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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
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

(00:45):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
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 least they want to meet.
It's a chance, say job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Mich Dylan, you reckon this cussed town, livery mount anything.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
God City. I don't know Chester it might why.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, I look around the way things are here, I
sure do wonder sometime.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
All it needs is a better climate, good water supply,
and a few decent people.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Texas would be a good place if they had all that.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
And maybe they'll bother them out or something someday.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Mm maybe the Wow, mister Kitty looks kindly upset about something.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh, nothing with me.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
It's the fella over there in the long bench trouble,
Not exactly, but there's something wrong. I know there is.
He's he's got a woman with him, his wife.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
He says, men don't bring her wives under saloon's kiddy.

Speaker 6 (02:06):
Yeah, I know, but it's more than that. He says
she's in the end, but I don't think she is.
And she's scared, man, she's scared of death, was scared
of what. Well him, I think he's a big brud.
He meanes sin and twice as ugly.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, he's mistreating her.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Well, he haven't hit her yet. He keeps threatening to Oh, Matt,
there they are the reason.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, come in this way.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Ah, I'm gracious.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
He sure is big and mean looking. Well, he must
way close to two hundred name pounds.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I missed her. I like to talk to you about what.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
My name is, Dylan. I'm a US marshal here you
knowing Tom.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I've been here three days? If that's new?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Or what's your name?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Taggert? Bull Taggert? They call me?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Uh this lady your wife?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Is that any business of yours? Marshall?

Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's what I'm trying to find out. Uh do you
speak English? Man? Wait?

Speaker 5 (03:09):
See Senora a little bit?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Why don't you want her to talk?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh? Cause she's a born liar.

Speaker 7 (03:17):
That's why I like all engines are not.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Many Indians in this part of the country speak Spanish.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
He ain't from around here, She's from down on the
border country. The Mexican's daughter in mission school?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Is that right, man?

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Senora?

Speaker 7 (03:28):
I warned you didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I you know what will happen if you start lying?
At least go uh? I go ahead and answer the marshall.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Through Senora I learned in mission school.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh are you this man's wife?

Speaker 6 (03:43):
I I am his wife.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
You're satisfied, marshall?

Speaker 7 (03:49):
Are you staying though? We got a wagon. We're camping
the river bottom of the south edge of town. I
mean mean to kill me some buffalo anything else?

Speaker 5 (03:57):
You wanna know?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Marshall, I'm not right now.

Speaker 7 (04:00):
I don't uh well, the way I feel about law men,
they leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I leave them alone.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
How's that set with you? I've been saying you around.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Though, I'll be here ound Come on you.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, that girl ain't no Indian man though.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Now she's a Mexican, Chester or a Spanish. Maybe.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Man?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
What could I'm I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
I kidding. I'm gonna try to find out. I die

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he busy?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh no, man?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh what the devil is that thing?

Speaker 8 (05:02):
Now, I don't show your ignorance.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Match.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
It's the latest.

Speaker 8 (05:04):
Scientific gadget in back East medicine. It's called an electrostatic
therapy machinery.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Is huh uh what is it supposed to do?

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Oh? What is the fuck?

Speaker 8 (05:15):
It supposed to rejuvenate the nerves and prove the digestion,
build red blood and regenerate the tissues and oh waitmen,
I'll show you. Yeah, it's kind of take hold of
the handles there and man, uh now I just rank
the Yeah, right there, I just cranked.

Speaker 9 (05:30):
The accumulators a little vina there.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now you ready?

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Then?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (05:35):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Uh oh right next you tingle?

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Then the make me tangle makes me wanna break your
foolish neck.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
Oh oh well, now, man, it's good for you, it says,
oh the journal.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, anything I make living more complicated.

Speaker 8 (05:57):
Oh so you haven't seen anything yet? That why the
next sixty or eighty years, there's gonna be so many
changes in human living.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
You wouldn't even recognize it.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Maybe I wouldn't wanna recognize it, doc.

Speaker 8 (06:06):
Would You can't drag your feet man at you You've
gotta move with the times.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm not sure that I wanna go around letting people
with practical joking machines have kill me. Aw not all.
You're not hurt a bit.

Speaker 8 (06:18):
I've been fooling with it ever since I unpacked it,
using it on myself even Yeah, and each time I
feel better than.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
I did before.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh God, and you grab hold of the handles and
I'll turn the crime. Yeah, what as a Chester?

Speaker 4 (06:31):
I'm sorry above you. Hey, Doug, what in the world?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
What do you want?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Chester?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Uh, this fellow's looking for you. I think he says
it's pretty important.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh. Uh, I'll come on in, my sir, I'll rise
by yours and your Uh No, I'm afraid not except
for a few words.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Then you must excuse my English. Sen you're to which
he is not so much best.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Only there's mine. But uh, what can I do for you?

Speaker 5 (06:57):
I have the honor of bid Don Mark old vlasque Senor.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Uh, I'm glad I know you're Don Michael. Uh it's
dark Adam's.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Most pleasure Signor how do you call Chester?

Speaker 7 (07:09):
I leave that thing along, Marshalls Dillon, you are the
big law.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
It's not correct.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, Uh, I am here in Dodge.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
I guess Yeah, then I must talk with you in project.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, I only got out of my office. I guess
it would be come out of Chester. Here we are
at Don Michael right here. Now, what's that's all about it?

Speaker 5 (07:48):
This is one big method for law, which i'm here. Also,
it's very delicate thing. How how you say is a
affair of honor? You understand?

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Oh, I'm not tr r a do well?

Speaker 2 (08:01):
What is it exactly?

Speaker 5 (08:02):
It is my wife, Senor Maria. She has disappeared, disappeared.
I am come a long way from Chihuahua, Mexico, Mexico.
I I have one asienda there that is where from
she disappeared three weeks ago. And all this time I'm followed,
follow here at your town. I'm only arrived one hour ago.

(08:24):
I see always I'm talking with people, asking questions, and
I thinking she is here in this town, Senor Or.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
What does your wife look like?

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Now?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Michael?

Speaker 5 (08:35):
She's small, like the little bird, with air so soft,
eyes black as night. She's young, Senor, most beautiful. She
speak English, you see, like me, but not so good
you are seeing her? Now tell me something now, Michael,
that that she'll leave you of her own free will?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
I mean run.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
She has not run away, Senor. She has been stored
by one pig who have come to the I say,
and when I'm away, senor bull is called, and when
I find him, it's like the bull he will die.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Boll.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
You know where is this bull?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Well? He was right, Yeah, I might, don Mirchael. Look
suppose you take a room over the Dodge house and
let me look into it.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
And you are not understand saying you're this is one
affair of honor.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Don Marco. This fella you're looking for is about as
tough as they come. He wears a gun and he
probably knows how to use it. That knife of yours
wouldn't quite even things that I.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Have one pistole when I am start out, But in
one time 're far too south of the policy. I'll
take it away. They say, I am not citizen, and
it is law I know can have gone.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
He's through laws in your I'm not here at Dodge well.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
One thing or other I have here is your law. When
one man tried to kill, it's a right you shoot him.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
He's through I oh, we look at it that way.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
The law of self defense.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Law of self defense will be in then I'm gon
buy one pistol.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh I waite a minute. Look, you wouldn't have a
chance against bull Taggart.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
I'm sorry, Senor, you said, Marthor of honor, which is
glacier Senoris of yours.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Come on, Chester, let's go get the full Taggert before
that crazy man of honor finds him and gets himself
shot full of holes a kitty.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Oh oh man Jada, and see you come in, kitty.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
If you've seen bull Taggart.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
Well he was here a minute ago. Uh yeah, there
he is down at the end of the bar.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Uh good.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
You're pretty serious man.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
When the hunch yours was right, kitty, I think he
grabbed that girl down of Mexico and brought her up
here by the force her husband trailed him.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
I knew there was something wrong.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Have you seen her?

Speaker 6 (11:11):
No, he came in alone and he's been drinking pretty steady.
Now you better be careful.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
I intend to come on Chester. There's too big a
crowd here to rest, and they shooting Chester. I'll step
up and hind him and take it, and you stay
clear again for more daylight.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'll be on my feet after all of He didn't
bury you, just h what do you.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Think you'll do air hold this con chest. What's the
big idea? Marshall? Where's Maria of Alaska's boat?

Speaker 7 (11:46):
So if she finally talked, is she I had a
know better to leave her alone tied up or not?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Cause she's out at the wagon.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Uh, you ain't been out there now.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
But I'm gone as soon as I'll lock you up.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I warned you, Marshall, you leave me alone.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
I leave you here under arrest.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Both o who no, not kidding, ain't.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Chee there and throw some water on him?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yes, sir, you all right now?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, I'm alright, senior Marsha Uh you don Marco?

Speaker 2 (12:28):
This is it?

Speaker 6 (12:29):
No?

Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yes, the pig which I have been looking for.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, that's full second. He try to resist the rest.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Now Marea's and his wagons and south edge of town,
right near the river trail.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
So you are the first we'd find him up.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Throw us in at it's.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Better that way.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
He wouldn't be much good to my rails shot down.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
On the street.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
He's such a pity that I have not find him first.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah. Well, uh, Kenny, yeah, my look, if you see
Doc around anywhere, asking him to come by and take
a look at this fella, huh. I think he's all right.
But here now you you quit that, Don Marco.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
That night.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
I only call his cheek m vy marco VELASKI, well,
what you doing?

Speaker 4 (13:14):
That's terrible.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
It's the way we mark our pigs on my acanda.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Uh, we do things different up here, Don Marco gs
what a heathen thing to do. I know, if you
will come along to jail and sign a complaint.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
We'll go with you to got Maria, h my main, senor,
what has happened to this pig? If I sun complaint.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
And he'll go to prison for a long time.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
And if I do not sign, in my case, I'll
have to turn.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Him a loose in the morning. I got no other
charge against him.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Much as gracy, Senor, I will no sign complaint.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Now wait a minute. Maria may figure it different.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
She will think as I do a lot of you
know she will. Because I am the man, senor, you
will please to tell this pig will have the crotches.
It's the matter of honor.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I will no more trouble you, alright.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'll hold him until nine o'clock in the morning. They
give you a head start out of time which has.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
Got you and not you say, you honest, it must
be crazy, man, I don't know kidding.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Oh, we sure has got a crazy kind of honor,
cutting themissions and all.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Why you've got to be crazy?

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Maybe I'm not too sure?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Uh about time?

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Marshal?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
When do I get breakfast?

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Whenever you walk up the street and buy it? I
come on out of their boat?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
What do you mean you you turned me loose? Alaska's
refused to fire chargers.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Come out of the office.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Wha, what do you know about that?

Speaker 7 (15:07):
So the little runt didn't have the nerve? Y, I
don't I get these cuts on my cheap.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Alaska's got it to a knife point where you would
not that.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Sneaky little rabbity correct. And I had done more than
him to be done to me.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
And I say, if you got that stuff there, yes, sir?

Speaker 4 (15:31):
Do you want to give him back his gun?

Speaker 7 (15:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Everything, alright? Hurry up or pick it up and get
out of here.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
Ah, mighty nice of you, fella is to take care
of these things for me.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh, you got twenty minutes to get out of town.
You get out and you stay.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Out or marshall.

Speaker 7 (15:52):
I don't like God too much anyhow, Hour that my
little friend ain't here.

Speaker 8 (15:59):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is he around? Boys?

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (16:03):
What's your John Mayer's the low downest.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Meanest man I ever seen in all my born days.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I swear you are.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
What that wagon come down the street?

Speaker 3 (16:17):
But that Velaska is fell. I thought they had it
the south last night. Come on, Chester, This whole bull
attacker hasn't seen him yet.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
There he is across the street out here most of
the markets.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Alright, Wait, amount of mark Monico.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Velaska's in your and you are to my pig. The
crazy mark is on your face, and your call me here,
my great pig.

Speaker 9 (16:54):
I wish to think on my wagon.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
He's still watching your marshal, But I think the pig
is dead. Your marshal who predict me? Was law of
self defense in your noise.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Through Now that's why you wouldn't file charges. Huh he
wanted to get him out in the street with a gun.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
In his hand.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Oh no, senority was only because I'm one very forgivable mind.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
And you had Maria hang under my arm, so I
could not have feared nothing you.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
I was very frightened.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
I have got no wind doing it.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh sure, sure he saw right?

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Do we start for home?

Speaker 6 (17:41):
Now?

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Sing your marshal.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Well, he drew and fired first. Ah, I guess I
got no reason to hold you much.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
That's gonna see a senior.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
He's very good that you have this law of uh
self defense. Gonna be biby s Michael tea your horse.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah it's a long Oh I forgot TV kitty.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
Well, alright, declare if that don't be oh.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, wow, yes, sir, yes, sir. Suppose we walk up
the street by some breakfast.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
O. Originally, dark horse was a racing term for a

(18:59):
horse who's abilities were kept in the dark until displayed
in the race.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Gunsmo were used and directed by Norman McDonald.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Featured in
the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc,
and Georgia Ellis as Kiddy George Walls speaking. Join us
again next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke.

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