 Now sugar crinkles the sugar rice treat. That's just right sweet is proud to present Gung smoke round 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 gun smoke Gung smoke the story of the violence that moved West with young America the story of a man who moved with it Matt Dillon United States Marshal Take it easy mom you know your young folks are going to eat when you give them sugar crinkles for breakfast Yes boys and girls love sugar crinkles and no wonder. It's the sugar rice treat. That's just right sweet Makes breakfast more fun than a circus Now the reason sugar crinkles suit young folks to a pee is this Some sugar coated cereals they've tried seem too sweet others don't seem sweet enough But when they dip their first spoonful of sugar crinkles Mmm, they've discovered a sugar coated cereal. That's just right sweet and Say those young folks of yours love to dip into the pack and eat sugar crinkles as a snack, too So better get several packages and now gun smoke Starring William Conrad Mr. Dillon look at those men down there by the jail. That's quite a crowd Now what's so curious about a wagon load of buffalo hide to wonder? Maybe they got a white one Chester They must have something mighty interesting. Yeah This your wagon mister. Nope. It's gatless. I skin for her. What's the crowd for just curious The other skinner got hurt and he brought him into the dock. Oh, what happens? He hurt bad Bad enough gat look didn't see any sense and bringing him in the town and all Me and the cook we made him though. Well, here's gat look now Chester go up to docks and see what you can find out. Yes, sir How is it get look? That'll take care of anything to remind that now is he he's dead Let's drive these hides on down the shed. Come on just a minute Gatlob some other time Marshall. I'm busy. So am I but I want to talk to you anyway You and the cook go get these hides unloaded Toby. I'll be right along key Now where you want Marshall? What happened to your skinner Billy? He hurt himself. That's all he's dead, isn't he? Yeah, yeah, he's dead. You got hurt and he died. That's all Wendy got hurt Last night and why didn't you bring him in last night? Their mother fell as a cook and told me they figured he was done for anyway They didn't want to bother. I guess what happened to him. God love. How did he get hurt? I don't rightly know Marshall. He was Alone in camp and when we got there he'd gone and burned himself burned with what? Hot lead Marshall spilled it all over him led for bullets. Yeah He was cooking up lead in a fry pan. That was one of Billy's chores to make my bullets He always was a might clumsy He sure messed himself up this time. I must have been a lot of lead 50-60 pounds. They reckon Many yours ducks all through with him. He said you can bury him now. Oh, no I ain't paying for no burial He's just a skinner. I hired. I don't even know his last name. You're his boss, aren't you? You brought him in here. He's just a bum who worked for me. Well. Oh, hold it All right. God love will take care of him. He caused me trouble enough. I Don't want to hear no more about him ever What about the skinner Chester? Tell me it was terrible. Mr. Dillon doc said he don't know how he lived as long as he did Did he talk to doc? Oh goodness. No the poor fella How do you suppose it happened Chester? Why a hot lead had a whole pan full of it. They told me yeah But what man's gonna pick up 50 or 60 pounds of molten lead and spill it all over him. Oh, well, he I Hadn't thought of that Because there's another way it could have happened. How's that? Somebody could have pushed him down into it. Oh my who I don't know Gatlifer maybe his skinner Toby I wonder where Toby went. He probably went over to the Allaf again to the drink up his wages. Oh, all right Chester go do something about burying that man. Yes, sir. I'll tend to Hello Toby, huh? Oh Hello Marshall Sam set out a bottle of rye and another glass. I'm sure Marshal. I love by your drink You will well sure Marshal sure Well, Toby, here's to your friend Belly he was no friend of mine, but he died a bad death. I'll drink to him Tell me something Toby How did he in Gatliffe get on you notice Gatliffe's eyes Marshall? I did he got powder spec shot into them They look like turkey eggs. Yeah, you don't get on with a man like that How come I've never seen him in Dodge before a man's greedy Marshall. He's downright wicked about money He figures he can save time make more money by selling his hides to buyers agents on the prairie He gets less out there, but he can kill and sell more that way only came in with a load of hides today Just cause we made him come in with Billy. Oh I Tell me about the accident Toby, huh? Well. Oh, thanks Billy was melting lead in the fry pan and the way I figured he must have tripped somehow fallen smacky-nude When we rode in we found him rolling around on the ground. It's all I know when who rode in me in the cook Where was Gatliffe? Oh, he went in just ahead of us How long ahead of you not long maybe 20 minutes Then he found Billy first is that it? Yeah, so he did I Hadn't thought of that before Marshall. So that's why you've been asking so many questions. Well, I wasn't sure Toby But I expect you're telling the truth that cook it back up your story and I sure I'm telling the truth So that's what happened. Gatliffe killed him. He murdered him any idea why he would sure I do He killed Billy so he wouldn't have to pay him his wages do we've been out four months. He must owed Billy seven eight hundred dollars Are you going back out on the prairie with him? I ain't afraid of him But I'll be sleeping with one eye open from now on and if you let on your suspicious You'll sure try to kill you not me He can do is killing on somebody else You uh You'll be leaving in the morning. I suppose about dawn. I reckon soon as Gatliffe hires new skinner Well, the bottle's yours Toby and Good luck. Oh, I sure do. Thank you Marshall Later in the day Chester and a couple of other men buried Billy out on the hill As Toby said he died a bad death And it was made worse by the man who had done it to him going scot-free But there was nothing I could do and I tried to forget about it They left dodge next morning and things were peaceful enough for a few days until One night word came that there'd been a knifing in a nester camp across the river We rode over to see what it was about He was knifed in the back Yeah, but nobody saw it happen just no she looks like somebody got clean away with murder. Well, well, here's Yorkie Kelly How are you Yorkie? Hello What are you doing here Yorkie? I? Came looking for berries It's a good thing I did. Oh What do you mean? I saw that man get stabbed what you did I heard them arguing and I sneaked up just after he'd done it They were all alone. Well, who did it Yorkie? Did you recognize him? I never saw him before. Well, what did he look like? He was big Dirty looking He had a buckskin shirt. Yeah What anything else? He had funny eyes Marshall. They had spots in Oh Chester Gatler well, how in the world could you ever sneak up close enough to see his eyes Yorkie? I Lived with a raffle horse. Yeah, I got that right. You know who did it Marshall? Well, I do now Yorkie Thanks to you. I Hope you catch them. I Gotta get back Mars grimmets waiting for me. So long Yorkie. I Guess it was Gatler. All right, mr. Dillon Yeah Seemed like a dangerous kind of a man to be running loose. I got him now Chester As soon as I find him. Oh, I hope so mr. Dillon. I certainly do hope so It does your heart good I know when you're young folks eat all of their breakfast cereal and that's why I'm so happy to tell you about new sugar crinkles Sugar crinkles, you know is the sugar rice treat. That's just right sweet crisp golden nuggets of sugar coated rice They make breakfast more fun than a circus Why young folks love sugar crinkles so much they disappear like magic Now you've had experience with sugar coated cereals that seemed too sweet to you and Others that just don't seem sweet enough to the youngsters. Well, what a wonderful surprise sugar crinkles will be To your whole family for new sugar crinkles really are just right sweet Remember sugar crinkles make great snacks too. Better get several packages For your breakfast or a snack You love sugar crinkles sugar crinkles can't be beat sugar ice cream. That's just right sweet with milk But a breakfast jar as a snack from the pack. Oh boy Can't be beat just right sweet sugar crinkles Good to eat now back to gun smoke Since Gatliff would figure nobody had seen him. It wasn't likely that he'd run And anyway, there wasn't much sense in trying to track him down in the dark So Chester and I didn't start out until the next morning ordinarily a man could ride into the prairie and disappear, but With Gatliff it was a little different. At least we knew he'd be somewhere around Buffalo It was late afternoon before we reached good hunting grounds and Almost dark when we spotted the first hunter's camp Well, thank you Supply be ready soon. Hey girl, throw some more tongue in that stupefied Don't like Buffalo tongue you'll go muddy hungry in this camp. Thanks, mister. Hey, you're a long man Matt Dillon US Marshall my name's Tom Mercer and this is Chester Broadfoot That's up. We'll take a little longer yet. Anyway, my skinners won't be in for a while. Sit down. Thank you How are you doing? Oh fair Marshall fair. I killed over a hundred today. Oh Been here long about a month. I'll move on a couple of weeks. I Don't know Marshall. I figure his whole southern herd is gonna be clean wiped out for a long Next year. I'm going to Dakota too many hunters. Maybe that's just it. I said exactly Have you seen any in the last day or two? Just who you looking for Marshall fellow by the name of Gatliff a big man Speckled eyes. Oh, what's it done? Do you know him? No, I don't nobody's come near us and over a week You're not much help then except for that stew that cooks making. Well, you're like that We're having dried apples too. I might in here get a buffalo raw the entire beast Hey, you must be part engine it. Well, I see one of me the whole liver raw Yes, he got propped up against the tree and ate every bit of it. That would sound asleep right there in the sun He was sure some site heard you ever get that close to an Indian. Oh Indians ain't all as bad. No, that's true But they're gonna get real hungry when the herd's gone. That's so much. Well, that's surely so That's what makes him mad Well, don't you think that's reason enough? Fella told me a couple weeks ago here run into a bunch for us to hear. I was looking for scalps All right, too. Oh here comes my skinners now. We can get outside of some of that stew Don't you ever feed this man Marsha only what he works mercy. Oh now mr. Dillon We spent the night in Tom Mercer's camp in a dawn just after breakfast We said goodbye and rode on West In the next two days we met plenty of hunters, but we didn't find catalyst About noon of the third day we cut the trail of a wagon train and figured it to be that of a hide buyer's agent Who would come out into the prairie to do business on the spot an hour or two later? We saw him a Long string of box drawn wagons piled high with hides There was a man on horseback leading the train We've rode up to him. That's quite a load. You got mr I'm looking for a hunter, but the name of gad love You know him Trouble yeah Where is he straight south couple of miles can't tell you exactly moves around like that's close enough Thanks a lot, mr There's a empty rick that must be it. Yeah But he's moved his camp not bar if it was just this morning Chester. Hmm. What's that up there? We're at Looks like a man. Come on Mr. Dylan it's that skinner in his yeah Get some water Chester Toby Toby Toby can you hear me? He's been shot Chester. Here's the wire Toby it's Marshall Dylan Give me a drink. Yeah here. He shot me Marshall. Well, what happened? Where's the rest of the crew? They run off Took his wagon and no horses He went kind of crazy when he found out That's why he shot me. Where is he now? I don't know Marshall He shot me and then he said he was going hunting He's going local Not take it take it easy Toby. Take it easy. You're gonna be alright. I could hear him shooting that sharps a long time Then he stopped where was he? Which way Toby off? Behind me there. I could hear him Yeah Chester stay with him, huh? I'm going after Gatliffe. All right. Thank you Off in the direction Toby it indicated there lay a large Isolated hollow surrounded by low ridges When I reached it, I dismounted and crawled up to where I could look down into it There was no sign of Gatliffe But lying on the prairie floor with the bodies of countless fresh-killed buffalo It was a strange sight the old bulls and the cows and a little calves lying there blackening the prairie grass I Got up and stood looking at it for a long time and then suddenly Out in the middle, I thought I saw a slight movement and a second later they came the familiar boom of a sharps 50 And I dropped behind the range and waited and then Chester wrote up. Yeah, I Thought I'd better come along You see Toby's dead. Is that it? Yes, sir. All right Well Gatliffe's down there in the middle of the holler, but we can't get anywhere near him as long as he's got that sharps rifle He's killed a small herd of buffalo in there and now he's lying out in the center of them Well, that's the darndest thing I ever heard of mr. Dylan. He must have gone crazy just like Toby said. Yeah What's he shooting at now? Hey, mr. Dylan the way he's spacing them shots. Yeah, that's the signal for help Chester come on Same maybe it's just a trap. I'll be ready to take cover behind one of these animals. It might be Sounded like he's been hurt. Yeah, just keep your head up There he is behind that big bull. Yeah, I see him Mr. Dylan he he's all I've been horses in here Chester Indians Come on. That was his last effort Chester. He's dead now mr. Dylan That's awful Yeah, come on Chester, let's get out of here. I don't know how the Indians caught Gadliffe He'd gone a little mad and maybe that made it easy for him But they'd finally got themselves a buffalo hunter and into their unbelievably savage torture of him had gone all the hatred and desperation of a race being slowly starved and driven from their homeland and Then they'd put him there surrounded by his own bloody slaughter And they'd gone off with a gesture of content leaving his rifle and his ammunition by his side And having seen what they did to him. I'll never know how he managed to fire even one of those shots For all of his evil Gadliffe had died harder than any man I'd ever seen Chester and I rode back to Dodge and it was never mentioned between us again In just a moment. We'll tell you about next week's adventure on gun smoke You know what you are tomorrow depends on what you eat today So mother be sure that the big and little Indians at your house always eat a good breakfast and tell me What could be better for breakfast than post toasties post toasties? You know are the heap good corn flakes the best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it But all of the talking in the world couldn't tell you how downright delicious post toasties are You have to taste those crackling crisp flakes. Yes, you have to taste that sweet kernel corn flavor toasted Then you'll know how perfectly wonderful breakfast can be Put post toasties in your shopping list right now mother. Just watch how your whole tribe goes for him Remember post toasties are the heap good corn flakes Gun smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall Tonight's story was written especially poor gun smoke by John Meston with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey Featured in the cast were Tom Tully John Daner Richard Beals Jack Edwards and Louis Gene height Harley Bear is Chester Ken Peters speaking Join us again next week as Matt Dillon US Marshall meets a killer at a stage station During his fight to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in gun smoke Listen next week at this time when gun smoke will be brought to you by post toasties the heap good corn flakes