 Now for the thrilling adventures of lightning Jim have you many of the jury reached your verdict? We sure have your honor. And what is your verdict? Well, I need nothing for it, but to find a defendant, Jericho Borden, you'll be a plug in his partner Baldy Yates in the back, so that's what we've done. He finds him guilty. Jericho Borden, you've heard the verdict of the jury. Have you got anything to say in your own defense? I've done told you four or five times already. I ain't saying nothing. Nothing at all. And I'm sorry, Jericho, that you've been said to maintain this stubborn silence, that you've been convicted of the murder of your partner Baldy Yates, and it's the judgment of this court that you'll be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for the rest of your natural life. Have you got your mind? We have no reason to talk together. But have you been taken over what I put up to here? We have, I think. You have asked that I, Frenchie Louie, a pleasing God, help you to escape. And for that, you promised me much gold. I done told you, Frenchie. Well, that's not a mistake of Bible. It's just something I've got to do. I'm outside. I'll come back. Honest to will. It's not more than 10 days I'll be back. I ain't hurt in the government just by skipping out for 10 days, Amherst. Maybe you'll kill somebody. Maybe you'll kill two or three people. You are the murderer once already. I ain't either a murderer. And I don't want to kill nobody, nobody at all. But you would be gone, and I, Frenchie, would lose my job. This is a big favor you ask of me. I know it is. A mighty big favor. But it means a whole world to me. And you won't have to work no more. I'll make you rich. Rich for life. How are you going to do that, Federico? That's my business, Frenchie. I ain't saying no more. Make up your own mind. I have made up my mind. What are you going to do? I fix it so you make the escape. Good man. You're never going to be sorry. But you'll make the escape my way, Federico. What do you mean? We go together, the two of us. I quit my job. And I go with you, I need so little errand of yours. Good. Yeah? Well, if you tell Frenchie the big lie, maybe I have to fix it. Have it your way, Frenchie. Long enough to get out. I ain't care much what the rules are. Well, why do you know the job done? Another person has turned over to take his money and sign it to the old fella's room, too. Oh, and Norway can see what the next job is. It looks like he's coming right over there. Well, I don't think that the putty is going to ever stop. Yeah, it sure is, buddy. Yeah, I'm wondering if I could ever get me a girl as putty as a man. Well, I don't reckon you could make much headway with her. Young fella holding on her arms. You'll look like he's plumbing the rest of you. You're going to stay that way, too. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I don't think that's like me. I don't think I ever said more than I did first. You know, they're running tonight. Hey, you're right. Come right up to us. Pardon me. Are you the sheriff or the... I'm the United States Marshal, sir. I'm a bad man. But maybe he didn't give us information. My name's Whipple, ma'am. I'm the United States Marshal, all right. And this is my deputy, Whitey Larson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just call me Whitey, ma'am. I'm off police to get the kids. Well, my name's Susan Bordy. Yeah, how do you do? And this is Mr. William Cornel, a friend of mine. Whipple, you said. Are you Lightning Jim, the famous Marshal? I don't know if you can call me famous, but I'm generally called Lightning Jim all right. Oh, well, maybe you can help me. I'd like to find my father. Something's happened to him. I know it has. What is it? The mother's name is Bradley. I think most of our money would come out here, and we wouldn't let you come alone. Yeah, now, calm down, honey. You're talking a mile a minute. Marshal, is there any place we can sit down and tell you all about this? Come on in the hotel here. There ain't much of a hotel, but there's plenty of chairs and not quite so much sun. I'm sorry, ma'am. I had to tell you about this. Like me? You still caught your mind so much. You killed your father, right? Offer the powerful will for killing. Now, honey, the Marshal has just kind of given us the facts of the case. Well, there weren't a lot of facts. All certain stanchal evidence. But Jericho, your father, wouldn't say one word to defend himself. He just posed up like a clam, and he just had to find it and kill him. You see, Marshal, Jericho has always written Jericho has always written home that Susan and her mother had spent one little money, could, wasn't much, because Jericho is just another prospect awaiting for the big strike. Yeah, the country's full of them, trying to get a grub state. Always hoping that the next time out, it'll spike at least. But he did. It's what I said, though. And then when we didn't hear another word from him, it couldn't help for him. Yeah, well, what letter? Oh, Susan got a letter about six months ago. Jericho stopped the state someplace, the military. The letter was jumbled up quite a bit, as if he'd written it in a hurry. Well, I've got the letter here, Mark. Yeah. Let me see if there's this thing. I've done it at last. I've found gold and lots of it. Enough to put diamonds on you and your ma from head to foot. I've got a partner now, and naturally, he gets past. But there's plenty for all of us. Yeah, I get to that. That's why he kept stealing when he was arrested. He didn't want nobody else to find out about this gold. But he couldn't have killed his partner. He says there was plenty for both. Oh, he's got them. It's marguling your feet. When he goes on the stage, we're on our way to record our claims now. I'm going to get this letter on the stagecoach. It'll be coming along here now pretty soon. I'll write you a long letter as soon as I've filed the claims. The love and pass. The love and pass, Jericho. You ever still let them hear that, my son? Fort Anderson. Fort Anderson? Yeah, I mean, they were put on the stage coming in from horse head. Jericho was probably on his way to Fort Anderson, too, to record the claims. And he knows the stage would make better time, so just stop it and get in the left. Oh, and then, and then his partner's board is he got shot, then Jericho got picked up at a sheriff who was there right in the wrong. Yeah, and never did record his claims. Never had a chance to. Margo, could you arrange for me to see my father? Oh, please. I'm not talking to him. I know he didn't commit a murder. I've got to find out something so I can write another. Well, that ought not be so hard to arrange, Mr. I'll get, I'll get in touch with a warden, then. Well, I see it. That's the warden himself. He's standing right just going to come up to see you. Somebody said they'd see you coming here. Thanks, Heaven, you're still on the spot. What's up, Warden? Jericho, a warden got away. Jericho, a warden. Who's that? Margo, have you got a word? Yeah, first prison escape I ever had. Frankly, the guard did his course. But why? Why in Tarnation would Frankie help the old guard to get out? I never noticed no milk of humankind that's run out of Frankie. He's got vinegar in his veins. Why, there? We've got to get them two men before. Before what? Before there's just one of them. Come on. Gold, a metal found in the earth, in deserts and mountains, hidden, washed down by rains, buried for centuries. A metal not of itself dangerous, but from the first time the gold was considered as money, death has lurked beside it. Yes, death rides with gold. And in the days of the Old West, the United States marshals rode with death, too, trying to outwit him, trying to protect the civilized rights of men against the power of trickery and brute force. And at the same time, that likening Jim Whipple, United States Marshal, and his loyal deputy, Whitey Larson, learn of the discovery of gold, which has made of Jericho Gordon a convicted murderer and a state convict, miles out on the desert, two men, Jericho and Fenty, ride across the shifting desert sands under the heat of the desert sun. We could go faster than this, Jericho. Living with a discoverer that says, bird has flown my lease time. I never saw. We can't take a chance on wearing our horses out. Let's take a stroll. Two more days of riding ahead of us, no more horses. Don't forget that, Fenty. I'll forget not taking Jericho. You have promised much. And for promises alone, I have got you on the previous. More profit than food, I paid my own money. Yet you do not trust me. How is it, Fenty? I ain't never going to forget all you've done for me. Never, but you're going to get paid back, Fenty. But you tell me nothing of where this gold is. Maybe you plan to trip me, will you? How could I do that? You've got a gun? I ain't. I guess they're telling nobody where this stuff is. But you're weirdly reading that. Of course. I've got to see if nobody else ain't knocked down my markers and jumped the claims. Who does I see there? We'll ride like bloody blazers for Fort Anderson and file our claims. Pick this place up. But, Fort, I'm sure you'll have a word of your escape. To ride in there would be to put your head back in the trap. I won't fool you, then, Fenty. I'm going back to prison, all right? What kind of a life do you think I'd have, anyway, always a runnin' from the law? I do not understand these things. You get out, but you go back. What good will your gold do you then? You won't do me no good, first, no. I got a wife and a daughter back east. But for them, I want to get my clean files. As long as they get the money, I'm terrified. You are a strange man, you gotta go. I agree, too. You better go stayin' on that water, Fenty. We don't find no more till we get to where we're going. And ready to go to the medical. I ain't carein'. That's my secret, but it'll be mine soon, medical. I am your partner, remember? I'm gonna speak straight out there. You ain't gonna be much help to us on this trip. You better stay here with this two of you. You are like me, Fenty. This is our business, not yours. I want further mortgages to some children or to be left alone. You know it's just a delicate young girl, you know. I know you think I can't ride and can't shoot. You think I'll be a hindrance to you? Well, I don't want to hurt the feelings, but I'm dealin' with that stuff, what you see. Well, then I'll follow you. Susan's gonna marry me, but nothing till we get this matter. The father's taken out. So I'm going along if I have to go by myself. I can stick on a horse, all right? Don't worry about that. Well, you can argue with your guests, but when you don't know what the desert's like, you ain't nothing to laugh at. If you are there, the sun beats down on you every minute of the day, you just think you can't get your breath no more. And when it starts getting down, like that's when you really feel lost. Nothing is deeper than miles, but family, family, family. You can't scare me. I'm going alone. All right, then. Got everything all right, buddy? So I'll keep up, you'll start the food, everything will be all right. I don't exactly know where we're going. That's the bad thing, that this letter was put on the stage in some place between Fort Head and Fort Anderson at the beginning, at least. Well, we better just go on the Fort Trouble Land so we're straddled up over somebody. This is... How much farther is it? The Fort Anderson. Our water is about gone. We'll hit the trail early tomorrow morning. Stay here from here. A couple of hours ride into Fort Anderson and the thing's done. The water I'm thinking of here is cold. Are you sure there will be water at this place we are going? Maybe the spring has run, yeah? Yeah, there ain't no spring. It's quick. Good tide's quick. Come down from them hills over there. Yeah, we're going to run dry. Well, but you can't be sure to find me again, can you? Sure. There's been a desert prospector all my life for nothing, Frankie. Oh, it's the wind, it's the wind. Yeah, maybe we're in for a sandstorm. Sandstorm? I do not like that. Then we really get lost. No. Farciff has turned the tide enough. Ain't gonna get lost. Oh, that's our phone over both of us. It's close to the earth. We'll get through this all right. I'm too close to get licked now. But Jericho, these sandstorms really wipe out all your muckings. How will you find your gold again? Oh, I ain't gonna wipe out that misty tree that looks just like a Christmas tree or the red stone on the crisp. And in between them two more pips is the gold. Well, Jericho and Frankie survived the sandstorm. And how are lightning gyms, whitey and bells bearing in their pursuit across the desert? Well, part two of the adventures of lightning gyms follows immediately. Now for part two of the adventures of lightning gyms. When news comes of the escape of Jericho, lightning gyms, whitey and bells start in pursuit. We now find Jericho and Frankie on the morning after the sandstorm. And Jericho, I see water in here. Is it really water or just a mirage? That's water, all right. We've done it, Frankie. We've got to cross the desert and from here on away. I'm here on water, Jericho. We put up a monument, getting the Fort Anderson, fire our cranes, and thank you. What are you doing with that gun? I just aimed it on a stick, conned it. That is all right. Oh, no, Frankie, you don't need that with a goldie. But really, you told me last night, remember? Oh, between the misty tree that looks like a Christmas tree and the red stone and the crisp. Jericho. Well, but if you kill me now, you'll be a murderer. Well, you'll be a murderer. Good Lord, hereupon, there you are. I swear, Jericho. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I've killed you here. Then I arrived in the Fort Anderson and fired a crane myself. Oh. I've got to tell my story. You escaped by killing me. I thought I would kill you. But you are the escaped prisoner, and I am a god doing my duty. Don't worry. Please, my wife and son. I'm very well, I hope. But you've got to call me a sub-init. I'm an init from which you do not recover. This is sad. Mm? Mm. Mm. That is not the fact, if all I like, man. That's all going through, and through, and through, and through, and through. Well, let's hope it didn't do French and Jericho no good either. How are you coming, Bill? I'm all right. I can keep up. Well, he's just so it can hide with the other force, like that. He ain't used to this kind of idea. Well, he would come. I can't slow down now. I don't know why, but I got a hunch that's covered up in mud. Yes, you know, you had him for that little trick that we found last year. Yeah. You didn't buy it. You left the horses, get some more water, and it's out, it's out and around. Yep. This is a general old trick, no, all right? You like me? I look over there. Yeah. Horses tied up. Get the son out and be cashed. Well, you stand back a bit. You ain't no body fighter. No. That wasn't easy, Bob. You ain't going to be. Can I buy him? Well, you'll get a fair chance. Don't be afraid of that. Come on, buddy. Look, like you're dead here on the ground. Come on. Like you're just bleeding back. Yeah. Shut up. Oh, boy. I'll get some water for you. Yeah. Lay up at that border, Whitey. I think we found Derek all right. What is it like now? What is it like? Come on over here, Bill. Hurry up, Whitey. You talk all the time? Mm-hmm. Maybe that'll help anyway. Please, you leave the building, please. Yeah. Let's talk. Yeah. I'll get a fire on the ground. Right. For this, you want to go? To see the mother? Yeah. Thank you, turn on him. Whitey. No, no, I'll call you if you're thirsty. I can't be. I got plenty of water. I'm not so punctured, too. Yeah. Yeah. Drink some of this. Yeah. I want to go for a drink, you know. You got to get to Fort Anderson. Oh, thank you, guys. I'm going back to prison. Oh, I'm going back to prison. I'm going back to prison. Oh, we were lucky to find a cat, and his wife a minute later. Yeah. We weren't so lucky, either. Yeah. Whitey, you and Bill may take care of Verraco here. Everton, you're going to do that. I'm going after Frenchie. She's got a head start, but I've got to beat him before Anderson, before it's meiohomm Crac, I don't need the fight. Yeah, we're done. We found! It hasn't gone down. Come on, Junior Gearba, use your car. Let's go! You have to record a claim within the past hour. Right in the gym. Well, where'd you go in town? Never mind that. Anybody been in jail to file a claim within the last hour. Nope. Nobody been in here all morning. I've been sitting here playing solitaire. I beat myself twice a day. Martin, I'll be fine in a trick. You get out of here. I'm going to be ass-pair for a while. But you ain't qualified. Well, man, stop making objections. I'm handling this, and I don't want you to spoil things. All right, all right. I'm on my way, but I sure don't understand none of this. Now, you've come to the right place, though, enough. I've got the location all written down. You know, solitaire is a funny game, though, enough. If you could get the races out, you're fitting pretty. I am in a hurry, and I don't like being kept waiting. Oh, oh, oh, excuse me. You're right, William. Now, where is that book? Honest, I've got more trouble keeping track of my claim. Booking the dog is pleased. I don't have all day to wait. Will you hurry? Yeah, here it is. Mm-hmm, here it is. Now, let me see. Well, what's the date today? Don't you even know the date? Well, yesterday was the fourth, all right, so that they must see the fifth, huh? Now, isn't that smart? You are a very quick man with the brains, you. Well, I didn't know, all right. What's your file and claim on? Strip of land, about a mile squared. Yeah? What you thinking on doing? Starting a little ranch, or? You really think that's gold, huh? Never mind what I think. You just write. Yeah, well, I got even 10 right there. Well, we just start telling me what a file is claiming. It's down by the horsehead creek. Yeah? It's starting to be red rock and the creek go one mile south of the state, driven into the ground. Oh, here you go. Hold on, hold on. I can't write that fast. Red rock on the creek going one mile north. South, you in the field. South. South, all right. South. One mile south, D-A-S-S. You over the state, then? I'm sure that myself this morning, of course I know. Then go one mile east to the Mesquite tree. East to a Mesquite tree? That ain't much of a description. Lots of Mesquite trees around there. And east one is marked with my initials. There it is. Well, that helps, son. East to a Mesquite tree marked with the nickels. South to the north of the creek, west along the creek, to the place of Stutton. And then north to the creek and east along the west. Hey, you sure do get riled in a hurry, don't you? Well, it is to the place of Stutton. That's what we say instead of Stutton. Now, that makes much difference, but we always say... I do not care what you say as long as you say it and get it over with. Now, read that over to me. All right, now, let me see now. One horse head crest. Be given at the big red rock on the crest. Then one mile south to a stake driven in the ground. All that stake there, mister? I already told you. I told you myself just this morning. All right, all right. That's trying to be helpful, that's all. From there one mile east to a Mesquite tree marked with the nickels, L.D. No. Ha, ha, ha. I'd call my missus on the tree once back in the garden. Oh, I lose my temper. I go insane. Will you read me that description? Great touches, man. Maybe you had a touch of too much fun. Well, let me see. Round the tree north to the creek and then west along the creek to the place of the geese. That's it. My name is Louis Duvenay. How much do I owe you? Oh, how you spell it. L-O-U-E-I-S-G-O-M-N-E-C. Oh, huh. French, eh? And French, please. Yeah. French, eh, did you say? Wait. Sometimes I'm called Frenchie Louis, please. But you weren't the name written down as Louis Duvenay. Louis Duvenay. Oh, he's just surprised. Look what I went and he's done. Now, look the name I wrote down. It ain't Louis Duvenay at all. Duvenay, you fool! You're in this, sir. What are you done now? Jericho. Jericho, please. Yeah. Jericho, pardon me. The name that should be there. Wait for the sky, Frenchie. You're under arrest. No, no, no. Please, please, please. No, no. My eyes. Yo, please, please, please. What is that Frenchie? Get him. Get him. Get out of my way. Oh, no, you go. What is it? You all right? Yeah, sure. Let's see. That Frenchie won't try to defy no more things. I can't see. There was no reason, I think. Yeah, I can see that. When you fight a Frenchie, you miss him and he's got my head off again. No, if that's any of it, the group could get you. Yeah, yeah. Now I can see a little. Oh, like you know, I've been telling you now for 24 years, you shouldn't go and have it at me. You need me to keep you at the cop. Well, maybe you're right, buddy. But I'll get there for soon. Well, Billy, he was able to take you to Jericho when I followed you just as fast as I could. I'm not as fast as Tony, but I got there. Yes, in time for war, sir, she is for you. Like me, don't you know that the boys hate them cleverly? So you see, Marshall, I didn't murder Baldi. We found this gold, and we knew it was her. It came all right. Well, Baldi started that, started to kidnap you right away. Then you got suspicious of him? Yes, sir. If he poked about three miles after the place where we crossed the stage, pulled three, and seen Baldi's finger in his gun, all of a sudden he shot at me. Well, there he is, sir. He found that one shot had been fired from Baldi's gun, but he was new to explain that to you. I didn't say anything. I fired in self-defense, meaning to win. But my heart got scared and jumped, and I stayed in there. I see. I couldn't tell nothing about it. If I'd told him about the gold, that would have made a gold rush before I could find it. I didn't think you'd get on to the fact that you did some of the gold. I gave him a letter to the mayor of the season here. He opened it. He found out, didn't he? I didn't give a little fiction to the man, but I asked season to come on out here, so I could tell her. We never got that letter, father. You know, Frankie kept it and told me so, but I couldn't be nothing else about it. I thought I could watch, Frankie, so he wouldn't put nothing over on me. But he was too smart for me. But my father had to go back to kiddin' my son. Oh, I think the case can be reopened. Now, the very cold talk and tell you a side of the story. I don't think you have much to worry about, Mr. Udy. Oh, father, you and I are very headed, brother. And it's important, mother. And we can get him out of here. Yeah, just what I was thinking, Baldi. Oh, I think I'm gonna like this. Well, there's another case out of our hands, right? Everything seems to have turned out all right. Oh, are you just like a book writer? Yeah. Yeah, it can find stories, and it turns out you ain't the murderer. And you think somebody still in there lives happily ever after. Yeah. I mean, why don't things like that ever happen to me? Ha, ha, ha. Well, maybe you just ain't cut out to be a hero with no book writers. Yeah, maybe not, but I'll tell you again, I think you'd better not try to go off and do things that ought me. You always get yourself into trouble. I don't know. I think it's the worst thing all my time, you're taking care of me. Ha, ha, ha. And so ends another thrilling chapter in the lives of those two killers, United States Marshal's lightning Jim Whipple and Whitey Lawson.