 Gun smoke, a 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 U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke 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 United States Marshal The first man they look for and the last thing want to meet It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful And a little lonely Mr. Dillon one these here days I'm just gonna shake the dust of Dodge City off of my boots for a good sure I know just how much you lose this time eleven dollars and twenty Who said anything about losing well every time you sit in on one of those draw games the boys whips Saw you and you threatened to pull stakes and leave time and one these times I'm gonna do it too sure and the first thing you look for in the next time to be a draw poker table Maybe I ought to change to stud or blackjack Maybe ought to just keep your money in your pocket. You ever think no, I got a hunch My luck is right on the point of turning mr. Dillon If I only had say five dollars or so to get back into the game. Oh, I could be well Even if I only had a dollar Miss kitty just one single dollar you're broke Chester. Well, yes There you go. Oh, no, no, no, no, I just couldn't think of taking money from a lady Excuse me, mr. Dillon You know kitty you're a born soft touch. Oh, well if he needs it man It's those sharps over there at the poker table with me. Oh, well, you can't get hurt bad on one dollar Chester's hurt bad when he loses 10 cents. Yeah, maybe he's lucky Matt. Oh, how so? Forget it Matt Just one of those nights I guess What a drink help maybe probably not I'll have one anyway. These are going to do me any harm. Okay, and I see the marshal of Dodge is out crowding again Hello, doc. How are you doc? Oh my kitty you look prettier in a basket full of sunflowers Thank you. Yes, you do Say Matt, you'll never guess who came to my office for help this afternoon. No, but I got my sympathy, doc It was all Carpus dead Carpus was Carpus day Well, he lives in the shack on the river bottom kitty hunts a little trap some keeps pretty much to himself What's wrong with him dog? Nothing. He brought me a patient too late to do any good, of course He died right on my operating table. Oh died of what a bullet wound You mean somebody was shot this afternoon. You didn't tell me about it. I didn't think it was important Was the Carpus though? Yes He looked like he'd broken up when he left doc. Will you please I reckon a man living alone that way without any human friends Can get pretty fond of an old hound dog a dog Yeah, I guess I did forget to mention it was that old spotted hound doggy here that was shot Miss kitty. Yeah, Chester Do you think maybe you can get by till payday for that dollar? Forget it Chester. Yes forget it none up. No use looking at me Chester No, I just thinking dark the Carpus have any idea who shot his dog if he did He wasn't saying but from the look on his face when he walked out. I'm glad it wasn't me Well, now why would anybody do a thing like that? Well, I don't know it's too bad But there's nothing much to be done about I think maybe a bit of right out there in the morning. I would talk with Carpus What for? This wouldn't be the first time that a dog getting killed would finally lead to a man getting killed What's the matter? Well, I have a warning for all eligible dependents seeking medical care at government expense from civilian sources Well, so all right already be sure the physician and hospital are participating in the Medicare program before beginning treatment Well, so my dependents have checked now what they should make sure they use their ID card to obtain only that Medical care to which they are entitled Misuse of the ID card is punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 or imprisonment of up to five years for a couple of aspirins Don't take chances read the pamphlet dependents medical care program Oh, no, that's what I call scare advertising Looks deserted mr. Dumb, maybe old crop has gone off some horse and then somebody cutting wood over there in the drawer Let's leave our horses here in the lean-toe justice. All right, sir And it have to be a little ouchy to live out here all along this way. Maybe it's not a matter of choice No company except for dogs No neighbors for 10 mile or more that's not quite that far Pete Ramers got a homestead about two miles north of here. Maybe he shot that how much young No, why do you say that? Oh, I don't know But folks mostly leaves old carpets to yourself. Yeah, I know hold it there Right where you are. Take it easy Chester. Who is it? Speak up there. It's Matt Dillon carpets and Chester You better put that rifle down. Oh I didn't recognize your marshal my eyes ain't what they used to be. I thought maybe it was whoa You thought what? Well, I Just didn't know You mean you thought it might be whoever shot your dog, huh? Oh Doc told you about that I'm sorry to hear it comes I'd had Danny boy 11 years marshal He was going blind Britney or bad as me and he sure weren't no use to hunt with no more Would I'll say one thing marshal I'd given my right arm rather than lose that hound I Reckon folks should call it crazy, but that's how I felt I'll live in a lawn. I guess a man learns to appreciate it though Oh, he he understood every word that was said to him just as good as you or me By evenings we'd sit there in my shack and I'd talk to him and Well, we won't be doing that no more now What do you think shot him? Let's walk back up to the shack marshal. It's getting my cold standing here. All right Look yonder. Here goes rabbit. Look at that Fool run. He sure scratching gravel Danny boy had been after him like a shot He'd have lost him right off, but he'd sure give it a try rabbits coyotes Prairie chickens he chased anything to move Blundering along blinds of bat Bane his lungs out purpose you have any idea why anybody want to shoot him because they're playing low down mean that's why Ain't no other reason for doing things like that Come on inside. All right, ain't nothing fancy, but it keeps the weather off There's some coffee going here in a couple of minutes marshal if you're mind to set the spell Well, don't go to any bother on our account. No, it's no bother. Just a few more logs in here Ain't sure I can scare up three months though It's kind unusual having collars here folks. Well, Jack is like I had the plague or something. Well People get caught up in their own troubles. I guess Carver's just get too busy sometimes to be neighborly Man can get lonesome marshal. Yeah, I know Pete Reimer and his missus ever dropped by here No Never why'd you find the dog after he'd been shot? I didn't find him He found me he's come dragging himself back here the cabin. I rushed him right in the dock It was too late and you don't know where it happened there. Yes, I know I followed his trail back this morning It was in a brushy draw about a mile from here. I thought the Reimer place, you know more or less I'll take care of it marshal. You just stay out of it laws for people and not for dumb animals Your dog wasn't shot by a dumb animal Carver's I'll settle it in my own way And you know who did it well, I know all right now see they pay for it too that kind of pay in for it gets out of hand Sometimes I'm the one that suffered the loss. It's my concern not Come out here somebody's out there in the yard It seems like one of your neighbors has finally come calling on your Carver's Another visit with Joe and Daphne foresight Yeah, yeah, I'm up. I'm up. I forget breakfast. I'll shave at work. Joe. It's not time to go to work Then why'd you wake me up? You were snoring. How about that? You were snoring loud. Oh, really? I just wanted to quiet you. I thought I was quiet You sounded like a buzz saw going through a pine not pretty good pretty good I wish I could be with you at 2 30 in the morning. You can go back to sleep now Thanks, you can get a good night's sleep to our savings bonds will protect us Huh? They protect us the money we invest is used to protect our country and its freedoms Why all around us we can see the safeguards that our bonds have paid for how about that? So you see when you buy that savings bond with every paycheck You're really investing in a secure night's sleep now than this house. I'm not what good night Daphne Good night Joe That's Pete Raymer out there Marshall. Yeah, he's aiming to kill me. But why I don't rightly know But he fired a bullet through the window didn't he all right Carpenter's you stay away from the door you too Chester Raymer smat Dylan You'll hold your fire. I'm coming out. I guess you didn't understand. I was named to shoot. Nobody. Is that so? Oh Try to throw a scare into him in the old carpers. I mean Bring him to his senses, maybe as they've been out of his senses. Well, he sure act like it Marshall, you know what he'd done this morning. He tried to shoot my kid's dog Yeah, it's not come through the brush took a shot at it son. He's seen him do it Any idea what it caused him to do a thing like that. Oh dang fine. Oh, he's just crazy Eric He always been to my touch, you know that that's why folks around here just Stay shy of him. Well, that might work both ways remember How's that? being lonesome acting strange They kind of go together sometimes Yeah, maybe You the one who shot his dog? What? He says that he's a liar. I ain't even seen that old hound for a week. Didn't know you were shocked till you told me Anybody says I'd done that is a liar. Well, I I say you're done a grammar Do you you calling me a liar? I'm calling you anything you are Listen to Marshall. Is that what he told you that I killed his dog? Oh, he didn't tell me anything He said he'd take care of it himself. Yes, and I will too. That's what you was doing sneak around my place And I for a night the tooth for a tooth. It's the law the script All right, you just take warning for me right now I catch you around my place one more time. I'm going to put a bullet in me too bad to shot myself It's like I told you Carpers this way of paying for things comes high sometimes Danny boy was the only thing I had in the world Well, then you ought to find out who killed him instead of coming around and scaring my kid after day I know who killed it. Sonny come running home like like gold scratch yourself was after him yelling It's mr. Dagies yelling He just took a shot at my dog. Oh Carpers if I could have got my hands on you wait a minute right then wait a minute Is that really what he said? I Ain't known to be a liar Marshall the exact words of me. Well, that's the gospel so huh if lightning was to strike me All right, all right, all right Suppose we all right over to your place women My plea yeah, I want to talk to sonny what for it might help to prevent a murder Talk to you Yeah, you run into barn mr. Dillon. Yeah, I can't figure what come over that boy Marshall Oh soon find out maybe it'd be better if you and Carpers stayed here with the horses Bremer You say so keep an eye on him Chester. Don't let him get into an argument. All right, sir Sonny talk to you I want you to open the door the thing by hiding from it sonny Three seconds to open this door and I'll move your rest me if you want to but mr. Digg shoot Nilly He won't he tried to this morning. That's why I got a tie up here in the barn Oh, why do you suppose he did it sonny way to get even because I guess you know about it, don't you? Know about what? It was an accident Marshall cross my heart. It was I was after old coyote and he running us that brush patch Who's that old hound dog of mr. Diggs a man should never pull a trigger unless he's sure what he's gotten his sights Yes, sir. I know pop always told me that but I just forgot Now I have to go to jail now you stop that kind of talk you're not going to jail Hey Carpers come over here William you too, Reimer. I was scared that you would happen cuz I knew pop be mad and I didn't Need anyone believe me What is it Marshall? Carpers it was the boy here who shot your dog It was I didn't mean to do it. Mr. Dague. I thought it was a coyote, but it was old Danny boy. I Know how you like that old hum? I Sure feel awful about it. Are you sure it was an accident. Yes, sir. It was honest it was Well, Nelly's gonna have pups in a couple of weeks, mr. Dague And I'll let you have your choice of the litter any one of them you want well That hound of mine was a trained hunter, sonny Takes a lot of work to train the young pop. I'll help you I'll come over every day as soon as my chores is done and help you train No, it sounds like a pretty fair offer. This Nelly's a good dog. She's the best dog in the world You just take a look at her Oh I'm mighty sorry about this Yeah, that That's all right. He couldn't be helped. Come on. Mr. Dague. Yeah. All right, sonny. All right, come on Yeah Looks like old Carpers has finally got his self a friend mr. John. Yeah Looks like too low Chester Counting the pop According to Thomas Jefferson equal justice to all men regardless of their political or religious beliefs is an essential principle of our political philosophy The amendments to our constitution spell out what we mean by justice For example, no one can conduct an unreasonable search of our homes or businesses or sees any of our belongings We can't be held for a capital or infamous crime unless we are first indicted by a grand jury And we are entitled to a speedy and a public trial by an impartial jury The accused has a right to confront the witnesses against him and he can force witnesses who could aid his case to testify Of course, he cannot be made to testify against himself He is entitled to the help of a lawyer and he cannot be deprived of life Liberty or property without due process of law These are definitions in our dictionary of freedom Smoke produced and directed by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Meston The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey sound patterns were by Ray Kemper and Bill James Featured in the cast will parley bear as Chester Howard Mcmere as Doc and Georgia Alice as kitty George Waltz speaking Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on Gunsmoke This is the United States armed forces radio and television service