August 13, 2025 • 23 mins
Follow the thrilling cases of "Yours Truly Johnny Dollar," an insurance investigator with a knack for solving complex crimes. Perfect for fans of detective stories and classic radio dramas.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Gun smoke. Around Dodge City and in the territory on West,
there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US Marshall and the smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
(00:49):
the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Dog gone.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Mister Dylan Well needs her days. I'm just gonna shake
the dust of Dodge City off of my boots for good.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Sure, I know just said how much you lose this time?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Eleven dollars and twenty Who said anything about losing?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, every time you sat in on one of those
draw games, the boys whip saw you and you're threatened up,
pulled steaks and clive.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And one of these times I'm going to do it too.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Sure, and the first thing you look for in the
next time to be a draw a poker table.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Well, maybe I had to change the study your black jack.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
If you ought to just keep your money in your pocket.
You everything because of.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
No I got a hunt. My lucky is right on
the point of turning, mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
If I only had to say five dollars or so
to get back into the game, I could be well
even if I only.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Had a dollar over homes Kiddy, just one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Single dollar, he broke Chester.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Well, yes, there you go.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Oh no, no, no, I just couldn't think you're taking
money from a lady miss alone.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
If you could excuse me, mister Dillon, I'll pay it
back in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I'll kiddy, you're a born soft touch. Oh well,
if he needs it, it's a sharp so over there
at the poker table doesn't need it.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Oh well, you can't get hurt bad on one dollar.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Chester's hurt bad when he lose those ten cents.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, maybe he's lucky man.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Ah, how so.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Forget it, Matt.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
It's just one of those nights.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I guess, No, Dad, what a drink? Help?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Maybe probably not, but I'll.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Have one anyway.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Lisa, don't do them any harm. Okay, Oh well, I
see the Marshal of Dodge is out crowsing again.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Hella dog ny dog.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Oh my kitty, you look pretty in a basketful of sunflies.
Thank you, Yes you do, say Matt. You'll never guess
who came to my office for help.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, but they got my sympathy. Dog.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
It was all Corpass Dick caps carpass day. He lives
in the shack on the river bottom, kidd, He hunts
a little trap. Some keeps pretty much to himself.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What's wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Dog?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
He brought me a patient too late to do any good,
of course, and he died right on my operating table.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Oh what a bullet wound?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You mean somebody was shot us after you didn't tell
me about it.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I didn't figure it was important, was the carpus though?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
He Yes, he looked when he'd broken up when he left.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Doc, Please, I recommend living alone that way without any
human friends.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Can get pretty.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
Fond of an old hound dog.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
A dog, I guess I did forget to mention it
was that old spotted hound dog here that we shot here.
You know, Yeah, Chester, do you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Think maybe you can get back till payday for that dollar?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I get a chest?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah? Yes, forget it's none. No use looking with me, Chester, Well,
I was just thinking dog did Karpas have any idea
who shot his dog? If he did, he wasn't saying,
but from the look on his face when he walked out,
I'm glad it wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now, why would anybody do a thing like that?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
It's too bad, but there's nothing much to be done
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I think maybe I better ride out there in the morning.
I would talk with the Carpers.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What form.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
This wouldn't be the first time that a dog getting
killed with fine lead to a man getting killed.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Warning, Warning, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I have a warning for all eligible dependents seeking medical
care at government expense from civilian sources.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Were so all right? Already?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Be sure the physician and hospital are participating in the
Medicare program before beginning treatment.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Or so my dependents have checked.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Now they should make sure they use their ID card
to obtain only that medical care to which they are entitled.
Misuse of the ID card is punishable by a fine
of up to ten thousand dollars or imprisonment of up
to five years for a couple of aspirins. Don't take chances.
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Read the pamphlet Dependence Medical Care Program.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Oh no, that's what I call scare advertising. Shack looks deserted,
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mister dumb Maybe old crop has gone off some person and.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Then somebody cutting wood over there on the drawer. Let's
leave our horses here in the lane to Chester, all right, sir.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Then it'd have to be a little outcheat. I want
to live out here along this way.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Maybe it's not a matter of choice.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
No company except for dog, no neighbors for ten miles
or more.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's not quite that far head. Rammer's got a homestead
about two miles north of here.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Maybe he shot that hondlet junk.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh? I don't know, but folks mostly leaves old carpets
to yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, I know all it there.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Right where you are.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's you take it easy? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Speak up there?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's Matt Dillon, Carpets and Chester. You better about that
rifle down?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Oh well, I didn't recognize you more sure My eyes
ain't what they used to be. I thought maybe it
was whoa You thought? What? Well?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You mean, you thought it might be whoever? Shut your dog?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh dark told you about that. I'm sorry to hear it.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Couse I'd had Danny Boy eleven years, Marshall. He was
going blind britt nearby. Its me. He sure weren't no
use to hunt with no more. But I'll say one thing, Marshall.
I'd given my right arm rather than lose that hound.
I reckon.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Folks should call it crazy, but that's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
How I felt, liveing alone. I guess a man leands
to appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
He understood every word that was said to him, just
as good as you were me. By evenings, we'd sit
there in my shack and i'd talk to him, and well,
he won't be doing.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That no more. Now what do you think shut him?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Let's walk back up to the shack, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
It's getting my cold standing here all right? He look
beyond her, Here goes a rabbit.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Look at dead and fool run.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
He's sure scratch and gravel. Dan boy, he'd been after
him like a shot. He'd have lost him right off,
but he'd sure give it a try. Its polis prairie chickens.
He chased anything move, blundering along, blinds of bat, baying
his lungs out carpas.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You have any idea why anybody want to shoot him?
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Because they're playing low down me. That's why the ain't
no other reason for doing things like that. Come on inside,
all right, Ain't nothing fancy, but it keeps the weather off.
There's some coffee going here in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Marshall, if your mind to said.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The spell, don't go to any bother on our account.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Oh no, it's no bother.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Just gets a few more logs in here.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
I ain't sure I can scare up three months though.
It's kind of unusual having callers here. Folks always acted
like I had the plague or something.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Uh, people get caught up in their own troubles. I
guess carpas just get too busy sometimes to be neighborly.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
H A man can get lonesome. Marshall, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Pete Rammer and his missus ever dropped by hair No never,
why'd you find the dog after he'd been.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Shut I didn't find him, You found me. He come
dragging himself back here to the cabin. I rushed him
right in the dock, but.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It was too late, and you don't know where it happened.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Then.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I know I followed this trail back this morning.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
It was in a brushy draw about a mile from here.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I told the place.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Oh, more or less, I'll take care of it, marshall,
you just stay out of it. Laws for people and
not for dumb animals.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Your dog wasn't shot by a dumb animal. Carpets.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I'll settle it in my own way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And you know who did it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I know all right now.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
They paid for it too.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That kind of paying for it gets out of hand
sometimes I'm the one that suffered the loss. It's my concern.
Not come out of here.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Somebody's out there in the yard.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You are a man. Get out, Get out on the floor.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Now it seems like one of your neighbors has finally
come calling on your convers Another visit with Joe and
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Daphney Foreside Joe Joe, Joe, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm up.
I'm up. I forget breakfast.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'll shave at work, Joe, it's not time to go
to work.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Then, why did you wake me up?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
You were snoring?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Ah, you were snoring loud? Oh really, I just wanted
to quiet you. I thought I was quiet.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
You sounded like a buzz saw going through a pine.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Not pretty good? Pretty good? I wish I could be
with you. At two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
You can go back to sleep now. Oh gee, thanks,
you can get a good night's sleep too. Our savings
bonds will protect us. Huh, they protect us the money
we investors used to protect our country and its freedoms.
Why all around us we can see the safeguards that
our bonds are paid for.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Ah bo.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
So you see when you buy that savings bond with
every paycheck, you're really investing in a secure night's sleep.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Not in this house. I'm not what. Good night to Afney,
Good night Joe.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
That's Pete Raymer out there.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Marshall, you heard me.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
And mains yours your I'm he's aiming to kill me.
But why I don't rightly know.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But he fired a bullet through the window.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Didn't need all right, Carpe, just stay away from the door,
you two. Chester Ramer, smart, Dylan, you'll hold your fire.
I'm coming out.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I didn't know you was in there, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I guess you didn't. H I understand I was name
when the shoot. Nobody is that. He's trying to throw
a scare into him, into old carpus. I mean, bring
him to his senses. Maybe has he been out of
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his senses. Well, he sure act like it. Marcia.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
You know what he'd done this morning? He tried to
shoot my kid's dog, snuck up through the brush, took
a shot at her son.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He's seen him do it. Any idea of what had
caused him to do a thing with him? He's just crazy, Eric.
He always been in my touch, you know that. That's
why folks around here just stay shy of him. That
might work both ways, Reman, how's that being lonesome acting strange?
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They kind of go together sometimes. Eh, maybe you're the
one who shut his dog.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Who if he says that he's a liar, I ain't
even seen that old hound for a week. Didn't know
you were shocked till you told me. Anybody says I'd
done that is a liar. Well, I I say you
done it? Raymer.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You you calling me a liar?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Calling you anything?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You are right?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Listen to Marshall. Is that what he told you that
I killed his dog? Oh, he didn't tell me anything.
He said he'd take care of it himself.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yes, and I will too.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
That's what you was doing sneaking around my place, and
I very nye.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Tooth were too.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
It's law.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
The script all right, you just take warning from me
right now, I catch you are on my place one
more time. I'm gonna put a bullet in here. Too
bad to shot myself.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You buried me. Shut up. It's like I told you, Coppas,
this way of paying for things comes high sometimes.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Danny boy was the only thing I had in the world. Well,
in order to find out who killed him, instead of
coming around and scaring my kid after day, I know
who kills Onny, come running home like like gold scratch
yourself was after him, yelling me it's mister Eggi's yelling
he just took a shot at my dog.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh garpish. If I could have got my hands on
you a minute riding today in a minute? Is that
really what he said? I ain't known to be a liar,
Marsh the exact words of me.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Well, what's the gospel? So he if lightnings to strike
me there, right.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I suppose we all ride over to your place from him?
Might yeah, I want to talk to Sonny. What for
it might help to prevent a murder?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Well, there's the kid in Marshall right there front of
the barn, Sonny, Shnny, come on over here a minute.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Johnny were here.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Marshall wants to talk to you. Marshall, Yeah, come on
here here, do Sonny come back?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
You run into the barn, mister, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I can't figure what come over that, boy, Marshall. I
will soon find out. Maybe it'd be better if you
and carpets stay there with the horses. Who say so
keep an eye on. I'm just I don't let them
get into an argument. I can't figure why Sonny run
into that barn, you know, way, just like you see
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the bot. Don't figure?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
White and.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sonny, what do you want? I want to talk to you.
I want you to open the door.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You can't get away from a thing by hiding from it.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Sunny going away, Marshall, I got a gun in here?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh not good. I'd like to say it. No, all right, Sonny,
I'll give you that three seconds. Open this door and.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'll move.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hright. Marshall, go ahead and arrest me if you want to,
But please don't let mister take shooting Illie. He wont
he tried to this morning. That's why I gotta try
up here in the barn.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh why do you suppose he did it? Sonny?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Way did he get in? Because I oh I guess
you know about it, don't you.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Know about it?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What it was an accident, Marshall crossed my heart. It
was I was after old Kyle and he run into
that brush patch and I went in after him and
seen something more. I thought it was him, so I fired.
Only it wasn't. It was that old hound dog of
mister Diggs.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh. A man should never pull a trigger unless he's
sure what he's gotten in the side.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So yes, or I know Pop always told me that
I just forgot. I don't have to go to jail.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Ah, you stop that kind of talk. You're not going
to jail. Hey, Carpas, come out here, will you? You
tool Ram?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I was scared of you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Because I knew Pop be mad. I didn't think anyone
believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
What is it, Marshall Garpas. It was the boy here
who shut your door.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It was I didn't mean to do what mister Digg.
I thought it was a kyo, but it was old
Danny boy. I know how you like that, old humh
I sure feel awful about it.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Are you sure it was an accident?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Or it was honest he was. I know he's gonna
have pups in a couple of weeks, mister digg, and
I'll let you have your choice of the litter, any
one of them you want.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Well. Uh, that hound of mine was a trained the hunters, Sonny.
Takes a lot of work to train the young pup.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I help you. I'll come over every day as soon
as my chores is done and help you train.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah, it sounds like a pretty fair offer.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
This Nellie's a good dog.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
She's the best dog in the world. You just take
a look at her.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh, I'm money sorry about this Carpers.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yeah, that cats all right, he couldn't be helped. Yeah,
all right, Shenny, all right coming.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh, looks like old Carpets has finally got hisself a friend.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Mister John.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yea looks like too, though, Chester counting the pup.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
According to Thomas Jefferson, equal justice to all men, regardless
of their political or religious beliefs, is an essential principle
of our political philosophy. The Amendments to our Constitution spell
out what we mean by justice. For example, no one
can conduct an unreasonable search of our homes or businesses,
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or seize any of our belongings. We can't be held
for a capital or infamous crime, unless we are first
indicted by a grand jury, and we are entitled to
a speedy and a public trial by an impartial jury.
The accused has a right to confront the witnesses against him,
and he can force witnesses who could aid his case
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to testify. Of course, he cannot be made to testify
against himself. He is entitled to the help of a lawyer,
and he cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law. These are definitions in our
Dictionary of Freedom. Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald,
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stars William Conrad as Matt dyllon Us Marshall. The script
was specially written for Gunshot by Les Crutchfield, with editorial
supervision by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted
by Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and
Bill James. Featured in the cast were Parley bare as Chester,
Howard McGear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kiddy George
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Walltz speaking. Join us again next week for another specially
transcribed story on gun Smoke. This is the United States
Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Gun smoke. Around Dodge City and in the territory on West,
there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a US Marshall and the smell of
gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story of
(00:49):
the violence that moved west with young America and the
story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Dog gone.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Mister Dylan Well needs her days. I'm just gonna shake
the dust of Dodge City off of my boots for good.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Sure, I know just said how much you lose this time?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Eleven dollars and twenty Who said anything about losing?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, every time you sat in on one of those
draw games, the boys whip saw you and you're threatened up,
pulled steaks and clive.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And one of these times I'm going to do it too.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Sure, and the first thing you look for in the
next time to be a draw a poker table.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Well, maybe I had to change the study your black jack.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
If you ought to just keep your money in your pocket.
You everything because of.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
No I got a hunt. My lucky is right on
the point of turning, mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
If I only had to say five dollars or so
to get back into the game, I could be well
even if I only.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Had a dollar over homes Kiddy, just one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Single dollar, he broke Chester.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Well, yes, there you go.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Oh no, no, no, I just couldn't think you're taking
money from a lady miss alone.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
If you could excuse me, mister Dillon, I'll pay it
back in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I'll kiddy, you're a born soft touch. Oh well,
if he needs it, it's a sharp so over there
at the poker table doesn't need it.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Oh well, you can't get hurt bad on one dollar.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Chester's hurt bad when he lose those ten cents.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, maybe he's lucky man.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Ah, how so.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Forget it, Matt.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
It's just one of those nights.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I guess, No, Dad, what a drink? Help?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Maybe probably not, but I'll.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Have one anyway.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Lisa, don't do them any harm. Okay, Oh well, I
see the Marshal of Dodge is out crowsing again.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Hella dog ny dog.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Oh my kitty, you look pretty in a basketful of sunflies.
Thank you, Yes you do, say Matt. You'll never guess
who came to my office for help.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, but they got my sympathy. Dog.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
It was all Corpass Dick caps carpass day. He lives
in the shack on the river bottom, kidd, He hunts
a little trap. Some keeps pretty much to himself.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What's wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Dog?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
He brought me a patient too late to do any good,
of course, and he died right on my operating table.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Oh what a bullet wound?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You mean somebody was shot us after you didn't tell
me about it.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I didn't figure it was important, was the carpus though?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
He Yes, he looked when he'd broken up when he left.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Doc, Please, I recommend living alone that way without any
human friends.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Can get pretty.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
Fond of an old hound dog.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
A dog, I guess I did forget to mention it
was that old spotted hound dog here that we shot here.
You know, Yeah, Chester, do you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Think maybe you can get back till payday for that dollar?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I get a chest?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah? Yes, forget it's none. No use looking with me, Chester, Well,
I was just thinking dog did Karpas have any idea
who shot his dog? If he did, he wasn't saying,
but from the look on his face when he walked out,
I'm glad it wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now, why would anybody do a thing like that?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
It's too bad, but there's nothing much to be done
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I think maybe I better ride out there in the morning.
I would talk with the Carpers.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What form.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
This wouldn't be the first time that a dog getting
killed with fine lead to a man getting killed.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Warning, Warning, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I have a warning for all eligible dependents seeking medical
care at government expense from civilian sources.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Were so all right? Already?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Be sure the physician and hospital are participating in the
Medicare program before beginning treatment.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Or so my dependents have checked.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Now they should make sure they use their ID card
to obtain only that medical care to which they are entitled.
Misuse of the ID card is punishable by a fine
of up to ten thousand dollars or imprisonment of up
to five years for a couple of aspirins. Don't take chances.
(06:01):
Read the pamphlet Dependence Medical Care Program.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Oh no, that's what I call scare advertising. Shack looks deserted,
(06:41):
mister dumb Maybe old crop has gone off some person and.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Then somebody cutting wood over there on the drawer. Let's
leave our horses here in the lane to Chester, all right, sir.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Then it'd have to be a little outcheat. I want
to live out here along this way.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Maybe it's not a matter of choice.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
No company except for dog, no neighbors for ten miles
or more.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's not quite that far head. Rammer's got a homestead
about two miles north of here.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Maybe he shot that hondlet junk.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh? I don't know, but folks mostly leaves old carpets
to yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, I know all it there.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Right where you are.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's you take it easy? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Speak up there?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's Matt Dillon, Carpets and Chester. You better about that
rifle down?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Oh well, I didn't recognize you more sure My eyes
ain't what they used to be. I thought maybe it
was whoa You thought? What? Well?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You mean, you thought it might be whoever? Shut your dog?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh dark told you about that. I'm sorry to hear it.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Couse I'd had Danny Boy eleven years, Marshall. He was
going blind britt nearby. Its me. He sure weren't no
use to hunt with no more. But I'll say one thing, Marshall.
I'd given my right arm rather than lose that hound.
I reckon.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Folks should call it crazy, but that's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
How I felt, liveing alone. I guess a man leands
to appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
He understood every word that was said to him, just
as good as you were me. By evenings, we'd sit
there in my shack and i'd talk to him, and well,
he won't be doing.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That no more. Now what do you think shut him?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Let's walk back up to the shack, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
It's getting my cold standing here all right? He look
beyond her, Here goes a rabbit.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Look at dead and fool run.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
He's sure scratch and gravel. Dan boy, he'd been after
him like a shot. He'd have lost him right off,
but he'd sure give it a try. Its polis prairie chickens.
He chased anything move, blundering along, blinds of bat, baying
his lungs out carpas.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You have any idea why anybody want to shoot him?
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Because they're playing low down me. That's why the ain't
no other reason for doing things like that. Come on inside,
all right, Ain't nothing fancy, but it keeps the weather off.
There's some coffee going here in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Marshall, if your mind to said.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The spell, don't go to any bother on our account.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Oh no, it's no bother.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Just gets a few more logs in here.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
I ain't sure I can scare up three months though.
It's kind of unusual having callers here. Folks always acted
like I had the plague or something.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Uh, people get caught up in their own troubles. I
guess carpas just get too busy sometimes to be neighborly.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
H A man can get lonesome. Marshall, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Pete Rammer and his missus ever dropped by hair No never,
why'd you find the dog after he'd been.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Shut I didn't find him, You found me. He come
dragging himself back here to the cabin. I rushed him
right in the dock, but.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It was too late, and you don't know where it happened.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Then.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I know I followed this trail back this morning.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
It was in a brushy draw about a mile from here.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I told the place.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Oh, more or less, I'll take care of it, marshall,
you just stay out of it. Laws for people and
not for dumb animals.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Your dog wasn't shot by a dumb animal. Carpets.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I'll settle it in my own way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And you know who did it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I know all right now.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
They paid for it too.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That kind of paying for it gets out of hand
sometimes I'm the one that suffered the loss. It's my concern.
Not come out of here.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Somebody's out there in the yard.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You are a man. Get out, Get out on the floor.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Now it seems like one of your neighbors has finally
come calling on your convers Another visit with Joe and
(11:45):
Daphney Foreside Joe Joe, Joe, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm up.
I'm up. I forget breakfast.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'll shave at work, Joe, it's not time to go
to work.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Then, why did you wake me up?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
You were snoring?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Ah, you were snoring loud? Oh really, I just wanted
to quiet you. I thought I was quiet.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
You sounded like a buzz saw going through a pine.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Not pretty good? Pretty good? I wish I could be
with you. At two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
You can go back to sleep now. Oh gee, thanks,
you can get a good night's sleep too. Our savings
bonds will protect us. Huh, they protect us the money
we investors used to protect our country and its freedoms.
Why all around us we can see the safeguards that
our bonds are paid for.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Ah bo.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
So you see when you buy that savings bond with
every paycheck, you're really investing in a secure night's sleep.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Not in this house. I'm not what. Good night to Afney,
Good night Joe.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
That's Pete Raymer out there.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Marshall, you heard me.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
And mains yours your I'm he's aiming to kill me.
But why I don't rightly know.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But he fired a bullet through the window.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Didn't need all right, Carpe, just stay away from the door,
you two. Chester Ramer, smart, Dylan, you'll hold your fire.
I'm coming out.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I didn't know you was in there, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I guess you didn't. H I understand I was name
when the shoot. Nobody is that. He's trying to throw
a scare into him, into old carpus. I mean, bring
him to his senses. Maybe has he been out of
(14:11):
his senses. Well, he sure act like it. Marcia.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
You know what he'd done this morning? He tried to
shoot my kid's dog, snuck up through the brush, took
a shot at her son.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He's seen him do it. Any idea of what had
caused him to do a thing with him? He's just crazy, Eric.
He always been in my touch, you know that. That's
why folks around here just stay shy of him. That
might work both ways, Reman, how's that being lonesome acting strange?
(14:45):
They kind of go together sometimes. Eh, maybe you're the
one who shut his dog.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Who if he says that he's a liar, I ain't
even seen that old hound for a week. Didn't know
you were shocked till you told me. Anybody says I'd
done that is a liar. Well, I I say you
done it? Raymer.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You you calling me a liar?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Calling you anything?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You are right?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Listen to Marshall. Is that what he told you that
I killed his dog? Oh, he didn't tell me anything.
He said he'd take care of it himself.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yes, and I will too.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
That's what you was doing sneaking around my place, and
I very nye.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Tooth were too.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
It's law.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
The script all right, you just take warning from me
right now, I catch you are on my place one
more time. I'm gonna put a bullet in here. Too
bad to shot myself.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You buried me. Shut up. It's like I told you, Coppas,
this way of paying for things comes high sometimes.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Danny boy was the only thing I had in the world. Well,
in order to find out who killed him, instead of
coming around and scaring my kid after day, I know
who kills Onny, come running home like like gold scratch
yourself was after him, yelling me it's mister Eggi's yelling
he just took a shot at my dog.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh garpish. If I could have got my hands on
you a minute riding today in a minute? Is that
really what he said? I ain't known to be a liar,
Marsh the exact words of me.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Well, what's the gospel? So he if lightnings to strike
me there, right.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I suppose we all ride over to your place from him?
Might yeah, I want to talk to Sonny. What for
it might help to prevent a murder?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Well, there's the kid in Marshall right there front of
the barn, Sonny, Shnny, come on over here a minute.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Johnny were here.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Marshall wants to talk to you. Marshall, Yeah, come on
here here, do Sonny come back?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
You run into the barn, mister, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I can't figure what come over that, boy, Marshall. I
will soon find out. Maybe it'd be better if you
and carpets stay there with the horses. Who say so
keep an eye on. I'm just I don't let them
get into an argument. I can't figure why Sonny run
into that barn, you know, way, just like you see
(17:39):
the bot. Don't figure?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
White and.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sonny, what do you want? I want to talk to you.
I want you to open the door.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You can't get away from a thing by hiding from it.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Sunny going away, Marshall, I got a gun in here?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh not good. I'd like to say it. No, all right, Sonny,
I'll give you that three seconds. Open this door and.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'll move.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hright. Marshall, go ahead and arrest me if you want to,
But please don't let mister take shooting Illie. He wont
he tried to this morning. That's why I gotta try
up here in the barn.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh why do you suppose he did it? Sonny?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Way did he get in? Because I oh I guess
you know about it, don't you.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Know about it?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What it was an accident, Marshall crossed my heart. It
was I was after old Kyle and he run into
that brush patch and I went in after him and
seen something more. I thought it was him, so I fired.
Only it wasn't. It was that old hound dog of
mister Diggs.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh. A man should never pull a trigger unless he's
sure what he's gotten in the side.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So yes, or I know Pop always told me that
I just forgot. I don't have to go to jail.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Ah, you stop that kind of talk. You're not going
to jail. Hey, Carpas, come out here, will you? You
tool Ram?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I was scared of you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Because I knew Pop be mad. I didn't think anyone
believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
What is it, Marshall Garpas. It was the boy here
who shut your door.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It was I didn't mean to do what mister Digg.
I thought it was a kyo, but it was old
Danny boy. I know how you like that, old humh
I sure feel awful about it.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Are you sure it was an accident?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Or it was honest he was. I know he's gonna
have pups in a couple of weeks, mister digg, and
I'll let you have your choice of the litter, any
one of them you want.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Well. Uh, that hound of mine was a trained the hunters, Sonny.
Takes a lot of work to train the young pup.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I help you. I'll come over every day as soon
as my chores is done and help you train.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah, it sounds like a pretty fair offer.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
This Nellie's a good dog.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
She's the best dog in the world. You just take
a look at her.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh, I'm money sorry about this Carpers.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yeah, that cats all right, he couldn't be helped. Yeah,
all right, Shenny, all right coming.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh, looks like old Carpets has finally got hisself a friend.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Mister John.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yea looks like too, though, Chester counting the pup.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
According to Thomas Jefferson, equal justice to all men, regardless
of their political or religious beliefs, is an essential principle
of our political philosophy. The Amendments to our Constitution spell
out what we mean by justice. For example, no one
can conduct an unreasonable search of our homes or businesses,
(21:35):
or seize any of our belongings. We can't be held
for a capital or infamous crime, unless we are first
indicted by a grand jury, and we are entitled to
a speedy and a public trial by an impartial jury.
The accused has a right to confront the witnesses against him,
and he can force witnesses who could aid his case
(21:56):
to testify. Of course, he cannot be made to testify
against himself. He is entitled to the help of a lawyer,
and he cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law. These are definitions in our
Dictionary of Freedom. Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald,
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stars William Conrad as Matt dyllon Us Marshall. The script
was specially written for Gunshot by Les Crutchfield, with editorial
supervision by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted
by Rex Cory. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and
Bill James. Featured in the cast were Parley bare as Chester,
Howard McGear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kiddy George
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Walltz speaking. Join us again next week for another specially
transcribed story on gun Smoke. This is the United States
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