Speaker 1: High shill, a fiery horse with the speed of light,
a cloud of dust, and a hardy high old silver,
A lone ranger.
Speaker 2: And a contact.
Speaker 3: At some pastop and a factor and construct a.
Speaker 4: Stop stop stop doctor here, but have stop steps up,
stop stops at had stop stops table.
Speaker 5: A stop.
Speaker 6: Outlaws roamed the range country in the early days of
the Western United States, and even the local sheriffs and
judges were sometimes outlaws within the protection of the law.
It was then that the Mask Rider of the Plains
rode in the cause of justice. Ranchers and chief herders,
miners and storekeepers appealed to him for help, and no
honest man was ever disappointed.
Speaker 2: Return with us now to those thrilling days.
Speaker 6: When the West was young, from out of the past,
from the thundering hoof feats of the great horse Silver,
the lone ranger rides again.
Speaker 7: Com silver ton of waiting for us.
Speaker 2: On the trail heads Silver.
Speaker 6: The town of Springville, near the eastern border of Texas,
had experienced Indian uprisings and outlaw raged during the early
years of its history. Well at the time our story opens,
Indians and outlaws were a thing of the past, and
Springville was as peaceful as any New England village. It
was an unusual occurrence when anyone was arrested, and the
little courthouse was filled. On the morning Bill Stevens was
brought before Judge Ezra echoes.
Speaker 8: Quiet, we's here court room fiers hey, Well, judge, what's
the verdict?
Speaker 7: According to Law number two fourteen, section five, it's a
mister demeanor for any individual, except in the duly recognized lawman,
to carry any weapon concealed.
Speaker 5: By jumping juniper. My shooting iron wasn't concealed.
Speaker 9: A totagent plain sight on.
Speaker 7: The right hip comes under the head of concealed weapons
just the same. The law further states the penalty for
the same is not more than one hundred dollars fine
in ninety days in the jailer.
Speaker 5: Both, I never heard of no such law.
Speaker 7: Well, you're hearing of it now. How do you plead
guilty or otherwise? Huh did you total gun or did.
Speaker 5: You not gouish?
Speaker 7: Everyone knows a total one when you plead guilty? Well,
I lead otherwise and there's a law that'll Jane for perjury.
What's that lying on the witness stand while under row?
Speaker 10: Oh, things went along swell here, But you found that
dog on law book. Now, let's a blame many laws
a man can't turn without busting a half a dozen
guilty or not guilty?
Speaker 5: What you let me off?
Speaker 7: The cheapest your fines one hundred dollars from packing a gun.
If you can't pay, you can go to jail for
ninety days perjuri will cost you two hundred dollars.
Speaker 10: I reckon, I'll choose the other one hundred dollars fine
most every dad rat of dime I got.
Speaker 7: Pay for it over there, and the sheriff for give
you a receipt for it.
Speaker 10: Sir, there's your money blasted. Now all I got left
is ten bucks.
Speaker 5: Still got ten bucks. Eh, This town's getting worse all
the time. I don't know what does that last?
Speaker 7: From Mark Stevens, I says this blame town's getting worse
all the time.
Speaker 5: He still got ten dollars.
Speaker 7: Even as your fine ten dollars for contempt to quarrel?
What statue two eleven, section fourteen max looks here?
Speaker 10: Judge, I don't care about statutes and less sections. Just
tell me this, how much is this here gun worth?
Why you think I could raise enough on not to
pay the fine from lemon my tongue and tell them
what I think of this deal.
Speaker 7: Hello, hoort's dismiss Oh you better get.
Speaker 5: Out Stevens where you got the chance you might land
in the candy shit.
Speaker 7: All right, folks, hearts this miss all of your pay out.
Speaker 5: Well it worked charge.
Speaker 7: I told you it would, didn't I one hundred and
ten dollars.
Speaker 5: Let me see two in the one hundred and ten
makes uh fifty five dollars each.
Speaker 7: And we're just getting started, sheriff. Just get in started,
gosh with me to dig up laws that never were enforced,
and you to do the arresting, and me to find people.
We'll clean up.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 5: Sure was smarter you to think of this.
Speaker 7: It shows what an education will do. But I was thinking, yeah.
Speaker 8: After the day, it ain't likely any of the folks
in town or risk land of shooting irons, so I
won't have no chance to arresting them on that charge.
Speaker 7: Again, maybe not, but there'll be strangers in town.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I never thought of that.
Speaker 7: That is law. You see this book, Sheriff here, I've
been going through it carefully, and you'd be surprised at
the laws that have been passed in this town.
Speaker 5: And forgotten forgotten man.
Speaker 7: Fifteen years ago there was a law passed about hitching
horses on the main street.
Speaker 5: Shakes alive.
Speaker 7: That a new and on me, and it'll be new
to everyone else. Here's another saying that cows can't be
driven through towns, and there's a curfew law for the
young un But don't we have to.
Speaker 5: Make a report on the cash we take in from fines.
Speaker 7: Sheriff, You and me are going to take in money
so fast anything we report. Look all right, we've found
a scheme that will make us rich, rich, beyond our
wildest dreams.
Speaker 6: During the two weeks that followed, man after man was
arrested by the sheriff and find by the judge. The
town's people were indignant, but there was nothing they could do.
Then one day of the lone Ranger and his fateful
Indian companion Tonto, rode toward town.
Speaker 2: It's been a long time since we were in this
part of the country. Tunnel.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: We'll stop in town for supplies and head for the hills.
You will you see Colin? Yes, and the good looking herd.
Why him drive him off trail?
Speaker 5: That's Strames.
Speaker 11: He's taking those cows through town. It'd be easier to
follow the trail, right. He seems to want to circle.
Speaker 2: The town that bad ground.
Speaker 11: He's deliberately sending them off the trail over that swampy ground.
Speaker 2: Why him do that? We'll find us. Come on there,
s up scow.
Speaker 5: Last to get back off the train.
Speaker 2: Hello, there out is pager. That's hard going for your cattle, stranger,
you say, pay that mass if you're hand away from
your gun.
Speaker 10: I ain't got a gun, stranger, don't rob an unprotected man. Landsakes,
we can't pack guns when we're right at the mercy
of men like I'm not going.
Speaker 2: To rob you, but the mask, so you know what's
answer to it. You'll need help with that hurt.
Speaker 5: I need a lot thanks to the way they're doing
things in town.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, dog gone?
Speaker 5: Look at those critters.
Speaker 10: The minute I stopped this tart grazing. It would weren't
for them laws. I could take them through the town
and save going around this ground. That's interesting fact is
if it weren't for the laws, I wouldn't have to
sell them in the first place.
Speaker 2: Why is that?
Speaker 5: A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 10: Got arrested for lugging a shooting iron and find of
all my cash money. Then a couple of days later
I was fine for saff in the sheriff, and now
to sell them a gun to.
Speaker 5: Pay the fine, and you couldn't carry it anyhow.
Speaker 10: Then I got fined for taking cows along the main
street of the town, which same is the only street.
And now I gotta sell these critters to pay that fine. Chucks,
if I got fined for taking these through town, I'd
land in the calibers for sure, on account I can't
raise no more cash.
Speaker 2: They seem to be money strains laws for a cowtown.
Speaker 5: There's strange loss for any town.
Speaker 10: Trouble is, they was made when we had blame fool
committee running a town a few years back. Neats of
the committee wanted to make as many laws as the
others on that same committee. I see stranger takes some
advice from me. Don't you show yourself with that mask
in them two guns by thunder? They'd find laws to
take all your cash, no matter how much you had.
Speaker 2: We'll help you get to hurt.
Speaker 11: Around the town. I want to hear more about these
laws and their enforcements.
Speaker 5: Well, I can tell your plenty of from my own experience.
Get up, Get on there, Get up there.
Speaker 11: Instead of going into town, we'll camp outside when we
finished helping this man.
Speaker 2: Mmm. I'm good.
Speaker 5: It seems to me a situation in.
Speaker 2: Town that we can do something about.
Speaker 5: Come on, get.
Speaker 2: How the after we've eaten, I want you to go
into town.
Speaker 5: Want me do there?
Speaker 11: Perhaps go to jail? Mmm, take some money along with it. Oh,
go to cafe, any place where it'll be noticed that
you have cash.
Speaker 3: Mm me do that.
Speaker 11: You might buy some food and pay it for it
for a fairly large coin, a gold coin. See how
long it takes for the sheriff to find some law
on which you can be arrested. Mmm mmm, I'm bacon
ready very well? Waylie, and then you can get started.
If you're arrested, refuse to pay the fine and let
them send you to jail.
Speaker 2: You've got scheme. Perhaps i'd have.
Speaker 11: Things are as Bill Stephens said. There are two men
in that town who need a lesson than that, right,
and we'll do our best to give it to them.
Speaker 9: There's the vitals you wanted packed up, red skin.
Speaker 5: Let me see the color your money here money, here's
the second I don't put in bartender. I've been waiting
to see if he'd have cash for that drug. Whose
gold is that it?
Speaker 2: Mine?
Speaker 8: Looks down right suspicious, got any more than gold pieces?
Speaker 7: Now look here, chef, you ain't a bartender.
Speaker 5: You want me to arrest you for something? Oh no,
I ain't said nothing. We'll see to it that you
don't I know that engine? Where's your gun? Me?
Speaker 2: Not gun? Gun?
Speaker 5: Walk? No gun?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: Hmm too bad? Let me see. Oh that's your horse
tired ride at the hitch track outside?
Speaker 7: Ain't it?
Speaker 5: Didn't you know? It's again the lad to hit your
horse on the main street.
Speaker 2: That's not my horse?
Speaker 5: Mean walked to town? Uh you mean to say with
all that cash, ain't got no horse?
Speaker 2: Me? No, got him here, barkeeper?
Speaker 5: You grinning me? Oh, serie engine.
Speaker 8: It's a downright serious crime in this town for engines
to use the back of your liquor.
Speaker 5: Now you got a pipe?
Speaker 2: Me not use pipe?
Speaker 8: You don't smoke, don't shawl? Well answer up, don't shake
your head like that.
Speaker 5: A sheriff. I got the right to the man.
Speaker 2: Verbal answers mean not used tobaccer o.
Speaker 5: Innginine.
Speaker 9: Have you heard about this year in town?
Speaker 2: Mumm meet here all about town?
Speaker 5: Well, stand right there, don't you go away?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: I gotta give a look at the judge's book.
Speaker 9: Let me see law proteamed injin.
Speaker 5: Hey, reckon, I better give you a change for this
gold piece engine. Here, hold on, engine, you're under arrest.
Speaker 7: He's found something.
Speaker 8: Didn't you know that it was a given the law
for redskins to come to town without first reporting to
the sheriff's office.
Speaker 7: No, that settles it.
Speaker 5: Well, not knowing? No, hain't no excuse for mustering it.
You're under arrest. What about my cash for them? Vidis
ain't rightly you'll need them? Let's he can pay the fine.
The judge will meet out put them back in the kitchen.
The lattery's tribe.
Speaker 7: I never heard of that laws, heriff.
Speaker 5: It's a all the town council passed right after the
engine trouble.
Speaker 7: That was thirty years ago.
Speaker 8: The law ain't like a human being, bartender. No matter
how old it gets, it never loses its teeth. Golly,
I'm getting near the smart is the judge?
Speaker 2: What law say?
Speaker 8: It says no engine can come to town without firsty
reports to the sheriff's office. Now, what's the sense in
that plenty. It's so a whole parcel of redskins can't
come into town and massacres in our beds.
Speaker 7: This redskins the first I've seen in a month.
Speaker 5: Don't figure head scaled the whole town?
Speaker 8: Do you take my job to criticize the law? I
got enough to do, see and it's obeyed. Come along, engine,
we're calling on the judge.
Speaker 7: Mean, come watch out, Redskin.
Speaker 9: Judge will take your eye teeth if you open your mouth.
Speaker 5: Why you be careful by a tender ile.
Speaker 8: Holdy up before the judge for declamation of character or
something O the stoor. Engine, just to step over the courthouse.
Judge is there all right. I can see him through
the window that court. Hunt, Just go up the steps inside?
Speaker 5: Cold. Do you no good to try to get away?
Neither me not try and get away, Judge, Come in
the sheriff. Go ahead, Engine, Judge, I brung you another lawbreaker.
Speaker 7: Ah, but this one do sheriff.
Speaker 8: He didn't report to my offer like law says he should.
This is it right here in black and white?
Speaker 7: Ah, that's mighty serious, Redskin. Of course you're guilty.
Speaker 5: EATA.
Speaker 7: Then the final will be maybe about fifty dollars, Yes,
fifty dollars or thirty days in jail.
Speaker 5: Me not?
Speaker 2: Hey, fine, what's that me? Take thirty days?
Speaker 7: Then thirty days you'll get Jayleen sheriff.
Speaker 5: Right, reckon, he will change his mind after a few
days in jail. Who is that? Sounded like a stranger
to me?
Speaker 7: Stranger Ray, Well, if you find him, arrest him for
this term in the peace.
Speaker 6: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permot us
to pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 2: Now too, continue our story.
Speaker 6: On the evening of the day at Tauntal was arrested
and jailed, Bill Stevens, the judge's first victim, was talking
to the bartender in the cafe.
Speaker 7: Yes, Sir Bill, that engine wasn't doing anything at all.
Speaker 9: The sheriff he up and jel them like he'd shot up.
Speaker 5: The town, lasted crook him in the judge bulls. I
was the first one they got, and they've find me
three times since.
Speaker 10: It's getting Susan fellow has to be a lawyer to
know if it's legal to go to bed at night,
and if I found out it was, it'd probably be
jailed for waking up in the morning.
Speaker 7: Hones's Bill, I never heard us so many fool laws.
Speaker 5: You can't do this, and you can't do that, but
you never find out what I can't do after you've
done it, and then it costs you cash for education.
Speaker 7: I'd like to meet up with them crooked some dark
night and I can't.
Speaker 5: What the deep and cats shout.
Speaker 7: Out, law.
Speaker 5: Mister, I'll be fine for talking to a mass man
with guns.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 5: Don't shoot this mischief.
Speaker 2: No one will be hurt.
Speaker 5: What do you want to talk to me for?
Speaker 2: I want you to help Bill stand back. Everyone's coming
my help. Bill. The sharef and the judge have cost
you money.
Speaker 5: They've cost me more than I could spare.
Speaker 2: Did you like to get it back back?
Speaker 5: Shucks, ain't a chance of that.
Speaker 2: Come outside and I'll show you that there is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Come, I'll go, stranger. I learned to like your style.
Speaker 6: The mask man talked to Bill and explained his plan.
The rancher smiled for the first time in days and
returned to the cafe. Then the lone ranger called on
another leading citizen of the town.
Speaker 2: Stay here, Old jay, I want to speak to you.
Open the door.
Speaker 11: Look it, what do you I'm not not Laake Stephens
gave me your name. You will be glad to hear
what I have to say.
Speaker 2: Then you'll do it.
Speaker 11: Hank Jake said, I could count on it, Stranger, you
can bank on meat to the finished Tell.
Speaker 2: Everyone you know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, if we act together, we'll make the sheriff and
the judge sorry. They found those old laws.
Speaker 6: The long Rangers plans spread by word of mouth and
changed the mood of all the townspeople. The sheriff discovered
the change on the following day when Bill Stephens brought
up the main street to the cafe.
Speaker 5: Well, i'll be even what's here? Your chef say, right
where you are, you'll walk.
Speaker 9: Head up, sheriff eat something that don't set well?
Speaker 5: Breaking the log again? Huh. I thought i'd learned you.
You're less than before. What lesson not to pack a
gun in town? Well, I've paid my fine, so I
figured it'd be all right now. Besides, this here's an
ode the date mine. I just borrowed it.
Speaker 2: You did.
Speaker 5: I'll get off that horse. Anything you say, sheeff, what
do you aim to do? Let the judge deal with you,
all right. If I gotta see him, I gotta let's
get it over with. You walk ahead of me. I
thought you'd put something over on me. Huh oh, I
don't know, but you didn't. Anytime you get ahead of me,
you'll have to get up mighty early in the morning.
You've got eyes like a hawk, sure enough, and it
I'd pay you not to forget it. Next time. Maybe
you'll have something to remember too. Yeah, that sounds like
a freck to me. Well, Judge, I brought to Bill
Stevens again.
Speaker 7: Well, well, yea, if I'm back, judge, you're the most
regular lawbreaker in these parts.
Speaker 5: The sheriff arrested me for wearing this here gun mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Now let me see fourth time you've been here a
steedens Uh huh.
Speaker 5: That ought to cost more oughton to judge.
Speaker 7: If we keep things on a legal basis, it should
two hundred dollars in costs.
Speaker 5: That's the fine, yep.
Speaker 7: And you've got to pay even if you have to
mortgage your ranch. It's either that or ninety days in
the jailhouse.
Speaker 5: Let's get gone. Shaff uh. You fellas have every last penny.
I'd saved this time.
Speaker 7: I'm going to jail you. You haven't got two hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: That's what I said in it.
Speaker 7: Hmmm, well, stretching the points, Steedens, might I might make
it less if you could pay it.
Speaker 5: Nope, I'll be lenient.
Speaker 7: How about a fifty dollars fine.
Speaker 5: Not a penny? What do you offer? I said, not
a penny, and that's what I meant.
Speaker 7: Steedens, you're a lawbreaker of the worst kind, a callous criminal.
It's ninety days for you, and you can start serving
them now, Sheriff, take the personal away.
Speaker 6: As soon as Bill was jailed, the sound of cattle
was heard outside, and the sheriff ran from the courthouse
watch that.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll be kay HeLa, kay, oh.
Speaker 2: Your folly, Sheriff.
Speaker 5: Don't you know better than to bring them critics to town?
Speaker 2: Share my dream for good? Forgot, but now you remind me.
Speaker 11: It seems that there was something said about that once
before it cost you two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna arrest me this time?
Speaker 5: Are your share you trying to make an officer of
all forgive's duty?
Speaker 2: Of course not, but it seems kind of hard being
arrested just for a bad memory.
Speaker 8: Can't We will fix that memory of yours right now.
Drive them critics to the corrals. Then get back here
as fast as you can and see if the judge
will listen to your excuse us.
Speaker 6: Jake, like Toto and Bill, refused to pay a fine
and went to jail. In the days that followed, men
were brought in with the dozens, and they all chose
jail rather than pay a fine. The sheriff was worried
when they locked the door of a cell or hang.
Speaker 7: On a home.
Speaker 8: Recognis you, Hank, I'm satisfied if you are her hate
standing hell tellers.
Speaker 5: Sure we ain't getting.
Speaker 9: Enough club, we ain't getting good enough.
Speaker 5: Rup.
Speaker 9: It's your duty to vetus and jail and you ain't doing.
Speaker 5: Shut out back to you.
Speaker 9: He want more crabb.
Speaker 5: Last if you even more than you're worth. Right now,
I wish I had never seen one of you.
Speaker 9: Now keep quiet.
Speaker 6: With the shouts of the prisoners ringing in his ears,
the sheriff hurried to the courthouse. He found Judge Echoes
in a bad temper.
Speaker 5: Well, what's the matter, Judge, Something's gotta be done.
Speaker 8: Yes, if I arrest one more fellow, the jail will
be a during crowded ittle best.
Speaker 7: That's your fault, my fault. If you can arrest men
who are willing to pay cash, don't come running to me.
Speaker 5: But look here, Judge, this was your scheme.
Speaker 7: You thought it all up, and it made us a
pile of money.
Speaker 5: Well it ain't no more.
Speaker 7: I know that as well as you do your fool
I'm here crazy.
Speaker 5: Have you got any idea how much it's cost him
to keep them stubborn?
Speaker 7: Maverick's locked down? I should say, I have you come
to be for cash often enough?
Speaker 8: I reckon you figure you ought to give half what
we take in and let me pay all expenses.
Speaker 7: I've been paying my share, Sheriff.
Speaker 8: Well, if them fellows stay in jail another week, I'm
gonna be flatbusted.
Speaker 12: Maggie, Nate, I want to talk to him now, her Man,
don't hone him neither, Nate. I'm here to say just
one thing. You can get somebody else to cook for
them prisoners of yours, or you can get yourself another wife.
Speaker 5: Now, Maggie, don't you magging me?
Speaker 9: Judge?
Speaker 12: Is your scheme to do this? And I'm worn to
a frazzle. I'd rather cook for a gang of cow
hands than for them fellas in your jail.
Speaker 5: But I couldn't help it.
Speaker 12: Maybe you couldn't, but you're gonna stop it now.
Speaker 7: Wait, I'll handle this.
Speaker 5: What can you do?
Speaker 7: You two follow me. I'm going to the jail house
and talk to your prisoners.
Speaker 12: This is about time somebody done something about this here mess.
You too stirred up.
Speaker 7: I let them all out, left them out. It's the
only thing we can do. We'll still clear a little
money if we get with him right now, Sheriff.
Speaker 5: Here, that's right.
Speaker 12: You'll settle this whether you're clear any money or not.
Speaker 7: There yelling our heads off, must you see you come
and judge? Well, when I get them out, I don't
care if you will never make another arrest.
Speaker 9: Herself. Oh try those peches at a judge.
Speaker 7: We wore our Now listen to me, keep quiet and
let me speak. I've talked things over the sheriff, and
we've decided that you men have been punished enough. We
are going to let you out.
Speaker 9: We ain't even John. You'll put us here and we
had to serve out our terms as law abiding citizens.
Ain't that's home, man.
Speaker 7: But we let you go free. We let you free.
Of fine, you gotta get out here.
Speaker 9: Why, fellas, we got a right to stay in jail,
and we're gonna do that, says Chabra, for us to
stay here than any place else.
Speaker 5: We know what are we gonna do? I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Ain't tell you what you can do?
Speaker 9: Judge a mask man, he's a crook. Don't you care?
Speaker 5: Arrested? I wouldn't kill.
Speaker 9: Another fellow if he robbed the baby.
Speaker 2: You and the judge we're trying to rub the people
in this town.
Speaker 11: He's took advantage of old laws to put money into
your own pockets.
Speaker 5: Listen, mister mask man, they can do what they durn
please if they'll only go now.
Speaker 2: They'll leave if you do what I say?
Speaker 11: What's that return all the fines you took from them
and resign from office.
Speaker 5: But guysh you can't wait.
Speaker 12: You do what this last coello count?
Speaker 2: But take up your minds?
Speaker 7: Are you sure they leave? What are you saying? Man?
Speaker 5: Everybody, it'll take every penny we got.
Speaker 2: Turney, you're lucky to be out of jail yourself.
Speaker 8: I reckon, there ain't nothing to do but say yes.
Then I'll do what you say. Mister, And you Judge,
it looks like I'll have to very well.
Speaker 2: I'm locked this door and let these men out.
Speaker 5: They can't leave any jo soon to please me, come too.
Speaker 2: You're plan plenty good.
Speaker 9: Hey, don't go yet. We thank you for what you've done.
Speaker 7: That's a necessary bill here.
Speaker 11: If you don't pay back the money you've taken, tell
them and I will return and see that you do.
Speaker 5: Guys, judge, why did you have to think of them laws? Anyhow?
Speaker 7: Don't you ever mention laws or jails are fine? To
me again? How they're opening them jail doors?
Speaker 5: Will I get the cash together?
Speaker 7: Come on, Silver to Hudson, me for help, pose way.
Speaker 2: For us high silver.
Speaker 4: Stop stops up, step.
Speaker 3: Up, step up, step stop at.
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of The Lone Ranger, Incorporated.