 It's Hopalong Cassidy With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Hopalong Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Hopalong Cassidy This famous hero thrills his 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventure In the role of Hopalong Cassidy is the popular star of the motion picture series William Boyd and appearing as that laughable old character, California is Andy Clyde Now to our story killers of Sandy Gulch You won't find the name Sandy Gulch on any map because after a crucial fight between law and order on one side and Lawlessness on the other the town was renamed and has borne a spotless reputation since then But in the early days it wasn't easy going for law and order Decent people were afraid to go out in the evening the day the trouble really came to a head was one Saturday a Little Main Street was crowded for there were holding a trial The defendant William Taylor was accused of killing the genial and honest banker Watson As the verdict is being handed down the shirts leave jurors and judge squirm uneasily in their chairs Well, the prisoners stand and face the bench It is my duty as judge of this court to weigh the evidence in fact in this case It was a plain case of murder You William Taylor has admitted being there and you had a reason You've had a fair trial and you've been proven guilty Come on and get done with the talk and judge so we can get to the high end Biggy Griggs you're out of order if I hear any more. I'll clear the courtroom Order order in the courtroom. It is a sentence of this court that you William Taylor be hung by the neck till death Well, that's it boys. What are we waiting for biggy griggs? If you or any of your rotten gang lay a hand on the prisoner, you'll regret it And I'm back in my orders with his six-gun. We ain't waiting for long. It's too slow. Come on boys He's getting away head off the killer Right now the prisoners escape Taylor he's escaped the killer's rose now now calm down one thing at a time I was in the courtroom at Sandy gorge and there was gonna hang Taylor for the kill in the bank or Watson Who's they well? Why baby why what I meant was a he's guilty is all get out and biggy griggs Oh, I thought that name had been mixed up in it, but he was gonna leave the posse in the hang and why well Gosh come to think of it. Why you're right begin below and now suppose you put down the supplies and start at the beginning Yeah Well, like I said Taylor was guilty. He sure hoped it to had the look of a killer in these eyes But the important thing is Taylor did get away. Yeah, Taylor Why hoppy hop long cat city you mean you're glad this Taylor beat the law No, it's not that California Judge Calhoun's a fair judge fair judges have made mistakes Well, I'll be a banty-legged cowpoke the rest of my life if you ain't back in the hand or this Taylor Maybe I am I can't believe it Not you hop why was biggy griggs so anxious to get the hanging over. Oh of why I didn't be you let the law take its course Well, why is the sheriff himself tell me that he didn't think Taylor did the killing? Oh Cut it out hoppy ain't no you start you with you or ought to learn that you always got some darn good reason for thinking The way you do California, you know, I'll go the limit of the law to run down killers But at the same time if I think a man's getting a raw deal I know hoppy you'll fight like a bear cat to prove it. So You're thinking Taylor's innocent until a few things are explained to me. Yes. Well, we've been riding together a long time No, you ain't never been wrong yet. Yeah, and we're up. Well, what do we do now? Wonder who this is I Have to see mr. Cassidy. Well, please. I might see him this minute. Come on in Howdy miss I'm mr. Cassidy hop along cats. That's right. I miss a tailor mrs. Taylor You've got to help me mr. Cassidy. You just got now you're kind of upset just sit down a minute and tell me what's wrong It's my husband William Taylor. They're gonna hang him. You mean if they catch him, you know, we was just talking about it Please believe me mr. Cassidy William wouldn't kill anybody. He's in a strange town. He's being made to go for someone else I kind of felt the same way myself Then you'll help me on one condition. Where's your husband now? I can't tell then I'm afraid I can't help you But you'll turn him over to the law mr. Taylor. You came to me because you thought I'd help you Yes, yes, I did The man down at the bank said you were the only one who could help me now then I'll do one I can if you'll trust me All right, mr. Cassidy. I'm sorry good and take me to your husband if he can convince me is innocent I'll do my best to clear him very well from now on his life is in your hand He sure picked a whopping good spot with all these caves around here. Yeah You better go on ahead. There might be some shooting. He doesn't see you first William Please William these men have come to help you. I don't believe it, but it's hop along Cassidy He's the law looks like you don't need no help copy mr. Taylor your wife seemed to think you needed help They'll get me anyhow, that's right William put down your gun mr. Taylor. I can't help you do you give yourself up? They'd hang me they got a noose ready now you'll be in custody, but only the sheriff will know where oh, please do it They say William, please break in that jail in a minute. You won't be in the jail. You'll be at my ranch See William. It's the only way There was some way we could ride away from here. Well, they just follow you for the rest of your life Well, all right I don't know what else to do. Ah, that's right. I'll be dark soon. Suppose you tell me what happened Well, I saved a bit of money from the ranch You always wanted to get in a mine and read an ad in our paper back home in Tennessee Send a half interest in the diva mine was for sale. He reminded her why they didn't give up nothing But rattlesnakes for ten years quiet California. So Sarah and me came here. I bought $12,000 long. Where's the money now stole Somebody come to the hotel said banker Watson wanted to see me at his house and so I went and I took the money with me Somebody knocked it off when he came to the money was gone. Well, I then even coyote California California go on mr. Taylor Oh, well, I was just going in from the street to the banker's house when I heard a window crash out I didn't know what to do. Just then something hit me. You know the rest. Oh, that sounds honest Well, let's get back to the bar 20 and I want to write it and have a little talk with sheriff base If it ain't hop along must be something important to bring you to town is a man's life important according to who's it is Mine is not to you. Yes, Sheriff Taylor gonna way today and got any news, you know where I can find him You're the man with a star sheriff dog. Go on. I thought you had some news Biggie griggs in the past. You're still out. Why is biggie so anxious to tie the knot? Why I don't rightly know just helping and you know something hoppy Taylor's the first killer I ever felt sorry for probably because in the back of your mind You don't think he's guilty Well, what did they lay at the game killing banker Watson? I don't know. He never said Said he had a letter from Bank of Watson, but he never produced it because it was stolen from along with these $12,000 are you believe that yarn? I think I know what a man is lying and Taylor didn't lie and what become of the money And the letter that's what I am to find out and you're gonna help me You know it's a funny thing Anybody else said that to me I'd gun with but being an honest lawman you'll write a wrong Well, where do we start is this the poker the killer use yep exhibit be at the trial I'll leave it where it is. I think it'll help us trap the killer now look Up here Well biggie any news on the killer I'm fresh Prince out in the caves with no sign of a sidewinder Well if it ain't a little boy blue hop along Cassidy something you wanted to take up with me biggie No Just wondering what snoop when you're up to now biggie hop along as an old friend of mine And if you can't keep a civil tongue in your head Vamoose I seen that old wall was a rise with you Asking questions of the hotel clerk. Yeah, and if he finds out what I think he will there's gonna be another trial But with a different defendant What do you mean by that did it hit close to home biggie while yellow liver? See chef remember that might come in handy sometime biggie's weak spot is the point of his chin I never hated a man of my life like I do you hop along Cassidy, and I'm warning you the next time we meet It'll be different Yeah, you got yourself a tough umbra there hop along. I'm aiming to keep him tough like it's not he's headed for his gunslinger He doesn't worry me sheriff. Well getting back to this killing We figured Taylor was mad at being took in on that minor deal So he killed Bank of Watson thinking he was to blame Why did biggie Greg spend the night at the bankers home well like biggie said the banker was afraid of his umbra That was what biggie says Well, I'll meet your banker Watson's house in a half hour. I ain't got nothing much to do We can go on right now. No, I got to pick up the California and then talk to a fellow about a hound dog I don't know I just plan on sure if I'm not sure of anything yet. Oh, would you find out biggie plenty? Hop along Cassidy is digging into this killing. I don't like it. I mean either Biggie you remember I I told you my old mother ain't well a past willow You ain't leaving club you're in this too. Oh, but I don't feel good. You're gonna feel a mighty lot worse I've just seen that old walrus walking toward the bankers house and he met some cow poke cow poke Why you idiot like it's not with Cassidy. We got to move fast if he was going into the bankers house Oh, what do you mean? Don't ask question if the boys are meet me here Prado Cassidy's no fool. It's me or him and I aim to still be around Now you see hoppy. This was the room banker Watson was asleep in when he was killed off for Grusham now out here in the hall Next door was where biggie was sleeping He got out in the hall just in time to see this fellow run down the hall and jump through the big front window I see Ran through this hall turned this corner went to the right room and jumped through a window. He didn't know was there And didn't know it was there Taylor just around the town an hour before he'd never seen the house Hey, that's right. He couldn't have so Taylor had to go into a strange room go to a fireplace in the dark Find a poker go back to the right room and kill someone he hadn't even met yet Why hoppy you're right a sheriff. Uh, you don't mind if we know it around a bit Ain't no log in it and well you're doing that. I got some looking up to do with the office See you later sheriff. You might drop by the office. Yeah, we'll do that You know hoppy uh follower get uh cut up jumping through a window like that Not with these coat over his face looks like that one. They ain't been open for 50 years All them spider webs across it. Yeah from side to side looks like them vines of monkeys swing on You know, california you just gave me the answer. There's something I've worried about I did Uh about monkey. No about a human being a vicious killer whose mighty smart california Then are we looking any farther? I'd like to take a look at that room where biggie slept This place has given me the shivers hoppy. Can she adjourn things? Hoppy Good work boys now get to the basement and set fire to that kindling Why don't we just gun them down? Nah When they find them in the ashes don't want no bullet holes are showing Man by the name of taylor was convicted of a killing and sentenced to hang But when biggie griggs and his gunman started to take him themselves the prisoner escaped Hop along is convinced taylor is innocent as he and california are looking over the scene of the killing They're gun whipped down Biggie and his men have started a fire in the basement the dry timbers eat up the lash and flames as hoppy and california struggle with their bond I'll try Roll over this way. You have to work fast Can't make it hoppy this stressor something's in the way and kick it over Oh good boy california roll over near that glass and see if he can hang on to a piece of it That's something quick roll over this way. Can you find me? I'm trying to hoppy Oh there we are Good old california I'll lie down with your back to mine. See if you can move your hands enough to saw the rope We ain't got much time the fire's coming under the door There you did it california You did it hold still now We have much time just hold You're safe hoppy There are you loose yep now for the rope around my ankle There make the window a jump cover two doors. I say I'll get out. I ain't a budget hoppy There out the window california You all right I'm boiling mad Whoever wrapped me on the haters are going to pay. I have an idea who did it biggie great Who but well darn it. I can't but I wish a coup d'oeuvre Uh, what's wrong hoppy? I was just thinking by what? Funny no one comes to the fire Unless unless what quick california we got right into do What's a hurry it only means one thing Greetings has got another posse together and they go out at the tailor and they're probably headed to the bar 20 I'm with you hoppy. Oh, would I like one load my six gun right into a bunch of them gun slingers? I'ma just teach you. I just hope we're not too late to stop in california All right topper. Let's go Oh topper hold quick california to the hay barn. They've been here already hoppy. I don't know what to think hurry Whoa wait wait wait a minute Mrs. Taylor lying on her face Yeah, you think she's I don't know Mrs. Taylor this cassidy what happened? Oh, mr. Cassidy stop them. They've been here I went out to talk to them And they beat me with a whip. Oh those dirty tight wind and cowardishness Stop them. William's gone. He's nothing. Are you hurt bad? Oh, please don't worry about me. Please stop look you go into the house lock the doors and wait You bring William back. Ma'am if anybody can hoppy will Chef Chef face Maybe something happened to him with two hoppy. They he ain't here in his office Same gun slingers ain't stopping till they turn this town upside down Oh, you get me You might in here got a 45 bullet the gang got Taylor. They didn't know such thing We just wrote in from there Taylor's locked in jail in jail. He can't be yep It's my sworn duty to uphold the law and i'm a doler, but they beat you this time No such thing. I took the south trail through mesquite pass and beat him to your place Went in the hay barn took him out the back and headed for them cotton woods Never did see me good sheriff, but the jail's not much better. It's rotten. Ah, they'll rip it apart I ain't saying they can't take him But boot hill will have some more recruits before they make it now We have to do something and do it fast tamper's arrived in the town full of powder Waiting for someone to light a fuse if there was some way to prove Taylor ain't guilty There is by approving someone else did the killing looks like there ain't gonna be no time to do nothing Only a confession can say a Taylor now. You know darn well by this time who done it turned and right we do We could get a confession. It's our only chance Soon as dusk sets in they'll be moving on the jail We don't stand a chance unless we can pin the real killer down and I think I have an idea It's a long chance, but we're gonna take it here. We are about to have a jail come down around Wait a minute sheriff, California. I want you to do something. It's worth a try Anything you say harpy I want you to make the rounds of the cafes and card rooms and let's fall here and there that the sheriff is getting a bloodhound from Sam Park now wait I ain't gotta find tell them that the dog will be here at six o'clock a waste of good valuable time Do you have any other suggestion? Then go on california the sheriff and I'll wait here and by the way You might mention that the sheriff is going after the dog and you and I'll stay out of sight and hope it works sheriff Hey, biggie shut up you fool. I'm gonna get a mixed head of before time That fellow with the droopy mustache. Let's drop that the sheriff is bringing in a bloodhound. What? Where's the dog the sheriff's gone after it? Well, that's good The dog ain't gonna do so well Nah Biggie Greg's is too smart for that Now sheriff it's a long chance if it works, we're safe and if it don't we're not any worse off By now california's had time to stop in a few places and It's me. Well, lucky you spoke up. I'm getting trigger happy come in california Well, like you told me I dropped in here and there about the dog. No, what happened? We wait Of all the foolishness. What's going to bring the killer here Come just behind this door and the killer's gonna come in and give himself. I hope that's the way it works Is that about an hour or four dust ain't much time We'll step back in here by the cell and leave the door open a crack There just a crack. Cassidy quiet taylor. This is your doing. I ain't got a chance. I should never listen to you Now we're all in the same trap taylor. They've got to take us first sheriff. What hubby do one thing for me What's that if our plan works? Let me out this door first. I'll be right behind you hubby Don't make a move Why are you sneaking? You do better kill him with a poker great Come get your man, sheriff We've got the poker in his hand. It worked hoppy Don't make me a killer, but you were afraid the bloodhound would make you one. You didn't dare let him sniff that poker Get it up Hey Sit there where I can watch it. You don't think my boy nor anybody else is gonna believe you We know it all along you with the coyote rig you'll get the same fair treatment that the boy's offered taylor Nobody believes i'm a killer you can't make them believe the bloodhound can when the crowd knows what you've done You don't get a hang loose along with taylor. I'll chance that diggy You had your say now here's mine that crowd will be here soon. You know that looks like some of her head in this way now They won't believe him what they'll believe you you're gonna tell them you killed baker a banker whatson There's no man living can make me say that you don't know hoppy I'm gonna talk fast diggy you had taylor come here to pay 12 000 for a worn out mind Banker Watson didn't go along with you you sent word to taylor to come to the bankers home You'd already killed the banker and when taylor got taylor himself said he heard someone go out that window He thought he did but you forgot to brush the spider webs across the window after you kicked the window out All of them are getting together out front in a few minutes. They'll be in here diggy Then i'll tell him you're in with taylor, but they'll believe the dogs bring him in california The dog. Yeah, sam park floodhound. I'll let him have the scent of the poker then let him lose You wouldn't do that. I have to do it I can't hold the crowd off any longer. You know what mobs do biggie. Oh, no They give me a high note and the dog will go right for you. Oh, no I'll confess. I confess. I killed was and black me out You're confessing in front of witnesses. Get me out of here they're coming in Well, sure. I guess you got another border and another thing. Where's that man's money or soul? On a raster in my cook shack all of it. Well, I guess that does it hoppy You take taylor back out to his wife and I got to get this killer out in town and get him locked up So we can have a little quiet around here. Come on california and guess there's nothing else for us to do Come on chef. Thanks hoppy Take sam park's dog back to him california. Right hoppy How are you boy? You want to go home? Hoppy. Is this the dog? Sure You you you got a confession from biggie griggs on the strength of this mangy howl He resents that california I just hope it never leaks out that california carson called this moldy flea bitten Goodbye from hop along cassidy But be sure to be back with us soon when hoppy in california will again ride out from the bar 20 into more dangerous adventure and action Hop along cassidy star on william boyd is transcribed and produced in the west by walter white jr Killers of sandy ghosts was written by howard swarth All stories are based upon the characters created by clarence e mulcher This is a commodore production