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Speaker 1: Slaughter's my name, Luke Slutter. Cattle's my business. It's a

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tough business, it's big business. I got a big steake

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in it, and there's no man west of the Rio

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Grand big enough to take it from me.

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Speaker 2: Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. Civil War

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cavalryman turned Arizona cattleman. Across the territory from Yuma to

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Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Wachucas, and below the

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border through Chihaha and Sonara. His name was respected or feared,

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depending on which side of the law you were on.

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Man of vision, man of legend, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone.

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Speaker 1: Like a violent storm or an earthquake, you could feel

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a lynching coming on long before it arrives. And there

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was lynch in the air that afternoon in Tombstone. Well,

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a few chants.

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Speaker 3: He's so uncommon, concerned over a few rustlers.

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Speaker 4: Why don't you catch.

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Speaker 1: Them same as I do? Tell us something, afternoon, Slaughter.

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Speaker 3: I got me one in jail right now. My boys

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picked him up red handed last night.

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Speaker 1: You wanted to see me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we may be in for trouble.

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Speaker 3: Listen, there's only one thing good enough for rustlers, I say,

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and that's hanging. I caught me one, and that's what's

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gonna happen to him. Mccardoye, we're looking here, two stalwarts

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of the Cattleman's Association. Huge Gent's gonna come around to

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the courthouse and see the fun.

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Speaker 1: What fun, mccondal, what fun?

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Speaker 5: Why ain't you heard?

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Speaker 3: My wranglers caught a rustler on my spread last night,

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caught him red handed, butcher in the yearland.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna hang him this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: It's not up to the judge.

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Speaker 3: A judge, why this is a plane case out, not

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a law breaking and I aim to see justice done.

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Speaker 1: When is the trial the trial?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the trial is gonna be a two o'clock

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and all you chances invited.

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Speaker 1: Come on, everybody, let's go to.

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Speaker 4: See what I mean slaughter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do something. We'd better go to the courthouse.

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You see to it that McCardle doesn't do something, we'll

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all have to answer for.

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Speaker 5: The carts will now come to order.

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Speaker 7: The deputy bring in the prisoner.

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Speaker 1: Say sudden, what is it? Slaughterer? I think I know

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that man?

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Speaker 4: What's your name?

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Speaker 5: Yancy Bell?

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Speaker 1: I do know him?

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Speaker 4: You know the charge, cattle Russell.

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Speaker 8: How do you plead guilty or not guilty?

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Speaker 5: Neither one? Well, you gotta plead one or the other. Well,

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I don't who's the plaintiff in this case?

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Speaker 1: Why you know, dang?

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Speaker 3: Well, I am judge, and he pleached Killee. My man

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caught him butcher in a yearling with my brand on

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it my property.

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Speaker 4: Now, come on, let's.

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Speaker 1: Get this over with.

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Speaker 3: Hold your horses, mccondlery, hold no horses. You make your decisions,

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horse law a biden. People can string this home up, Hurler.

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Speaker 8: Man, man's entitled to a fair trial.

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Speaker 3: He's getting it not Come on say it your honor, slaughter.

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Speaker 1: You stay out of this, your honor. I know this man. Hello, Luke,

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Luke slaughter. It's been a long time since Vicksburg I recognized,

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even without the cavalry uniform. What is this? I'll tell

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you what it is, McCardle. This man and I soldiered

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together in the Illinois Cavalry during the war. Unless he's

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changed a lot since those days, he's not a thief.

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Speaker 6: You're button into my business.

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Speaker 3: Laughter.

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Speaker 1: This is a public trial, mccardal, and I'm taking on

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the job of this man's attorney any objections, your honor?

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Speaker 7: Why no?

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Speaker 1: I tell the court Yancy, did you butcher that yearling?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Yes I did? Why because because I was hungry. I

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don't know this part of the country, and I didn't

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know if us are close to town?

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Speaker 1: You intend to pay for it?

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Speaker 5: I would have if there'd been anybody to pay.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any money?

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Speaker 5: I had five hundred dollars Mexican until last night.

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Speaker 1: What happened to it?

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Speaker 5: The men who jumped me took it?

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Speaker 1: Lie? That's a lie, a lie.

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Speaker 3: You're going to take the word of a stranger against my.

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Speaker 1: Man being a stranger. It doesn't make him a liar.

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He's not a stranger to me. McCardel. Now what do

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you figure that yealing was worth? What's that got to

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do with it? I'm going to pay for it and

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request the court to release the accused fifteen dollars that

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i'll of coverage.

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Speaker 5: You can't do that.

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Speaker 1: I am doing it if the court so pleases.

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Speaker 7: Well, well, yes, under the circumstances restitution having been made

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and motive explained.

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Speaker 3: Why are you going to let this Stephen Rustler go?

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes I am.

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Speaker 3: I put you on that bench and I'm going to

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take you off of it.

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Speaker 1: You can't get away within.

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Speaker 8: This is a court of law, mister McCardle, you cannot

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intimidate the bench with throats case dismissing.

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Speaker 1: Why you.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Luke, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm staying down at the San Jose House, Yancy. Let's

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get your stuff and go down there so we can

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talk in private. You'll pay for this slaughter. I already

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have fifteen dollars. Come on, Yancy, this feels good.

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Speaker 5: I haven't been on a bed and over two weeks.

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Speaker 1: You weren't on a bed for two years during the war.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. You realize it's been nearly fifteen years.

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Speaker 1: The kids on, Yancy, greenhorned kids you've been doing since.

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Speaker 5: Went east for a while New York McDonald's too much

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for me though. Finally went home to Quincy a couple

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of years back and I got married.

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Speaker 1: That too much for you too.

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Speaker 5: She died six months ago in childbirth. Kid died too.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yensie.

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Speaker 5: So that's why I come out here starting all over again.

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You might call it, how about you.

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Speaker 1: Luke O Cattle's been my business since the war. Kansas,

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Texas tombstone.

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Speaker 5: You must be mighty big in these parts. That was

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quite a show you put on in the courtroom.

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Speaker 1: Now you were getting a raw deal.

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Speaker 5: You mind if I take my boots off. Peter kind

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of swelled in.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and stretch out. You welcomed anything I've got

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to you get organized, and that's money.

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Speaker 5: Nice of you, Luke, especially since I've been cleaned.

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Speaker 1: That's at least I could do. I remember a sniper

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one about four weeks into the siege of Vicksburg, and

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what you did about him. That's long ago, Luke.

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Speaker 5: Forget it.

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Speaker 1: Man doesn't forget things like that. You've lost a spur.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, those Jaspers weren't very polite when they jumped me

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last night.

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Speaker 1: Took five hundred Mexican silver.

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Speaker 6: Huh yep.

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Speaker 5: I aim to get it back, though.

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Speaker 1: Well I'll handle that for you. You just take it easy.

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I had some work to do over at the Cattle

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Association office. And see you aren't leaving anything out on

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this yelling butchering? Are you?

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Speaker 5: When I get ready to lie to you, I'll let

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you know in advance, Luke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well you'll get some rest. I'll be back about

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supper time. Hold it.

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Speaker 4: Something was just closing the office.

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Speaker 1: Well, i'll close up later. I want to check on

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the bills of sale on that last herd I brought

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up from Texas.

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Speaker 4: All right, See, that was quite a stunt you pulled

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in court today.

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Speaker 1: Well, the way I figured it, Yancy Bell was being railroaded.

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I would have stopped that even if I didn't know him.

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Speaker 4: Some of the boys thought you was taking a little

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too much into your own hands.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that just what mccardinal was trying to do?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I suppose. So how do you know he's innocent?

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Speaker 1: He says, so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, thank our town feedback. See you later.

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Speaker 1: It's along sudden, Slater, He's s wake up, wake up

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cool something. I must have dozed up. See what time

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is it? Anyway time it's almost eight o'clock. I forgot

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all about Suffer.

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Speaker 4: Slaughter, listen to me.

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Speaker 1: What are you so all fired upset about that?

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Speaker 5: There's been a.

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Speaker 4: Shooting at the crab Tree livery stable right next to

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the San Jose house where you're staying.

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Speaker 1: Shot Drake mccordal.

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Speaker 2: In a moment, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns a trio

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of rough and ready prospectors make trouble for our frontier

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gentleman JB. Kendall in his next dramatic exploit on CBS Radio.

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The trouble starts when a young hitchhiker whom Kendle is

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picked up, discovers gold. For more Western thrills, stay with

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us on CBS Radio right after Luke Slaughter, as most

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of these same stations bring you another exciting adventure with

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our frontier gentleman, and now Act two of William and

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Robeson's production of Luke Slaughter of Tombstone.

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Speaker 1: Let me through, Hello Slaughter, Hello, serf, I've been wondering

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if you'd show up, let me see your gun? What for?

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Speaker 6: Excuse to me? You'd know the answer to that. There

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was bad blood, Queen McCardle, and you wasn't it here?

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Speaker 1: Look at it? Uh huh. It ain't been fired all

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It's been cleaned awful fast. That gun hasn't been out

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of its holster all day.

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Speaker 6: All right, now you know anything about this?

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Speaker 1: I only heard about it five minutes ago, Serf? When

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did that happen? About an hour ago? Where's the body

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inside the livery stable there said? Where it happened?

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Speaker 6: You're asking an awful lot of questions, Slaughter, now, let's

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get one thing straight, Serff, I as interested in who

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committed this murder as you are, maybe even more so.

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Speaker 1: If I get him before you do, I'll turn him

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over to you.

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Speaker 6: All right, all right, Why you cattleman can't leave things

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to the letter? That happened right here in the alley

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in front of the livery stable. Anybody say it? Jack Crabtree,

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the owner of the stable, did Jack, Yeah, yeah, sir,

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You commanres Gent wants to know what you've seen?

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Speaker 5: All right, I'll tell him, I sure will.

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Speaker 9: Poor Hello there, mister slaughter, mister fun didn't you where

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during this thing I ever saw? I was telling the

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sheriff from the boys.

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Speaker 1: You just tell me what happened, Jack.

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Speaker 9: Well, I was sitting back there by the harness rack,

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working on a snaffle bit, and I heard somebody singing

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out here in the alley, you know how man was

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singing when he's had a couple of snorts appeared from

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the sound that he was coming in.

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Speaker 5: About that time.

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Speaker 9: I looked up, but I couldn't see very well because

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it was dark, and I was back inside there under

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the lantern, you see. Then the scene stopped and somebody said.

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Speaker 4: Drake I'm gonna kill you.

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Speaker 9: Then it was a shot, and mccardo fell right here.

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Of course I didn't know it was mccardo.

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Speaker 1: Then you know who made the threat?

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Speaker 5: No, nope, don't.

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Speaker 9: I doused the lantern in a hurry. Of course I

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was a setting duck, you see. Then I got down

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behind a.

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Speaker 1: Baill of hay and waited, do you hear anything else?

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Speaker 9: Just one thing, a man a sobn.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's a awful thing to hear a man sob.

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Speaker 9: I got up then come out here and looked around

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Speaker 4: There was nobody in the alley, cceptain drake mccardo's body.

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Speaker 9: That's when I ran to get sheriff.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Jack, you reckon, you know who did it?

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Speaker 6: That's my job, Jack. You just give me the information.

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I'll take care of finding the killer for sure.

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Speaker 4: Sure, sure, Well that's all I know.

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Speaker 1: Jack. Would you reckoncognize that voice if you heard it again?

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Speaker 9: Well, now that's that's good question.

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Speaker 4: A good question. Couse.

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Speaker 9: When a man says I'm going to kill you, he

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don't use a voice like he was saying, give me

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a glass of beer.

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Speaker 4: It's a real, uh, real strange strange.

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Speaker 9: If you know what I mean, it makes you shugar.

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Speaker 1: Kind of Yeah, I know what you mean, Slaughter.

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Speaker 6: Was that friend of yours at wrestler you bought out

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a jail this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: He's not a wrestler, Sheriff. I don't know where he

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is right now. I'll find him. If I think he

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did this, I'll turn him over to you. Where are

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you going up to my room? Wash up and get

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some supper. Any objections, don't try to leave, Tom, don't worry.

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Speaker 5: Oh look, he misticks.

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Speaker 1: You know about it?

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Speaker 5: Couldn't very well help it. Quite a commotion out there

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in the alley.

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Speaker 1: Come you didn't go out and join the crowd.

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Speaker 5: Well, I look at it this way. I'm new here

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and none too popular with the law and some of

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the people. Somebody might jump to conclusions figured out. I

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just stay out of it.

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Speaker 1: I see you're cleaning your gun, Yancy. Mm Do you

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mind if I take a look at him?

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Speaker 5: Yes, Luke, I mind?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 5: Because a man's gun is his own business unless he's

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done something wrong with it?

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Speaker 1: Have you?

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Speaker 5: Depends on how you look.

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Speaker 1: At it, Yncy. I want to see that gun.

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Speaker 5: Then you'll have to take it away from me, Luke,

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give it to me.

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Speaker 1: No, I said give it to him. This gun's been

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fired recently, Yancy.

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Speaker 5: I didn't say it.

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Speaker 1: Did you kill Drake McCardle.

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Speaker 5: It isn't the question you're asking, Luke, it's the way

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you're asking it. I'm not going to answer you.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you, Yancy. I'm trying to help you.

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Speaker 5: Then you'll have to find some other way to do it.

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Speaker 6: I told you.

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Speaker 5: When I get ready to lie, I'll let you know

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in advance.

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Speaker 6: Crazy fool, Well, Slaughter, I thought she was going out

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for some supper.

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Speaker 1: And changing my mind. Serh, do you have anything new

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on the killing.

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Speaker 6: I'm working on this, Slaughter, and I'm working on it.

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Ain't very much to go on so far. Well what

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about my Chitl's enemies? Well, yeah, lots of them. He

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was a pretty bullheaded man. If he couldn't get his

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way by asking for it, he got it by force.

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Speaker 1: I know that you know of anything that happened today

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that it makes somebody want to shoot him.

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Speaker 6: You're about the best man to answer that question. You

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beat him out in court, and he didn't like it

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at all.

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Speaker 1: To turn up any clues in the alley next to

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the body clues, empty cartridges, footprints, anything like that.

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Speaker 6: There were some cartridges, but there was old ones. As

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for footprints, with all them people milling around afterwards, there

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was lots of them. Nothing at all. One thing might

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not mean nothing at all. Again, it might this.

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Speaker 1: Broken spur.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I see you got both yours, so that

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lets you. Uh. But when I find the man who's

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missing one, I sure want to talk to him.

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Speaker 1: Can I borrow that for a little while? What for?

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I saw a man with one spur missing today, This

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might make two missing.

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Speaker 6: Just point him out to me.

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Speaker 1: No, Sheriff, this is my play. I'll make it alone.

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Speaker 6: We had one killing. We don't want another.

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Speaker 1: It won't be if I can help it, Yetsi, Yetsi, No, what.

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Pop? Oh oh yeah, miss slaughter. He's been on duty

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all evening, oh yeah, ever since supper. That man I

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brought in with me this afternoon. Yancey belle, did you

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see him go.

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Speaker 6: Out about ten fifteen minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: You say where he was going? Well, he asked me was.

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Speaker 6: Their place to get drunk? Good and drunk?

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Speaker 5: I told him he could do that most anywhere.

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Speaker 6: But at the crystal palace Us was the biggest saloon

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in town.

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Speaker 1: Did he go there?

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Speaker 6: And I can't say.

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Speaker 1: He just headed out the door.

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Speaker 3: Say he looked awful, like he'd been in a fight

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or something.

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Speaker 1: He had he may be in another one. Where'd you

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get the money to buy that liquor? Yen? See? Hello?

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Speaker 5: Look you have a drink?

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Speaker 1: Where'd you get the money?

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Speaker 5: I got it?

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Speaker 1: Where?

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Speaker 5: And the people who owed it to me?

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Speaker 8: There?

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Speaker 5: Help yourself?

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Speaker 1: Should take it by force?

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Speaker 5: You might say that, but it was mine in the

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first place.

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Speaker 1: Let me see your spurs, yen, se spurs? Just let

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me look. Sure you were missing one this afternoon, Now

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you're missing two?

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Speaker 5: Sure I am?

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Speaker 1: Does that one fit where the left one's broken off?

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Speaker 5: Can't tell without trying gain we let's see, Yeah it fits.

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Where'd you find it?

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Speaker 1: In the alley back of the San Jose House, near

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Drake mccartial's body.

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Speaker 5: I guess it must have broken off there.

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Speaker 1: Than you were in the alley, Louke.

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Speaker 5: It's customary for a man to put his horse up

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at the stable nearest to his hotel. Sure I was

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in that.

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Speaker 1: Out antsy, Let me have your gun. I'm gonna turn

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you over to the Sheriff.

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Speaker 5: You're going too far, Luke. Man's entitled to his privacy

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and his pride, and you're going too far.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking in.

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Speaker 5: Or you're not.

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Speaker 1: Drop your gun belt, yancy.

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Speaker 5: I'm warning you, Loop, I'll shoot. Now, make your play.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to know who killed him? Mconnile, I'll

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tell you who killed him.

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Speaker 9: It's a judge, drunkard the hoodo.

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Speaker 8: You can't push a man around forever. I told him,

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the man's got some rights. A man can be pushed

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so far. And I did his dirty work for him.

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I was covering up for his rustling and the first

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decent thing I do, letting that fellow off.

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Speaker 5: He has his riders jump me and beat me up.

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Speaker 8: I told him, I said, I said, I Drake, I'm

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gonna kill you. And he didn't think I could.

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Speaker 4: Do it, but I did. I did it just this.

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Speaker 8: He was mean and he deserves it.

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Speaker 5: I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Easy, Judge. It's all over now, I'll take him slowly,

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all right, Sheriff, Come on, judge, Yeah, Luke, hey made

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a mistake.

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Speaker 5: A man can't always be right, Luke, I understand. Thanks

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about my gun and this money.

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Speaker 1: No, you don't have to tell me like you said

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a man's entitled to his privacy.

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Speaker 5: I want to tell you. I was out east of

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town late this afternoon, practicing on rattlesnakes when one of

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the hands that jump me last night came along. I

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guess I got a little mad. He had twenty dollars

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on him, so I took that on deposit.

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Speaker 1: Why were you practicing shooting?

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Speaker 5: Because no man living? And call me a cattle wrestler.

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If the judge hadn't gotten him first, I had to

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kill mcconel.

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Speaker 1: Was it that important to you?

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Speaker 5: Pride's real funny thing, Lue. I guess I don't have

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to tell you that.

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Speaker 1: No, I guess not. Can I buy you a drink?

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Ancy now?

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Speaker 5: That would make me right happy, Luke?

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Speaker 10: And then I'm going to buy you one, Luke.

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Speaker 2: Slutter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, was written by Alan Butzer,

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with editorial provision by Tom Henley, and directed by William N.

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Speaker 1: Robeson.

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Speaker 2: Supporting mister Buffington were lou Merrill, Howard mcneer, Barney Phillips,

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Sam Edwards, Junius Matthews, and Normalden. Music composed and conducted

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by Wilbur Hatch. Next week at this time, we return with.

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Speaker 1: Slaughter's the name Luke Slaughter. When we meet up again,

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you can call me that Luke Slutter.

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