November 20, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
In a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the Sick Shooter.
But first Friday evening on NBC hear the Dinah Shore
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It's a great Friday night lineup of programs, all of
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them heard only on NBC. James Stewart as the Sick Shooter.
The man in the saddle is angular and long legged.
His skin is sun dyed brown. The gun in his
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holster is gray steel and rainbow mother of pearl, its
handle unmarked. People call them both the Six Shooter. The
NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The Six Shooter,
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a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Ponset, the Texas plainsmen who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, at first, I didn't know what I was getting
into the town of Virtue City had never looked like
US four banner over the main street posters stuck in
the store windows. Bunton draped across most of the bells.
It was the wrong time of the year for the
county fair.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I pulled up the Mansion Hotel and headed into the lobby.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yes, sir, I like a room for the night.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Well, I guess we can fix you up, miss, if
you'll just sign the book. Sure, Oh my golly, I
never mind, never mind, I blot it up. You just
stand back out of the way. I put a new
point in that pen this morning, but I got some people.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well I'm by sure, I am sorry about it. Yeah, yeah,
Well that'll be fifty cents in advance, mister.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Puns. That's right, that's right. There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You're you're really Britt Punst.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well if he ain't, he's sure been pooling a lot
of folks from quite a spell.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Hire you rich yuh dark Cross. So where'd you come from?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I've been sitting there behind that uranium priant. I thought
I recognized you.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
When you come in.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Here.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Here's your key, mister Ponson, number twelve. About that ink blood,
I know it wasn't your. They just don't make pen
points the way they used to it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Infer your workman, shore you in a hurry to go
upstairs bridge?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
No especially, Well, come on over to the window and
sit for a spell. We can sort of keep our
eye on the street and see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh I doh, well, well you've been up.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
To bridge all same as yoursual I was riding herd
over the smoke falls the last six seven weeks. Probably
go back down the spring.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Uh huh here, just letting me get my instrument bag
out of the way. Yeah, there's a place for you.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You treating somebody in the hotel?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh no, exactly. I started make my headquarters here in
the hotel nowadays. Mm what happened to your regular office?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I still got it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I still got it. But h wait, you little hotel's handier.
What with all this fighting and shooting going on so
much as the time shooting? You ain't heard the news, Hubrid, No,
I guess I haven't. Well you see, Uh, Gus Cotton
moved into Virtue City a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Gus Cotton, you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Know who Gus is, brit That gunfighter used to be
part of the McGinnis gang over at Williford.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh, sure, yeah, I've heard of him.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, it seems Gus and Teresa McGinnis had sort of
a fall and our gush decided to be healthy for
him and his kid brother Roy had changed residents.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So they come over here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And but now they're just about taking over the hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I just can't believe that Sheriff Davenport. A lot of
things like that happened, Doc and.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
George Davenport was killed last August.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Britt, he was kid.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
No, I reckon it was an accident at least that's
what the inquest said.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Uh huh, Well, who's taking his place?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
There ain't been nobody so far.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
New sheriff will be elected.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Tomorrow along with the mayor usual town officers.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Oh oh, I say so.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's why the place off exed up election day. I
was kind of wondering about.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, it's been a real hot campaign to sheriff. Part
of it that is, I ain't had so much medical business.
And see Apaches was moved on.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
To the reservation.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Now he was running Ernie Needle, he's one of the candidates.
You remember Ernie Britt, the blacksmith. Oh, shure, John, that's
a good man too, would make a good sheriff.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, if he wins, Roy.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Cotton's running against him, Gus's brother.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Uh I see, uh hm.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Of course in the fair election, Ernie went hands down,
but Gus Cotton's doing his best to see that it
won't be fair.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yes, huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Half the voters in town have been bought off. The
ones who won't be bought well, they been threatened.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Why if anybody, even Brich, maybe you can give us
a hand.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Huh I uh, I'm my well, I'm sort of uh
chairman of the group that's back in Ernie Needle, the
Citizens Committee to keep Virtue and Virtue City. That's why
we call ourselves.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I say, now, Bridge, if you could join up with
this our.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Ol on Doc, I'm I'm not a voter in this town.
I'm not even a resident. I know, I know, but
you've got influence, lots of influence. And if if if.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You, well, Doc, why do you.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Have lots of influence brit And and look if you
was to come to our rally at the school house
tonight and uh sort of sit up there on the
platform next to Ernie Needle, well that might bring him
some of Roy Cotton's boots.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Now, I'm sorry, Doc, Now, this is just didn't noney
of my business. Now you know that as well as
I do, now, Britt, No, it's a long doc. Well.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I went upstairs.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Maroon number twelve was on the north side, facing Ernie
Needle's blacksmith's shop, and looks like Ernie had closed up
for the day. He's probably out politicing somewhere. You don't
seem kind of stuffy. So I opened up the window.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The shoe was warm.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Uh, sounds like some more business was heading darksway. I
leaned out. If I couldn't see anything, the shooting must
have been around the front. Oh well, yeah, yeah, come
on in hardy Ah, Holly, you break Ponci. That's right,
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I'm a right Cotton.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Oh I understand you were having a little chat with
Doc Cross just now. Uh huh doctor friend of yours.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, I guess you could say so, h I.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Well, you know it's funny, ain't it how friends sometime
get a man into trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh huh that's all?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Yeah, you uh you plan to stay around town for long?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Poncy.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh, I hadn't made up my mind, John, Why I.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Was just wondering if you were gonna be here for
the election tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You heard about the election I heard about.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
H I wasn't anxious to run.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
For sheriff, you understand, but the folks seemed to think
it was but duty. So uh so I had to
oblige him.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well, I wouldn't worry about it, Roy, you might not
be elected.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I'll be elected.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Why do you got the vote's counted already.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I'll be elected if there ain't no outside interference, I
say so, Maybe it'd be best if you just mosey
on out without sticking around.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
For the vote.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, the doc mentioned something about a rally tonight. Ask
me to a town.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
You're not going to attend to?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
No rally?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Panci, That's exactly what I told the dog.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You you you turned him down.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Well, I I guess I need a bolge.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But now that you mentioned at Cotton, I'm uh, sort
of reconsidering my decision.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Uh what what what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, you're barging in here and ordering me around might
make me sort of consider changing my mind.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Now you listen here, pons it you ain't going to
that rally tonight. You' even gonna be in Virtue City
after sundown?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No not huh.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Well, if if you are, you're just asking for me
and guts to do something about.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It, Maybe I am cotting, Maybe I am hm.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Okay, Poncy, you had you wanted you're.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Roight, yeh. I'm not leaving town. So if you wanna
do something about it, this is as good a time
as any other.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
That gun you're wearing is loaded, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Well? What?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well? Sure, but well then why don't you go ahead
and draw?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But y y you you ain't got your six?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Shooter?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Gets right here on the dresser?
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Eh?
Speaker 7 (09:44):
Alright, I I'd be taking a bandage.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
It might not work out that way.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Well, well, well I I I don't wanna shoot up.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, no hotel room, Puncy.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The rants paid in advance.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
M all right, Cotton, No, not to look at it, Ponson,
Am I coming up here to see you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What was my brother's idea?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Gus thought? He thought, well, well he will he Oh.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Now, what I mean is he said that that you
was to have to sundown to get out of town,
and and he wouldn't like it if I was saying if.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
I was to jump the gut Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, I guess nobody exactly welcomes the idea of being
told what he can do and what he can't do.
And I suppose when it comes right down to it,
I'm as stubborn as the next man. So instead of
leaving town, I had suppering the hotel dining room and afterwards, well,
I sort of mosied over in the direction of the
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school house. There are only three or four horses out
in front, a couple of buggies. Uh. Didn't look like
the Simpsons Committee to Keep Virtue and Virtue City had
drawn much of a crowd. Well, I hadn't really planned
on attendant rally. I'm gonna walk right by and head
back to the hotel. But just as I started to
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move past the school, I spotted Roy Cotton waiting behind
a big elm tree across the street. There was another
fellow with him, bigger and older. Stood the reason he
was Roy's brother, Gus, And it stood the reason that
if I left without going inside, they'd figured they'd bluffed
me into keeping away.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So the meeting was in the.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Combination fourth fifth sixth grade classroom, and dark Cross was
introducing the various candidates. When I opened the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Door, and its candidate for me, my good friends, he
saw pottery, you are no books pitcher who's running for
a car your bard, and last, but parse from least,
the man who will be responsible for maintaining law and order.
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Ernie need a candidate here now, Boats, I guess that's
about all. So let's you wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
It looks like we got as a wister.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They had surey step right up here, Bridge, step.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Right up here, now, Doc, I ha done made to
interrupt your maiden hair.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I'm just frollowed by you ain't interrupted, which you're.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
A copsent Boats, Boats listen to me now when I'm
quiet down, quiet down? Will you now listen? We step punch.
It's arrival here puts a whole new complexion do.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Things why Wow, I sure don't see how.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
No, that ain't very.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Many of us here tonight, and from the size of
this meeting looks like we're fighting a hopeless battle. But
we ain't not now, not anymore. There's enough of us
here to spread the word. We gotta see to it
that by the time the polls open tomorrow, every boot
and citizen in Virtue City knows that the six shooters
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on our.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Side all Doc, whole lot as you.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Take the folks who live west to see the street, Ralph,
you take the section over by the creek. I'll cover
the area along Clinton Avenue. And another day you tell everybody,
did Britta be right there at the poles to see
that the vooting's done?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
On the up and up, I goes, I'm Doc. Now
you listen to me, Doc.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Now see here, Doc.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I now you just see here? Dog?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Was there something you wanted to say?
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Ruth?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Well, Doc, you know dog gone.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, there's something I want to say. I'm not gonna
have folks running all over town claiming that I'm interfering
in this election. Now you just go and call them off, Doc,
And you just stopping before too late.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I'm afraid it's too late now, Bridge.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It looks to me like they're on the way.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And Hi, Briddy, get started myself. I'm gonna make it
over my section before everybody's asleep.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay, Doc, Okay, you just go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
But you're going to be pretty foolish uping in the morning.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
But what do you mean, Britt, I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That I'm not taking part in your election tomorrow. No
matter what you tell people, you won't do your duty,
my duty. My duty is to mine my own business.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Brit But if the law says, the law says, there's
supposed to be one man at the polls who's unbassed.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Who's neutral, so to speak. Huh, well, of course your.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sympathies may sort of lie with earning Needle in our committee.
But technically you're a nonpartisan. Seeing how you can't even
vote yourself. I mean, ah that that look, Britty. All
that I'm trying to do is to see that this
election's carried off strictly according.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
To the law.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
The law says we gotta.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Have as a non partisan present at the polls. Well,
I'm not even certain that the election would be legal.
If you wasn't, asure, well, I wouldn't want to stay
and in the way of the election being lay. I mean,
if you're certain that, I well, I if it's really necessary.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
But honestly, Doc, I just can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, it's up to you, Britt, entirely up you well,
so no, no, no dog wait wait, wait a minute,
I sat up in the hotel lobby, britt. Uh Pole's
open at seven, and just let your conscience be your guide, Britt,
Let your conscience be your guide nice.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Hey, yeah, you know, we'll return to James Stewart as
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the six shooter in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Meantime, I'd like to pass on the word of thanks
for the many gratifying letters we receive each week from you,
our audience. And this word of thanks comes not only
from Jimmy Stewart, but from our director, Jack Johnstone, our
writer Frank Bert, our skilled technicians. In fact, all of
us are involved in the production of the program. We
appreciate your letters far more than you may think, even
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though we may not be able to answer all of them.
That is why we take this way of saying thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I just couldn't seem to get sleep that night, and
long about five am I gave up trying, And it
was just as well it did, because that was when
Doc Cross showed up to take me down to breakfast.
He kept saying that he wasn't trying to influence me
one way or the other about being an election official,
but as soon as we finished Eden, he sure steered
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me straight towards that voting boots in the lobby, and
the next thing I knew, somebody handed me a sheet
of paper with the listen names on it, and people
started filing up to get the ballots, and well, the
boating went off real smooth. There was just one shooting
and that turned out to be just a flesh wound.
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And when it finally came time to shut down the poles,
just about everybody who was eligible, and it cast a
ballance that had been a real good turnout too. I
didn't stick around.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
For the counting.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I figured I'd done my share, so I had some
supper and I went upstairs from the room.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh, I sure was tired.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh, not having any sleep night before and having to
sit around indoors all day. Well, I just I took
the boots off and and I sort of stretched out
flat on the bed for a couple of minutes. I
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didn't intend the doze off. I was just trying to
build up no strength to go on with my undressing.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
But I don't know, huh.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Not the same hells? Oh? Oh yeah, Oh is that
you dark?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Come in?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, what god I do for?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
We just just finished counting the books. Jeff Perkinson me evening,
mister poget.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
O, Holly Jack, Wow, Hey, wow, how the election turned out.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's uh, it's kind of hard.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
To say Bridge, while I come on, doctor, I just
did Earny win or didn't he?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, no, Bride, no he he he didn't win.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh, but he.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Could have been worse. He it could have been Larunch worse.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I said it was close.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Huh oh, I wouldn't exactly call it close, mister Ponson.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, suppose you just give me the figures, Han, Doc, Well,
in the race for sheriff, we figured that was the
most important contest. Yeah, Ernie Needlt got seven votes, seven votes,
that all, Yeah, that was just total. We meet Huldren
and Roy Coffin he got thirty.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Three thirty three. Well, I'm sorry, Doc, but I guess
if the people want Roy for their chef, they're entitled
he them.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes, yes, i'd jay, folks are entitled whoever they want.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, I have to admit I'm kind of surprised, though.
I thought Ernie'd do better than that. By the way,
folks were boding.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I just thought that he here now here, not just
whole on a minute, here, Doc, there's something funny here.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I know you said Ernie got seven and Roy coff
from thirty three. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh, that's thirty three and seven. That only makes forty voets,
while there must have been twice that many boats cast.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
One hundred and one, you know, one hundred and one.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, that means that about sixty bulls.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You haven't accounted for sixty one to be exact, brit Yeah,
that's how many you got.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
That's how many I got. That's that's how many who got.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Richie gives me great pleasure to announce that you've just
been elected sheriff of Virtue City by landslide.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Congratulations. I'll hold on here, Doc, What do you mean,
sit down?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
It's the greatest writing campaign in the history of this
here town. Yeah, sure, Britain.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, I can't believe there is couldn't be true. It's
just plain foolishness.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
People have spoken, Doc Cross if you had something to do,
it was a spontaneous movement, purely spontaneous.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well whatever you know, dog gone. Well, I won't take
the job of sheriff. I don't even live here.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
We just checked the Virtue City in corporation papers. It
must have been an oversight, but they don't say a
word about town officials having to be residents.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, if you've got the idea, I'm accepting this office
you're just mistaken. Even if this election is legal.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Oh, it was legal, all right, It was legal, and
as of right now, you either legally elected sheriff. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Then I resigned.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, I sort of thought you might feel that way,
so I did a little more chicken. And according to
the town law, if you got to submit your resignation
in writing to the mayor, and he's gotta prove it.
But we don't have a new mayor yet, not until
you get sworn in.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Now, hold on, I'm not a doc. It was the
office of sheriff that I got elected to, remember.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
A mister pontid It seems the voter has kind of
got in the habit of writing in your name.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And you don't mean they elect me married too.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You had a two to one majority.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You don't mean what Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You didn't do so good for corner though, folks fights
you beat you out by full vote. You don't feel
too bad about a bridge. Folks are real popular.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
M Well, I just don't know what to say. This
is the most outlandish thing I've ever heard of, and
he's a might unusual.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I agree with you that unusual. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's well I can tell you I've got no more
intention of being mayor than I have a being sheriff.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't blame your Bridge. I don't blame you about
the mayor part. That is, as a matter of fact,
you couldn't hold both jobs if you wanted to. There's
a town of ordinance against it. I don't care for
the what you say, Yes, sir, one man can't hold
both jobs.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
H well, that's something like.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I said, you're resigning the sheriff's position as a kind
of complicated You see, not only have we got the
problem of who's going to accept the resignation.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I'm the mayor. I'll accept it myself.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Even so, according to our statutes, when the sheriff resigns
or retires, a job goes to the man who got
the second highest.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Number of votes.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh, or you mean Roy Coffin would take over my place.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's the gist of it, mister Ponsett.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Uh huh, So you see the spot you'd be putting
us in Bridge. Besides, mister ponson the people elected you
and they're entitled to have you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You said, so, you say I when I said that,
I didn't have any idea that it and I look here,
there's gotta be some way out of this situation. Are
Annie Needles the man this town needs for sheriff, and
he ought to have the job. Isn't that what you
wanted to? Maybe so?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But where I I just don't see how we can
work it out. So he gets it. It's oh where
it's getting late. I guess you need your loose How
they have a big day tomorrow? What would allus wear?
An insurmon I'll run off talk now we listen saddled
yet oh right not things will settle themselves they usually do.
Good night goots it but oh right away, Bridge, I'll
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just leave your star here on the dress. There's a
little rest on the point where the payton's ward off.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
But good polish and they'll take care of it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well, that was the second night in the road. I
didn't get much sleep. First thing in the morning, as
soon as I figured it was time for the town
hall open, I headed down there and I did a
little hot through the legal code myself, and it was
all true what Doc Cross told me. If I gave
up the job, a sheriff Roy Cotton would be next
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line for it. Well, about nine o'clock a delegation headed
by Doc Cross, came in to make the preparations for
the swearing in ceremony. I told them that the ceremonies
just have to be postponed till I had a talk
with the Cotton brothers. They were living in the old
Peterson place on Flowers.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
You've got your nerve coming around here, ponts it. If
you figure out making a name for yourself a sheriff
by arresting us, you better do some more figuring.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Arresting you You mean you boys have done something illegal?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
He never said that.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, we'll putting you under arrest was the farthest thing
from my mind, of course, if you think I should.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
And just what is it you do on punts it, Well, the.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Fact of the matter is it's my understanding that Roy
here would inherit the sheriff's job if if anything happened
that I wasn't able to go on.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
That's right once and like as not, something will happen too.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, I was just thinking that under those circumstances, it
might be a good idea for Roy to get all
the experience he can while I'm around showing the rope.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You want me to work with you.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Why don't see why not, come to think of it,
I could use you both as deputies. Deputies, Yeah, yeah,
that'll save me getting the whole big posse together. I
think the three of us ought to be able to
handle the McGuinness gang.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
McGinnis.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Tracy McGinnis. You heard about him, haven't you. Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh, that's right you. You all used to be sort.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Of friendly, then you before you had that fallen out
with him.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
That is, you don't mean Tracy McGinnis is heading his way.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Well, it's probably just another false rumor.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Was probably not a word of truth to him.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
But why'd he be coming in here unless he's after us?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Well, now, if you follows, you just hold up your hands.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'll give you the oath. Now wait a minute, punths it.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Maybe it'd be better if you was to take out
the more of a posse.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh no, no, gus, I like as not. Tracer won't
be bringing his whole gang, maybe only ten or twelve
of them. All right, now, boys, you will hold up
your hands.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
I don't I ain't gonna mix it up with Tracer McGuinness.
Punts and I had enough of him already.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But Roy, it's right for once. Well, I'm afraid you
fellows don't quite understand now. According to the ordinance past
two years ago, come November, if any man refuses to
take part in the duly constituted posse, he forfeits, all right,
the whole office in the town of Virtue City from
that time on. I don't mean that you couldn't be
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sureff roy.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
I don't figure that's gonna make much difference punts that
you see. So we don't aim to stay around Virtue
City anyhow.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We were sort of planning to leave town today, weren't.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
We, guys.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, we were just doing our packing when you
come in.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Well, maybe we ought not to wait to pack Gus
and then let me get his boys ride fast when
down in the.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Movie they sure do.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Come on. Oh, I wouldn't hurry myself too much, boys,
if you ask me, I think you'll have plenty of
time to finish packing before they get here, plenty of time.
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Well as things worked out, they need have heard at all.
As far as I know, Tracy mcguinnis never did show
up in Virtue City.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Ernie Needle became sheriff that very same day, right after
I resign, and I guess he hasn't had too much
show of keeping folks in lying. You see, the Cotton
Brothers haven't been heard of since they beat it out
of town.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It just goes to show you a person really shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Believe in rumors.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It's funny, funny the way they get started, didn't they.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The six Shooter is a transcribed NBC Radio Network production
in association with Review Productions. It is written by Frank
Burt and is based on a character created by him.
Mister Stewart may currently be seen in the Universal International
Picture The.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Glenn Miller Story.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Others in the cast were Carlton Young, Dal McKennon, Paul Richards,
Frank Gerstel, and Junius Matthews. Special music for this 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.
This is John Wall speaking tonight here and address by
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President Eisenhower on the NBC Radio Network.
In a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the Sick Shooter.
But first Friday evening on NBC hear the Dinah Shore
Show and Songs with Sinatra. The Laughter starts tomorrow with
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It's a great Friday night lineup of programs, all of
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them heard only on NBC. James Stewart as the Sick Shooter.
The man in the saddle is angular and long legged.
His skin is sun dyed brown. The gun in his
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holster is gray steel and rainbow mother of pearl, its
handle unmarked. People call them both the Six Shooter. The
NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The Six Shooter,
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a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Ponset, the Texas plainsmen who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, at first, I didn't know what I was getting
into the town of Virtue City had never looked like
US four banner over the main street posters stuck in
the store windows. Bunton draped across most of the bells.
It was the wrong time of the year for the
county fair.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I pulled up the Mansion Hotel and headed into the lobby.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yes, sir, I like a room for the night.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Well, I guess we can fix you up, miss, if
you'll just sign the book. Sure, Oh my golly, I
never mind, never mind, I blot it up. You just
stand back out of the way. I put a new
point in that pen this morning, but I got some people.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well I'm by sure, I am sorry about it. Yeah, yeah,
Well that'll be fifty cents in advance, mister.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Puns. That's right, that's right. There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You're you're really Britt Punst.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well if he ain't, he's sure been pooling a lot
of folks from quite a spell.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Hire you rich yuh dark Cross. So where'd you come from?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I've been sitting there behind that uranium priant. I thought
I recognized you.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
When you come in.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Here.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Here's your key, mister Ponson, number twelve. About that ink blood,
I know it wasn't your. They just don't make pen
points the way they used to it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Infer your workman, shore you in a hurry to go
upstairs bridge?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
No especially, Well, come on over to the window and
sit for a spell. We can sort of keep our
eye on the street and see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh I doh, well, well you've been up.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
To bridge all same as yoursual I was riding herd
over the smoke falls the last six seven weeks. Probably
go back down the spring.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Uh huh here, just letting me get my instrument bag
out of the way. Yeah, there's a place for you.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You treating somebody in the hotel?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh no, exactly. I started make my headquarters here in
the hotel nowadays. Mm what happened to your regular office?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I still got it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I still got it. But h wait, you little hotel's handier.
What with all this fighting and shooting going on so
much as the time shooting? You ain't heard the news, Hubrid, No,
I guess I haven't. Well you see, Uh, Gus Cotton
moved into Virtue City a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Gus Cotton, you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Know who Gus is, brit That gunfighter used to be
part of the McGinnis gang over at Williford.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh, sure, yeah, I've heard of him.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, it seems Gus and Teresa McGinnis had sort of
a fall and our gush decided to be healthy for
him and his kid brother Roy had changed residents.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So they come over here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And but now they're just about taking over the hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I just can't believe that Sheriff Davenport. A lot of
things like that happened, Doc and.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
George Davenport was killed last August.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Britt, he was kid.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
No, I reckon it was an accident at least that's
what the inquest said.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Uh huh, Well, who's taking his place?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
There ain't been nobody so far.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
New sheriff will be elected.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Tomorrow along with the mayor usual town officers.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Oh oh, I say so.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's why the place off exed up election day. I
was kind of wondering about.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, it's been a real hot campaign to sheriff. Part
of it that is, I ain't had so much medical business.
And see Apaches was moved on.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
To the reservation.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Now he was running Ernie Needle, he's one of the candidates.
You remember Ernie Britt, the blacksmith. Oh, shure, John, that's
a good man too, would make a good sheriff.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, if he wins, Roy.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Cotton's running against him, Gus's brother.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Uh I see, uh hm.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Of course in the fair election, Ernie went hands down,
but Gus Cotton's doing his best to see that it
won't be fair.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yes, huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Half the voters in town have been bought off. The
ones who won't be bought well, they been threatened.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Why if anybody, even Brich, maybe you can give us
a hand.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Huh I uh, I'm my well, I'm sort of uh
chairman of the group that's back in Ernie Needle, the
Citizens Committee to keep Virtue and Virtue City. That's why
we call ourselves.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I say, now, Bridge, if you could join up with
this our.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Ol on Doc, I'm I'm not a voter in this town.
I'm not even a resident. I know, I know, but
you've got influence, lots of influence. And if if if.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You, well, Doc, why do you.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Have lots of influence brit And and look if you
was to come to our rally at the school house
tonight and uh sort of sit up there on the
platform next to Ernie Needle, well that might bring him
some of Roy Cotton's boots.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Now, I'm sorry, Doc, Now, this is just didn't noney
of my business. Now you know that as well as
I do, now, Britt, No, it's a long doc. Well.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I went upstairs.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Maroon number twelve was on the north side, facing Ernie
Needle's blacksmith's shop, and looks like Ernie had closed up
for the day. He's probably out politicing somewhere. You don't
seem kind of stuffy. So I opened up the window.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The shoe was warm.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Uh, sounds like some more business was heading darksway. I
leaned out. If I couldn't see anything, the shooting must
have been around the front. Oh well, yeah, yeah, come
on in hardy Ah, Holly, you break Ponci. That's right,
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I'm a right Cotton.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Oh I understand you were having a little chat with
Doc Cross just now. Uh huh doctor friend of yours.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, I guess you could say so, h I.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Well, you know it's funny, ain't it how friends sometime
get a man into trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh huh that's all?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Yeah, you uh you plan to stay around town for long?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Poncy.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh, I hadn't made up my mind, John, Why I.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Was just wondering if you were gonna be here for
the election tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You heard about the election I heard about.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
H I wasn't anxious to run.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
For sheriff, you understand, but the folks seemed to think
it was but duty. So uh so I had to
oblige him.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well, I wouldn't worry about it, Roy, you might not
be elected.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I'll be elected.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Why do you got the vote's counted already.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I'll be elected if there ain't no outside interference, I
say so, Maybe it'd be best if you just mosey
on out without sticking around.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
For the vote.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, the doc mentioned something about a rally tonight. Ask
me to a town.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
You're not going to attend to?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
No rally?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Panci, That's exactly what I told the dog.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You you you turned him down.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Well, I I guess I need a bolge.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But now that you mentioned at Cotton, I'm uh, sort
of reconsidering my decision.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Uh what what what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, you're barging in here and ordering me around might
make me sort of consider changing my mind.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Now you listen here, pons it you ain't going to
that rally tonight. You' even gonna be in Virtue City
after sundown?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No not huh.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Well, if if you are, you're just asking for me
and guts to do something about.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It, Maybe I am cotting, Maybe I am hm.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Okay, Poncy, you had you wanted you're.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Roight, yeh. I'm not leaving town. So if you wanna
do something about it, this is as good a time
as any other.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
That gun you're wearing is loaded, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Well? What?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well? Sure, but well then why don't you go ahead
and draw?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But y y you you ain't got your six?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Shooter?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Gets right here on the dresser?
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Eh?
Speaker 7 (09:44):
Alright, I I'd be taking a bandage.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
It might not work out that way.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Well, well, well I I I don't wanna shoot up.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, no hotel room, Puncy.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The rants paid in advance.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
M all right, Cotton, No, not to look at it, Ponson,
Am I coming up here to see you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What was my brother's idea?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Gus thought? He thought, well, well he will he Oh.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Now, what I mean is he said that that you
was to have to sundown to get out of town,
and and he wouldn't like it if I was saying if.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
I was to jump the gut Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, I guess nobody exactly welcomes the idea of being
told what he can do and what he can't do.
And I suppose when it comes right down to it,
I'm as stubborn as the next man. So instead of
leaving town, I had suppering the hotel dining room and afterwards, well,
I sort of mosied over in the direction of the
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school house. There are only three or four horses out
in front, a couple of buggies. Uh. Didn't look like
the Simpsons Committee to Keep Virtue and Virtue City had
drawn much of a crowd. Well, I hadn't really planned
on attendant rally. I'm gonna walk right by and head
back to the hotel. But just as I started to
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move past the school, I spotted Roy Cotton waiting behind
a big elm tree across the street. There was another
fellow with him, bigger and older. Stood the reason he
was Roy's brother, Gus, And it stood the reason that
if I left without going inside, they'd figured they'd bluffed
me into keeping away.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So the meeting was in the.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Combination fourth fifth sixth grade classroom, and dark Cross was
introducing the various candidates. When I opened the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Door, and its candidate for me, my good friends, he
saw pottery, you are no books pitcher who's running for
a car your bard, and last, but parse from least,
the man who will be responsible for maintaining law and order.
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Ernie need a candidate here now, Boats, I guess that's
about all. So let's you wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
It looks like we got as a wister.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They had surey step right up here, Bridge, step.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Right up here, now, Doc, I ha done made to
interrupt your maiden hair.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I'm just frollowed by you ain't interrupted, which you're.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
A copsent Boats, Boats listen to me now when I'm
quiet down, quiet down? Will you now listen? We step punch.
It's arrival here puts a whole new complexion do.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Things why Wow, I sure don't see how.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
No, that ain't very.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Many of us here tonight, and from the size of
this meeting looks like we're fighting a hopeless battle. But
we ain't not now, not anymore. There's enough of us
here to spread the word. We gotta see to it
that by the time the polls open tomorrow, every boot
and citizen in Virtue City knows that the six shooters
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on our.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Side all Doc, whole lot as you.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Take the folks who live west to see the street, Ralph,
you take the section over by the creek. I'll cover
the area along Clinton Avenue. And another day you tell everybody,
did Britta be right there at the poles to see
that the vooting's done?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
On the up and up, I goes, I'm Doc. Now
you listen to me, Doc.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Now see here, Doc.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I now you just see here? Dog?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Was there something you wanted to say?
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Ruth?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Well, Doc, you know dog gone.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, there's something I want to say. I'm not gonna
have folks running all over town claiming that I'm interfering
in this election. Now you just go and call them off, Doc,
And you just stopping before too late.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I'm afraid it's too late now, Bridge.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It looks to me like they're on the way.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And Hi, Briddy, get started myself. I'm gonna make it
over my section before everybody's asleep.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay, Doc, Okay, you just go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
But you're going to be pretty foolish uping in the morning.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
But what do you mean, Britt, I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That I'm not taking part in your election tomorrow. No
matter what you tell people, you won't do your duty,
my duty. My duty is to mine my own business.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Brit But if the law says, the law says, there's
supposed to be one man at the polls who's unbassed.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Who's neutral, so to speak. Huh, well, of course your.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sympathies may sort of lie with earning Needle in our committee.
But technically you're a nonpartisan. Seeing how you can't even
vote yourself. I mean, ah that that look, Britty. All
that I'm trying to do is to see that this
election's carried off strictly according.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
To the law.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
The law says we gotta.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Have as a non partisan present at the polls. Well,
I'm not even certain that the election would be legal.
If you wasn't, asure, well, I wouldn't want to stay
and in the way of the election being lay. I mean,
if you're certain that, I well, I if it's really necessary.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
But honestly, Doc, I just can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, it's up to you, Britt, entirely up you well,
so no, no, no dog wait wait, wait a minute,
I sat up in the hotel lobby, britt. Uh Pole's
open at seven, and just let your conscience be your guide, Britt,
Let your conscience be your guide nice.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Hey, yeah, you know, we'll return to James Stewart as
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the six shooter in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Meantime, I'd like to pass on the word of thanks
for the many gratifying letters we receive each week from you,
our audience. And this word of thanks comes not only
from Jimmy Stewart, but from our director, Jack Johnstone, our
writer Frank Bert, our skilled technicians. In fact, all of
us are involved in the production of the program. We
appreciate your letters far more than you may think, even
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though we may not be able to answer all of them.
That is why we take this way of saying thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I just couldn't seem to get sleep that night, and
long about five am I gave up trying, And it
was just as well it did, because that was when
Doc Cross showed up to take me down to breakfast.
He kept saying that he wasn't trying to influence me
one way or the other about being an election official,
but as soon as we finished Eden, he sure steered
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me straight towards that voting boots in the lobby, and
the next thing I knew, somebody handed me a sheet
of paper with the listen names on it, and people
started filing up to get the ballots, and well, the
boating went off real smooth. There was just one shooting
and that turned out to be just a flesh wound.
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And when it finally came time to shut down the poles,
just about everybody who was eligible, and it cast a
ballance that had been a real good turnout too. I
didn't stick around.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
For the counting.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I figured I'd done my share, so I had some
supper and I went upstairs from the room.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh, I sure was tired.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh, not having any sleep night before and having to
sit around indoors all day. Well, I just I took
the boots off and and I sort of stretched out
flat on the bed for a couple of minutes. I
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didn't intend the doze off. I was just trying to
build up no strength to go on with my undressing.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
But I don't know, huh.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Not the same hells? Oh? Oh yeah, Oh is that
you dark?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Come in?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, what god I do for?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
We just just finished counting the books. Jeff Perkinson me evening,
mister poget.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
O, Holly Jack, Wow, Hey, wow, how the election turned out.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's uh, it's kind of hard.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
To say Bridge, while I come on, doctor, I just
did Earny win or didn't he?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, no, Bride, no he he he didn't win.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh, but he.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Could have been worse. He it could have been Larunch worse.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I said it was close.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Huh oh, I wouldn't exactly call it close, mister Ponson.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, suppose you just give me the figures, Han, Doc, Well,
in the race for sheriff, we figured that was the
most important contest. Yeah, Ernie Needlt got seven votes, seven votes,
that all, Yeah, that was just total. We meet Huldren
and Roy Coffin he got thirty.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Three thirty three. Well, I'm sorry, Doc, but I guess
if the people want Roy for their chef, they're entitled
he them.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes, yes, i'd jay, folks are entitled whoever they want.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, I have to admit I'm kind of surprised, though.
I thought Ernie'd do better than that. By the way,
folks were boding.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I just thought that he here now here, not just
whole on a minute, here, Doc, there's something funny here.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I know you said Ernie got seven and Roy coff
from thirty three. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh, that's thirty three and seven. That only makes forty voets,
while there must have been twice that many boats cast.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
One hundred and one, you know, one hundred and one.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, that means that about sixty bulls.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You haven't accounted for sixty one to be exact, brit Yeah,
that's how many you got.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
That's how many I got. That's that's how many who got.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Richie gives me great pleasure to announce that you've just
been elected sheriff of Virtue City by landslide.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Congratulations. I'll hold on here, Doc, What do you mean,
sit down?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
It's the greatest writing campaign in the history of this
here town. Yeah, sure, Britain.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, I can't believe there is couldn't be true. It's
just plain foolishness.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
People have spoken, Doc Cross if you had something to do,
it was a spontaneous movement, purely spontaneous.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well whatever you know, dog gone. Well, I won't take
the job of sheriff. I don't even live here.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
We just checked the Virtue City in corporation papers. It
must have been an oversight, but they don't say a
word about town officials having to be residents.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, if you've got the idea, I'm accepting this office
you're just mistaken. Even if this election is legal.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Oh, it was legal, all right, It was legal, and
as of right now, you either legally elected sheriff. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Then I resigned.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, I sort of thought you might feel that way,
so I did a little more chicken. And according to
the town law, if you got to submit your resignation
in writing to the mayor, and he's gotta prove it.
But we don't have a new mayor yet, not until
you get sworn in.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Now, hold on, I'm not a doc. It was the
office of sheriff that I got elected to, remember.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
A mister pontid It seems the voter has kind of
got in the habit of writing in your name.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And you don't mean they elect me married too.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You had a two to one majority.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You don't mean what Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You didn't do so good for corner though, folks fights
you beat you out by full vote. You don't feel
too bad about a bridge. Folks are real popular.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
M Well, I just don't know what to say. This
is the most outlandish thing I've ever heard of, and
he's a might unusual.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I agree with you that unusual. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's well I can tell you I've got no more
intention of being mayor than I have a being sheriff.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't blame your Bridge. I don't blame you about
the mayor part. That is, as a matter of fact,
you couldn't hold both jobs if you wanted to. There's
a town of ordinance against it. I don't care for
the what you say, Yes, sir, one man can't hold
both jobs.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
H well, that's something like.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I said, you're resigning the sheriff's position as a kind
of complicated You see, not only have we got the
problem of who's going to accept the resignation.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I'm the mayor. I'll accept it myself.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Even so, according to our statutes, when the sheriff resigns
or retires, a job goes to the man who got
the second highest.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Number of votes.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh, or you mean Roy Coffin would take over my place.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's the gist of it, mister Ponsett.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Uh huh, So you see the spot you'd be putting
us in Bridge. Besides, mister ponson the people elected you
and they're entitled to have you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You said, so, you say I when I said that,
I didn't have any idea that it and I look here,
there's gotta be some way out of this situation. Are
Annie Needles the man this town needs for sheriff, and
he ought to have the job. Isn't that what you
wanted to? Maybe so?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But where I I just don't see how we can
work it out. So he gets it. It's oh where
it's getting late. I guess you need your loose How
they have a big day tomorrow? What would allus wear?
An insurmon I'll run off talk now we listen saddled
yet oh right not things will settle themselves they usually do.
Good night goots it but oh right away, Bridge, I'll
(23:32):
just leave your star here on the dress. There's a
little rest on the point where the payton's ward off.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
But good polish and they'll take care of it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well, that was the second night in the road. I
didn't get much sleep. First thing in the morning, as
soon as I figured it was time for the town
hall open, I headed down there and I did a
little hot through the legal code myself, and it was
all true what Doc Cross told me. If I gave
up the job, a sheriff Roy Cotton would be next
(24:10):
line for it. Well, about nine o'clock a delegation headed
by Doc Cross, came in to make the preparations for
the swearing in ceremony. I told them that the ceremonies
just have to be postponed till I had a talk
with the Cotton brothers. They were living in the old
Peterson place on Flowers.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
You've got your nerve coming around here, ponts it. If
you figure out making a name for yourself a sheriff
by arresting us, you better do some more figuring.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Arresting you You mean you boys have done something illegal?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
He never said that.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, we'll putting you under arrest was the farthest thing
from my mind, of course, if you think I should.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
And just what is it you do on punts it, Well, the.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Fact of the matter is it's my understanding that Roy
here would inherit the sheriff's job if if anything happened
that I wasn't able to go on.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
That's right once and like as not, something will happen too.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, I was just thinking that under those circumstances, it
might be a good idea for Roy to get all
the experience he can while I'm around showing the rope.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You want me to work with you.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Why don't see why not, come to think of it,
I could use you both as deputies. Deputies, Yeah, yeah,
that'll save me getting the whole big posse together. I
think the three of us ought to be able to
handle the McGuinness gang.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
McGinnis.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Tracy McGinnis. You heard about him, haven't you. Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh, that's right you. You all used to be sort.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Of friendly, then you before you had that fallen out
with him.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
That is, you don't mean Tracy McGinnis is heading his way.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Well, it's probably just another false rumor.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Was probably not a word of truth to him.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
But why'd he be coming in here unless he's after us?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Well, now, if you follows, you just hold up your hands.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'll give you the oath. Now wait a minute, punths it.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Maybe it'd be better if you was to take out
the more of a posse.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh no, no, gus, I like as not. Tracer won't
be bringing his whole gang, maybe only ten or twelve
of them. All right, now, boys, you will hold up
your hands.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
I don't I ain't gonna mix it up with Tracer McGuinness.
Punts and I had enough of him already.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But Roy, it's right for once. Well, I'm afraid you
fellows don't quite understand now. According to the ordinance past
two years ago, come November, if any man refuses to
take part in the duly constituted posse, he forfeits, all right,
the whole office in the town of Virtue City from
that time on. I don't mean that you couldn't be
(26:38):
sureff roy.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
I don't figure that's gonna make much difference punts that
you see. So we don't aim to stay around Virtue
City anyhow.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We were sort of planning to leave town today, weren't.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
We, guys.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, we were just doing our packing when you
come in.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Well, maybe we ought not to wait to pack Gus
and then let me get his boys ride fast when
down in the.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Movie they sure do.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Come on. Oh, I wouldn't hurry myself too much, boys,
if you ask me, I think you'll have plenty of
time to finish packing before they get here, plenty of time.
(27:20):
Well as things worked out, they need have heard at all.
As far as I know, Tracy mcguinnis never did show
up in Virtue City.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Ernie Needle became sheriff that very same day, right after
I resign, and I guess he hasn't had too much
show of keeping folks in lying. You see, the Cotton
Brothers haven't been heard of since they beat it out
of town.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It just goes to show you a person really shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Believe in rumors.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It's funny, funny the way they get started, didn't they.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The six Shooter is a transcribed NBC Radio Network production
in association with Review Productions. It is written by Frank
Burt and is based on a character created by him.
Mister Stewart may currently be seen in the Universal International
Picture The.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Glenn Miller Story.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Others in the cast were Carlton Young, Dal McKennon, Paul Richards,
Frank Gerstel, and Junius Matthews. Special music for this 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.
This is John Wall speaking tonight here and address by
(28:50):
President Eisenhower on the NBC Radio Network.
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