Daily Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke - The Square Triangle

https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! Welcome to Daily Gunsmoke, your go-to podcast for diving into the legendary tales of Marshal Matt Dillon and the untamed landscape of Dodge City from the classic old-time radio series, "Gunsmoke." Join us every day as we explore a unique episode filled with high-stakes gunfights, complex moral issues, and the raw drama that cemented Gunsmoke's place as a cornerstone of American entertainment. Experience the adventures of Dillon, Miss Kitty, Doc Adams, and Chester Proudfoot as they navigate the challenges of life and law on the frontier. Don't miss a moment of these timeless stories—tune into Daily Gunsmoke for your daily dose of the Wild West.

Duration:: 29m
Broadcast on:: 04 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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No purchase necessary. VTW group. Boy, we're prohibited by law. 18 plus terms and conditions apply. Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers. And that's with the US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. [Music] Gun smoke starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the violence that moved west with young America. The story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. [Music] Quiet night, Mr. Dillon. Yeah. Except for that coyote. He's wailing his head off out there. Matt at the moon, I guess. Pour in love, maybe. Oh. Yes, sir. The way I've noticed it, any time you find a man or an animal out squalling around in the dark, it's usually love. Yeah, but this one sounds kind of mournful, Chester. Wilson, love is mournful. Sometimes, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, so I've heard. Matt? Is that you? Oh, good evening, Miss Marley. How've you been, Matt? Oh, fine. Fine, thank you. You, uh, down here on Front Street this time and night alone? I'm looking for Red Lawson. He's a new man, works for Al. I was meeting him sometime after midnight and they're going out on a cattle buying trip. I want to talk to him first. You satisfied? Well, it's just that this is no place for a woman alone, Miss Marley. Uh, maybe you better go home. There are other women down here. They belong here, Miss Marley. They work here. Oh, don't be so stuffy, Matt. And call me Ava for once. Everybody else does. Well, your husband might take exception to that, Miss Marley. Now, you're blaming me for what happened before, aren't you? I'm not blaming you for anything, Miss Marley. I didn't tell him to get into a gunfight over me. It wasn't my fault. I didn't say it was. Chester, you better see that Miss Marley gets home, all right? Yes, sir? I can get home by myself. My, she's pretty as a picture. It makes you wonder. Yeah, maybe you were right, Chester. Well, a woman like that. Love might be kind of mournful. [Music] So, I just gave my rope a couple turns around that juniper stump, and I jerked back in the house. That wasn't... Oh, hi, Marsham. I wonder if I could see you for a minute, huh? Yeah, sure. I'll be right back for a minute. Well, it's on your mind, Marsham. Boss and I, uh, I just ran into Miss Marley in the street outside. He did. The eye suggested she go home. She's got no business being down here this time in life. It, uh, might be a good idea, but, uh, you'd tell her that, huh? Seems to me it's up to her husband. [Music] Look, you're new here, Lawson. I, uh, I guess you didn't know Fred Curtis and the Santa Fe kid. I heard about it. Couple of fools, as far as I guess. Yeah, I guess they were after they met Miss Marley. Hey, love, Marsham. What's your stake in this? I got no stake. What Miss Marley does is her own business, as long as it doesn't cause any trouble. I'm just trying to keep in peace, that's all. I, I feel kind of sorry for that, so. Now treats are like a dog. Uh-huh. Fred and the kid used to talk the same way. Like I said, a couple of fools. I'm not. I hope not. See you around, Marsham. Yeah, sure. I would think so, sure. Hi, kitty. Can I speak to you? Oh, sure, ma'am. Uh, excuse me, boy. I'll be back. All right. All right. Hurry back. But, ma'am. Kitty is how Maury been in tonight. No, I haven't seen him, ma'am. Should he be around? Oh, not necessarily. He and Lawson are right not around midnight on a cattle buying trip. I, I just thought they might be meeting here. Oh, well, not yet anyway. Jesse Wells didn't know what the plans are, though. Jesse Wells. Yeah, the bartender down there at the end, the young one. You know him. Oh, oh, yeah, sure, sure. Uh, why would he know? Well, he's going along. I don't ask him to help out there. Going to follow the lazy bee roundup. Try to get in the head of the buyers in Chicago. Oh, yeah. He, uh, he's a nice looking kid. I wonder if, uh, yeah. Yeah, he's another friend, Ava's. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Marshall? Marshall, down. Oh, come on. Wake up, Marshall. All right, all right, take it easy. Who is it? Jesse Wells, Marshall, open the door. All right, just a second, so let's get it. Eh, what's the trouble, Wells? Al Morley, Marshall. Then you better get your horses, because we got to ride back out there. Out where? What happened? Buffalo flats. We can't there to wait for the roundup crew. And Al's dead, Marshall. He's knifed in the back. Did you do it? No. It was Red Lawson. He knifed, Al. He stole the money we were going to use to buy cat. What in the world is going on, Miss Bill? You better saddle up, Chester. We got to ride. What's the trouble? Eh, the usual. Nothing new but the names. Seems Red Lawson turned out to be a fool in spite of himself. [Music] Over this way, Marshall. The camp is right there, but it's plum-sticky. All right. Be daylight in another 20 minutes. Hello, boy. Oh, oh. He's laying over there by the bushes. Yeah, I see him. Those knife is a jesse. It's a house. We were all asleep. We built a fire, made some coffee, and turned in. But wait for daylight that Lazy Bee Bunch planned to work their stock up this way when they see. Yeah, here, Chester. Wrap the knife and something and hang on to it. Yes, you still don't go on, Jesse. What happened? Well, like I said, Marshall didn't. We were all asleep. I guess it was the sound of the horse's horse woke me up. Red Lawson was pulling out. Oh, I run over to Al, shook him to wake him up and tell him. And then I saw the knife. He was dead. Why were you sleeping, Jesse? Oh, right about here, I guess. Red was across the fire over there, and Al was where he's laying now. What about the money? How'd you know it was gone? Well, I thought about it right off. I figured that's why Red had done it. Al was carrying about $10,000 in a little leather sack. He'd stuck it under the blanket before we'd gone to sleep. So I went and looked for it. It was gone. You figure Red killed him for the money, then. Well, sure. It was a doubt he meant it, though. I think Red was trying to ease this sack out from under the blanket when Al woke up and caught him. Yeah, it's possible. We lighten up to start tracking him in a few minutes, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, the sun's poking up over there enough. Looks like it's going to be a clear day. Which way'd Lawson head out, Jesse? East. Seemed to be following the wagon tracks. Oh, it's your bad, Mr. Dillon. He's got quite a start on it. You're not too much of a start. Well, let's load the packmeal, Chester. I think we'll ride back into Dodge and then take the train from there to Abilene, then work back from the east. Say that's a good idea. Lawson probably won't be expecting anybody ahead of it. I can't understand it. I just can't understand how anybody could do a thing like this. It sounds like a metal arc, Chester. Yes, he just flew into those bushes. Red seemed pretty nice, fellas far as I could tell. It was a funny time of year for a metal arc in it. Just $10,000 was just too much temptation. Oh, some of them hangs around all winter, Mr. Dillon. Nah, it sure sounds a lot better than that coyote, Helen. All right, Chester. We got a hole of his feet. Let's load him up. [Music] Two-man quick-water tanks right now in the bend up head of us there. Along with stop here, about five minutes. Just long enough to take on water. That's why we're relaxed, Marshall. It's long ways you have to Abilene. Why, we ain't but 24 miles from dark city. He was more like a hundred. These seats are harder than a saddle. They say, yeah, this here fellow you boys looking for, I guess he's a real meaner, huh? What? Ah, yeah, meaner not. Well, it's just like I always say. This prairie country ain't never gonna be a law abiding place to live. Whatever time I pulled out of Kansas City on the moon west, I mean, I expect never meant to be shot or owned or scow. Chester, what's the matter, Mr. Dylan? I got the wonder here, around the bend there by the water tank. Looks like we don't have to go to Abilene. Oh, yeah, so fellow, we can catch a train, I guess. You boys reckon that? He's either one? Yeah, his horse is tied there to the tank. Must have decided on a quicker way of traveling by the looks of us. All right, Chester, you won't be expecting us. Let's get out on the vestibule and drop off and take him as soon as the train stops. Can't they? Yeah, Marshall, whatever you do, don't they, you know, they're strange. Just keep the passengers away from the winders. In a way, it's too bad, Mr. Dylan. His mother would have really enjoyed that $10,000. You're guessing, Chester. Well, he hasn't seen us yet. All right, let's go. Lawson, get your hands up. Bill, you're under arrest. Get your hands up. Bill, he's running for his horse, Mr. Dylan. Lawson, you're fine. You can't get away on foot. Lawson! Come on, Chester. That's a cutnet awful pin, Mr. Dylan. Giving a man three chances for you to haul down on him. Well, we're still on our feet. He's not. Yeah, but it's a push in the odds, though. Yeah, I guess. All right, pick up his gun there, will you? Yes, you can. Lawson. He's still alive, Mr. Dylan. Can you hear me, Lawson? Sure. Sure, I can hear you. There's a sack of money. Looks like it fell out of his coat. Yeah, I see it. Lawson, there's no doctor on the train. We're going to try to stop the bleeding and do the best we can for you. There'll be a train back toward Dodge, sitting about a half hour. We'll wait for it. Is that all right with you? I don't... Don't have any choice, do I? No, I guess you don't. You made your choice last night. Was she worth it? No, no, let me see now, oh, yeah, oh, that's a bad one, man. Yes, I'd say the bullets lying right in against his heart. I just tried to wing him, Doc, but we were both moving. You can't always call him, you know. No, I guess not. Well, I'm afraid that's not all I can do for him, man. That's not enough, is that it? You won't live an hour. I wish he was conscious. I want to talk to him. Yeah, there still may not take effect. Then again, like not. Well, this kind of occasion, every now and then. What is it you're after, man? Ms. Morley. Accessory before the fact. Yes, she could have been. Well, I'm broken down, old man, Matt. But if that woman rolled her eyes at me, just once. Well, uh, I don't know, I do not know, I just mind. Matt, yeah. Lawson, Lawson, can you talk? Can you hear me, Lawson? Yeah, sure. Wasn't as Morley in on it. Nobody was in on it. Did she know you were going to do it? She had nothing to do with it. Was she going to meet you somewhere later? She had nothing to do with it. It was my idea. Nobody else. Lawson, Lawson, listen to me. You're dying, do you know that? Yeah. Yeah, I know, I can feel it. She wasn't in on it. All right. That's the way you want it. At least I won't treat her like a dog anymore. Well, what do you mean? I mean, a dead man can't bother anybody. Ow. You ought to know you killed him. No, no, no. What? He was asleep. I took money and brought away and they were both asleep. I didn't touch him. You're telling the truth. I swear I didn't kill him. I only stole the money and I... I didn't get... Yeah, I guess I was wrong, Matt. Bullet was closer to his heart than I thought. Yeah. And I was wrong about something myself, Doc. I thought this was the end of it. Now it's wide open again. It's wide open. I don't see why you got me here just as the same things all over again, Marshall, 'cause I told you how it happened. Yeah, I know. You caught Red Lawson with her money on him. Now what more proof do you need? But only proves he took the money just so he doesn't prove he killed Al. Well, what do you mean? Chester, you better punch that fire up over there a little. It does seem to be getting chilly in here. But what do you mean by that, Marshall? You killed Al yourself. Didn't you, Jesse? Right of your mind. You woke up and saw Red steal the money and take off and they gave you ideas. You slipped over a knife to Al and asleep. You knew Lawson got the blame for it. Well, sure. Sure, because he did it, he said he didn't. Nang, still. Well, Marshall, did you expect him to tell the truth? He was dying, Jesse. Knew he was dying. I think he told the truth. I see. His word against mine. Word of a thief. I didn't say I could prove it, Jesse. But you did it, though. We both know that. And sooner or later, I'm going to get you for it. Yeah. Chester, I think it'll draw better if you'd open the damper. Quiet night, Mr. John. It was a quiet night last night. And two men who were alive last night are gone tonight. Sure make you stop and wonder. Well, at least one thing hasn't changed. That coyote's still there. I guess it'll always be coyotes around, Mr. Dillon. What are you going to do about Jesse Wells? No, I don't know, Chester. He's, he's guilty. You could see it written all over him. But there'd be no use for bringing him in. I haven't got one piece of evidence. I don't know. Yes, you, she's quite a woman. Mercy. Quite a woman. Yeah, she is that all right. Matt, is that you? Ah, good evening, Miss Wharly. Who are you looking for tonight? Can't be a red loss and he's dead. So is my husband. You've forgotten? My deepest sympathy. Oh, Father, you know better. I am sorry about Red, though. He was nice. You're the one who did it, aren't you, Matt? Yeah. Yeah, I killed him. For you. I couldn't do anything else. I don't know why you say for me. Wasn't my fault. Yeah, sure, I know. You know. You don't know anything. You don't know how it feels to sit in a house alone with your husband dead. No way in town coming near you. Like he was poisoned or something. Sure, I don't feel sorry about him, but I would have once. He's the one who changed me, made me feel different. I know it wasn't your fault. And you didn't even come to tell me he was dead. Why not? It's probably a job, isn't it? I didn't come and tell you, Miss Wharly, because I figured that you'd... Chester? Yes, you? Oh, do you mind walking on ahead? I'll meet you on the Texas trail in a few minutes. Well, I... All right, Mr. Dylan, if you say so. Why'd you send him away, Matt? I, um... I was just wondering if you were going to be home later tonight. Well, that could be. Around, uh, 10 o'clock, say? Sure, Matt. I'll be there. [Music] Well... How are you, Kitty? Chester and I were trying to think of some way to rescue you from Ava's clusters. Well, only one thing though, Mr. Dylan. I wasn't sure you wanted to be rescued. Uh, Kitty is Doc Benin tonight. Oh, I haven't seen him, Matt. Chester, would you see if you can find him and have him meet me here? Yes, you're right away, Mr. Dylan. Uh, Kitty, uh... I wonder if you'd help me with something. Sure, Matt. What? Drop a hint to that bartender, Jesse Wells, that it might be smart to slip out of here and pay a visit to Miss Marley's around. I'll say 9.45 tonight. All right. Um, is it anything you can talk about? I don't exactly know how to talk about a Kitty. I gotta murder all my hands. I know who the killer is, and I can't touch him. So? So, I'm gonna try to make him touch me. Hmm. All right, Matt. I'll take care of it. Will you be around for one? Yeah, yeah. I'll be here at about 10. [MUSIC PLAYING] Where is it? It's Matt Dylan. Who'd you think? Just a minute. Well, hurry up. Let me in. All right, Dylan, come on me. Well, Jesse, I thought you were working. There was till just a few minutes ago. Well, what's on your mind? Hello. Well, I, uh... I think Mr. Dylan probably wants to ask me some questions or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do, as a matter of fact. Uh, Jesse Wells, for instance. Well, you didn't tell me he was gonna be here, Ava. Well, how do you mean she didn't tell you? Well, you, Ava, what about this? You were expecting. You knew he was coming. Of course you knew I was coming. You and Matt Dylan. For how long? And what kind of a fool does that make me? I afraid you were born a fool, Jesse. That's why she picked you. So wonderful you said if only Al didn't stand in our way. I didn't tell you to kill him. I didn't mention it once. You didn't have to. Just kept copping hints, leading me on. And all the time you and Matt Dylan. He's too smart for you, Jesse. You should have realized that. Yeah. And instead, I played right into your hands. Both of you. How, Jesse, killing Al. Getting him out of your way. Giving the two of you a clear field. You're under arrest for murder, Jess. Well, oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you? Both of you would. Sit around and laugh about it while you're waiting for me to. Hey! I said you're under arrest. Now, hand over your gun. Oh, you don't, Dylan. You're not going to carry it that far. You're not taking me in for something both of you wanted me to do. Hand over your gun, Jesse. You want my gun? You got to take it away from me. Get away from the door. Oh, sure. I'll get away from it. Stop it. Open this door. Stop it. God, shit. Are you all right, Chester? Yes, sir? It was close, but he missed me. Go ahead. You two didn't miss him. I don't know which one of you fired first, but... Either bullet would have done it. There you got his confession. All right, Mr. Dylan. Doc and I heard every word from the front porch here. He sure did. Only one thing though, Matt. He... He didn't implicate the woman in it. Yeah. I know. Oh, you take charge, Doc. Oh, sure. Be glad to. Part of my job, you know. Matt. All right, Chester, let's go. Matt? Could I see you for a minute before you go? Matt? What's it add up to, Mr. Dylan? Three men had been killed since the same time last night. Yeah. And you know, Mr. Dylan? 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