 Around Dodge City and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers And that's where the u.s. Marshall and the smell of gun 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 Marshall 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 There is math. That's Harry Pope at the bar there little short fellow. Oh, yeah Why did you tell me he's from Kenny? Boston or near there is a long way from home Well, he told me his wife died and he wanted to move someplace else So he came out here about four months ago and build himself a little sod hut out in the prairie Plant some corn. He's trying to raise a few pigs. That's all You say he's scared of that. Yeah, that's what he told me. Oh, maybe it's all in his head. Come on Matt. Walk over with me, huh? Okay Hello, Miss Kitty. This is Marshall Dillon Harry Pope. How are you mr. Pope? Nobody ever called me mr. Marcia. Oh All right Kitty here tells me that You've been kind of worried lately. Well, it's the Indians Marshall. They come scratching around at night and they hoop and holler something too Oh Tell me do they do this every night? No, sir, but maybe once a week they do. Uh-huh What makes you think they're Indians? Well, I can hear them. That's why I've got a good stock door Or are they to be in on me long ago? Look Harry if what you've been hearing was Indians you'd have been done for a long time ago Indians just don't scratch around at night and they don't come whooping and hollering either Now you probably heard talk about Indians and you're scared of them It's probably your imagination that's done the rest of it. No, sir. They're Indians. All right. They're right there I can hear them talking and why don't you shoot them? Well, I don't have a gun Maybe you better get one man needs to go out here But if I kill any of them do don't don't you think they'll go after the whole tribe? No, Harry, I don't think they will well All right, Marshall. I'll try it I'll get me a gun today See I nearly forgot Matt Chester said not to wait for him. He'd have supper later. No, what's he done? Yeah, he's talking Talking to a girl mad Pretty girl too and he was doing all the talking when I left. She just stood there shaking her head Smart girl Marshall Dylan. Oh, hello, honey, man. You know dark Adams here in that honeymoon. Are you talking to sit on? Yeah Marshall You know that new fella Harry Pope Pope. Yeah, I met him a couple of days ago He killed Joe Carter last night He what? Carter's worked for me a long time. He was one of the best friends I ever had We buried him this morning What do they have a fight? Hope shot him in cold blood. That's all not near that hud of his blasted Easterner I'm looking forward to seeing him hung were you there, honey, but no Earl Bratt was there He brought Joe's body back to the ranch Brad works for you too, doesn't he? Yeah, but not as long as Joe. Tell me what happened. I did Pope murdered Joe Carter. They were riding by that dirty little salt busters hut last night and he come out and shot Joe and killed him. Maybe it was a mistake, honey, man. You don't kill men by mistake, Marshall Now are you gonna arrest him? Well, I'll I'll write out there first thing in the morning Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsythe Joe Joe Joe stop reading that paper and talk to me. I'm listening. Go ahead. Well, I was talking to mrs. Snyder today, you know, she's the one whose boy had 31% less cavities Well, she thinks that we should buy bigger savings bonds She says that when people can afford it it makes more sense. Oh, she says there are a lot of different denominations They start at $25, but then there were a 50 a hundred two hundred and even five hundred dollar bonds Is that so and then with the ones we've already bought through the payroll savings plan We'd have quite a nest egg Uh-huh Are you listening to me? Uh-huh Did you know that the total accumulated compounded Semi-annual interest of the series e savings bond will amount to 93 in the third percent of the original purchasing price Uh-huh. I Thought so Joe What did I say? You said that United States savings bonds are a safe easy way of investing I did that they help guard our country's freedom and They're the best investment in America's future. I said something else, too Oh, yeah, you said that the total accumulated Compounded semi-annual interest of the series e savings bond will amount to 93 and one-third percent of the original purchase price Well now, how did you do that husband's trade secret? I Mean it was back again. All right, not for less, but I came outside and shot at him like you said and they rode off And I just hope the whole tribe don't come after me now Harry How many Indians were there just to that's all I saw anyway. You say you shot at him Did you hear them and I couldn't tell it was too dark. I tried to though Tell me what happened. Well, sir, I heard him just like before but this time they put a couple of shots in my hut there I opened the door a little and I heard one riding off right over that away I took a couple of shots at him and then the other one started shooting at me from from somewhere So I ducked inside again and waited But they didn't come back. They weren't Indians. Well, you always keep saying that Marsha But I know better. There were two men who worked for Ned honeymoon one of them Joe Carter. You killed Earl Bryant was the other man. He took Carter's body back to the honeymoon ranch. Oh my I'm afraid you made a bad mistake, Harry Oh, but how how'd you know about this Marshall? Ned honeymoon told me Well, he could be lying. Oh, honey, man has his faults, but lying isn't one of them Harry's have been any trouble between you and these men. Oh, no, sir. I hardly know him Well, they've written by a few times. That's all but I wouldn't have shot at him if I'd known who there was Except it it couldn't have been They they were shooting at my hut first Just don't make no sense at all You gonna arrest me Marsha. Look Harry the Indians that you've been here and around your place don't exist Indians just don't act that way But I believe that you think you've been here in them Now, maybe it's getting worse with you and So the other night you heard those men riding by and you just started shooting You think I'm crazy, don't you? I don't think you intentionally murdered Carter. That's any help. Then you ain't going to arrest me No, I'm not not now I'm gonna talk to brandon honeymoon But in the meantime, don't get scared and try to run Harry Because he wouldn't get very far All right, Marsha Marshall this here is Earl brand. I brought with me Marshal I figured you'd want Brandt's report for the trial Me and Carter was good friends. I am see that Yankee Sadbuster hung. All right, Brian. Tell me about it Nothing to it Marshal Me and Carter was riding past his place and he come out and started shooting at it He killed Carter. I took a couple of shots at him and drove him back inside that heart of his And I packed Carter onto the ranch. Oh, you swear to that in court Why shouldn't I marshal that little murderer been telling you something else? Yeah He thought he was shooting at Indians engines with that miserable dog. You weren't there honeymoon How do you know what happened? Brandt told me what happened. Who else would have shot Carter? Brandt, why do you think Pope shot at you? Well, I Don't know Marshal. He's crazy. I guess is that all that's enough isn't it? He killed Joe Carter. What difference it make the difference between murder and something else Well, bring him in here and ask him. I'll beat the truth out of him if he lies. He isn't here What I didn't arrest him Why not more? He said he thought they were Indians and I believe it I'm sure no man can kill a friend of mine and claim he thought he was shooting Indians Now the law won't see justice done. We will I'm warning you honeymoon You try to kill Pope and I'll arrest you and if you do kill him you'll hang for it We're wasting my guess is you and Carter have been hounding that man making him think they've been Indians after him. Why? Are you trying to drive him out of the country? Your talk gets crazier all the time marshal for the last time marshal You're gonna do anything about Carter's murder. It wasn't murder honeymoon. Don't you see that he's dead and Pope shot him That's all I know. That's all I need to know Come on brandt Another visit with Joe and Daphne foresight Hey, honey, I'm home Daphne Drop dead. Oh, what's the matter, honey? That afternoon I wrote out to see Pope It was a bad situation and I did a lot of thinking about it There was only one solution I could figure out and I wasn't sure that that would work I Found Pope Whedon a few miserable Rosa corn that he planted out in front of his hut Well, you've told me a lot marshal, but I don't understand it. Oh, look Harry. I don't know why they did it But Carter and Brant were the Indians that you thought you heard. I know You what? Well, I figured that you know what Indians like and that she wasn't lying to me So it must have been Carter and Brant Look Harry honeymoon and Brant once you arrested they're threatening to take it into their own hands. I see listen you You're not gonna like this, but Well, it'd be better if you left here now it isn't your fault, but you got enemies now and you'd be a whole lot safer somewhere else No No, I won't leave let him come I'll fight it out with him. It doesn't mean more bloodshed and like you said marshal I ain't done nothing wrong. The man's got a right to defend himself. I know But you won't have any peace here. I won't leave marshal. All right, Harry But think it over anyway, huh? I have I I'm sorry about this Thank You marshal So Goodbye Hope went back to weeding his corn and I rode off past his little hut around the narrow bluff. He built it against I Gone maybe a half a mile beyond when I heard two rifle shots behind me I Turned and raced back to the bottom edge of the bluff where I dismounted and walk up to where I could see around it And just then I heard a horse coming along the trail. I stepped back and waited Whoever it was that passed within a few feet of me Brian hold it don't shoot. Let's keep your hands up. I'll throw one leg over and slide off slow How long you been here Marshal turn around that you can put your hands down now? Might as well tell you marshal. I just shot that Yankee salt buster Now that's something to be real proud of Brent. He killed a friend of mine. Hope meant no harm to either one of you What were you trying to do to him you and Carter? We were just having a little fun Fun Well We'd have a drink or two and ride over now and then give him a few war hoops He'd just sit in his hut and shake One night I sneaked up to the door and I could even hear him crying inside He was sure scared that time. Well, it must have been a lot of fun Now as much as next day when we'd ride back and hear all about how the engines was after him. Yeah He'd been all right if he hadn't gone bought herself a gun. I Advised him to you do. I'm sorry if I spoiled your fun, Brent Carter's dead because of you. Let's honey one all about this I told him I was gonna get pope is all and he agreed. Well, he just said he sure hoped somebody'd get him All right, Bryant. Let's go bury him. I Ain't gonna bury him Let him right Brand You will bury him or I'll bury both of you. Now you take your choice Sure. It was too late to try to teach a brand anything but Ned Honeyman was a different matter. I Wanted to be sure he understood what really happened Otherwise he'd spread the word against me and against the law and there were a lot of men who'd be glad to listen to him We buried Pope near his little hut and then rode on into dodge. I Kept off Front Street and rode up to the jail from the rear Chester told me Honeyman was up at the long branch So after Brant was locked up. I went on to the soul Paul Honeyman What do you want Marshall? I've been talking to Brant. He's told me the whole story. Where is he anyway? He told me that he and Carter had been having fun as they called it with the pope Making him think they were Indians. I don't believe it But even if they had is that reason enough to kill a man Hope was acting in self-defense. He wouldn't have shot Carter otherwise It was a mistake, but Carter brought it on himself. I don't believe it Honey, what do you want law in this country or don't you? Maybe that depends on who's representing that doesn't matter the laws the same the law says you can't kill a man And go free and it it says you can't murder a man who decides which it is Marshall You were me Now I'd like you to decide this time, honey, man Alright Marshall Go arrest Pope and get him hung That's how I decided Bob's dead. You wanted him killed. He's been killed What do you mean you said this morning you'd take justice into your hands, didn't you? Well, yes, but he was out weeding that little patch of corner as he planted and he took two rifle bullets in the back Who did it you satisfied honeymoon is that how you wanted it? Well, all Pope had was a sod hut and a few pigs He didn't know what this country was all about He might have learned but your friends got him so scared that he'd sit in his hut and cry with Marshall And one night he loaded his gun and went outside to fight. I took a lot of courage honeymoon for a man like Pope But he did it At a day I told him that he'd better leave his place that you and Brant had threatened him and give him trouble What do you say he said he wouldn't go he said he'd stay and fight He didn't get a chance to fight What's a man like Pope know about protecting himself? Brant shot him in the back twice And all Pope had in his hands was a hole Marshall I Don't know what to say Branson jail. I'll see him tried for murder and he'll be hung I guess I'm as guilty as he you could have stopped it, but you encouraged it you want a justice done honeymoon and fast By I didn't understand you didn't take time to the law was too slow for you Well, the law is new out here honeymoon and sometimes I think the only time people want it's when it seems to act the way they'd act Themselves if they want any law But it won't work that way According to the law your right or your wrong your guilty or you're not guilty All people out here are having a hard time accepting that but there won't be much law till they do And men like Pope will go on dying no matter how many Brant's get hung for it Marshall I'm not very proud of what happened Would it help? The law if I get up in court and take my share of the blame for this. I don't know honeymoon But it might and I'll do it Good good night Marshall. Good night, honeyman smoke Produced and directed by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey Sound patterns were composed by Ray Kemper and Bill James Featured in the cast were parley bear as Chester Howard McNeer as Doc and Georgia Ellis as kitty George Wall speaking Join us again next week for another story of the Western frontier of America in the 1870s on gun smoke This is the United States armed forces radio and television service