August 13, 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
Guns smoke. Gun wos Fort starring William Conrad, The story
(00:43):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man
they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job that makes a man watchful and
a little lonely. Woodne what's the matter of Chester?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, I just can't figure out how he'd done it,
mister Dunn. Who did what that followed the medicine show
over back.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Of the Dodgers. Oh that I can't Well.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sam and me had it all figured out. Sam would
walked from one side, and I'd walked from the other,
And when he'd move them three walnut shells around, we
just knew.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Which one the pee was under.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Sure you did, and golly, somehow we still lost six
dollars apiece. I'm in pooling with it here, trying to
puzzle out how he done it. They ain't nothing to
it except three walnut shells and a peeve and.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
A pretty smart man operating them.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, now, me and Sam in exactly dummies.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, Matt, you better come quick. What is it? The
devil breaking? Then some of his writers. They're up at
the livery stable. They got hold of some stranger and
I think they're affixing to hanging right. They come on
chester by King name mean businessman? You don't look at
(02:30):
that road? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
What did they do?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Dark?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They got bragging all round up and I didn't wait
to find out. Man.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You know they don't take much pay.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Bell breaking, I dragging red? What's going on here? Breaking?
This ain't nothing the law need bother about. Marshall. Uh huh.
We caught this here, saddle bum dead to rights. There
ain't no use wasting time on a trial. I see
(03:00):
that looks to me like you've already pushed him around something.
Is he conscious? He will be before we string him up.
I want him to know just why we're doing it. Doc,
take a look at him with you shuredn't uh just
stand back there?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Business?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Let me now, Breggan, suppose you tell me why you're
about to lynch them?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It ain't none of your concern, marshall. You're going about
your business and take Doc with you. Ain't no use
patching up a fellow. It's gonna be dead in ten
minutes anyhow. Hasn't anybody told you we got laws and
DoD's sitting laws for them that needs it. This ain't
the first horse fave on. Those days are over, Bregan,
and so's the hanging boys. You come on down out
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of that loft and you bring them up with you, Marshall.
We caught this man with two of my best horses,
blood it stock. It's been missing off the rant since
last month. If he's stolen the law, I'll deal with oh, Marshall,
we'll deal with him. Breggan, you keep your hand away
from that gun. I will. When you get out of
here and leave us be, you will get Braggan's gun. Yes, certain,
(04:08):
as a fellow, dug. He's been beat up, something kicked
around a little bit. He'll be ho. Let's get him
out of the jail.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Say give me a hand with Chester.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sure all right? Your men drag Bragging over there of
the horse trump and you stick his head on it.
Tell him he can pick up his gun at the
jail as soon as he cools off. And another thing.
The next time any one of you brings are rope
into town, you keep it tied to your saddle, you understand.
(04:47):
The shoveling started at the little town of Rome in
New York State back in eighteen hundred and seventeen, and
on July fourth, nineteen hundred and sixty seven, the Post
Office released a spatial sesque centennial stamp there in honor
of the big ditch they dug, which it says on
the stamp in my album here was the Erie Canal. Now,
(05:11):
in case you don't know, that canal went all the
way from Buffalo on Lake Erie to the Hudson River,
connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, the biggest
waterway ever built in the United States at the time,
and it was done mostly by the Irish, just over
from the Old Country, who did the digg in with
spit and muscle, made lots of money for years on tolls,
(05:36):
and the traffic and freight and people through the canal
was mainly responsible for building up the Midwest and keeping
business in the East busy doing it well. Of course,
the Erie Canal ain't what she used to be because
the railroads do most of the job now, But the
big ditch is still there, and so is all the
history that went through it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
You the Marshall, Halla's right. I'm Jesse Hyatt. How'd I
get here, Marshall?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
We carried you here, Jesse. How do you feel, oh, Marshall?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I couldn't feel, no, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
If they drove or heard a long horns over me,
how that could have been worshiped? How they were fixing
their hanging.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You know, some Marshall Dodge sitting in the friendliest down
in the world when he came right down to it.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Not for horse thieves, anyway. I didn't steal them horses.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I tried to tell them that, but they wouldn't listen,
especially that red faced mouthy fella.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All that's Dell Braggan. They're his horses. I hit town,
left the horses there at the.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Livery store while I went up the street to eat.
When I come back, they all jumped me. He did
have his horses?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Who says they're his? I do for one. I went
over and took a look at him. They disappeared off
his ranch about a month ago. I don't know nothing
about that. All I know is that I bought him, fair.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
And honest where from a horse dealer in Wichita about
two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeh, what was his name?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I don't know. I think he was just traveling through.
He offered me a bargain, so I bought him. I
was coming on west and I needed.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
A pair of good horses. Can you remember what he
looked like?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well none?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Not a good fast talking fellow, black whiskers, dressed like
most anybody else. I ain't even sure i'd known him.
If I was to meet him again, I see, well.
I didn't pay no special mind. There was no reason
to Marshall. I bought them horses, no matter what anybody said.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's gonna be kind of hard to prove.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
And Jesse, not if you find that trader I bought
them from, where would you look for him?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't know, you see, that's what I mean. And
they gonna have a trial on me. Yeah, I'm breaking
the file charges.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
What do you think will happen?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now? And I hard to say? Ala, Jerry figured, I
ain't got a chance, have I, Marshall? Now, there's always
a chance. At least you're not swinging on a rope.
Tell me what are you doing a dodge in the
first place?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Just passing through? I got an aunt who lives alone
up river. She wrote you needed help run the place.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm sorry to bother you, mister dilling With.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There's somebody out there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
See oh alright, and Jesse, if you can think of
anything else that might help you, let me know. Huh,
there ain't nothing, Marshall. I'm a gorner. We both know it.
I think you're kind of rushing things, Jessie, alright, come
(09:01):
on Chester, let me see.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Mister Dilnan's that young and adele break?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And how you mean Tommy? Yes? Ah, how about Tommy?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Have you been huh fine, Marshall. Could I see that fella? Please?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What what fella?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The one that Paul tried to hang this morning? That
one he treated me like he treats everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Mean right, yeah, Paul thinks he's doing right.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Don't right to be like he is. I know it
ain't right. And someday the Devil's gonna get him.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Tommy that uh?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Could I see that, Philla, Marshall? Please, I wanna tell him.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'm Sorry'm all right, Tommy, go on back through that
door there. He's in the last cell.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Huh, thanks Marshall, you reckon that Jesse fella is guilty.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Mikerjillan had an archester, But I don't know one thing
a jury's gonna think so.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
And Tad Mad Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
How about Kenny Mad?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
What's this story?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Dell bregg and tell him?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
How hold? I don't know Kenny? What story is he
telling about?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
How he's gonna take some fell out of jail and
hang him if the law doesn't get a move on,
and how he'd have done it this morning only you
hit him when he wasn't looking hy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He's got more imagination than I gave him credit for.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
He's sure have been milthing off over there at the
bar to anybody who listened. I thought you'd want to
know about it. In case, Well, yeah he comes man, Yeah,
you know, I've never seen that man when he wasn't
mad about something.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
What have you done about that horse thief? Marshall out
of Briant, that's up to Judge Bent. What you aiming
to do with a man? Keep on coddling him the
old Bent gets up the gumption to hang him, how
I'm gonna feed him and keep him locked up? That's
what you call coddling, and for the rest of it,
Stealing horses is not a hanging of fence under the law.
(11:17):
It is under the law I go by. How long
is it gonna take you down? Take me to what
to get it through that thick head of yours that
the old days are finished over with? There's law on
the frontier. Now things work better without it, maybe for
a bully like you. But like it or not, the
laws here to stay, and you better understand it for
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your boy's sake, if not for your own. What about
my boy? He's gonna have to live in a different
world from yours, and the hard headed way you act
as much of an example for him. Tell me you'll
do all right, don't you worry. He knows what you'll
get If he don't, he said, the fear of the
Lord beat into him. And with less beaten and more understanding,
he might not hate you you so much hate me?
(12:02):
He know, hate me, He respects me, respects now. You
call it that if you want, but I wouldn't want
to be in your shoes that day he reaches your size.
You're trying to tell me how to raise my own
son now, But I am telling you this. You leave
my prisoner alone, my sholl you whip me with your
(12:23):
fists this morning, and if it come to it, maybe
you could outdraw me. You keep on acting hard nosed,
might be we'll find out for sure. Oh Vine, things
(12:52):
been quiet Chester, Yeah, now your souls come me.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You think this jail has has been quarantine for.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
The pox or something out here?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's given you more time to study the shell game,
haven't the shore?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Ain't done no good. I've been at it all evening.
I still can't figure out how that fella's gun is.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You wanna take a few more dollars and go try
to find out.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm sure I ain't going near that medicine show ever again.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Not to pay day anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
How's the prisoner m sleeping?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I reckon, I ain't been back. We'll take a look.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, sorry, I'll go tell you what. Why don't you
set up the cribbage board and I'll show you another
game you can't figure out?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh no, cribbage is something I do know about it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Eh? Wow, Just don't move, Marshall, But you get the gun, Jessie.
Don't make no difference where you movies you now, Marshall,
(13:56):
I'll blow a hole right through you. What good would
it do you. It'd still be locked up, not for long.
I won't cause you're gonna let me out. Don't lay
money on it. Open that cell door, Marshall. Right now,
there'll be a fool Jesse. The word you'll get now
is a prison sentence. You pull that trigger and you'll hang.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I ain't going to prison for something I didn't do.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You open that door and hurry up about it. I
give me the gun, Jesse, and I got my shoot
and we both know it, and I come on hand
it over it. I'm warning you. I will shoot. You'll
still be locked inside the cell. If you didn't shoot me,
you wouldn't be ahead. I mean, now, let's have that gun.
(14:36):
Come on here, Oh take it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
You didn't get no loads, and then I took him
out so there wouldn't be no accident.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But you got a Jesse.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
That kid bringing in this afternoon, he had it under
your shirt.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Huh you mean Tommy? Break it. I don't know his name.
He said he was sorry for me, and he said he'd.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Come back in the morning about sun up and try
to sneak the key out of the office. Real nice kid,
Tommy Bragien I can't figure why you go to all
that trouble not even knowing me.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I can't either, Jesse, but I'll ask him when he
comes back in the morning. Hometowns in America have a
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lot in common, and yet they're each one of a kind. Take,
for example, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The smoky city is smoking less
now and enjoying it more because Pittsburgh's decided a decade
or so ago that enough was enough. Now there's smoke
and polluted air problem is virtually non existent. Over in
(16:09):
Shady Side, you can catch the pit crowd at the Encore,
or the party may have moved across the street and
down on the corner to Foxes. On Granted seventh, the
lighted dome of the Coppers Building signals the weather, and
at Gateway Center, the Menongahela and the Alleghany form the
Ohio at the Golden Triangle. Pittsburgh's people meet under the
(16:31):
clock at Kaufman's on Smithfield or lunch at Lamont in
Mount Washington. Meanwhile, the Pirates play at Forbes Field, the
teens are at McKee's Port's quite Elephant office workers drift
in Melon Square, and the Animal's napped at Highland Park Zoo.
But if your hometown is Pittsburgh, you already know this.
(16:53):
We only wanted to remind you. It's still there.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Who very coming, miss Jill riding that pinto pony?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I see him.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Look suggests he was telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He may have been all a long, Chester, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Wouldn't mind gritting her. So a young puppy like Tommy
breaking sneaking guns into jail, trying to help prisoners break
out like.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
He ought to be switched good. Maybe he's been switched
too much already.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Okay, walking tiptoe moving real quiet.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I guess he thinks we ain't up yet.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Then we mustn't disappoint him. He got back to your
bucking light down Uh a pool kiddings and bodies. Haush,
be quiet? Yes, I had let surprise him Chester, right,
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aren't Tommy?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Oh Marshall?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I thought you was.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I mean, I guess Jesse was the only one who
was really asleep. Uh, what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Tommy? He was letting you out, Jesse.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I hadn't do it. Ain't write him being in there.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You gave him a gun yesterday, Tommy, that you want
him to kill me with it that thought we were friends.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Nor it wasn't to kill you with it is to
keep off from getting them beginning after I let him out.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
He's accused of stealing too your paws horses.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
But he didn't do it. He didn't steal no horses.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Because I because I just know what's all?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Boy? If you know, tell him who did it.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
My PAW's always beating me. You'll want to hit me.
I wanted to get.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Even with him, get even with him.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Huh giving them two horses away?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You gave your paws horses away.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I wanted to get even with him. We're being so
mean all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well whould you give them to? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Some feller riding through He had black whiskers and he
said he was knees.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's the man, Marshall, That's who I bought them off of. Uh, alright,
come on out, Jessay, let's go into the office. Well,
I guess that clears up whether you're hill there or not.
You mean I'm free to go?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Ay?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Sure, Marshall. Uh, what are you gonna do to me? Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
What do you mean? Tommy?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
For sneaking in here trying to let Jesse out know?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Well, don't matter, Paul, kill me sure.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Now, Marshall. Huh, I got an idea.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Remember I told you how I was headed for my
aunt's place up river, how she's alone, needs help to
run things.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Well she's a good woman, Marshall, real good woman. Maybe
Tommy could stay there until it's Paul cools off.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
M Uh Tommy, Yeah, how'd you like to go with
Jesse up to his aunt's place for a little while? Huh?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Could I?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
In the meantime I could talk to your Paul, But
I won't tell him where you are just yet.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But mister Dylan, when break him finds out where Tommy is,
you'll come after him with a whole handful of switches.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No, I don't think so, Chester. Tell me. Maybe this
will give you a chance to think things over, you
know some you might even learn the difference between fear
and respect. All right, now that you two get go
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with your permission, I like to quote an excerpt from
a speech by that old political character Elijah Cuddlestone, And
I say, if we'll stayed and declare that is that
pork barrel appropriations are not going to be our salvation.
We must I say, we have to get up on
our hind legs. I mean you stand up and fight
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for our own improvements. The pork barrel is poor ropers,
I mean the greedy and the weak. Who that is
that term pork barrel? You know what it means? Well,
pork is fat, and fat, for hundreds of years has
meant plenty, abundance. You shall eat the fat of the land.
(22:13):
About one hundred years ago, in the halls of Congress,
fat meaning lucrative or rewarding, became pork. And about fifty
years ago, when congressmen sought larger appropriations for such things
as bridges, harbor or river improvements, public buildings, and so
forth to impress their constituents, they were accused of seeking
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pork barrel appropriations. Guns Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald,
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stars William Conrad as Matt dyllon Us Marshall. Featured in
the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc,
and Georgia Ellis as Kiddy George Walls Speaking. Join us
again next week for another specially transcribed story on Guns Smoke.
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This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television service,
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will you
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
Guns smoke. Gun wos Fort starring William Conrad, The story
(00:43):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man
they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job that makes a man watchful and
a little lonely. Woodne what's the matter of Chester?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, I just can't figure out how he'd done it,
mister Dunn. Who did what that followed the medicine show
over back.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Of the Dodgers. Oh that I can't Well.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sam and me had it all figured out. Sam would
walked from one side, and I'd walked from the other,
And when he'd move them three walnut shells around, we
just knew.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Which one the pee was under.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Sure you did, and golly, somehow we still lost six
dollars apiece. I'm in pooling with it here, trying to
puzzle out how he done it. They ain't nothing to
it except three walnut shells and a peeve and.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
A pretty smart man operating them.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, now, me and Sam in exactly dummies.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, Matt, you better come quick. What is it? The
devil breaking? Then some of his writers. They're up at
the livery stable. They got hold of some stranger and
I think they're affixing to hanging right. They come on
chester by King name mean businessman? You don't look at
(02:30):
that road? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
What did they do?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Dark?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They got bragging all round up and I didn't wait
to find out. Man.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You know they don't take much pay.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Bell breaking, I dragging red? What's going on here? Breaking?
This ain't nothing the law need bother about. Marshall. Uh huh.
We caught this here, saddle bum dead to rights. There
ain't no use wasting time on a trial. I see
(03:00):
that looks to me like you've already pushed him around something.
Is he conscious? He will be before we string him up.
I want him to know just why we're doing it. Doc,
take a look at him with you shuredn't uh just
stand back there?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Business?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Let me now, Breggan, suppose you tell me why you're
about to lynch them?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It ain't none of your concern, marshall. You're going about
your business and take Doc with you. Ain't no use
patching up a fellow. It's gonna be dead in ten
minutes anyhow. Hasn't anybody told you we got laws and
DoD's sitting laws for them that needs it. This ain't
the first horse fave on. Those days are over, Bregan,
and so's the hanging boys. You come on down out
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of that loft and you bring them up with you, Marshall.
We caught this man with two of my best horses,
blood it stock. It's been missing off the rant since
last month. If he's stolen the law, I'll deal with oh, Marshall,
we'll deal with him. Breggan, you keep your hand away
from that gun. I will. When you get out of
here and leave us be, you will get Braggan's gun. Yes, certain,
(04:08):
as a fellow, dug. He's been beat up, something kicked
around a little bit. He'll be ho. Let's get him
out of the jail.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Say give me a hand with Chester.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sure all right? Your men drag Bragging over there of
the horse trump and you stick his head on it.
Tell him he can pick up his gun at the
jail as soon as he cools off. And another thing.
The next time any one of you brings are rope
into town, you keep it tied to your saddle, you understand.
(04:47):
The shoveling started at the little town of Rome in
New York State back in eighteen hundred and seventeen, and
on July fourth, nineteen hundred and sixty seven, the Post
Office released a spatial sesque centennial stamp there in honor
of the big ditch they dug, which it says on
the stamp in my album here was the Erie Canal. Now,
(05:11):
in case you don't know, that canal went all the
way from Buffalo on Lake Erie to the Hudson River,
connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, the biggest
waterway ever built in the United States at the time,
and it was done mostly by the Irish, just over
from the Old Country, who did the digg in with
spit and muscle, made lots of money for years on tolls,
(05:36):
and the traffic and freight and people through the canal
was mainly responsible for building up the Midwest and keeping
business in the East busy doing it well. Of course,
the Erie Canal ain't what she used to be because
the railroads do most of the job now, But the
big ditch is still there, and so is all the
history that went through it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
You the Marshall, Halla's right. I'm Jesse Hyatt. How'd I
get here, Marshall?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
We carried you here, Jesse. How do you feel, oh, Marshall?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I couldn't feel, no, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
If they drove or heard a long horns over me,
how that could have been worshiped? How they were fixing
their hanging.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You know, some Marshall Dodge sitting in the friendliest down
in the world when he came right down to it.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Not for horse thieves, anyway. I didn't steal them horses.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I tried to tell them that, but they wouldn't listen,
especially that red faced mouthy fella.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All that's Dell Braggan. They're his horses. I hit town,
left the horses there at the.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Livery store while I went up the street to eat.
When I come back, they all jumped me. He did
have his horses?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Who says they're his? I do for one. I went
over and took a look at him. They disappeared off
his ranch about a month ago. I don't know nothing
about that. All I know is that I bought him, fair.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
And honest where from a horse dealer in Wichita about
two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeh, what was his name?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I don't know. I think he was just traveling through.
He offered me a bargain, so I bought him. I
was coming on west and I needed.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
A pair of good horses. Can you remember what he
looked like?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well none?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Not a good fast talking fellow, black whiskers, dressed like
most anybody else. I ain't even sure i'd known him.
If I was to meet him again, I see, well.
I didn't pay no special mind. There was no reason
to Marshall. I bought them horses, no matter what anybody said.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's gonna be kind of hard to prove.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
And Jesse, not if you find that trader I bought
them from, where would you look for him?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't know, you see, that's what I mean. And
they gonna have a trial on me. Yeah, I'm breaking
the file charges.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
What do you think will happen?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now? And I hard to say? Ala, Jerry figured, I
ain't got a chance, have I, Marshall? Now, there's always
a chance. At least you're not swinging on a rope.
Tell me what are you doing a dodge in the
first place?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Just passing through? I got an aunt who lives alone
up river. She wrote you needed help run the place.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm sorry to bother you, mister dilling With.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There's somebody out there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
See oh alright, and Jesse, if you can think of
anything else that might help you, let me know. Huh,
there ain't nothing, Marshall. I'm a gorner. We both know it.
I think you're kind of rushing things, Jessie, alright, come
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on Chester, let me see.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Mister Dilnan's that young and adele break?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And how you mean Tommy? Yes? Ah, how about Tommy?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Have you been huh fine, Marshall. Could I see that fella? Please?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What what fella?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The one that Paul tried to hang this morning? That
one he treated me like he treats everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Mean right, yeah, Paul thinks he's doing right.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Don't right to be like he is. I know it
ain't right. And someday the Devil's gonna get him.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Tommy that uh?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Could I see that, Philla, Marshall? Please, I wanna tell him.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'm Sorry'm all right, Tommy, go on back through that
door there. He's in the last cell.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Huh, thanks Marshall, you reckon that Jesse fella is guilty.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Mikerjillan had an archester, But I don't know one thing
a jury's gonna think so.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
And Tad Mad Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
How about Kenny Mad?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
What's this story?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Dell bregg and tell him?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
How hold? I don't know Kenny? What story is he
telling about?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
How he's gonna take some fell out of jail and
hang him if the law doesn't get a move on,
and how he'd have done it this morning only you
hit him when he wasn't looking hy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He's got more imagination than I gave him credit for.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
He's sure have been milthing off over there at the
bar to anybody who listened. I thought you'd want to
know about it. In case, Well, yeah he comes man, Yeah,
you know, I've never seen that man when he wasn't
mad about something.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
What have you done about that horse thief? Marshall out
of Briant, that's up to Judge Bent. What you aiming
to do with a man? Keep on coddling him the
old Bent gets up the gumption to hang him, how
I'm gonna feed him and keep him locked up? That's
what you call coddling, and for the rest of it,
Stealing horses is not a hanging of fence under the law.
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It is under the law I go by. How long
is it gonna take you down? Take me to what
to get it through that thick head of yours that
the old days are finished over with? There's law on
the frontier. Now things work better without it, maybe for
a bully like you. But like it or not, the
laws here to stay, and you better understand it for
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your boy's sake, if not for your own. What about
my boy? He's gonna have to live in a different
world from yours, and the hard headed way you act
as much of an example for him. Tell me you'll
do all right, don't you worry. He knows what you'll
get If he don't, he said, the fear of the
Lord beat into him. And with less beaten and more understanding,
he might not hate you you so much hate me?
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He know, hate me, He respects me, respects now. You
call it that if you want, but I wouldn't want
to be in your shoes that day he reaches your size.
You're trying to tell me how to raise my own
son now, But I am telling you this. You leave
my prisoner alone, my sholl you whip me with your
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fists this morning, and if it come to it, maybe
you could outdraw me. You keep on acting hard nosed,
might be we'll find out for sure. Oh Vine, things
(12:52):
been quiet Chester, Yeah, now your souls come me.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You think this jail has has been quarantine for.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
The pox or something out here?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's given you more time to study the shell game,
haven't the shore?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Ain't done no good. I've been at it all evening.
I still can't figure out how that fella's gun is.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You wanna take a few more dollars and go try
to find out.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm sure I ain't going near that medicine show ever again.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Not to pay day anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
How's the prisoner m sleeping?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I reckon, I ain't been back. We'll take a look.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, sorry, I'll go tell you what. Why don't you
set up the cribbage board and I'll show you another
game you can't figure out?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh no, cribbage is something I do know about it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Eh? Wow, Just don't move, Marshall, But you get the gun, Jessie.
Don't make no difference where you movies you now, Marshall,
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I'll blow a hole right through you. What good would
it do you. It'd still be locked up, not for long.
I won't cause you're gonna let me out. Don't lay
money on it. Open that cell door, Marshall. Right now,
there'll be a fool Jesse. The word you'll get now
is a prison sentence. You pull that trigger and you'll hang.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I ain't going to prison for something I didn't do.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You open that door and hurry up about it. I
give me the gun, Jesse, and I got my shoot
and we both know it, and I come on hand
it over it. I'm warning you. I will shoot. You'll
still be locked inside the cell. If you didn't shoot me,
you wouldn't be ahead. I mean, now, let's have that gun.
(14:36):
Come on here, Oh take it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
You didn't get no loads, and then I took him
out so there wouldn't be no accident.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But you got a Jesse.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
That kid bringing in this afternoon, he had it under
your shirt.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Huh you mean Tommy? Break it. I don't know his name.
He said he was sorry for me, and he said he'd.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Come back in the morning about sun up and try
to sneak the key out of the office. Real nice kid,
Tommy Bragien I can't figure why you go to all
that trouble not even knowing me.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I can't either, Jesse, but I'll ask him when he
comes back in the morning. Hometowns in America have a
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lot in common, and yet they're each one of a kind. Take,
for example, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The smoky city is smoking less
now and enjoying it more because Pittsburgh's decided a decade
or so ago that enough was enough. Now there's smoke
and polluted air problem is virtually non existent. Over in
(16:09):
Shady Side, you can catch the pit crowd at the Encore,
or the party may have moved across the street and
down on the corner to Foxes. On Granted seventh, the
lighted dome of the Coppers Building signals the weather, and
at Gateway Center, the Menongahela and the Alleghany form the
Ohio at the Golden Triangle. Pittsburgh's people meet under the
(16:31):
clock at Kaufman's on Smithfield or lunch at Lamont in
Mount Washington. Meanwhile, the Pirates play at Forbes Field, the
teens are at McKee's Port's quite Elephant office workers drift
in Melon Square, and the Animal's napped at Highland Park Zoo.
But if your hometown is Pittsburgh, you already know this.
(16:53):
We only wanted to remind you. It's still there.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Who very coming, miss Jill riding that pinto pony?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I see him.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Look suggests he was telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He may have been all a long, Chester, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Wouldn't mind gritting her. So a young puppy like Tommy
breaking sneaking guns into jail, trying to help prisoners break
out like.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
He ought to be switched good. Maybe he's been switched
too much already.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Okay, walking tiptoe moving real quiet.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I guess he thinks we ain't up yet.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Then we mustn't disappoint him. He got back to your
bucking light down Uh a pool kiddings and bodies. Haush,
be quiet? Yes, I had let surprise him Chester, right,
(18:31):
aren't Tommy?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Oh Marshall?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I thought you was.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I mean, I guess Jesse was the only one who
was really asleep. Uh, what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Tommy? He was letting you out, Jesse.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I hadn't do it. Ain't write him being in there.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You gave him a gun yesterday, Tommy, that you want
him to kill me with it that thought we were friends.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Nor it wasn't to kill you with it is to
keep off from getting them beginning after I let him out.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
He's accused of stealing too your paws horses.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
But he didn't do it. He didn't steal no horses.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Because I because I just know what's all?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Boy? If you know, tell him who did it.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
My PAW's always beating me. You'll want to hit me.
I wanted to get.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Even with him, get even with him.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Huh giving them two horses away?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You gave your paws horses away.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I wanted to get even with him. We're being so
mean all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well whould you give them to? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Some feller riding through He had black whiskers and he
said he was knees.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's the man, Marshall, That's who I bought them off of. Uh, alright,
come on out, Jessay, let's go into the office. Well,
I guess that clears up whether you're hill there or not.
You mean I'm free to go?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Ay?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Sure, Marshall. Uh, what are you gonna do to me? Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
What do you mean? Tommy?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
For sneaking in here trying to let Jesse out know?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Well, don't matter, Paul, kill me sure.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Now, Marshall. Huh, I got an idea.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Remember I told you how I was headed for my
aunt's place up river, how she's alone, needs help to
run things.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Well she's a good woman, Marshall, real good woman. Maybe
Tommy could stay there until it's Paul cools off.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
M Uh Tommy, Yeah, how'd you like to go with
Jesse up to his aunt's place for a little while? Huh?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Could I?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
In the meantime I could talk to your Paul, But
I won't tell him where you are just yet.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But mister Dylan, when break him finds out where Tommy is,
you'll come after him with a whole handful of switches.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No, I don't think so, Chester. Tell me. Maybe this
will give you a chance to think things over, you
know some you might even learn the difference between fear
and respect. All right, now that you two get go
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with your permission, I like to quote an excerpt from
a speech by that old political character Elijah Cuddlestone, And
I say, if we'll stayed and declare that is that
pork barrel appropriations are not going to be our salvation.
We must I say, we have to get up on
our hind legs. I mean you stand up and fight
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for our own improvements. The pork barrel is poor ropers,
I mean the greedy and the weak. Who that is
that term pork barrel? You know what it means? Well,
pork is fat, and fat, for hundreds of years has
meant plenty, abundance. You shall eat the fat of the land.
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About one hundred years ago, in the halls of Congress,
fat meaning lucrative or rewarding, became pork. And about fifty
years ago, when congressmen sought larger appropriations for such things
as bridges, harbor or river improvements, public buildings, and so
forth to impress their constituents, they were accused of seeking
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pork barrel appropriations. Guns Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald,
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stars William Conrad as Matt dyllon Us Marshall. Featured in
the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc,
and Georgia Ellis as Kiddy George Walls Speaking. Join us
again next week for another specially transcribed story on Guns Smoke.
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