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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun will spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
(00:43):
of the violence that moved west with the young America, and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
He'll be alright, man, the fever is broken. Light start.
What do you think you'll be able to travel? Oh?
Day or two three? I'd say.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
He'll pick up fast. Tom's strong, he's very young.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, he's been.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
A mighty sick boy, though mighty sick. Must have been
in terrible shape all through the trial.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Hell, he's a worse shape now now.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Man, I just told you he's gonna be all right
now what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh well, yes, of course, not much future for him
is no matter?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
How will you have to fix him up?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Uh? I guess not, say, Matt, Now, do you really
think he did it in the court.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Don't him go?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I know, Ma, but he he seems like such a
nice boy. It's hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm not supposed to believed alcohol. I'm supposed to do
is with a loss? Is s I guess you're right.
When do you deliver him to Hayes City cause he's
able to travel?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Funny thing?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
How's that getting a kit in shape so that he
can ride to his own hand? Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Mister Jal Yeah, I want as a Chester.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh that fellas outside there he wants to see what fella.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Roll me Hawkins, the one that spoke up again, young
Morey at the trial.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
All right, Chester to him, come in.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I'll be going along and then I'll look on on
the boor in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, Aster Dolan says, you can come in. You want
to see me, Harkins.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The doctor has been here, hadn't you You just saw
him leave, didn't you something wrong with the prisoner? Is
that what you came to see me about Tom Mourray's health?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well, no, Marshal, it isn't that. What is it that, Marshal?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It was my understanding that you were to deliver the
prisoner to justice without delay.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
That's what the law says yeah, and sir.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I find it hard to understand why Tom Moray is
still here.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Are you in a hurry to see him hung?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He's a condemned man, Marshall, I take the citizens responsibility.
Your responsibility ended at the trial, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No delay is just now. You listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Your part of this ended two days ago when you're
testified in court.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Tom Moray's in my charge now it's my duty, not anymore.
It isn't.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The boy will get to Hayes City all right, and
he'll get to his hanging. But how he gets there
and when he gets there are up to me. You
understand that I have the citizens right and I've got
work to do. Chester open the door for mister Hawkins.
I think he's leaving right now. Yes now, Marshall, I
said you're leaving, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
MM had enough breakfast time?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I thinks feeling better.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's more than are you some?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What day is this? That's Thursday? Oh oh, I don't
wonder you lost track out of your head with the
fever and all.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Yeah, that's what Doc Adams told me. Uh is the
Marshal here this morning?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He's out to breakfast right now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'll be back for a long low.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I'd like to see him. Oh sure, I'll tell him.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Uh, that's probably him now, I I'll bet him. You
wait here.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I ain't going no place.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh it, Oh mister donnan. I just come to fetch you.
Something wrong. It wasn't no super leastways I don't think so.
Do some want us to see you? How do that's
s time?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, Marshall, if they've got the time?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Sure? What's on your mind? H? Alright Chester? What can
I do for you?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Tom Marshall, we'll be riding up to Hayes City pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, that's right tomorrow. Doc says you're able.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I'm alright. You don't have to be in very good
shape for that trip.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I'm not taking it up there Tom till Uh you
can stand straight.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Thanks Marshall. I'd like to ask you something, sure, go ahead.
Do you think I did it? Do you think I
killed that man?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
The court says you didn't.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I'm bound by that, but you yourself, Marshall, do you
think I did?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I admit I don't wanna think so cause I like you.
But at my job, Tom Man can't afford to like people.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
But I didn't shoot him.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I swear I didn't. And I've gotta remember that. Romy
Hawkins stood up in court and swore that you did that.
He saw you do it.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Romy Hawkins.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
He's a man.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I'm gonna lie in his belly.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
He couldn't have seen me. Marshall, I wasn't even there.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Here a convicted man, Tom, And I gotta do what
the law SAIDs.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
You know, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Well anyhow, Uh, I wanna thank you for treating me
decent and getting Doc Adams and acting like I was
at least human. It seems to me you got very
little to thank anybody for it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
To Marshall, I got a letter here. I wrote it
to my dad. He's over in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Uh Uh, you want me to mail it Tongue.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I'd be obliged if you would, But up till it's over, sure,
I'm hoping he don't.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Hear about it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Till then.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
We had some plans about the planning I wanted to
write him about And there's a little money. Yeah, sure, Tom,
I'll take care.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Of it for you.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Well, I guess it's about all.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
And Marshall, Yeah, I didn't do this thing, but like
you said, I'll try to stand straight that.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's just awful.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, I know, kidding.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I wish the witness hadn't been a little weaseled like
romy Hawkins.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
It seems to enjoy it so much.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Has he been in here?
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Sure a couple of times a day.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Ure he doesn't look like a drinking man to make well.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
He doesn't take a drink.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Math, He just comes in to make sure everybody remembers
he was the key witness at the trial. I don't
think he ever felt so important in his life. Hopkins
should have been born a buzzard feeding on another man's doc.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Kitty, Hey, doc over here, Yes, hello, kitty.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
See Matt. I I thought maybe.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I'll find you here alright, Doc, sit on, doc?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Uh had just been at the jail man checking Tom moreover.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh how is he?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I'm sorry to say he's all right?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Able to ride?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, ma'am, he is. I guess I can't put it
off any longer. Leave tomorrow morning and summer.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Matt, can't you do something?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Shouldn't? It's so sorry? If he alright, but there's nothing
anybody can do about.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
It, Not since the romy Hawkins spoke.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
His Tarkins was a legal witness. Kiddy.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
Oh uh, you know it's a funny thing about him,
mad I I keep thinking I've seen him someplace before,
but I can't remember where.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Now you take my advice, Dock.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
How's that the best thing to do about Romay Hawkins
is to forget it?
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Well after, Dolan, I didn't see you, right, And you're
welcome back there, man.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Hello Chester. We thought you were never going to get back.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
If you two have been sitting here in front of
the office playing checkers ever since I left.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, sir, I've been tending things like you said, you've
been advising him.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
I suppose I well, now, man, it seems to me
that you'd be the last man to speak up against
a little relaxation.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
In the middle of the day. We're just keeping your
chair warm, for I could use a chair. Hard. Trips
like that are always hard to know, and I surely do.
Did everything go off all right? Oh? I mean he
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had went off all right? Chester? The boy was hung.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Are sure, Carcel Dillon? What do you want now, Hawkins?
I see you return from a city Marshall. I just
wanted to know if everything been carried out all right,
I told you it was my responsibility. Now, if you
want the details, why don't you ride up to Hayes
City and get them. But you were gone, Salon Marshall,
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really longer than necessary. I couldn't help wondering, Well, it's done, Hawkins.
The boy's dead.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, it was just that I didn't know it takes
a long Well, it takes a while to hang a man,
even if he's only a boy.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now, love Marshall, I'm an important witness and you're a
public certain I'm not your servant, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And don't you forget it on?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The trial's over now, can't you get that under your head?
You're not an important witness anymore? Well, now, Marshall, why
don't you get away from here.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well, my eating nasty little fella boars in, just like
Tiger Shore creeping.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You better do. It's creeping somewhere else from now, say.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Matt El, was I think I remember now when I.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Saw that follow before? Yes, yes, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
You remember when I took that trip down to Mead
to take care of Moss Roomi's.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Sister as a year or so ago, And that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Well, Matt.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I was there at the same time.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Judge Wharton was there on the circuit and he.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Was holding court. Now, yes, and that romy.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Hawkins, and I'd swear it was the same man. He
was there too.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I was he up to that time?
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Well, that's not very nice to think back on this,
but he was a witness, Matt, just the same as
he was here.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I mean he was testifying against somebody.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
That's right, and his testimony got the man home.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
I'm glad you're taking a little time off.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Man.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
I haven't seen much of you since your trip to
Hayes City last month.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I haven't been around much, Kiddy, I guess not.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Anyway, I enjoyed the ride.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I enjoyed it too.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I won't count on anything, you understand, but uh, maybe
we can do it again.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Huh yeah maybe Wait a minute, I'll help you. You
got your done?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Hey, Moss mass all right by Yeah, uh take care
of our horses with a mouse.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You're a thing. Enjoy the right ms Giddy.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Yeah, I'm sure, Dad.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
He got all ah say Marshall. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Doc just brought up his buggy and been out south
of town.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
He was asking if I'd seen you I didn't say
what he wanted.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
He didn't exactly say something about Ned Miller.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That Miller, what about it?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I'm not sure, Marshall, but I think he's bad or anyway,
Doc wanted to go out there.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Ah well, thanks, Maskell, come on, getting.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Would be too bad if anything happened to Ned.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
He's a good man.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, well, we'll stop in the docks and find out.
H rsha rsha tillan. I thought I told you to
stay away from here. It's about Ned Miller. I saw it.
I know who did it, who did what? Or who
shot him? He was a big man, and Scar and
his cheek Hald know him anywhere? Riding away? I put
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it wrong?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I wait a minute, are you sure about this hawking sourse?
I'm sure I was riding by and I heard the shots,
saw the man ride away.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I could identify him.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Easy. All right, come on, where are we going? I
put docs? I wanna find out how bad Miller's hurt. Sure, Marshall,
anything you say, I kiddy, you better go on down
to the long Branch. I'll let you know about this later. Yeah,
how I come on, bus, I'm out there, certainly, Marshall.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Oh hello, Matt come on in.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Now just a minute, Doc, I want to ask you something.
I want you to listen very carefully. If you told
anybody but Moss Grammy about Ned Miller, well.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
No, I guess I told Chester. I want why did
you do that?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
In the long branch?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I was looking for you? Took time to have a
beer here, Hawkins here, tell.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You he was there to I wasn't listening to their
kind right all right?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Now what about net Doc?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Well, he's an awful bad shape.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Man asked if you'd come out to see him? What's
the matter with him? And I saw who did it?
All right? You saw what's the matter with him? Doc?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
It's his leg mad he cut it on the side.
I don't think I can save it. You'd be lucky
to pull food all that. He wasn't shot shot?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Why?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
No, I told you he cut his leg three or
four days ago.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
By the time he called me.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It was badly infected and terrible looking thing.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
H Hawkins here says he saw who shot him. He
says he could identify him. Oh, and that means you
could testify against him too, can you, Hawkins?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, Marshall, I I guess made him mistake?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, you bet you did.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
You weren't even out at Miller's place where you well
were you? Well, no, Marshall, but you don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And you didn't see that boy Tom Moray shoot anybody either,
did you?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well, don't just stand there. Why don't you answer me?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Did you desert?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Somebody had to pay for the crime. Somebody had to pay.
I just help that. He's crazy.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
You can't say that to me.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm a witness. You didn't see that man and me
doing they shooting me?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That is you.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
But you see, marshall All, sure I see, just so
you could stand up there and testify you didn't care.
You didn't care if it was a truth or if
it was a liar, if innercent men died, just so
you could stand up there with everybody's eyes on you
and speak your peace. You're lieing, murdering peace. That man
(18:37):
has a right to be important, Marshall. Afterward, they noticed me.
They really took care of me.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, well, I'm gonna see that they take care of
you for the rest of your life. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
As far as I'm concerned, you're as guilty as if
you'd shot those men in cold blood.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And believe me, you're gonna pay for it. Marshall, What
do they do to me?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I think they'll hang you, Hawkins. But you shouldn't mind that,
because you'll be the most important man there.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Guns Smoke, Go Houston.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon
us Marshall. The story was specially written for Gun Smoke
by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured
in the cast were Harry Bartel, Sam Edwards and James Mussard.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Harley Baar is Chester, Howard.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Mcneer is Doc and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This is
George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week
for another story on Gunsmoke.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun will spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
(00:43):
of the violence that moved west with the young America, and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
He'll be alright, man, the fever is broken. Light start.
What do you think you'll be able to travel? Oh?
Day or two three? I'd say.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
He'll pick up fast. Tom's strong, he's very young.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, he's been.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
A mighty sick boy, though mighty sick. Must have been
in terrible shape all through the trial.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Hell, he's a worse shape now now.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Man, I just told you he's gonna be all right
now what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh well, yes, of course, not much future for him
is no matter?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
How will you have to fix him up?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Uh? I guess not, say, Matt, Now, do you really
think he did it in the court.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Don't him go?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I know, Ma, but he he seems like such a
nice boy. It's hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm not supposed to believed alcohol. I'm supposed to do
is with a loss? Is s I guess you're right.
When do you deliver him to Hayes City cause he's
able to travel?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Funny thing?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
How's that getting a kit in shape so that he
can ride to his own hand? Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Mister Jal Yeah, I want as a Chester.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh that fellas outside there he wants to see what fella.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Roll me Hawkins, the one that spoke up again, young
Morey at the trial.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
All right, Chester to him, come in.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I'll be going along and then I'll look on on
the boor in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, Aster Dolan says, you can come in. You want
to see me, Harkins.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The doctor has been here, hadn't you You just saw
him leave, didn't you something wrong with the prisoner? Is
that what you came to see me about Tom Mourray's health?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well, no, Marshal, it isn't that. What is it that, Marshal?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It was my understanding that you were to deliver the
prisoner to justice without delay.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
That's what the law says yeah, and sir.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I find it hard to understand why Tom Moray is
still here.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Are you in a hurry to see him hung?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He's a condemned man, Marshall, I take the citizens responsibility.
Your responsibility ended at the trial, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No delay is just now. You listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Your part of this ended two days ago when you're
testified in court.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Tom Moray's in my charge now it's my duty, not anymore.
It isn't.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The boy will get to Hayes City all right, and
he'll get to his hanging. But how he gets there
and when he gets there are up to me. You
understand that I have the citizens right and I've got
work to do. Chester open the door for mister Hawkins.
I think he's leaving right now. Yes now, Marshall, I
said you're leaving, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
MM had enough breakfast time?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I thinks feeling better.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's more than are you some?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What day is this? That's Thursday? Oh oh, I don't
wonder you lost track out of your head with the
fever and all.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Yeah, that's what Doc Adams told me. Uh is the
Marshal here this morning?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He's out to breakfast right now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'll be back for a long low.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I'd like to see him. Oh sure, I'll tell him.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Uh, that's probably him now, I I'll bet him. You
wait here.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I ain't going no place.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh it, Oh mister donnan. I just come to fetch you.
Something wrong. It wasn't no super leastways I don't think so.
Do some want us to see you? How do that's
s time?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, Marshall, if they've got the time?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Sure? What's on your mind? H? Alright Chester? What can
I do for you?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Tom Marshall, we'll be riding up to Hayes City pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, that's right tomorrow. Doc says you're able.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I'm alright. You don't have to be in very good
shape for that trip.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I'm not taking it up there Tom till Uh you
can stand straight.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Thanks Marshall. I'd like to ask you something, sure, go ahead.
Do you think I did it? Do you think I
killed that man?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
The court says you didn't.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I'm bound by that, but you yourself, Marshall, do you
think I did?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I admit I don't wanna think so cause I like you.
But at my job, Tom Man can't afford to like people.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
But I didn't shoot him.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I swear I didn't. And I've gotta remember that. Romy
Hawkins stood up in court and swore that you did that.
He saw you do it.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Romy Hawkins.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
He's a man.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I'm gonna lie in his belly.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
He couldn't have seen me. Marshall, I wasn't even there.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Here a convicted man, Tom, And I gotta do what
the law SAIDs.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
You know, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Well anyhow, Uh, I wanna thank you for treating me
decent and getting Doc Adams and acting like I was
at least human. It seems to me you got very
little to thank anybody for it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
To Marshall, I got a letter here. I wrote it
to my dad. He's over in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Uh Uh, you want me to mail it Tongue.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I'd be obliged if you would, But up till it's over, sure,
I'm hoping he don't.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Hear about it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Till then.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
We had some plans about the planning I wanted to
write him about And there's a little money. Yeah, sure, Tom,
I'll take care.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Of it for you.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Well, I guess it's about all.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
And Marshall, Yeah, I didn't do this thing, but like
you said, I'll try to stand straight that.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's just awful.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, I know, kidding.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I wish the witness hadn't been a little weaseled like
romy Hawkins.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
It seems to enjoy it so much.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Has he been in here?
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Sure a couple of times a day.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Ure he doesn't look like a drinking man to make well.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
He doesn't take a drink.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Math, He just comes in to make sure everybody remembers
he was the key witness at the trial. I don't
think he ever felt so important in his life. Hopkins
should have been born a buzzard feeding on another man's doc.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Kitty, Hey, doc over here, Yes, hello, kitty.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
See Matt. I I thought maybe.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I'll find you here alright, Doc, sit on, doc?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Uh had just been at the jail man checking Tom moreover.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh how is he?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I'm sorry to say he's all right?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Able to ride?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, ma'am, he is. I guess I can't put it
off any longer. Leave tomorrow morning and summer.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Matt, can't you do something?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Shouldn't? It's so sorry? If he alright, but there's nothing
anybody can do about.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
It, Not since the romy Hawkins spoke.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
His Tarkins was a legal witness. Kiddy.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
Oh uh, you know it's a funny thing about him,
mad I I keep thinking I've seen him someplace before,
but I can't remember where.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Now you take my advice, Dock.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
How's that the best thing to do about Romay Hawkins
is to forget it?
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Well after, Dolan, I didn't see you, right, And you're
welcome back there, man.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Hello Chester. We thought you were never going to get back.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
If you two have been sitting here in front of
the office playing checkers ever since I left.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, sir, I've been tending things like you said, you've
been advising him.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
I suppose I well, now, man, it seems to me
that you'd be the last man to speak up against
a little relaxation.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
In the middle of the day. We're just keeping your
chair warm, for I could use a chair. Hard. Trips
like that are always hard to know, and I surely do.
Did everything go off all right? Oh? I mean he
(11:53):
had went off all right? Chester? The boy was hung.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Are sure, Carcel Dillon? What do you want now, Hawkins?
I see you return from a city Marshall. I just
wanted to know if everything been carried out all right,
I told you it was my responsibility. Now, if you
want the details, why don't you ride up to Hayes
City and get them. But you were gone, Salon Marshall,
(12:21):
really longer than necessary. I couldn't help wondering, Well, it's done, Hawkins.
The boy's dead.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, it was just that I didn't know it takes
a long Well, it takes a while to hang a man,
even if he's only a boy.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now, love Marshall, I'm an important witness and you're a
public certain I'm not your servant, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And don't you forget it on?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The trial's over now, can't you get that under your head?
You're not an important witness anymore? Well, now, Marshall, why
don't you get away from here.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well, my eating nasty little fella boars in, just like
Tiger Shore creeping.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You better do. It's creeping somewhere else from now, say.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Matt El, was I think I remember now when I.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Saw that follow before? Yes, yes, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
You remember when I took that trip down to Mead
to take care of Moss Roomi's.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Sister as a year or so ago, And that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Well, Matt.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I was there at the same time.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Judge Wharton was there on the circuit and he.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Was holding court. Now, yes, and that romy.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Hawkins, and I'd swear it was the same man. He
was there too.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I was he up to that time?
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Well, that's not very nice to think back on this,
but he was a witness, Matt, just the same as
he was here.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I mean he was testifying against somebody.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
That's right, and his testimony got the man home.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
I'm glad you're taking a little time off.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Man.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
I haven't seen much of you since your trip to
Hayes City last month.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I haven't been around much, Kiddy, I guess not.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Anyway, I enjoyed the ride.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I enjoyed it too.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I won't count on anything, you understand, but uh, maybe
we can do it again.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Huh yeah maybe Wait a minute, I'll help you. You
got your done?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Hey, Moss mass all right by Yeah, uh take care
of our horses with a mouse.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You're a thing. Enjoy the right ms Giddy.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Yeah, I'm sure, Dad.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
He got all ah say Marshall. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Doc just brought up his buggy and been out south
of town.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
He was asking if I'd seen you I didn't say
what he wanted.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
He didn't exactly say something about Ned Miller.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That Miller, what about it?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I'm not sure, Marshall, but I think he's bad or anyway,
Doc wanted to go out there.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Ah well, thanks, Maskell, come on, getting.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Would be too bad if anything happened to Ned.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
He's a good man.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, well, we'll stop in the docks and find out.
H rsha rsha tillan. I thought I told you to
stay away from here. It's about Ned Miller. I saw it.
I know who did it, who did what? Or who
shot him? He was a big man, and Scar and
his cheek Hald know him anywhere? Riding away? I put
(16:00):
it wrong?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I wait a minute, are you sure about this hawking sourse?
I'm sure I was riding by and I heard the shots,
saw the man ride away.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I could identify him.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Easy. All right, come on, where are we going? I
put docs? I wanna find out how bad Miller's hurt. Sure, Marshall,
anything you say, I kiddy, you better go on down
to the long Branch. I'll let you know about this later. Yeah,
how I come on, bus, I'm out there, certainly, Marshall.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Oh hello, Matt come on in.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Now just a minute, Doc, I want to ask you something.
I want you to listen very carefully. If you told
anybody but Moss Grammy about Ned Miller, well.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
No, I guess I told Chester. I want why did
you do that?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
In the long branch?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I was looking for you? Took time to have a
beer here, Hawkins here, tell.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You he was there to I wasn't listening to their
kind right all right?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Now what about net Doc?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Well, he's an awful bad shape.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Man asked if you'd come out to see him? What's
the matter with him? And I saw who did it?
All right? You saw what's the matter with him? Doc?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
It's his leg mad he cut it on the side.
I don't think I can save it. You'd be lucky
to pull food all that. He wasn't shot shot?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Why?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
No, I told you he cut his leg three or
four days ago.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
By the time he called me.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It was badly infected and terrible looking thing.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
H Hawkins here says he saw who shot him. He
says he could identify him. Oh, and that means you
could testify against him too, can you, Hawkins?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, Marshall, I I guess made him mistake?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, you bet you did.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
You weren't even out at Miller's place where you well
were you? Well, no, Marshall, but you don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And you didn't see that boy Tom Moray shoot anybody either,
did you?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well, don't just stand there. Why don't you answer me?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Did you desert?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Somebody had to pay for the crime. Somebody had to pay.
I just help that. He's crazy.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
You can't say that to me.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm a witness. You didn't see that man and me
doing they shooting me?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That is you.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
But you see, marshall All, sure I see, just so
you could stand up there and testify you didn't care.
You didn't care if it was a truth or if
it was a liar, if innercent men died, just so
you could stand up there with everybody's eyes on you
and speak your peace. You're lieing, murdering peace. That man
(18:37):
has a right to be important, Marshall. Afterward, they noticed me.
They really took care of me.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, well, I'm gonna see that they take care of
you for the rest of your life. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
As far as I'm concerned, you're as guilty as if
you'd shot those men in cold blood.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And believe me, you're gonna pay for it. Marshall, What
do they do to me?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I think they'll hang you, Hawkins. But you shouldn't mind that,
because you'll be the most important man there.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Guns Smoke, Go Houston.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon
us Marshall. The story was specially written for Gun Smoke
by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured
in the cast were Harry Bartel, Sam Edwards and James Mussard.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Harley Baar is Chester, Howard.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Mcneer is Doc and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This is
George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week
for another story on Gunsmoke.
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