Speaker 1: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Guns spoke, starring William Conrad. The story of
the violence that moved west with the young America, and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2: I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely. He'll be alright, man, the fever
is broken, light stuck.
Speaker 3: What do you think you'll be able to travel? Oh?
Day or two three?
Speaker 2: I'd say he'll pick up fast. Tom's strong, he's very young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been.
Speaker 2: A mighty sick boy, though mighty sick. Must have been
in terrible shape all through the trial. Hell, he's in
worse shape now. H Now, man, I just told you
he's gonna be all.
Speaker 3: Right now what I mean though?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, yes, of course, not much future for him, is it?
Speaker 3: No matter how well you have to pick him up?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: I guess not, say, Matt, Now, do you really think
he did it in the court found him go.
Speaker 2: I know, Ma, but he he seems like such a
nice boy. It's hard to believe. I'm not supposed to believe, doctor,
I'm supposed to do is with a loss as as
I guess you're right? When do you deliver him to
Hayes City cause he's able to travel?
Speaker 3: A funny thing?
Speaker 2: How's that getting a kit in shape so that he
can ride to his own hand?
Speaker 4: Uh, mister Jerald, Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3: Gest Oh? What fellas outside there? He wants to see
what fella? Uh?
Speaker 2: Roll me Hawkins, the one that spoke up again, young
Morey at the trial.
Speaker 3: Now, all right, Chester to him, come in.
Speaker 4: I'll be gone along and then I'll look on on
the boor in the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I still says, you can come in. You want
to see me, Hawkins. The doctor's been here at me.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You just saw him leave, didn't you?
Speaker 4: Something wrong with the prisoner?
Speaker 2: Is that what you came to see me about Tom
Morray's health?
Speaker 3: Well, no, Marshall, it isn't that. What is it that?
Speaker 4: Well, Marshall, it was my.
Speaker 2: Understanding that you were to deliver the prisoner to justice
without delay.
Speaker 3: That's what the law says yeah, and Sir.
Speaker 2: I find it hard to understand why Tom Moray is
still here.
Speaker 3: Are you in a hurry to see him hung?
Speaker 2: He's a condemned man, Marshall, I take the citizens responsibility
or responsibility ended at the trial, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3: No delay is just now. You listen to me.
Speaker 2: Your part of this ended two days ago when you're
testified in court.
Speaker 3: Tom Moorey's in my.
Speaker 2: Charge now it's my duty, not anymore.
Speaker 3: It isn't.
Speaker 2: The boy will get to Hayes City all right, and
he'll get to his hanging. But how he gets there
and when he gets there are up to me. You
understand that I have the citizens right and I've got
work to do. Chester open the door for mister Hawkins.
I think he's leaving right now. Yes now, Marshall, I
said you're leaving.
Speaker 3: Mister Hawkins. Had enough breakfast?
Speaker 5: Tom?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Thanks? Filing better is more, Nayan, So I guess.
Speaker 3: What days is?
Speaker 2: That's thirsdy Oh oh, I don't wonder you lost track
out of your head with the fever and all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what Doc Adams told me. Uh is the
Marshal here this morning?
Speaker 3: He's out to.
Speaker 2: Breakfast right now, and I'll be back for a long
long I'd like to see him.
Speaker 4: Oh, sure, I'll tell him.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's probably him. Now, I I'll fetch him. You
wait here.
Speaker 4: I ain't going no place. Oh it, Oh mister dilw
just coming to fetch you.
Speaker 3: Uh something wrong? It wasn't, no Sue leastways, I don't
think so.
Speaker 4: The some wants to see you.
Speaker 3: How does that say something?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marshall, if you've got the time, I was sure.
Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Don't? I just taking their traditions al right? Chester? What
can I do for your time?
Speaker 4: Marshall? Uh, we'll be riding up to Hayes City pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right tomorrow. Doc says you're able.
Speaker 4: I'm all right. You don't have to be in very
good shape for that trip.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking it up there tom till. Uh.
Speaker 4: Uh, you can stand straight, thanks, Marshall. I'd like to
ask you something, sure, go ahead? You think I did it?
Do you think I killed that man?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Court says you didn't.
Speaker 4: I'm bound by that, but you yourself, Marshall, do you
think I did?
Speaker 3: I admit I don't wanna think so, cause I like.
Speaker 2: Him but at my job, Tom or man can't afford
to like people.
Speaker 4: But I didn't shoot him.
Speaker 2: I swear I didn't, And I've gotta remember that Romy
Hawkins stood up in court and swore that you did that.
Speaker 3: He saw you do it.
Speaker 4: Romy Hawkins. He's a man with a lion his belly.
He couldn't have seen me. Marshall. I wasn't even there here.
Speaker 2: A convicted mine, Tom, and I got what the law says.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I know. Well anyhow, Uh, I wanna
thank you for treating me decent and getting doc atoms
and acting like I was at least human.
Speaker 3: It seems to me you got very little to thank
anybody for it.
Speaker 4: Marshall. I got a letter here. I wrote it to
my dad. He's over in Missouri.
Speaker 3: Uh Uh. If you want me to mail it to him.
Speaker 4: I'd be obliged if you would, but not till it's over.
Speaker 3: Short.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping he don't hear about it. Till then. We
had some plans about the planning. I wanted to write him.
Speaker 2: About Now there's a little money, Yeah, sure, Tom, I'll
take it.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess it's about all. And Marshall, Yeah, I
didn't do this. Thing. But like you said, I'll try
to stand straight.
Speaker 5: Math.
Speaker 3: It's just awful. Yeah, I know kidding. I wish the.
Speaker 5: Witness hadn't been a little weasel like Romy Hawkins.
Speaker 4: He seems to enjoy it.
Speaker 5: So much, for sure, a couple of times a day.
Speaker 3: Sure he doesn't look like a drinking mind to make well.
Speaker 4: He doesn't take a drink.
Speaker 5: Math, He just comes in to make sure everybody remembers
he was the key witness at the trial. I don't
think he ever felt so important in his life. Hawkins
should been born a buzzard feeding on another man's killers.
Speaker 3: Doc Kitty, Hey, Doc over here, Yes.
Speaker 2: Mad Kitty, say Matt. I thought maybe i'll find you
here all right, Doc sit on, Doc, Oh, thank you,
that's on your mind. I had just been at the
jail man checking Tom Moreover. I'm sorry to say it's
or able to ride, Yes, ma'am he is. I guess
I can't put it off any longer. Leave tomorrow morning, and.
Speaker 5: Son, Matt, can't you do something, Kitty.
Speaker 2: It's a sorry thing, all right, but there's nothing anybody
can do about it, not since Romy Hawkins spoke his part.
Because this was a legal witness, kitty. Oh you know,
it's a funny thing about him.
Speaker 4: Mad I I.
Speaker 2: Keep thinking I've seen him someplace before, but I can't remember.
Now you take my advice, tock, How's that the best
thing to do about Rome Hawkins is to forget it.
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 4: Mister Dolan, Why didn't see you writing no welcome back? Then?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 3: Chester? And we thought you were never going to get back.
Speaker 2: Have you two been sitting here in front of the
office playing checkers ever since I left?
Speaker 3: No, sir, I've been tending the thing just like you said. Uh,
you've been advising him.
Speaker 2: I suppose I got well now, man, it seems to
me that you'd be the last man to speak up
against a little relaxation in the middle of the day.
Speaker 3: Just keeping your chair hover, I could use a chair.
Speaker 2: Hard.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 2: Trips like that are always hard to know, and I
surely do.
Speaker 3: Did everything go off all right? Oh? I mean he
had went off all right?
Speaker 4: Chester?
Speaker 3: The boy was hung Marshal.
Speaker 2: Goodness, Carcel Dylan, what do you want now, Hawkiness? I
see you return from a city, Marshall. I just wanted
to know if everything had been carried out all right.
I told you it was my responsibility now, if you
want the details, why don't you ride up to Hayes
City and get them? But you were gone, Salon Marshall,
really longer than necessary.
Speaker 3: I couldn't help wondering, Well, it's done, Hawkins, the boy's dead.
Speaker 2: Well, it was just that I didn't know. It takes
a long Well, it takes a while to hang a man,
even if he's only a boy. Now, love Marshall, I'm
an important witness and you're a public certain I'm not
sure servant, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 3: And don't you forget it on? The trial's over?
Speaker 2: Now? Can't you get that under your head? You're not
an important witness anymore? Well, now, Marshall, why don't you
get away from here right now?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: My eat a nasty little uh boar's hinges like a chigger.
Speaker 3: He sure is creeping, you better do. It's creeping somewhere
else from now.
Speaker 2: See, Matt, eh, what I think I remember now where.
Speaker 3: I saw that full before, Hawkins? Yes, yes, I'm sure
of it.
Speaker 4: You remember when I took that trip down the Mead
to take care of.
Speaker 3: Moss Romick's sister as a year or so ago.
Speaker 2: And that's right, Well, Matt, I was there at the
same time, Judge Wharton was there on the circuit and he.
Speaker 1: Was holding court.
Speaker 3: Now, yes, and that romy.
Speaker 2: Hawkins, and I'd swear it was the same man. He
was there too. What was he up to that time? Well,
that's not very nice to think back on this, but
he was a witness mat just the same as he
was here.
Speaker 3: You mean, he was testifying against somebody.
Speaker 4: That's right, and his testimony got the man home.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you're taking a little time off.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen much of you since you chick to
Hayes saidy last month, and.
Speaker 3: I haven't been around much, kiddy, I guess not.
Speaker 5: Anyway. I enjoyed the ride.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed it too.
Speaker 5: I won't count on anything, you understand, but uh, maybe
he wouldn't do it again.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah maybe yeah.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, I'll help you.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Sah, I got your do it?
Speaker 2: Thanks, hey, Mars Mars all right, mis him yeah, uh
take care of our horses with mons youres him.
Speaker 3: Enjoy the ride, ms Giddy?
Speaker 4: Yeah sure did?
Speaker 2: It was great?
Speaker 3: You got n all, oh, sat Marshall. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Doc just brought up his buggy and been out south
of town.
Speaker 4: He was asking if i'd seen you.
Speaker 3: I didn't say what he wanted.
Speaker 4: He didn't exactly say something.
Speaker 3: About Ned Miller. That Miller or what about it?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, Marshall, but I think he's Oh anyway,
Doc wanted to go out there.
Speaker 3: Ah well, thanks, moms, you come on kidding.
Speaker 5: H would be too bad if anything happened to Ned
as a pud man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll stop in the ducks and find out.
Arsha Rshall Dylan. I thought I told you to stay
away from here. It's about Ned Miller. I saw it.
I know who did it, Who did what? Or who
shot him?
Speaker 4: He was a big man and scaring his cheek.
Speaker 2: Hald know him anywhere riding a white footed wrong?
Speaker 3: I wait a minute, are you sure about this hawking course?
Speaker 2: I'm sure I was riding by and I heard the shots,
saw the man ride away. I could identify him easy. Alright,
come on, where are we going up to the ducks.
I wanna find out how bad Miller's hurt. Sure, Marshall,
anything you say, I kiddy, you better go on down
to the Long Branch. I'll let you know about this later. Yeah,
I come on this, I'm out there, certainly Marshall. Oh hello, Matt,
come on in now just a minute, Doc, I want
to ask you something. I want you to listen very carefully.
If you told anybody but Mars gmmick about Ned Miller, well, no,
I guess I told Chester. I want why did you
do that?
Speaker 4: In the long branch?
Speaker 3: I was looking for you, took time to have a beer.
Speaker 4: Hawkins here tell you he was ready.
Speaker 3: To I wasn't listening to their kind, alright, he was
all right? Now, Now what about Ned, Doc?
Speaker 4: Well, he's an awful bad shape.
Speaker 3: Matt asked if you'd come out to see him. I
what's the matter with him? And I saw who did it?
All right? You saw what's the matter with him? Doc?
Speaker 4: It's his leg, Matt, he cut it on the side.
I don't think I can save it.
Speaker 2: You'd be lucky to pull food off that he wasn't
shot shot?
Speaker 5: Why No, I told you he cut.
Speaker 3: His leg three or four days ago.
Speaker 4: By the time he called me, it was badly in.
Speaker 3: Front to do terrible looking thing.
Speaker 5: Yeh.
Speaker 2: Hawkins here says he saw who shot him. He says
he could identify him. Oh, and that means you could
testify against him too, Can you Harkins.
Speaker 3: Well, Marshall, I guess made a mistake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you bet you did. You weren't even out at
Miller's place where you well were you? Well, no, Marshall,
but you do not and you didn't see that boy
Tom Moray shoot anybody either, did you.
Speaker 3: Well, don't just stand there. Why don't you answer me?
Speaker 2: Did you desert?
Speaker 3: Somebody had to pay for the crime. Somebody had to pay.
I just held up that he's crazy.
Speaker 1: You can't say that to me.
Speaker 3: I'm a witness.
Speaker 2: You didn't see that man and me doing the shooting either,
did you?
Speaker 4: But you see, Marshall All, sure I see.
Speaker 2: Just so you could stand up there and testify you
didn't care. You didn't care if it was a truth
or if it was a liar, if innocent man died,
just so you can stand up there with everybody's eyes
on you and speak your peace. You're lying, murdering peace.
Man has the right to be important, Marshall. Afterward, they
noticed me. They really took care of me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm gonna see that they take care of
you for the rest of your life. Marsha.
Speaker 2: As far as I'm concerned, you're as guilty as if
you'd shot those men in cold blood, and believe.
Speaker 3: Me, you're gonna pay for it.
Speaker 4: Marshall, what'll they do to me?
Speaker 2: I think they'll hang you, Hugkins. But you shouldn't mind that,
because you'll be the most important man there.
Speaker 1: Guns Smoke, coduced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon U S.
Speaker 3: Marshall.
Speaker 1: The story was specially written for Gun Smoke by Marion Clark,
with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast
were Harry Bartel, Sam Edwards and James Musser. Harley bare
is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is
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