 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 a US Marshal and the smell of guns smoke Starring William Conrad the story of the violence that moved West with young America and the story of a man who moved with it I'm that man Matt Dillon the United States Marshal The first man they look for and the last they want to meet It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful And a little lonely Seven is a significant number for a variety of reasons one highly entertaining reason We'd like to remind you of is the magic number of top daytime dramatic serials only the CBS radio network Send your way each Monday through Friday No less than seven of America's long-time favorite dramas Comedy abounds with the couple next door and drama with the light touch on the second Mrs. Burton Other top CBS radio dramas enjoyed by millions include the romance of Helen Trent Whispering streets and the right to happiness Hours of absorbing entertainment every weekday come from these top dramas presented exclusively by CBS radio and brought to you as an important part of the different sound of this station The house fetch me there boy, can that right now? Can you make it on your feet? You'd rather I'd carry you Paul. I can walk Tell me Paul Who done this to you? Just get me the bed boy. You know who done it You seen him before I Know him Tell me his name Paul No, you're doing sure this sure. I'll go after him. No You view it going no place. Well, then there's the law Paul It ain't right for him to go all free. Oh, leave it be boy. I Never had no need for the law But Paul I should leave it be Go ahead Open the door for me Walk in by myself Son, what can I do for you? I Come see the marshal you come to the right place. I Don't see him here. Of course. You don't see him cuz he ain't here He coming back sure he's coming back And we'll have to wait for him. All right, son Have a seat Thanks might be that I could help you Maybe in the marshal's assistant you might say oh wait Sure, I just thought I might maybe could save us some time before he got I said I wanted to see the marshal All right, son. All right. Ain't no call me to huff you about it. All right. Oh Mr. John, I'm glad you come you got trouble Chester. It ain't exactly trouble But this young fella is mighty all fired serious about seeing you I I couldn't do nothing for him at all. Is that some You want to see me son? Yeah marshal Yeah, I sure do. Oh, what's your name? Jess Burris Burris. Are you Luke's son? Yes, sir? I am. Oh, what can I do for you? I? Want you to arrest the man that beat my paw You can do that catch a marshal Dylan. Are you better tell me more about it? Yeah, well, I Found him yesterday laying down by the Crick all beat and bloody I'd come sooner, but He needed tendon. Did he tell you who did it? No, sir. No, he wouldn't But I know right enough It was smid moly. What if your paw wouldn't tell you? How do you know? I've been asking questions See paw had some bad dealings with smid marshal He's seen him here in Dodge yesterday morning and called him down good He called him a cheat and a liar and a horse thief Oh, paw can give it to you good when he's up in mind. That's right, mr. Dylan It happened right out there on front street. I'll use over in Hayes City Mr. Burris really give it to him good. All right, and smid got himself liquored up and come out to our place and beat up Paul You might have died marshal. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear it Jess Your father's a good man You can arrest smid can't you marshal Dylan? Well, yes, I can arrest him if if you're paul swear that he's a man He ain't gonna do that marshal. Why not? Is he afraid? Paul ain't afraid of nothing That's most of the trouble. How's that? Well, he ain't never needed to call on nobody for help. He don't figure to start now He's roots stubborn. Oh There's not much I can do to change that maybe not marshal But maybe you could stop a killing You figure that this isn't the last of it time. No No, it's your ain't the last of it unless you lock smid moly up for a while. All right, Jess I'll go talk to your pa Matt Dylan I'd like to talk to you Back here sorry to see you laid up Luke You demand What are you doing out this way? Well, I uh Heard you were off your feed You didn't come to pay no sick call marshal And now I guess I didn't look I was hoping you'd help me out How would that be? I need you as a witness Luke as soon as you're able to travel Witness for what witness against smid moly? I told the boy to leave it be just as trying to protect you Luke and see that there's no more trouble I don't need no help Ain't never needed no help. Looks like you might have used some yesterday He jumped me when I wasn't ready for him But I can handle him only marshal if you worry about that you let me lock him up, and he won't have to the law I don't know and come out here before the law marshal Maybe but times have changed not for me. They ain't When I come out here, man had to do his own settle in with the land Indians with whatever stood in the way of his carving out of place Folks learn to live and die without the law and some up and died when I didn't have to How man dies is his own business now if he's the only one dying Marshall You got something to rest me for you're gonna take me in no better than I look And then marshal I sure think it'll leave me alone and get along lock and molly up might save you a lot of trouble I'll handle my own trouble. All right. All right, you handle it. They may come a time when I'll have to move in I ain't never needed the law yet. You better. Hope you won't be needing it from now on But I'm thanks Well, the law business must be pretty good. Oh, how's that? You're usually in here early isn't it? Yeah, no, it's not that business is good. I can tell you that I don't like kidding. I'm having a hard time selling the law What do you mean? Oh man Burris? He got beat half to death yesterday And he won't let me haul in the fellow that did it mad molly. Yeah How did you know Everybody knows He's been here at the bar all day bragging about it. How the old man got uppity with him and how he fixed it Yeah, he's still here down at the far end there Yeah, I see him. I Guess I better have a talk Ain't nobody gonna talk about a horse whip and smet molly Well Marshall yeah I'll talk to you. All right. You go right ahead and Marshall you go right ahead. Ain't nothing you can do to me I don't count on it I know ain't nothing you can do Marshall. I seen the boy What boy? Luke's boy Marshall Big fella like him nearly the crime You take the beating him too like it does the old man. Oh sure not Marshall sure not He feels bad enough Now you know why he feels so bad Marshall Suppose you tell me he feels so bad cuz he come running to you for help and he can't get none His old man won't take no help from the law. Well, that's lucky for you We got us a big marshal out here and he can't do nothing. Oh, you know, that's true marshal You can't arrest me if the old man don't say so And he ain't gonna be saying so. Well, that's the old man's business. Yeah. Yeah, I know and I'll tell you something If you ever go out there again, he means to take care of it. Well, I ain't worried you should be Because if the old man doesn't handle you I will um Well, Marsha, you can yes molly. I can But if you're smart, you won't make me prove it Just coming out here no more see me. I got business here. What do you want? I want to see your old man You've seen him enough That's where I figured it to I figured I've seen him enough, but I've been hearing different What do you mean? Been hearing from folks around town your pa been talking unkindly about me Downright unkindly. How'd you expect him to talk? I figured I closed his mouth some other day boy Pine afraid of you. No, no, I guess he ain't yet And guess I got to show him some more eating you ain't going after him again. You ain't figuring this too Well, you've got a gun ain't you boss and I can use it Hmm. All right, boy seeing you got the drop I'll just ride off You shouldn't have threatened me boy You Guess what's happened Murder and even Shot my boy and rode away next time I see him. I'll kill him. Sure Yes Yes, sir. Are you hurt bad boy? Oh Yeah, they ain't nothing just nothing doll now. I'll get you to the dog He'll fix you up in no time. Don't you prep none? I'll go and fetch the way Nice and mr. Dillon just setting out here walking the world go by Of course ain't much of the world going by I gotta admit that I Ain't saw more than three or four wagons in a buggy or two since been sitting here That's funny. Chester seems to me. You've been sitting here most of the morning I've had to step over you every time I went in or out of the office. Oh Well, I may doze off once or twice. Yeah, you may have but you said yourself it's been a slow warm It's you know, and I figured I might as well rest up. So it's be ready in case something happened It looks like it might be going to happen right now. Oh, what do you mean? That's all Luke Burr is driving that wagon That's how I guess he is He must be feeling better. He may be but there's somebody in the wagon bed who isn't feeling You're right miss. Don't there's somebody Look look Boris you're looking at you miss you do well But that's his boy. He's got there. Yeah, come on. Let's give him a hat You can't do many harm now. He's only got a few minutes Marshall at this time. I can't Can I speak to the boys duck? Be easy man. Yeah, who did it? You don't have to talk to him. Yes, I Can get him if you tell me just I can lock him up this time. Yeah lock him up Now you tell me his name. He ain't got no right to piss to you. Yes, and we don't have to tell him nothing What time oh Marshall yeah, just Smet moley again Hey You get in the car. Yeah, I'll get him Yes, he's gone man. I'm sorry Luke. I did the best I could I Seen you try to save him doc. I think you I Still ain't got nothing to say to you Marshall. I Could have asked it should let him die in peace. I'm sorry you feel that way Luke But I had to step in this is murder I gotta get into this now whether you want me to and not I can't stop you Marshall now No, you can't stop me and I'll tell you something. What's that? Nothing is changed. I Can't stop you from coming into this thing, but we don't need you Marshall Jess and me We don't need you anymore and we ever did We can take care of our own I've been kindly hankering to go back to Texas for some time now, but this sure ain't the way I'd like to make trips Trailing a man for a day and a night can sure where a fella dying that right mr. Jones Wouldn't be so bad if a body didn't have to keep his eyes so open every minute Yeah, I know that's particularly hard on you children Well, you got to keep looking out for so many things if you don't get to enjoy the scene You're not missing much in this party I kind of like it out here so nice Flat and hot and dry Well sure, but you can just see you forever. You got it bit that mr. Jones. Yeah, you're right I gotta admit that there's nothing in the way there you see that's what I mean How long you reckon it'll take us to catch that smell mulling mr. Jones. I don't know I mean I catch him at all. Oh my gracious me. We'll catch him. All right. You said yourself the trailer was nice and clear It can be yeah, it's too clear What do you mean by that? Why not the only ones following us? You mean there's somebody else at rail with him? Yeah, he's got about a half a day to start I think it's that old meek burst. Yeah, I'm afraid of this He just ain't got good sense to keep on with a thing like this. Does he? Allie thinks he's right Chester. It's awful hard to talk sense to a person who thinks he's right Spose your eyes that what kind of mr. Jones? Didn't like it the shack stuck way out here. Yeah Let's head for it. Yes. I am You don't need your guns both of us making this trip. I told you Luke when it's murder. It's my business Yeah, there ain't no need. I will see I Already see What do you mean? Come inside my shop Come on inside Manchester, I'm old and Madmoley He's hung him right here inside Yeah, I told you Marshall. I got no need for the law. He's been dead quite spell. Yeah, she's son up All right Chester you better start digging. We'll have to bury him You should listen to me Marshall I meant it when I said we took care of our own that we had no need for the law to do it. Yeah Now the law has to take care of you and that don't matter now My boy is dead and I took care of the man that killed him. I took care of it Marshall like we're always done Without no law. Yeah, you did that. All right Your boy wouldn't have had to die at all if you'd let me move in in the first place All right, come on Luke. You can help Chester dig the grave Like you help dig the grave for Jess Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald start William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark with editorial supervision by John Meston Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody, Dick Trenna and Lauren Stubbkin Barley Bear is Chester Howard McNear is Doc and Georgia Hawkins is Kitty. This is the CBS radio network