November 20, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
In a moment you will hear James Stewart as the
six Shooter. Just one of the many fine programs brought
to you each week on NBC Tomorrow Night, there's top
comedy entertainment with The Bob Hope Show, The Phil Harris
Alis Bay Show, and Can You Top This with Senator Ford.
Bob Hope delivers rapid fire comedy routines, while Phil Harris
and Alice Bay bring both mirth and music. It's a
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great Friday night lineup of comedy programs, all of them
heard only on NBC. James Stewart as the six Shooter.
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The man in the settle is angular and long legod.
His skin is sun dyed brown. The gun and his
holster is gray, steel and rainbow, mother of pearl. It's
handled unmarked.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
People call them.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Both the six Shooter. The NBC Radio Network presents James
Stewart as the six Shooter. The Transcribed series of radio Drummers,
based on the life of Britt Punset, the Texas plainsman
who wandered through the Western territories, leaving behind a trail
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of steel remembered legends.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was Friday morning when I got the smoke claws
on my first trip to town about three months Dad
Foster needed a little extra money for feed, so he
asked me to drive about a dozen of his heifers
and sell them on Saturday's auction while I turned the
cattle over to Brad McLane, he was the auctionaire, and
then says, about noon time, I wondered that when the
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night's cafe Wendy's Pools real good to corn, beef and cabbage,
and bought tatters Wife's putting for dessart real tasty, there
was only one drawback to eating there, Weddy.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And then edburd he's Marshall now bred. But I guess
you knew that, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh sure, sure he was late to last July. One
hundred and two votes was cast, one hundredd and two.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well that's the biggest election.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We've ever had in this town, the biggest in this
part of the state for all I know. Yes, well,
unless you count fort lyons over there. They he very
particular who they let vote. Why, I ain't here tell
it was a grummer passing through the town last election
day and they just.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Drug him right off to the Pools don't sy.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I'll just bet you if there was to be an
honest census, we'd show up with a good twenty more
people in.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Fort Lyons Levery, schaw Ley Sall.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Well, I sure was a fine meal when they Now, now,
where do you.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Think you're going?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Bridge?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You won't let me tell you about Marsha Burke finding
Saith Quincy's body.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Huh, Well, what did you think I was leading up to?
Well I didn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now, yeah, we could go last Monday, That's when it happened.
Oh and the reason I remember so clean is wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
About ten o'clock in the.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Morning, it started to thunder, and I said to missus Coomes.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I run into a coming down main Street.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I said, miss Coombs and said, don't let that thunderfool you.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
It ain't gonna rain the first week in September.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No, sir, I lived.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Around here for seventeen years and it ain't never rained
after the twenty fifth of August, That's what I said.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, well, now what about Quincy?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, I was coming to that brat. Can't you give
a body a minute?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Oh? Sure?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh yes, Well he was.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Lying on the floor of his parlor.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
When Marshall Burke come in and they see the place.
Looked like he put up quite a fight too. Broken
furniture and glass, we're all over the place, and slugg
in his chest.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's what killed him.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
A shooting must have been around eleven o'clock that morning,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, at least wise that's when Missus Henderson said she
heard what sounded like a shot. You know the Henderson's,
Britt live right over in the way. They're uh just
down the road a bit from Seth the Quincy's ranch.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, yeah, sure, cried Henderson.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's that short, red haired fellow who marries Harold Watkins.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Eye eyes said, I know him, wen Day.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, there's no need to take my head off. I'm
just trying to give you the fact.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I'm sorry, you go ahead and give me the fact.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, I see where was I that's such trouble. Somebody
interrupts you and you'll lose your.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Whole train of thor to.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh yeah, yeah about Seth Quincy. Well, I guess that's
what it is to tell. A trial was last Monday.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The trial.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sure, Pete Kelgren the fella that killed him, Pete Kelgrin.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Britt?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Ain't you listening to me?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, well, you know you kind of neglected to mention
Pete Kelgrin before Wenday, you know I did.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yes, Oh well, there wasn't any doubt but that he
was guilty. When Marshall Burke arrested him, Kilgrin still had
the four hundred dollars in his pocket.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Four hundred dollars huh, some money he stole from Seth.
Oh h, that's funny. Pete Kaggan never struck me as
a type of em I guess you just never can
tell about people, can you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, I didn't know you was a friend of Petesbread.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, we weren't exactly friends, but we met up a
couple of times. He always seemed like a nice young
fellow man.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, he even admitted Robin Seth.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Of course, he says that when he come in, Seth
was already dead and the strong box was just sitting
right there, real inviting. He sure must think we're a
bunch of ignoramus is expecting us to believe a yarn
like that?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, I suppose it could be true.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Jury didn't see it that way.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Hanging the schedule for next Monday.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hanging well, irck and I owe your quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Huh and in just a minute, huh, gets you a change?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, I'll be dog gone.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
She's still there.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Why that girl open in front of the depot, been
standing there since nine am this morning?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Come in on the Express from Fort Lyon.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh, I guess she's waiting for somebody to meet her.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Funny, I ain't hurt of nobody expecting visitors. I usually
get window a thing like that.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, well I imagine you do.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, well you should change me.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Thanks a lot, no mention, I'll be saying you any.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Ay, you gonna be in town for a while, ain't too.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
No, No, I'm heading back to Fosher rash more.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Oh that's a shame. You'll miss the hanging.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, I reckon, I can do without it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So I couldn't help noticing the girl waiting on the
station platform.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
He's young, not more than twenty or so. Pretty too,
the straw colored.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Hair that was sort of fixed up in braves across
the top of her head real pretty, and it shut
looked like she intended to stay around Smoke Falls for
a spell at least.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Why she had plenty of lugach with her.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Two great big canvas suitcases and a wake. Her basket
packed to over the floor, and I started to cross
over toward her, and she gave him turn. She was
frown and kind of anxious, like she seemed to be
studying me, as if she was trying to make up
her mind about something. Uh, excuse me for bothering your mess,
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But is there anything I can.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Do for you? You come to meet me mister?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Oh no, no, yeah, I see you could not be him.
How he's shorter, failure. He send me a picture.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
He's a differently looking man than you're waiting for somebody.
Oh sure, sure, Well.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Maybe if you told me who it is, I maybe
I'd be able to find a boy.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
He did, Man, I come to marry?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh oh, I say, be right later.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Over to a year now. He have family in the
same part of Sweden where I live. A Swedish mister.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Uh, yes, yes, I sort of figured you might be.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Then he's sent me money. It come to Americay. I
think he must be a rich feller. Send me so
much money two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Mmm, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Some money on he tells me David, my sister and
wiscons and tell him makes some more. They say they're
six months over, but hey, get tired of waiting as
they'll have fifty dollars left, so I take train the rest.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Uh huh, Well, maybe he didn't know you were getting
end today. Maybe that's why he's not here yet.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Hey, they write him letter from Wisconsin. My sister help
me him? Not so good at English language.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Oh you're doing all right? Done? Fine?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
And he he must be busy working and that is
why he's the lead.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But he will come.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
He did not worry.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Wow, what do you say, Oh, mister, yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
You're a friend of his?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, I I don't know. You didn't tell me his name.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Oh I'm a very foolish person, and it used my brains.
It is a Peter Peter, Yeah, Peter Calgrin. You have
heard of him?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Why?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Er?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, yes, I've heard of him.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
You do not see him anywhere today?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Uh? No, No, I haven't seen him.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Thank you? Used to say?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Uh I, uh, I didn't tell you my name either.
It's Poncid, but pons.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
I'm very pleased to meet you, mister Pansid and a
nerd christ.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh how do you do? Anna?
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Why you look at me like that? Mister?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Something is the matter.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, I'm afraid there is Peter.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
He is not sick.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
No, no other than that. Wait, well, you you said
you'd come to America.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
To marry Peter.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Sure, but you don't know him very well, do you?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Over two years? We write later?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh oh yes, but I.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Mean what do you think I canned love a man
I never meet?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
No, no, not necessarily.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
I know Peter used the same as if you meet
a hundred times. We tell each other everything in letters.
Maybe so be so, but yeah, I see, I see
what you did you think? Oh, you tell yourself. I
only marry Peter because you sent me so much money,
but because he is such a rich.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Friendly No, no, no, of course not.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Well they tell you, rude mister, and marry him because
they love him. I never see him, but I love him.
There's no other reason.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Ah huh, yeah, well of course, Hannah. I I so
what I whyt to comorrow to the cafe and have
a cup of coffee?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Oh, which is very kind of you, But it must
be here and Peter Kohn.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, I'm afraid Peter isn't coming.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Didn't understand.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
No, I'm awful sorry to tell you about this, but
I well.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
He's in jail, in jail, Yeah, you mean Pholice arrested him.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, it was the Marshal and that was about the
same thing.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
What did Peter do?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well? Oh sure, sure, No.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
He's scared to meet me, so he has too much
to drink here.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Oh no, and it's it's a lot more serious than that.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Damn me, mister.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Well, the folks say that he killed the man last week.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Peter killed a man.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
It sure looks that way.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
No, it could not be. He's fine. Good failure.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, that's well. I guess you're bound to think that,
Anna got.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
They make big mistake, I tell him. So they let
make Peter go?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Where is j No, no, no, I wouldn't, mister. Where's
j Well, let's just around the corner there. But I
don't think. Oh here here, let me give you a
hand before you can.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Manage, he can carry suitcase. Have her confirm him.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Blend this strong now, le listen, Anna, I'm afraid the marshall.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Mister you come to bedding?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh sure, sure, I I mean I oh good luck.
Uh well, I didn't see where. It was up to
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me to give Anne all the details about the hanging
Monday and everything she'd find out soon enough.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh sure.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It was a tough break though, after coming all this
distance and marry a man she'd never seen.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Well, I strolled.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Around town for an hour or so, and then I
headed over to Georgia Billing's house, where i'd left my things.
I was planning to spend the night with George and
his wife Ellen. They offered me the useless spare room. Mm,
I don't nobody home. Well, I picked up the flower
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pot and the top porch step, and I found the key,
entered and thought there was a note from Ella two
and said for me gwinside and make himself comfortable.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And there was a copy of the Smoke Falls Weekly
gazette on the hall table, and the skimmed through it
for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Then the main article was about the Quincy shooting Pete
Kilgan's trial.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Oh how that an?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Oh well, they tell me, I we'll find you here.
He must talk to you is important?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, well, come on, Anna, thank you very much. Won't
you say down?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
They would rather stand? He get too nervous if I
say it, mister barnst yup. What he's wrong with Marshall Burke?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh? Nothing, as far as I know, he says.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Peter must be hanged.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, yeah, I know, and that is not possible.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
They would not hang a man who is not guilty.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, Anna, maybe Pete is guilty.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
I know he is not. Then Marshall, let me talk
to Peter. I ask him if he does this awful thing.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
He tells me no, Well, uh Anna, it is no lie.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I can tell a man who lies.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It is a crue.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
What Peter says, Well, he is a fine fella, better
even than the hope. My sister ron Mare should not
expect too much. He will be disappointed. But Peter, he
is good and fine and handsome.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Oh he's a nice little boy, all right, no doubt
about that.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
And he did not kill any man. He could not
be the one.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, he's admitted steal in the South Quincy's money for me.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
That is why he takes it so we can get married.
It is very wrong to steal, and he must be
punished for it.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Well, if he was well on to steal, if he
deal is.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Not to kill, that is by to hang him.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah, then you must keep them from it. Mm yeah,
I tell Peter to be meat. But you are very
nice to me. He says, you'll be a famous person
with the funny name sick Shooters.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh yes, yeah, he says, you will.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Prove he is not guilty. You will talk to Marshall
for him.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Ah well, I don't see what talking of Marshall Burke
would do.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Please, mister parn said, I tell you something now before
I say I come to marry Peter, because then I
love it him because of letters. But he writes and
maybe and it speak the truth. Maybe I just want
to come to America. I think I get no other chance.
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But now it is the truth, and meet him and
they talk to him, and I am in love. I
love him very much. You must believe me, mister Barnst.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh sure, I nuh sure, I believe you.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Then you will talk to Morsha.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah, well, alright, alright, I'll talk to him.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You are listening to The Six Shooter, starring James Stewart
as Britt Ponset, the Texas cow polk whose name has
become legend throughout the West. Now, oh, act two of
the story and a nord Quist.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I left down at the hotel. I went over to
see Ned Burke. His office was in the front part
of the jail, where they were keeping. Pete kilgrin Ned
had only been marshall for a few months, but he'd
had a couple of years deputy experience, so he knew
the job and he was sort of a man that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Usually made a good marshal too.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He's quiet, not looking for trouble, but able to take
care of it when the time came.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I sure felt terrible brick when she came in here
and told me who she was and what she wanted.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, I let her talk to Kilgren.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Figured it was the least I could do. This seemed
to make things worse, though. He convinced her that he
was innocent and I was out to get him.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Oh well, no, nobody's gonna bled that Ned. That girl
might believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Yes, I wouldn't blame her if she did. The Kilgren's
a pretty smooth tooker, uh uh, Ned Cambry, I there.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Couldn't be any doubt about it, could there?
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I mean, as I understand it, Pete says that Quincy
was already dead when he got there. We was sure
he didn't, and that he took the money because while
it was just a darned tempton.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Uh, I don't stand the reason that somebody'd murder sat
and then go off without breaking into a strong box, Now,
does it, brit No, No, I guess it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Besides, Sarah Henderson seen Pete riding away from says I
was not five minutes after.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
She heard a shot.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But you uh rest him the same day.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
And I came in town right after I found says body.
Sarah had sent for me. She had a feeling something
was wrong. Caldron was at Bud Winkler's place. That's where
I found him.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
He still have a gun on him.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
No, no, he claimed he didn't known.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
The forty five.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
That's what the slug in, says Chess was forty five mm.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I see.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Of course Pete had plenty of time to get rid
of the gun, and there are plenty places between says
ranch and town where he could have ditched it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
M Oh, that's true enough. Anybody ever remem I remember
seeing Pete with a forty five.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Not that I know of.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Not.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Wait a minute, bit, you ain't taking Pete's side and
this thing, right, well.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm not taking anybody's side, and that I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's all. This was a cold blood to kill him.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You going out to set place. You'll see he was
an old man, but he sure put up a darn
good fight for his life, and from the looks of things,
he went on fact me after he was shot.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, I just might take you up on that invitation there,
uh mm, yeah about going out to Seth Place.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
See a letter he was gotten on.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Toward dusk when I reached Seth Quincy's ranch.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Whoa, whoa boy, wh whosh guard whoa. I walked up
the front steps and tried the door. It wasn't locked.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Sat had lived alone to look like anybody then to
straightened things up since the murders. So yeah, I'm sure
I had been a whale of a fight in the parlor.
A couple of broken chairs and some stains on the sofa,
and pieces of a lamp that had been smashed against
the fireplace.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Strong box didn't seemed to be there. I figured they
probably needed that for the evidence. Well.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I poked around for about half an hour, and then
I headed back to town. The moon was starting to
come up as we hid a band in the trail
and the dark gunnest thing happened. Now, a scar was
usually as sure foot as as a mountain. Got and
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not a bit skiddy she either. But when a bat
came winging out of some cottonwoods, i'd I'd done your
sail right out of the sadde.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
The sam Hill had gone walk, oh, Scar, come on,
And that's when I saw it.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It buried under a pill of leaves in a little gully.
The first thing that caught my eye was the moonlight
glinting off a piece of metal.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Easy easy, scark, easy course.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It could have been almost anything, a broken spur, or
part of a farm tool or anything.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But even before I pulled it out from underneath the
leaves and the dird, I knew it was a gun.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, who's there?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's made Britt Potson.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Ooh, you's the minute? H I think you never come?
Mister parts? Did I get so very well?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I'm sorry it took me so long.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
And it doesn't matter now that you're year. You talk
to Marshall Burke.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, yeah, I talked to him.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
And you're telling Peter did not kill this man. You're
telling Peter's not guilty.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
No, Anna, I couldn't tell him that, do you say it? Uh?
Pete is guilty.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I found his gun, the gun he used to kill
seth Quincy No. Was hidden in a gally about a
mile from the farmhouse.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
He do not believe you.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I gave it to Marshall Burke. Now you can see
it for yourself. You wanna go over there. Pete's initials
right on the handle. Only one bullet had been fired.
It's the right gun.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
There's no doubt for it could not be. Uh Anna,
I listen to me.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
The only reason I'm i I'm telling you this is
well after Monday, there won't be anything you can do
about Pete down.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It'll be better if you just forget him.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Have n not forget?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Oh, it won't be easy, I know that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But as long as you know he's guilty, as long
as there is any doubt in your mind, well right,
maybe it's for the best that you found out before.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Why you try to tell me, lies.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Anna, this is the truth.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
No, you say you will show me gun. You say
it belongs to Peter. Well, what does Peter say?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, of course he denies it.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Then I deny it too, alright, alright, uh uh.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Ah, I guess there's nothing more I can do about it.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
You lie to me, You and Marshall. You try to
make me think that when I love is a criminal.
I do not understand. In old country they talk about America,
they say he's best country in the world. But this
is lie too. Very's justice, there's freedom they hang a
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man from he does not do. Oh no, Anna, he's
a terrible, terrible country. Maybe shall never come here. Maybe
she'll never leave me home. They have no friend nor husband,
maybe alone in country that I hate.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well, well, I'm I'm sorry. And if there's any way
I can help you, if if you need some money.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
He wasn't a new hit from American.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Uh, oh, good night.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The light was still on in the Marshall's office, so
I stopped off and I asked Ned if I could
go and have a little talk with Pete. He didn't
seem to think it'd do much good. And to tell
you the truth, I didn't think so either, But uh,
I couldn't see to do any harm.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Try So. Pete was a tall, stringy.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Man, not twenty five or so, toe headed with the
yellow mustache, kind of a pointed chin.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Alright, Britta, leave here, and you want not just give
me a yell?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Nice man.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Sharing popular today in a brit I I guess you
might call it that, Pete.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Well, well, I thought maybe by now you'd feel like
coming out with a truth.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Told you the truth before, never seen that gun in
my whole life. Ain't the only man of those initials,
am I said, what's the difference if I'm gonna be
hung anyway?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Well, the difference is Anna. Anna. She believes you, Pete.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
She believes you're innocent, and as long as you go
on sand so she's gonna keep on believing that even
even after.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's kind of nice to have somebody believe in your breath.
Nobody else does.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Now, Pete, you weren't railroaded. You had a fair judge
and a fair trial. But Anna doesn't realize that. She's young,
she's upset, and she's in a strange country. She wanted
to come here pretty bad, had a lot of dreams
about this country, and now that now those dreams.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Are and sour.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I mean, it's a good thing she woke up.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Well, I just don't happen to agree with you on that.
I think this is a pretty good place to live.
But Anna won't find that out, not if she goes
on feeling this way.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Well, what do you expect me to do?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Confess to murdering Seth Quincy just so Anna can appreciate
the good old USA. You ask me, this country ain't
so hot anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, there are a lot of folks who put up
pretty good argument about that. Your own father is one
of 'em. You're just wasting your breath. Yeah, yeah, I
guess an any man who kills Seth Quincy in cold
blood the way it wasn't cold blood.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I didn't even you want, Pete, all right, But I
ain't telling you this because it I don't even know
why I'm telling you. I needed money for Anna so
we could get married. I wanted to make a good showing,
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like I told her in the letters I wrote her.
Everybody said Seth had plenty of cash, that he wouldn't
put none of it in the bank cause he'd had
a fight with mister Putnam and he kept it all
in that strong boxing.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I thought he'd gone to town.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I never figured he'd.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Come back and catch me.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
While I was robbing him. I tried to hold him
off with my gun, but he just kept coming. I
I had the fire even then.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
He didn't stop, not until well, Pete, what do he
want now? I I want you to tell this to Anna,
you can tell her. I'm afraid that wouldn't do any good.
She's real pretty achy. I never figured on her being
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some pretty. She was surprised.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, I've been writing her for the last two years.
It was pause idea. He knew her ken back in Sweden.
Wouldn't any girl around here that least ways.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
None I was interested in.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Uh huh, Well Pete, I'll tell her.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
But it wasn't cold blood bred, not the way you think.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, but ned ned, I'm all down here. Well, Pete
finally explained things to Anna, and I guess she saw
what had happened in kind of a different light movie. Anyway,
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she stayed on and smoked falls, and last time I
was through there, she was working over on Windy Nights Cafee.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
She changed some to was she wore hair? And was
she dressed? But she she was still just pretty as
the picture of Georgia. And you know something Wendy had changed.
He wasn't talking so much. A folk said that that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Was Anne's door, that she'd asked him to simmer down
a back waser. If she was able to get Wendy
to stop talking, even for a couple of minutes, if
she had that much influence on him.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Well, you never know that. The Six Shooter is.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
A transcribed NBC Radio Network production in association with Review Productions.
It is written by Frank Burts and is based on
a character created by him. Mister Stewart, may currently be
seen in the Universal International Picture The Glenn Miller Story.
Others in the cast were Lillian Bias, Bill Johnstone, lou Merrow.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
And Harry Killer Bartel. Special music for this.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Program was by Basil Adlam, and the entire production is
under the direction of Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents
were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents
is purely coincidental. Oh yes, and by the way, you'll
be interested in knowing that The six Shooter has been
chosen for broadcast to our men overseas through the facilities
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me speaking. Hearing time brings you the Senate Committee hearings
tonight on the NBC Radio Network.
In a moment you will hear James Stewart as the
six Shooter. Just one of the many fine programs brought
to you each week on NBC Tomorrow Night, there's top
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Bob Hope delivers rapid fire comedy routines, while Phil Harris
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The man in the settle is angular and long legod.
His skin is sun dyed brown. The gun and his
holster is gray, steel and rainbow, mother of pearl. It's
handled unmarked.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
People call them.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Both the six Shooter. The NBC Radio Network presents James
Stewart as the six Shooter. The Transcribed series of radio Drummers,
based on the life of Britt Punset, the Texas plainsman
who wandered through the Western territories, leaving behind a trail
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of steel remembered legends.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was Friday morning when I got the smoke claws
on my first trip to town about three months Dad
Foster needed a little extra money for feed, so he
asked me to drive about a dozen of his heifers
and sell them on Saturday's auction while I turned the
cattle over to Brad McLane, he was the auctionaire, and
then says, about noon time, I wondered that when the
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night's cafe Wendy's Pools real good to corn, beef and cabbage,
and bought tatters Wife's putting for dessart real tasty, there
was only one drawback to eating there, Weddy.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And then edburd he's Marshall now bred. But I guess
you knew that, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh sure, sure he was late to last July. One
hundred and two votes was cast, one hundredd and two.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well that's the biggest election.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We've ever had in this town, the biggest in this
part of the state for all I know. Yes, well,
unless you count fort lyons over there. They he very
particular who they let vote. Why, I ain't here tell
it was a grummer passing through the town last election
day and they just.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Drug him right off to the Pools don't sy.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I'll just bet you if there was to be an
honest census, we'd show up with a good twenty more
people in.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Fort Lyons Levery, schaw Ley Sall.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Well, I sure was a fine meal when they Now, now,
where do you.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Think you're going?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Bridge?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You won't let me tell you about Marsha Burke finding
Saith Quincy's body.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Huh, Well, what did you think I was leading up to?
Well I didn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now, yeah, we could go last Monday, That's when it happened.
Oh and the reason I remember so clean is wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
About ten o'clock in the.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Morning, it started to thunder, and I said to missus Coomes.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I run into a coming down main Street.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I said, miss Coombs and said, don't let that thunderfool you.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
It ain't gonna rain the first week in September.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No, sir, I lived.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Around here for seventeen years and it ain't never rained
after the twenty fifth of August, That's what I said.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, well, now what about Quincy?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, I was coming to that brat. Can't you give
a body a minute?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Oh? Sure?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh yes, Well he was.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Lying on the floor of his parlor.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
When Marshall Burke come in and they see the place.
Looked like he put up quite a fight too. Broken
furniture and glass, we're all over the place, and slugg
in his chest.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's what killed him.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
A shooting must have been around eleven o'clock that morning,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, at least wise that's when Missus Henderson said she
heard what sounded like a shot. You know the Henderson's,
Britt live right over in the way. They're uh just
down the road a bit from Seth the Quincy's ranch.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, yeah, sure, cried Henderson.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's that short, red haired fellow who marries Harold Watkins.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Eye eyes said, I know him, wen Day.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, there's no need to take my head off. I'm
just trying to give you the fact.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I'm sorry, you go ahead and give me the fact.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, I see where was I that's such trouble. Somebody
interrupts you and you'll lose your.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Whole train of thor to.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh yeah, yeah about Seth Quincy. Well, I guess that's
what it is to tell. A trial was last Monday.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The trial.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sure, Pete Kelgren the fella that killed him, Pete Kelgrin.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Britt?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Ain't you listening to me?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, well, you know you kind of neglected to mention
Pete Kelgrin before Wenday, you know I did.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yes, Oh well, there wasn't any doubt but that he
was guilty. When Marshall Burke arrested him, Kilgrin still had
the four hundred dollars in his pocket.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Four hundred dollars huh, some money he stole from Seth.
Oh h, that's funny. Pete Kaggan never struck me as
a type of em I guess you just never can
tell about people, can you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, I didn't know you was a friend of Petesbread.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, we weren't exactly friends, but we met up a
couple of times. He always seemed like a nice young
fellow man.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, he even admitted Robin Seth.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Of course, he says that when he come in, Seth
was already dead and the strong box was just sitting
right there, real inviting. He sure must think we're a
bunch of ignoramus is expecting us to believe a yarn
like that?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, I suppose it could be true.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Jury didn't see it that way.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Hanging the schedule for next Monday.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hanging well, irck and I owe your quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Huh and in just a minute, huh, gets you a change?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, I'll be dog gone.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
She's still there.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Why that girl open in front of the depot, been
standing there since nine am this morning?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Come in on the Express from Fort Lyon.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh, I guess she's waiting for somebody to meet her.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Funny, I ain't hurt of nobody expecting visitors. I usually
get window a thing like that.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, well I imagine you do.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, well you should change me.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Thanks a lot, no mention, I'll be saying you any.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Ay, you gonna be in town for a while, ain't too.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
No, No, I'm heading back to Fosher rash more.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Oh that's a shame. You'll miss the hanging.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, I reckon, I can do without it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So I couldn't help noticing the girl waiting on the
station platform.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
He's young, not more than twenty or so. Pretty too,
the straw colored.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Hair that was sort of fixed up in braves across
the top of her head real pretty, and it shut
looked like she intended to stay around Smoke Falls for
a spell at least.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Why she had plenty of lugach with her.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Two great big canvas suitcases and a wake. Her basket
packed to over the floor, and I started to cross
over toward her, and she gave him turn. She was
frown and kind of anxious, like she seemed to be
studying me, as if she was trying to make up
her mind about something. Uh, excuse me for bothering your mess,
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But is there anything I can.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Do for you? You come to meet me mister?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Oh no, no, yeah, I see you could not be him.
How he's shorter, failure. He send me a picture.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
He's a differently looking man than you're waiting for somebody.
Oh sure, sure, Well.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Maybe if you told me who it is, I maybe
I'd be able to find a boy.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
He did, Man, I come to marry?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh oh, I say, be right later.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Over to a year now. He have family in the
same part of Sweden where I live. A Swedish mister.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Uh, yes, yes, I sort of figured you might be.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Then he's sent me money. It come to Americay. I
think he must be a rich feller. Send me so
much money two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Mmm, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Some money on he tells me David, my sister and
wiscons and tell him makes some more. They say they're
six months over, but hey, get tired of waiting as
they'll have fifty dollars left, so I take train the rest.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Uh huh, Well, maybe he didn't know you were getting
end today. Maybe that's why he's not here yet.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Hey, they write him letter from Wisconsin. My sister help
me him? Not so good at English language.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Oh you're doing all right? Done? Fine?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
And he he must be busy working and that is
why he's the lead.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But he will come.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
He did not worry.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Wow, what do you say, Oh, mister, yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
You're a friend of his?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, I I don't know. You didn't tell me his name.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Oh I'm a very foolish person, and it used my brains.
It is a Peter Peter, Yeah, Peter Calgrin. You have
heard of him?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Why?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Er?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, yes, I've heard of him.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
You do not see him anywhere today?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Uh? No, No, I haven't seen him.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Thank you? Used to say?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Uh I, uh, I didn't tell you my name either.
It's Poncid, but pons.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
I'm very pleased to meet you, mister Pansid and a
nerd christ.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh how do you do? Anna?
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Why you look at me like that? Mister?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Something is the matter.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, I'm afraid there is Peter.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
He is not sick.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
No, no other than that. Wait, well, you you said
you'd come to America.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
To marry Peter.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Sure, but you don't know him very well, do you?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Over two years? We write later?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh oh yes, but I.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Mean what do you think I canned love a man
I never meet?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
No, no, not necessarily.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
I know Peter used the same as if you meet
a hundred times. We tell each other everything in letters.
Maybe so be so, but yeah, I see, I see
what you did you think? Oh, you tell yourself. I
only marry Peter because you sent me so much money,
but because he is such a rich.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Friendly No, no, no, of course not.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Well they tell you, rude mister, and marry him because
they love him. I never see him, but I love him.
There's no other reason.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Ah huh, yeah, well of course, Hannah. I I so
what I whyt to comorrow to the cafe and have
a cup of coffee?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Oh, which is very kind of you, But it must
be here and Peter Kohn.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, I'm afraid Peter isn't coming.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Didn't understand.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
No, I'm awful sorry to tell you about this, but
I well.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
He's in jail, in jail, Yeah, you mean Pholice arrested him.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, it was the Marshal and that was about the
same thing.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
What did Peter do?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well? Oh sure, sure, No.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
He's scared to meet me, so he has too much
to drink here.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Oh no, and it's it's a lot more serious than that.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Damn me, mister.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Well, the folks say that he killed the man last week.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Peter killed a man.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
It sure looks that way.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
No, it could not be. He's fine. Good failure.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, that's well. I guess you're bound to think that,
Anna got.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
They make big mistake, I tell him. So they let
make Peter go?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Where is j No, no, no, I wouldn't, mister. Where's
j Well, let's just around the corner there. But I
don't think. Oh here here, let me give you a
hand before you can.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Manage, he can carry suitcase. Have her confirm him.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Blend this strong now, le listen, Anna, I'm afraid the marshall.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Mister you come to bedding?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh sure, sure, I I mean I oh good luck.
Uh well, I didn't see where. It was up to
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me to give Anne all the details about the hanging
Monday and everything she'd find out soon enough.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh sure.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It was a tough break though, after coming all this
distance and marry a man she'd never seen.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Well, I strolled.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Around town for an hour or so, and then I
headed over to Georgia Billing's house, where i'd left my things.
I was planning to spend the night with George and
his wife Ellen. They offered me the useless spare room. Mm,
I don't nobody home. Well, I picked up the flower
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pot and the top porch step, and I found the key,
entered and thought there was a note from Ella two
and said for me gwinside and make himself comfortable.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And there was a copy of the Smoke Falls Weekly
gazette on the hall table, and the skimmed through it
for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Then the main article was about the Quincy shooting Pete
Kilgan's trial.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Oh how that an?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Oh well, they tell me, I we'll find you here.
He must talk to you is important?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, well, come on, Anna, thank you very much. Won't
you say down?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
They would rather stand? He get too nervous if I
say it, mister barnst yup. What he's wrong with Marshall Burke?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh? Nothing, as far as I know, he says.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Peter must be hanged.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, yeah, I know, and that is not possible.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
They would not hang a man who is not guilty.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, Anna, maybe Pete is guilty.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
I know he is not. Then Marshall, let me talk
to Peter. I ask him if he does this awful thing.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
He tells me no, Well, uh Anna, it is no lie.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I can tell a man who lies.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It is a crue.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
What Peter says, Well, he is a fine fella, better
even than the hope. My sister ron Mare should not
expect too much. He will be disappointed. But Peter, he
is good and fine and handsome.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Oh he's a nice little boy, all right, no doubt
about that.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
And he did not kill any man. He could not
be the one.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, he's admitted steal in the South Quincy's money for me.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
That is why he takes it so we can get married.
It is very wrong to steal, and he must be
punished for it.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Well, if he was well on to steal, if he
deal is.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Not to kill, that is by to hang him.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah, then you must keep them from it. Mm yeah,
I tell Peter to be meat. But you are very
nice to me. He says, you'll be a famous person
with the funny name sick Shooters.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh yes, yeah, he says, you will.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Prove he is not guilty. You will talk to Marshall
for him.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Ah well, I don't see what talking of Marshall Burke
would do.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Please, mister parn said, I tell you something now before
I say I come to marry Peter, because then I
love it him because of letters. But he writes and
maybe and it speak the truth. Maybe I just want
to come to America. I think I get no other chance.
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But now it is the truth, and meet him and
they talk to him, and I am in love. I
love him very much. You must believe me, mister Barnst.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh sure, I nuh sure, I believe you.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Then you will talk to Morsha.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah, well, alright, alright, I'll talk to him.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You are listening to The Six Shooter, starring James Stewart
as Britt Ponset, the Texas cow polk whose name has
become legend throughout the West. Now, oh, act two of
the story and a nord Quist.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I left down at the hotel. I went over to
see Ned Burke. His office was in the front part
of the jail, where they were keeping. Pete kilgrin Ned
had only been marshall for a few months, but he'd
had a couple of years deputy experience, so he knew
the job and he was sort of a man that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Usually made a good marshal too.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He's quiet, not looking for trouble, but able to take
care of it when the time came.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I sure felt terrible brick when she came in here
and told me who she was and what she wanted.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, I let her talk to Kilgren.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Figured it was the least I could do. This seemed
to make things worse, though. He convinced her that he
was innocent and I was out to get him.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Oh well, no, nobody's gonna bled that Ned. That girl
might believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Yes, I wouldn't blame her if she did. The Kilgren's
a pretty smooth tooker, uh uh, Ned Cambry, I there.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Couldn't be any doubt about it, could there?
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I mean, as I understand it, Pete says that Quincy
was already dead when he got there. We was sure
he didn't, and that he took the money because while
it was just a darned tempton.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Uh, I don't stand the reason that somebody'd murder sat
and then go off without breaking into a strong box, Now,
does it, brit No, No, I guess it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Besides, Sarah Henderson seen Pete riding away from says I
was not five minutes after.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
She heard a shot.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But you uh rest him the same day.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
And I came in town right after I found says body.
Sarah had sent for me. She had a feeling something
was wrong. Caldron was at Bud Winkler's place. That's where
I found him.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
He still have a gun on him.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
No, no, he claimed he didn't known.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
The forty five.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
That's what the slug in, says Chess was forty five mm.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I see.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Of course Pete had plenty of time to get rid
of the gun, and there are plenty places between says
ranch and town where he could have ditched it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
M Oh, that's true enough. Anybody ever remem I remember
seeing Pete with a forty five.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Not that I know of.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Not.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Wait a minute, bit, you ain't taking Pete's side and
this thing, right, well.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm not taking anybody's side, and that I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's all. This was a cold blood to kill him.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You going out to set place. You'll see he was
an old man, but he sure put up a darn
good fight for his life, and from the looks of things,
he went on fact me after he was shot.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, I just might take you up on that invitation there,
uh mm, yeah about going out to Seth Place.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
See a letter he was gotten on.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Toward dusk when I reached Seth Quincy's ranch.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Whoa, whoa boy, wh whosh guard whoa. I walked up
the front steps and tried the door. It wasn't locked.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Sat had lived alone to look like anybody then to
straightened things up since the murders. So yeah, I'm sure
I had been a whale of a fight in the parlor.
A couple of broken chairs and some stains on the sofa,
and pieces of a lamp that had been smashed against
the fireplace.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Strong box didn't seemed to be there. I figured they
probably needed that for the evidence. Well.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I poked around for about half an hour, and then
I headed back to town. The moon was starting to
come up as we hid a band in the trail
and the dark gunnest thing happened. Now, a scar was
usually as sure foot as as a mountain. Got and
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not a bit skiddy she either. But when a bat
came winging out of some cottonwoods, i'd I'd done your
sail right out of the sadde.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
The sam Hill had gone walk, oh, Scar, come on,
And that's when I saw it.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It buried under a pill of leaves in a little gully.
The first thing that caught my eye was the moonlight
glinting off a piece of metal.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Easy easy, scark, easy course.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It could have been almost anything, a broken spur, or
part of a farm tool or anything.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But even before I pulled it out from underneath the
leaves and the dird, I knew it was a gun.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, who's there?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's made Britt Potson.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Ooh, you's the minute? H I think you never come?
Mister parts? Did I get so very well?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I'm sorry it took me so long.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
And it doesn't matter now that you're year. You talk
to Marshall Burke.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, yeah, I talked to him.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
And you're telling Peter did not kill this man. You're
telling Peter's not guilty.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
No, Anna, I couldn't tell him that, do you say it? Uh?
Pete is guilty.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I found his gun, the gun he used to kill
seth Quincy No. Was hidden in a gally about a
mile from the farmhouse.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
He do not believe you.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I gave it to Marshall Burke. Now you can see
it for yourself. You wanna go over there. Pete's initials
right on the handle. Only one bullet had been fired.
It's the right gun.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
There's no doubt for it could not be. Uh Anna,
I listen to me.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
The only reason I'm i I'm telling you this is
well after Monday, there won't be anything you can do
about Pete down.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It'll be better if you just forget him.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Have n not forget?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Oh, it won't be easy, I know that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But as long as you know he's guilty, as long
as there is any doubt in your mind, well right,
maybe it's for the best that you found out before.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Why you try to tell me, lies.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Anna, this is the truth.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
No, you say you will show me gun. You say
it belongs to Peter. Well, what does Peter say?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, of course he denies it.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Then I deny it too, alright, alright, uh uh.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Ah, I guess there's nothing more I can do about it.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
You lie to me, You and Marshall. You try to
make me think that when I love is a criminal.
I do not understand. In old country they talk about America,
they say he's best country in the world. But this
is lie too. Very's justice, there's freedom they hang a
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man from he does not do. Oh no, Anna, he's
a terrible, terrible country. Maybe shall never come here. Maybe
she'll never leave me home. They have no friend nor husband,
maybe alone in country that I hate.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well, well, I'm I'm sorry. And if there's any way
I can help you, if if you need some money.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
He wasn't a new hit from American.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Uh, oh, good night.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The light was still on in the Marshall's office, so
I stopped off and I asked Ned if I could
go and have a little talk with Pete. He didn't
seem to think it'd do much good. And to tell
you the truth, I didn't think so either, But uh,
I couldn't see to do any harm.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Try So. Pete was a tall, stringy.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Man, not twenty five or so, toe headed with the
yellow mustache, kind of a pointed chin.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Alright, Britta, leave here, and you want not just give
me a yell?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Nice man.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Sharing popular today in a brit I I guess you
might call it that, Pete.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Well, well, I thought maybe by now you'd feel like
coming out with a truth.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Told you the truth before, never seen that gun in
my whole life. Ain't the only man of those initials,
am I said, what's the difference if I'm gonna be
hung anyway?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Well, the difference is Anna. Anna. She believes you, Pete.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
She believes you're innocent, and as long as you go
on sand so she's gonna keep on believing that even
even after.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's kind of nice to have somebody believe in your breath.
Nobody else does.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Now, Pete, you weren't railroaded. You had a fair judge
and a fair trial. But Anna doesn't realize that. She's young,
she's upset, and she's in a strange country. She wanted
to come here pretty bad, had a lot of dreams
about this country, and now that now those dreams.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Are and sour.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I mean, it's a good thing she woke up.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Well, I just don't happen to agree with you on that.
I think this is a pretty good place to live.
But Anna won't find that out, not if she goes
on feeling this way.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Well, what do you expect me to do?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Confess to murdering Seth Quincy just so Anna can appreciate
the good old USA. You ask me, this country ain't
so hot anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, there are a lot of folks who put up
pretty good argument about that. Your own father is one
of 'em. You're just wasting your breath. Yeah, yeah, I
guess an any man who kills Seth Quincy in cold
blood the way it wasn't cold blood.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I didn't even you want, Pete, all right, But I
ain't telling you this because it I don't even know
why I'm telling you. I needed money for Anna so
we could get married. I wanted to make a good showing,
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like I told her in the letters I wrote her.
Everybody said Seth had plenty of cash, that he wouldn't
put none of it in the bank cause he'd had
a fight with mister Putnam and he kept it all
in that strong boxing.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I thought he'd gone to town.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I never figured he'd.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Come back and catch me.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
While I was robbing him. I tried to hold him
off with my gun, but he just kept coming. I
I had the fire even then.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
He didn't stop, not until well, Pete, what do he
want now? I I want you to tell this to Anna,
you can tell her. I'm afraid that wouldn't do any good.
She's real pretty achy. I never figured on her being
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some pretty. She was surprised.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, I've been writing her for the last two years.
It was pause idea. He knew her ken back in Sweden.
Wouldn't any girl around here that least ways.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
None I was interested in.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Uh huh, Well Pete, I'll tell her.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
But it wasn't cold blood bred, not the way you think.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, but ned ned, I'm all down here. Well, Pete
finally explained things to Anna, and I guess she saw
what had happened in kind of a different light movie. Anyway,
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she stayed on and smoked falls, and last time I
was through there, she was working over on Windy Nights Cafee.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
She changed some to was she wore hair? And was
she dressed? But she she was still just pretty as
the picture of Georgia. And you know something Wendy had changed.
He wasn't talking so much. A folk said that that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Was Anne's door, that she'd asked him to simmer down
a back waser. If she was able to get Wendy
to stop talking, even for a couple of minutes, if
she had that much influence on him.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Well, you never know that. The Six Shooter is.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
A transcribed NBC Radio Network production in association with Review Productions.
It is written by Frank Burts and is based on
a character created by him. Mister Stewart, may currently be
seen in the Universal International Picture The Glenn Miller Story.
Others in the cast were Lillian Bias, Bill Johnstone, lou Merrow.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
And Harry Killer Bartel. Special music for this.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Program was by Basil Adlam, and the entire production is
under the direction of Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents
were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents
is purely coincidental. Oh yes, and by the way, you'll
be interested in knowing that The six Shooter has been
chosen for broadcast to our men overseas through the facilities
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of the Armed Forces Radio Service. This is hal give
me speaking. Hearing time brings you the Senate Committee hearings
tonight on the NBC Radio Network.
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