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Duration:: 31m
Broadcast on:: 17 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chance, a job that makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Hey, you, where is the Marshall's office? Well, you want the Marshall for it. Well, I'll tell him that. Where's his office? I'm leaning on it. Oh, it ain't no use here going in there. What? Marshall Dillon, ain't around. Well, where is he? He won't be back with you three hours. Well, I can't wait that long. Well, I worked for him. My name's Chester Proudfoot. Oh, yeah, yeah, I heard of you. Yeah. I didn't know where you were. I don't get to dodge you, but I seldom. My name is Sam Ricker, it's Chester, got me homestead. I'm proving up a few miles west of here on the Arkans, you see. You've got trouble or some kind, sir? Oh, no, not me. I want to show you something. That's my wagon standing over there, a woman sitting on it. Your wife? Yeah. Come on over. I'll show you. Come on. What do you want to show me? You're going to be real surprised, Chester. I am. Yeah, everybody is. Except him that knows me, of course. Here we are. Hey, lady, don't sit there like he was dead. Look around. That ain't Marshall Villins, Sam. Marshall ain't here, but this is Chester. He works for him. How do, ma'am? Howdy. Chester can take care of everything. Can't you, Chester? Well, if you'll tell me what it is, maybe I can't. Oh, well, you're going to be real surprised. Hurry up, Sam. Get it over with. Give him a surprise. You're so pleased. You'll shut up, or you'll get nothing out of this. I don't want nothing out of this. I don't care. No mind, Chester. Come on around the back of the wagon. There. Who's that? I had to wrap him up in canvas. Here, huh? I'll uncover you. Thank you. There. Take a look at that. My goodness. Where'd you get him? He rode into my place last night about supper time. He didn't figure on finding a fellow like me there, I guess. Say, you must be a whirlwind to shoot a man like him. Oh, no, it was quite luck, I guess. But I didn't haul him in here for nothing, Chester. Yeah, I know. But, mister, don't have to take care of all that, Sam. It'll be a little hard for you to get anything. As long as I know it's coming. Oh, sure. You'll get it. But right now, you can help me carry him up the dock so he can do autopsy. It'll be a pleasure. I found your note downstairs, Chester, so I came straight up by his dock. He's out back finishing up. Hey, Doc. Mr. Dillon's here. What's this all about, Chester? He'll kill Bob Hobart. Sam Ricker's killed him. Sam Ricker's the homesteader? Yes, you're right. That's what he said he was. I don't know Ricker's well, but he sure never seemed the kind of a man who'd take on an outlaw like Bob Hobart. A thousand dollar reword might have braving him up. Yeah. Hello, man. Oh, Doc. Well, you've got a good bad man there. You can take him out to boot here and plant him any time you like, man. That's not much of an autopsy report, Doc. What's that a report? Hobart was wasn't that alive, sir. How he got shot, doesn't matter. How did he get shot? Twice in the chest. Once in the back. In the back? Well, I can't tell you which was first, man, but get him buried. I don't want him around here all day. I haven't seen him yet, Doc. Do you know, Bob Hobart, man? Yeah, some years ago, this is his first time around here, though. Last time, too. I guess Dodge was too tough for him. That might be like saying Ford's theater was too tough for Mr. Lincoln, Doc. If he was shot in the back first, you mean? Well, there he is. What's the matter, man? Sam Ricker isn't going to collect a thousand dollars reward for this. What? He might hang for it, though. I don't know who he murdered here, but it sure isn't Bob Hobart. [MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] Never has a cigarette received such an enthusiastic welcome, or one such a smashing success since a little time as L and M filters. Why are L and M sales soaring higher every day? 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Mrs. makes me feel kind of old. All right, sure. Stop trying to fool people, Lenny. You know how old she is, Marshal? Don't, Sam, please. Sam, I came out to talk to you about that man you brought in the Dodge this morning. That man was the most valuable man I ever run into, Marshal. What? Out of him, I'm going to build me a new house, buy me some hogs and cows, and I don't know what all. I've been telling Lenny about all the things I'm going to do with that reward money. I wish you wouldn't take it, Sam. What? I just don't want any part of it, sir. [LAUGHTER] All right, stop that, you. Hey, you interfering with a man and his wife, Marshal? If I have to, I am. But you're not going to get any reward money, Sam. What do you mean? That wasn't Bob Holbert you killed. What? I don't know who it was, but it wasn't Holbert. What are you talking about? I knowed him as soon as he rode in here. How did you know him? What did you ever say, Bob Holbert? Well, I seen his picture last week on one of them wanted cards down to post office. Yeah, by the way, that's right. Well, she don't have plumb forgot. Them posters come in last week, and I nailed a couple of them up here and there. I saw his picture too, Marshal. I recognized him right off. Well, the man, Sam, killed, looked a little like Holbert. I'll admit that. But it wasn't him. Sam. Shut up, Liddy. But that makes it murder Sam. No, no, no, no. There was a mistake. Marshal said he looked like Holbert's picture. Was my fault. Tell me what happened, Sam. I didn't murder nobody. He was a mistake. You want to tell me about it, Liddy? No. I'll tell you, it was like this. We've seen him coming. He was about supper time. And when he got close, we both recognized him. So I went outside and, well, I told him to keep riding. We don't want no outlaws around here. And then he started to pull out his gun. Well, I shot him. That's how it happened. Ain't it, Liddy? Ain't it? That's right, Marshal. That's what happened. There's one thing you didn't tell me, Sam. What? How come he got a bullet in the back? Oh, wow. He fell off this horse, and he was rowing around, and I shot him again. Must have him in the back, I guess. You saw it, Liddy. I saw it. Liddy, if Sam went on trial, would you swear to all this and court? Yeah, I'd swear to it, Marshal. Hey, you were the only witness to this. It's the truth, Marshal, self-defense. Why should I be lying? I don't know, Sam. I'd just like to know who the man was that you shot. Well, he was some kind of outlaw, drawn on me like that. Maybe, but you were taking quite a chance. Buck and a man you thought was Bob Hobart, won't you? I ain't afraid of no man, Marshal. No man at all. Oh, huh. Oh, don't write it too hard, Sam. That might throw you someday. So long. [MUSIC PLAYING] Drink your beer, Matt. No thanks, Kitty. I don't think I want it after all. You're going to have to pay for it just the same. OK, you know, there must be something wrong with me, Kitty. Oh, sure is. I wish I knew what it was. I'll like and tell you what it is tonight. I know. Sam Ricker. Yeah. You know, there's sure something wrong without storing it is. Yeah, something wrong with her wife I hear, too. Putting up with him. Oh, she's afraid of it. I'll take an accident if I don't mind. You and Marshal Dillon? Yeah, that's right. My name's Katlyn Marshall from San Antone. Now what can I do for you, Katlyn? You can explain this to me. That's what? Marvin, it's Bob Holbert's wanted poster. I don't know nothing about no Holbert. But that's my partner's picture you got on there. $1,000 dead or alive. Now what's this all about, Marshal? Maybe you can tell me, Katlyn. Tell you nothing. I got off the train here this afternoon. First thing I see is a wanted picture of Jake Haney with somebody else's name on it. Jake Haney, huh? Me and my partner for 10 years. He ain't no odd law. Never been in Kansas in his whole life before. Where is anyway? He was supposed to meet me here. You got him in jail or something? Jake Haney's dead, Katlyn. Dead? That's not Haney's picture there. That's Bob Holbert like it says. Your partner looks something like him, and now they got shot. Who'd shoot Jake Haney? He never had trouble with nobody. Carried a gun, sure, but I always done the fighting for us. I don't believe it, Marshal. I'm sorry, Katlyn, but it's true. We buried him out on Boot Hill yesterday. Who killed him, Marshal? He was killed by mistake, Katlyn. Nobody's killed by mistake. Now who killed him? Wait a minute. You did. It doesn't matter who did. I'll find out. I'll get the man to done it. You were whoever. It was a mistake, Katlyn. Your partner and Robert looked enough I'd like to fool you, didn't they? You're going to tell me who did it, Marshal? No. And I'll find out myself. Jake Haney was as honest and decent a man as I ever knew. He ain't going to die like this for nothing. I'm going to kill the man that did it. You'll kill anybody here and you'll hang for it, Katlyn. Not me. And if I have to kill you too, Marshal, don't try it. I'll see you later. Sam Ricker won't stand a chance against him, Matt. Have a listen, Chester, after warning. He can come hide in the jail if he likes. He'll like it if he's smart. Yeah. Oh, and Kitty, Doc and I are going to have supper together tonight. Won't you join us? I got to eat sometimes. I'll go find Chester, then I'll come back for you. OK, Matt. [THEME MUSIC PLAYING] Good morning, Mr. Dylan. What did you do, Chester? Spend the night out of the rickers? Yes, you. That sure did. That's a pretty small place. What did they sleep you? Oh, there was lots of room, Mr. Dylan, plenty of it. Now, what do you mean? I was all alone. I never did see neither Sam nor a lady. But they've gone? They look like it. But I sure don't know why. Like you said last night, that fella Jake Haney was never around here before, so Sam couldn't have had no reason for wanting to kill him. Yeah, but Sam had some reason for running off. Yes, sir. Good morning, Matt. Morning, Chester. Oh, Doc. I thought you were going out of the Bowers Place today. I was, Matt, the Bowers sent one of his men in to say they didn't need me after all. I thought a cowboy busted a leg out there. That's what they said yesterday? Must be a pretty tough man. Bust a leg and don't want no doctor. Tough or stingy, worn. You know, I charged $20 for a trip like that. Ah, that's a month's wages for a cowboy, Doc. So to save $20, you probably put a mud cast on it and have a crooked leg the rest of his life. If he brings his $20 into town and runs it up to $1,000, that Pharaoh, he won't care if he has a crooked leg, Doc. Chester, you trying to ruin my practice? Oh, I was only kidding, Doc. He'd never run it up to $1,000, but I accept your apology. Well, if that's what it was. Say, Matt, I was talking to Sam Rickers after I left you last night. Sam Rickers, Aaron Dodge. He was over at the hotel with his wife. Why? No wonder I never got to see him. But did they spend the night in town? What's wrong with that? Huh, or nothing? Huh? Oh, well, I told him all about Catlin. Everything you told me, Matt, I figured somebody got a warning, Sam. Seeing as how Catlin's staying right there at the hotel, too. That was all right, wasn't it? That's OK, as long as Catlin doesn't know about Sam. Well, there's no way he can know. Kitty won't talk, and the three of us here sure won't. He's safe if he keeps his mouth shut. But I better go talk to him. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Al and M filters are sweeping the country. Al and M, the filter tips cigarette everyone's talking about, everyone's changing, too. For example, Maurice Evans told us, my doctor suggested Al and M filters. I recommend them to you as the best. 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Mr. Doe will make you think he could paint his hotel once in a while, wouldn't you? Not if you stay inside. I guess it doesn't matter, Chester. Marshall, I was just coming for you. What's the trouble, Mr. Doe? There's been a shooting, Marshall, right here in my hotel. Now that's got to stop, I tell you. I won't put up with you. Never mind, Dad. What happened? Well, I don't know, Marshall. Heard a couple of shots upstairs, ran up, found Sam Rick. He's there in the hall. Now I don't know what happened, but I've kept everybody from going up there. Come on, sir. [MUSIC PLAYING] [KNOCKING ON DOOR] Hey, Sam, he ain't shot. What happened, Sam? Tell me, sir, there's been a shooting, Marshall. Look, in this room here. That's Catlin, Mr. Dillon. Who killed him, Sam? I did. You did? I had to, Marshall. Oh, tell me what happened. Well, you see, Doc told me Catlin was looking for who shot his partner. So I got to thank him. And I figured the only way out was to talk up to him, tell him how I made a mistake. Don't you think that was right? That doesn't explain killing him. I better get Lettie out here if she saw it. [KNOCKING ON DOOR] Lettie, Lettie, come on out here. She can tell you. What do you want, Sam? Oh, the Marshall? Come out here, I said. I don't want to talk, Sam. You'll talk when I tell you to. You saw what happened, and I'm going to explain it to the Marshall. I'll go ahead. OK. Like I was saying, Marshall, I wanted to talk to Catlin. So I found out which room he was in, and I went, knocked on the door. And he opened it, and then when I told him who I was, before I could say anything else, he grabbed for his gun. I had to shoot him, Marshall. It was self-defense. Catlin's guns laying on the floor in there, Mr. Doin. He had it out all right. You saw it, Lettie. Is that what happened? I saw it. Tell him, Lettie. I don't want to talk. Tell him what you saw. Please, Sam, I feel kind of sick. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I told you once. You've heard him, Marshall. I knocked him out. He's not hurt. Sam's no good, Lettie. Now, what do you stand up for him? You're afraid of him? He's my husband. No woman needs a husband like that. I married him. Maybe he was different then. But the way he is now, he doesn't deserve a wife. He is no good, Lettie. And you know it. And you've gone along with him, makes you as bad as he is. No. No, don't say that, Marshall. I'm not. I'm not like Sam. If you lie for him, you're just like him. No, no. Now, tell me what happened. Did you see it? I saw it. Was it like Sam said? No. All right, then tell me. I can't stand it, Marshall. I can't stand it no more. Sam's a murderer. I hate him. I won't tell no more lies for him. I'll go on. He won't hurt you again. That first man, Marshall, we thought he was that outlaw. He looked like him. So Sam went in and got his gun and sneaked around the house while I was talking to him. He shot him in the back, like killing a hog. And he turned him over and shot him twice more in the front. Makes me sick, Marshall. What about Catlin? Sam killed him the same way. Of course he did. I tried to stop him, but he had his gun out when he knocked on Catlin's door. And then he shot him just as soon as he opened it. And then he took Catlin's gun and threw it on the floor. I watched him. Marshall, she's lying. Don't listen to her, Marshall. She's a lying woman. I'm not lying. I saw you shoot both those men, like killing hogs. Wait till I get you alone, lady. Talking about your husband that way, I'll bust you. Good, you won't get her alone, Sam. You're under arrest. I don't care if you are my husband, Sam. You're a coward. You're a terrible coward. I hate. No, I hate. I kill him, didn't I? I kill two men. Give me your gun, Sam. No. You ain't taking my gun. I ain't a coward. Give it to him. No. [GUNSHOT] Get it. He tried to draw on you, Mr. Dylan. Yeah. Come on, let him. I'll take you back to your room. He's dead. Sam's dead. I couldn't let him shoot me, let him. I told the truth like you said, Marshall. That made me hate him. Talking about him, that made me hate him worse than I ever did. I'm sorry I had to make you do it. I ain't even going to bury him, Marshall. You do it. Yeah? Sure. I'm going out, and I'm going to burn down the place. And then I'm leaving here, for good. I'm going now. Goodbye. Let him. It ain't your fault, Mr. Dylan. You couldn't handle it no other way. No, I couldn't, Justin. But it is too bad you had to make poor Ms. Rickers tell on her own husband. Yeah. Well, sometimes I wish her would somebody else's job to make people do things like that. [MUSIC PLAYING] And now our star, William Conrad. If you smoke filter cigarettes, I want to recommend the one that's been the most successful and has come farthest to the least amount of time. That's L&M. 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