Speaker 1: Slaughter's my name. Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a
Speaker 1: tough business, it's big business. I've got a big steak
Speaker 1: in it. There's no man west of the Rio Grande
Speaker 1: big enough to take it from me.
Speaker 2: Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. Civil War
Speaker 2: cavalryman turned Arizona cattleman. Across the territory, from Yuma to
Speaker 2: Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Watchukas, and below the
Speaker 2: border through Chihuahua and Sonora. His name was respected or feared,
Speaker 2: depending on which side of the law you were on.
Speaker 2: Man of vision, man of legend. Luke Slaughter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1: Carl Justice was dead, bushwhacked in the Chiruchaos for the
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars he was carrying. But Justice wasn't dead.
Speaker 1: The posse from the Cattleman's Association at Ceda bet If
Speaker 1: we had to cover every half section between the petrified
Speaker 1: Forest and the Mexican border, and it looked like we might.
Speaker 1: At least the first day in the saddle. We didn't
Speaker 1: find a trace of Justice's killer or the gold. We
Speaker 1: were a tired bunch of Ranahans and we came back
Speaker 1: to town that afternoon. All right, boys, it yourselves a
Speaker 1: good night's rest, be ready to ride again as sun up?
Speaker 3: Come on where hardy loop?
Speaker 1: Hellow at your town?
Speaker 3: You look like you've been eating a lot of dust.
Speaker 3: I have you turn up anything?
Speaker 1: Nothing? Not a single sign.
Speaker 3: Killer's got to leave a shine.
Speaker 1: This one didn't.
Speaker 3: Sure is a shame. Carl order no better than to
Speaker 3: try carrying all that money over to Bisbee by itself.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. Oh man, I'm tired.
Speaker 3: You're going to go out to the ranch tonight.
Speaker 1: No, I'll grab some shut eye over at the office.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Hold up a minute. You can't get by these outfits
Speaker 3: well wagons.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty small train to be traveling alone. Keep
Speaker 1: it moving.
Speaker 3: Were you driving boars? Ain't he that he wasn't raised
Speaker 3: on prunes and proverbs?
Speaker 1: You know that's a funny thing about that outfitting. No kids,
Speaker 1: not a single one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, any peculiar. Usually they got young's fish tuned all
Speaker 3: over from the driver's box to the tailgate.
Speaker 1: Well I'm gonna spread out on the cot back then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you do that, Luke, And you better under
Speaker 3: unlimber your guns. You ain't had them off since you
Speaker 3: rode out of here before dawn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll drop him here on the desk.
Speaker 3: And pull your hat down over your eyes. Luke, anybody
Speaker 3: come around asking fool questions.
Speaker 4: I'll take care of him.
Speaker 1: Thanks with your ton I sure wish I could find
Speaker 1: some traces.
Speaker 3: Oh forget it now, Luke. I want to hear you
Speaker 3: snoring inside of two minutes. Carl Justice can't get no
Speaker 3: dinner in ears right now, evening, Stranger, what can I
Speaker 3: do for you? You can reach mister. This is the
Speaker 3: office of the Cattleman's Association. Stranger, why the six gun?
Speaker 4: I'm asking the questions.
Speaker 1: Who's the right on the bed?
Speaker 3: Answer me? Ooh him drunk or sleeping? It off?
Speaker 4: So you're all the famous Luke Slaughter tombstone.
Speaker 3: What do you want? Stranger?
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted. Slaughter puts you to sleep for
Speaker 1: a while. What's your time? What's your time? I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have taken my guns off. You get your witch back.
Speaker 1: I'll take over now. Hey, hey, Slaughter, Slaughter.
Speaker 3: That they broke in and I was fixing the robber bank.
Speaker 4: There was two of them, and now they're riding east
Speaker 4: out of town.
Speaker 1: Oh, why ain't you gonna follow him? Why should I?
Speaker 4: Well, well, you're a head of the posse for the cabman.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to. What about that other rider headed west?
Speaker 4: So you weren't nowhere near the bank he come out
Speaker 4: of your office.
Speaker 1: That's right, slaughter, Now.
Speaker 4: Look was tying to here, yammering them?
Speaker 1: Thieves? Is getting that much for you? Did they get anything?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: But I told you it broke the window. I've got
Speaker 1: bigger problems in a broken window. Go chase him yourself.
Speaker 4: You hold a high handed, clouding the trail away to
Speaker 4: wink in a plane?
Speaker 3: Chase what's going on anyway?
Speaker 1: Luke? I don't know what your to I wish I
Speaker 1: did he.
Speaker 2: Umbra had no call.
Speaker 3: The pistol whipped me.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have gotten away with it if I'd had
Speaker 1: my guns. But remember he thought he was pistol whipping
Speaker 1: me with your town Gee.
Speaker 3: That's right. Well, ain't you gonna try to chase him down?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: It's almost dark. Besides, who would you chase to riding east?
Speaker 1: Who broke the window on the bank? O the one
Speaker 1: riding west? Or that at your skull?
Speaker 3: Well? Clean get away on all count huh?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: What your tie I don't think so. I've got an idea.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's get over to the old Ducks and
Speaker 1: get a plaster for your scalp. You might need your
Speaker 1: head before the night's out.
Speaker 3: Look, you ain't told me one blame thing about where
Speaker 3: we're going or what you're up to.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure myself.
Speaker 3: We'll just riding in the moonlight won't get us nowhere. Besides,
Speaker 3: I think you you'd head yourself enough riding for one
Speaker 3: day I have.
Speaker 1: I don't got into a stranger cracking you over the
Speaker 1: side of the head with a pistol.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate that, Loupe, But.
Speaker 1: There's some other things that just don't fit search airs.
Speaker 3: Why did those.
Speaker 1: Bank robbers break a window? That's noise? Last thing a
Speaker 1: thief once?
Speaker 3: A right dogies that's right, But that still don't explain
Speaker 3: why we're night riding out here a mile west of
Speaker 3: town heading for California.
Speaker 1: When i'd go on that fire with the town rain
Speaker 1: up ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, what.
Speaker 1: I figured the wagon train that came through town just
Speaker 1: before sundown could have gotten any further than mule crossing
Speaker 1: before it better down or I'm gonna pay him a visit.
Speaker 3: Luke This ain't no time for being social.
Speaker 1: This isn't social Wich, this is business.
Speaker 3: You think that wagon train had something to do with
Speaker 3: all these things been going on?
Speaker 1: Maybe you wait here behind these rocks and don't move
Speaker 1: out for anybody. I'll whistle when I come back. Well
Speaker 1: you want me to stay here because I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need you later.
Speaker 3: Hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: I'll know better than a half hour.
Speaker 3: So long, so long, dead blamed tight ball?
Speaker 1: Hold up, and don't you turn around evening?
Speaker 4: What's your business?
Speaker 2: Stranger?
Speaker 1: I want to talk to the bus of this wagon train.
Speaker 1: Why are you the bus? No, but I'm talking to
Speaker 1: the wrong man. Where's your bus?
Speaker 3: Put off your hands and move on?
Speaker 2: Sloop?
Speaker 4: Hey Burwell, Yeah, this is Landigan.
Speaker 1: I'm coming in.
Speaker 3: Gom gonna set off here here about it? Got me
Speaker 3: a snooper?
Speaker 1: Well that's.
Speaker 4: Here he is, Burwell, riding in like he You own
Speaker 4: the camp. Eah, we ain't much for visiting, and they
Speaker 4: come at us in the dark.
Speaker 1: Master, What you want some information? What kind? How many
Speaker 1: people in your train? Where you're headed, where you camped
Speaker 1: last night, and where you were on the trail the
Speaker 1: day before that? Nosy ain'ty maybe you gents, ou don't
Speaker 1: know my name? I want to slaughter Luke slutter.
Speaker 3: He ain't Luke slaughter.
Speaker 1: I'll handle this. Just who did you think I was? Lannigan?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 4: I well pleased to make your acquaintance laughter. My name
Speaker 4: is Burwell. Wann't you light and draw the fire?
Speaker 1: Thanks? Burwell?
Speaker 4: About those questions are yours? Why do you want to
Speaker 4: know about us?
Speaker 1: For your own protection? It was a murder ten miles
Speaker 1: easter Tombstone early last night. I haven't found the killer yet.
Speaker 1: A bushwhack, you know. Yeah, and whoever did it got
Speaker 1: away with several thousand dollars in goal. Say that's too bad.
Speaker 1: It's a couple of other things too. Just after you
Speaker 1: passed through town before sunset, there was an attempt to
Speaker 1: rob the bank, you don't say. A good friend of
Speaker 1: mine named Wichita got pistol whipped while that was happening.
Speaker 1: What the hell?
Speaker 4: Things are kind of active in Tombstone, ain't they?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Now you don't think that my little outfit.
Speaker 1: I think that your outfit might be in for trouble
Speaker 1: if it met up with any of these lawbreakers. I
Speaker 1: see those questions, Burwell?
Speaker 4: Oh sure sure, slaughter Well there's eleven of us.
Speaker 1: There's eight men, three women.
Speaker 4: We left ourt city several weeks ago, aheaded for the ocean,
Speaker 4: camped on the trail last night.
Speaker 1: No special. Please, have you seen anything or anybody unusual? No, no,
Speaker 1: can't say I have keep your eyes up, and Burwell,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to see an innocent wagon train get
Speaker 1: drag outs.
Speaker 4: So we'll do that, Slaughter, might and I see you
Speaker 4: to ride out.
Speaker 1: To tell us for anything to do?
Speaker 4: I figure, Oh, we ain't got much by way of hospitality,
Speaker 4: but I could lay the dust.
Speaker 1: A little for you. And now that'd get down real
Speaker 1: good on a night like this.
Speaker 4: Molly, Yeah, brain the whiskey. A man's gonna have to
Speaker 4: forget his manners out on the trail.
Speaker 1: Slaughter.
Speaker 5: Here's a jug hank.
Speaker 4: Well, this here is Luke Slaughter, Molly, here's my wife,
Speaker 4: honey man.
Speaker 5: Pleasure to meet you, mister Slaughter.
Speaker 4: Don't you try this for size?
Speaker 1: Thanks? Just right?
Speaker 4: Well, it's turning into a cold night.
Speaker 1: Have another now, thanks, that doesn't It's time I got
Speaker 1: back to town. Oh, by the way, missus Burwell, one thing
Speaker 1: has me curious.
Speaker 5: What's that, mister Slaughter.
Speaker 1: Every wagon train I've ever seen carried at least half
Speaker 1: a dozen kids. You don't seem to have any.
Speaker 5: Some people don't have chilled.
Speaker 1: I guess that's right. It was just a thought. Are
Speaker 1: you being pretty personal, ain't you? Slaughter? I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to be so long, Lanagan. Maybe we'll meet up again sometime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Burwell, be careful AliOS. In a moment,
Speaker 1: Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns on CBS Radio's gun Smoke Today.
Speaker 1: A colorful character named Livy learns that arson is a crime,
Speaker 1: no matter what the motive. Livy doesn't want her.
Speaker 6: Son to grow up like his alcoholic father. Her notion
Speaker 6: of how to keep the boy from drinking is set
Speaker 6: afire every saloon in Dodge City. When she threatens to
Speaker 6: act on her idea. However, she lights the fuse on
Speaker 6: an explosive situation for Marshall Matt Dillon as well as
Speaker 6: for herself. For adventure in the West as our Pioneers
Speaker 6: knew it Here this thrilling episode of gun Smoke later
Speaker 6: today on CBS Radio, and now Act two of William
Speaker 6: and Robson's production of Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
Speaker 3: Who about the time you was getting back, Luke, I
Speaker 3: was beginning to know all the coyotes by name.
Speaker 1: It was worth that which you're done. I've been talking
Speaker 1: to the man that pistol whipped you a few hours ago.
Speaker 1: He was, and after that, bunches had a chance to
Speaker 1: think it over, and I think we'll both be talking
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 3: Makes sense.
Speaker 1: Will you look that wagon train in Wichita. It's the
Speaker 1: headquarters for everything that's been happening around here lately.
Speaker 3: He is, Well, you just ain't gonna leave him out
Speaker 3: there and then let him go on.
Speaker 1: Unless I'm dead wrong, they're gonna send a man gunning
Speaker 1: for me, and I think I know who it'll be,
Speaker 1: that pistol whipper.
Speaker 3: Listen, that's one horse, Luke.
Speaker 1: And one riding. He's got to slow down to get
Speaker 1: through these rocks. When he does jump.
Speaker 3: Him yet, will be a pleasure.
Speaker 1: Hey, don't right drop you? What is this? Get his guns?
Speaker 1: Wichita already got him, Luke Slaughter Yeah, Lenigan slaughter.
Speaker 4: Cat a man ride to town for peaceful drink without
Speaker 4: being ambooshed.
Speaker 3: Light.
Speaker 1: But I don't see what out that horse? Oh sure, sure, Linigan.
Speaker 1: I want you to meet a friend of mine. This
Speaker 1: is the man who laid that gun barrel alongside your
Speaker 1: ear this evening.
Speaker 3: I want to kill you shame as I would have sunk.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, boys, Art, it's against my nature to
Speaker 1: fight an unarmed man, Lanigan, any one of his guns
Speaker 1: barrel first, I'll put it in your holster, Lanigan, and
Speaker 1: you're welcome to use it anytime you want to slaughter.
Speaker 1: I tell me the real story about that wagon, tray Lanagan.
Speaker 3: Why I don't what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been pistol whipped? No? No, you're about
Speaker 1: to learn what it feels like, unless you care to
Speaker 1: draw a slaughter for the love Hend killed Carl Justice,
Speaker 1: But I never heard of no car Justice. He had
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in gold. Yesterday's dead. Who killed him?
Speaker 1: You tell me? I'm going to rake a gun side
Speaker 1: through your left ear, talk or draw Lnagan? Who killed him?
Speaker 1: You want another one?
Speaker 3: No? No, it was Burwell. He told me not to,
Speaker 3: but he put up a fight and and and Burwill.
Speaker 1: A man doesn't fight with his back. Where did you
Speaker 1: pistol whip? Wichitel?
Speaker 3: It was Burwell's idea. He heard about you, and he
Speaker 3: thought that if you was laid low for a while, people.
Speaker 1: Did want to go after whoever got that figured?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then a couple of the boys broke that
Speaker 3: wind in the bank to make it look like.
Speaker 1: Burwell's a pretty smart man, isn't he. Yeah, he's sure,
Speaker 1: but he made the mistake of getting featherheaded yellow gun
Speaker 1: slingers like you to work for him.
Speaker 3: Look, you can't call me.
Speaker 1: I am calling you. If it isn't true. Draw take
Speaker 1: his gun, which your tile, he won't use it?
Speaker 3: Or slaughter.
Speaker 1: Please give me a chance.
Speaker 3: Just let me go and I'll go back to Dodge,
Speaker 3: and I'll never come out this way.
Speaker 1: Which a tome head his horse back toward camp and
Speaker 1: give it a slap.
Speaker 3: Sure, luke, what you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: Slaughter, I'm gonna use you for bait. Which a time
Speaker 1: you walk him back into town.
Speaker 3: Where are you going?
Speaker 1: I'm not through here yet. Oh, and get a message
Speaker 1: to Sutton, tell him to wake up the posse and
Speaker 1: spread him around the cattleman's office ready to shoot.
Speaker 3: Well, you can't face that whole wagon train by yourself.
Speaker 1: I won't have to witch a ton. When Lanagan's horse
Speaker 1: gets back to camp, they'll know something went wrong, and
Speaker 1: most of them will go to town looking for me.
Speaker 1: That's why I want that posse standing by him.
Speaker 3: Well, what do you want me to do with this
Speaker 3: year tail dragon specimen? When I get him back to town.
Speaker 1: Tie hi up in the back room of the Cattleman's
Speaker 1: office and wait for me. Oh, and don't light any lanterns.
Speaker 3: You don't have no objections if I have to ruffle
Speaker 3: this wady up shu.
Speaker 5: Do you.
Speaker 1: None at all?
Speaker 3: They come on you walk.
Speaker 7: Yes, meeting men alive, gone into the ball. Wouldn't be
Speaker 7: surprised if.
Speaker 1: You get your hands up, all of you. Who's out there,
Speaker 1: Luke Slaughter, ma'n? I do as I tell you.
Speaker 7: What's your holding?
Speaker 3: A gun?
Speaker 5: Fall?
Speaker 3: Slaughter?
Speaker 1: Are there any guards up?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 7: All the men folk rode into town a while back.
Speaker 1: I liked your hospitality so well, missus Burwell. I came
Speaker 1: back for some more of it.
Speaker 5: Didn't put that gun away?
Speaker 1: You don't need that, I think I might. You see,
Speaker 1: Missus Burwell, I know the whole story. And what do
Speaker 1: you mean, Lanagan talked? That's what I mean.
Speaker 8: Well, now that puts a different light on things. So
Speaker 8: Billwell lied to you about me.
Speaker 1: He lied about everything, But.
Speaker 5: This is important. I'm not his wife.
Speaker 1: What of it.
Speaker 8: You're a good looking man, mister Slaughter. Make some woman
Speaker 8: a fine husband, a rich woman, Luke, meaning, I know
Speaker 8: where there's a sack of gold big enough to last
Speaker 8: a man and a woman like you and me for
Speaker 8: the rest.
Speaker 5: Of our lives.
Speaker 1: I'll bet you do.
Speaker 5: Why don't you call me Molly?
Speaker 1: All right? Molly?
Speaker 8: Have you ever kissed a high spirited woman?
Speaker 1: Luke? Why don't we get rid of the company first?
Speaker 5: What do you want to do with them?
Speaker 1: Tie him up, spread eagled in a wagon wheel?
Speaker 8: Hi, you sure are smart. We're gonna get along fine.
Speaker 1: Now about that gold, Molly.
Speaker 5: Ah, I know Harry is there?
Speaker 1: You might as well tell me No, I don't.
Speaker 5: Know as I can trust you yet.
Speaker 1: No, No, you don't.
Speaker 8: But I want to. It's in a chest in the
Speaker 8: lead wagon.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Let's stand over there with the rest of them.
Speaker 1: What I'm gonna tie you up to, Molly Slaughter?
Speaker 9: If I had a gun, I know i'd be dead,
Speaker 9: just like Carl Justice, did you, Luke?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we'll just shack you're carrying.
Speaker 1: The gold that belonged to Carl Justice verywell show up.
Speaker 3: Here with sect of his partners. Come up on the boardwalk,
Speaker 3: out front. Thought they was going to break in for
Speaker 3: a minute, but they decided against it. Heard one of
Speaker 3: them say.
Speaker 4: To make too much commotion where they go.
Speaker 3: Right across the street there to the Oriental.
Speaker 1: That means when we fire up some lanterns, we'll have visitors.
Speaker 1: It's the puzzy spread out just like you said on.
Speaker 3: The roof of the Oriental on top of the bank
Speaker 3: to dry good Store and Express Company.
Speaker 1: Good. How's lanigan Where he's going.
Speaker 3: To have a sore head before he hangs? I had
Speaker 3: to persuade him, guessed a leader before he goes to
Speaker 3: sleep too bad.
Speaker 1: Let's get this over with. I'm going out the front door.
Speaker 1: You light the lamps in the office.
Speaker 3: By joy, this's my old heartboard.
Speaker 1: Now, boy, come on, stay way up ro well now,
Speaker 1: slaughter boys and me.
Speaker 2: You want to talk to you?
Speaker 1: Do you talking from right there?
Speaker 2: I don't like to shout up and down the street.
Speaker 1: I do. Before you say anything else, I think you
Speaker 1: ought to know that you're covered by eighteen guns twenty
Speaker 1: including mine. And in case you think I'm not telling
Speaker 1: the truth, I ask the men on the top of
Speaker 1: the bank to speak up. Now, Just what did you
Speaker 1: want to talk about? Burwell, let's forget it, Sota, Me
Speaker 1: and the boys.
Speaker 3: Will be moulding along.
Speaker 1: No you won't. I've got some talking to do. Your
Speaker 1: women folk are tied up to the wagons out of
Speaker 1: your camp. One of your gunslingers is tied up in
Speaker 1: the office behind me, and he talked. And this, Burwell,
Speaker 1: this is ten thousand dollars in gold that I got
Speaker 1: out of your lead wagon. It belonged to Carl Justice
Speaker 1: before you killed him. You got anything to say now, Burwell,
Speaker 1: I reckon you said it all. Drop your guns and
Speaker 1: step forward, all of you, alright, man, close in and
Speaker 1: take him.
Speaker 3: Luke Nancisy King, this thing I've ever seen, got every
Speaker 3: single one of them and didn't smoke up the town
Speaker 3: a bit.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're lucky with it down. Don't fool around with
Speaker 1: a red hot branding iron till you're ready for the roundup, Luke.
Speaker 2: Slutter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, was written by Alan
Speaker 2: Buttzer and directed by William N. Robeson editorial supervision by
Speaker 2: Tom Henley. Supporting mister Buffington were Gene Carson, Junius Matthews,
Speaker 2: Lawrence Dobkin, and Chet Stratton, with music composed and conducted
Speaker 2: by Amerigo Marino.
Speaker 1: Next week. At this time we returned with slaughters the
Speaker 1: name Luke Slaughter. When we meet up again, you can
Speaker 1: call me that Luke Slaughter.
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