August 24, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The Story of
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the violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The trip from Hayes City to Dodge was long enough horseback,
but by a stage coach it seemed endless. There were
only two passengers besides me, and after the first hour
on the road we stopped talking, just sat there in silence,
waiting for the ride to be over. I'd been up
late the last few nights, so I braced myself into
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one corner of the coach and fell asleep. I vaguely
remember the stage pulling to a stop and somebody shoting,
but I came fully awake when the door was jerked.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Open and a man behind a bandana stuck a shotgun
in my fav Get out of the coach, hands in
front of you, you pleasure to blast you open?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Take his gun, Charlie. Now stand over there with a driver.
You two next, get on out and go crying up
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and it's.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh, come, you didn't start shooting when they stopped me, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, I was sound asleep, Hank. Well, I'm sure glad
of that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
If we put up a fight that fellow with the
shotgun and or blowed me clean off the seat.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, how many of 'em are there? Just he's too
It's all I've seen. Y could be somebody with a
rifle hiding, and that clump of elder over there could
be Hey, look he killed him, Marshall, and the man
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was a fool to try that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Go get in the box, Charlie, take this one to
help him. Come on, I'll keep an eye on these
two here. So you're in a Marshall, eh, I am well.
That greenhorn got itself killed. He shouldn't have tried to
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shoot Charlie.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, I shouldn't, not with a little darringer. Charlie got
hit right now. Yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I just don't want nobody chasing us for murder.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Under the circumstances. It was murdered, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, and the only thing to do is shoot the
whole bunch of you didn't have done with it?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
No, you can't do that, mister. I got a wife
and two kids and Dodger.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What I hear, Dodge ain't a very good place to
raise a family. Anyway. Look, you're in enough trouble already. Besides,
you didn't kill that man. Your partner didn't. That's right, Charlie.
They'll be after how much money is in that box driver?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I don't know. They never tell me. We'll find out.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He's got it open now, cload it in them saddlebags, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got an idea. You're new at this game.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Look, if a man was holding a shotgun on me
and I was unarmed, I wouldn't have no ideas about nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Monster.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You always carry a shotgun, mister, Why we might meet
sometime when you don't have one? You can make me
shoot you yet. Hey, look, your partner's ready to go.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, don't you make a move till we're out of sight.
We'll ride back and kill everyone, you understand, And I.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Guess there's nothing we can do but stand here. That's
all Hank for right now.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Anyway, this year.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
How.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What you do? Kitty? Burn him off? And again?
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Oh darn it, yes, what do you mean again?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It seems like you always do. The coffee is hot enough.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Thanks for the sympathy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
As much as you gave me about the stage hold
up the other day, all.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I said was I'm glad you were asleep. A lot's
safe for that one.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Being safe isn't exactly my main goal, Kitty.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I know how much money was then that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Two thousand dollars. You'd think they'd have paid a man
to ride shotgun?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Have you any idea who did it?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
No, they were both masked.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
I hear wells Fargo put up a reward for him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now there's one thousand dollars for the one who killed
a passenger, dead or alive.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
They must want him real bad.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's not good for business people getting murdered.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
What about the other one?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Three hundred for his capture? And uh, if you recover
the stolen money, kitty, well they'll give you half of it.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
If I found that money, they'd give me all of it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You'll end up in jail yet.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Well, the Texas Trail isn't far from being in jail
for me.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I gotta get back there pretty soon.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
That sure.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Hey you wait, are you already take this money.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Or I'll throw it at you Another gentleman in town.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Kitty, I don't want to turn a round. What does
he look like?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Well, I think it's the one with a black beard.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wait, get over here, for I bust your neck.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
That's a one al right.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Is there anybody with him?
Speaker 7 (06:49):
No, he's a loone and he's leaving.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, oh good no, No, don't stare at him. I
don't want him to see me.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Well, he's not even looking this way. He's going out
the door on that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All right, I'm on, I wanna follow him.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Okay, why she him? She wanta tell me about that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
A hard way I ever read?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Is that him? Ahead of us?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
There's a big man? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Who is he? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I'm not sure, but he sounds an awful lot like somebody.
I won't gonna arrest him, No, not till i'm sure,
maybe not even then.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Look, he's going up the docks.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah so he is. Uh, kidd I gotta leave you here.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Okay, thanks for the supper.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Matt, sure or anything comorrow? Wow, I might be real
busy tomorrow. They get then, so long, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Kiddy man. That's a serious thing.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It sounds like his arm is infected to me.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
He eh, how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, he just tore it on some wire.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Why didn't you bring him into town?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
It might be gangreen?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Is that bad?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Bad?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He could lose the yard or even die.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Where is he anyway?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The prairie camp.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Either some medicine or something I could take back to. Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, hello, match, good evening, dog. Oh, go right ahead.
I just came up for a smoke.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Should have sit down and sit down?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The man fa Thanks.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Now, look, mister, there isn't a medicine in the world,
never mine.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
But I'm telling you get it. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Everything's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, you better not wait too long. I'm warning you
I won't.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We'll take care of everything tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That man's crazy, that's what Nah, he's not crazy. Dog. No,
you should have heard him. I didn't. What do you
mean you did? I was outside the door. Doc. Ah,
he's going under the eleganza. I guess he isn't too worried.
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What's this all about, matt Ah, Doc, I'll explain it
to you later. Right now, I gotta find Chester.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh Chester, Yes, he's down in the office.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I just left. Oh good, I sure hope he's had
a lot of sleep lately.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What's that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He's gonna be pretty busy tonight. I'll see you later, doc.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
O't you follow him all night?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Chester?
Speaker 10 (09:48):
Oh, mister Dylan, I'm about ready to drop. Everything's getting hazy.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Where is he in the restaurant?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Yes, so that's where he went. He gambled the entire night.
I swear out in a high days a week. I
can't hardly keep my eyes open.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Pot Rubbert Rosser at to backa juice and a Chester.
I'll help.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
Oh my goodness, he just come out the door.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
He's seen us stand steady. Yes, Marshall, I I got
a complaint. Nows, that's so sure is?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I had the idea this man's tracking me all night
had something.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
To do with you.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Oh how'd you know?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I was falling? Mister?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You might as well have been wearing snow shoes with
cow bells tied on him.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Now that's not true.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
That's a dog.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Never mind, Chester, never mind. What is your complaint? Mister? Well, you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And a decent citizen ride into the dodge and do
a little gambling without being haunted by your man here.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, that depends on how decent the citizen really is.
What name do you go by? Anyway? My own, Jeremo.
Jeremo's that all there is to it, That's all. Yeah, Well, Jeremo,
I just didn't want you to leave town without my
knowing about it. Why not? I ain't done nothing, But
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Doc told me about your partner, the one who tore
his arm on some wire. What about him? And I'm
curious to see if you're gonna take care of himself.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, of course i am.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He'll die if you don't hurry.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, I I'm going after him when well, it's no
business of yours when anybody following me is likely to
run into.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Trouble from a shotgun, Trema.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I don't use a shotgun, Marshal.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Your partner's dying, Jeremo. You're wasting time, and he's dying.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
He's my partner, not yours. I'll take care of sure,
short Trema, but you're better hurry.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment, but first. Since nineteen ten, the
work output of each of us has more than doubles,
and the average annual income has gone from twenty four
hundred dollars a year to about four thousand dollars. Yet
about eighteen hours has been cut off the average work week.
These facts add up to the better we produce, the
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better we live. Now, the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Chester had gone up all night, so I sent him
to bed and I hired a Kiawa Indian. I knew
to keep an eye on Jeremo, But even though his
partner was dying of ganggren from the bullet wound he'd
received at the stage hold up, Jeremo didn't leave Dodge
that day or the next. He knew i'd track him
to their hideout into the stolen money if he didn't,
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and he wasn't the kind of a man who would
risk his own neck just to save his partner's life.
And since I had no real evidence yet, there was
no use of resting him, so all I could do
was wait.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
That Indian is a wonder to behold, mister Dillon. He
hasn't slept a wink in two whole days, and he
don't even look tired.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
No, but Jeremo looked tired the last time I saw him. Oh,
he's been sleeping regular, I know, but all this is
wearing him out just the same. And he's getting pretty spooky.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Well with what he's got on his conscience.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I better ask if he knows another kaiwa who can
spell him for a while. I think he's got a
cousin around here, somewhere.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
Oh, it makes my bones ache just to think about him.
Not sleep and tall Marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Uh I, I I got something to tell you. Oh
who are you?
Speaker 11 (14:20):
My name is Verd, but I'm nobody. Marshalls a cowboy.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
There's nothing wrong with being a.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
Cowboy, Verd. Sometimes there is. Like yesterday, I was the trouble.
I found a dead man, Marshall out on the prairie.
Howd he die?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Look to me like he got shot? That's why I
come to you. Did you bury him? No? No, I
wrapped a blanket around him though. Now where is the bird?
Not far from here, maybe fifteen miles yeah Chester, Yes, sir,
get our horses will ride out and have a look.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Yeah he's still there, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Nothing's been eating on him. You sure got itself? He
had died here.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
My need to wonder anybody ever found him?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Uh? Verred you you want to take the blanket.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Off of him?
Speaker 12 (15:36):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
How did you know? It'd been shot? Well? In his arm?
Had sold swole up Marshall? And then you see here.
I noticed that bullet hole in his sleep there. Yeah, well,
it looks like you've made yourself one thousand dollars. What
well Spargo offered it for this man that are alive.
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He rapped the stage a few days back. He did, well,
lean I in luck, and there's another thousand for whoever
finds the money.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Still, it's probably buried around here some worders, don't you think,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hey, that reminds me. I noticed something funny.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Over there in the mandeels, like the ground getting dug
up Shaw's bird.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, sure, Marshall. But over here, wait there, see it right.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
There, right by that big one.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
Yeah, well, I declare, huh, By golly, I think he's right,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, there's something been buried here, all.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Right, yeah, I think I can see.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah there there it is there. I got it. He
look you there, Marshall. It's it's a money back, and
I found it, didn't.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
They shoot that dry d here?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Look at that.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
It's real money, all right, Marshall. I found it, so
I get the reward. When I did, I knew where
it was.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, you sure did. We dug up the rest of
the money and then made the hole into a grave,
and we buried the dead man right there. On the
way back to Dodge, I told Verd he could talk
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all he wanted about finding the bandit's body and the
reward he'd collect for it, but that he wasn't to
say a word about the money we'd recovered. He couldn't
understand why, and I and explain it to him, but
I warned him he'd never get a penny of either
reward if he didn't do as I said. Back in town,
I didn't let him out of my sight for the
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next two days. I figured it make Germo pretty worried,
and that's sure.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Did you know it's mighty good to get off of
that prairie just for change, I think.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It would be.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You don't come to town much, do you.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
I've never seen you around here before.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well, i've been too broke chest.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Well, it sure takes money to see the elephant in
Dodge nowadays.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'll be able to afford it soon enough. A ain't
that right, Marshall? It looks that way. D Yeah, you've
been mighty lucky so far. What do you mean so far? Nothing? Evening, Marshall. Hello,
Jamo h, this is hello.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Ponda band it for you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah. I was just s telling him how lucky he is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You know all that reward money thousand dollars, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah? Yeah, that's right. Is that all you're getting?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Mister?
Speaker 12 (19:15):
What do you what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Is that all? Well, there was more reward than that offered.
Oh you mean the stolen money? Or it's too bad
about that, wasn't it? Bird? We didn't. We didn't find
no stolen money. You didn't. I would looked everywhere. There's
been some digging thereby, but uh, there's nothing in the hole.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well, now what do you make of that? Just plain disappeared? Yeah, yeah,
looks out with it.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Well that's sure too bad, ain't it. But you can't
have all the money in the world, mister.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I ain't got all the money in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I'll see you later, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I like you told me. I didn't say nothing. You
did fine, Ford, just fine. When we left the saloon
a little later, I noticed Germo standing in the darkness
of the alley waiting. I was pretty sure he'd follow
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us as we crossed the plaza and walk up Front Street.
When we reached Kelly's stable, verd wanted to go in
and see if his horse had been fed. So we
said good night and left him there Chester and I
walked on a little ways and we turned off the street.
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We went back entered the stable. From the rear inside
we could hear voices, and we sneaked up from stall
to stall until we were close enough to make him out.
Tell me where the money is? What did you do
when they told you you're more? The Marshal's got we
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dug it out your line?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Now who turned in two thousand dollars to collect one thousand?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You have stole it and hit it somewhere. No, I didn't,
I tell you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The Marshall hisself said there's been some digging nearby.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What do you do with it for?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Tell me before I kill you. No, No, listen a minute, German.
Look at when you didn't come back.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
I I figured you got caught, and then Charlie died
and I got scared.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And it always was a coward.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
That's why we left you in the bushes with a
rifle when we stopped to stay.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
No, that don't matter. But look at Germany. Don't you
see this way?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
We're both safe because I'll split both the rewards with you.
You know I you're lying and I'm gonna kill you
for it.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
No, don't.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You're next, Marsham, he should have had your shotgun.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
General, I should have killed you with the holder. That
was my big mistake. Now, if he'd a trusted verge,
you both could have got by with us. He was
telling me the truth, he was, and you'd never been
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convicted on what evidence I had. Well, I guess it
remains entitled to make a few mistakes.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Mar So mm hm hm hm, General, Well you won't
make any more.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
Vic Perrin, John Dayner and Lawrence Dobkin, Harley bear Is Chester,
Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy join
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us again next week as Matt Dylon Us Marshall fights
to bring law and order out of the wild violence
of the West in gun Smoke. This Monday Night. Frank
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Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and The Smell of
Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, The Story of
(00:42):
the violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The trip from Hayes City to Dodge was long enough horseback,
but by a stage coach it seemed endless. There were
only two passengers besides me, and after the first hour
on the road we stopped talking, just sat there in silence,
waiting for the ride to be over. I'd been up
late the last few nights, so I braced myself into
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one corner of the coach and fell asleep. I vaguely
remember the stage pulling to a stop and somebody shoting,
but I came fully awake when the door was jerked.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Open and a man behind a bandana stuck a shotgun
in my fav Get out of the coach, hands in
front of you, you pleasure to blast you open?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Take his gun, Charlie. Now stand over there with a driver.
You two next, get on out and go crying up
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and it's.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh, come, you didn't start shooting when they stopped me, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, I was sound asleep, Hank. Well, I'm sure glad
of that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
If we put up a fight that fellow with the
shotgun and or blowed me clean off the seat.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, how many of 'em are there? Just he's too
It's all I've seen. Y could be somebody with a
rifle hiding, and that clump of elder over there could
be Hey, look he killed him, Marshall, and the man
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was a fool to try that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Go get in the box, Charlie, take this one to
help him. Come on, I'll keep an eye on these
two here. So you're in a Marshall, eh, I am well.
That greenhorn got itself killed. He shouldn't have tried to
(03:22):
shoot Charlie.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, I shouldn't, not with a little darringer. Charlie got
hit right now. Yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I just don't want nobody chasing us for murder.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Under the circumstances. It was murdered, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, and the only thing to do is shoot the
whole bunch of you didn't have done with it?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
No, you can't do that, mister. I got a wife
and two kids and Dodger.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What I hear, Dodge ain't a very good place to
raise a family. Anyway. Look, you're in enough trouble already. Besides,
you didn't kill that man. Your partner didn't. That's right, Charlie.
They'll be after how much money is in that box driver?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I don't know. They never tell me. We'll find out.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He's got it open now, cload it in them saddlebags, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got an idea. You're new at this game.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Look, if a man was holding a shotgun on me
and I was unarmed, I wouldn't have no ideas about nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Monster.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You always carry a shotgun, mister, Why we might meet
sometime when you don't have one? You can make me
shoot you yet. Hey, look, your partner's ready to go.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, don't you make a move till we're out of sight.
We'll ride back and kill everyone, you understand, And I.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Guess there's nothing we can do but stand here. That's
all Hank for right now.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Anyway, this year.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
How.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What you do? Kitty? Burn him off? And again?
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Oh darn it, yes, what do you mean again?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It seems like you always do. The coffee is hot enough.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Thanks for the sympathy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
As much as you gave me about the stage hold
up the other day, all.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I said was I'm glad you were asleep. A lot's
safe for that one.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Being safe isn't exactly my main goal, Kitty.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I know how much money was then that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Two thousand dollars. You'd think they'd have paid a man
to ride shotgun?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Have you any idea who did it?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
No, they were both masked.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
I hear wells Fargo put up a reward for him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now there's one thousand dollars for the one who killed
a passenger, dead or alive.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
They must want him real bad.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's not good for business people getting murdered.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
What about the other one?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Three hundred for his capture? And uh, if you recover
the stolen money, kitty, well they'll give you half of it.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
If I found that money, they'd give me all of it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You'll end up in jail yet.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Well, the Texas Trail isn't far from being in jail
for me.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I gotta get back there pretty soon.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
That sure.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Hey you wait, are you already take this money.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Or I'll throw it at you Another gentleman in town.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Kitty, I don't want to turn a round. What does
he look like?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Well, I think it's the one with a black beard.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wait, get over here, for I bust your neck.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
That's a one al right.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Is there anybody with him?
Speaker 7 (06:49):
No, he's a loone and he's leaving.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, oh good no, No, don't stare at him. I
don't want him to see me.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Well, he's not even looking this way. He's going out
the door on that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
All right, I'm on, I wanna follow him.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Okay, why she him? She wanta tell me about that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
A hard way I ever read?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Is that him? Ahead of us?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
There's a big man? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Who is he? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I'm not sure, but he sounds an awful lot like somebody.
I won't gonna arrest him, No, not till i'm sure,
maybe not even then.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Look, he's going up the docks.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah so he is. Uh, kidd I gotta leave you here.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Okay, thanks for the supper.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Matt, sure or anything comorrow? Wow, I might be real
busy tomorrow. They get then, so long, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Kiddy man. That's a serious thing.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It sounds like his arm is infected to me.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
He eh, how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, he just tore it on some wire.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Why didn't you bring him into town?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
It might be gangreen?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Is that bad?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Bad?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He could lose the yard or even die.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Where is he anyway?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The prairie camp.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Either some medicine or something I could take back to. Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, hello, match, good evening, dog. Oh, go right ahead.
I just came up for a smoke.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Should have sit down and sit down?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The man fa Thanks.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Now, look, mister, there isn't a medicine in the world,
never mine.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
But I'm telling you get it. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Everything's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, you better not wait too long. I'm warning you
I won't.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We'll take care of everything tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That man's crazy, that's what Nah, he's not crazy. Dog. No,
you should have heard him. I didn't. What do you
mean you did? I was outside the door. Doc. Ah,
he's going under the eleganza. I guess he isn't too worried.
(09:08):
What's this all about, matt Ah, Doc, I'll explain it
to you later. Right now, I gotta find Chester.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh Chester, Yes, he's down in the office.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I just left. Oh good, I sure hope he's had
a lot of sleep lately.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What's that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He's gonna be pretty busy tonight. I'll see you later, doc.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
O't you follow him all night?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Chester?
Speaker 10 (09:48):
Oh, mister Dylan, I'm about ready to drop. Everything's getting hazy.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Where is he in the restaurant?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Yes, so that's where he went. He gambled the entire night.
I swear out in a high days a week. I
can't hardly keep my eyes open.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Pot Rubbert Rosser at to backa juice and a Chester.
I'll help.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
Oh my goodness, he just come out the door.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
He's seen us stand steady. Yes, Marshall, I I got
a complaint. Nows, that's so sure is?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I had the idea this man's tracking me all night
had something.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
To do with you.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Oh how'd you know?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I was falling? Mister?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You might as well have been wearing snow shoes with
cow bells tied on him.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Now that's not true.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
That's a dog.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Never mind, Chester, never mind. What is your complaint? Mister? Well, you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And a decent citizen ride into the dodge and do
a little gambling without being haunted by your man here.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, that depends on how decent the citizen really is.
What name do you go by? Anyway? My own, Jeremo.
Jeremo's that all there is to it, That's all. Yeah, Well, Jeremo,
I just didn't want you to leave town without my
knowing about it. Why not? I ain't done nothing, But
(11:16):
Doc told me about your partner, the one who tore
his arm on some wire. What about him? And I'm
curious to see if you're gonna take care of himself.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, of course i am.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He'll die if you don't hurry.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, I I'm going after him when well, it's no
business of yours when anybody following me is likely to
run into.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Trouble from a shotgun, Trema.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I don't use a shotgun, Marshal.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Your partner's dying, Jeremo. You're wasting time, and he's dying.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
He's my partner, not yours. I'll take care of sure,
short Trema, but you're better hurry.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment, but first. Since nineteen ten, the
work output of each of us has more than doubles,
and the average annual income has gone from twenty four
hundred dollars a year to about four thousand dollars. Yet
about eighteen hours has been cut off the average work week.
These facts add up to the better we produce, the
(12:40):
better we live. Now, the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Chester had gone up all night, so I sent him
to bed and I hired a Kiawa Indian. I knew
to keep an eye on Jeremo, But even though his
partner was dying of ganggren from the bullet wound he'd
received at the stage hold up, Jeremo didn't leave Dodge
that day or the next. He knew i'd track him
to their hideout into the stolen money if he didn't,
(13:24):
and he wasn't the kind of a man who would
risk his own neck just to save his partner's life.
And since I had no real evidence yet, there was
no use of resting him, so all I could do
was wait.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
That Indian is a wonder to behold, mister Dillon. He
hasn't slept a wink in two whole days, and he
don't even look tired.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
No, but Jeremo looked tired the last time I saw him. Oh,
he's been sleeping regular, I know, but all this is
wearing him out just the same. And he's getting pretty spooky.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Well with what he's got on his conscience.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I better ask if he knows another kaiwa who can
spell him for a while. I think he's got a
cousin around here, somewhere.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
Oh, it makes my bones ache just to think about him.
Not sleep and tall Marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Uh I, I I got something to tell you. Oh
who are you?
Speaker 11 (14:20):
My name is Verd, but I'm nobody. Marshalls a cowboy.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
There's nothing wrong with being a.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
Cowboy, Verd. Sometimes there is. Like yesterday, I was the trouble.
I found a dead man, Marshall out on the prairie.
Howd he die?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Look to me like he got shot? That's why I
come to you. Did you bury him? No? No, I
wrapped a blanket around him though. Now where is the bird?
Not far from here, maybe fifteen miles yeah Chester, Yes, sir,
get our horses will ride out and have a look.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Yeah he's still there, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Nothing's been eating on him. You sure got itself? He
had died here.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
My need to wonder anybody ever found him?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Uh? Verred you you want to take the blanket.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Off of him?
Speaker 12 (15:36):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
How did you know? It'd been shot? Well? In his arm?
Had sold swole up Marshall? And then you see here.
I noticed that bullet hole in his sleep there. Yeah, well,
it looks like you've made yourself one thousand dollars. What
well Spargo offered it for this man that are alive.
(16:07):
He rapped the stage a few days back. He did, well,
lean I in luck, and there's another thousand for whoever
finds the money.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Still, it's probably buried around here some worders, don't you think,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hey, that reminds me. I noticed something funny.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Over there in the mandeels, like the ground getting dug
up Shaw's bird.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, sure, Marshall. But over here, wait there, see it right.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
There, right by that big one.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
Yeah, well, I declare, huh, By golly, I think he's right,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, there's something been buried here, all.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Right, yeah, I think I can see.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah there there it is there. I got it. He
look you there, Marshall. It's it's a money back, and
I found it, didn't.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
They shoot that dry d here?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Look at that.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
It's real money, all right, Marshall. I found it, so
I get the reward. When I did, I knew where
it was.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, you sure did. We dug up the rest of
the money and then made the hole into a grave,
and we buried the dead man right there. On the
way back to Dodge, I told Verd he could talk
(17:49):
all he wanted about finding the bandit's body and the
reward he'd collect for it, but that he wasn't to
say a word about the money we'd recovered. He couldn't
understand why, and I and explain it to him, but
I warned him he'd never get a penny of either
reward if he didn't do as I said. Back in town,
I didn't let him out of my sight for the
(18:11):
next two days. I figured it make Germo pretty worried,
and that's sure.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Did you know it's mighty good to get off of
that prairie just for change, I think.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It would be.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You don't come to town much, do you.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
I've never seen you around here before.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well, i've been too broke chest.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Well, it sure takes money to see the elephant in
Dodge nowadays.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'll be able to afford it soon enough. A ain't
that right, Marshall? It looks that way. D Yeah, you've
been mighty lucky so far. What do you mean so far? Nothing? Evening, Marshall. Hello,
Jamo h, this is hello.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Ponda band it for you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah. I was just s telling him how lucky he is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You know all that reward money thousand dollars, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah? Yeah, that's right. Is that all you're getting?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Mister?
Speaker 12 (19:15):
What do you what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Is that all? Well, there was more reward than that offered.
Oh you mean the stolen money? Or it's too bad
about that, wasn't it? Bird? We didn't. We didn't find
no stolen money. You didn't. I would looked everywhere. There's
been some digging thereby, but uh, there's nothing in the hole.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well, now what do you make of that? Just plain disappeared? Yeah, yeah,
looks out with it.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Well that's sure too bad, ain't it. But you can't
have all the money in the world, mister.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I ain't got all the money in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I'll see you later, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I like you told me. I didn't say nothing. You
did fine, Ford, just fine. When we left the saloon
a little later, I noticed Germo standing in the darkness
of the alley waiting. I was pretty sure he'd follow
(20:19):
us as we crossed the plaza and walk up Front Street.
When we reached Kelly's stable, verd wanted to go in
and see if his horse had been fed. So we
said good night and left him there Chester and I
walked on a little ways and we turned off the street.
(20:39):
We went back entered the stable. From the rear inside
we could hear voices, and we sneaked up from stall
to stall until we were close enough to make him out.
Tell me where the money is? What did you do
when they told you you're more? The Marshal's got we
(21:00):
dug it out your line?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Now who turned in two thousand dollars to collect one thousand?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You have stole it and hit it somewhere. No, I didn't,
I tell you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The Marshall hisself said there's been some digging nearby.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What do you do with it for?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Tell me before I kill you. No, No, listen a minute, German.
Look at when you didn't come back.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
I I figured you got caught, and then Charlie died
and I got scared.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And it always was a coward.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
That's why we left you in the bushes with a
rifle when we stopped to stay.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
No, that don't matter. But look at Germany. Don't you
see this way?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
We're both safe because I'll split both the rewards with you.
You know I you're lying and I'm gonna kill you
for it.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
No, don't.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You're next, Marsham, he should have had your shotgun.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
General, I should have killed you with the holder. That
was my big mistake. Now, if he'd a trusted verge,
you both could have got by with us. He was
telling me the truth, he was, and you'd never been
(22:31):
convicted on what evidence I had. Well, I guess it
remains entitled to make a few mistakes.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Mar So mm hm hm hm, General, Well you won't
make any more.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
Vic Perrin, John Dayner and Lawrence Dobkin, Harley bear Is Chester,
Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy join
(23:49):
us again next week as Matt Dylon Us Marshall fights
to bring law and order out of the wild violence
of the West in gun Smoke. This Monday Night. Frank
(24:13):
Lovejoy stars on CBS Radio. Suspense remember Monday Night, Frank
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