November 20, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
In a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the six Shooter.
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and Can You Top This with Senator Ford. Bob Hope
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night lineup of comedy programs, all of them heard only
on NBC. James Stewart as the six Shooter. The man
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in the saddle is angular and long legged. His skin
is sunned down brown. The gun in his holster is
gray steel rainbow mother of Pearl, its handle unmarked.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
People call them both.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
The six Shooter.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The six Shooter,
a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Ponsen, the Texas Plainsman who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered lenchends.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I sure didn't look like I was going to get
much sleep that night.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The Prospect Hotel was right in the middle of town,
and from my room I could hear just about everything
went on outside, and there.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wasn't as much I could do about the noise either.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
There's two dogs, one hot to shut the window, and
the sun had been down for a couple hours, but
there wasn't any breeze.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And my room being on the second.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Floor, well it the heat just seemed to sort of
hang there. And boy, uh, around about ten o'clock I
finally managed to doze off, And I wasn't exactly sound asleep,
you understand, it, just sort of in between You might say,
what the sam Hill is?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Uh? Hum?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
For a second I thought maybe I'd dreampt that shot.
And then I heard somebody come running out of the
front door of the hotel and jump on a horse.
And the time I got across the room to the window,
whoever it was ridden out of side. When I pulled
on my pants, I headed downstairs. I was the first
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person reached the lobby, Sid Tucker, he was a fellow
owned the hotel. Sid was standing behind the registration desk,
hanging on with both hands. By what happened, said, He
opened his mouth to give me an answer, but the
words it didn't come out, and he started to teeter
a little bit from side to side, and then he
toppled over. And when I got around behind the desk
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where he was lying, I saw the pink stain across
the front of his shirt.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was getting redder every second. Anything wrong here? I thought?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I heard a shot frit Well, like Sid, Tucker, you
better get the Doc Prance quick like sure, shoot, get
the sheriff too, if you can find him with you.
I managed to carry Sid into the dining room laid
him out on the table.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I figured the dock might have to do.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Some probing for that bullet in Sid's belly, and if
Sid was in a good hard surface, he'd have a
little easier time handling him. By this time, everybody in
the hotel was crowding around what was wrong. Sid was
still breathing, but there was a kind of a rasping
noise with every breath he took, and the bleed.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Was worse than ever. He was pleased. He was bad off, oh,
I has no doubt about that. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It was about ten minutes before dark Prince got there.
Seemed a lot longer for us.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
But I'll just go on back to bed.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Everybody, go on now, there's nothing you can do here.
You just be in my way.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Please go on now, used to ground brick?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You don't mind? Why?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, I might need somebody to help hold him down.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh sure, I'm sure this is gonna be all right, andy, Doc.
I haven't even had a chance to examine him yet.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Oh now, come on, folks, outside, please outside. I'll let
you know what his prospects are as soon as I.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Find out myself.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm afraid that's not much of a band age, doc,
but it's the best I could do under the circumstance.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Mm And it looks like the bullet may hit a kidney, now,
I told you, Folksted.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh hello, sir, how'd he? Doc? Brit Oh? Sam? How
is he?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Uh? Not good?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Not good at tall?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
He's lost a lot of blood and he's hammereding pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You around when it happened, brit.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Nah, I heard a shot and I come downstairs fas
as I could, but he was alone.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
When I got here. I pre well got her.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I'm not gonna be able to do any digging for
that bullet now, it's in too deep.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Muh listen. It's it sounds like he's coming too.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, m doc, she's alright for me to try and
talk to him, and uh.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I reckon, it won't make much difference one way or
the other.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Not sit.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I got a awful paint of my belly. What what
you now?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
You just lie there, easy said, don't do no moving around?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Hurts bad doc, awful bed. Yeah, now you you've been shot.
Suh you shot?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You remember anything about it?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
No, Sheriff, I'm afraid I don't. Oh yeah, yeah, I
recollect Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He he told me to.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Give him the box ten box with the money the
folks asked.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Me to keep for him. You know who it was?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Your money, britt, your cash is in that box. Fifty No, no,
don't worry yourself about that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Did you recognize him?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And said?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
What the fella who shot you?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Did you get a look at him?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
John John Springer Stringer? Huh musta been the one least
way he's he's sure sure they mold it. Fella underwanted
posters un wall here.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
See he's not gonna answer no more question. Sam. Yeah
you uh you think it was Stringer?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Uh could have been. I didn't know he was in
these parts. But it's a kind of hold murder he's
pulled before. Yeah, I guess there's only one way to
find out for certain. Let's go bridge. Why pick up
his trail if we can.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, but come with me, won't you?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Well sure, Sam, but if you think you need me,
But there are plenty of local residents and make up
a posse with.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Not taking a pussy. Brit might be mourning for he
could get one together. By then his trail would be cool.
Stringer rides alone usually reckon. The two of us can
handle them. Your house and the stable.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, well all right, Sam, I'll get scar mets out
in front of.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I had heard about Johnny Stranger. He'd killed his first
man when he was only fourteen years old, and they
said he'd manage at least one more every year since
he's still young. Though twenty one twenty two, supposed to
be a handsome boys, black, curly hair, brown eyes, a
little scar on the side of his neck from a
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gunfight somewhere near as Salt Lakes City. I'd never met
up with him in person. As a matter of fact.
This was further south, and he usually strayed, that is,
if it was stringer who killed Shid Tucker. Well, we
got our horses, Sam and I and started looking for
the trail. The fella i'd heard ride off just after
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the shooting had been heading east toward the Furnace Hills,
so we rode out that way. There was a lot
of moon, and after milling around fifteen twenty minutes, we
spotted some fresh tracks along the prick at the edge
of town. Of course, we still had no reason to
be certain that this was the right trail. Whole on
a minute, Sam ooh we'll star.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well it's a.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Matter brick who who?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Okay, all over there beside that cactus once that looked
like you, I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
See any Oh yeah yeah, yeah, easy easy. At the
ten bucks, SID was talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah uh kid must shut lock open empty, Yeah yeah,
we'll We got tired carrying it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Hotel should have had us safe and telling the Sid
tuck to that for years.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, well this box always served the same purpose up
till now. Yeah, yeah, up til now.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Sid said he was keeping some of your money for him.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, a couple of months pay.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh well I'll get over its.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Sid warned, Well, it's no point hanging on to this
anymore again.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh, at least we know we're on the right track.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
D Uh. Something alight's cart that's gone?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
While he had an hour's head start, maybe more, and
we had to take it pretty sweet to be sure
we wouldn't lose the trail. So it didn't seem like
we had much chance to catching up, not very soon anyhow.
M But then just a bob dawn, when the eastern sky.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Started to show a.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Huge slippers of orange and yellow, those tracks we were
falling to a different.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Look real, ah, you see now, something must have happened
to his hawk. Yeah, it was like maybe you went lame.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I sure does. Donna see here bit you see whoa.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Must have stopped the rest respec Mm come on, don't
seem like it did much good though us was lamer
than ever when they started up again.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He couldn't have been making very much time here on,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, better keep our eyes open. Might be running into
him any minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
We were in the Furnace mountains now and the sun
was coming up. Hoot, Oh, there's gonna be another courtyard.
You could feel everything start to warm up already. The
trail we were following showed more and more signs of
the horses and pretty bad shape, and then the places
where he'd stopped the rest were getting closer and closer together,
until finally we saw the follow on the saddle had
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just given up trying to ride and start moving out
ahead on foot.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Ooh oh, easy, easy guy, easy as well.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Either the horse is here, pretty he can't be much
further now.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's hip.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Hm ay uh over there in the the cabin on
the side of the.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Ravine, uh uh huh know who's it in?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
No, I ain't never been on this slope before.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Or somebody's living there.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Uh, from the looks of that smoke, I'd just say
they're cooking breakfast.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Let's close in.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
We started up the side.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Of the ravine, moving slow, keeping the rocks for cover.
Until we were about twenty yards away. I noticed the
barn sitting in front of a clump of trees across
a little clare, and we swung a little to our left.
If we could just get over to the barn without
anybody seeing as then we could move into the cabin itself.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But we were we were still in.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
The place, and we we we have to get past
that clear and first he he.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Ain't spotted this price, I guess not if he's really hair.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But at those tracks leading into the barn, the same
horse we've been following.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I'd stake my life on it. Yeah, they do look
kind of familiar.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Best thing we can do now is rush the back
door to the cabin. If it's unlocked, we can be
inside before he even knows what's happening. But it ain't, well,
we'll have to shoot our way in.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
All right, Sam, you're calling a turn.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
It was about thirty forty feet from barn to the
cabin itself.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Sam rocked back.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
On his heels and he gave a one forward to
be the big man should put the move predy fast.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
All I could do to keep up with him. Back
door was on the locked.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
All right, we charge inside like a couple of Texas steers.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Swell it? Who are you?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Where do you break in like this?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Uh? Allow? Uh? I we don't mean any trouble. Message,
Then why do you come?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, we can't go rob.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Me no, and I have nothing to stay. You have
picked the wrong cabin, Senor.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it looks like maybe we have.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We'll return to James Stewart as the six Shooter in
just a moment. Not all careless drivers have accidents, but
many such careless drivers car accidents. A woman driver who
drives slowly down main street while doing a little window
shopping is a menace. So is the man who insists
on telling the people in the backseat of his car
about his poker game last week. It's no wonder that
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ordinarily cautious drivers start to lose their tempers and take
dangerous chances to pass these careless drivers. When an accident results,
the person who caused the accident probably won't even be touched.
So the National Safety Council says, if you want a window.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Shop, get out and walk.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
If you are too busy describing one of your sterling
feats to pay any attention to traffic, get.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Out and walk.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The driver's license you have does not give you the
right to endanger the lives of your passengers or other
human beings. Driving can be dangerous. To keep your mind
on what you're doing, or walk.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Act two of the Six Shooters, starring James Stewart as
Britain Punst.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
While she was a real pretty girl about twenty, black
hair and black eyes that sort of flash sparks when
she talked. At least they were flashing sparks at us
for a while, but finally we managed to get her
quieter down. We explained that we weren't trying to rob her.
We were just looking for an outlaw and somewhere in
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these parts.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
No, no, I have seen no one.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You're sure about that?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Gee, there has been nobody last night, last week, nobody.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You live here all alone.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
This cabiny belonged to my father. I'll tayle men that
he stayed six months. I live alone.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I must be kind of lonely young girl like you.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I took care of cars at plant seats. There will
be food for winter.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, I think i'll take a look around outside the bard.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Maybe when you look there, I'll tell you there's no one.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's what you told us. Mmm.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Want me to go with you? Then?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh no, you might check the rest of the cabin though, Britt,
Sure you think I lie?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You think I would protect this bandy? You know you're
telling me about it. I am Maria Gonzale, mondays I
do let lie.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
No, I don't get excited, marinuh if he should be
in this neighborhood and you didn't know about it. Well,
it'd be for your own good if we turned him up,
will't it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Will?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I see?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
See?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I guess so. But your friend here's no trust me.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
All signs a show he can't afford to take chances.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Uh. Do you mind showing me the rest of the place? Eh?
If you like?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
This is the Menno you call it the partner.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Uh huh?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Here is where I sleep?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What's that door over there?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
The bedroom off my father?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It uh? It is still as it was when he Yeah, yeah,
you're satisfied.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I'm satisfied. Stringer isn't in the cabin ren. M.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
You're like your friend. You do not trust me either?
Why would I hide this man if he's what.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You say he is?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I sure don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
He killed someone. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I's try.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You did not see him, do it? M?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
No? But the man he's shot while he recognized Stringer
s Stringer.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
It is a funny name.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yeah, I never heard of him so.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, he's pretty well known. This isn't his only killing,
but a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Mm. There's nothing to do with me, and.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
He's not in hair sham.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, well he's not in the barn either.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
But his horse is why, no, Singer, No, it is
my horse, the one you saw.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I suppose you been riding him all night.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Uh, I do not know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well, somebody should have been giving him a workout. They
even rode him after he went lame too. Oh why
don't you start telling us the truth for a change?
How about it?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
It does not matter. He has gone. I get to
him another pony and he rides away long before you
get here. He has gone. Well you will never catch him.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Now.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
That is why, pitt I think you want to rob
me when you come.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I min not no, but he has killed no one.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
His name. It is no Stringer. It is Johnny Davis.
He tells me that you will look for him, and
that you would blame him for things he does not do.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Sure, that's what he told you, and you had to
believe him, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
He would not lie to me.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well, I guess you ain't the first sentuary that got
taken in by Johnny Stringer. Even his wife he's talked
to her into putting up with him on and off
for the last five years. And she is supposed to
be a pretty decent girl is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
His wife.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That's right, Maria. Johnny's married, has been since it was
all eighteen or so.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
He is not my concern. This Johnny Stringer.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Does your friend?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Davis says he got black hair, curly black hair. Many
men have black hair, and many men don't have a
scar on their neck, right hair?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
This scar?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We just wasting time, britt. We got a trail to
pick up. Yeah, yeah, wait, you lied to me about
his scar.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
He tried to make me think that my one Etho
is the same man you look for. You laugh about him.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I told you the truth, Maria.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
But he could not be married. No, it is not
so he's promised to marry me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
How long been staying here?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
No, he's not Stringer. His name is Davis, Johnny Davis.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
How long has you've been hair?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Two weeks? He stays in my father's room. Two weeks.
I fringed him with a bullet in his legs. He's
hurt and makes him way. He says he loves me
because yesterday to arrange for the wedding.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He couldn't marry you, Maria. If he did, it wouldn't
be a real man.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
No, No, he says he loves me is fighting. It
is in my heart. If he does not have loved
for me, I would not really.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, he's got a fresh horse. We'd better get moved.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yeah, sure he he Why remember this guy, he has
no horse?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Where is he, Maria?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
You try to fool me that he's married, that he
has your wife? You make this up to for me?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Where is he.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Then?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
But already loft of the barn, that's what he hides,
the lost. No, I have told you the truth. You
must Yeah, you must tell me the truth about John's
There's no reason to fool me any longer. You must
tell me the truth.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But it is the truth, Maria.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
All of that, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You ready, Britt, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
We walked outside. We didn't draw our guns. We just
strode along as though we were gonna go right past
the barn. And we got even with the door. Sam nodded,
and we took a couple of quick steps and pressed
flat against the building.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Strayer, we know you're in there, Strayre.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Sam waited a minute or song, and we started inching
toward the open door. I took my cue from him
and started moving the opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Ah, he was up.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
There all right, and he was in a good position
to cover that door too. If either one of us
so much is gutt near?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Wait, no, hurry, Strainger, we gonna wait.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
You wait a long time? Messed up?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah? Is there any other way of getting inside around
the back?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Maybe there's a window, but it's too small to crawl through.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Is that he's using up a lot of bullets. Trouble
is we don't know how many loads is carrying.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, I guess we'll just have to try smoking him out.
Ain't no breeze. Ought to be safe enough.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
What about the horse?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
He's just inside the door. He ain't tied up or nothing.
He'll come out for it gets too bad. Okay, I'll
go around and back.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I managed to get to the rear of the barn
by hugging the sides.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Of the building and keep out of range.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Every once in a while I could hear a Stringer
get off another ship, but he was still aiming towards Sam,
trying to make sure that we didn't rush him. I
found some dry brush and pushed it up against the barn,
and then I broke through the window with the butt
of my gun, and that told Stringer where I was,
and he shouldn't like it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I flattened down.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I stayed that way and until I got a handful
of brush burning, and then I raised up a couple
of inches and then threw it inside. I didn't know
whether it catch or not, so I stayed there where
I was so I could be sure. Yeah, so I
must have been lucky he did. It hit some rags
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and papers. Anyway, A good steady stream of smoke was
corn out the broken window, and Stringer'd have to start
moving out pretty soon. He wasn't doing on his shooting,
so I made my way around the front again. The
smoke would start to come out the door and hold
inside of the barn, and stilled up with him.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Day.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I never know about a horse door on a fire.
Some of 'em would just stand right in the middle
of it and not make a move to save themselves.
But there was only one direction Maria's pony could head,
and that was outside. So he finally put his nose down.
The count calloped him past him. About a minute later,
Springer followed his example. He was holding the band band
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all over his mouth with one hand and the other
hand was stuck up in the air. We were both
carvering sadly, that didn't look like I had anything to
worry about it, and none. I saw a flicker of
battle behind that bandanna. But before I do anything about it,
she ran in front of us and threw herself on
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his arm.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I figured you wouldn't let me down, honey.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
He pulled her tight against him, and the bandanna fell
away from the revolver he was holding. I just drop him,
I said, drop him unless you want to shoot her
in the back. Journey grump him.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I said, And I ain't gonna wait my froger. Okay, stringer,
you too, mister. Now, honey, just stay close to me.
We're getting out of here.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Will you take me journey?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
What's the difference you take.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Me to get married like you promise? Remember what Johnny
promised me? This would be our gush?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I remember, But we got other things to think about.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wait, did leave their horse and marine? Did they tell
you I got on.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
My mother's white dress? I guess she was nice? Yeah,
I break it nice the lace?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What about their horses?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Why don't you tell her you won't marry? Or stra
you're that you can't even if you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I wouldn't do a lot of talking if I was you, mister,
tell her about.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Your wife in Utah.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Some of the other girls have helped you over a
tight spot. You're not the first, Maria, not by long shot.
I warned you messed out toodie case.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Why do you care, Johnny? They are not true? But
they are true, I say.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Johnny, I never said they was due to I know.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I mean my mother's who I dressed with relays. I
would not worry today.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What if I are married?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
That doesn't mean that we can't, Marie. For a second,
I didn't realize what had happened. The stringer was staring
at Maria like he'd never seen her before, and then
just started to raise the revolver. He was holding his
finger on the trigger, but he never and he's squeezing it.
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He slid out of Maria's arms and fell face down
on his head. It was a small knife with a
fancy over her hand or very deep in his back,
right between his shoulder blades.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
We want could take me with you? No, not funny though,
but I would like to change my dress first. I
I think I would like to way the white one
with the lease.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
After all, well, we waited around til we was sure
the fire was out, and then we took Maria back
to Prospect. I don't know whether what she'd done was
murder or not. I Stringer was holding the gun on us.
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Maybe she saved her lives and he sure had it
coming to him, or what she.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Thought about that.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I uh gave Judge Ricker a statement that I and
I left Prospect. I I I guess if.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
There was a trial, Maria must.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Have come out of an all ride pleased to hope.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So the word research has become pretty familiar to all
of us in the last ten years or so, But
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have you ever stopped to think what research, especially medical research,
means to you personally? Without research, we would have no
penicillin or any of the other wonder drugs.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Research is also the most.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Important weapon in the fight against mental illness, and mental
illness today afflicts more than nine million people. Already, research
has opened up leads for preventing many mental illnesses, and
research has shown us speedier and more effective ways of
helping mentally sick people to get well. Research scientists say
we can be hopeful, but they need help from us.
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They need money to carry on research. If we help science.
Science could give us a much better chance to escape
mental illness and to cure mental illness if it should strike.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
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Speaker 1 (28:11):
Help, give to the Mental Health Fund and care of
your local postmaster. Just address Mental Health Fund, get care
of your local postmaster.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Don't wait.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This worthwhile cause needs your support now. The Sick Shooter
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is a transcribed NVC Radio Network production in association with
Review Productions. It is based on a character created by
Frank Burton, is written by him. Mister Stewart may currently
be seen in the Universal Enter National picture The Glenn
Miller Store.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Others in the cast were Virginia.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Greg Harry Bartel Harley Bear, Joel Cranston and Barney Phillips.
Special music for this program was by Basil Adlom and
the entire production is under the direction of Jack Johnstone.
All characters incidents were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
characters or incidents is purely coincidental. By the way, you'll
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be interested in knowing that the six Shooter has been
chosen for broadcast to our men overseas through the facilities
of the Armed Forces Radio Services. This is John Wallsbeak
here and addressed by President Eisenhower. Next on the NBC
Radio network,
In a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the six Shooter.
Just one of many fine programs brought to you each
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The Bob Hope Show, The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show,
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night lineup of comedy programs, all of them heard only
on NBC. James Stewart as the six Shooter. The man
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in the saddle is angular and long legged. His skin
is sunned down brown. The gun in his holster is
gray steel rainbow mother of Pearl, its handle unmarked.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
People call them both.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
The six Shooter.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The six Shooter,
a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Ponsen, the Texas Plainsman who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered lenchends.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I sure didn't look like I was going to get
much sleep that night.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The Prospect Hotel was right in the middle of town,
and from my room I could hear just about everything
went on outside, and there.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wasn't as much I could do about the noise either.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
There's two dogs, one hot to shut the window, and
the sun had been down for a couple hours, but
there wasn't any breeze.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And my room being on the second.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Floor, well it the heat just seemed to sort of
hang there. And boy, uh, around about ten o'clock I
finally managed to doze off, And I wasn't exactly sound asleep,
you understand, it, just sort of in between You might say,
what the sam Hill is?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Uh? Hum?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
For a second I thought maybe I'd dreampt that shot.
And then I heard somebody come running out of the
front door of the hotel and jump on a horse.
And the time I got across the room to the window,
whoever it was ridden out of side. When I pulled
on my pants, I headed downstairs. I was the first
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person reached the lobby, Sid Tucker, he was a fellow
owned the hotel. Sid was standing behind the registration desk,
hanging on with both hands. By what happened, said, He
opened his mouth to give me an answer, but the
words it didn't come out, and he started to teeter
a little bit from side to side, and then he
toppled over. And when I got around behind the desk
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where he was lying, I saw the pink stain across
the front of his shirt.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was getting redder every second. Anything wrong here? I thought?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I heard a shot frit Well, like Sid, Tucker, you
better get the Doc Prance quick like sure, shoot, get
the sheriff too, if you can find him with you.
I managed to carry Sid into the dining room laid
him out on the table.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I figured the dock might have to do.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Some probing for that bullet in Sid's belly, and if
Sid was in a good hard surface, he'd have a
little easier time handling him. By this time, everybody in
the hotel was crowding around what was wrong. Sid was
still breathing, but there was a kind of a rasping
noise with every breath he took, and the bleed.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Was worse than ever. He was pleased. He was bad off, oh,
I has no doubt about that. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It was about ten minutes before dark Prince got there.
Seemed a lot longer for us.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
But I'll just go on back to bed.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Everybody, go on now, there's nothing you can do here.
You just be in my way.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Please go on now, used to ground brick?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You don't mind? Why?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, I might need somebody to help hold him down.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh sure, I'm sure this is gonna be all right, andy, Doc.
I haven't even had a chance to examine him yet.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Oh now, come on, folks, outside, please outside. I'll let
you know what his prospects are as soon as I.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Find out myself.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm afraid that's not much of a band age, doc,
but it's the best I could do under the circumstance.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Mm And it looks like the bullet may hit a kidney, now,
I told you, Folksted.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh hello, sir, how'd he? Doc? Brit Oh? Sam? How
is he?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Uh? Not good?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Not good at tall?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
He's lost a lot of blood and he's hammereding pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You around when it happened, brit.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Nah, I heard a shot and I come downstairs fas
as I could, but he was alone.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
When I got here. I pre well got her.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I'm not gonna be able to do any digging for
that bullet now, it's in too deep.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Muh listen. It's it sounds like he's coming too.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, m doc, she's alright for me to try and
talk to him, and uh.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I reckon, it won't make much difference one way or
the other.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Not sit.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I got a awful paint of my belly. What what
you now?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
You just lie there, easy said, don't do no moving around?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Hurts bad doc, awful bed. Yeah, now you you've been shot.
Suh you shot?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You remember anything about it?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
No, Sheriff, I'm afraid I don't. Oh yeah, yeah, I
recollect Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He he told me to.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Give him the box ten box with the money the
folks asked.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Me to keep for him. You know who it was?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Your money, britt, your cash is in that box. Fifty No, no,
don't worry yourself about that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Did you recognize him?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And said?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
What the fella who shot you?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Did you get a look at him?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
John John Springer Stringer? Huh musta been the one least
way he's he's sure sure they mold it. Fella underwanted
posters un wall here.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
See he's not gonna answer no more question. Sam. Yeah
you uh you think it was Stringer?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Uh could have been. I didn't know he was in
these parts. But it's a kind of hold murder he's
pulled before. Yeah, I guess there's only one way to
find out for certain. Let's go bridge. Why pick up
his trail if we can.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, but come with me, won't you?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Well sure, Sam, but if you think you need me,
But there are plenty of local residents and make up
a posse with.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Not taking a pussy. Brit might be mourning for he
could get one together. By then his trail would be cool.
Stringer rides alone usually reckon. The two of us can
handle them. Your house and the stable.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, well all right, Sam, I'll get scar mets out
in front of.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I had heard about Johnny Stranger. He'd killed his first
man when he was only fourteen years old, and they
said he'd manage at least one more every year since
he's still young. Though twenty one twenty two, supposed to
be a handsome boys, black, curly hair, brown eyes, a
little scar on the side of his neck from a
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gunfight somewhere near as Salt Lakes City. I'd never met
up with him in person. As a matter of fact.
This was further south, and he usually strayed, that is,
if it was stringer who killed Shid Tucker. Well, we
got our horses, Sam and I and started looking for
the trail. The fella i'd heard ride off just after
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the shooting had been heading east toward the Furnace Hills,
so we rode out that way. There was a lot
of moon, and after milling around fifteen twenty minutes, we
spotted some fresh tracks along the prick at the edge
of town. Of course, we still had no reason to
be certain that this was the right trail. Whole on
a minute, Sam ooh we'll star.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well it's a.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Matter brick who who?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Okay, all over there beside that cactus once that looked
like you, I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
See any Oh yeah yeah, yeah, easy easy. At the
ten bucks, SID was talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah uh kid must shut lock open empty, Yeah yeah,
we'll We got tired carrying it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Hotel should have had us safe and telling the Sid
tuck to that for years.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, well this box always served the same purpose up
till now. Yeah, yeah, up til now.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Sid said he was keeping some of your money for him.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, a couple of months pay.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh well I'll get over its.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Sid warned, Well, it's no point hanging on to this
anymore again.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh, at least we know we're on the right track.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
D Uh. Something alight's cart that's gone?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
While he had an hour's head start, maybe more, and
we had to take it pretty sweet to be sure
we wouldn't lose the trail. So it didn't seem like
we had much chance to catching up, not very soon anyhow.
M But then just a bob dawn, when the eastern sky.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Started to show a.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Huge slippers of orange and yellow, those tracks we were
falling to a different.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Look real, ah, you see now, something must have happened
to his hawk. Yeah, it was like maybe you went lame.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I sure does. Donna see here bit you see whoa.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Must have stopped the rest respec Mm come on, don't
seem like it did much good though us was lamer
than ever when they started up again.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He couldn't have been making very much time here on,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, better keep our eyes open. Might be running into
him any minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
We were in the Furnace mountains now and the sun
was coming up. Hoot, Oh, there's gonna be another courtyard.
You could feel everything start to warm up already. The
trail we were following showed more and more signs of
the horses and pretty bad shape, and then the places
where he'd stopped the rest were getting closer and closer together,
until finally we saw the follow on the saddle had
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just given up trying to ride and start moving out
ahead on foot.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Ooh oh, easy, easy guy, easy as well.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Either the horse is here, pretty he can't be much
further now.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's hip.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Hm ay uh over there in the the cabin on
the side of the.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Ravine, uh uh huh know who's it in?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
No, I ain't never been on this slope before.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Or somebody's living there.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Uh, from the looks of that smoke, I'd just say
they're cooking breakfast.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Let's close in.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
We started up the side.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Of the ravine, moving slow, keeping the rocks for cover.
Until we were about twenty yards away. I noticed the
barn sitting in front of a clump of trees across
a little clare, and we swung a little to our left.
If we could just get over to the barn without
anybody seeing as then we could move into the cabin itself.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But we were we were still in.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
The place, and we we we have to get past
that clear and first he he.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Ain't spotted this price, I guess not if he's really hair.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But at those tracks leading into the barn, the same
horse we've been following.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I'd stake my life on it. Yeah, they do look
kind of familiar.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Best thing we can do now is rush the back
door to the cabin. If it's unlocked, we can be
inside before he even knows what's happening. But it ain't, well,
we'll have to shoot our way in.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
All right, Sam, you're calling a turn.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
It was about thirty forty feet from barn to the
cabin itself.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Sam rocked back.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
On his heels and he gave a one forward to
be the big man should put the move predy fast.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
All I could do to keep up with him. Back
door was on the locked.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
All right, we charge inside like a couple of Texas steers.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Swell it? Who are you?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Where do you break in like this?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Uh? Allow? Uh? I we don't mean any trouble. Message,
Then why do you come?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, we can't go rob.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Me no, and I have nothing to stay. You have
picked the wrong cabin, Senor.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it looks like maybe we have.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We'll return to James Stewart as the six Shooter in
just a moment. Not all careless drivers have accidents, but
many such careless drivers car accidents. A woman driver who
drives slowly down main street while doing a little window
shopping is a menace. So is the man who insists
on telling the people in the backseat of his car
about his poker game last week. It's no wonder that
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ordinarily cautious drivers start to lose their tempers and take
dangerous chances to pass these careless drivers. When an accident results,
the person who caused the accident probably won't even be touched.
So the National Safety Council says, if you want a window.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Shop, get out and walk.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
If you are too busy describing one of your sterling
feats to pay any attention to traffic, get.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Out and walk.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The driver's license you have does not give you the
right to endanger the lives of your passengers or other
human beings. Driving can be dangerous. To keep your mind
on what you're doing, or walk.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Act two of the Six Shooters, starring James Stewart as
Britain Punst.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
While she was a real pretty girl about twenty, black
hair and black eyes that sort of flash sparks when
she talked. At least they were flashing sparks at us
for a while, but finally we managed to get her
quieter down. We explained that we weren't trying to rob her.
We were just looking for an outlaw and somewhere in
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these parts.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
No, no, I have seen no one.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You're sure about that?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Gee, there has been nobody last night, last week, nobody.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You live here all alone.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
This cabiny belonged to my father. I'll tayle men that
he stayed six months. I live alone.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I must be kind of lonely young girl like you.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I took care of cars at plant seats. There will
be food for winter.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, I think i'll take a look around outside the bard.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Maybe when you look there, I'll tell you there's no one.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's what you told us. Mmm.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Want me to go with you? Then?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh no, you might check the rest of the cabin though, Britt,
Sure you think I lie?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You think I would protect this bandy? You know you're
telling me about it. I am Maria Gonzale, mondays I
do let lie.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
No, I don't get excited, marinuh if he should be
in this neighborhood and you didn't know about it. Well,
it'd be for your own good if we turned him up,
will't it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Will?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I see?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
See?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I guess so. But your friend here's no trust me.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
All signs a show he can't afford to take chances.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Uh. Do you mind showing me the rest of the place? Eh?
If you like?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
This is the Menno you call it the partner.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Uh huh?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Here is where I sleep?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What's that door over there?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
The bedroom off my father?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It uh? It is still as it was when he Yeah, yeah,
you're satisfied.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I'm satisfied. Stringer isn't in the cabin ren. M.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
You're like your friend. You do not trust me either?
Why would I hide this man if he's what.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You say he is?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I sure don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
He killed someone. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I's try.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You did not see him, do it? M?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
No? But the man he's shot while he recognized Stringer
s Stringer.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
It is a funny name.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yeah, I never heard of him so.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, he's pretty well known. This isn't his only killing,
but a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Mm. There's nothing to do with me, and.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
He's not in hair sham.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, well he's not in the barn either.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
But his horse is why, no, Singer, No, it is
my horse, the one you saw.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I suppose you been riding him all night.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Uh, I do not know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well, somebody should have been giving him a workout. They
even rode him after he went lame too. Oh why
don't you start telling us the truth for a change?
How about it?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
It does not matter. He has gone. I get to
him another pony and he rides away long before you
get here. He has gone. Well you will never catch him.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Now.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
That is why, pitt I think you want to rob
me when you come.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I min not no, but he has killed no one.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
His name. It is no Stringer. It is Johnny Davis.
He tells me that you will look for him, and
that you would blame him for things he does not do.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Sure, that's what he told you, and you had to
believe him, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
He would not lie to me.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well, I guess you ain't the first sentuary that got
taken in by Johnny Stringer. Even his wife he's talked
to her into putting up with him on and off
for the last five years. And she is supposed to
be a pretty decent girl is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
His wife.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That's right, Maria. Johnny's married, has been since it was
all eighteen or so.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
He is not my concern. This Johnny Stringer.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Does your friend?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Davis says he got black hair, curly black hair. Many
men have black hair, and many men don't have a
scar on their neck, right hair?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
This scar?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We just wasting time, britt. We got a trail to
pick up. Yeah, yeah, wait, you lied to me about
his scar.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
He tried to make me think that my one Etho
is the same man you look for. You laugh about him.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I told you the truth, Maria.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
But he could not be married. No, it is not
so he's promised to marry me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
How long been staying here?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
No, he's not Stringer. His name is Davis, Johnny Davis.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
How long has you've been hair?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Two weeks? He stays in my father's room. Two weeks.
I fringed him with a bullet in his legs. He's
hurt and makes him way. He says he loves me
because yesterday to arrange for the wedding.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He couldn't marry you, Maria. If he did, it wouldn't
be a real man.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
No, No, he says he loves me is fighting. It
is in my heart. If he does not have loved
for me, I would not really.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, he's got a fresh horse. We'd better get moved.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yeah, sure he he Why remember this guy, he has
no horse?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Where is he, Maria?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
You try to fool me that he's married, that he
has your wife? You make this up to for me?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Where is he.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Then?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
But already loft of the barn, that's what he hides,
the lost. No, I have told you the truth. You
must Yeah, you must tell me the truth about John's
There's no reason to fool me any longer. You must
tell me the truth.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But it is the truth, Maria.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
All of that, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You ready, Britt, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
We walked outside. We didn't draw our guns. We just
strode along as though we were gonna go right past
the barn. And we got even with the door. Sam nodded,
and we took a couple of quick steps and pressed
flat against the building.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Strayer, we know you're in there, Strayre.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Sam waited a minute or song, and we started inching
toward the open door. I took my cue from him
and started moving the opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Ah, he was up.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
There all right, and he was in a good position
to cover that door too. If either one of us
so much is gutt near?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Wait, no, hurry, Strainger, we gonna wait.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
You wait a long time? Messed up?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah? Is there any other way of getting inside around
the back?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Maybe there's a window, but it's too small to crawl through.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Is that he's using up a lot of bullets. Trouble
is we don't know how many loads is carrying.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, I guess we'll just have to try smoking him out.
Ain't no breeze. Ought to be safe enough.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
What about the horse?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
He's just inside the door. He ain't tied up or nothing.
He'll come out for it gets too bad. Okay, I'll
go around and back.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I managed to get to the rear of the barn
by hugging the sides.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Of the building and keep out of range.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Every once in a while I could hear a Stringer
get off another ship, but he was still aiming towards Sam,
trying to make sure that we didn't rush him. I
found some dry brush and pushed it up against the barn,
and then I broke through the window with the butt
of my gun, and that told Stringer where I was,
and he shouldn't like it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I flattened down.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I stayed that way and until I got a handful
of brush burning, and then I raised up a couple
of inches and then threw it inside. I didn't know
whether it catch or not, so I stayed there where
I was so I could be sure. Yeah, so I
must have been lucky he did. It hit some rags
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and papers. Anyway, A good steady stream of smoke was
corn out the broken window, and Stringer'd have to start
moving out pretty soon. He wasn't doing on his shooting,
so I made my way around the front again. The
smoke would start to come out the door and hold
inside of the barn, and stilled up with him.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Day.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I never know about a horse door on a fire.
Some of 'em would just stand right in the middle
of it and not make a move to save themselves.
But there was only one direction Maria's pony could head,
and that was outside. So he finally put his nose down.
The count calloped him past him. About a minute later,
Springer followed his example. He was holding the band band
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all over his mouth with one hand and the other
hand was stuck up in the air. We were both
carvering sadly, that didn't look like I had anything to
worry about it, and none. I saw a flicker of
battle behind that bandanna. But before I do anything about it,
she ran in front of us and threw herself on
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his arm.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I figured you wouldn't let me down, honey.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
He pulled her tight against him, and the bandanna fell
away from the revolver he was holding. I just drop him,
I said, drop him unless you want to shoot her
in the back. Journey grump him.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I said, And I ain't gonna wait my froger. Okay, stringer,
you too, mister. Now, honey, just stay close to me.
We're getting out of here.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Will you take me journey?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
What's the difference you take.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Me to get married like you promise? Remember what Johnny
promised me? This would be our gush?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I remember, But we got other things to think about.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wait, did leave their horse and marine? Did they tell
you I got on.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
My mother's white dress? I guess she was nice? Yeah,
I break it nice the lace?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What about their horses?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Why don't you tell her you won't marry? Or stra
you're that you can't even if you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I wouldn't do a lot of talking if I was you, mister,
tell her about.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Your wife in Utah.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Some of the other girls have helped you over a
tight spot. You're not the first, Maria, not by long shot.
I warned you messed out toodie case.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Why do you care, Johnny? They are not true? But
they are true, I say.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Johnny, I never said they was due to I know.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I mean my mother's who I dressed with relays. I
would not worry today.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What if I are married?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
That doesn't mean that we can't, Marie. For a second,
I didn't realize what had happened. The stringer was staring
at Maria like he'd never seen her before, and then
just started to raise the revolver. He was holding his
finger on the trigger, but he never and he's squeezing it.
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He slid out of Maria's arms and fell face down
on his head. It was a small knife with a
fancy over her hand or very deep in his back,
right between his shoulder blades.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
We want could take me with you? No, not funny though,
but I would like to change my dress first. I
I think I would like to way the white one
with the lease.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
After all, well, we waited around til we was sure
the fire was out, and then we took Maria back
to Prospect. I don't know whether what she'd done was
murder or not. I Stringer was holding the gun on us.
(26:46):
Maybe she saved her lives and he sure had it
coming to him, or what she.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Thought about that.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I uh gave Judge Ricker a statement that I and
I left Prospect. I I I guess if.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
There was a trial, Maria must.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Have come out of an all ride pleased to hope.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So the word research has become pretty familiar to all
of us in the last ten years or so, But
(27:27):
have you ever stopped to think what research, especially medical research,
means to you personally? Without research, we would have no
penicillin or any of the other wonder drugs.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Research is also the most.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Important weapon in the fight against mental illness, and mental
illness today afflicts more than nine million people. Already, research
has opened up leads for preventing many mental illnesses, and
research has shown us speedier and more effective ways of
helping mentally sick people to get well. Research scientists say
we can be hopeful, but they need help from us.
(28:00):
They need money to carry on research. If we help science.
Science could give us a much better chance to escape
mental illness and to cure mental illness if it should strike.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
If you'd like to.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Help, give to the Mental Health Fund and care of
your local postmaster. Just address Mental Health Fund, get care
of your local postmaster.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Don't wait.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This worthwhile cause needs your support now. The Sick Shooter
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is a transcribed NVC Radio Network production in association with
Review Productions. It is based on a character created by
Frank Burton, is written by him. Mister Stewart may currently
be seen in the Universal Enter National picture The Glenn
Miller Store.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Others in the cast were Virginia.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Greg Harry Bartel Harley Bear, Joel Cranston and Barney Phillips.
Special music for this program was by Basil Adlom and
the entire production is under the direction of Jack Johnstone.
All characters incidents were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
characters or incidents is purely coincidental. By the way, you'll
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be interested in knowing that the six Shooter has been
chosen for broadcast to our men overseas through the facilities
of the Armed Forces Radio Services. This is John Wallsbeak
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