 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 the US Marshal 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 Marshal The first man they looked for and the last thing want to meet It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely 730 now put your pants on let's go up the street and get some breakfast come on Come on roll out. It's daylight in the swamps. Come on Now it's got me wide awake wide awake. I'm getting there You sure you don't see the sense and start in the days It's all fired earlier. You're putting them on backwards dog. I am not I'm just about to turn around. Oh, sure you're working and put my pants on for a long time without being told how by the village policeman Yeah, now. Do you care which foot I put in which leg first? Oh, I think you can decide that for yourself It's a worse Chester anyway, why aren't you hounding him instead of me a Chester ran into an old friend of his last night Huh? Who's that? I've forgotten his name, but Chester went off and visited for a couple of days Up for dodge I mean he's in the army. Yeah, he's got a pretty interesting job to the mess sergeant Miss Sergeant. Yeah A couple of days of that you'll have to go after Chester with a wagon. Oh, he seemed pretty excited about it Yeah, I can imagine Well, the quartermaster gonna be excited too when he starts checking his groceries. Yeah. Oh, come on. Doc You take more time than a woman. Come on. Yeah, I want to look my best It isn't often somebody buys my breakfast by now wait a minute Wonder you're so rich. Oh, sure. I'm rich all right. Yeah, and I owe you At least you got something to dream about Say it's a nice day. Yeah, it'll get hot though Who's that woman driving the wagon? It looks like Hank Rutgers wife, huh? Yeah, it is Was he that runny little Sod buster out by a cotton would spring. Yeah, that's the one I wonder what she's doing in time this early in the morning Marshall oh She's beckoning to you. Let's go see what she wants. Come on in this record. Come on in Marshall You're up early Yeah, and quite sometimes I've seen you and Tom Always work to do when you're homestead and you break your heart and you break your back and you End up with nothing Even worse than nothing The years are gone finally and you can't get them back Uh How's Hank? Thanks Yes, ma'am. You're your husband Hank Eight years slaving for them working my fingers to the bone and you end up with nothing Miss Rutgers or something wrong? Miss Rutger. I said it's a something wrong. I heard you Hanks in the back of the wagon there under that tarp What? What? Your duck will pull a canvas back. He's dead Matt Yeah Shop in the back How did it happen miss Rutger? I don't know about things like this What you're supposed to do I mean so I loaded them into the wagon and come into town. I Figured you'd be the one to see you figured right, but what happened? It wasn't me Marshall I didn't shoot him who did I don't know you don't know I Mean, I don't know his name or nothing He was a stranger stopped by the place yesterday evening just before sundown wanted to water his horse Hank wasn't there This fella kept looking at me talking kind of funny Then he saw Hank coming and he rode on maybe that he's the one that was late last night Hank woke up heard something outside thought it was an animal bar than the stock went out Pretty soon. There was a shot How do you know it was the same man? Because they come by the house after but I run him off. Oh That's what I look like. I don't know like any other man. I reckon nothing special That poor shoulders. Oh, what do you mean as the biggest shoulders I've ever seen on a man mighty powerful Look, uh, there's like a Why don't you go across the street there to the Dodge house and take a room and get some rest, huh? You leave the wagon here and doc and I'll take care of things for you, huh? I'm all right. Now you go on He was strange being alone Hank wasn't much I guess didn't treat me good, but at least he was always there a Woman needs a man All right, I'll go now Thank you, Marshall for taking care of things. I'll stop by later, Miss Rucker. All right, Marshall Well What do you think man? I don't know That woman's got something in mind. She isn't telling us about Well, here's our expecting father the memory expert and how do you feel sir? Oh Why you ever take care of eight kids while your wife is in the hospital having number nine? No take my advice Don't I haven't had a good night's sleep in days. I think my kids are part-sponsor Really why well they drink enough water to your gated desert and mostly in the middle of the night Well, at least you don't have to worry about your wife She and the baby are getting good treatment at the hospital and thanks to Medicare There won't be any expensive bills for you to pay. That's what bugs me man. Why it's such a bargain You know no woman can resist a bargain If your wife is bargain-minded better get the pamphlet on dependence medical care program fast Like another beer doc. No guess that kitty people criticize me enough Oh, there's Matt over here mad. Oh, well, maybe I will have a beer after all kitty on him You look tired We get to any hotter they're gonna have this country any luck me No doc I checked every room and house and dodge every liver stable even talk to some of the homesteaders out south of town And nobody's seen a stranger who matches miss Rutgers description if you can call it a description Did she remember anything new? No, not much. I talked to her late this afternoon. She She thinks that he had reddish brown hair, but she's not sure Just those shoulders then yeah, that's all she sure I guess she's remember that all right Well, Matt, maybe you won't have to look any farther. Oh, what do you mean that man over there at the end of the bar? What we've been keeping an eye on him till you showed up Who is he kitty I don't know the night's the first time he's been in here Been saying to himself pretty much just drinking and not talking like he's got the shoulders on Yeah I think I'll go have a word with him. Evening senior Evening You're new in town, aren't you? I don't remember seeing you around before Do you feel like Gavin you better find somebody else? I would if it was a matter of pleasure My name is Dylan. I'm the US Marshal here That's supposed to bother me It bothers some others not And I'm one of the others What's your name? Logan and it's not all just Logan bull they call me bull What did you hit Tom? Today just going through now from where out West different places why What difference does it make not maybe You might take a little walk with me where across the street What's the idea You arresting me for something Marshall. I'm just asking you to walk across the street. What's over there woman You're trying to get me into some kind of trouble Logan if this woman recognizes here, you're in plenty of trouble now. Come on. Let's go. All right You stand right there. Oh, what you're trying to pull Marshall You're all wrong. That's possible Marshall I couldn't This is some animals like her. What are you talking about? I never seen her before in my life I thought you better take a look at it, man. I don't know this woman now. What is this? What are you trying to set up here shut up, Logan? Man that shot Hank was real big. I Reckon it stuck in my mind because Hank was such a little man There's such a difference between them. All right. I'm big What about it? You claim and you've seen me before there where you are looking He's not gonna hurt you miss like you're not take a good look at him Is this a man who stopped by your place yesterday afternoon who came back later and shot your husband? No, Marshall It ain't him his shoulders. That's all But other than that, he don't look nothing like that fella. I Never seen this man before in my life. Look if you're scared of him, don't be I ain't scared of him Why should I be? He ain't the same one Yeah You satisfied Marshall. All right, Mr. Lager. Thanks. Anyway, I'm sorry to bother you I'm going back out to the place in the morning, Marshall There's things to do And I think that fella's got clean out of the country by now All right, man I'll get my gun back now Yeah, there you are looking all right. You see in you please to met you ma'am When I this food I'll tell you something Matt the mark of any civilization is its food How's that right, Doc? Dane Toot and it's right Now you take friends for instance Paris Paris French know their food is cooked just right season right and serve right by golly there civilized It goes together doc you've been eating this same grub ever since you came to dodge now What's wrong with it all of itself? Look at the stuff? What's wrong with a plate full of greasy spuds and a few chunks of boiled leather I tell you man It's enough to turn a man's stomach. It's no worse than usual. I'll go on finish it supper Ah, I wouldn't touch another bite of that with a ten-foot pole No, sir. I'm telling you that this town will never be civilized until it starts eating decent food Well the way I heard it the mark of a civilization is how it treats its women folk You think Dodge City rates any higher on that score No, I guess not. Yeah, they're fancy women. They plague till they drink themselves to death and their farm wives They work to death My woman hasn't got a chance out here. Yeah, so I've been told By a woman, of course. She was right whether it's the food or the women folk this town is no goddamn good Oh Hello, Jim. Well, I think the telegraph office. Yeah, fine doc. I brought this telegram right over Marshall Huh, it's your answer to that circular. You sent out them bull logan. Oh, yeah, thanks What about this bull logan man? Well, I thought he might be mixed up in the rug or killing them. I thought you'd given up on that No, I sent out a bulletin just on a hunch What is it wow, huh like he's wanted in California two counts of assault and suspicion of murder Victim was shot in the back. I should never let him leave town Well, he didn't go far Marshall. What do you mean, Jeff? I ran into Ed Perkin on the way over here He's seen Logan just this afternoon. Where out by cottonwood crossing. He said bull logan's gone to work for Mrs. Rutger Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsythe Mmm. Oh, hi Daphne. Just eating a midnight snack. What is that mess that mess? Is a liver worse salami lettuce and peanut butter delight nightmare is more like it What woke you up? My stomach was growling. What woke you up you? And I was dreaming such a pleasant dream. Oh What I dreamed all of our savings bonds had matured and we were cashing them in that kind of a dream I can appreciate we were planning a trip around the world and you bought me a fair coat and I bought you that fishing tackle You want oh it was gorgeous. Well, it doesn't have to be just a dream Some of our savings bonds are ready to mature now Maybe we shouldn't cash them in they can go on earning interest, you know and it adds up fast I know that's why we started buying savings bonds remember with a bond a month on the payroll savings plan our money is saved Automatically stop waiting that sandwich under my nose. You're making me hungry. Well fix yourself a sandwich ma'am I got all the makings right over here. Oh, right move over your bond buying midnight Maverick I'm gonna fix myself a humdinger Oh, you didn't I Just couldn't figure who it was Nobody comes here at night. There must be cattle lonesome since Hank was killed, huh? Well, yeah Yeah, it is You managing all right by yourself well, I've Had some help this week. Oh some of the neighbors, huh? No I Took on a hired hand to help out. Oh, you're lucky to find one the boys can usually make more work in cattle this time of year. Well, I Offered shares on the crop Woman can't run a place like this by herself. Oh, man. I guess not local man. Is he somebody from town? No Just a stranger riding through That's kind of risky and then taking on a stranger Well, what's his name is record? I reckon you already know Marshall. Yes, ma'am. I already know And did he tell you that he's wanted in California, maybe other places to know two counts of assault suspicion of murder Your husband wasn't the first man he shot in the back. What do you mean? It isn't the same man Isn't it miss record? No, you said you'd never seen him before you lied didn't you? Didn't show miss record I lied all right now. Where is he? He's out in the barn You stay here. I don't you try to warn him. That's you about the Marshall In a long ways from time You're under arrest for murder looking No, she told you about me after all not yet, but she will I Just got word back from California. It seems you wanted out there. I don't try it Logan. You're not taking me Is he dead Marshall Yeah He's dead. I don't know why I said it wasn't him I reckon I must have been crazy or something Just seems such a shame though Shame What was done was done Wasn't nothing gonna bring Hank back. I Was left by myself Bull here was big and strong Seems such a waste him dead, too I see I got ground that needs plowing Marshall See to be planted Life ain't easy for a woman alone. I Don't know man Seems pretty easy the way you go at it. You going back to the house now No, I'll take care of things here Produced and directed by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall Featured in the cast for parley bear as Chester Howard McNear as doc and Georgia Ellis as kitty George waltz speak Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on Gun smoke. This is the United States armed forces radio and television service