August 8, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
gun smoke John will Spoil, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America, and
the story of a man.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, makes a man watchful and a
little lone. Lady. Here she comes with you, young.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Here, Ho, com is Chester, Holly Dean? You'd come down
the street there?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Somebody must have told her.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I left word in enough places.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
He sure he's gonna be upset about this.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I doubt it. About the only thing that upsets Holly
is a man who won't pay attention to her. Yeah,
I'll let her in.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yes, you.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Come on, Hemy Dean, Thank you Chester.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Oh wow, how handsome.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You look today? I do said.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Oh, mine's just been ages since I've seen you, said
Verus Dean.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Ms Dean.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Wait, isn't it Holly anymore?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Here you are?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Thank you? Well?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
You look mighty staring and official Marshal. Have I committed
some crime?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Not that I know of?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
But then, what's it's all about? Three different people told
me you wanted to see me.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That's right. I uh, I thought you'd better know about this,
missing about what Sam Berger? He's out of prison, escaped, No,
not paroled.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
He was supposed to be in for ten years.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
One to ten. He served three, and I guess they
figured that was enough. Go get out of Dodge on
the afternoon train.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Stop him, mad, don't let him come here.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh, he's got a right to go where he wants.
I just thought you ought to know about it, you
and your husband both.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Matt, Matt, you got to protect me. It's your job too.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I will if it's necessary.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Of course it's necessary. He'll try to kill me. Oh
why because he because I divorced him. Well, he was
in prison and and married Jack.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Is that the reason?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Is it? Because you wouldn't back up his alibi when
you testified at his trial. I couldn't, Matt.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
I wasn't sure he was working in the barn all
afternoon the day Tracy was shot.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yet the barn is only fifty yards from my house.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I I was asleep most of the afternoon. He could
have rode off and come back and I'd never known it. Oh,
but I told all this at the trial. It's all
been done with. You gotta keep him away from me.
He's a killer. I doubt that we Well, the jury didn't.
They convicted him, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, but they weren't too sure. They'd have made the
charge a lot stronger than manslaughter. I just can't see
Sam Buger is a killer, even with plenty of reason.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What reason?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I suppose you believe them stories too? That something was
going on between Tracy and me?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Was there?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I didn't even know him hardly The hens around this
Tom stopped cackling. If a woman even says low to
a man, what are you try to reopen the trial?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Huh No, just let you know that Sam's killing back.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
I Oh, I didn't let him. I'm married again now.
I don't want nothing more to do with him. He
starts fooling around with me, and Jack will take care
of him, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know, highly trouble seems to follow you, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I don't do nothing to cause you, and maybe you don't.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't know. Maybe it's just because you're one of
the prettiest women in Dodge and maybe you just get
too friendly with too many people.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Huh, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Look, you're married now to a man who's known around
town as being kind of jealous and a little bit unhappy,
and you got an ex husband coming in on the
afternoon train who has just spent three years in prison
for a killing that he claims.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He didn't commit.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
The jury said different.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
For a killer the whole Tom thinks was over you. Well,
I don't think Sam Bruger was a killer three years ago.
But prison can change a man. So you watch your
step now.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Just listen a.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Minute, uh, if you will. I've got a little story
to tell you. Well, it's not so little. It's sort
of a tall tale. Every hair tale about Mike Fink. Well,
he was a hero, a legendary hero. I guess you'd
call him.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The greatest keel boatman of them all.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Yes, sir. Why he was a salt river roar, A
ring tail squealer claimed he was half wild horse and
half alligator. They say that Mike Fink could poll the
equivalent of four hundred loaded railroad cars up river on
a keelboat, I'd sort of like a barge. And they
say that if the currents made poll In too tough,
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why old Mike would just sit down and row for
a while. And sir, his strength and skill was the
talk of the river. Nothing was too tough for old
Mike to handle. He could load his boat from stem
to stern in less than half an hour, and when
it was going full speed, why he could turn it
on a dime. As the man said, he was a
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heap of man, was Old Mike. But then along came
the steamboats. Old they didn't hurt the keelboaters too much
at first, but little by little they took over. And
you can be sure Mike was the very last of
'em to admit defeat. Mike didn't just die and quit,
you understand. He raised the steamboat clean up for a while,
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and he beat it too. But Mike was sort of
the spirit of all those valiant keelboaters. And as they
quit one by one and just sort of faded out
of the picture, why old Mike did two But his
long as stories about him I still told and retold.
The early pioneers of our waterways won't be forgotten. No,
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sir ee, I wish I had time to tell you
another little story about Mike, But I have an idea.
You don't believe me anyway. See isn't it nice being
citizens of a country where you can laugh and talk
about things free as a breeze, and write and read
and worship too. Yes, sir, maybe you don't think about
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it much, but you should.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I ain't even sure I'll recognize time, mister John.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I want to look to a different Chester. He Reconnie
aim in the Start Trouble hod An obst and by.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
James, she's frai enough to turn my head even if
you had to put her mind to it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And after I gotten lying Chester, there's about a dust
and ahead of it.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Oh well, my land.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I was just saying, if you know.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Her too, well, yeah, I assure you do. Now, come on,
Sam's got knocked over there.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Fine, man, It just be plumb bullish to get tied
up with a woman like that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh here's a man who can tell you I was there.
He ain't Jean's Harley Tall not outside anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I was Simon Matt Dylon, last man I saw, and
they took me away first. When I meet, when I
get back. Things never changed, do they?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Ah, not too much?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How he gets a three year picnic? Marshall, You know
they real good carry up there, even got bars all
around the keep folks from getting in bothering you. Yeah, sure, Marshall. Uh,
Holly's Holly? How fine?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I saw just this morning?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Did huh?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
That's more than you're gonna do? Bruger losey knocked? Now, Sam,
you remember Jack Deane, don't you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, you got a gambler. I didn't quite get that
remark of yours, Dean.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
You got it all right?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You stay away from Holly, you hear me? Oh what
are you on the proud about?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Holly's married to him?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
See, I I thought you knew.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, No, I didn't know that. What do you do now?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And don't you forget it? You bother her and I'll
shoot you like a mad alright, that's not what I
cannot talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I wanted to know how things stand. Well, now, wait
a minute, I think maybe you ought to know how
things stand, too, Dean. I come back here for just
one reason, just to find out who did.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Kill Tracy Wallace the way I hear it.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
You did?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No, Holly lied at the trial. She knew I never
let the place that day. I aim to find out.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Why she lied.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I told you to leave her alone. I got no
interest in her otherwise. I feel sorry for you, Dean.
I learned about Holly. I paid for it. He means
you ain't yet, but you will.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
No jeer, Bud's gonna talk about my wife right that
utter Dane taken up for him.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Aya, Marshall, you get going alright, I'll go well.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
The law won't protect a man's home. I figure he's
got the right to do it himself. Thank you, marciall.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Man on parole.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Can'didford to get into any arguments or where a gun either, Sam,
I'm gonna have to take yours.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Play it right down in the middle. Don't you no
acceptions for either side?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
How it works out better that way in the long run.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Here alright, here, ye are facts. I didn't kill Tracy,
whether you believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I wasn't on the jury, Sam, But just one thing,
you better stay clear of Jack Deane. He can make
you an awful lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I got no reason about it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Him, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Or you mean? Holly?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What I told Dean is the truth.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm over her martial, except well sometimes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He not an easy woman to forget.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Now, I don't imagine she is.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
You know, he doesn't seem to have changed much.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Man, that you mean?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, stopped in earlier and had a beer. He's quieter,
of course, But there wouldn't be three years a long
time to spend in herself.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And I'm sure escu him.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Why didn't he make a fresh start somewhere else? Master?
Why'd he have to come back to Dodge?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
How to acquery himself?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
So he says, well, if he couldn't.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Do it three years ago, he's got even less chance now.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm afraid you're right.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I'm the colley here, just gonna mean trouble. Way she
carries on, I mean, bar attender down the crystal, slipping
her along with that new trail boss out of the circle.
D I never saw anybody like her, man, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Just the case of too much good looks, I guess,
and too little good sense.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Uh Jack Dean finds out she won't have any looks.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Why don't you tell her what?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
She just came in? She's coming over here?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Uh mat there?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Oh they said I'll probably find you in here. Oh hello, kiddy, Hello,
that's on your mind with a steak, Matt, Matt, you've
got to rest Sambuber. Oh, why for threatening to kill me?
That's why you tell her her truth for a little
while to go down the streets. He come up to
him and he said terrible things. He said he'd come
back to dogs just for one reason to kill me.
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And he was wearing a gun too, and he's not
supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Was he wearing a gun in here?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Kitty?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
No, well he was just now, it's true, I swear it.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Anybody hear him threat?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Yeah, I don't know. I I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Anybody see him talking to you?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It was dark.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
I turned and run and and then I come looking
for you. Oh, Match, you just got to arrest.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Him, alright, Medsdane. If you'll sign a complaint, I'll go
pick him up.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Of course, I'll sign a complaint.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Going down to the jail, and I have Chester fill
one out for you. I'll be able to come. Who
was you?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Hurry now? I'm scared d half to death. Sam Berger
is not the kind of man to do it thing
like that. Now.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I don't think so either, Kenned. Oh, we couldn't be wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A Matt.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
There are times when a man of honor like myself
is appalled by the low ethical standards he finds among
his friends and the Queenances Ah, is that so?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Doctor? Go ahead, Doc, get your movie.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Stay out of this, please chair a match, No doubt
you know what I'm referring.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I just thought you were talking to keep from having
to move that checker and letting me take two more
of you.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Man, Very ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'm as good as got the game waring right now?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Then, why don't you move?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I never thought you'd do it?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Man?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Do what left a passing weakness for a pretty woman
make you throw an innocent man into that jails?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Back there?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
He had to, Doc, she signed a legal complaint.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Did not talking to you?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Chest out? And what makes you so sure that he's
in us? Plain common sense?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's what.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Plus the fact that Holly Dean happens.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
To be a born liar.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That maybe, but he's got a alibi. So it's up
to Judge Bent to decided when he opens court.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Oh, George, she twist him around her finger, just like
she did.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You not unless she comes up with some witnesses. Bent
seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I don't care. What was that got to do?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Look go ahead and move the checker so I can
get this game over with. It's late and I gotta
get up early. That was aroundside of the jail.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Come on there go.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Somebody on a horror has said they're they're getting away, Matt.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And they've already got away. We only had a moon tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What do you suppose they're trying to do?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
What you and I got a pretty good idea on
let's take a look back on my So.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You don't think he was somebody trying to Marshall?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
That's you?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You all right, Sam?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Sure, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Shot. Just come through the window there.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What's that all about? Sam? Somebody just tried to kill you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
This is myrin J.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
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the White House. That's it, which you know, I have
the lights on, one of 'em must be there.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Just what is the chairman to do? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I surprise her, maybe catch her off balance. Got nothing
else to go on? Huh, sam, hm, Look if there's trouble.
You stay out of it without a god, I guess
I have to. Holly is not likely to do when
they shooting't ry? Come on, would it, Matt Dylan. I'd
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like to talk to you Miss Deane al right.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
This minute, kind of lady, isn't it to be coming around?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I've been Holly fine?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Sam?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I I thought you was.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Thought he was what, Miss Deane? Dead?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
No, no, course, not a I I thought he was
in jail.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He might if we come in.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, it's late.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I was just going to thanks. Now. You told me
you'd talked to Sam earlier tonight, Miss Dy, I did
he he threatened.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, that's a lie, Holly, it's true, Matt, I did.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You didn't act like it. Just now you ask you
how you had been Your said fine. Looked at me
like that was the first time you had seen each other.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Why did you want him jail?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Holly? Ha ha? I was scared?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
He he threatened me?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Uh huh? Who'd just send over to kill him?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I don't know who shot at him.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I didn't have anything to do shot at him?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
How did you know?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But I thought I said kill him?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I didn't say how you lied at that trial, didn't you,
miss Dane? No, No, I do who dead kill Tracy Wallace?
Come on, who you're coming up for?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
M nobody?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
I did he say he'd kill me if I ever told?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Who?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Said Jack?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Deane?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He's in the other room, out of the way. Alright,
come on out, you little sneak, if you hand away
from that gun thing too mad.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
He found out about me and I I I I
mean he thought how I was singing Tracy and he
was jealous and he shot him.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
About it till after we were married. And then he
said he said he'd kill me if I ever told.
I've been terrified of.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Him for three years.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No jury might believe that.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
And he tried to kill Sam tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I didn't know he was going to. No jury's gonna
get a chance to believe.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Hold the things.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
If I'm paying, Holly's paying.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
He was a fool, mister known.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
He didn't have a chance that.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It was not the first time he was a pool
Chester outside, looks like you got that pardon?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Huh, he's dead.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Jack's da.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'll suning doc over to take care of things. Medicine.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Come outside Chester, Sam, Mm.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Wait, Sam, What Sam, it's all true? How was she
a five?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Three years of it? I wanted to tell, but he'd
killed me.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Holly, you could have stood one that made me like
a wash.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
It was a bad influence.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Oh, I'll be different now, Hm. We did have a
a lot of good things.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah, we did, remember Sam.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh sure, Holly, I remember coming, sir.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, I just Sam, Matt, Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Matt, I d I just uh I I just wanna
uh talk to Holly for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Uh, I'll.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'll be along a little later on. Come on Justice.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well, now, you'd think a man who's been took for
a fool once to be cured, wouldn't you miss it?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Done?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Either that or form the habit Cheshire has, Like you
said yourself, It's mighty pray.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Gunsmoke.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
Matt Dylan US Marshall. Featured in the cast were Parley
Bear as Chester, Howard mcneer as Doc, and Georgia Ellis
as Kitty. George Walls speaking join us again next week
or another specially transcribed story on gun Smoke. This is
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the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
gun smoke John will Spoil, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America, and
the story of a man.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, makes a man watchful and a
little lone. Lady. Here she comes with you, young.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Here, Ho, com is Chester, Holly Dean? You'd come down
the street there?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Somebody must have told her.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I left word in enough places.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
He sure he's gonna be upset about this.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I doubt it. About the only thing that upsets Holly
is a man who won't pay attention to her. Yeah,
I'll let her in.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yes, you.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Come on, Hemy Dean, Thank you Chester.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Oh wow, how handsome.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You look today? I do said.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Oh, mine's just been ages since I've seen you, said
Verus Dean.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Ms Dean.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Wait, isn't it Holly anymore?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Here you are?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Thank you? Well?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
You look mighty staring and official Marshal. Have I committed
some crime?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Not that I know of?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
But then, what's it's all about? Three different people told
me you wanted to see me.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That's right. I uh, I thought you'd better know about this,
missing about what Sam Berger? He's out of prison, escaped, No,
not paroled.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
He was supposed to be in for ten years.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
One to ten. He served three, and I guess they
figured that was enough. Go get out of Dodge on
the afternoon train.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Stop him, mad, don't let him come here.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh, he's got a right to go where he wants.
I just thought you ought to know about it, you
and your husband both.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Matt, Matt, you got to protect me. It's your job too.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I will if it's necessary.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Of course it's necessary. He'll try to kill me. Oh
why because he because I divorced him. Well, he was
in prison and and married Jack.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Is that the reason?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Is it? Because you wouldn't back up his alibi when
you testified at his trial. I couldn't, Matt.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
I wasn't sure he was working in the barn all
afternoon the day Tracy was shot.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yet the barn is only fifty yards from my house.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I I was asleep most of the afternoon. He could
have rode off and come back and I'd never known it. Oh,
but I told all this at the trial. It's all
been done with. You gotta keep him away from me.
He's a killer. I doubt that we Well, the jury didn't.
They convicted him, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, but they weren't too sure. They'd have made the
charge a lot stronger than manslaughter. I just can't see
Sam Buger is a killer, even with plenty of reason.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What reason?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I suppose you believe them stories too? That something was
going on between Tracy and me?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Was there?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I didn't even know him hardly The hens around this
Tom stopped cackling. If a woman even says low to
a man, what are you try to reopen the trial?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Huh No, just let you know that Sam's killing back.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
I Oh, I didn't let him. I'm married again now.
I don't want nothing more to do with him. He
starts fooling around with me, and Jack will take care
of him, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know, highly trouble seems to follow you, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I don't do nothing to cause you, and maybe you don't.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't know. Maybe it's just because you're one of
the prettiest women in Dodge and maybe you just get
too friendly with too many people.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Huh, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Look, you're married now to a man who's known around
town as being kind of jealous and a little bit unhappy,
and you got an ex husband coming in on the
afternoon train who has just spent three years in prison
for a killing that he claims.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He didn't commit.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
The jury said different.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
For a killer the whole Tom thinks was over you. Well,
I don't think Sam Bruger was a killer three years ago.
But prison can change a man. So you watch your
step now.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Just listen a.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Minute, uh, if you will. I've got a little story
to tell you. Well, it's not so little. It's sort
of a tall tale. Every hair tale about Mike Fink. Well,
he was a hero, a legendary hero. I guess you'd
call him.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The greatest keel boatman of them all.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Yes, sir. Why he was a salt river roar, A
ring tail squealer claimed he was half wild horse and
half alligator. They say that Mike Fink could poll the
equivalent of four hundred loaded railroad cars up river on
a keelboat, I'd sort of like a barge. And they
say that if the currents made poll In too tough,
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why old Mike would just sit down and row for
a while. And sir, his strength and skill was the
talk of the river. Nothing was too tough for old
Mike to handle. He could load his boat from stem
to stern in less than half an hour, and when
it was going full speed, why he could turn it
on a dime. As the man said, he was a
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heap of man, was Old Mike. But then along came
the steamboats. Old they didn't hurt the keelboaters too much
at first, but little by little they took over. And
you can be sure Mike was the very last of
'em to admit defeat. Mike didn't just die and quit,
you understand. He raised the steamboat clean up for a while,
(06:38):
and he beat it too. But Mike was sort of
the spirit of all those valiant keelboaters. And as they
quit one by one and just sort of faded out
of the picture, why old Mike did two But his
long as stories about him I still told and retold.
The early pioneers of our waterways won't be forgotten. No,
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sir ee, I wish I had time to tell you
another little story about Mike, But I have an idea.
You don't believe me anyway. See isn't it nice being
citizens of a country where you can laugh and talk
about things free as a breeze, and write and read
and worship too. Yes, sir, maybe you don't think about
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it much, but you should.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I ain't even sure I'll recognize time, mister John.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I want to look to a different Chester. He Reconnie
aim in the Start Trouble hod An obst and by.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
James, she's frai enough to turn my head even if
you had to put her mind to it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
And after I gotten lying Chester, there's about a dust
and ahead of it.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Oh well, my land.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I was just saying, if you know.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Her too, well, yeah, I assure you do. Now, come on,
Sam's got knocked over there.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Fine, man, It just be plumb bullish to get tied
up with a woman like that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh here's a man who can tell you I was there.
He ain't Jean's Harley Tall not outside anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I was Simon Matt Dylon, last man I saw, and
they took me away first. When I meet, when I
get back. Things never changed, do they?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Ah, not too much?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How he gets a three year picnic? Marshall, You know
they real good carry up there, even got bars all
around the keep folks from getting in bothering you. Yeah, sure, Marshall. Uh,
Holly's Holly? How fine?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I saw just this morning?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Did huh?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
That's more than you're gonna do? Bruger losey knocked? Now, Sam,
you remember Jack Deane, don't you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, you got a gambler. I didn't quite get that
remark of yours, Dean.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
You got it all right?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You stay away from Holly, you hear me? Oh what
are you on the proud about?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Holly's married to him?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
See, I I thought you knew.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, No, I didn't know that. What do you do now?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And don't you forget it? You bother her and I'll
shoot you like a mad alright, that's not what I
cannot talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I wanted to know how things stand. Well, now, wait
a minute, I think maybe you ought to know how
things stand, too, Dean. I come back here for just
one reason, just to find out who did.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Kill Tracy Wallace the way I hear it.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
You did?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No, Holly lied at the trial. She knew I never
let the place that day. I aim to find out.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Why she lied.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I told you to leave her alone. I got no
interest in her otherwise. I feel sorry for you, Dean.
I learned about Holly. I paid for it. He means
you ain't yet, but you will.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
No jeer, Bud's gonna talk about my wife right that
utter Dane taken up for him.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Aya, Marshall, you get going alright, I'll go well.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
The law won't protect a man's home. I figure he's
got the right to do it himself. Thank you, marciall.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Man on parole.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Can'didford to get into any arguments or where a gun either, Sam,
I'm gonna have to take yours.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Play it right down in the middle. Don't you no
acceptions for either side?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
How it works out better that way in the long run.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Here alright, here, ye are facts. I didn't kill Tracy,
whether you believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I wasn't on the jury, Sam, But just one thing,
you better stay clear of Jack Deane. He can make
you an awful lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I got no reason about it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Him, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Or you mean? Holly?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What I told Dean is the truth.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm over her martial, except well sometimes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He not an easy woman to forget.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Now, I don't imagine she is.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
You know, he doesn't seem to have changed much.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Man, that you mean?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, stopped in earlier and had a beer. He's quieter,
of course, But there wouldn't be three years a long
time to spend in herself.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And I'm sure escu him.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Why didn't he make a fresh start somewhere else? Master?
Why'd he have to come back to Dodge?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
How to acquery himself?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
So he says, well, if he couldn't.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Do it three years ago, he's got even less chance now.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm afraid you're right.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I'm the colley here, just gonna mean trouble. Way she
carries on, I mean, bar attender down the crystal, slipping
her along with that new trail boss out of the circle.
D I never saw anybody like her, man, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Just the case of too much good looks, I guess,
and too little good sense.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Uh Jack Dean finds out she won't have any looks.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Why don't you tell her what?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
She just came in? She's coming over here?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Uh mat there?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Oh they said I'll probably find you in here. Oh hello, kiddy, Hello,
that's on your mind with a steak, Matt, Matt, you've
got to rest Sambuber. Oh, why for threatening to kill me?
That's why you tell her her truth for a little
while to go down the streets. He come up to
him and he said terrible things. He said he'd come
back to dogs just for one reason to kill me.
(12:51):
And he was wearing a gun too, and he's not
supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Was he wearing a gun in here?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Kitty?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
No, well he was just now, it's true, I swear it.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Anybody hear him threat?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Yeah, I don't know. I I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Anybody see him talking to you?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It was dark.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
I turned and run and and then I come looking
for you. Oh, Match, you just got to arrest.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Him, alright, Medsdane. If you'll sign a complaint, I'll go
pick him up.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Of course, I'll sign a complaint.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Going down to the jail, and I have Chester fill
one out for you. I'll be able to come. Who
was you?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Hurry now? I'm scared d half to death. Sam Berger
is not the kind of man to do it thing
like that. Now.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I don't think so either, Kenned. Oh, we couldn't be wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A Matt.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
There are times when a man of honor like myself
is appalled by the low ethical standards he finds among
his friends and the Queenances Ah, is that so?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Doctor? Go ahead, Doc, get your movie.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Stay out of this, please chair a match, No doubt
you know what I'm referring.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I just thought you were talking to keep from having
to move that checker and letting me take two more
of you.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Man, Very ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'm as good as got the game waring right now?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Then, why don't you move?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I never thought you'd do it?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Man?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Do what left a passing weakness for a pretty woman
make you throw an innocent man into that jails?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Back there?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
He had to, Doc, she signed a legal complaint.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Did not talking to you?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Chest out? And what makes you so sure that he's
in us? Plain common sense?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's what.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Plus the fact that Holly Dean happens.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
To be a born liar.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That maybe, but he's got a alibi. So it's up
to Judge Bent to decided when he opens court.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Oh, George, she twist him around her finger, just like
she did.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You not unless she comes up with some witnesses. Bent
seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I don't care. What was that got to do?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Look go ahead and move the checker so I can
get this game over with. It's late and I gotta
get up early. That was aroundside of the jail.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Come on there go.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Somebody on a horror has said they're they're getting away, Matt.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And they've already got away. We only had a moon tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What do you suppose they're trying to do?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
What you and I got a pretty good idea on
let's take a look back on my So.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You don't think he was somebody trying to Marshall?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
That's you?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You all right, Sam?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Sure, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Shot. Just come through the window there.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What's that all about? Sam? Somebody just tried to kill you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
This is myrin J.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
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the White House. That's it, which you know, I have
the lights on, one of 'em must be there.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Just what is the chairman to do? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I surprise her, maybe catch her off balance. Got nothing
else to go on? Huh, sam, hm, Look if there's trouble.
You stay out of it without a god, I guess
I have to. Holly is not likely to do when
they shooting't ry? Come on, would it, Matt Dylan. I'd
(18:03):
like to talk to you Miss Deane al right.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
This minute, kind of lady, isn't it to be coming around?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I've been Holly fine?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Sam?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I I thought you was.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Thought he was what, Miss Deane? Dead?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
No, no, course, not a I I thought he was
in jail.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He might if we come in.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, it's late.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I was just going to thanks. Now. You told me
you'd talked to Sam earlier tonight, Miss Dy, I did
he he threatened.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, that's a lie, Holly, it's true, Matt, I did.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You didn't act like it. Just now you ask you
how you had been Your said fine. Looked at me
like that was the first time you had seen each other.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Why did you want him jail?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Holly? Ha ha? I was scared?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
He he threatened me?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Uh huh? Who'd just send over to kill him?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I don't know who shot at him.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I didn't have anything to do shot at him?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
How did you know?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But I thought I said kill him?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I didn't say how you lied at that trial, didn't you,
miss Dane? No, No, I do who dead kill Tracy Wallace?
Come on, who you're coming up for?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
M nobody?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
I did he say he'd kill me if I ever told?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Who?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Said Jack?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Deane?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He's in the other room, out of the way. Alright,
come on out, you little sneak, if you hand away
from that gun thing too mad.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
He found out about me and I I I I
mean he thought how I was singing Tracy and he
was jealous and he shot him.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
About it till after we were married. And then he
said he said he'd kill me if I ever told.
I've been terrified of.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Him for three years.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No jury might believe that.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
And he tried to kill Sam tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I didn't know he was going to. No jury's gonna
get a chance to believe.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Hold the things.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
If I'm paying, Holly's paying.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
He was a fool, mister known.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
He didn't have a chance that.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It was not the first time he was a pool
Chester outside, looks like you got that pardon?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Huh, he's dead.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Jack's da.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'll suning doc over to take care of things. Medicine.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Come outside Chester, Sam, Mm.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Wait, Sam, What Sam, it's all true? How was she
a five?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Three years of it? I wanted to tell, but he'd
killed me.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Holly, you could have stood one that made me like
a wash.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
It was a bad influence.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Oh, I'll be different now, Hm. We did have a
a lot of good things.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah, we did, remember Sam.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh sure, Holly, I remember coming, sir.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, I just Sam, Matt, Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Matt, I d I just uh I I just wanna
uh talk to Holly for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Uh, I'll.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'll be along a little later on. Come on Justice.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well, now, you'd think a man who's been took for
a fool once to be cured, wouldn't you miss it?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Done?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Either that or form the habit Cheshire has, Like you
said yourself, It's mighty pray.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Gunsmoke.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
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Matt Dylan US Marshall. Featured in the cast were Parley
Bear as Chester, Howard mcneer as Doc, and Georgia Ellis
as Kitty. George Walls speaking join us again next week
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