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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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 Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story

(00:43):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon,
United States Marshall. The first man they look for and
the less they want to meet. It's a chance A
job makes a man watchful and a little lone.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Lads.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Goodness, mister Delling. It's tripped down from Hayes City. Seems
to get longer every.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Time, and that's sure longer when it's hot. Chester.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
That's just what I was thinking, Hey, mister doing.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah, you suppose the ground sort of stretches out like.

Speaker 6 (01:35):
When the sun's burning down real strong.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's an interesting idea, Chester. But no, I don't suppose
at Chester. We'll go over.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
There, yeah, smoke someone far out there.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, come on, let's go see what it is.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
The wagon that you're doing with the shore. Ain't much
of it.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's pretty far gone on.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
Get on, Chester, Yeah, apairly all right with you or
anybody could be Maybe he's down on the other side
and the wagon.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
You just keep your head low, head on. Chester. Just
don't seem right. Nobody's shooting at us, nobody. Cartridges are
gone off by themselves. Chester, they're in the wagon. The
fire made him explode, Yes, maybe.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Guess that could happen all right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That sounds like that was the last one.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, well, I just soon be sure you don't.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
I don't mind being chot out by somebody I.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Can see, but I'm Manchester. Let's have a look around.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, I don't get here, mister dun Why what I
don't want them new carbine. Don't like it ever been fired?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, let me see it right, Yeah, that's a new
army model truester.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Don't look like no army wagon over there.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Though, I doesn't now, let's take it. Plus, I like it.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Sure isn't mess an it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I throwed all around it.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Rache's don't get smell.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Though, you know what that is? I said, that's whiskey.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Once they exploded soaked everything. Who that sure is a
terrible smell.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Musta been a terrible whiskey.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
And see me there ought to be somebody around here
wouldn't get what mister Doan.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, I said, come about he was hot head.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
It's his boot sticking there. He's dead, mister Millan.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, shot in my back, maybe one that exploding shells? Guy, Nah,
trust you. It looks I think somebody shot him before that.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
It looks like he was trying to get away, don't it.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
And I hope the woman made it.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
W w what woman?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
The woman who belongs to the things that they're strewn
around here?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
M Oh yes, sure you reckon. They shot her too.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
And maybe if she was lucky they did. Now let's
get the horses and have a look around.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
Mm ain't likely we'd find her, now, is it, Miss

(05:59):
jon Don't seem to me that you.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Could have wandered this far? No, I guess not. But
we'll have a look along the creek before we turn back.
The ladies I've knowed.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
It ain't been much good at walking very far turning out,
of course, I.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Ain't know the most why good? Quiet? Yeah, come on,
Donald Banker, he's airs, you know.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Uh my boy, ma'am, my boy, ma'am. We'll we've come
to help you.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
My boy dead.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
M uh yeah, yeah, uh hm we know that you hurt.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
She die?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wait, you're not gonna die?

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Man, Ain't making no sense?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
No help me turn her over her chester taking. Yeah,
there's a gun shot. That's the back of her head.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
You sure bad.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I can't tell you. We better get out of the dock. Look,
I'll tell you what. You go out on the dodge
and find a wagon, and I'll stay here until you
get back.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Huh what about the other the man back there at
the barn.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Nothing's gonna help him, now, go on, hurry with you, Hello, Matt, Come,

(08:21):
No thanks doctor? And how is she.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I don't know, man, what do you mean?

Speaker 8 (08:31):
I have checked her over, but I'm not sure I
can tell her if she'll make it or not.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
The wold must have been worse than it looked.

Speaker 8 (08:40):
It's not the womb so much, of course, that's part
of it, But it's more her mental state. I can't
get her. I can't even get a name.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Out of that. Uh what do you think she might
be able to talk that? No, these things can go
the way.

Speaker 8 (08:59):
She could suddenly snap out of it, or she could
suddenly sink deeper.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I just don't know. Well, you let me know if
there's any change. What do you doctor? That was? Without
her help? I'm never gonna know what happened out there.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Git sure, it is hard to understand.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Women, ain't it was done? Oh what got you to
thinking about that? Chester?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Women we picked up near that fire.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
And what about her?

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Well, she just kept going on about her boy all
the time. And I tell you that.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Fellow we buried wasn't no boy. He's fifty f years
a day. I'll bet you noth Chester. Some women just
go on thinking like that.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Hey, what a minute on, I'm ain't we going in
here for a beer?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm as dry as can be. You see that horse
tied there? Sure I do get the gun the poor.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Indeed playing it down.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
It's carbine, a brand new army carbine, just like the
one we found.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Out that fire.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah, you know whose source of those? I'm trying sure,
don't look at here. There's initials carved here in the saddle.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
Letter I are or E L R hots j R
M j R. All right, Chester, what's.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Going m hold on many day?

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Still?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I'll be about just going over the bar. And all right,
of course, if you need me, I'll holler thank you.

Speaker 10 (11:16):
Well, Matt, your chip took a little longer and then
you planned didn't.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, we ran in a little trouble on the prairie
a few miles from town. It was bad enough, kitty.
Anybody around here today with the initials j R.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
J r.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
You're not looking for Johnny Ringo, are you?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
I hope I'm trying j R.

Speaker 8 (11:44):
Oh well, sure, Joe Ramsey came in.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't know what he needed with us alone, know
what I mean?

Speaker 10 (11:54):
They already smelled like the inside of a whiskey barrel.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
He didn't He's still here.

Speaker 10 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, way back there table near the end of
the bar.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
And you see you know which one he is? I
can tell see you later, kidding Ramsey? Yeah, oh, Marshall,
I uh, I want to talk to you for sure.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Marshall, sit right now.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, I think you better stand up. Oh see now, Marshall,
you got no call to talk rough to me? Come on,
I stand up and done nothing. Where did you get
that army carbeing? What carbing are you talking about? You

(12:54):
know what carbing? I'm talking about, Ramsey, the one outside
on your saddle. Now, where did you get it? Marsh
There ain't nothing wrong about. Where did you get it?
I found it? Where did you find it. I was
just laying there. I picked it up, and that's all
I got up wear well, just out of town away.
I don't recollect exactly out Elder Creek Way, baby, Marshall.

(13:19):
I guess it could have been out near there, someplace.
You know it was Ramsey. Do you want to tell
me about it? Nothing to tell I just found the
About the burning wagon, Marshall, I didn't have nothing to
do with that. You just let it burn.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
There wasn't no way I could stop. How did you
get the gun, Marshall, It was just laying there. I
come across it some ways from the wagon. I picked
it up. But there's nothing wrong about the man lying
there in the bushes. I didn't have nothing to do
with him. You didn't try to help him. He was dead, Marshall,

(13:59):
there's nothing like that. I think you shot him Ramsey,
and then I think your rummage through the rest of
the stuff and the wagon drank all the rest out
and set far a home. No, Marcia, I swear to
mind that you're coming with me. No, sir, I'm taking
Ramsey to jail. You take care of his horse and
bring along that carby with him. All right? Come on Ramsey.

(14:49):
Oh what is it? Dog? What's she doing here?

Speaker 8 (14:54):
She came out of it and insisted on seeing.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
You bring her into the office. I got to lock
this man up.

Speaker 10 (15:00):
Come along, man, Marshall, I want to talk to the Marshall.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Are you you just come with us? Ma'am right in here?
You ain't taking me right?

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh? Shoot a man.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Donald shouldn't have run. He hurt bad.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
You're just winging me on? All right, come on right,
they get up. Doc can take care of you up
here in jail.

Speaker 10 (15:38):
Oh, I'm gona talk to the Marshall.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Sure, man, I'll be with you in just a minute.
I got a luckess man. You should be glad we
caught him, not glad he was out there when your
wagon was burning. Looks like he's the one who Oh no, Marshall,
h e Marshall.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
You see I told he didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Marshall. You see who did? Didn't have to see?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
I did it?

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Did it myself?

Speaker 5 (16:17):
You what?

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes, Marshall, I killed him.

Speaker 10 (16:25):
I burned a wagon. I tried to kill myself too,
but I didn't hold the gun.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Right, Doctors, you know what she's saying. I'm afraid she does. Man,
know what I'm saying, and I know why I did it.
I go on.

Speaker 10 (16:43):
He was selling things. Luthery was selling him to the Indians,
little whiskey, a few.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Bullets and guns.

Speaker 10 (16:54):
He told me he'd packed my mother's china in that box,
and it was guns. Guns for the Indians.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
And you killed him for it, guns for the Indians.

Speaker 10 (17:09):
Same Indians who killed my boy, my straight young boy,
fighting with the.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Troopers that lure me.

Speaker 10 (17:19):
I see, I killed him and I burned everything, and
I tried to kill myself too.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
I could not do that, Marshall.

Speaker 10 (17:34):
Why couldn't I put him?

Speaker 9 (17:35):
Finish to it?

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Right?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm not the one to answer that, ma'am.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Doctor.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Take her inside with him. I'll be right there, sure him.

Speaker 7 (17:50):
Not no finish, no end to it.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Oh you can talk long.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Hm, All right, Ramsey, you can go on up the
docks and wait there. I guess next time, maybe you
won't be so quick to shoot an innocent man. Next
time you won't run, maybe like a guilty one.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
I took care of the horse, mister Jenner. Here's the
car being you on me?

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Lockless fellow. No, Chester, he didn't do it. The woman
didn't the woman.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Killed her husband, set all that fire.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, she did it all. Oh what are we gonna
do with her?

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I mean, what will the judge do?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
I don't know Chester, and I do know one thing.
What's that? Whatever happens to her now, it won't matter
to her at all.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Mm Gun Smoke for Houston, directed by Norman McDonald, stars

(19:14):
William Conrad as Matt Dillon us Marshall. The story was
especially written for gun Smoke by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
By John Mestinger.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Join us again next week for another story on guns
smoke
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