Gunsmoke Daily

Gunsmoke - Ma Tennis

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Duration:: 33m
Broadcast on:: 19 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Just the three of them, huh? Yeah, I'll pause dead. I wanted to tell you who I am so she wouldn't think I meant nothing wrong. About what? Uh, fella told me you brought him luck once at gambling. That's silly. And maybe, but I wish you'd tried. Please, Miss Kitty. You want to buy me some chips? Sure will. If you sit by my brother over there. Oh, for him. Yeah, and it's kind of hard-headed, ma'am, and he's been losing. I don't want to get mixed up in any fight. Oh, there will be any trouble, but you might change his luck. Please, Miss Kitty. Sounds to me like you still got this kid brother years on a bottle, but you seem like a nice fella, Ben. I'll go. Gee, thanks, Miss Kitty. What's table? I'll show you. How many cards? How many chips will you want? How are you, kitten? I'll just sit and watch. Could I buy you a drink? Later, maybe. Oh, that's Andy with the red hand. Wait till I finish his hand for a sit-on. There's my money. I'm calling you. Got you, Andy. I hope you got a good end this time, young fella. Stop calling me young fella. My name's Andy. Okay, Andy. Nobody's brought you. You, Ben. What do you got? Five little hearts. All blue. How could you have five hearts? They were dealt out right out of the deck, Andy. Sure, and you dealt them, didn't you? Now, what do you mean by that? I ain't want a hand yet. You know what I mean. Easy now, young fella. That's the last time you're going to say that, mister. I'm not armed. You better be. Andy, stop it. He thinks they can keep me because of a kid. Put that gun away. Not while I use it. Why, you're-- I don't have that. Give away from me. You're killing him, Andy. You think that too, Ben? You've done enough shooting. Put that gun away. He was cheating me, wasn't he? No. But even if he was, that's no cause to kill him, Andy. He wasn't even armed, Andy. What do I like here? All right. Hold it. Here's Marshall, Dylan, Andy. Don't you tryin' up in now? Even, Ben. Marshall? What are you doing with a gun on your hand, Andy? I kill one man with it, Marshall. Yeah, I know. All right, drop it. Drop it right on the floor. No. You know, one man's enough, Andy. You're scared now, aren't you? Scared after death. I'm scared. Yes, I'm scared you couldn't shoot if you tried. Now, give me the gun. You shouldn't have been carrying it in the first place. Don't talk to me. Okay, it's too late for talk anyway. Chester? Yes, sir. Lock him up. Yes, sir. Start walking, Andy. Right in front of me. Come on. Yeah, have to lock him up, Marshall. He murdered a man, Ben. Get a you witness this, didn't he? I never saw him in life. His map, but Dylan wasn't even armed. He told himself that kid must be crazy. It was almost like he had to kill somebody. Nothing got to stop him. He hates people telling him how young he is. You ask me, he hates people. It's Ma. She's always made a baby out of him. Well, I better go tell her about this. I don't know her, Ben, but don't get her hopes up, Andy. He hasn't got much chance. Ma's a strong-headed woman, Marshall. She can be pretty fierce. And they murdered a man. He's going to stand trial for it. Maybe. But, Marshall, I sure don't end the U-9. You all know it, but you're in for real trouble now. Never has a cigarette received such an enthusiastic welcome, or one such a smashing success in so little time as L and M builders. Why are L and M sales soaring higher every day? Because it's the filter that counts, and no filter compares with L and M's miracle tip for quality or effectiveness. The result? You get much more flavor, much less nicotine. A light and mild smoke. Join the trend to L and M. Like thousands, you'll say, this is it. L and M builders, this is it. A light and mild. Much more flavor. L and M builders, much less nicotine, light and mild smoke. L and M king's eyes are regular, both at the same low price. L and M. Oh, that was the prisoner of this morning, Justin. It's hardly hard to tell, Mr. Dillon. Oh, what do you mean? Well, he won't say nothing. He won't even look at you. I took him some bread and some coffee and he wouldn't touch it. It's just sitting down on the floor getting cool. It's a coffee. I mean, not the bread, but the bread is generally cold. Okay, okay. All right, Chester. All right. Anyway, you won't be here long. I'm trying to fix it so he'll get a trial real soon. Well, if he's done, he's done killing someplace else. I don't like him, man. They won't even eat his breakfast. Makes me deal with it. Oh, my goodness, up he goes. Marshall Dillon? Yes, ma'am. My name's tennis. How do you do? This is just a prodfoot. How do you do, ma'am? I didn't come here for no socializing. What's the shotgun for him, Mr. Tennis? To put people where cold weather won't bother them. I sleep with his shotgun, Marshall. Carried it ever since I was 18, but I didn't come here to talk about that either. Yeah, it came to see your boy Andy, huh? Ben says Andy killed a man. He doesn't miss tennis. You're holding him for murder? Yes, ma'am. You want to try him? He'll be tried. And hung, I suppose. That depends on the judge, you must, tennis. Andy, he's got much of a case from what Ben tells me. Hey, he's young. The judge might take that into consideration. But the judge care ain't his son. I'm sorry, Mr. Tennis. There's been one too many hangings in my family already. What? The boy's father, Marshall. They took Mr. Tennis and hung him just before Andy was born. Oh, I worked the ranch best I could and I raised them two boys all alone. Nobody helped me at all. I did it. Tell me, uh, why did they hang your husband? They said he killed a man. Mr. Tennis, you said Ben told you about what happened last night. He told me Andy's guilty. But Andy ain't going to hang, Marshall. Why do you think I come here? I've got my buggy outside and Andy's leaving with me. No, Mr. Tennis. Shut up. Look, uh, why don't you put the shotgun down, huh? Here's one of you. Scratch for your guns and I'll blow you to heaven, Marshall. Hear that, Chester? There's my mind doing a thing. Good. I ain't afraid of dying. And I ain't afraid of killing, neither. Chester, you go get Andy and bring him in here. Why? Mr. Don't know what she says, Chester. And it tricks and I'll shoot the Marshall, Chester. I won't find him. This isn't going to do any good, Mr. Tennis. It's going to keep Andy from hanging. Oh, I'm going to find him sooner or later, you know. That's where I got you beat, Marshall. Andy ain't going to run. What? He's going to stay on the ranch. That's my house. Anybody comes after him, they're going to have to fight me. Fight you. You think that'll make a man out of him? You think the hang man would? Here he is. Hello, Ma. You young fool. What'd you have to go kill a man for? Now, Ma. Because he's outside, go get in it. Sure, Ma. And, Marshall, don't think you're going to shoot him while we're driving out of town. I don't shoot unarmed men, Mr. Tennis. He ain't a coward. It's got a bad temper, but he ain't a coward. What would you call hiding behind a woman's skirts? I'm his ma, ain't I? What difference does that make? You will find out if you don't leave him alone. I'll tell you so long, Miss Tennis. So long, Ma. Chester and I stood helplessly at the window and watched Miss Tennis and Andy drive out of town. And as we did, I began to wonder how I'd ever get him back into jail, short of shooting his mother. Our idea of keeping him right by her side and not letting him run was a good one, but I figured even he'd get tired of that sooner or later. So after sitting around Dodge being laughed at for a week, Chester and I rode up to see if Andy was still on the ranch. There's a house, Mr. Dillon. Yeah. I don't see nobody around. Maybe they're inside. I wish I was inside something. That woman got a bead on me right now. I can just feel it. Chester, look over there. One of that cottonwood but a barn there. Well, that's her, Mr. Dillon. What in the world is she doing, digging? Yeah, it looks like it. Oh, she's seen us. Now, there's that shotgun again. Oh, my goodness. Put your hands in the air, Chester. Sure, we're friendly. Okay. But it just makes me have better target. Huh. What are you doing here, Marshal? I wanted to talk to you, Miss Tennis. How about Andy? Yeah. I'd like to talk to him, too. He's too late, Marshal. He gone? He's dead. What? This here's his grave. I just buried him. Oh, what happened? What didn't it make? He's dead. How did he die, Miss Tennis? Why don't you leave me be, Marshal? You can't hang him now. Go on back to die. Miss Tennis, I know how you feel and I hate to ask you this, but I'm going to have to see the body before I can make a report. Anybody goes digging in that grave, I'll kill him. What happened, Miss Tennis? All right, I'll tell you. Ben talked Andy into giving himself up and standing trial, and he's going to do it. I wouldn't allow that. No son of mine is going to hang. You're saying that you killed him? I killed him. I'd rather he died that way than see him hang. Well, it's Ben. Gone. I'll run him off. He ain't never coming back. Both my sons are gone now, Marshal. So good. Miss Tennis. He's going to arrest me, ain't you? Are you confessed to a murder? They won't hang a woman, literally. No. Okay. You can arrest me, but I ain't coming to town till tomorrow. Well, if you'd like to kind of pack up or whatever... I don't want you waiting around here. I'll come to die by myself. Either you trust me, Marshal, or I won't come at all. Okay, Miss Tennis. You come in tomorrow. Come on, let's go, Justice. Mr. Dillon, that woman is crazy. She doesn't want anything. I don't see how you can trust her. She'll show up, Justice. You really think so? I'm sure of her. Now, when she does, she's in for a big surprise. Oh, you want me to go get my chessboard, man? No, Doc. I don't feel like playing right now, isn't it? Oh, you don't know. What part might help kind of kill time? I'm not worried, Doc. She'll show up, all right. Yes, you will. Why should she, man? Why should anybody walk in and give up on a murder charge? Well, Martinus is a little different from most people, Doc. Like Ben told me she can be pretty fierce. Oh, I know she can't. You know, I remember one time a horse pitched her into some wire, and it cut her up bad, all over. I had to sew that woman up from one end to the other, and she never even blinked. She just laid there, looking kind of mad about her. Ah, she's got her own mind, don't say that, even if she is wrong, most of it. Well, she always has been wrong about Andy. I tried to tell her that once, and you know what she did? She just looked at me, never said a word, steered me right out of the house, or made me feel like a fool. She's made me feel like a fool too, Doc. You know, what can you do? You can't fight women, man. No, but sometimes you can outsmart them, maybe. I don't know. I don't know if you should. What are you doing, mean, Doc? Ah, well, another than Mr. Tennis, I was just chatting with Marshall. I was just killing a little time. Yeah, I guess the thing. Now, I'm telling lies, and you ought to be working to trouble with you, city folks. Oh, now, Doc, isn't exactly what you call a city, Mrs. Tennis. And I didn't come here to argue about that. You're gonna lock me up, Marshall? Uh, no, Miss Tennis, I'm not. What? Well, I got to thinking, I, uh, made a mistake yesterday. I can't send you up for trial. What are you talking about? Why can't you? Oh, there's no witness. You say you killed Andy, but that's not enough for a court of law. There's got to be somebody else to testify that you did it. I never heard of no such thing. Well, it's in the book. That's the way the law works. Of course, if you hadn't run Ben off, he'd be a witness. But, uh, I can't go chasing him all over the country. You don't ever find him. But he's going all the way to California. Well, then, I got no case against you. Not only getting trouble for wasting the court's time, you might as well go on back home, Mrs. Tennis. You're trying to fool me, Marshall. Ah, the case closed. I don't like it, but there's nothing I can do about it. Unless Ben shows up sometime. Ben's gone, I told you. Well, as long as he is, you're free. Why didn't you tell me this yesterday? I'm sorry, Mrs. Tennis. I guess I wasn't thinking too good yesterday. Get out and do a little work sitting around this office. John would dock at him. You might get the thinking better. Yes, ma'am. Maybe you're right, ma'am. I'm going, uh, so long. Goodbye. Goodbye, Mrs. Tennis. Matt. Yeah. I never heard anything so crazy. What were you telling her? It doesn't matter, Doc, as long as she believes it. Well, what are you trying to do anyway? I'm trying to catch a murderer, Doc. 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Now we're gonna wait here till we starve if we have to. Oh my goodness, don't talk about it. Nine didn't have much supper. Quiet. Listen. That's a horse, Mickey, aren't it? Must be him. Yeah. Well, they won't leave his horse outside. He'll bring him in here. Get back in one of those stalls, Chester. And don't do when they shoot and the messy gets me. All right, hurry now, please. I got him, Chester. All right, I got him, Chester. Got his horse inside. Here's one. I got him. You heard him, Dad, Mr. Nell. Now you'll be all right in a minute. I got his go. Oh, oh, well, Mr. Nell, that ain't Ben. It's Andy. Yeah, I know. I thought he was Ben. She wouldn't shoot Andy, Chester, never. That's what was wrong with her story from the beginning. Well, then, that's Ben's grave. Out there. Him and Andy must have had a fight. Yeah, I guess so. But then, they can make it me think it was Andy, and that she'd killed him, Andy would be free. Nobody's going to go hunting for a dead man. And she was willing to go to jail. Don't shoot me. Don't shoot me. Nobody's going to shoot you, Andy. Now, keep your voice down. Now, get on your feet. Come on, Chester. All right, look down, Chester. We've been waiting for you, Andy. I didn't kill him. I didn't do it. I think you did. I think Ben threatened to bring you back to jail himself, and you shot him for it. No, no, Mark killed him. She told you she did it. Why, why'd you turn to loose anyway? Because I didn't believe her. You should have run when you had the chance, Andy. You got nothing to run for. Well, that doesn't matter if you admit killing Ben, or not, you're going to be tried for murdering that gambler and dodge. Andy! It was Dennis. I'm all right, answer her, Andy. Go on. Mark, are you doing the math along? I heard you lied up. Don't tell her to come in. Can't help me, Mark. Oh, well, she means I got that shotgun. I'll grab it if she has. All right, get Andy back out of the way, Chester. Over here, Andy. [Sighs] Hello, Miss. Dennis. Marshall, Dylan. All right, bring him over here, Chester. She's on arm. You got Andy. Yeah, I got him. And I'm going to keep him. Mark? But you have to ride in here for. They're going to take me to jail, Mark. I'm taking him to jail. Chester's going to stay here and keep an eye on you for a few hours, Miss. And I'm not taking out of the dodge for you to walk in with your shotgun, either. Well, you're taking him. They can be tried anywhere. It'll be hard, won't it? I told you before, that's not for me to decide. It'll be hard. Marshall, you're taking him now. Yeah. Can I talk to him a minute? Okay, but don't try to make a break for it. It won't do any good. I'm out, Andy. Sure, Mark. Well, I'll last him over for no good kid I ever saw. We'll let his Mark go to jail for him. Ah, we got him now, Chester. And you keep her here as long as you can. Sit on her if you have to. Well, how far are you taking him, Mr. Dylan? I don't know. I believe maybe you're- What, Mr. Dylan? Oh, still. I ain't gonna shoot you, Marshall. It's my gun. All right, come on, Chester. Oh, she killed him, Mr. Dylan. She had a shotgun to get out in there. You beat me, Marshall. You beat me this time. Yeah, sure was wrong about you, Ms. Tennis. I had to kill him. I couldn't see him hang. The only reason I'm out here now is because I was sure you'd never do this. Yeah, I was real wrong about you, wasn't I? I did not smudge after all. You're gonna put me in jail? Yeah. Yeah, Ms. Tennis, this time I'm gonna put you in jail. (Music) And now our star, William Conrad. Filter smokers, whether you lack a long cigarette or a regular-sized smoke, it's my opinion that your best bet is an L and M filter, because only L and M's give you effective filtration and no other cigarette has it. Enjoy L and M's light and mild smoke. Either way, king-size or regular, both at the same low price. 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