October 15, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US Marshal and the smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
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the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I think that comes from down there someplace.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Miss.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Let's take a look a.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Gully. I don't know for sure, ain't no sign of nobody.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That was the back of the Dodge house. Between that
and the livery stable. He must sound, is like it?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
What under the shoe?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
We sure didn't sound like somebody yell at that first shot.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Look Chester, wait here and keep and I on the street.
I'm gonna walk on to the back of the delivery stable.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Oh all right, but you be careful back there in
the dark.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Huh oh, no, no call to geinst swoops.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
All right, come on, out of there, do you hear me?
Speaker 8 (02:28):
You go mind your own business? Have you got a drift? Mister?
If you buy more trouble and you can hang it,
let's go with me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's done well. You'll thraw a.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Rifle on somebody, young lady. That'll scare the more if
you close the breech block and reload it. Maybe when
it's a single.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Shot, all durn single shot?
Speaker 9 (02:47):
How a gut hume hadn't meant for that?
Speaker 8 (02:49):
That and a bad light?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
God hold many a.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
God during business?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
It might be on the US Marshal here in Dodge Chester, mister.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
John, how old are you? Young lady?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
May I passed my teens?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You don't live around here, do you?
Speaker 8 (03:04):
I wouldn't live up here? Pound it. I'm paying handle.
I'm proud of it.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
A long way from home, aren't you?
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Depends on what you call?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Lord? What's your name?
Speaker 8 (03:14):
Sally broke off at if any of your business?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Miney Gracy?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Did your girl she done that shooting? Did she?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh? Looks that way? Who wasn't yelled when you fired
that first shot? Sally?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Maybe it was me?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It was a man's voice.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
God doom, single shot raffle?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Who was with him?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Who'd you come up from a pineaddle with nobody?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How'd you get here?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
I ridden my horse? How'd you think?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Where is it in the stable?
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I ain't got money for states. He's bedded down back
there under a tree with what did.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You bring hay along with him?
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Some fell out through the fence.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
There fell out through the horse.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's ben a road hard and needs grain. Some grain
fall up too to.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Little may Some left in a feed box over there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Uh huh. Let's see you.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Probably draw damp and spoiled for a morning. Otherwise is
in the crowd had already it?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
When's the last time anything spilled out for you? They
eat selling?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
It's my business.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You're gonna tell me who it was? You shut out?
Speaker 8 (04:23):
No, I assured, all right, Come on, I've done nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Martia Moss Grimmick owns the stable. You might disagree with it.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
It was gone to waste. Were you've taken me to
feed you?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And we'll see about putting me out for the night.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Hook me up where the only place where I can
be sure of finding you come morning?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
In jail.
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Speaker 4 (06:33):
Oh my, that sure was a fine meal.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
That better When was that?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So we'll just tell me.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Where at home?
Speaker 8 (06:42):
That's where?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh well, that's different from at home.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
IMA's too old and broke down for any other kind
of way. She's a goldering good cook when there's anything
to cooker.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Been kind of hurt going I sell it's my business.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, I figured it would be. Well, there's your hotel, Young.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Liddy say much of a jail, better.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Better ones heave you.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
I ain't never been in none before.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
One to jail.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Come on, that's not as bad as his sons.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Gus haven't got any other place to put your ill all.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
That, Marcel, I want to report you wait him?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You re.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
You hurt me?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Are you sit down in that cher? You stay there?
There's your gun?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Chester, Well, I'm sorry that you're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
She grabbed it for I heard what saw somebody? She
tried to kill me. Now you saw her do it.
And that's the third time tonight.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I was waiting here to tell you. First time was
about an hour ago near the dodge. Yeah, and uh,
why is she trying to kill you?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Just crazy? I guess how would.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I know what you?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
All?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Right?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
You sneaking yellow dog?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'm selling.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
He stole money from me and my all. We had
six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That ain't so wait a minute, ducker for having to
sell it.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
He come up through the Panhandle last fall fetching a
trail heard from East Texas fun reading stock.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
He said they was, and he sold me one hundred
head for six dollars. I had three dollars under the
going price there.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You see, nobody stole nothing dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Now, I remember that driver. You're his last ball.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Docker.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
You started out with twenty five hundred head and didn't
get here with more than about four hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Just had some bad luck, was all.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Sheer them cattle had. The chokes was all through the hood.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Car boxer.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
He was dying on him before he hit the panhandle.
Only I didn't know it. And he's seen a chance
to unload a hundred.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
I'm on me.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
They started dropping for he was gone three days. Last
one died two weeks ago. When the chokes gets in
the hood, there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
That's one of the risks of the cattle business. You
can't blame me for it.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
You know they had it when you sold him to me.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I suppose you're told her that does your docker? Of
course not.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
When a man's out to make a deal, he don't
have to tell what he ain't asked, even when the
buyer's a girl. That was illegal sale. Now whose side
are you on, Marshall? I come here for protection.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You mean to have the girl locked up or run
out of tom then I sure do all right, Doyker,
you made your complaint and I got out.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Well, now wait on side got out, Marshall. I'm just
gonna hold you responsible for anything she does.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You'll do that fun stand enough for that little wildcat, Sally.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
If I was to let you go, what would you do?
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Have another? Try to shooting Tim Dyker?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
That's what I thought, likely.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
To miss him four times in a row.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
All right, Chester, take her back and get her settled
in one of those souls.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Sure you aim to do with me, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I don't know, Sally. I just don't.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Know, Matt.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
You look worried about something. Oh it's that young kid,
Sally Berkhos.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Right, yeah, Kitty, I'll be dying if I know what
to do about her. Well, Matt, as far as the
letter of the law go, yeah, sure, let her stand trial.
She's guilty of stealing from the livery stable. She's guilty
of attempted murder, and she'll probably go to prison.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Oh she's young.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Court might consider that she's had a raw deal, Kitty.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Now they're just three of them, her and her mother
and eight year old brother.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They couldn't make a go a farm in their place.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
So she know she tried running, kept want.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Losing that money. Wiped him out.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
That Clem Dyke, you ought to be strung up.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, but like he says, the deal was perfectly legal.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Oh man, say you want to play and draw poker
with me? Chesty and Miles mctag.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Oh not tonight, Doc.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Why am I tonight?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I've been working all week on my bottom of the
deck deal and my up.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
The sleeve holdout.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm ready for you, Matt House. What I'm afraid of?
Is he going to join us? Doc? Nay, he says not.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
I think he's just setting here worrying about that little
Sally Birkhoff.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And I guess I.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Don't blame him too much earlier. Might as well sit in,
matthe like little news to everybody has that kind.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Of a day.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
What do you mean you remember them? Or concentrates iron pyrites?
The stuff I took in on account when the black
Hawk mine closed down. Yeah, a couple of tons or
so with them three tons, and I allowed one hundred
and fifty dollars for him. Becare they might run? I
start in silver. Well, I got the assay report from
my older today. What are they worth less than fifty dollars?
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Wouldn't even pay the ship until the smelter, So you
better come get in on the game. But my day
for losing.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Miles, here, just a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I'm getting a lovely idea here, it's lovely.
Speaker 12 (12:23):
Does anybody else know about that?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Assay?
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, Doc?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Why how would you like to get your one hundred.
Speaker 12 (12:29):
And fifty dollars back? I have a due and proper
respect for money?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Good?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Good?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Are you willing to let any money over there go
to a worthy cause?
Speaker 12 (12:40):
If I get my one hundred and fifty, I won't even.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Ask whether it's worthy? What are you talking about? Her?
Speaker 13 (12:45):
Now?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Who could I get to help?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You know?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
A sort of kindly swimly who could fool somebody?
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Good?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now? Look here talk there's just one person, me, Matt.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It couldn't work with me, And I'm not sure what
couldn't work doctor.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
From the look on your face, it's Larsen. Come on, Miles,
we've got work to do. Another visit with Joe and
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Daphney Forsyth. Hey, honey, I'm home.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Daphney dropped dead?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Oh what's the matter?
Speaker 12 (13:34):
Honey?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Don't you speak to me? You you done one?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Done one? Daphanie? I'm not done one? No, how blest.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I'm a very funny ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well there was no prize winner, but.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Neither of you. You you Lethario.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I've often wondered, what's the etherario?
Speaker 13 (13:53):
I don't know, but that's what the wives on TV
always call their husbands.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
I guess it applies.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Do you want me to go out and committing him?
Speaker 13 (14:01):
As far as I'm concerned, you can go for a
long walk, preferably on a short pier.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, oh, come on, Daphne, what's wrong?
Speaker 8 (14:10):
You're a good friend. Harry called, and he's still the.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Beans witch beans.
Speaker 13 (14:15):
He said, quote tell Joe. He was right about those blondes.
They're great. Unquote blonds, that's what he said.
Speaker 14 (14:25):
Well, he didn't say blonds, he said burns.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Savings bonds. What sure?
Speaker 14 (14:33):
I buy him on the payroll savings plan? And I
told Harry he ought a door too. Savings bonds have
a guarantee of interest that pays back four dollars for
every three which is a pretty good investment.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 14 (14:47):
Too, It's true, so help me. That's why Harry's so happy.
Savings bonds are great.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Well, maybe you're right. You wouldn't really fool around with blonds.
Would you?
Speaker 13 (15:00):
You're too faithful and sweet and kind and fast talking.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
You know it's had plenty of time all the way
around it you're doing. I just don't reckon, doctor little diadol.
It's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh, there's nothing certain in this world.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Chest h godness, I'm sure wish it had, though, do
my heart good to see that low down dyker.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Get here?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Are you gentlemen alone? I'll come on in my house,
Come on in.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
I'd never have believed it. I figure of ducking me.
You're to team up and do this every week or so?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What are you doing out jail? Both of it? How much.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
You wouldn't loosen up with your matthew? Maybe let me
take out just a little profit.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You get one hundred and fifty dollars, now, let's have
the rest of it.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Nay me?
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Yeah, they are eight hundred and twenty dollars, and I
think he'd even have gone another hundred if I'd held out.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
This is enough, and it gives her a couple one
hundred dollars extra to pay for her trouble.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
Well, he was hopping from one foot to the other.
I never saw a man in my wife with so
much lassening in its old Chester.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Go get Sally, will it?
Speaker 12 (16:34):
Yes? He had three men in a wagon waiting outside.
They started loading up the concentrates to Holloway the.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Minute he paid me.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
I told the clerk to wait till he got them
all on the wagon before he gave him that assay
report from my older I figured you ought to have it,
seeing that he owns the concentrates.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Now, I was real generous, ay, Miles.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
At least they got one hundred and fifty backs. I think,
I kindly for the rest of the day. Matthew, he's
going to be better than the hornet when he finds out.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, I expect they will. I'll see you later, Miles.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yep, right in there, and won't.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
What are you I aiming to do? Marshall?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Lease, Well, it depends, Sally.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I can't very well turn you loose and have you
walk right out of here and start shooting at Clem
Dyker again, can I?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
And you might as well take me back to that set.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I'll wait a minute, Sally. Suppose that you did kill him.
It wouldn't get your money back, would it.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
No? But it's you give me a deal of pleasure.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I suppose you had your six hundred dollars back with
a couple of hundred boot oh change of diet I
ever have? Yeah, but suppose it did. Would you be
willing to get on that horse of yours and high
tail it back to the panandle.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
You don't mean he's gonna give that money back?
Speaker 12 (17:50):
Here?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
It is all of it and two hundred and twenty
dollars per.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Such he's mine. I can take it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You can take it and get and good luck to you.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well, how do you so?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Am I busting in on something?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Come on in, Doc, eh, Sally just leaving to ride
back to the panhapal.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Panels that super Well, you'll be mighty careful. There's a
lot of mighty desperate characters.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Down that way.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, don't you worry none about me, Sally. You get
my regards her, mad Billy, Yeah, I will thank.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
You, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Well, Matt, it was hook line and Sinker. I never
saw a man get taken in so easy in my life?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Is that so?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
You know I was born but that kind of again,
I may give up my practice and just start scheming
my way through the life.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's good idea, Doc, I hear that they need a
doctor at State prison. Oh, Marshall, I've been rapped by pair.
Sweet listen, Uh huh, how did it happen? You ask
him how it happened. He's one of them.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Him, and that that store keeper Miles McTague nine hundred
and seventy dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Ohr day care all I do.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
It was coming to ash you to lonely one thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Now you talked like you'd found a good thing, something
you could buy cheap because the owner didn't know what
it was worth. And then you let that phony assay
report fall out of your pocket when you let oh
why oh, now, that was just scribbling it. It wasn't
a real report. I know that now, nine hundred dollars
a ton. It said, Well, then concentrates ain't worth fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I just saw the real report after I'd bought the
whole three times.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Well my mind.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Well, you certainly did jump to a hasty conclusion, did Marshall?
Miles knew there was worthless when he sold him to me.
Now and I want him arrested.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Did you ask him if he'd had him? I said, well,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If I had, he'd a known, well, he'd a known
that you.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Were trying to swindle him, and Doc too. I'm sorry
Doc here, I don't say that you got much of
a case.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
But he knew that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I thought it well, I should have known.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Not get no satisfaction here.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
It depends on whose are is being good, doesn't it.
I'm going over and talk to Judge Bent. Yeah, you
do that.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, by the way, Tiger, you can stop worrying about
the girl. I uh just ran her out of town.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I don't care if.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
A wonder how Hugh may go down there in the Panantal.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Don't you worry Chester that Kitt'll make out wherever she is.
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That old political character, Elijah Cuddlestone.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Was tremendously proud to be a part of the government
of the United States.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
That pride shows through in this excerpt of one of
his speeches.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
HELI and it is my sincere belief.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I say, I believe that the United States of America is,
without doubt, indisputably the most successful experiment in democracy, that is,
in democratic rule that the world has ever known. Well, democracy,
of course, means rule of the people. It's from the
Greek demos people and kratos, meaning rule, strength or power.
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Most forms of government owe their names to the Greek.
For instance, anarchy is from the Greek word anarchia, composed
of anne meaning no, and arcos ruler. An anarchist wants
no king, emperor, or president above him. An Oligarchy is
a form of government where a restricted few have supreme power.
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Oligarchy comes from the Greek oligos, meaning few, an arko,
which means rule rule by a few. The Greek word
hero meant holy, and the word hierarchy once meant a
government by officers of the church. Hierarchy now represents a
system of graded authority, and the strange word aclacrisy means
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mob rule.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
In Greek, oklos means crowd or mob.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Words like these literally make politics Greek to most of us.
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Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. The script was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Les Brutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard
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mcghear as Doc and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Ellis as kidding George wall speaking.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story
on gun smoke. This is the United States Armed Forces
Radio and television service.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
In the.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Thing.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Think they don't any
Gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US Marshal and the smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
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the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I think that comes from down there someplace.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Miss.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Let's take a look a.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Gully. I don't know for sure, ain't no sign of nobody.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That was the back of the Dodge house. Between that
and the livery stable. He must sound, is like it?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
What under the shoe?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
We sure didn't sound like somebody yell at that first shot.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Look Chester, wait here and keep and I on the street.
I'm gonna walk on to the back of the delivery stable.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Oh all right, but you be careful back there in
the dark.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Huh oh, no, no call to geinst swoops.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
All right, come on, out of there, do you hear me?
Speaker 8 (02:28):
You go mind your own business? Have you got a drift? Mister?
If you buy more trouble and you can hang it,
let's go with me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's done well. You'll thraw a.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Rifle on somebody, young lady. That'll scare the more if
you close the breech block and reload it. Maybe when
it's a single.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Shot, all durn single shot?
Speaker 9 (02:47):
How a gut hume hadn't meant for that?
Speaker 8 (02:49):
That and a bad light?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
God hold many a.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
God during business?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
It might be on the US Marshal here in Dodge Chester, mister.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
John, how old are you? Young lady?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
May I passed my teens?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You don't live around here, do you?
Speaker 8 (03:04):
I wouldn't live up here? Pound it. I'm paying handle.
I'm proud of it.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
A long way from home, aren't you?
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Depends on what you call?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Lord? What's your name?
Speaker 8 (03:14):
Sally broke off at if any of your business?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Miney Gracy?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Did your girl she done that shooting? Did she?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh? Looks that way? Who wasn't yelled when you fired
that first shot? Sally?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Maybe it was me?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It was a man's voice.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
God doom, single shot raffle?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Who was with him?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Who'd you come up from a pineaddle with nobody?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How'd you get here?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
I ridden my horse? How'd you think?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Where is it in the stable?
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I ain't got money for states. He's bedded down back
there under a tree with what did.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You bring hay along with him?
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Some fell out through the fence.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
There fell out through the horse.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's ben a road hard and needs grain. Some grain
fall up too to.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Little may Some left in a feed box over there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Uh huh. Let's see you.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Probably draw damp and spoiled for a morning. Otherwise is
in the crowd had already it?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
When's the last time anything spilled out for you? They
eat selling?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
It's my business.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You're gonna tell me who it was? You shut out?
Speaker 8 (04:23):
No, I assured, all right, Come on, I've done nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Martia Moss Grimmick owns the stable. You might disagree with it.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
It was gone to waste. Were you've taken me to
feed you?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And we'll see about putting me out for the night.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Hook me up where the only place where I can
be sure of finding you come morning?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
In jail.
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Speaker 4 (06:33):
Oh my, that sure was a fine meal.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
That better When was that?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So we'll just tell me.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Where at home?
Speaker 8 (06:42):
That's where?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh well, that's different from at home.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
IMA's too old and broke down for any other kind
of way. She's a goldering good cook when there's anything
to cooker.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Been kind of hurt going I sell it's my business.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, I figured it would be. Well, there's your hotel, Young.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Liddy say much of a jail, better.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Better ones heave you.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
I ain't never been in none before.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
One to jail.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Come on, that's not as bad as his sons.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Gus haven't got any other place to put your ill all.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
That, Marcel, I want to report you wait him?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You re.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
You hurt me?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Are you sit down in that cher? You stay there?
There's your gun?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Chester, Well, I'm sorry that you're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
She grabbed it for I heard what saw somebody? She
tried to kill me. Now you saw her do it.
And that's the third time tonight.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I was waiting here to tell you. First time was
about an hour ago near the dodge. Yeah, and uh,
why is she trying to kill you?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Just crazy? I guess how would.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I know what you?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
All?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Right?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
You sneaking yellow dog?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'm selling.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
He stole money from me and my all. We had
six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That ain't so wait a minute, ducker for having to
sell it.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
He come up through the Panhandle last fall fetching a
trail heard from East Texas fun reading stock.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
He said they was, and he sold me one hundred
head for six dollars. I had three dollars under the
going price there.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You see, nobody stole nothing dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Now, I remember that driver. You're his last ball.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Docker.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
You started out with twenty five hundred head and didn't
get here with more than about four hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Just had some bad luck, was all.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Sheer them cattle had. The chokes was all through the hood.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Car boxer.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
He was dying on him before he hit the panhandle.
Only I didn't know it. And he's seen a chance
to unload a hundred.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
I'm on me.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
They started dropping for he was gone three days. Last
one died two weeks ago. When the chokes gets in
the hood, there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
That's one of the risks of the cattle business. You
can't blame me for it.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
You know they had it when you sold him to me.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I suppose you're told her that does your docker? Of
course not.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
When a man's out to make a deal, he don't
have to tell what he ain't asked, even when the
buyer's a girl. That was illegal sale. Now whose side
are you on, Marshall? I come here for protection.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You mean to have the girl locked up or run
out of tom then I sure do all right, Doyker,
you made your complaint and I got out.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Well, now wait on side got out, Marshall. I'm just
gonna hold you responsible for anything she does.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You'll do that fun stand enough for that little wildcat, Sally.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
If I was to let you go, what would you do?
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Have another? Try to shooting Tim Dyker?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
That's what I thought, likely.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
To miss him four times in a row.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
All right, Chester, take her back and get her settled
in one of those souls.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Sure you aim to do with me, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I don't know, Sally. I just don't.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Know, Matt.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
You look worried about something. Oh it's that young kid,
Sally Berkhos.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Right, yeah, Kitty, I'll be dying if I know what
to do about her. Well, Matt, as far as the
letter of the law go, yeah, sure, let her stand trial.
She's guilty of stealing from the livery stable. She's guilty
of attempted murder, and she'll probably go to prison.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Oh she's young.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Court might consider that she's had a raw deal, Kitty.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Now they're just three of them, her and her mother
and eight year old brother.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They couldn't make a go a farm in their place.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
So she know she tried running, kept want.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Losing that money. Wiped him out.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
That Clem Dyke, you ought to be strung up.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, but like he says, the deal was perfectly legal.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Oh man, say you want to play and draw poker
with me? Chesty and Miles mctag.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Oh not tonight, Doc.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Why am I tonight?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I've been working all week on my bottom of the
deck deal and my up.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
The sleeve holdout.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm ready for you, Matt House. What I'm afraid of?
Is he going to join us? Doc? Nay, he says not.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
I think he's just setting here worrying about that little
Sally Birkhoff.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And I guess I.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Don't blame him too much earlier. Might as well sit in,
matthe like little news to everybody has that kind.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Of a day.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
What do you mean you remember them? Or concentrates iron pyrites?
The stuff I took in on account when the black
Hawk mine closed down. Yeah, a couple of tons or
so with them three tons, and I allowed one hundred
and fifty dollars for him. Becare they might run? I
start in silver. Well, I got the assay report from
my older today. What are they worth less than fifty dollars?
(12:08):
Wouldn't even pay the ship until the smelter, So you
better come get in on the game. But my day
for losing.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Miles, here, just a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I'm getting a lovely idea here, it's lovely.
Speaker 12 (12:23):
Does anybody else know about that?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Assay?
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, Doc?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Why how would you like to get your one hundred.
Speaker 12 (12:29):
And fifty dollars back? I have a due and proper
respect for money?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Good?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Good?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Are you willing to let any money over there go
to a worthy cause?
Speaker 12 (12:40):
If I get my one hundred and fifty, I won't even.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Ask whether it's worthy? What are you talking about? Her?
Speaker 13 (12:45):
Now?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Who could I get to help?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You know?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
A sort of kindly swimly who could fool somebody?
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Good?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now? Look here talk there's just one person, me, Matt.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It couldn't work with me, And I'm not sure what
couldn't work doctor.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
From the look on your face, it's Larsen. Come on, Miles,
we've got work to do. Another visit with Joe and
(13:25):
Daphney Forsyth. Hey, honey, I'm home.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Daphney dropped dead?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Oh what's the matter?
Speaker 12 (13:34):
Honey?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Don't you speak to me? You you done one?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Done one? Daphanie? I'm not done one? No, how blest.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I'm a very funny ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well there was no prize winner, but.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Neither of you. You you Lethario.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I've often wondered, what's the etherario?
Speaker 13 (13:53):
I don't know, but that's what the wives on TV
always call their husbands.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
I guess it applies.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Do you want me to go out and committing him?
Speaker 13 (14:01):
As far as I'm concerned, you can go for a
long walk, preferably on a short pier.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, oh, come on, Daphne, what's wrong?
Speaker 8 (14:10):
You're a good friend. Harry called, and he's still the.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Beans witch beans.
Speaker 13 (14:15):
He said, quote tell Joe. He was right about those blondes.
They're great. Unquote blonds, that's what he said.
Speaker 14 (14:25):
Well, he didn't say blonds, he said burns.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Savings bonds. What sure?
Speaker 14 (14:33):
I buy him on the payroll savings plan? And I
told Harry he ought a door too. Savings bonds have
a guarantee of interest that pays back four dollars for
every three which is a pretty good investment.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 14 (14:47):
Too, It's true, so help me. That's why Harry's so happy.
Savings bonds are great.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Well, maybe you're right. You wouldn't really fool around with blonds.
Would you?
Speaker 13 (15:00):
You're too faithful and sweet and kind and fast talking.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
You know it's had plenty of time all the way
around it you're doing. I just don't reckon, doctor little diadol.
It's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh, there's nothing certain in this world.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Chest h godness, I'm sure wish it had, though, do
my heart good to see that low down dyker.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Get here?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Are you gentlemen alone? I'll come on in my house,
Come on in.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
I'd never have believed it. I figure of ducking me.
You're to team up and do this every week or so?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What are you doing out jail? Both of it? How much.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
You wouldn't loosen up with your matthew? Maybe let me
take out just a little profit.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You get one hundred and fifty dollars, now, let's have
the rest of it.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Nay me?
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Yeah, they are eight hundred and twenty dollars, and I
think he'd even have gone another hundred if I'd held out.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
This is enough, and it gives her a couple one
hundred dollars extra to pay for her trouble.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
Well, he was hopping from one foot to the other.
I never saw a man in my wife with so
much lassening in its old Chester.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Go get Sally, will it?
Speaker 12 (16:34):
Yes? He had three men in a wagon waiting outside.
They started loading up the concentrates to Holloway the.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Minute he paid me.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
I told the clerk to wait till he got them
all on the wagon before he gave him that assay
report from my older I figured you ought to have it,
seeing that he owns the concentrates.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Now, I was real generous, ay, Miles.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
At least they got one hundred and fifty backs. I think,
I kindly for the rest of the day. Matthew, he's
going to be better than the hornet when he finds out.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, I expect they will. I'll see you later, Miles.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yep, right in there, and won't.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
What are you I aiming to do? Marshall?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Lease, Well, it depends, Sally.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I can't very well turn you loose and have you
walk right out of here and start shooting at Clem
Dyker again, can I?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
And you might as well take me back to that set.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I'll wait a minute, Sally. Suppose that you did kill him.
It wouldn't get your money back, would it.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
No? But it's you give me a deal of pleasure.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I suppose you had your six hundred dollars back with
a couple of hundred boot oh change of diet I
ever have? Yeah, but suppose it did. Would you be
willing to get on that horse of yours and high
tail it back to the panandle.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
You don't mean he's gonna give that money back?
Speaker 12 (17:50):
Here?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
It is all of it and two hundred and twenty
dollars per.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Such he's mine. I can take it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You can take it and get and good luck to you.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well, how do you so?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Am I busting in on something?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Come on in, Doc, eh, Sally just leaving to ride
back to the panhapal.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Panels that super Well, you'll be mighty careful. There's a
lot of mighty desperate characters.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Down that way.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, don't you worry none about me, Sally. You get
my regards her, mad Billy, Yeah, I will thank.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
You, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Well, Matt, it was hook line and Sinker. I never
saw a man get taken in so easy in my life?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Is that so?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
You know I was born but that kind of again,
I may give up my practice and just start scheming
my way through the life.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's good idea, Doc, I hear that they need a
doctor at State prison. Oh, Marshall, I've been rapped by pair.
Sweet listen, Uh huh, how did it happen? You ask
him how it happened. He's one of them.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Him, and that that store keeper Miles McTague nine hundred
and seventy dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Ohr day care all I do.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
It was coming to ash you to lonely one thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Now you talked like you'd found a good thing, something
you could buy cheap because the owner didn't know what
it was worth. And then you let that phony assay
report fall out of your pocket when you let oh
why oh, now, that was just scribbling it. It wasn't
a real report. I know that now, nine hundred dollars
a ton. It said, Well, then concentrates ain't worth fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I just saw the real report after I'd bought the
whole three times.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Well my mind.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Well, you certainly did jump to a hasty conclusion, did Marshall?
Miles knew there was worthless when he sold him to me.
Now and I want him arrested.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Did you ask him if he'd had him? I said, well,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If I had, he'd a known, well, he'd a known
that you.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Were trying to swindle him, and Doc too. I'm sorry
Doc here, I don't say that you got much of
a case.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
But he knew that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I thought it well, I should have known.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Not get no satisfaction here.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
It depends on whose are is being good, doesn't it.
I'm going over and talk to Judge Bent. Yeah, you
do that.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, by the way, Tiger, you can stop worrying about
the girl. I uh just ran her out of town.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I don't care if.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
A wonder how Hugh may go down there in the Panantal.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Don't you worry Chester that Kitt'll make out wherever she is.
(20:48):
That old political character, Elijah Cuddlestone.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Was tremendously proud to be a part of the government
of the United States.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
That pride shows through in this excerpt of one of
his speeches.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
HELI and it is my sincere belief.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I say, I believe that the United States of America is,
without doubt, indisputably the most successful experiment in democracy, that is,
in democratic rule that the world has ever known. Well, democracy,
of course, means rule of the people. It's from the
Greek demos people and kratos, meaning rule, strength or power.
(21:26):
Most forms of government owe their names to the Greek.
For instance, anarchy is from the Greek word anarchia, composed
of anne meaning no, and arcos ruler. An anarchist wants
no king, emperor, or president above him. An Oligarchy is
a form of government where a restricted few have supreme power.
(21:50):
Oligarchy comes from the Greek oligos, meaning few, an arko,
which means rule rule by a few. The Greek word
hero meant holy, and the word hierarchy once meant a
government by officers of the church. Hierarchy now represents a
system of graded authority, and the strange word aclacrisy means
(22:14):
mob rule.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
In Greek, oklos means crowd or mob.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Words like these literally make politics Greek to most of us.
(23:01):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt dylon Us Marshall. The script was specially
written for Gun Smoke by Les Brutchfield, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard
(23:24):
mcghear as Doc and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Ellis as kidding George wall speaking.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story
on gun smoke. This is the United States Armed Forces
Radio and television service.
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In the.
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Thing.
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