December 18, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Todd City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US marshal and the smell of
gun smoke, gun smokes hurrying William Conrad. The story of
(00:41):
the violence that moved west with Young America. The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United
States marshal.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Ah, you know, Chester, A morning like this makes a
man glad to be alive.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh it's a fine one, all right, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, you a nippy.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Moavie, but just fine.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Indian summer hanging on and winter hold him off. You know, Chester,
this time of year, I wouldn't trade western Kansas for
everything east of the Mississippi. Ah. Good, Petro's got a
fire going.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I built the fire, Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Good morning, Caleb.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I'm letting in his jail office for a full two hours.
What time you start work, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know Caleb Andrews, don't you, Chester?
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yes, indeed, high mister Andrews.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Marshall, I have an audio here from the US District Court.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I believe it's your job to serve such orders.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, it is. I don't get them off and though
order of foreclosure and eviction on Ed Blake. Why are
you doing this to Ed Caleb?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
The man borrowed money from me, gave me a mortgage
on his farm and household effects.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He can't pay it. Why do you think I'm doing it?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It only came due three days ago. You shouldn't waste
any time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I'm not interested in your opinions, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Dylan em out of the mortgage four hundred and twenty dollars.
What do you need with four hundred and twenty dollars
your own half of Ford County.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Now, Marshall, it's not your place.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You know as well as I do. Why Ed Blake
can't pay this off? His horse rolled on him last
spring and broke his leg, and his wife and kid
nearly broke their backs trying to get a crop out.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I didn't come here to listen to you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Let this ride on for the winter. You'll get your
money out of it. If you go ahead and foreclosed now,
you'll wipe him out.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Marshall, I already have foreclosed.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
He would break a man for four hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You don't even need, As I said, your opinions don't
interest me. All I expect from you is to serve
these papers.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
All right, I'll serve them.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
You'll notice that to be served today.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I said i'd serve them. Now get out. What this
office belongs to the United States government, As far as
I know, that's one thing you've got no mortgage on.
So get out.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You may find I have some influence in Washington, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Dillon, and see if you can get me a decent
salary for this rotten job of mine.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It sure was a fine morning, mister Dylon.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, it was all right. Chester. Let's saddle up.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
This is one job I purely wish we didn't have
to do, mister Dylon. Yeah, my, this shore is a
nice farm. Ed and Martha put in a lot of
work here in the last four years.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
We don't have any choice, Chester.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, sure, I know. It's a downright shame though.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Hey Marshall, oh ooh hi, Jimmy, look here what I got, Marshall. Wow,
looks to me like a mighty dead kyo.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Sure that's what it is. He's been killing my chicken.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
So last night I hit off behind the bar.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, I got him with.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
One shot, mister Dylan, and there wasn't even a full move.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, it's fine, Jimmy, man Dylan, how are you? Oh,
good morning Martha, and Chester too.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Miss Blake.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Well I'm glad to see you get down.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Come on in.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Thank you, Jimmy, now that you showed that thing that
mister Dylan take it away somewhere all right.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
He sure is a big one eating mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, about the biggest I ever saw it, Jimmy.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
He's real proud of those chickens of his. He's done
fine with him. Well here I am though, keeping you
standing out here in the yard. Come on, let's go in.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, we really can't stay Martha.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Oh nonsense, you don't get out here once in a
coon's eight. Yeah, I know, but and you're just in
time your favorite dish math.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
I was about to take it out of the oven
when you rode up.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Corn bread, buttermilk corn bread.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
It's right, Ed's not here, But you will say, won't you?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, Martha, I'd like to, but well we just can't.
That's all the thing is that you say. Ed's away.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Yes, he's in town. Man, you're not yourself?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What is it? Well? I suppose I ought to talk
to Ed about this, but maybe it'll be better if
he hears it from you. Here's what, Martha, I got
a court arder here. It has to do with that
mortgage with Caleb Andrews. It's an order of foreclosure and
eviction and sale.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
No, oh, no, here it is.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
We were so sure he'd extended, you know, it was
what happened why we couldn't pay it.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
He was sure he'd extended.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well he won't.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
I talked to him, Matt, how long before we have
to get out?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Five days so soon?
Speaker 9 (06:26):
You were right, Matt, it is better than that. Here's
it for me, coming on top of everything else. It'll well,
I can't let it break him. I just can't let
it break him.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Martha. If there's anything I can do, you you let
me know.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Huh, Matt, I I don't blame you for this. I understand. Well,
come on in now and have some corn bread with you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well I couldn't. I'm sorry, thank you anyway, Masa. Oh
well I just couldn't.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Mad, you looked low all week.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's just things in general, kiddies. Sometimes you get to
wondering if it's all.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Worth it, or Blake's Chester is telling.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Me Chester talks too much.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
It's not your fault, Matt. Somebody had to serve the order.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Somebody has to be hangman too.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Life's never all good, Matt. There's always a little bad
in it.
Speaker 11 (07:31):
And my job is more than a little Try making
a living sometime as a dancehold girl.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I guess. But when you've got to go out
and boot somebody like the Blake's off their land and
out of their home, then you start wondering what's right
and what's.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Wrong, and so well you can find out, Matt. Let
me know, I've always.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Oh, there you are, Marshall and I stopped by the jail.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Not all right, Caleb, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Blake family, Marshall, they were supposed to vacate today. They
haven't done it. I rode by there a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
According to the court order, they got until sundown that they.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Haven't made the slightest preparation. To Marshall, I believe I'd prefer.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
To discuss our business elsewhere then, in.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The presence of this this easy calem map, Calcolm, Caleb,
you're gonna apologize to miss Kitty right now?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
No apologize if you think I'm going to apologize to
this cheap little baggage who was in this.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Matt just shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Again. Take him outside and throw some water on him.
Why not, Kitty, he had it coming to him.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
We'll do everything it can to hurt you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Now.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
He'll take it out on the Blakes too.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah. Maybe, look, Kitty, I just got an idea. I'll
see you later, all right, Matt.
Speaker 12 (09:10):
But Man, the mere fact a man runs a bank
doesn't always mean he's got a free hand and everything
he does. A bank has stockholders, a board of directors.
I've got to listen to him.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I think they'd approve the loan, Clem.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Another thing, Caleb and Andrews is the biggest account I've got.
If I crossed him by taking this loan, you suggest, Matt,
he'd break me.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I see, all right, Clym.
Speaker 12 (09:34):
Forget it, man, I realize I'm under obligation, do you.
He saved my life that time the James Brothers held
me up. Saved the bank too, in fact, But.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That was part of my job. Clem. There's no obligation.
I was just asking you as a friend to help
out another friend. Matt.
Speaker 12 (09:50):
I'd like to do it, but I just can't don't
just see. Yeah, sure, Clem, I see. Just forget it.
Good to think of my wife and the two girls.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, crush you have.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's not that I don't want.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I understand, Clem. I really do forget it.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
There holy a while.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That fire feels kind of good. Mister Dylan. It's getting
chillish out tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I guess we better have pedro lay in some
more wood.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Yes, sir, when winter sets, ten dollars makes you feel
good to know you've got a warm place to hold up.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
He mighty rough not to have a.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Not to Yeah, I was thinking of the same thing. Chester.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
You suppose they vacated this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't know. We'll ride out there in the morning
and find out.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Sure, he's a shame.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He's just too bad to come in. Can we bother you?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Bother you man?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Ed?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh, come in, come in? I said, well, hi you Jimmy, Ah, Well,
come on up to the stow folks. Come on, Matt.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
The fact is that we we kind of liked to
impose on you for tonight. We haven't got any place
to go, no money. I wondered if we could sleep
in the jail tonight. Oh sure, ed.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Chester, when you got a fire going back there? All right,
mister Dillan, dig up some blankets out of the store room.
Huh yes, want to come help me, Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Jimmy, now.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
You go along with Chester, No boy, go on all right?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Ye, he doesn't understand all this, mat.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He uh, Ed, we may as well get your stuff
out of the wagon.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I guess well, there ain't a wagon.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Man. We walk into town six miles with that leg
I know, but that wagon, the horses, all the household goods,
they're all covered by that mortgage. We didn't take anything
except the clothes in our backs, So help me, Ed,
all right, Matt.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
We know how you feel. After all, we started with
nothing before. We can do it again.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But there's no reason they should have to.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
We do have to, though, and that's it, Ed, and
I can accept it. We're not bitter any longer. Jimmy
can't understand. He's he's been carrying on pretty bad. But
he's just a boy, and in time he'll be able
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, what is it? Chester, Jimmy?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
He grabbed a rifle from off the rack and took
out the back way.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I couldn't stop.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Where our nerd'sy going?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I think I know where he's going. Heaven help Caleb Andrews.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
If we don't catch him.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, that widely traveled man
of music, mister Vaughn Monroe, will land in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
this Saturday night. The moon Maids, the Moonman, and the
Monroe Ensemble will be on hand to enlive in the session.
Remember tomorrow night and every Saturday evening it's Von Monroe
and his musical caravan on most of these same CBS
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radio stations. Now the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
It's mister Andrews's house here on the corner, looks dark,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, he may not be home. I sure hope he isn't.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No sign of the boy around. Reckon. He broke in
the house, Mit, you're.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Dealing maybe and he hots ten to one. This is
where he headed for. His mother said he was real
upset about it. And it's just like a kid, that Chester.
M there's somebody back of that tree up there on
the left.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
M Yeah, I think it's him.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't know. Just keep on walking. Yeah, I see
him all right, I can see the moonlight on the
rifle barrel. Will we try to rush him, mister dill
not unless you're thinking of suicide. I'm gonna talk to
him Chester, jim it's me, Matt Dillon.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Going mister Jillon, they're going on far.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I can't do that, Jimmy. You're a friend of mine
and I figure you're waiting here to do something that
you'd be sorry for, and I can't let.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
You do that.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Nothing you can do about it, mister Jillan, I gotta gun.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
You're not gonna kill you going on?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Leave me all, Jimmy. I know how you feel. I
don't like Caleb either, but killer name is no answer.
Your folks feel bad enough already. Think how it would
hurt him if you do.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Mister, I'll stay where you are. Don't go any closer.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I have to, Jimmy, it's my job. So if you're
going through with this, I guess you'll have to kill
me first. No, no, mister Dylan, I'll stay back. I'm sorry, Jimmy.
I don't have a choice, but you do.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
No.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
No, you kill mister Dylon that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Sure. I knew you couldn't.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I keep waking up nice and cheering, mong crying can
and sit up all night without the lamplet, no fire,
say anything.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Just easy now, Jimmy, what are you doing? Jimmy, listen
to me. Will you do something for a friend?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Yeah, you say so?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right, and take that rifle back to the jail
and put it in the rack and go to bed.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Now, you promise, Yeah, I promise, mister Dylan.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'll do like you say. You're all right, Jimmy, good night, son.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
I could have told you Clem Bates wouldn't do anything
math you wouldn't dare he'd be scared Caleb would take
his money out of the bank.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, that's about what he said. I don't know, Kitty.
I've done everything I could possibly think.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
All the worst of it is.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
Everybody in town's just as scared of Caleb as Clem is.
I doubt if they'll even have a nerve to bit
against him at the sale.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, I know he'll probably get to place it. Not
much more than the amount of the mortgage.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Four hundred and twenty dollars, Matt. I've seen more than
that change hands across a poker table here in one deal.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I think that's all it takes.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I big your pardon, miss Kitty.
Speaker 14 (17:45):
Oh, of course, Jack, I'm not using one eavesdrop on people.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But I have been listening to.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
You too, Jack. Have you met Marshall Villan?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
No, I haven't had the plank.
Speaker 14 (17:55):
The reason I butted in, miss Kitty, I heard you
talking about these people losing their home.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't know this fellow blake.
Speaker 14 (18:01):
He's never done any business over my table and probably
never will.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
No, I don't think he's ever been in here.
Speaker 14 (18:07):
And I don't know if this will make sense, But
the thing is, I left home when I was ten
years old, and I've been drifting ever since. When I
see somebody like this blake that sticks it out and
works and fights and then gets a raw deal or
what I'm getting mad, here's fifty dollars if that'll help money.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Oh Jack, Well, this is awful decent of your jack Man.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
I said a while ago that nearly everyone in town
was afraid of Kaileeb.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Well, there's some launch like Jack here and me and
the rest of the dealers and the gamblers and the girls,
the bartenders.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That's right, miss Kitty, Because we're drifters.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
We got nothing to lose.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Matt, I'll raise four hundred and twenty dollars right here
in the Texas.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Trail by heaven Kitty, I think you could.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Well, I can't do as well as Jack. Here's twenty
from me.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Boy, everybody, now listen to me for a minute.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
I got something to say.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
He's shured taking his time getting here at Chester.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Well, I told him what you said, mister Dilon.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I'll let out to bring him on the run if
anything will anytime Caleb figures he's about to lose a
dollar or two, it's hitting him where it hurts.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The Blake's turned in for the night.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, I guess so. It's been quiet back there for
the last year.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Marshall.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
What's this all about?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, shut the door, Caleb. We're trying to keep it
warm in here.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Would you mind telling me why I've been called over
here at this time of ninth Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Sure, here's four hundred and twenty dollars. The Blakes want
to pay off a mortgage?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
They do, do they?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The court costs up to now, I'll probably run about
ten dollars. I'll pay that myself.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
That's mighty generous of you. Well, good night, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Is it a deal in?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I am not the least bit interested in having that
mortgage paid off.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
The Blake farm is worth about two thousand dollars now,
and in five years it'll be worth three times that much.
Land's going up in Fort County. That's why I'm grabbing
every piece I can get. So I don't want the money.
I want the farm, and when it's put up the sale,
I'll get it at my own price.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
The foreclosure still goes, let's see.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Good night, gentlemen. Well, I guess that's that mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know why I even thought he'd take the money.
Blake's won't get a cent out of the sale. He'll
scare everybody off and bit it in a few dollars
over the amount of the mortgage, and nobody in tom
will even try to even try to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Cry to what, mister Dylon, Chester.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'm going over and wake up Clym Baits. I got
an idea, and if it works, we'll hold that sale
at noon tomorrow at pretty short notice.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
To find auctioneer.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I don't need an auctioneer, Chester, this one. I'm gonna
run myself, all right, everybody, all right, all of you
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know what we're here for. This is a foreclosure sale
of the property and husshole effects of Edward and Martha Blake,
ordered by the court at the request of that fine spirited,
good hearted public benefactor and friend and neighbor of us.
All Caleb Andrews.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Marshall dillonar refuse to total rate.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Caleb, I think we better get one thing straight right now.
The law tells me I gotta conduct this sale, but
the law doesn't tell me what I got to say
while I'm conducting it.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Get all of this, get on of the sale, all right.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
The first item I'm offering is a bread board. Missus
Blake tells me she's used this for nearly ten years.
That's a lot of loaves of bread, a lot of years.
As you can see, it's pretty badly bettered up. I
doubt if it'd be worth much to anybody unless they
were used to it. Suppose we started at fifty cents.
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Is there anybody here lowing up to bid fifty cents
for missus Blake's bread board? How about you?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Caleb, I'm not interested in the item.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Get on with the sale.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Anybody else?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
All right? Then? The second item, it's a crib. Now
you'll notice it's handmade, rough construction, never been painted. It's
been well used ed building himself twelve years ago, just
before Jimmy was born. There are teeth marks all over
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the slats here, but that doesn't really hurt anything, show Zylan.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
May I suggest you lump the household effects together and
off of them is one bulk item.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm sorry, Caleb, I'd rather offer them one at a time. Yes, unless,
of course, you'd care to wave all claim to the
household effects and withdrawn from the order of foreclosure.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I wave the claim the household goods withdrawn.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'll get onto the house and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Land so ordered.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
You know how Now.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The item offered, there's one hundred and sixty acres of
tillable land, a four room house and a barn. I
won't read through the description. You all know the property.
It's a good farm. The amount of the mortgage is
four hundred and twenty dollars. Oh, by Caleb Andrews. All right,
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the bitting's open.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
What am I offered one hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I have four hundred and fifty dollars from Cable Andrews.
Do I hear another bid? Oh? The farm's worth two thousand.
You're gonna let him have it for four hundred and fifty.
How about another bidder? Mister darn Yeah, what is it?
Chester bro? I've been thinking some lately getting me a
little place like this and settling down. I'll be one
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thousand dollars. I have a thousand dollars? Do I hear
another bid? It's a trick.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
He doesn't want this place?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Thousand dollars going want twelve hundred? Caleb Andrews bids twelve
hundred dollars. What do you say, Chester Wells?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I think I kind of like this farm? Fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is ridiculous. Fit is fifteen hundred dollars going on
going sixteen hundred, sixteen hundred dollars from mister Andrews, Chester.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Eight four hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He ain never had that much money in his whole life.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh I hear another bit? Oh what do you say, Caleb?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Do you think I'm a fool?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And once? Going twice? So the Chester prop what a right? Thousand,
four hundred and twenty dollars. The buyer will come forward
and complete the sale. Don't you worry nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
About me, mister Andrews.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
I got it right here there, there's eight thousand, five
hundred dollars bills, and here is the four twenty.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Where did you ever get that much in cash?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Well, I saved my pay, mister Andrews. Then of course
I drink gifts, mostly beer.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
It adds up after what, Caleb, I guess four hundred
and twenty dollars. So this is yours and that takes
care of them money. Well ed, it's like you made
a pretty fair profit on the place. Here's I'm better
than I expected. Here's your money.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Thank you, man.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
But I tell you I still have I still rather.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Have the fun than the money.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Well, now, I've been sort of thinking it over, mister Blake.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Maybe I kind of lost my head.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
But when you come right down to it, I don't
know what I'd ever do with a farm. So if
you'd like to buy it, I'll take a four hundred
and twenty dollars loss and sell it back to you
for eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Cab Dom, here's your money.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
This is unheard of.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
They can't do it, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, as far as I know, there's no law against
a man selling his own property.
Speaker 13 (26:28):
Another way I see it, mister Andrews is right. This
minuture a trespass run my property.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I go ahead, Grace.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Who do you think I'll like it?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Chester? You better get that eight thousand dollars back to
the bank. Clem Bates is probably worrying himself into a breakdown,
for if here's somebody will find out that he let us.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Have it all right, mister Dylan, I'll see you in
Poun later.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Yeah, oh, mad, Mad, I don't know how he can
ever thank you for what you've done.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
H Not me, Martha. Thank the bunch that work at
the Texas Trail in other bombs and drifters, most of them.
But when Kitty told them the story, they really came through.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
We'll pay it back, Matt, every cent of it.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
And well, that that girl, Kitty. I guess I've said
some hard things about her in the past.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
But Matt, when you ask her to.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Come out to dinner some afternoon, I'd like to thank
her myself.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Sure, Martha, I'll ask her, and I think she'll appreciate
that more than you'll ever know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Gun Smoke under the action of Norman McDonald's stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for gun Smoke by Les Crutfield, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
Harry Bartel, Paula Winslow, and Richard Bials, with Joe Deval,
Lawrence Dobkin and Jim Knusser, Parley Bear, Is Chester and
Georgia Elisis Kitty. Gun Smoke is heard by our troops
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Speaker 3 (28:44):
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Speaker 1 (28:45):
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Speaker 6 (29:01):
It
Around Todd City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US marshal and the smell of
gun smoke, gun smokes hurrying William Conrad. The story of
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the violence that moved west with Young America. The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United
States marshal.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Ah, you know, Chester, A morning like this makes a
man glad to be alive.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh it's a fine one, all right, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, you a nippy.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Moavie, but just fine.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Indian summer hanging on and winter hold him off. You know, Chester,
this time of year, I wouldn't trade western Kansas for
everything east of the Mississippi. Ah. Good, Petro's got a
fire going.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I built the fire, Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Good morning, Caleb.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I'm letting in his jail office for a full two hours.
What time you start work, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know Caleb Andrews, don't you, Chester?
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yes, indeed, high mister Andrews.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Marshall, I have an audio here from the US District Court.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I believe it's your job to serve such orders.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, it is. I don't get them off and though
order of foreclosure and eviction on Ed Blake. Why are
you doing this to Ed Caleb?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
The man borrowed money from me, gave me a mortgage
on his farm and household effects.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He can't pay it. Why do you think I'm doing it?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It only came due three days ago. You shouldn't waste
any time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I'm not interested in your opinions, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Dylan em out of the mortgage four hundred and twenty dollars.
What do you need with four hundred and twenty dollars
your own half of Ford County.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Now, Marshall, it's not your place.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You know as well as I do. Why Ed Blake
can't pay this off? His horse rolled on him last
spring and broke his leg, and his wife and kid
nearly broke their backs trying to get a crop out.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I didn't come here to listen to you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Let this ride on for the winter. You'll get your
money out of it. If you go ahead and foreclosed now,
you'll wipe him out.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Marshall, I already have foreclosed.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
He would break a man for four hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You don't even need, As I said, your opinions don't
interest me. All I expect from you is to serve
these papers.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
All right, I'll serve them.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
You'll notice that to be served today.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I said i'd serve them. Now get out. What this
office belongs to the United States government, As far as
I know, that's one thing you've got no mortgage on.
So get out.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You may find I have some influence in Washington, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Dillon, and see if you can get me a decent
salary for this rotten job of mine.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It sure was a fine morning, mister Dylon.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, it was all right. Chester. Let's saddle up.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
This is one job I purely wish we didn't have
to do, mister Dylon. Yeah, my, this shore is a
nice farm. Ed and Martha put in a lot of
work here in the last four years.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
We don't have any choice, Chester.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, sure, I know. It's a downright shame though.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Hey Marshall, oh ooh hi, Jimmy, look here what I got, Marshall. Wow,
looks to me like a mighty dead kyo.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Sure that's what it is. He's been killing my chicken.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
So last night I hit off behind the bar.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, I got him with.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
One shot, mister Dylan, and there wasn't even a full move.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, it's fine, Jimmy, man Dylan, how are you? Oh,
good morning Martha, and Chester too.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Miss Blake.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Well I'm glad to see you get down.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Come on in.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Thank you, Jimmy, now that you showed that thing that
mister Dylan take it away somewhere all right.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
He sure is a big one eating mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, about the biggest I ever saw it, Jimmy.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
He's real proud of those chickens of his. He's done
fine with him. Well here I am though, keeping you
standing out here in the yard. Come on, let's go in.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, we really can't stay Martha.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Oh nonsense, you don't get out here once in a
coon's eight. Yeah, I know, but and you're just in
time your favorite dish math.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
I was about to take it out of the oven
when you rode up.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Corn bread, buttermilk corn bread.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
It's right, Ed's not here, But you will say, won't you?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, Martha, I'd like to, but well we just can't.
That's all the thing is that you say. Ed's away.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Yes, he's in town. Man, you're not yourself?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What is it? Well? I suppose I ought to talk
to Ed about this, but maybe it'll be better if
he hears it from you. Here's what, Martha, I got
a court arder here. It has to do with that
mortgage with Caleb Andrews. It's an order of foreclosure and
eviction and sale.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
No, oh, no, here it is.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
We were so sure he'd extended, you know, it was
what happened why we couldn't pay it.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
He was sure he'd extended.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well he won't.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
I talked to him, Matt, how long before we have
to get out?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Five days so soon?
Speaker 9 (06:26):
You were right, Matt, it is better than that. Here's
it for me, coming on top of everything else. It'll well,
I can't let it break him. I just can't let
it break him.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Martha. If there's anything I can do, you you let
me know.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Huh, Matt, I I don't blame you for this. I understand. Well,
come on in now and have some corn bread with you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well I couldn't. I'm sorry, thank you anyway, Masa. Oh
well I just couldn't.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Mad, you looked low all week.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's just things in general, kiddies. Sometimes you get to
wondering if it's all.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Worth it, or Blake's Chester is telling.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Me Chester talks too much.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
It's not your fault, Matt. Somebody had to serve the order.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Somebody has to be hangman too.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Life's never all good, Matt. There's always a little bad
in it.
Speaker 11 (07:31):
And my job is more than a little Try making
a living sometime as a dancehold girl.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I guess. But when you've got to go out
and boot somebody like the Blake's off their land and
out of their home, then you start wondering what's right
and what's.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Wrong, and so well you can find out, Matt. Let
me know, I've always.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Oh, there you are, Marshall and I stopped by the jail.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Not all right, Caleb, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Blake family, Marshall, they were supposed to vacate today. They
haven't done it. I rode by there a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
According to the court order, they got until sundown that they.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Haven't made the slightest preparation. To Marshall, I believe I'd prefer.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
To discuss our business elsewhere then, in.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The presence of this this easy calem map, Calcolm, Caleb,
you're gonna apologize to miss Kitty right now?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
No apologize if you think I'm going to apologize to
this cheap little baggage who was in this.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Matt just shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Again. Take him outside and throw some water on him.
Why not, Kitty, he had it coming to him.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
We'll do everything it can to hurt you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Now.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
He'll take it out on the Blakes too.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah. Maybe, look, Kitty, I just got an idea. I'll
see you later, all right, Matt.
Speaker 12 (09:10):
But Man, the mere fact a man runs a bank
doesn't always mean he's got a free hand and everything
he does. A bank has stockholders, a board of directors.
I've got to listen to him.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I think they'd approve the loan, Clem.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Another thing, Caleb and Andrews is the biggest account I've got.
If I crossed him by taking this loan, you suggest, Matt,
he'd break me.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I see, all right, Clym.
Speaker 12 (09:34):
Forget it, man, I realize I'm under obligation, do you.
He saved my life that time the James Brothers held
me up. Saved the bank too, in fact, But.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That was part of my job. Clem. There's no obligation.
I was just asking you as a friend to help
out another friend. Matt.
Speaker 12 (09:50):
I'd like to do it, but I just can't don't
just see. Yeah, sure, Clem, I see. Just forget it.
Good to think of my wife and the two girls.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, crush you have.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's not that I don't want.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I understand, Clem. I really do forget it.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
There holy a while.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That fire feels kind of good. Mister Dylan. It's getting
chillish out tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I guess we better have pedro lay in some
more wood.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Yes, sir, when winter sets, ten dollars makes you feel
good to know you've got a warm place to hold up.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
He mighty rough not to have a.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Not to Yeah, I was thinking of the same thing. Chester.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
You suppose they vacated this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't know. We'll ride out there in the morning
and find out.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Sure, he's a shame.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He's just too bad to come in. Can we bother you?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Bother you man?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Ed?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh, come in, come in? I said, well, hi you Jimmy, Ah, Well,
come on up to the stow folks. Come on, Matt.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
The fact is that we we kind of liked to
impose on you for tonight. We haven't got any place
to go, no money. I wondered if we could sleep
in the jail tonight. Oh sure, ed.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Chester, when you got a fire going back there? All right,
mister Dillan, dig up some blankets out of the store room.
Huh yes, want to come help me, Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Jimmy, now.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
You go along with Chester, No boy, go on all right?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Ye, he doesn't understand all this, mat.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He uh, Ed, we may as well get your stuff
out of the wagon.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I guess well, there ain't a wagon.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Man. We walk into town six miles with that leg
I know, but that wagon, the horses, all the household goods,
they're all covered by that mortgage. We didn't take anything
except the clothes in our backs, So help me, Ed,
all right, Matt.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
We know how you feel. After all, we started with
nothing before. We can do it again.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But there's no reason they should have to.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
We do have to, though, and that's it, Ed, and
I can accept it. We're not bitter any longer. Jimmy
can't understand. He's he's been carrying on pretty bad. But
he's just a boy, and in time he'll be able
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, what is it? Chester, Jimmy?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
He grabbed a rifle from off the rack and took
out the back way.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I couldn't stop.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Where our nerd'sy going?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I think I know where he's going. Heaven help Caleb Andrews.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
If we don't catch him.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, that widely traveled man
of music, mister Vaughn Monroe, will land in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
this Saturday night. The moon Maids, the Moonman, and the
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Remember tomorrow night and every Saturday evening it's Von Monroe
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radio stations. Now the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
It's mister Andrews's house here on the corner, looks dark,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, he may not be home. I sure hope he isn't.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No sign of the boy around. Reckon. He broke in
the house, Mit, you're.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Dealing maybe and he hots ten to one. This is
where he headed for. His mother said he was real
upset about it. And it's just like a kid, that Chester.
M there's somebody back of that tree up there on
the left.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
M Yeah, I think it's him.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't know. Just keep on walking. Yeah, I see
him all right, I can see the moonlight on the
rifle barrel. Will we try to rush him, mister dill
not unless you're thinking of suicide. I'm gonna talk to
him Chester, jim it's me, Matt Dillon.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Going mister Jillon, they're going on far.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I can't do that, Jimmy. You're a friend of mine
and I figure you're waiting here to do something that
you'd be sorry for, and I can't let.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
You do that.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Nothing you can do about it, mister Jillan, I gotta gun.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
You're not gonna kill you going on?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Leave me all, Jimmy. I know how you feel. I
don't like Caleb either, but killer name is no answer.
Your folks feel bad enough already. Think how it would
hurt him if you do.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Mister, I'll stay where you are. Don't go any closer.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I have to, Jimmy, it's my job. So if you're
going through with this, I guess you'll have to kill
me first. No, no, mister Dylan, I'll stay back. I'm sorry, Jimmy.
I don't have a choice, but you do.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
No.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
No, you kill mister Dylon that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Sure. I knew you couldn't.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I keep waking up nice and cheering, mong crying can
and sit up all night without the lamplet, no fire,
say anything.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Just easy now, Jimmy, what are you doing? Jimmy, listen
to me. Will you do something for a friend?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Yeah, you say so?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right, and take that rifle back to the jail
and put it in the rack and go to bed.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Now, you promise, Yeah, I promise, mister Dylan.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'll do like you say. You're all right, Jimmy, good night, son.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
I could have told you Clem Bates wouldn't do anything
math you wouldn't dare he'd be scared Caleb would take
his money out of the bank.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, that's about what he said. I don't know, Kitty.
I've done everything I could possibly think.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
All the worst of it is.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
Everybody in town's just as scared of Caleb as Clem is.
I doubt if they'll even have a nerve to bit
against him at the sale.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, I know he'll probably get to place it. Not
much more than the amount of the mortgage.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Four hundred and twenty dollars, Matt. I've seen more than
that change hands across a poker table here in one deal.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I think that's all it takes.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I big your pardon, miss Kitty.
Speaker 14 (17:45):
Oh, of course, Jack, I'm not using one eavesdrop on people.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But I have been listening to.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
You too, Jack. Have you met Marshall Villan?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
No, I haven't had the plank.
Speaker 14 (17:55):
The reason I butted in, miss Kitty, I heard you
talking about these people losing their home.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't know this fellow blake.
Speaker 14 (18:01):
He's never done any business over my table and probably
never will.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
No, I don't think he's ever been in here.
Speaker 14 (18:07):
And I don't know if this will make sense, But
the thing is, I left home when I was ten
years old, and I've been drifting ever since. When I
see somebody like this blake that sticks it out and
works and fights and then gets a raw deal or
what I'm getting mad, here's fifty dollars if that'll help money.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Oh Jack, Well, this is awful decent of your jack Man.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
I said a while ago that nearly everyone in town
was afraid of Kaileeb.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Well, there's some launch like Jack here and me and
the rest of the dealers and the gamblers and the girls,
the bartenders.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That's right, miss Kitty, Because we're drifters.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
We got nothing to lose.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Matt, I'll raise four hundred and twenty dollars right here
in the Texas.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Trail by heaven Kitty, I think you could.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Well, I can't do as well as Jack. Here's twenty
from me.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Boy, everybody, now listen to me for a minute.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
I got something to say.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
He's shured taking his time getting here at Chester.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Well, I told him what you said, mister Dilon.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I'll let out to bring him on the run if
anything will anytime Caleb figures he's about to lose a
dollar or two, it's hitting him where it hurts.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
The Blake's turned in for the night.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, I guess so. It's been quiet back there for
the last year.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Marshall.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
What's this all about?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, shut the door, Caleb. We're trying to keep it
warm in here.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Would you mind telling me why I've been called over
here at this time of ninth Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Sure, here's four hundred and twenty dollars. The Blakes want
to pay off a mortgage?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
They do, do they?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The court costs up to now, I'll probably run about
ten dollars. I'll pay that myself.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
That's mighty generous of you. Well, good night, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Is it a deal in?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I am not the least bit interested in having that
mortgage paid off.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
The Blake farm is worth about two thousand dollars now,
and in five years it'll be worth three times that much.
Land's going up in Fort County. That's why I'm grabbing
every piece I can get. So I don't want the money.
I want the farm, and when it's put up the sale,
I'll get it at my own price.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
The foreclosure still goes, let's see.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Good night, gentlemen. Well, I guess that's that mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know why I even thought he'd take the money.
Blake's won't get a cent out of the sale. He'll
scare everybody off and bit it in a few dollars
over the amount of the mortgage, and nobody in tom
will even try to even try to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Cry to what, mister Dylon, Chester.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'm going over and wake up Clym Baits. I got
an idea, and if it works, we'll hold that sale
at noon tomorrow at pretty short notice.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
To find auctioneer.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I don't need an auctioneer, Chester, this one. I'm gonna
run myself, all right, everybody, all right, all of you
(21:28):
know what we're here for. This is a foreclosure sale
of the property and husshole effects of Edward and Martha Blake,
ordered by the court at the request of that fine spirited,
good hearted public benefactor and friend and neighbor of us.
All Caleb Andrews.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Marshall dillonar refuse to total rate.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Caleb, I think we better get one thing straight right now.
The law tells me I gotta conduct this sale, but
the law doesn't tell me what I got to say
while I'm conducting it.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Get all of this, get on of the sale, all right.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
The first item I'm offering is a bread board. Missus
Blake tells me she's used this for nearly ten years.
That's a lot of loaves of bread, a lot of years.
As you can see, it's pretty badly bettered up. I
doubt if it'd be worth much to anybody unless they
were used to it. Suppose we started at fifty cents.
(22:31):
Is there anybody here lowing up to bid fifty cents
for missus Blake's bread board? How about you?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Caleb, I'm not interested in the item.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Get on with the sale.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Anybody else?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
All right? Then? The second item, it's a crib. Now
you'll notice it's handmade, rough construction, never been painted. It's
been well used ed building himself twelve years ago, just
before Jimmy was born. There are teeth marks all over
(23:09):
the slats here, but that doesn't really hurt anything, show Zylan.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
May I suggest you lump the household effects together and
off of them is one bulk item.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm sorry, Caleb, I'd rather offer them one at a time. Yes, unless,
of course, you'd care to wave all claim to the
household effects and withdrawn from the order of foreclosure.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I wave the claim the household goods withdrawn.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'll get onto the house and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Land so ordered.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
You know how Now.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The item offered, there's one hundred and sixty acres of
tillable land, a four room house and a barn. I
won't read through the description. You all know the property.
It's a good farm. The amount of the mortgage is
four hundred and twenty dollars. Oh, by Caleb Andrews. All right,
(24:03):
the bitting's open.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
What am I offered one hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I have four hundred and fifty dollars from Cable Andrews.
Do I hear another bid? Oh? The farm's worth two thousand.
You're gonna let him have it for four hundred and fifty.
How about another bidder? Mister darn Yeah, what is it?
Chester bro? I've been thinking some lately getting me a
little place like this and settling down. I'll be one
(24:27):
thousand dollars. I have a thousand dollars? Do I hear
another bid? It's a trick.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
He doesn't want this place?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Thousand dollars going want twelve hundred? Caleb Andrews bids twelve
hundred dollars. What do you say, Chester Wells?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I think I kind of like this farm? Fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is ridiculous. Fit is fifteen hundred dollars going on
going sixteen hundred, sixteen hundred dollars from mister Andrews, Chester.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Eight four hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He ain never had that much money in his whole life.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh I hear another bit? Oh what do you say, Caleb?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Do you think I'm a fool?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And once? Going twice? So the Chester prop what a right? Thousand,
four hundred and twenty dollars. The buyer will come forward
and complete the sale. Don't you worry nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
About me, mister Andrews.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
I got it right here there, there's eight thousand, five
hundred dollars bills, and here is the four twenty.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Where did you ever get that much in cash?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Well, I saved my pay, mister Andrews. Then of course
I drink gifts, mostly beer.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
It adds up after what, Caleb, I guess four hundred
and twenty dollars. So this is yours and that takes
care of them money. Well ed, it's like you made
a pretty fair profit on the place. Here's I'm better
than I expected. Here's your money.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Thank you, man.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
But I tell you I still have I still rather.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Have the fun than the money.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Well, now, I've been sort of thinking it over, mister Blake.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Maybe I kind of lost my head.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
But when you come right down to it, I don't
know what I'd ever do with a farm. So if
you'd like to buy it, I'll take a four hundred
and twenty dollars loss and sell it back to you
for eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Cab Dom, here's your money.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
This is unheard of.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
They can't do it, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, as far as I know, there's no law against
a man selling his own property.
Speaker 13 (26:28):
Another way I see it, mister Andrews is right. This
minuture a trespass run my property.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I go ahead, Grace.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Who do you think I'll like it?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Chester? You better get that eight thousand dollars back to
the bank. Clem Bates is probably worrying himself into a breakdown,
for if here's somebody will find out that he let us.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Have it all right, mister Dylan, I'll see you in
Poun later.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Yeah, oh, mad, Mad, I don't know how he can
ever thank you for what you've done.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
H Not me, Martha. Thank the bunch that work at
the Texas Trail in other bombs and drifters, most of them.
But when Kitty told them the story, they really came through.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
We'll pay it back, Matt, every cent of it.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
And well, that that girl, Kitty. I guess I've said
some hard things about her in the past.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
But Matt, when you ask her to.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Come out to dinner some afternoon, I'd like to thank
her myself.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Sure, Martha, I'll ask her, and I think she'll appreciate
that more than you'll ever know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
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Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for gun Smoke by Les Crutfield, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
Harry Bartel, Paula Winslow, and Richard Bials, with Joe Deval,
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Hear them tomorrow on.
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