Marshall took our mule, but he won't
get far.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh, when I was too old?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
After ten miles just quit.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Your husband tried to stop him, is that it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, got mad when he saw what the boy had
done to Clay.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
And the boy knifeed him. Never gave him a chance.
Speaker 13 (19:36):
He's wild crazy.
Speaker 15 (19:38):
He sure is. Marshall scared too. I never saw anybody's scared.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
He's in a real panic, Clay. But how come he
he is the knife?
Speaker 15 (19:49):
That doesn't sound right, and so he's got that's why
what he ain't armed except for that knife.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
He doesn't have a guy.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
He took our rifle, but there's no ammunition for it.
Run out took it anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
But when he came to your place, Clave, didn't he
have a sixth gun?
Speaker 15 (20:08):
Oh sure you're that knife? That's all ahead. I got
no old maybe pistol, but it's busted. I ain't been
able to get it fixed.
Speaker 14 (20:19):
I sure don't understand that, mister Dillon.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
He's like a wild animal, that's what he is. He
oughtn't to be loose.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
He won't be for long, man Claive. I hope he'll
be all right.
Speaker 15 (20:31):
M And I'm just plumb wore out.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Clave's gonna stay right here. Marshall too old to be
living by himself anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Good.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Oh well, we'll be going now, ma'am. But uh, we'll
bury your husband first.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Now, if you'll just show us where you'd like to
have the grave.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Thank you, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
The woman wanted her husband buried right where he'd fallen,
so we dug the grave there and laid him into it.
She watched straight faced, without a tear. Then she said
goodbye and went back into the house. It was just
(21:26):
after sunset when we caught up with Billy. Just as
the woman had said, the mule had gone ten miles
and quit. Billy saw us coming, started running across the
prairie on foot. His panic had made him as nearly
brainless as a man could get.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Look at him, mister Villan, did you ever see anything
like it?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
He still got a knife. Chester.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh, Billy, you can't get away.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Right up on the other side of him, Chester, yesterday,
run far enough, Billy.
Speaker 13 (22:01):
You have to choose me.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
Marchao.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
No, we won't take your rub down. Chester.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Good ideas.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
All right? Chester, let's rope it. Yeah, we forgot it.
Now stay on your horse, Chester, Just keep your up.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Tight touch you, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Let's go to night, really.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
All right, Chester, slack up a little, all right, top
your rough Chester, I'll tie him up with you.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Store me. You're a wild one, Billy.
Speaker 12 (22:42):
You never get me back?
Speaker 8 (22:43):
But why you won't never?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I think we will let's make you walk back, mister
old what you can.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Drag me for? No, we'll thram across your horse. Chester.
You and I can write double till we make camp.
Maybe that'll calm me down.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That Billy won't eat a thing that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You've just been crouched over there, looking like a corner
down and ever since I woke him up this morning.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Still pretty spooky.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Uh, he sure, let's go talk to him.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
There.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Uh, there's some bacon over there, Billy, if you want it,
aren't you hungry?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Billy?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I didn't kill her, a marshall, Oh.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Think you've been running off or hard for an innocent man.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I didn't kill her. I tell you.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
We'll let the judge decide that Billy.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I was waiting for her outside and I heard the
shi yeah.
Speaker 14 (24:01):
And I went around.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Her window was open and she was lying there.
Speaker 14 (24:07):
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And why did you run? Billy?
Speaker 14 (24:13):
I knew you'd be after me.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
I had to get away. I ain't going back to Dodge.
I ain't going Yeah, all right, let's.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Get back to up Chester. How is he? Chester?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
You just keep standing there looking up sell bars?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But he did drink some of the coffee left him.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I don't know, Chester. Sometimes I think just the act
of running itself makes a maunt of for a The
more a runs, the more panic that he gets.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Anyway, getting healthier young boy like Billy.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Well maybe you'll come out of it in time. And Marshall, yes,
mister Green, you're up early, mister Green.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
And I heard you brought Billy donning last night, Marshall,
so I figured i'd better turn this over to you.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
A six gun. Who's this is? It's Billy's gun, Marshall.
I've been fixing it for him. Billy's gone.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
That's right, mister John.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Billy didn't have a gun.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Remember how long have you had that, mister Green.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Oh he brought in the first day came to town, Marshall.
The cylinder was loose and shaven lead. It's okay, now,
I'll fix it. Fine, you've had it all the time.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Yes, sir, I'll just keeping it firm. So I heard
he'd been arrested. I see.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
H Well, thanks, mister Green. I'll see that you're paid
for your work. Well, sure, Marshall, that's all right, I.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Think goodbye, Oh yeah, goodbye, mister Green.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Looks like Billy was telling the truth.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Yeah, I sure can't convict a man of his shooting
if he didn't.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Have a gun.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
But there's that nester. He killed m and know for nothing.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
Yes, Malchester, it's pretty hopeless now. But let's see if
we can find out who did kill Kate.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Probably just some thieves heard about her money, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
Probably.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Guns folk.
Speaker 16 (26:55):
Under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as
Matt Dillon US Marshall. Tonight's story was specially written for
gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed and conducted
by Rex Cory Harley, Bear Is Chester, Georgia Ellis, Is Kiddy,
and Howard mcneer is Docked.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Gun Smoke has been selected by the Armed Forces Radio
Service to be heard by our troops overseas. Join us
again next week as Matt Dillon U. S. Marshall fights
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