August 10, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
To handle the killers and the spoilers.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Gone.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Moves for starring William Conrad, the story of the violence
that moved west with young America and the story of
a man who moved with it. 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 that makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
(01:29):
You don't have to come with me at Chester. I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's gone keeping up his.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Best he can. If I saw the comption, you got
here better off back of the office, Well just let
me rest a little bit. But you don't that's the matter.
Are you sick? All right? I just ain't got no
spunk to me these days. Have you seen doc oh man? No.
Last time I asked him to give me a tonic,
he wanted to charge me a whole dollar for it,
(01:55):
and at that he would make no guarantee and cure
me Chester. I'm only going to the telegram. Others. There's
no need for you to come along.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, I don't want to shirt my job.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Will you go back to the office and lie down?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I couldn't do that much.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Lying down is the best cure I know for being tired. Chester, No, sir,
it ain't. Pardon me, that's one of the worst things
a body can do, lay hisself down when he's tired.
It isn't. It's me.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I get to hear himself breathing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So hard own the how tired I am, and it
just clean wears me out listening to me breathe.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I well, no, I do declare?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What what? Oh? Look yonder, there's that nice little miss
Curtain loading her wagon over the Joneses. Yeah, now we're
at is Rob Curtain. He ain't loading up his own wagon. Well,
I don't know, Chester, But well you may be able
to stand by and watch the lady do a man's work,
but it's something I just cannot abide. Things like that,
(02:53):
listening and hefting them big heavy things that now, then,
Miss Kurt, you just leave them feed sacks, ms, Curtain,
my sha ches.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well they all might heavy for.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
A little bit of a thing like you maybe, but
for me. Are you want to grab the other and
that potato sack. What's done? Well, you can make it,
cat you if you don't mind, you try it?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, Mi, that'd be better if you all right?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Here we go?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well I do, thank you. I just wait till I
tell Rob who gave me a hand?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Anything else to go in?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Miss Curtains?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, not that I know of you, is Rob? Anyway?
Thank you, marshall.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well you can see for yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Look here Rob, all the nice help I've had.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh my, sure, road, I didn't know, but what you
was home ailing or maybe working one.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Or the other.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes, you two took care of all the heavy stuff.
I was waiting on join us. He went out back
to fetch me the nail.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Much of wife?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Do you well? Folks, just never get out all the way?
I be please that could come take supper with it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Sometimes that's very.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Kind of him, Miss Curtain.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We better be starting back. Thanks again for the help.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Don't mention the rock.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I suppose you're for a small mansion.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All right, we'll hope to see him soon. Now, all right, well,
aren't you gonna wave jo him? Jess? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I liked mister done.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I declare I am just clean played out man.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know the sheriff. Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What's his name is.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I can I know him by name? Might know him
beside Miami, Texas. That's a new name over there, that's
ChIL Man. At last time I rode through, it was
too small that I was sure. And I guess the
cattle drives a fact let up. So yeah, let me
see that telegram again. Oh yeah, sure, Well let me
see here.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
He says, uh, bringing prisoner in need your help.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Meet afternoon stage and he signed ab Stringer, Sheriff and
it's Miami, Texas.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, I'm wrong. Well it doesn't say anyone's wounded, or
doesn't say anyone needs a doctor. No, but it says
he needs help if he's had trouble, somebody's likely to
be her. Well, that fund of day was the last
passenger they had.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I sure didn't see two men get off together.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I didn't either, but I was wearing a star. Uh
you ab Stringer, mister, Well you're bound to be Marshall Dylon. Yeah,
I said this, Doc Adam, So I have to meet you, sir, Yes, sir,
Oh where is the sting wires? Who telegram here says
you're bringing in a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Mind if I look at that?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Uh no, all right, thank you? Hell I declare, oh
I do declare. Well one thing, he got my name, right,
I got to give him that. Well you since this telegraph,
didn't you? Oh I sent you a telegram, all right,
Marshall Byllaen. But you know that fool Slim Value You
know him, telegraph operator down to Dalhart. Uh no, no,
(06:24):
I can't, Sall. I known him. I know him years.
You know. We were jawing about me taking a fellow prisoner,
all right, and I guess that's what blew old Slim
off of the track. Uh well, then you haven't got
a prisoner that. I not only haven't got him, Marshall,
I'm counting on you to help me get him. And
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uh sure there are a fierce looking crew at the Marshall,
and some of um looked mighty rough. Alright, streamer, of course,
I say these wanted pictures. They served their purpose now.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Looking through 'em.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Keep a man in out of the heat or the
rain or the cold, and with dried beans to help
a man find a no account he's looking for. And
they start a pretty good fire on a cold morning,
don't there though? You haven't come across a man of knees,
And no, wasn't me the first time I went fishing
into a mess of these and didn't get my catch.
(07:33):
Course might be in stayed one place long enough to
get his picture took. Uh the name you gave me,
Sam Fraser doesn't mean anything to me. Well, changing your
name just like rolling over in bed, Marshall, taking everything
to it, changing your face, that's another story that comes
to my harder. And and I've seen him try.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Oh yeah, many's the time, and they get by with
him now and again.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You know, I find out a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
If a man sets out to fool you and he's
half bright.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
About it, he can get the job done. But you're
Another's Fraser. You'd know him an oh, and he'd know me.
Uh well, here's the latest batcher wanted pushers. Thank you.
If uh he isn't in them, we'll have to try
something else. We're used to.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That, you and me.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is that a fact? Yeah, always trying something else.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, that's a job, No, sir, Marshall, No, sir, you
just ain't got a picture of Sam Fraser.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
In your collection. Uh well, if you're pretty sure he's
in Dodge. You better have a look around. I guess
now Marshall. I didn't come all this way on pretty
sure I know he's in Dodge. Or was the tall
Sandy had for about thirty that's Sam, Yeah, about half
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the other man in Dodge. Well, just this one tiny
difference in Sam Marshall her robbed a bank and killed
a man.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I tell you Matt wouldn't hurt the study out awhile
he's the best nature who all matter I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh you got some kind of idea. I'm not jovin.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Oh kiddy, you got some kind of idea yard.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm about how serious?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
So that last night he was a last to walk
out of here on his own two feet.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Sam Noonan carried the.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Other two out? And who were they?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Wolf Connor's and Ned Crouch.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Uh. Stringer has spent most of the yearning with him.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Did he didn't seem to me as played any favorites
one time or the other he played I hand the
poker or had a drink with other one here?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Why? I was just thinking. Rupe and d both fit
to the description of the man Stringer's trailer. Tall Sandy
haired about thirty.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Oh what did keep him from the rest of one
of them?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I had nothing? If he was the right man? Uh
kill you? The name Sam Fraser? Does that mean anything
to you? Mm? More particle.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Long as I've lived here, I can't remember anyone near
the president.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Oh where's them today?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He hasn't been in here and they went off earlier
this morning with dark on some calls. I had an idea,
since he can't seem to find this Fraser in town,
he might have hired on with some spread there here.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Not a bad idea, and.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
A man wanted for murder likely wouldn't take in a
town like Dodge too long.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, well, i'll good John, what's mine? Well, curtain just
came in.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I bet he hasn't been in here three times since
he and said I got married.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Does look like he'll make any money off of him?
He's not stopping at the bar. Hollo. Oh, good to
see you, Mis Kitty Marshall. Are you rob?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Sarah asked me to drop this buy for you, miss Kitty.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Uh huh if that Mendon she was to do?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Well, thanks very much for bringing it in. Will you
have a beer with it?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No, I I gotta get back home. It just came
in to switch those nails I.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Bought from Jonah's the other day.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
See when I was coming, Sarah said I should bring
this bye.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Well, you tell I'll have Martha to do next time
she comes in if she's got the time.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Sarah makes time, miss Kitty. I don't know how she manages.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
She says, she just can't abide idle hands. Hum, She'll
be coming into town tomorrow the next day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Fine, Uh, Sam will pay you, I whom much.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Obliged to you. Oh, Rob, you don't have any new
hands at the ranch, finding chance to same old hands.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Marshall, mine and Sarah.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You run that spread alone.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Now you see something wrong in that?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, now, don't accept the hard work of it. Oh
we're willing for that, Sarah and me ull afternoon to
you on you're finding me again, abstract Ole that it'd
(12:32):
be a fool thing for me to try. It's the truth, Chester,
just as Marshall Dilony been all through that part of Texas.
You mean telling me the whole of that town is
dugout storms hell, there are two buildings in that town
that stands above the ground. That's what I'm telling you. Man,
riding through at night and swear there's no town there
at all, and riding through in the light of day,
(12:54):
he'd be sure of it.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Why that makes folks living like sacks of potatoes. Of
course that's cool living.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've gone in the earth that way, and I fine
handle summer. Give you calls to want cool lifting.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But it's the winds, you know, it's the cyclones. I talk,
come and live that way.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, a cyclone can't go away if that's not standing
there in first place. I can see that. Or now
some folks say that that's how come nobody can talk
or text him down, Cause you see, anybody learns to
talk against the wind like that, he ain't gonna be
out talk by no mark or man. Well, now you
(13:33):
got me.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So I don't know what's joshing and I.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Heard, Well, I don't really bother you, does it? Say you?
Oh hose, I can admire all this laughing and funny
seeing you've got trouble you're hiding. Well, everybody's got troubles righting.
Uh yeah, but you just ain't one bit closer to
finding that sand Fraser, now, are you. Well, I haven't
found him yet, but now you know with all this
(13:56):
looking behind me. I must be getting closer now, wouldn't
you say I do today?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You got a way to see in the right side
for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh, I'm sorry, or Ms Curtain, Oh I am sorry.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
My full Chester Rob says, if I don't quit backing
out of doors, I get trampled one day together, h
MSUs Curtain this year is mister abstring Well you mighty
kind of helped, mister Stringer.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'm very pleased to meet you. That's missus Curtin, is.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It, yes, sir, Missus Curtain. Won't we should just put
these parcels in your wagon for you man.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
If you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
He's like you load my wagon Wooden.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Rob doesn't leak you Chester.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh he ain't with you today?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Huh No, he's at the ranch. I had just these
few things to get in some Aaron's to run. Rob says,
there wasn't any man's work to us.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Now you tell the marshall.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I was serious as could be about you taking tuple
with hers just anytime.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You're out our Oh yes, ma'am, I'll lose out all.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The money shore.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh and I think you're kindly so you help mister
Strang glad to oblige your lady, ma'am, git cloud me
to give you my hand.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
He here's your lines, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Next thing you know, you'll be driving me home.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Good body, you and I declare if we don't get
back office, Mr Dunnan think we walked clean out of town.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You gone Chester, I'm just gonna go over to the
stable forus.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Bell Well, I you ain't thinking of riding off and
leaving us. Now. If I told you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Chester, you'd swear I was funnling you again. A lot
of told you sooner, but you and Clay was.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Talking verst along.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Mister Dunne, that's not your Forchester. And we don't know
if he's well, Sarah Curtin.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We just think he did swear.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I just can't get it through my head that he ain't.
Abstringer the way he's been seeing h play says he
can't be, and he ought to know. He's just up
from Texas. He was there when they found Abstringer's bunny,
and they're pretty sure this fella we've been calling Abit
was the one who killed him. Ah. Abstringer was bringing
in a prisoner and this man we know showed me abscredentials.
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So he must have killed him and stole his papers.
Just didn't see how it could be. I swear I
I I never met a marshal fella, and I'm sure
never last money. Yeah, he's kept us all laughing Chester.
Maybe a little too much. He didn't even have him.
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It's just all a ball.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You shouldn't be out here in the barn cherry.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He'll kill you too. All you got to do is
throw off some money, Sam. I don't have to kill you.
He's called you Sam. Tell him you're not who he
thinks you are.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Rob, Tell him you you spare my wife. I'll give
you the money. Ain't gone nothing against her.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I'm coming out.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You wait where you are.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It'll take me a minute to fetch your money. One
minute and then I start shooting against Sam.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Bob Cultain Dill. You tell me what this is about?
What money is?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Why did he call you Sam?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It is Sam A long time ago before you, Sarah,
I was Sam Fraser in this this money it's not mine.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well if it's his, why did they have to have
a gun to get.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It from you?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's not his? Saro, sob, then why what is it?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't understand her. There isn't time.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Maybe later, maybe maybe I can help you understand. Now
you stay here, you lie down flat while I take
you to him. I I wanna help you wrong, Let
me help and you stay there, sirry.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Let me.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Or slash fat minute kind of fans, Sam bought? I
thought you were dead, but no, what kind of griefing.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Is that between old friend?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Cause I can see you with a lot right I
was dead. You could have kept all that money you.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Got your share years ago. Well, you was always more
frugal than me. Sam. When I got to running again,
I knew I could count on you for help.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I come.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You still got it.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Most of it's there, but not all. I I been working,
my wife's been working.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I I was gonna send it all back to the bank.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
We were off. I got a life. I wanted to
live it clean way and taking your mar's name, hiding
behind it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That your idea of living clean.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It helped till now were Sam, we killed a man.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I know I'm paying for that every day and night
of my life.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Minute I heard that name, meeting you, a woman, I
knew my words was done and gone. You can live
with what's passed, can't you? The killing and the taking
all why I got more killings than that to front me.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
But I can live with them all fine.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Now I got this money.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
There's blood on it, but not enough.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Sam. The way you're thinking, you're gonna worry yourself to death.
And I got to spare you that I haven't even
got a gun and all I.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
See, Sam boy, so I see goodbye Samboy.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
There well, Marshall, Dylon, Hey, we had.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
An accident here.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I I saw the whole thing. I but oh, the
only accident was that I can stop you on time.
You're going to jail for murder.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And now look here, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Rob curtain Wright said, you're going to jail, and I
get your hands up. Not hardly. Uh uh you.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You got bright in a hurry, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Not hurry enough you you're dying. Well, I ain't lingering along, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You was helpful you and Chester. Mind. I told you
if if a man sets out to fool you and he's.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Half bright about it, he can get the job done.
And I I mis jelling. Look y here, but Sarah,
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he shouldn't have come out here. Let me be I've
seen it all. Yeah, they both did. Sorry, I was too.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Late, No matter now anyway, I'll.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Take care of Rob for you.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You'll do no such thing.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Your Good has killed him.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
You'll not touch him now.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
But you can't manage it, sir, Oh you.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Come here now.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It's more gall than I understand.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm telling me what I can manage.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You got no idea that, Monshal, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I'm I'm sorry. I I didn't know who he was.
I lived three miles from Robin. Didn't know who he was.
These two years. I lived with him, not and day
these two years. He was Rob Curtain and that's all
he was. There was no Sam Fraser about him. And
he had that money.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He offered it back.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Your friend, Chester's friend, Your Good has let him kill
my Rob. Your Good has give him your leave.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's not gonna be easy living with it, sir.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I hope it isn't.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I hope you crawl with it the rest of your days.
I'm sorry, sir, I'm terribly sorry. Joel Marshall, I know,
(22:55):
only the question is sorry, don't quite fix things. Gun Smoke,
(23:29):
Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan us Marshall. The story was specially
written for Gun Smoked by Kathleen Hight, with editorial supervision
by John Meston.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Featured in the cast were.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Laurence Tobkin, Vic parn and Gene Bates, Harley Bear is Chester,
Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This
is George Waltch inviting you to join us again next
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week when CBS Radio presents another story on gun Smoke.
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Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
To handle the killers and the spoilers.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Gone.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Moves for starring William Conrad, the story of the violence
that moved west with young America and the story of
a man who moved with it. 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 that makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
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You don't have to come with me at Chester. I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's gone keeping up his.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Best he can. If I saw the comption, you got
here better off back of the office, Well just let
me rest a little bit. But you don't that's the matter.
Are you sick? All right? I just ain't got no
spunk to me these days. Have you seen doc oh man? No.
Last time I asked him to give me a tonic,
he wanted to charge me a whole dollar for it,
(01:55):
and at that he would make no guarantee and cure
me Chester. I'm only going to the telegram. Others. There's
no need for you to come along.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, I don't want to shirt my job.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Will you go back to the office and lie down?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I couldn't do that much.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Lying down is the best cure I know for being tired. Chester, No, sir,
it ain't. Pardon me, that's one of the worst things
a body can do, lay hisself down when he's tired.
It isn't. It's me.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I get to hear himself breathing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So hard own the how tired I am, and it
just clean wears me out listening to me breathe.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I well, no, I do declare?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What what? Oh? Look yonder, there's that nice little miss
Curtain loading her wagon over the Joneses. Yeah, now we're
at is Rob Curtain. He ain't loading up his own wagon. Well,
I don't know, Chester, But well you may be able
to stand by and watch the lady do a man's work,
but it's something I just cannot abide. Things like that,
(02:53):
listening and hefting them big heavy things that now, then,
Miss Kurt, you just leave them feed sacks, ms, Curtain,
my sha ches.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well they all might heavy for.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
A little bit of a thing like you maybe, but
for me. Are you want to grab the other and
that potato sack. What's done? Well, you can make it,
cat you if you don't mind, you try it?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, Mi, that'd be better if you all right?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Here we go?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well I do, thank you. I just wait till I
tell Rob who gave me a hand?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Anything else to go in?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Miss Curtains?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, not that I know of you, is Rob? Anyway?
Thank you, marshall.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well you can see for yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Look here Rob, all the nice help I've had.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh my, sure, road, I didn't know, but what you
was home ailing or maybe working one.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Or the other.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes, you two took care of all the heavy stuff.
I was waiting on join us. He went out back
to fetch me the nail.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Much of wife?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Do you well? Folks, just never get out all the way?
I be please that could come take supper with it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Sometimes that's very.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Kind of him, Miss Curtain.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We better be starting back. Thanks again for the help.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Don't mention the rock.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I suppose you're for a small mansion.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All right, we'll hope to see him soon. Now, all right, well,
aren't you gonna wave jo him? Jess? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I liked mister done.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I declare I am just clean played out man.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know the sheriff. Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What's his name is.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I can I know him by name? Might know him
beside Miami, Texas. That's a new name over there, that's
ChIL Man. At last time I rode through, it was
too small that I was sure. And I guess the
cattle drives a fact let up. So yeah, let me
see that telegram again. Oh yeah, sure, Well let me
see here.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
He says, uh, bringing prisoner in need your help.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Meet afternoon stage and he signed ab Stringer, Sheriff and
it's Miami, Texas.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, I'm wrong. Well it doesn't say anyone's wounded, or
doesn't say anyone needs a doctor. No, but it says
he needs help if he's had trouble, somebody's likely to
be her. Well, that fund of day was the last
passenger they had.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I sure didn't see two men get off together.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I didn't either, but I was wearing a star. Uh
you ab Stringer, mister, Well you're bound to be Marshall Dylon. Yeah,
I said this, Doc Adam, So I have to meet you, sir, Yes, sir,
Oh where is the sting wires? Who telegram here says
you're bringing in a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Mind if I look at that?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Uh no, all right, thank you? Hell I declare, oh
I do declare. Well one thing, he got my name, right,
I got to give him that. Well you since this telegraph,
didn't you? Oh I sent you a telegram, all right,
Marshall Byllaen. But you know that fool Slim Value You
know him, telegraph operator down to Dalhart. Uh no, no,
(06:24):
I can't, Sall. I known him. I know him years.
You know. We were jawing about me taking a fellow prisoner,
all right, and I guess that's what blew old Slim
off of the track. Uh well, then you haven't got
a prisoner that. I not only haven't got him, Marshall,
I'm counting on you to help me get him. And
(06:58):
uh sure there are a fierce looking crew at the Marshall,
and some of um looked mighty rough. Alright, streamer, of course,
I say these wanted pictures. They served their purpose now.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Looking through 'em.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Keep a man in out of the heat or the
rain or the cold, and with dried beans to help
a man find a no account he's looking for. And
they start a pretty good fire on a cold morning,
don't there though? You haven't come across a man of knees,
And no, wasn't me the first time I went fishing
into a mess of these and didn't get my catch.
(07:33):
Course might be in stayed one place long enough to
get his picture took. Uh the name you gave me,
Sam Fraser doesn't mean anything to me. Well, changing your
name just like rolling over in bed, Marshall, taking everything
to it, changing your face, that's another story that comes
to my harder. And and I've seen him try.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Oh yeah, many's the time, and they get by with
him now and again.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You know, I find out a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
If a man sets out to fool you and he's
half bright.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
About it, he can get the job done. But you're
Another's Fraser. You'd know him an oh, and he'd know me.
Uh well, here's the latest batcher wanted pushers. Thank you.
If uh he isn't in them, we'll have to try
something else. We're used to.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That, you and me.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is that a fact? Yeah, always trying something else.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, that's a job, No, sir, Marshall, No, sir, you
just ain't got a picture of Sam Fraser.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
In your collection. Uh well, if you're pretty sure he's
in Dodge. You better have a look around. I guess
now Marshall. I didn't come all this way on pretty
sure I know he's in Dodge. Or was the tall
Sandy had for about thirty that's Sam, Yeah, about half
(08:52):
the other man in Dodge. Well, just this one tiny
difference in Sam Marshall her robbed a bank and killed
a man.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I tell you Matt wouldn't hurt the study out awhile
he's the best nature who all matter I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh you got some kind of idea. I'm not jovin.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Oh kiddy, you got some kind of idea yard.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm about how serious?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
So that last night he was a last to walk
out of here on his own two feet.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Sam Noonan carried the.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Other two out? And who were they?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Wolf Connor's and Ned Crouch.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Uh. Stringer has spent most of the yearning with him.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Did he didn't seem to me as played any favorites
one time or the other he played I hand the
poker or had a drink with other one here?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Why? I was just thinking. Rupe and d both fit
to the description of the man Stringer's trailer. Tall Sandy
haired about thirty.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Oh what did keep him from the rest of one
of them?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I had nothing? If he was the right man? Uh
kill you? The name Sam Fraser? Does that mean anything
to you? Mm? More particle.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Long as I've lived here, I can't remember anyone near
the president.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Oh where's them today?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He hasn't been in here and they went off earlier
this morning with dark on some calls. I had an idea,
since he can't seem to find this Fraser in town,
he might have hired on with some spread there here.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Not a bad idea, and.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
A man wanted for murder likely wouldn't take in a
town like Dodge too long.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, well, i'll good John, what's mine? Well, curtain just
came in.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I bet he hasn't been in here three times since
he and said I got married.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Does look like he'll make any money off of him?
He's not stopping at the bar. Hollo. Oh, good to
see you, Mis Kitty Marshall. Are you rob?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Sarah asked me to drop this buy for you, miss Kitty.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Uh huh if that Mendon she was to do?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Well, thanks very much for bringing it in. Will you
have a beer with it?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No, I I gotta get back home. It just came
in to switch those nails I.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Bought from Jonah's the other day.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
See when I was coming, Sarah said I should bring
this bye.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Well, you tell I'll have Martha to do next time
she comes in if she's got the time.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Sarah makes time, miss Kitty. I don't know how she manages.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
She says, she just can't abide idle hands. Hum, She'll
be coming into town tomorrow the next day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Fine, Uh, Sam will pay you, I whom much.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Obliged to you. Oh, Rob, you don't have any new
hands at the ranch, finding chance to same old hands.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Marshall, mine and Sarah.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You run that spread alone.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Now you see something wrong in that?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, now, don't accept the hard work of it. Oh
we're willing for that, Sarah and me ull afternoon to
you on you're finding me again, abstract Ole that it'd
(12:32):
be a fool thing for me to try. It's the truth, Chester,
just as Marshall Dilony been all through that part of Texas.
You mean telling me the whole of that town is
dugout storms hell, there are two buildings in that town
that stands above the ground. That's what I'm telling you. Man,
riding through at night and swear there's no town there
at all, and riding through in the light of day,
(12:54):
he'd be sure of it.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Why that makes folks living like sacks of potatoes. Of
course that's cool living.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've gone in the earth that way, and I fine
handle summer. Give you calls to want cool lifting.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But it's the winds, you know, it's the cyclones. I talk,
come and live that way.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, a cyclone can't go away if that's not standing
there in first place. I can see that. Or now
some folks say that that's how come nobody can talk
or text him down, Cause you see, anybody learns to
talk against the wind like that, he ain't gonna be
out talk by no mark or man. Well, now you
(13:33):
got me.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So I don't know what's joshing and I.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Heard, Well, I don't really bother you, does it? Say you?
Oh hose, I can admire all this laughing and funny
seeing you've got trouble you're hiding. Well, everybody's got troubles righting.
Uh yeah, but you just ain't one bit closer to
finding that sand Fraser, now, are you. Well, I haven't
found him yet, but now you know with all this
(13:56):
looking behind me. I must be getting closer now, wouldn't
you say I do today?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You got a way to see in the right side
for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh, I'm sorry, or Ms Curtain, Oh I am sorry.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
My full Chester Rob says, if I don't quit backing
out of doors, I get trampled one day together, h
MSUs Curtain this year is mister abstring Well you mighty
kind of helped, mister Stringer.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'm very pleased to meet you. That's missus Curtin, is.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It, yes, sir, Missus Curtain. Won't we should just put
these parcels in your wagon for you man.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
If you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
He's like you load my wagon Wooden.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Rob doesn't leak you Chester.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh he ain't with you today?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Huh No, he's at the ranch. I had just these
few things to get in some Aaron's to run. Rob says,
there wasn't any man's work to us.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Now you tell the marshall.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I was serious as could be about you taking tuple
with hers just anytime.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You're out our Oh yes, ma'am, I'll lose out all.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The money shore.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh and I think you're kindly so you help mister
Strang glad to oblige your lady, ma'am, git cloud me
to give you my hand.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
He here's your lines, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Next thing you know, you'll be driving me home.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Good body, you and I declare if we don't get
back office, Mr Dunnan think we walked clean out of town.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You gone Chester, I'm just gonna go over to the
stable forus.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Bell Well, I you ain't thinking of riding off and
leaving us. Now. If I told you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Chester, you'd swear I was funnling you again. A lot
of told you sooner, but you and Clay was.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Talking verst along.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Mister Dunne, that's not your Forchester. And we don't know
if he's well, Sarah Curtin.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We just think he did swear.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I just can't get it through my head that he ain't.
Abstringer the way he's been seeing h play says he
can't be, and he ought to know. He's just up
from Texas. He was there when they found Abstringer's bunny,
and they're pretty sure this fella we've been calling Abit
was the one who killed him. Ah. Abstringer was bringing
in a prisoner and this man we know showed me abscredentials.
(16:24):
So he must have killed him and stole his papers.
Just didn't see how it could be. I swear I
I I never met a marshal fella, and I'm sure
never last money. Yeah, he's kept us all laughing Chester.
Maybe a little too much. He didn't even have him.
(16:58):
It's just all a ball.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You shouldn't be out here in the barn cherry.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He'll kill you too. All you got to do is
throw off some money, Sam. I don't have to kill you.
He's called you Sam. Tell him you're not who he
thinks you are.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Rob, Tell him you you spare my wife. I'll give
you the money. Ain't gone nothing against her.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I'm coming out.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You wait where you are.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It'll take me a minute to fetch your money. One
minute and then I start shooting against Sam.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Bob Cultain Dill. You tell me what this is about?
What money is?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Why did he call you Sam?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It is Sam A long time ago before you, Sarah,
I was Sam Fraser in this this money it's not mine.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well if it's his, why did they have to have
a gun to get.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It from you?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's not his? Saro, sob, then why what is it?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't understand her. There isn't time.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Maybe later, maybe maybe I can help you understand. Now
you stay here, you lie down flat while I take
you to him. I I wanna help you wrong, Let
me help and you stay there, sirry.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Let me.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Or slash fat minute kind of fans, Sam bought? I
thought you were dead, but no, what kind of griefing.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Is that between old friend?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Cause I can see you with a lot right I
was dead. You could have kept all that money you.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Got your share years ago. Well, you was always more
frugal than me. Sam. When I got to running again,
I knew I could count on you for help.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I come.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You still got it.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Most of it's there, but not all. I I been working,
my wife's been working.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I I was gonna send it all back to the bank.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
We were off. I got a life. I wanted to
live it clean way and taking your mar's name, hiding
behind it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That your idea of living clean.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It helped till now were Sam, we killed a man.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I know I'm paying for that every day and night
of my life.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Minute I heard that name, meeting you, a woman, I
knew my words was done and gone. You can live
with what's passed, can't you? The killing and the taking
all why I got more killings than that to front me.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
But I can live with them all fine.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Now I got this money.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
There's blood on it, but not enough.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Sam. The way you're thinking, you're gonna worry yourself to death.
And I got to spare you that I haven't even
got a gun and all I.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
See, Sam boy, so I see goodbye Samboy.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
There well, Marshall, Dylon, Hey, we had.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
An accident here.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I I saw the whole thing. I but oh, the
only accident was that I can stop you on time.
You're going to jail for murder.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And now look here, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Rob curtain Wright said, you're going to jail, and I
get your hands up. Not hardly. Uh uh you.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You got bright in a hurry, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Not hurry enough you you're dying. Well, I ain't lingering along, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You was helpful you and Chester. Mind. I told you
if if a man sets out to fool you and he's.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Half bright about it, he can get the job done.
And I I mis jelling. Look y here, but Sarah,
(21:13):
he shouldn't have come out here. Let me be I've
seen it all. Yeah, they both did. Sorry, I was too.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Late, No matter now anyway, I'll.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Take care of Rob for you.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You'll do no such thing.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Your Good has killed him.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
You'll not touch him now.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
But you can't manage it, sir, Oh you.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Come here now.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It's more gall than I understand.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm telling me what I can manage.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You got no idea that, Monshal, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I'm I'm sorry. I I didn't know who he was.
I lived three miles from Robin. Didn't know who he was.
These two years. I lived with him, not and day
these two years. He was Rob Curtain and that's all
he was. There was no Sam Fraser about him. And
he had that money.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He offered it back.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Your friend, Chester's friend, Your Good has let him kill
my Rob. Your Good has give him your leave.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's not gonna be easy living with it, sir.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I hope it isn't.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I hope you crawl with it the rest of your days.
I'm sorry, sir, I'm terribly sorry. Joel Marshall, I know,
(22:55):
only the question is sorry, don't quite fix things. Gun Smoke,
(23:29):
Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan us Marshall. The story was specially
written for Gun Smoked by Kathleen Hight, with editorial supervision
by John Meston.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Featured in the cast were.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Laurence Tobkin, Vic parn and Gene Bates, Harley Bear is Chester,
Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This
is George Waltch inviting you to join us again next
(24:04):
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