August 2, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns smoke. Gun Spot starring William Conrad, the story of
(00:43):
the violence that moved west with young America and the story.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
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 chancy job and some man watchful and a
little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I don't think that drawling markets over there, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, that's as far he probably knows why the boy is, though.
Let's wait until he got some sheep clear of the
brush and out onto the grass.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Look at that blame dog. Go mit you dealing while
he's doing more? Handle of them, cheap nold Jabiz.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He's taking good care of him, all right. Now, let's
go talk to Chapman. I sure do wish we didn't
have to, mister, so do I, but we don't have
much choice.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'm sure it ain't it too bad, though, he said.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
A nice old fellow.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, Jep's all right, missus Barcas is a fine lady too, Chester.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I like the family too, and I'm just as sorry
about this as you are.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yes, Mitch John heard of there Marshall trying the far
piece off the beaten pass, now, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I guess so, jem How are you hi, hail and
ready for any plague that Heaven washes in morning?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Chester?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Moarning, mister barkis, how do you like that flock of sheep? Marshall?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He looks like they wanted all right.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He wintered, fine, not a hunger right now, though, I
reckon they're beating the heads off the next few days,
they asked me. They have already started to man, I've
been holding them back there in the brush for a
week and a half. To this grass dried off. Put
them on to twin. It's money, and they just trump
it down without eating more than half of it. Sheep's
got no sense toall, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That dog of yours, you sure got plenty of cents.
He's about as close to humans I ever seen, maybe
better than some gesture That dog had fight a cougar
or a wolf.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Pactually killed him before he'd let.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Him cut a single sheep out of the flock. He
always take care of it home barn in him sheep
dogs like that.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, uh, Jeb, there's your boy all on up here
with him.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
He might be down around the house and I always
stop by there. Well, I don't know. I left before
sun up this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Your wife said Orland didn't come home last night. Marshall.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You know how young folks are.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, sure enough.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Orlan's been kind of restless, legally growing pains. I reckon
wats to stay around Dodge and work cattle this summer
instead of going along when we take the sheep out
onto the Perry Ere. He settled down after awhile.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know or I might find him, jib.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, he ought to be home any time now. Ordinarily
he ain't want to. Well, if you don't want to
stay out all night, Jemmy, Marshall, is this something official?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Jev. It's trouble with the law.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
H Ireland ain't never been no trouble, not real trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He is now.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
He was in town last night, Jeb told there morning.
There was an argument over a poker game and he
shot Will Peterson.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
No did he did he kill him?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Marshall, Will was still alive when we left the right
out here where.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I don't hold none with gun fighting. But if Will
Peterson drove on my boy, he had a right to defend.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He say Will wasn't wearing a gun.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I don't believe it. Somebody's lying.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I may be, but that's something a jury's gonna have
to decide.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
If I own a pen delivered them not under keenan
co judge g the false thereof in nine own tents.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The Lord doesn't look at it that way.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Jem Ireland's one of my flock. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I'm sorry, but I gotta take Orlonan for trial. The
best advice you can tell him is to give himself up.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Marshall. I'll have to think about that. Talk to him
before I decide.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
All right, you'll do that, Jim, but before you make
any move you'll regret.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Just remember one thing.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Get out a sheep dog, Jeb, and the law is
not a wolf pack. All In is charged with attempted
murder and he's gonna stand trial.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Another visit with Joe and Daphney foreside.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Joe, Joe, Joe, stop reading that paper and talk to me.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm listen. Then go ahead.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Well, I was talking to missus Snyder today. You know,
she's the one whose boy had thirty less cavities.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Well, she thinks that we should by bigger savings bonds.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
She says that when people can afford it, it makes
more sense. Oh, she says, there are a lot of
different denominations. They start at twenty five dollars, but then
there were fifty, one hundred, two hundred and even five
hundred dollars bonds.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Is that so?
Speaker 8 (06:15):
And then with the ones we've already bought through the
payroll Savings Plan, we have quite a nest egg.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Are you listening to me?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Did you know that.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
The total accumulated compounded semi annual interest of the Series
E savings bond will amount to ninety three in the
third percent of the original purchasing price.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Uh huh, I thought so, Joe. What did I say?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
You said that United States savings bonds are a safe,
easy way of investing. I did that they helped guide
our country's freedom and they're the best investment in America's future.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
I said something else too.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Oh, yeah, you said that the total accumulated compounded semi
annual interest of the Series E savings bond will amount
the ninety three and one third percent of the original
purchase price.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Well, now, how did you do that?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Husband's trade secret?
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Matthew, it's me and Matthew.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How are you, Miles?
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Have you been up to Duck's office.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, we're just coming from there.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
You see, we're Peterson's still.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Alive, Miles. Doc's doing all we can for him.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
It's a terrible thing. Well, was a fine man, hard
working wife and family.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, I know. That's pretty tough on Jeb Barger's too.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He just couldn't believe his son. I hasn't should a
man down the way Orland did.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Miles. You were there last night, I mean at the
poker game.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Oh I was.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Tell me, was there any excuse at all for what
the boy did?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Will accused Orland and cheating with the cards, which she
was doing as well as all of us with the
liquor sents knew he was, and the lad knew that.
We knew. Perhaps that's what made him so mad.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He's always been pretty touchy.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Well before one of us knew what he was up to.
You hold out his gun and shot with twice, and
then he ran out of the place hollering he'd kill
any one of us that came after him. If we'll guys,
that's cold blooded murder. Matthew, nothing else but that sure
sounds like it. Well, and Matthew, I think there's something
that you ought to know. Oh what, there's his talk
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around town. It's been getting led out all day.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What kind of talk.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Well, some of them are saying that you're not making
any effort to find that boy and bring 'em in.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And any of 'em think they could do a better job.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
It might be the reaming to try man.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I see who was talking a louder s Myles.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Well Rick killed so mostly I reckon yeh.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Sure Riff always gets real law abouten when he thinks
there's a chance of making it mob law.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Kay.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Well, I I thought maybe you ought to know about it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Am I much obliged to you. Miles.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Ye I've gets a bunch of drunken loafers running. There's
no telling what he might do, yelling yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Chester? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
J bark is over the long branch.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh he slipped in the back way.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He says, you want to see you?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Ah good? Uh, Miles, let me know if anything serious
gets started.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
When he oh, I surely will with you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
See, by himself, just to well.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I don't know for sure, he won't say nothing to
be sease you.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And I hope he's brought the boy in. It's be
better all the way around.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
If he has well how you know, or and even
went home. It's John. Maybe he'd just get the trail
out of town.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Nah, I'm betting different.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You see, Orleans not trail wise. He's never been away
from a home in his life. He'd need a bed,
roll and grub and money. He'd run out on that
poker game without even picking up his winnings.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh man, jackbo Kitty kitty, uh kitty? Is Jeff bark
is still here?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Uh yeah, back there in the corner below the stallway.
Oh good, I madagh caught the boy yet?
Speaker 9 (10:36):
No, not yet?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
What's it all about?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I'm not sure, kiddy, til I talk to Jeff.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Is Will Peterson still a line?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Uh? So far he is?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You know, there's a lot of talk around.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
H Yeah, I know, Myles mctagger's just telling me. But
talk never moved any Martin's kiddy, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's moved mobs though. Suppose Will dies matt.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Uh Keddy and Mana got crazy on this job. If
he went around supposing things.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Just the saying I couldn't tell.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Him, I forget it. Well, I'm going over there and
talk to Jem right now. Yeah, Evans, Jem, I figured
out to come and tell you, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It was the only just thing to do.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Have you seen all of them?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, I've seen him. Word is Marshall. We've been praying
for a long time, you and me. I get all
the respect in the world for you that I reckon
this time we're on up at the side of the fence.
Oh or a name guilty. He told me all about it.
There were three of 'em jumped him just because you
were winning, and all three of them were armed. You
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had to kill himself defense.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The others tell it in a different way.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Just lies they made up among themselves. Execute justice and
righteousness in the land the booksads, But they won't. They're
out to hang. I heard the talk around town tonight.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Judge Ben's an honest mind, Jeff, and you know that
all of 'em will get a fair trial.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I'm sorry, mar Joe, he'd.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Going to trial alright, Jim.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I've been laying back giving you a chance because I
figured it'd be better that way. But I can't do
it any longer. You're making the biggest mistake of your life.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Jack. Now you just think about.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
It, it's will any better at.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
Yeah, it's a kindless job, Matt doctrine. No matter what
you do, people are gonna die anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
So mean many but a.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Lot of times you can try to make it later. Hm.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
Yeah, m.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
E on's talking that.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, I guess, uh, you know'd be a lucky thing
for old Jeb and the boy if Will does manage
to pull through and found that that part of its
old Jeb's fault.
Speaker 11 (13:17):
He's really too close heard on that young facts. You
never give him a chance.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
To grow up. Maybe right now.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
That people are gonna go right on committing crimes and
dying no matter what you and I.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Try to do about it.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So why didn't we just give up?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I don't know, Doc right away.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Maybe I should just stick to my carns and forget
the rest. Yeah, then I'll have to do is tell
if somebody's dead or not? Uh what John the Rochester
the riff Kelcil's coming down the street? Got a marble drunks.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
With him he has huh, Doc, I'll see a later.
I'm gonna arrest all on a jail monomossauw charge before
they really start something.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh, Matt, huh wait? Yeah, Will was dead and I'll
bring all of them for murder.
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Speaker 3 (15:39):
Hey, the comings to Jean. You've got quite a bunch
Will him how their barflies? Mostly in the drifters going
along for the show? Keep your eye on Mike ellery
in red started. I'll have a rif kelso or the
rest of the don't count all right't you?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You boys got something in mind.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Or you got Marshall the way things look.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I suppose you'd tell me about it, riff and right.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
We'll tell you about it. We're all friends of Will
Peterson's Marshall.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
We ain't see justice done.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's fine, so do I.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Well, then, why ain't you done nothing about it? You
had since last night?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You find that kid and bring him in. What are
you trying to do and get cleared out of the country.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He hasn't gone any place.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
How do you know where he's gone?
Speaker 12 (16:42):
You sure he ain't spent no time out looking for him,
and all the while we'll laying up there dying.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You're wrong, Riff, Well, it was already said dead. You
hear that, boys, Will's already dead.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
That murdered little rat shot Will down in cold blood,
and the Marshall ain't even bothered to go after He's
not kill now now that he's given that murderer plenty
of time to get away, you've got.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Any reason to figure out why I'd do that?
Speaker 9 (17:08):
You're a dang right, I got a reason.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Everybody in town knows you and Jeb's been friends for years.
What I say is, if there's gonna be law, there's
gonna be law for everybody, and that goes for the
Marshalls friends too.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, I'm glad to see you have change your way
of thinking.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Or if so, you and your boys are out to
enforce the law tonight said it?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You dang right.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's see, we got the rope belong to enforce it with.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
If you ain't mad enough to do your duty, then
we're gonna do it for you.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
All right, Refs, shut up and listen, all right, say
you're too shut up because this is the last one
and you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well. I've been Marshall here.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Nobody's ever been strung up by a mob, and as
long as I go on being Marshall, nobody's ever gonna be.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Or is that clear?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You're fucking a pretty good sized crowd here, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Not as big as the law riff might be.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We're aiming to change the laws on Marshall and the
law man right along with it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Anybody who wants to apply for the job is welcome
to put in his bed any time.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
How about right now?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
That's not the way to apply riff out with a gun?
Are there any other candidates. All right, then a couple
of you carry him upstairs and get doctor patch him up.
He's not hurt bad, and the rest of you get
on about your business.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I go on, move.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Alright, trusted, let's go bring in order.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Eat much sign of life around mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And I must face somebody here. House is all dark. Yeah,
I'll watch yourself. Trust, if don't tell 'em what that
crazy kid'll do atter.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Maybe old Jeb took the whole family and run for it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Now there's a horse and wagon tied by the barn there.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh, I w well, I don't recomy go off and
leave a horse standing here, would they?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Where's it?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Who's there?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It's Matt Dylon, Jad you alarm?
Speaker 9 (19:55):
I'm alone, mar Shoe?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Why not, Jeb. I can't make it easy on you
any longer. Will Peterson died a little while ago.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Hey, I reckon, I already know that Marshall somehow, I
just kind of felt it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The Charger's murdering now, Javn. I've come for.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
All of 'em, and I know Arlan come running home.
Marshall scared after dead, just like it had always done
when he was a little shaver. Begged me to help him,
and I listened to him.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And believed him. He was lying and HIV.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I was gonna hide him, help him get away. Man,
no places to hide, Jeb. Whereas him Marshall, you told
me that there was a lot more than just a
wolf pack after the flock. You told me I was
making the biggest mistake of my life, Jeb. No, wait
a minute, and I come back out from town to night.
Arlan was fixing to leave on his own. He broke
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into the box where we keep our savings pritt near
three hundred dollars, and he hit his maw when she
tried to stop him.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Heard her pretty bad what he got, chap.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I found him out in the barn, Marshall, shaddling his horse.
He had some food and my rifle that he was
aiming to take along. I argued with him, and he
laughed and he said, sure, well, Peterson wasn't wearing no gun.
I grabbed the rifle away from him, and he knocked
me down. Then he drawed his gun and aimed it
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at me, aimed his gun at.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
His own father. Jerry, gonna have to tell me where
is he?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I just fixing the drive into town Marshall Orlans there
in the back of the wagon. I shot him dead.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
A Gunsmoke We're used and directed by Norman McDonald, stars
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William Conrad as Matt Dylan us Marshall. The script was
specially written for gun Smoke by Less Brunchfield, 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 Partly Bare as Chester,
Howard McGear as Doc, and Georgia Alis as kidding George
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Wall speaking join us again next week or another specially
transcribed story on gun smoke. This is the United States
Armed Forces radio and television service
Speaker 2 (24:00):
In in
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 Spot starring William Conrad, the story of
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the violence that moved west with young America and the story.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
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 chancy job and some man watchful and a
little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I don't think that drawling markets over there, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, that's as far he probably knows why the boy is, though.
Let's wait until he got some sheep clear of the
brush and out onto the grass.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Look at that blame dog. Go mit you dealing while
he's doing more? Handle of them, cheap nold Jabiz.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He's taking good care of him, all right. Now, let's
go talk to Chapman. I sure do wish we didn't
have to, mister, so do I, but we don't have
much choice.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'm sure it ain't it too bad, though, he said.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
A nice old fellow.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, Jep's all right, missus Barcas is a fine lady too, Chester.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I like the family too, and I'm just as sorry
about this as you are.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yes, Mitch John heard of there Marshall trying the far
piece off the beaten pass, now, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I guess so, jem How are you hi, hail and
ready for any plague that Heaven washes in morning?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Chester?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Moarning, mister barkis, how do you like that flock of sheep? Marshall?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He looks like they wanted all right.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He wintered, fine, not a hunger right now, though, I
reckon they're beating the heads off the next few days,
they asked me. They have already started to man, I've
been holding them back there in the brush for a
week and a half. To this grass dried off. Put
them on to twin. It's money, and they just trump
it down without eating more than half of it. Sheep's
got no sense toall, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That dog of yours, you sure got plenty of cents.
He's about as close to humans I ever seen, maybe
better than some gesture That dog had fight a cougar
or a wolf.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Pactually killed him before he'd let.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Him cut a single sheep out of the flock. He
always take care of it home barn in him sheep
dogs like that.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, uh, Jeb, there's your boy all on up here
with him.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
He might be down around the house and I always
stop by there. Well, I don't know. I left before
sun up this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Your wife said Orland didn't come home last night. Marshall.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You know how young folks are.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, sure enough.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Orlan's been kind of restless, legally growing pains. I reckon
wats to stay around Dodge and work cattle this summer
instead of going along when we take the sheep out
onto the Perry Ere. He settled down after awhile.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know or I might find him, jib.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, he ought to be home any time now. Ordinarily
he ain't want to. Well, if you don't want to
stay out all night, Jemmy, Marshall, is this something official?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Jev. It's trouble with the law.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
H Ireland ain't never been no trouble, not real trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He is now.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
He was in town last night, Jeb told there morning.
There was an argument over a poker game and he
shot Will Peterson.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
No did he did he kill him?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Marshall, Will was still alive when we left the right
out here where.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I don't hold none with gun fighting. But if Will
Peterson drove on my boy, he had a right to defend.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He say Will wasn't wearing a gun.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I don't believe it. Somebody's lying.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I may be, but that's something a jury's gonna have
to decide.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
If I own a pen delivered them not under keenan
co judge g the false thereof in nine own tents.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The Lord doesn't look at it that way.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Jem Ireland's one of my flock. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I'm sorry, but I gotta take Orlonan for trial. The
best advice you can tell him is to give himself up.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Marshall. I'll have to think about that. Talk to him
before I decide.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
All right, you'll do that, Jim, but before you make
any move you'll regret.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Just remember one thing.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Get out a sheep dog, Jeb, and the law is
not a wolf pack. All In is charged with attempted
murder and he's gonna stand trial.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Another visit with Joe and Daphney foreside.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Joe, Joe, Joe, stop reading that paper and talk to me.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm listen. Then go ahead.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Well, I was talking to missus Snyder today. You know,
she's the one whose boy had thirty less cavities.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Well, she thinks that we should by bigger savings bonds.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
She says that when people can afford it, it makes
more sense. Oh, she says, there are a lot of
different denominations. They start at twenty five dollars, but then
there were fifty, one hundred, two hundred and even five
hundred dollars bonds.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Is that so?
Speaker 8 (06:15):
And then with the ones we've already bought through the
payroll Savings Plan, we have quite a nest egg.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Are you listening to me?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Did you know that.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
The total accumulated compounded semi annual interest of the Series
E savings bond will amount to ninety three in the
third percent of the original purchasing price.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Uh huh, I thought so, Joe. What did I say?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
You said that United States savings bonds are a safe,
easy way of investing. I did that they helped guide
our country's freedom and they're the best investment in America's future.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
I said something else too.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Oh, yeah, you said that the total accumulated compounded semi
annual interest of the Series E savings bond will amount
the ninety three and one third percent of the original
purchase price.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Well, now, how did you do that?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Husband's trade secret?
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Matthew, it's me and Matthew.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How are you, Miles?
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Have you been up to Duck's office.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, we're just coming from there.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
You see, we're Peterson's still.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Alive, Miles. Doc's doing all we can for him.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
It's a terrible thing. Well, was a fine man, hard
working wife and family.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, I know. That's pretty tough on Jeb Barger's too.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He just couldn't believe his son. I hasn't should a
man down the way Orland did.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Miles. You were there last night, I mean at the
poker game.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Oh I was.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Tell me, was there any excuse at all for what
the boy did?
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Will accused Orland and cheating with the cards, which she
was doing as well as all of us with the
liquor sents knew he was, and the lad knew that.
We knew. Perhaps that's what made him so mad.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He's always been pretty touchy.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Well before one of us knew what he was up to.
You hold out his gun and shot with twice, and
then he ran out of the place hollering he'd kill
any one of us that came after him. If we'll guys,
that's cold blooded murder. Matthew, nothing else but that sure
sounds like it. Well, and Matthew, I think there's something
that you ought to know. Oh what, there's his talk
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around town. It's been getting led out all day.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What kind of talk.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Well, some of them are saying that you're not making
any effort to find that boy and bring 'em in.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And any of 'em think they could do a better job.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
It might be the reaming to try man.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I see who was talking a louder s Myles.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Well Rick killed so mostly I reckon yeh.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Sure Riff always gets real law abouten when he thinks
there's a chance of making it mob law.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Kay.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Well, I I thought maybe you ought to know about it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Am I much obliged to you. Miles.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Ye I've gets a bunch of drunken loafers running. There's
no telling what he might do, yelling yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Chester? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
J bark is over the long branch.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh he slipped in the back way.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He says, you want to see you?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Ah good? Uh, Miles, let me know if anything serious
gets started.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
When he oh, I surely will with you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
See, by himself, just to well.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I don't know for sure, he won't say nothing to
be sease you.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And I hope he's brought the boy in. It's be
better all the way around.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
If he has well how you know, or and even
went home. It's John. Maybe he'd just get the trail
out of town.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Nah, I'm betting different.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You see, Orleans not trail wise. He's never been away
from a home in his life. He'd need a bed,
roll and grub and money. He'd run out on that
poker game without even picking up his winnings.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh man, jackbo Kitty kitty, uh kitty? Is Jeff bark
is still here?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Uh yeah, back there in the corner below the stallway.
Oh good, I madagh caught the boy yet?
Speaker 9 (10:36):
No, not yet?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
What's it all about?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I'm not sure, kiddy, til I talk to Jeff.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Is Will Peterson still a line?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Uh? So far he is?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You know, there's a lot of talk around.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
H Yeah, I know, Myles mctagger's just telling me. But
talk never moved any Martin's kiddy, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's moved mobs though. Suppose Will dies matt.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Uh Keddy and Mana got crazy on this job. If
he went around supposing things.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Just the saying I couldn't tell.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Him, I forget it. Well, I'm going over there and
talk to Jem right now. Yeah, Evans, Jem, I figured
out to come and tell you, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It was the only just thing to do.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Have you seen all of them?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, I've seen him. Word is Marshall. We've been praying
for a long time, you and me. I get all
the respect in the world for you that I reckon
this time we're on up at the side of the fence.
Oh or a name guilty. He told me all about it.
There were three of 'em jumped him just because you
were winning, and all three of them were armed. You
(11:48):
had to kill himself defense.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The others tell it in a different way.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Just lies they made up among themselves. Execute justice and
righteousness in the land the booksads, But they won't. They're
out to hang. I heard the talk around town tonight.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Judge Ben's an honest mind, Jeff, and you know that
all of 'em will get a fair trial.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I'm sorry, mar Joe, he'd.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Going to trial alright, Jim.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I've been laying back giving you a chance because I
figured it'd be better that way. But I can't do
it any longer. You're making the biggest mistake of your life.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Jack. Now you just think about.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
It, it's will any better at.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
Yeah, it's a kindless job, Matt doctrine. No matter what
you do, people are gonna die anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
So mean many but a.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Lot of times you can try to make it later. Hm.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
Yeah, m.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
E on's talking that.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, I guess, uh, you know'd be a lucky thing
for old Jeb and the boy if Will does manage
to pull through and found that that part of its
old Jeb's fault.
Speaker 11 (13:17):
He's really too close heard on that young facts. You
never give him a chance.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
To grow up. Maybe right now.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
That people are gonna go right on committing crimes and
dying no matter what you and I.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Try to do about it.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So why didn't we just give up?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I don't know, Doc right away.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Maybe I should just stick to my carns and forget
the rest. Yeah, then I'll have to do is tell
if somebody's dead or not? Uh what John the Rochester
the riff Kelcil's coming down the street? Got a marble drunks.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
With him he has huh, Doc, I'll see a later.
I'm gonna arrest all on a jail monomossauw charge before
they really start something.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh, Matt, huh wait? Yeah, Will was dead and I'll
bring all of them for murder.
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Speaker 3 (15:39):
Hey, the comings to Jean. You've got quite a bunch
Will him how their barflies? Mostly in the drifters going
along for the show? Keep your eye on Mike ellery
in red started. I'll have a rif kelso or the
rest of the don't count all right't you?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You boys got something in mind.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Or you got Marshall the way things look.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I suppose you'd tell me about it, riff and right.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
We'll tell you about it. We're all friends of Will
Peterson's Marshall.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
We ain't see justice done.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's fine, so do I.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Well, then, why ain't you done nothing about it? You
had since last night?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You find that kid and bring him in. What are
you trying to do and get cleared out of the country.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He hasn't gone any place.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
How do you know where he's gone?
Speaker 12 (16:42):
You sure he ain't spent no time out looking for him,
and all the while we'll laying up there dying.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You're wrong, Riff, Well, it was already said dead. You
hear that, boys, Will's already dead.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
That murdered little rat shot Will down in cold blood,
and the Marshall ain't even bothered to go after He's
not kill now now that he's given that murderer plenty
of time to get away, you've got.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Any reason to figure out why I'd do that?
Speaker 9 (17:08):
You're a dang right, I got a reason.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Everybody in town knows you and Jeb's been friends for years.
What I say is, if there's gonna be law, there's
gonna be law for everybody, and that goes for the
Marshalls friends too.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, I'm glad to see you have change your way
of thinking.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Or if so, you and your boys are out to
enforce the law tonight said it?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You dang right.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's see, we got the rope belong to enforce it with.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
If you ain't mad enough to do your duty, then
we're gonna do it for you.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
All right, Refs, shut up and listen, all right, say
you're too shut up because this is the last one
and you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well. I've been Marshall here.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Nobody's ever been strung up by a mob, and as
long as I go on being Marshall, nobody's ever gonna be.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Or is that clear?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You're fucking a pretty good sized crowd here, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Not as big as the law riff might be.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We're aiming to change the laws on Marshall and the
law man right along with it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Anybody who wants to apply for the job is welcome
to put in his bed any time.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
How about right now?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
That's not the way to apply riff out with a gun?
Are there any other candidates. All right, then a couple
of you carry him upstairs and get doctor patch him up.
He's not hurt bad, and the rest of you get
on about your business.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I go on, move.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Alright, trusted, let's go bring in order.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Eat much sign of life around mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And I must face somebody here. House is all dark. Yeah,
I'll watch yourself. Trust, if don't tell 'em what that
crazy kid'll do atter.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Maybe old Jeb took the whole family and run for it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Now there's a horse and wagon tied by the barn there.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh, I w well, I don't recomy go off and
leave a horse standing here, would they?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Where's it?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Who's there?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It's Matt Dylon, Jad you alarm?
Speaker 9 (19:55):
I'm alone, mar Shoe?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Why not, Jeb. I can't make it easy on you
any longer. Will Peterson died a little while ago.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Hey, I reckon, I already know that Marshall somehow, I
just kind of felt it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The Charger's murdering now, Javn. I've come for.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
All of 'em, and I know Arlan come running home.
Marshall scared after dead, just like it had always done
when he was a little shaver. Begged me to help him,
and I listened to him.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And believed him. He was lying and HIV.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I was gonna hide him, help him get away. Man,
no places to hide, Jeb. Whereas him Marshall, you told
me that there was a lot more than just a
wolf pack after the flock. You told me I was
making the biggest mistake of my life, Jeb. No, wait
a minute, and I come back out from town to night.
Arlan was fixing to leave on his own. He broke
(21:01):
into the box where we keep our savings pritt near
three hundred dollars, and he hit his maw when she
tried to stop him.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Heard her pretty bad what he got, chap.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I found him out in the barn, Marshall, shaddling his horse.
He had some food and my rifle that he was
aiming to take along. I argued with him, and he
laughed and he said, sure, well, Peterson wasn't wearing no gun.
I grabbed the rifle away from him, and he knocked
me down. Then he drawed his gun and aimed it
(21:35):
at me, aimed his gun at.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
His own father. Jerry, gonna have to tell me where
is he?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I just fixing the drive into town Marshall Orlans there
in the back of the wagon. I shot him dead.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
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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 Partly Bare as Chester,
Howard McGear as Doc, and Georgia Alis as kidding George
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