August 18, 2025 • 25 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And the performance.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So mister Frank Lovejoy auto light hopes once again to
keep you in house spend.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I done a lot of living for a kid eighteen
years old. And right then I got field time beginning
to run out. That was a nice thing. Had us
hold up in the old McSween house and the place
burning all around us.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And oh man mc sween's sitting there.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Reading his Bible, and then Charlie pulldron on and we
had to make a break.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
I's getting hot all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Billy went to go be still got time. We're only
a good smoke day, you set, Holly, no time to
be smoked cigarets is We've been a tiny ones.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
In this, haven't we.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Charlie?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Maybe you have what I am. You realize we've gotta
run ten feet of them pulls out.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Therefore we can make it to the woods.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
If we made it to the woods, we'll make.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It some of it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I falling now, Ain't that convenient?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Just what I need to light my smoke?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, ready to go, Charlie, I get home. Good luck.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Start holding.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He made it, mister mcsweeny made it. You in alight
woman my gun.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I've never a kid and done yet be it I
do nothing, can do now.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
He should killy my bible. He stood me in good
stead for many years, a bible against them. Say it
might work. It might just work at that. You step
up there where they can see you holding it, and
I won't fire when you start across. All right now,
(01:57):
I woke in the valley.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Is a schedule?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Get this week? They shut it? Nothing but a five
moment his hand. They can shut it. I can't go
(02:20):
that don't care goes nothing. Well, come on, I'm waiting.
Let's go for it. I mean Daniel fellas around and
(02:45):
when I do, watch out. Uh. The Lincoln County War
they call that one.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
There's a field between two cattle care and me nothing
but a working hand. It seems like they blamed the
whole thing's square around me just because it was Billy,
a kid, a tough little Vonnat that had killed sixteen men.
From then on it was me running and then closing in.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And just a matter of time. That was when I
first met Pat Garrett.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Me and Charlie was hit out on the mountain. Oh,
I'll never forget the first sight I of all Pat.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
See Billy, look here?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
What is it? Free? The ball lanky.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Uh really, thank's pretty ned dragging the ground over that
poor little pool?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
What's he doing up here?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, hony mind if I pull up a spell. It's
a free country up in these parts anyway. We just
passed through.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Not exactly your abillity to kid?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Aren't you keep your hands and playing? Sight? Mister? You
get down off that horse? Really?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's better? Well you're looking for Billy the kid that's right?
You want with him? I got a message for him.
You from the law.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
No, the message is loof You made a kind of
law like Bob Hollinger in that bunch of Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I got no time for it. You are the kid,
that's right?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
What do you want? I got a message from General
lou Wallace.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Who's General Wallace?
Speaker 7 (04:37):
You governor of New Mexico?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
President A has disappointed him. He's waiting for you, don Lincoln.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Now, you crazy mister, you think either one of us.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Would ride back into that town after what's happened. I
wait a minute, Charlie, you see what's your name of it? Garrett?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Do you say this man was sent all the way
out here by the president who wants to talk to me, right,
But because of the President of the United States, I
don't see how I.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Can very well say no, Billy, I'm going You'll guarantee
your safe conduct.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
As far as he can.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I know what you mean, Billy. You know Bob Ollinger
will never let you get out of that town alive. Yeah,
I'm kind of curious about that myself. By the way,
mister Garrett, whatever made him send you?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
You were a stranger on here, Rachel, guess that's the reason.
Seems they couldn't find nobody elsen Lincoln.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
That took much to the notion that tracking down that, Well.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Where's your tongue with Lincoln?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's her?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
And if there ain't Bob owner during the rest then
and on front of Murphy's store, just like they were.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Waiting for some buddy.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
There you are.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We're got around even four or live and I guess
it you're on your own now, kid, I'm staying here, somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
No, I'm just staying on my side of the wall.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What's that supposed to me?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, if I was to ride in there with you
and Bob volunteer and then started shooting the next thing
you know, I'd be shooting back and the next thing
you know, I'd be in the same Sorry, so does if.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You are, that's good, I answered, I've been seen.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You around, ah, Billy, I've I'm I hear you in
the law around here.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Now book when I come looking for you, Bob, you'll
know it right now, I'm looking for General Wallace. Smart kid,
you know where you'll find the General's sitting down down
of course the old evis Thanks, Bob, I don't want
know thanks for you nothing, generalizes.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yes, you wanted to talk to me, I'm telling you
the kid that you're so young.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Shall we go inside, Billy?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
All right, General, I'd want to talk to you privately.
Thanks a lot of paperwork you got on that desk. General, Well,
i'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm writing a book.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Then, about ancient role. I never had him at school.
I know I know quite a lot about you, Billy.
But now, if you listen to the way they tell
it around here, you.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Know I've heard both sides. I know you didn't start
the Lincoln Tommy Wolf single hand. But frankly, Billy, the
whole country has been shocked by the lassness and bloodshed
out here. Some people seem to think you had had a.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I thought for my side just like the others did
for theirs. That's all. May be.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
The point is I have been sent all the way
out here for the President of the United States to
put a stuff to him. Billy, I want you to
take off your gun now, and I want.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You to stand trial.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I don't mean to disrespectful, General, but do you see
that bunch of men standing from the Murcury store. Yes,
I think guy could walk past that store without my
guns and get past it a line.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Asteris now. That's because I had my gun, and it's
a standing trial. I couldn't get any kind of a
trial in New Mexico.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
All right, Billy, I'm going to make you a proposition.
If you stand trial and you are convicted, I personally will.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Promise you a full, immediate heart, full time. And then what.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Settle down?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
General?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
When mister McSween walked out in front of that mob,
who was a man that never carried a gun in
his life, all he had in his hand was a butt,
shut him down in cold blood. Ah, General, I got
a few.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Scores to heave it up before I settled down.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Maybe it was faith.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I don't know, because Pat Garrett and me got to
be real good friends.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
After that. I was hanging around Fort Sumner and so
was he, and we used to see a whole lot
of each other. And then I didn't see him around.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
For quite a while until one day I walked in
the Joise ball Dez saloon. Ha ha, carrot, you walk
out of a.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Gun a lot of that's right. How about a drink
on me? What's he can till? Hollise your thing?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Billy?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
He've been keeping yourself lately? Back? Oh, I've been here
and there. Yeah, I've been hearing about some of those
places you've been, have you. Hey, he's not better the kids,
that's right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Who's that heading over here?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Joe Grant from Texas? Makes to think he's a pretty
hard kids. Hope, ain't gonna have that kind of trouble
against that?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You know better?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The kid age?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And you're Joe Grant? Who you hear about me?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Heavy?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I heard he tell you? What buy the better?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I killed a man today for you do.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I don't even kill a man today or tomorrow or anytime.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
You think I don't meet it?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He lays twenty five dollars cash money right on the bar.
Who's there to hold the stakes? How would I want
to make a bet like that? You're scared of losing it?
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Alright, Joe, there's my twenty five to see that you
don't kill nobody that don't desert you?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Would you worried about that? I expect he'll sleep.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
It offer and do any damage.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, was we a? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
We was talking about the places you've heard i'd been
And yeah, I heard you've been talking to the Cattleman's Association.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And I heard they've been talking about making you sheriff.
That's right. I mean, I hate to see that.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
His territory is gonna be his state someday, believe some
day soon, and the state's gotta have some law.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
For instance, you've been living off other men's cattle for
the last two years.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
That's the kind of thing in an after start, And uh,
if you was the law, you had stunt, Yeah, I
would any Joe Grant's.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Coming back over here, nice cause they here to come
smart and I wasn't free of something.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
My kids.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Oh hello, Joe.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Said, can I help him?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I'm collecting that be to begin.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You seen Andrew first. You all seen that, didn't You
Just moved along with that alright, the rest of your
fellows just take it easy. That way, there won't be
no trouble.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
But your horse right alongside yours unless you let me
take a little ride, might not be a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know what happened?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I clean forgot to collect that twenty five dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Bet that tell me something. But you're gonna take that
cart job.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
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Speaker 5 (13:17):
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Speaker 3 (14:03):
With Arnold, we were talking about spring right, and spring
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Speaker 2 (14:08):
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Speaker 6 (14:49):
After Garrett got to be sheriff the cards was done.
Nothing now but to wait for the show down.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And I guess I knew it too.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Somehow I couldn't bring myself to leave the country. That's
how he happened to be holed up. And the old
shepherd has had a stinking springs. It was early the
next morning when you figured to move out, Charle Houst,
any time, I guess, Charlie, I better beat the horses.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Dam Yeah, why.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Charlie, you hit that. I tried to draw right down here,
I said, damn, don't talk like that. Really, I want
to parse parse. I've done some pretty bad things in
my life.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'd like to get him up my kiss before I die.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
How we gonna get a person out here?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Talk to catart asking?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Did all right? Charlie? I Garanton believe I want a parley?
Will you come in? I won't hurt you. Back your
I won't hurt you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Charlie's dying. He wants a priest. Can you send it
back to town?
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Will it believe you can take kiss as a compliment
or not?
Speaker 7 (16:28):
But I don't dare spare the menus to send a
couple and you used to give away?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Are you trying to bargain over the dying man's last wish?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
There's been too much already about you and me being
the friends that's all over. Maybe I wish you'd give
yourself up. You don't.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
We're gonna kill you.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
The night or tomorrow or.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The next day.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
I don't want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
She dying.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I'm here at your row.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
You didn't you?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Pat it?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
All right? Pat, here's my gun. Tell your men we're
coming out with our hands up.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
So they caught me at last, and the trial was
just like I said it would be short and sweet.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And me sentenced to hang on the thirteenth of May.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And they took me back to the jail and Lincoln
handcotts and leg irons and two deputies to guide me
day and night.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And who were they?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Jack Bell and my old friend Bob Ollinger? Know what
day it is?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Did they get twenty eighth? Unless I miss gun? You didn't,
mis kid? You can The day is just the same same.
Why don't you lay up the kid, Bob? Oh, let
him have his fun? Jack from fifteen more days for you? Kidd?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Did you be a dance at the end of Google?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I think you mighty happy, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Bob?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You don't know the truth. It would be the happiest
day in my life. Uh, maybe it will, maybe it won't.
Lots of things gonna happen. And since he did, you
figure I'll make it bring.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I just hope you try it.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You see this double barrel shot and yeah, I see
it and I've seen it before.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's loaded with eighteen bucks?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Is anything I want more? And see you hang?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's a chance to kidding.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yourself born and cans.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Everything right up here, just fine and dandy. The boy
is treating you right.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Believe everything that condemned man could want In putting Bob's
daily lecture on the fine art of.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Hanging, I thought I'd told you to cut that out.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Uh, just raging all that.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Well, I gotta go to White Oaks today, won't be
back to tomorrow. So uh, I want you to to
take good care of my boy.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And you don't worry about that. I'm going on with lunch.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You got him like getting back jack and I sped,
what about?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Sorry about a voluntier billy.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I know he's a mean devil, but he's a devil.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Don't have to but he want a job. Oh, I
don't mind. In fact, there's any kind of glad.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's kids.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That man. Nothing much the pat Yeah, but he going
to White Oak School.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
His business. I heard about that business. You could get
the man to build a gallops. I'll be going along
with all ring back with the gallows.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Had to be ashamed of me. I never got to
use him. How about who gave a black jacket block
gets back through to me?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Got the guard right here?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You want a bucket or banking, I'll bank it. I
feel lucky today. Got a bump to the table.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I not too close to Billy.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I would want you to go making a grab with
his gun in my bill. Now, how can a man
in the leg ays and handcuffs to do a thing
like that? I can hardly make out to play my cards,
do I wish I was playing for money instead of matches.
I'd feel real lucky. I'm sorry I dropped the card
on the farm stop.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I said, all right, I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Hey, you want my gun, I ain't sure I have jack.
I'll use it on you if I have to work.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Just don't make any.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Wrong moves and you'll be all right. I'm gonna lock
you up in a safe place, and then I'm gonna
wait for good old Bob. I'll open that door and
start watching down that hole. You can't stop. I had
(20:49):
ed to do that one, but I couldn't help it.
I had to move fast.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now I slipped the cops.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I'd always know and I could do that easy. I
started back to the front of the building.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Then I seen Bob Ollinger shotgun leaning there against the wall.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I grabbed it up and went over and hit by
the open window that looks out on the street.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
And sure enough, the next thing I see is old
Bob hurrying down the street with his sixth gun.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
In his hat. Yeah everything up there, Hello Bob? Really
that's right, and looking at you right down the barrel
of that Shotgunna yours.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I had a blacksmith cut off my leg irons, and
that was when I should have left the gun for sure,
But still I couldn't do it. Sat again maybe, but
then there was a girl in Fort Sumner never mind,
but there wasn't true.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Oh there, it's me. What so late? I didn't think
you were coming, I said I would Greekly people. You
two the most stile, they say, type of garrits.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
You fell had?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Or all cats down around this curse? You thought I
had something?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I don't know what they say?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You kid, what are you gonna do? Do you hide
and run like this forever? I'm not done, o' donald.
I wanna settle down, like like they always said I should.
I go to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
You're going with me?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Will you let me see? You don't seen the dark
in the morning would be over the morning in a
couple of days. I'm half stared. Do you got anything
to you?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No, only the bread and but be next on gilette?
You do they ad go by for me for knocking. No,
let's just next door and pizzam all the time.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Did you be killing?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Don't worry? I me right back.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Ah e j.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Go with it. You know what they amount of joun?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
She go is?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Eg? The is it?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Let be?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wizards hate?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Hey hate? What's kiddy for a sleep? No?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Beauty?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
So dog, I can't see nothing. Who's that Fellah out
on the porch?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
He hes was made though, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I'm sorry it had to be me sounds.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
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Here once again is our star, Frank Lovejoy.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Thank you, Harlow and ladies and gentlemen. May I thank
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appearance on suspense in.
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The Wreck of the All ninety seven. We have the
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
So mister Frank Lovejoy auto light hopes once again to
keep you in house spend.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I done a lot of living for a kid eighteen
years old. And right then I got field time beginning
to run out. That was a nice thing. Had us
hold up in the old McSween house and the place
burning all around us.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And oh man mc sween's sitting there.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Reading his Bible, and then Charlie pulldron on and we
had to make a break.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
I's getting hot all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Billy went to go be still got time. We're only
a good smoke day, you set, Holly, no time to
be smoked cigarets is We've been a tiny ones.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
In this, haven't we.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Charlie?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Maybe you have what I am. You realize we've gotta
run ten feet of them pulls out.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Therefore we can make it to the woods.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
If we made it to the woods, we'll make.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It some of it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I falling now, Ain't that convenient?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Just what I need to light my smoke?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, ready to go, Charlie, I get home. Good luck.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Start holding.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He made it, mister mcsweeny made it. You in alight
woman my gun.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I've never a kid and done yet be it I
do nothing, can do now.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
He should killy my bible. He stood me in good
stead for many years, a bible against them. Say it
might work. It might just work at that. You step
up there where they can see you holding it, and
I won't fire when you start across. All right now,
(01:57):
I woke in the valley.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Is a schedule?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Get this week? They shut it? Nothing but a five
moment his hand. They can shut it. I can't go
(02:20):
that don't care goes nothing. Well, come on, I'm waiting.
Let's go for it. I mean Daniel fellas around and
(02:45):
when I do, watch out. Uh. The Lincoln County War
they call that one.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
There's a field between two cattle care and me nothing
but a working hand. It seems like they blamed the
whole thing's square around me just because it was Billy,
a kid, a tough little Vonnat that had killed sixteen men.
From then on it was me running and then closing in.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And just a matter of time. That was when I
first met Pat Garrett.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Me and Charlie was hit out on the mountain. Oh,
I'll never forget the first sight I of all Pat.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
See Billy, look here?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
What is it? Free? The ball lanky.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Uh really, thank's pretty ned dragging the ground over that
poor little pool?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
What's he doing up here?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, hony mind if I pull up a spell. It's
a free country up in these parts anyway. We just
passed through.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Not exactly your abillity to kid?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Aren't you keep your hands and playing? Sight? Mister? You
get down off that horse? Really?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's better? Well you're looking for Billy the kid that's right?
You want with him? I got a message for him.
You from the law.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
No, the message is loof You made a kind of
law like Bob Hollinger in that bunch of Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I got no time for it. You are the kid,
that's right?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
What do you want? I got a message from General
lou Wallace.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Who's General Wallace?
Speaker 7 (04:37):
You governor of New Mexico?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
President A has disappointed him. He's waiting for you, don Lincoln.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Now, you crazy mister, you think either one of us.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Would ride back into that town after what's happened. I
wait a minute, Charlie, you see what's your name of it? Garrett?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Do you say this man was sent all the way
out here by the president who wants to talk to me, right,
But because of the President of the United States, I
don't see how I.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Can very well say no, Billy, I'm going You'll guarantee
your safe conduct.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
As far as he can.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I know what you mean, Billy. You know Bob Ollinger
will never let you get out of that town alive. Yeah,
I'm kind of curious about that myself. By the way,
mister Garrett, whatever made him send you?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
You were a stranger on here, Rachel, guess that's the reason.
Seems they couldn't find nobody elsen Lincoln.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
That took much to the notion that tracking down that, Well.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Where's your tongue with Lincoln?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's her?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
And if there ain't Bob owner during the rest then
and on front of Murphy's store, just like they were.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Waiting for some buddy.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
There you are.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We're got around even four or live and I guess
it you're on your own now, kid, I'm staying here, somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
No, I'm just staying on my side of the wall.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What's that supposed to me?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, if I was to ride in there with you
and Bob volunteer and then started shooting the next thing
you know, I'd be shooting back and the next thing
you know, I'd be in the same Sorry, so does if.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You are, that's good, I answered, I've been seen.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You around, ah, Billy, I've I'm I hear you in
the law around here.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Now book when I come looking for you, Bob, you'll
know it right now, I'm looking for General Wallace. Smart kid,
you know where you'll find the General's sitting down down
of course the old evis Thanks, Bob, I don't want
know thanks for you nothing, generalizes.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yes, you wanted to talk to me, I'm telling you
the kid that you're so young.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Shall we go inside, Billy?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
All right, General, I'd want to talk to you privately.
Thanks a lot of paperwork you got on that desk. General, Well,
i'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm writing a book.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Then, about ancient role. I never had him at school.
I know I know quite a lot about you, Billy.
But now, if you listen to the way they tell
it around here, you.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Know I've heard both sides. I know you didn't start
the Lincoln Tommy Wolf single hand. But frankly, Billy, the
whole country has been shocked by the lassness and bloodshed
out here. Some people seem to think you had had a.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I thought for my side just like the others did
for theirs. That's all. May be.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
The point is I have been sent all the way
out here for the President of the United States to
put a stuff to him. Billy, I want you to
take off your gun now, and I want.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You to stand trial.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I don't mean to disrespectful, General, but do you see
that bunch of men standing from the Murcury store. Yes,
I think guy could walk past that store without my
guns and get past it a line.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Asteris now. That's because I had my gun, and it's
a standing trial. I couldn't get any kind of a
trial in New Mexico.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
All right, Billy, I'm going to make you a proposition.
If you stand trial and you are convicted, I personally will.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Promise you a full, immediate heart, full time. And then what.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Settle down?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
General?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
When mister McSween walked out in front of that mob,
who was a man that never carried a gun in
his life, all he had in his hand was a butt,
shut him down in cold blood. Ah, General, I got
a few.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Scores to heave it up before I settled down.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Maybe it was faith.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I don't know, because Pat Garrett and me got to
be real good friends.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
After that. I was hanging around Fort Sumner and so
was he, and we used to see a whole lot
of each other. And then I didn't see him around.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
For quite a while until one day I walked in
the Joise ball Dez saloon. Ha ha, carrot, you walk
out of a.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Gun a lot of that's right. How about a drink
on me? What's he can till? Hollise your thing?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Billy?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
He've been keeping yourself lately? Back? Oh, I've been here
and there. Yeah, I've been hearing about some of those
places you've been, have you. Hey, he's not better the kids,
that's right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Who's that heading over here?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Joe Grant from Texas? Makes to think he's a pretty
hard kids. Hope, ain't gonna have that kind of trouble
against that?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You know better?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The kid age?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And you're Joe Grant? Who you hear about me?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Heavy?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I heard he tell you? What buy the better?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I killed a man today for you do.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I don't even kill a man today or tomorrow or anytime.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
You think I don't meet it?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He lays twenty five dollars cash money right on the bar.
Who's there to hold the stakes? How would I want
to make a bet like that? You're scared of losing it?
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Alright, Joe, there's my twenty five to see that you
don't kill nobody that don't desert you?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Would you worried about that? I expect he'll sleep.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
It offer and do any damage.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, was we a? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
We was talking about the places you've heard i'd been
And yeah, I heard you've been talking to the Cattleman's Association.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And I heard they've been talking about making you sheriff.
That's right. I mean, I hate to see that.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
His territory is gonna be his state someday, believe some
day soon, and the state's gotta have some law.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
For instance, you've been living off other men's cattle for
the last two years.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
That's the kind of thing in an after start, And uh,
if you was the law, you had stunt, Yeah, I
would any Joe Grant's.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Coming back over here, nice cause they here to come
smart and I wasn't free of something.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
My kids.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Oh hello, Joe.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Said, can I help him?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I'm collecting that be to begin.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You seen Andrew first. You all seen that, didn't You
Just moved along with that alright, the rest of your
fellows just take it easy. That way, there won't be
no trouble.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
But your horse right alongside yours unless you let me
take a little ride, might not be a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know what happened?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I clean forgot to collect that twenty five dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Bet that tell me something. But you're gonna take that
cart job.
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Speaker 6 (14:49):
After Garrett got to be sheriff the cards was done.
Nothing now but to wait for the show down.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And I guess I knew it too.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Somehow I couldn't bring myself to leave the country. That's
how he happened to be holed up. And the old
shepherd has had a stinking springs. It was early the
next morning when you figured to move out, Charle Houst,
any time, I guess, Charlie, I better beat the horses.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Dam Yeah, why.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Charlie, you hit that. I tried to draw right down here,
I said, damn, don't talk like that. Really, I want
to parse parse. I've done some pretty bad things in
my life.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'd like to get him up my kiss before I die.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
How we gonna get a person out here?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Talk to catart asking?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Did all right? Charlie? I Garanton believe I want a parley?
Will you come in? I won't hurt you. Back your
I won't hurt you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Charlie's dying. He wants a priest. Can you send it
back to town?
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Will it believe you can take kiss as a compliment
or not?
Speaker 7 (16:28):
But I don't dare spare the menus to send a
couple and you used to give away?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Are you trying to bargain over the dying man's last wish?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
There's been too much already about you and me being
the friends that's all over. Maybe I wish you'd give
yourself up. You don't.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
We're gonna kill you.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
The night or tomorrow or.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The next day.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
I don't want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
She dying.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I'm here at your row.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
You didn't you?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Pat it?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
All right? Pat, here's my gun. Tell your men we're
coming out with our hands up.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
So they caught me at last, and the trial was
just like I said it would be short and sweet.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And me sentenced to hang on the thirteenth of May.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And they took me back to the jail and Lincoln
handcotts and leg irons and two deputies to guide me
day and night.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And who were they?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Jack Bell and my old friend Bob Ollinger? Know what
day it is?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Did they get twenty eighth? Unless I miss gun? You didn't,
mis kid? You can The day is just the same same.
Why don't you lay up the kid, Bob? Oh, let
him have his fun? Jack from fifteen more days for you? Kidd?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Did you be a dance at the end of Google?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I think you mighty happy, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Bob?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You don't know the truth. It would be the happiest
day in my life. Uh, maybe it will, maybe it won't.
Lots of things gonna happen. And since he did, you
figure I'll make it bring.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I just hope you try it.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You see this double barrel shot and yeah, I see
it and I've seen it before.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's loaded with eighteen bucks?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Is anything I want more? And see you hang?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's a chance to kidding.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yourself born and cans.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Everything right up here, just fine and dandy. The boy
is treating you right.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Believe everything that condemned man could want In putting Bob's
daily lecture on the fine art of.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Hanging, I thought I'd told you to cut that out.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Uh, just raging all that.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Well, I gotta go to White Oaks today, won't be
back to tomorrow. So uh, I want you to to
take good care of my boy.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And you don't worry about that. I'm going on with lunch.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You got him like getting back jack and I sped,
what about?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Sorry about a voluntier billy.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I know he's a mean devil, but he's a devil.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Don't have to but he want a job. Oh, I
don't mind. In fact, there's any kind of glad.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's kids.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That man. Nothing much the pat Yeah, but he going
to White Oak School.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
His business. I heard about that business. You could get
the man to build a gallops. I'll be going along
with all ring back with the gallows.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Had to be ashamed of me. I never got to
use him. How about who gave a black jacket block
gets back through to me?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Got the guard right here?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You want a bucket or banking, I'll bank it. I
feel lucky today. Got a bump to the table.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I not too close to Billy.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I would want you to go making a grab with
his gun in my bill. Now, how can a man
in the leg ays and handcuffs to do a thing
like that? I can hardly make out to play my cards,
do I wish I was playing for money instead of matches.
I'd feel real lucky. I'm sorry I dropped the card
on the farm stop.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I said, all right, I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Hey, you want my gun, I ain't sure I have jack.
I'll use it on you if I have to work.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Just don't make any.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Wrong moves and you'll be all right. I'm gonna lock
you up in a safe place, and then I'm gonna
wait for good old Bob. I'll open that door and
start watching down that hole. You can't stop. I had
(20:49):
ed to do that one, but I couldn't help it.
I had to move fast.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now I slipped the cops.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I'd always know and I could do that easy. I
started back to the front of the building.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Then I seen Bob Ollinger shotgun leaning there against the wall.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I grabbed it up and went over and hit by
the open window that looks out on the street.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
And sure enough, the next thing I see is old
Bob hurrying down the street with his sixth gun.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
In his hat. Yeah everything up there, Hello Bob? Really
that's right, and looking at you right down the barrel
of that Shotgunna yours.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I had a blacksmith cut off my leg irons, and
that was when I should have left the gun for sure,
But still I couldn't do it. Sat again maybe, but
then there was a girl in Fort Sumner never mind,
but there wasn't true.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Oh there, it's me. What so late? I didn't think
you were coming, I said I would Greekly people. You
two the most stile, they say, type of garrits.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
You fell had?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Or all cats down around this curse? You thought I
had something?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I don't know what they say?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You kid, what are you gonna do? Do you hide
and run like this forever? I'm not done, o' donald.
I wanna settle down, like like they always said I should.
I go to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
You're going with me?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Will you let me see? You don't seen the dark
in the morning would be over the morning in a
couple of days. I'm half stared. Do you got anything
to you?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No, only the bread and but be next on gilette?
You do they ad go by for me for knocking. No,
let's just next door and pizzam all the time.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Did you be killing?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Don't worry? I me right back.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Ah e j.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Go with it. You know what they amount of joun?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
She go is?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Eg? The is it?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Let be?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wizards hate?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Hey hate? What's kiddy for a sleep? No?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Beauty?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
So dog, I can't see nothing. Who's that Fellah out
on the porch?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
He hes was made though, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
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