October 17, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, Deputy Gray, Yeah right, I've been assigned to the
Colburn shooting.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I got your telegram here.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, I have to ask you a favor. I got
a plane space of Parkinson, and I understand is a
bus to a place called Divide. But I can't find
any transportation into Blood River to meet.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You in Parkas. Oh good, I'm doing due to arrive
at four tomorrow afternoon. Say what about Colburn? Did he
make a statement?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh, he hadn't come to you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
If you want one, you better show some speed.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The dark says he may not last tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dalla, to
try State Life and Casualty Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following
is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the Blood
River matter.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Spence caried him on two hundred and.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Forty dollars transportation and interdepos.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Between Hartford and Parkinson.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I was paid at the airport and given a note
that directed me to Saint Paul's Hospital, where I was
met by Deputy Sheriff Tom Gray.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I brought Coburn in here this morning. I found some
blood into him.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I guess, nothing like a hospital out in Blood River.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Any improvement, Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Slug from a forty five four of him because me
and left him where he was moving him forty miles
didn't do him no good? And what did this insurance
company send you out.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
For just a routine check and the policy holder get
shot up. They like to know why and by whom?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How much insurance he had?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Fifty thousand dollars were? Oh? I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Does he go to Frank Colburn, his son and Mary
Colburn and a daughter?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Do you have any leads? Sure? Lee's Oh I got
what the haired girl said. I was there. I didn't
hear about it. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
She was a witnessed. She was in the kitchen that night.
Man knocked on the door, asked for some grub. Old
Coburn walked in and started to show him away and no,
man shot him down?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You got him? Oh? No, Yeah, but a posse's out hunting.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
We'll find it. Come on, operating rooms down this way.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Time.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Have you heard any years?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Uh? Not yet? Mary?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hello Frank, I didn't know you too were here.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, we came in as fast as we could. Now,
this is Dollar. He's from here, Pause insurance coming back east.
It's govern Frank who sent for you Dollar.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The insurance company was notified of the shooting. They asked
me to come out.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Why. I don't think this is the time to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's just the way they worked. Frank, I like to
look into things like this. Come on, Dollar in.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Here, Tom, Wait, can't we go into? The doctor told
us to wait here, But we've got a right to
go in if anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Here, well, I guess you have my right. But the
doctor probably thought it'd be easier for you this way.
If yeah, if something went wrong, you know, but it didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I want to be with you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I have a right to be all right, Mary, if
that's the way you want you two, Frank, I don't
see how it'll do anybody any good, but I'll.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Come the sun.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Frank was a huge man, well over six feetless high
heeled boots, but the figure on the operating table must
have towered over him during better days. I learned later
that Max Colburn was more than a man. He was
already a legend in the river section. But here, under
the intense glare of the battery of overhead lights and
under the proving instruments of the surgeon, Colburn was a
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great deal less than a man. Through the concealing sheets,
you could realize the disintegration of his body and.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
His massive head, skin, now.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Bloodless and drawn, had already taken on the aspects of
a skull.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I knew he'd never make a death of that statement.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
But we stood there and waited two hours for him
to die.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
As own nurse, jot down the time, please and notify
the car now, yes.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm married. Don't do that. He won't do no good?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What like to like to?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You'll be alright, Mary, Frank take her out of here
with you. I'm on, marry. Nothing anybody can do now.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Could have been me Duck had never brought him in,
Old Bull might have made it in the Blood River.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I'm sorry, Gray, he had to be moved. No facilities
a tall out there, that's your business. I guess it
would point blank range.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Multiple punctures of the stomach, single puncture of the right lung.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He had to be moved. H How do you do,
Johnny Doller? Doctor? Oh? I r M sorry?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Doctor Fulton, Uh mister dollars representing my insurance company?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How do you do? I'm sorry I couldn't save him. Dollar,
I know you did everything you could. Who was it
that shot him?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Not yet. I hope you'll find him. Max Coolburn with
a fine man. Yeah, the best.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And what are you gonna do now? Dollar?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Go to Blood River? And still not satisfied about this thing.
I'll put you up in my place. There's no hotel. Thanks,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, nice too, met your dollar.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Too bad.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
It couldn't have been under better circumstances.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
We should never have brought him in. He probably knew
what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Do you think he.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Shouldn't have been brought in? Why'd you let him? You're
supposed to be the sheriff out here. It's nothing I
could do to stop him, right, No, And there didn't
seem to be anything you could do before to stop
it either or not?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Calm down? How do he don't pay you to run
around with my sister?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If you'd been spending half the time on your job
that you do with her, this wouldn't have That's enough, right,
not shut up?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
If Mary don't know what's mostly your fault, I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Him he's a hot headed buzzard. Yeah, I noticed. Can
we make it the Blood River tonight? Yeah? We can
make it all right. Look, dollar, I want to tell
you something.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's a funny little place, only about three hundred people
on a day. I'm gonna like you button then, I
don't like strangers.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm used to that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay, as long as I told you, my jeep is
out on the back of the parking line. It was
only forty miles to the village of Blood River. That
took us until nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
To get there. Long before then I had begun to
feel the place.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It was at the foot of a range of mountains
that rose sheerly from a narrow, choked valley, and it
was the mountains that gave the feeling of oppression. In
the moonlight, they seemed to be leaning over the village,
ready to destroy it at any moment. Gray had comfortable
quarters in his cabin office. I slept fairly well, and
the next morning he drove me out to the to
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the Colburn range. Right away, up the only four hundred
acres now Colburn, you're still in the whole valley, his
hoping range up in the hills there. This is the
best fat in the raginal host.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
When you get away, Duke, that's all dangerous yet could be.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I guess he's the old man's dog. You know something's wrong,
but you don't know what that's right in the due boy,
now go away, go away, Come on, boy, well, come on,
we'll go up to the house. Hard girl be in
the kitchens. I'll cut it off, Duke. He's all right now,
shut up, will you. He don't see many people dressed
like you.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He's got nothing on me.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't see many dogs like him.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Melly.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's Tom Gray.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I don't want to talk about it no more.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I told you what.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I so happy.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Here's a man from back east.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Why you tell him what I think I.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Did, Mellie. But he wants to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'll see it all happen again. That's why I don't
want to talk about it, but I will if I
got to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Thanks, Milly. I'll make it short as I can.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Do stay.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, that's where it happened all. He's lying right there
this way with his head on the table.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, till the flugs hit the wall there?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Hey see the marks?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah? Was he lying face up?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's right, went over backwards shot from about here, I'd say,
is that right, Milly?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I don't know. I went in the sitting room when
I saw there was going to be trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
How much did you see?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I told Tom it was after supper and I was
clean enough. A stranger come to the door and said
he was stungry. I yelled to mister Colburn, I have
to ask him about things, and he started right away
to run him out. I said, a lot of strangers.
I never heard him at that way before.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Did it sound like he knew this stranger?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I couldn't tell. He started cussing at him, and I
run in the sitting room and held my hands over
my ears, still shooting.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Then I screamed, according to the description you gave, Sheriff Gray,
the man was short, stocky, with backhand, heavy eyebrows. How
can you remember anything else about him?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I can remember one thing more. He was wearing some
kind of a coat and a newspaper in one pocket.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Would you recognize him Againna, oh, yes.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'll never forget him. Where haven't you caught him?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Tom, We'll get him.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Did you see him after you heard the shots?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I run back in here and saw mister Colburn. Then
I run outside, screaming, Randy come out of the bunk house.
I didn't see the man.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's Randy Drew. He didn't see the stranger coming or going.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Colburn summoned, daughter, Where were they?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
They wasn't here. I don't know where Miss Colburn was,
but Frank mister Colburn wasn't home yet from riding sims.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Really, are you telling the truth? Yes, you aren't protecting anybody.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Of course, I ain't protect me anybody. Why should I
do anything like that? Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I only asked, Really, that's all I want to here?
Shore good enough? Thanks for the help. Really, the thank's
gonna storm. How old is she? H know? About twenty?
I guess a little work. She could be an attractive girl.
He's peculiar.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
She grew up outside but never quite did inside. How
does she get? Frankie get along pretty good? I guess
what are you driving at?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Sometimes?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That stranger's story sound was just a little too pat
Hold on, I take it that's the bunk house.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, I said, How could somebody kill.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Kober and then then get across all this open yard
before anyone ran out to check on the shooting?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I got shooting out here? Don't mean what it does
where you come from.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Folks here do a lot of shooting, Millie said. She screamed.
It's pretty dark here too. Mountains cut off for something
about four o'clock. Yeah, maybe so, I.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Told you we found a gun on a ditch near here.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
She said she had a newspaper in his bucket.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The gun was wrapped in one. When we found who's
this la It looks like Charlie Baxter.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah it is. He was in a posset.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
When he's steaming that horse about.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's a matter of Baxter.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We got to kill her. Fawn him a silver scar.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh well, god, where's he now?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Bringing him to your place.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's Elmer Bryce, he came back. You better get in
there right now. You stay on, bring Milly and she'll
have to identify muse the truck. Okay, let's get on
back to town.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Dollar. Who's Elma Bryce?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Used to be a hand here, just flunky kept the
rain string water choked the colt to death with both
old man Corban down there killed him. When was this, oh,
two years ago, you know, on thirty five years of
ranch and Elmer Bryce. Was the first time the old
man ever had the fire folks around here running right
out of the country. The thunderstorm swept in the mountains
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and began to drench the valley.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
During the trip back to the village.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Group of maybe a dozen curious for huddled and slickers
outside Gray's office waiting for a look at the prisoner.
He arrived by car went through the formalities of arrest.
A few minutes later, Colburn's hired girl walked into the
office and.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Faceted, that's him. He's the one you swear on a
bible Millot.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yes, I could never forget him.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Okay, you can go on back to the ranch. Thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I'm glad they caught you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Home.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
When they kill you, maybe I can sleep without seeing
it happen all over him.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That's enough, Melo. All right, well brush, you're under arrest.
Anything you say will.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Be used against you. I didn't kill him. You deny
being at the ranch.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was at your ranch, but I didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
What did you do? I was hungry or I could
get something to eat.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
He owed it to me.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I can't get work.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No place because he talked about me so much.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Nobody will hire me or account. The way he talked
wasn't my fault talk. He kept pulling rope gym Cobert.
He told people I was crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I did it perform.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I ain't right. What happened to the ranch? I asked
the girl for something deed. She called mister Colburn.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He come and cussed me out and told me to
get off his land. I left, well, he says, when
he cussed out to kill him.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I don't care why she shore kind of a gun?
Do you care?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I ain't got no gun, and you can't prove I
killed him for the number you didn't tell?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What say we want out our fight?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Why did you go to his ranch instead of some other?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Right told you?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Because he owed me what he.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Done to man?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Why don't you tell the truth? So and get on
with this. I didn't kill him. Get aheaded him. I
hate a lot of people. Listen to him. Oh is it?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Come in?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I got it past grade. Must be near to one
hundred out there now. They sent me in to say
they wanted Bright. Well, I can't have him. You know
how they feel about old man Colburn. They want his
killer for themselves. I didn't kill him.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Nobody can prove.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I think you've waited long enough. Sheriff. You better get this.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Man into a car and get out of here, all right,
Come on, tell your feet how to give you to him.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I don't care. Give me a hand dollar. Sure, faster
we move, the better.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Open the door back there, start out. We'll be right
behind you.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Kill me who right right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Go home?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Po manis in there.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You go home, Phil, you know better you.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Left of the God home?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, why get away right home?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You don't need no off, Crely I got.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Let me use your head. This whole door.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Lett stop.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
There was no stopping them.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I caught a last glimpse of Bryce's face as I
went down into the mud of the street, and there was
nothing but hundreds of crashing legs, carrying the mob and
their victim to a waiting truck.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Blood River was in the process of living up to
its nake.
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Speaker 2 (17:00):
Sheriff Gray had bad worse than I a boot heel attundon.
So it was fifteen minutes before we got underway and
the jeep we found Elma Price on the road to
the Coburn Ranch, hanging from the bridge. We give his
body back to the Sheriff's office and they're now silent village.
You gotta understand how they felt about Coburn before you
can begin to understand their actions.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'll never understand. I've never been part of them, and
either of either of they, but this is something special.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The old man is gonna break up the rest of
his land and parcel it out.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He's done at afore.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
He was loyal to the Blood River folk, and it
meant they could have the land of their own.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They could never afford it except the way he sold it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You're in a bad spot, aren't you. What are you
gonna do about this lynching? I'd like to call back
the last hour and a half, That's what I'd like
to do about it. Should have kept Bryce out of
Blood River, but I didn't know. These people are my friends,
I don't have to go into Parkinson. That's name as
many of them as as. So that's what you're paid
for wearing a badge.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yes, as long as he break. Is there anything I
can do?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And I think I better strap on a gun for
the first time since I got this job.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
See there on the desk to receipt I made out
when I took Bryce's personal things, I better have that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Is it there? Yeah? It's yeh, sheriff. Well what's this?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Who signed this? Charlie Maxwell? He signed cause Bryce couldn't write.
That's his ex just above. He couldn't write. No, he
wasn't much for brains.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You saw there.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
He couldn't write his own name. But he carried a
newspaper around with him. Why just to have it handy
for wrapping guns? Or did he learn to read without
learning to write. It's going to be a strange kind
of justice, Sheriff. If he was telling the truth and
your village killed an innocent man, those.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That go free will live with that for the rest
of their lives. I'll leave the jeep with you.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'll drive Maxwell's pick up in the Parkinson.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Thanks, Uh, there's some of my clothes and booching.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Where better get out of them? What ones? And just
take this advice.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Will you don't go throw on your weight around. It's
gonna send up crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Be careful. I'll be back after supper.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The single street was still silent and empty. When I
left the Colburn ranch. The mountains were closing in again.
There should have been lights in the windows of the houses.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
But instead they were dark, and I could feel.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
The eyes of the people who stood inside them watching
me pass. Finally, almost at the edge of town, a
lot of men stepped from a doorway and waved me
to a stop.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Where's Tom Gray? He went into Parkinson? What for to
report the lynching? Lynching? God that boys? He says, somebody strung.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Up the killer.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I don't believe it. What I hear he hung himself?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Good redness, Why are you trying this out on me?
I'm not here to arrest you. I couldn't if I
wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'm still looking the Max Colburn's much Bryce hung hisself.
He shouldn't have because he wasn't guilty. Who says that,
Sheriff Gray and I?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
There's nothing against them.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Your personal feelings and some circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
He's the one who've done it.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
He even said so, said why that he went to
the ranch first door? Why else would he do that?
He was hungry.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Now, come on, get out of my way. Who people
think the rest of the story will help you peace
of mind, and I'll try to get it for you.
But Bryce was innocent.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Think about that for the time being. Come on, move it, Ben,
I'm coming through.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I'm going Ben.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh, my boy, he can't hurt us. All right, boy, alright,
it's all right, come on, karah, good boy. Here here,
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it's all right. Yep. He's clothes belong to a friend
of yours.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Johnny Dollar is Culvern?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Oh it's a dollar Frank.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh yeah, come on in Dollar. Thanks. We heard about Bryce.
I'm sorry it went that way.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Any man, I don't care what he is has a.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Right to a trial. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Lynching is one of man's least pleasant habits, this one especially.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
It looks like Bryce was innocent, said he was the one.
There could have been a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Of things wrong with her statement. She didn't see it happened,
she only heard it. Somebody else could have taken advantage
of Bryce's visit and done the shooting.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Himself. I don't follow you.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
He did come out here, he admitted it, But I
don't think they killed your father.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
He hated him. Mary stopped that early hated him.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Everybody knew it for that, And Millie statement, who would
bother to look any further than poor dim witted Elma Bryce,
Shut up, Mally, go in the other room later a minute.
What's the matter with it?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
She's upset?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You killed him?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Shut up? You'd like that to be true, wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You said you would, You said you wouldn't you killed him.
I'm going to the sheriff. Don't try to stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
She's off her head like everybody else in this blasted hole.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Ye. Why should she have said that?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Because I lost my temper one night, told old man
he'd better blow his own brains out, for I did
it for him, because he forgot.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
How to think with him. When was that a couple
of weeks back?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Maybe I was hot enough to meet it at the time,
but I well, I cooled off.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I wouldn't kill my own paw. Well that goes your sister, Frank.
Sheriff Gray mentioned that he was going to sell the
rest of his land. Was that the cause of the subtle.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, he didn't care what happened to his kids. I
told him a lot of war talk. This was the
time to hang on to it, restock the herds, and
get ready to.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Make some money. Ranch is yours?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now, that's right, mine and Mary's Why were you when
your father was killed? I was riding fences up by
red mold.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Do you have anyone to prove that any witnesses? You
don't run into anybody up that way. That's our land, folks,
stay off it? What about it? Saying? What about it?
There's a lot stacked up against you. I know it.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You can depend on my sister, you and anybody else.
Wou'd like to string me up for it? What about Millie?
Was she in it with you?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
In it? Oh? Wait, don't get the wrong idea. I
didn't kill my pau.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's a lot stacked up against you, and there are
places to go. I don't like jails and courtrooms like
I'll just fade until it blows over.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's not the way. You won't make it. You're gonna
stop me. I'm being paid to see this thing cleaned up.
I'll have to trust get out of my way.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Dollar you said, down until the sheriff gets you. Get
away from the door. You're an outsider. It's none of
your affair. I got out of the way.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I said, get out of the way. What's this to you?
Stay where you are. You can't make me. I don't
want to have to kill you. He said, don't get up, Frankie.
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What do you want, Millie? What are you doing with
that gun?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
You've got to kill him, Frankie, get out of here.
He's got to for me.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Why?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Because I lied? I lied to everybody?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
What about about your paw?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Elmer Brice didn't kill him because I did. I killed
him for you. You told me that night you wish
he was dead. You remember that night? I remember, Milly,
and I told you I'd do anything for you. Remember
that anything.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I remember. I lied.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Elma Brice came, but I stayed in the kitchen and
heard everything he said. I knew he hated your paw,
and after he ran away, I thought about it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You're crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I waited for a while when I knew nobody saw
that man leave a year to your Paul again. When
he come in, I shot him that night. I threw
away the gun.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
What's the matter with you, Melly?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know what's the matter now? You can't run off
and leave me. You gotta heap.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I can't help you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
You gotta kill this me.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I won't do it, Milly.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Then you've got to take me away with you.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I'm not going away now. I don't have to. I
didn't have anything to do with it. This is n
for you and me, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Frank, Hey, get down, don't do it?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
All right? All right? I did it for him.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Nah.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I don't care what happens to me.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
As far as I was concerned, that was it. Frank
Coburn lost a lot of blood, but not his life,
and his sister still had to live at the ranch
with her ill tempered brother.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The highroad brought all this out was taken by the sheriff.
When I left Blood River. The state had moved in
to see what it could do about the lynching. But
what that is I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
The entire village was guilty of murder, and what could
anybody do about that? All I know is that the
original murder was not committed with the idea of insurance fraud,
and in spite of them, as I got into that's
what I was hired to learn. Expense account item two
same as Item one expense account total seven hundred and
forty dollars.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, Deputy Gray, Yeah right, I've been assigned to the
Colburn shooting.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I got your telegram here.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, I have to ask you a favor. I got
a plane space of Parkinson, and I understand is a
bus to a place called Divide. But I can't find
any transportation into Blood River to meet.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You in Parkas. Oh good, I'm doing due to arrive
at four tomorrow afternoon. Say what about Colburn? Did he
make a statement?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh, he hadn't come to you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
If you want one, you better show some speed.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The dark says he may not last tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dalla, to
try State Life and Casualty Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following
is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the Blood
River matter.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Spence caried him on two hundred and.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Forty dollars transportation and interdepos.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Between Hartford and Parkinson.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I was paid at the airport and given a note
that directed me to Saint Paul's Hospital, where I was
met by Deputy Sheriff Tom Gray.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I brought Coburn in here this morning. I found some
blood into him.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I guess, nothing like a hospital out in Blood River.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Any improvement, Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Slug from a forty five four of him because me
and left him where he was moving him forty miles
didn't do him no good? And what did this insurance
company send you out.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
For just a routine check and the policy holder get
shot up. They like to know why and by whom?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How much insurance he had?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Fifty thousand dollars were? Oh? I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Does he go to Frank Colburn, his son and Mary
Colburn and a daughter?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Do you have any leads? Sure? Lee's Oh I got
what the haired girl said. I was there. I didn't
hear about it. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
She was a witnessed. She was in the kitchen that night.
Man knocked on the door, asked for some grub. Old
Coburn walked in and started to show him away and no,
man shot him down?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You got him? Oh? No, Yeah, but a posse's out hunting.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
We'll find it. Come on, operating rooms down this way.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Time.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Have you heard any years?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Uh? Not yet? Mary?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hello Frank, I didn't know you too were here.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, we came in as fast as we could. Now,
this is Dollar. He's from here, Pause insurance coming back east.
It's govern Frank who sent for you Dollar.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The insurance company was notified of the shooting. They asked
me to come out.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Why. I don't think this is the time to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's just the way they worked. Frank, I like to
look into things like this. Come on, Dollar in.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Here, Tom, Wait, can't we go into? The doctor told
us to wait here, But we've got a right to
go in if anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Here, well, I guess you have my right. But the
doctor probably thought it'd be easier for you this way.
If yeah, if something went wrong, you know, but it didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I want to be with you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I have a right to be all right, Mary, if
that's the way you want you two, Frank, I don't
see how it'll do anybody any good, but I'll.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Come the sun.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Frank was a huge man, well over six feetless high
heeled boots, but the figure on the operating table must
have towered over him during better days. I learned later
that Max Colburn was more than a man. He was
already a legend in the river section. But here, under
the intense glare of the battery of overhead lights and
under the proving instruments of the surgeon, Colburn was a
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great deal less than a man. Through the concealing sheets,
you could realize the disintegration of his body and.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
His massive head, skin, now.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Bloodless and drawn, had already taken on the aspects of
a skull.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I knew he'd never make a death of that statement.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
But we stood there and waited two hours for him
to die.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
As own nurse, jot down the time, please and notify
the car now, yes.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm married. Don't do that. He won't do no good?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What like to like to?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You'll be alright, Mary, Frank take her out of here
with you. I'm on, marry. Nothing anybody can do now.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Could have been me Duck had never brought him in,
Old Bull might have made it in the Blood River.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I'm sorry, Gray, he had to be moved. No facilities
a tall out there, that's your business. I guess it
would point blank range.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Multiple punctures of the stomach, single puncture of the right lung.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He had to be moved. H How do you do,
Johnny Doller? Doctor? Oh? I r M sorry?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Doctor Fulton, Uh mister dollars representing my insurance company?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How do you do? I'm sorry I couldn't save him. Dollar,
I know you did everything you could. Who was it
that shot him?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Not yet. I hope you'll find him. Max Coolburn with
a fine man. Yeah, the best.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And what are you gonna do now? Dollar?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Go to Blood River? And still not satisfied about this thing.
I'll put you up in my place. There's no hotel. Thanks,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, nice too, met your dollar.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Too bad.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
It couldn't have been under better circumstances.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
We should never have brought him in. He probably knew
what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Do you think he.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Shouldn't have been brought in? Why'd you let him? You're
supposed to be the sheriff out here. It's nothing I
could do to stop him, right, No, And there didn't
seem to be anything you could do before to stop
it either or not?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Calm down? How do he don't pay you to run
around with my sister?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If you'd been spending half the time on your job
that you do with her, this wouldn't have That's enough, right,
not shut up?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
If Mary don't know what's mostly your fault, I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Him he's a hot headed buzzard. Yeah, I noticed. Can
we make it the Blood River tonight? Yeah? We can
make it all right. Look, dollar, I want to tell
you something.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's a funny little place, only about three hundred people
on a day. I'm gonna like you button then, I
don't like strangers.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm used to that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay, as long as I told you, my jeep is
out on the back of the parking line. It was
only forty miles to the village of Blood River. That
took us until nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
To get there. Long before then I had begun to
feel the place.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It was at the foot of a range of mountains
that rose sheerly from a narrow, choked valley, and it
was the mountains that gave the feeling of oppression. In
the moonlight, they seemed to be leaning over the village,
ready to destroy it at any moment. Gray had comfortable
quarters in his cabin office. I slept fairly well, and
the next morning he drove me out to the to
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the Colburn range. Right away, up the only four hundred
acres now Colburn, you're still in the whole valley, his
hoping range up in the hills there. This is the
best fat in the raginal host.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
When you get away, Duke, that's all dangerous yet could be.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I guess he's the old man's dog. You know something's wrong,
but you don't know what that's right in the due boy,
now go away, go away, Come on, boy, well, come on,
we'll go up to the house. Hard girl be in
the kitchens. I'll cut it off, Duke. He's all right now,
shut up, will you. He don't see many people dressed
like you.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He's got nothing on me.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't see many dogs like him.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Melly.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's Tom Gray.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I don't want to talk about it no more.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I told you what.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I so happy.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Here's a man from back east.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Why you tell him what I think I.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Did, Mellie. But he wants to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'll see it all happen again. That's why I don't
want to talk about it, but I will if I
got to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Thanks, Milly. I'll make it short as I can.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Do stay.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, that's where it happened all. He's lying right there
this way with his head on the table.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, till the flugs hit the wall there?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Hey see the marks?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah? Was he lying face up?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's right, went over backwards shot from about here, I'd say,
is that right, Milly?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I don't know. I went in the sitting room when
I saw there was going to be trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
How much did you see?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I told Tom it was after supper and I was
clean enough. A stranger come to the door and said
he was stungry. I yelled to mister Colburn, I have
to ask him about things, and he started right away
to run him out. I said, a lot of strangers.
I never heard him at that way before.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Did it sound like he knew this stranger?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I couldn't tell. He started cussing at him, and I
run in the sitting room and held my hands over
my ears, still shooting.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Then I screamed, according to the description you gave, Sheriff Gray,
the man was short, stocky, with backhand, heavy eyebrows. How
can you remember anything else about him?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I can remember one thing more. He was wearing some
kind of a coat and a newspaper in one pocket.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Would you recognize him Againna, oh, yes.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'll never forget him. Where haven't you caught him?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Tom, We'll get him.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Did you see him after you heard the shots?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I run back in here and saw mister Colburn. Then
I run outside, screaming, Randy come out of the bunk house.
I didn't see the man.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's Randy Drew. He didn't see the stranger coming or going.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Colburn summoned, daughter, Where were they?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
They wasn't here. I don't know where Miss Colburn was,
but Frank mister Colburn wasn't home yet from riding sims.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Really, are you telling the truth? Yes, you aren't protecting anybody.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Of course, I ain't protect me anybody. Why should I
do anything like that? Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I only asked, Really, that's all I want to here?
Shore good enough? Thanks for the help. Really, the thank's
gonna storm. How old is she? H know? About twenty?
I guess a little work. She could be an attractive girl.
He's peculiar.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
She grew up outside but never quite did inside. How
does she get? Frankie get along pretty good? I guess
what are you driving at?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Sometimes?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That stranger's story sound was just a little too pat
Hold on, I take it that's the bunk house.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, I said, How could somebody kill.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Kober and then then get across all this open yard
before anyone ran out to check on the shooting?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I got shooting out here? Don't mean what it does
where you come from.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Folks here do a lot of shooting, Millie said. She screamed.
It's pretty dark here too. Mountains cut off for something
about four o'clock. Yeah, maybe so, I.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Told you we found a gun on a ditch near here.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
She said she had a newspaper in his bucket.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The gun was wrapped in one. When we found who's
this la It looks like Charlie Baxter.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah it is. He was in a posset.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
When he's steaming that horse about.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's a matter of Baxter.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We got to kill her. Fawn him a silver scar.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh well, god, where's he now?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Bringing him to your place.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's Elmer Bryce, he came back. You better get in
there right now. You stay on, bring Milly and she'll
have to identify muse the truck. Okay, let's get on
back to town.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Dollar. Who's Elma Bryce?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Used to be a hand here, just flunky kept the
rain string water choked the colt to death with both
old man Corban down there killed him. When was this, oh,
two years ago, you know, on thirty five years of
ranch and Elmer Bryce. Was the first time the old
man ever had the fire folks around here running right
out of the country. The thunderstorm swept in the mountains
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and began to drench the valley.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
During the trip back to the village.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Group of maybe a dozen curious for huddled and slickers
outside Gray's office waiting for a look at the prisoner.
He arrived by car went through the formalities of arrest.
A few minutes later, Colburn's hired girl walked into the
office and.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Faceted, that's him. He's the one you swear on a
bible Millot.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yes, I could never forget him.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Okay, you can go on back to the ranch. Thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I'm glad they caught you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Home.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
When they kill you, maybe I can sleep without seeing
it happen all over him.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That's enough, Melo. All right, well brush, you're under arrest.
Anything you say will.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Be used against you. I didn't kill him. You deny
being at the ranch.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was at your ranch, but I didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
What did you do? I was hungry or I could
get something to eat.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
He owed it to me.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I can't get work.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No place because he talked about me so much.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Nobody will hire me or account. The way he talked
wasn't my fault talk. He kept pulling rope gym Cobert.
He told people I was crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I did it perform.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I ain't right. What happened to the ranch? I asked
the girl for something deed. She called mister Colburn.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He come and cussed me out and told me to
get off his land. I left, well, he says, when
he cussed out to kill him.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I don't care why she shore kind of a gun?
Do you care?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I ain't got no gun, and you can't prove I
killed him for the number you didn't tell?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What say we want out our fight?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Why did you go to his ranch instead of some other?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Right told you?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Because he owed me what he.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Done to man?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Why don't you tell the truth? So and get on
with this. I didn't kill him. Get aheaded him. I
hate a lot of people. Listen to him. Oh is it?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Come in?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I got it past grade. Must be near to one
hundred out there now. They sent me in to say
they wanted Bright. Well, I can't have him. You know
how they feel about old man Colburn. They want his
killer for themselves. I didn't kill him.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Nobody can prove.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I think you've waited long enough. Sheriff. You better get this.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Man into a car and get out of here, all right,
Come on, tell your feet how to give you to him.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I don't care. Give me a hand dollar. Sure, faster
we move, the better.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Open the door back there, start out. We'll be right
behind you.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Kill me who right right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Go home?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Po manis in there.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You go home, Phil, you know better you.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Left of the God home?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, why get away right home?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You don't need no off, Crely I got.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Let me use your head. This whole door.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Lett stop.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
There was no stopping them.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I caught a last glimpse of Bryce's face as I
went down into the mud of the street, and there was
nothing but hundreds of crashing legs, carrying the mob and
their victim to a waiting truck.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Blood River was in the process of living up to
its nake.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
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Speaker 2 (17:00):
Sheriff Gray had bad worse than I a boot heel attundon.
So it was fifteen minutes before we got underway and
the jeep we found Elma Price on the road to
the Coburn Ranch, hanging from the bridge. We give his
body back to the Sheriff's office and they're now silent village.
You gotta understand how they felt about Coburn before you
can begin to understand their actions.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'll never understand. I've never been part of them, and
either of either of they, but this is something special.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The old man is gonna break up the rest of
his land and parcel it out.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He's done at afore.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
He was loyal to the Blood River folk, and it
meant they could have the land of their own.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They could never afford it except the way he sold it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You're in a bad spot, aren't you. What are you
gonna do about this lynching? I'd like to call back
the last hour and a half, That's what I'd like
to do about it. Should have kept Bryce out of
Blood River, but I didn't know. These people are my friends,
I don't have to go into Parkinson. That's name as
many of them as as. So that's what you're paid
for wearing a badge.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yes, as long as he break. Is there anything I
can do?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And I think I better strap on a gun for
the first time since I got this job.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
See there on the desk to receipt I made out
when I took Bryce's personal things, I better have that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Is it there? Yeah? It's yeh, sheriff. Well what's this?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Who signed this? Charlie Maxwell? He signed cause Bryce couldn't write.
That's his ex just above. He couldn't write. No, he
wasn't much for brains.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You saw there.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
He couldn't write his own name. But he carried a
newspaper around with him. Why just to have it handy
for wrapping guns? Or did he learn to read without
learning to write. It's going to be a strange kind
of justice, Sheriff. If he was telling the truth and
your village killed an innocent man, those.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That go free will live with that for the rest
of their lives. I'll leave the jeep with you.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'll drive Maxwell's pick up in the Parkinson.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Thanks, Uh, there's some of my clothes and booching.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Where better get out of them? What ones? And just
take this advice.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Will you don't go throw on your weight around. It's
gonna send up crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Be careful. I'll be back after supper.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The single street was still silent and empty. When I
left the Colburn ranch. The mountains were closing in again.
There should have been lights in the windows of the houses.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
But instead they were dark, and I could feel.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
The eyes of the people who stood inside them watching
me pass. Finally, almost at the edge of town, a
lot of men stepped from a doorway and waved me
to a stop.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Where's Tom Gray? He went into Parkinson? What for to
report the lynching? Lynching? God that boys? He says, somebody strung.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Up the killer.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I don't believe it. What I hear he hung himself?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Good redness, Why are you trying this out on me?
I'm not here to arrest you. I couldn't if I
wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'm still looking the Max Colburn's much Bryce hung hisself.
He shouldn't have because he wasn't guilty. Who says that,
Sheriff Gray and I?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
There's nothing against them.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Your personal feelings and some circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
He's the one who've done it.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
He even said so, said why that he went to
the ranch first door? Why else would he do that?
He was hungry.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Now, come on, get out of my way. Who people
think the rest of the story will help you peace
of mind, and I'll try to get it for you.
But Bryce was innocent.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Think about that for the time being. Come on, move it, Ben,
I'm coming through.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I'm going Ben.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh, my boy, he can't hurt us. All right, boy, alright,
it's all right, come on, karah, good boy. Here here,
(20:55):
it's all right. Yep. He's clothes belong to a friend
of yours.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Johnny Dollar is Culvern?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Oh it's a dollar Frank.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh yeah, come on in Dollar. Thanks. We heard about Bryce.
I'm sorry it went that way.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Any man, I don't care what he is has a.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Right to a trial. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Lynching is one of man's least pleasant habits, this one especially.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
It looks like Bryce was innocent, said he was the one.
There could have been a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Of things wrong with her statement. She didn't see it happened,
she only heard it. Somebody else could have taken advantage
of Bryce's visit and done the shooting.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Himself. I don't follow you.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
He did come out here, he admitted it, But I
don't think they killed your father.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
He hated him. Mary stopped that early hated him.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Everybody knew it for that, And Millie statement, who would
bother to look any further than poor dim witted Elma Bryce,
Shut up, Mally, go in the other room later a minute.
What's the matter with it?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
She's upset?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You killed him?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Shut up? You'd like that to be true, wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You said you would, You said you wouldn't you killed him.
I'm going to the sheriff. Don't try to stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
She's off her head like everybody else in this blasted hole.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Ye. Why should she have said that?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Because I lost my temper one night, told old man
he'd better blow his own brains out, for I did
it for him, because he forgot.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
How to think with him. When was that a couple
of weeks back?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Maybe I was hot enough to meet it at the time,
but I well, I cooled off.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I wouldn't kill my own paw. Well that goes your sister, Frank.
Sheriff Gray mentioned that he was going to sell the
rest of his land. Was that the cause of the subtle.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, he didn't care what happened to his kids. I
told him a lot of war talk. This was the
time to hang on to it, restock the herds, and
get ready to.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Make some money. Ranch is yours?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now, that's right, mine and Mary's Why were you when
your father was killed? I was riding fences up by
red mold.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Do you have anyone to prove that any witnesses? You
don't run into anybody up that way. That's our land, folks,
stay off it? What about it? Saying? What about it?
There's a lot stacked up against you. I know it.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You can depend on my sister, you and anybody else.
Wou'd like to string me up for it? What about Millie?
Was she in it with you?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
In it? Oh? Wait, don't get the wrong idea. I
didn't kill my pau.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's a lot stacked up against you, and there are
places to go. I don't like jails and courtrooms like
I'll just fade until it blows over.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's not the way. You won't make it. You're gonna
stop me. I'm being paid to see this thing cleaned up.
I'll have to trust get out of my way.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Dollar you said, down until the sheriff gets you. Get
away from the door. You're an outsider. It's none of
your affair. I got out of the way.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I said, get out of the way. What's this to you?
Stay where you are. You can't make me. I don't
want to have to kill you. He said, don't get up, Frankie.
(24:16):
What do you want, Millie? What are you doing with
that gun?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
You've got to kill him, Frankie, get out of here.
He's got to for me.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Why?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Because I lied? I lied to everybody?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
What about about your paw?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Elmer Brice didn't kill him because I did. I killed
him for you. You told me that night you wish
he was dead. You remember that night? I remember, Milly,
and I told you I'd do anything for you. Remember
that anything.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I remember. I lied.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Elma Brice came, but I stayed in the kitchen and
heard everything he said. I knew he hated your paw,
and after he ran away, I thought about it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You're crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I waited for a while when I knew nobody saw
that man leave a year to your Paul again. When
he come in, I shot him that night. I threw
away the gun.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
What's the matter with you, Melly?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know what's the matter now? You can't run off
and leave me. You gotta heap.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I can't help you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
You gotta kill this me.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I won't do it, Milly.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Then you've got to take me away with you.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I'm not going away now. I don't have to. I
didn't have anything to do with it. This is n
for you and me, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Frank, Hey, get down, don't do it?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
All right? All right? I did it for him.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Nah.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I don't care what happens to me.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
As far as I was concerned, that was it. Frank
Coburn lost a lot of blood, but not his life,
and his sister still had to live at the ranch
with her ill tempered brother.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The highroad brought all this out was taken by the sheriff.
When I left Blood River. The state had moved in
to see what it could do about the lynching. But
what that is I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
The entire village was guilty of murder, and what could
anybody do about that? All I know is that the
original murder was not committed with the idea of insurance fraud,
and in spite of them, as I got into that's
what I was hired to learn. Expense account item two
same as Item one expense account total seven hundred and
forty dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
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starring in the Columbia Pictures production Colonel Have an Ocean
(27:41):
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Speaker 3 (28:16):
Of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
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