 ground-dodged city and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers in the spoilers and that's with the u.s. marshal and the smell of gun smoke gun smoke scouring william conrad story of the violence that moved west with young america story of a man who moved with it united states marshal ready something all what are you afraid of course i ain't been much afraid of anything since the second battle of the world i took my first bullet of monastic gap i thought sure i'd die but i didn't that's not when i got shot on the chattahoochee river over in georgia i know i wouldn't die how'd you know i just know that's all weren't you afraid afraid of what? of dying i've never been afraid to die well i'm not afraid not anymore not since bull run and what's all this about that bay and no moon all of i said i'm not afraid to die i didn't say i'm not afraid of anything oh shut up hey gorse wished we could stop and light a fire why? i got some pork to cook listen here allo you trying to tie the rope around your own neck no and eat your meat raw you hear raw meat gives me the bellyache you needn't worry about that allo those people back in dodge they got a cure for bellyache they have you they have a larry had rope over the limb of a cottonwood tree oh they ain't going to catch us they will you go building bonfires all over the prairie to cook your dang pork with well i'll just build a little bitty Indian fire gorse oh shut up allo look over there over there it's the foot of that little ride i don't see nothing that cabin you do too see oh that what about it no light in it you fool there's no smoke it's deserted well that's good ain't it gorse nobody to tell the posse which way we went how do you know they got a posse well they should have anyways we'll sleep in that cabin somebody does come along waiting to fight them off from there come on big enough for us anyway come on maybe there's some food inside must have got in on the door blue shot poor thing well get him out easy boy easy no sir now outside for the outside what's funny that horse he's all wet with lava lava hold it right there there's somebody in there i'll get your hands up you're framed in the door and you'll die if you make a wrong move i'll turn around and i'll take your guns you mister alright get outside slow alright that's far enough i can turn around alright you what's your name orlo orlo what just orlo and you william gauss but i don't use the william now remember that look mister we don't mean no harm we just thought your cabin was deserted and we could sleep in that night it's deserted but you won't be sleeping anywhere tonight now mister you've got no right to sleep in dodge when we get there oh no no we can't go back to dog no why can't you well you see we shot a man that day this morning it was orlo you shut up but of course you know we can't go back shut ya hold it of course well he always did talk too much the war made him like that mister he was all right before the war so they say anyway now listen to me both of you this isn't my cabin it isn't then why'd you put us out of it i'm trying to tell you why now the united states marshal what well of course we got caught you're both under arrest for murder well i'll be so that's why his horse was hot he'd been chasing us of course how could he have been chasing us he was in front of us i've been on your tail ever since you ran out of dodge the trail you were following led right here so i made a circle and waited for you does that explain things hey that's pretty smart isn't it go we was riding too slow but if i'd known what i was following i think i'd have just ridden up behind and yelled at you to stop we do run now explain something to me would you what are you men we're just friends me and goers been friends for a long time no no no that's not what i meant look you shot that store clerk in dodging you killed him but you're sure not gunman you're not bandits now what are you we're broke we needed some money but he wouldn't give it to us he grabbed the gun instead out under the counter and he just shot us with a tour we had to kill him that's all there is to it marshal not quite i'm afraid you killed a man and i'm taking in for a murder they're gonna hang us not they the law maybe that you'll get a fair trial won't matter we've done it we'll hang real you're right goes we'll hang sure and i don't know i suppose you to kill somebody sooner or later all right get your horses ain't you gonna hang covers in the wine oh no reason marshal i was just asking i thought so all right come on it's a long ride to dodge it took all night to ride back to dodge but i didn't have to watch my prisoners anymore than if they'd been a couple of writers i'd thrown in with on the trail maybe it was all their years in the war in the army that made them do whatever i as a marshal told them to do the idea of not obeying me never occurred to them next morning i had just to lock them up and went off to get some sleep about noon i got up ate something and dropped into the texas trail sit down ma'am yeah sure here you brought in those murders aren't you glad yeah sure can with other ones aren't they you got the right man yet other ones map sometimes i don't know they're just a couple of not very bright men who who've had too much war i guess they just got used to killing i don't think it means anything at all to them they're not mean and they're not vicious just kind of local now that's what makes them dangerous i guess or you don't but yeah i hear you brought in two men this morning gorse and orlo how do you know their names everybody does but now and i suppose so but they didn't do it marshal what? they were innocent they didn't kill that clerk who are you mister my name is blaine george blaine all right blaine what's this all about what i said marshal they're innocent you see uh... i and ned and lou well over there at the bar we saw them just leaving kelly stable when that shooting took place would you swear to that in court why sure marshal how come you arrested them anyway well i'll tell you blaine they shot a man nobody saw that look i don't know who you are or what your interest in this is but they admit killing that clerk so why don't you just go back and join your friends at the bar and forget about it no marshal we won't forget about it you shouldn't have arrested those men and what's more we're going to see to it they don't stay arrested you want to see to it right now mister blaine no no there are other men around here interested in justice marshal and i think we'll talk to them first don't do it blaine don't get anything like that started here in dodge so you leave a marshal who is he kitty i don't know matt he and his two friends came in on the senate they from st louis a couple of days ago that's all i know i wonder what they got in mind they've been drinking let's just talk matt maybe i'll see you later kitty so long hurry back matt we will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment but first tomorrow night cbs radios escape dramatizes a romantic conflict titled el gitarado which means the guitarist it concerns a mexican musician who resorts to traditional and some surprising methods to protect his marriage when an american poet tries to steal his wife remember it's tomorrow night on escape presented on most of the same stations by cbs radio el gitarado now the second act of gun smoke most mister dylan that fell come here but i wouldn't let him talk to prison was the loner did he have his two friends with him chester well he was a loner but i did notice a couple of men waiting around outside not you mention it you uh... haven't heard anything about this blaine or his friends the last day or so have you? nobody's mentioned him around me anyway well it sure stumps me you think maybe they're gonna cause trouble mister dylan? i don't know chester they might try but it'd be easier to stop if i knew what was behind it mobs have tried to open this jail before but to lynch somebody not to turn them loose you might have curious all right but chester i'm gonna have a talk with the prisoners maybe they might know something well it's worth a try hey gorse it's the marshal hello marshal hello orlo gorse how are you marshal? well it's just retreating all right well it wasn't much of the bait we had this morning but the noon meal was fine marshal? we get supper too? of course you do when are they gonna hang us marshal? orlo you haven't been tried yet nothing's gonna happen till you have a trial how long will that take marshal? well what difference it make gorse as long as we get fed every day listen you man i want to ask you something sure marshal have you ever heard of a man named blaine he's tall, has black hair wasn't that the fellas name who was here this morning orlo? yeah that's right blaine here this morning chester said he kept him out of here oh he come around back outside talked to the wind of that seemed like a nice fella sort of crazy though now how do you say that orlo? what do you want? oh he kept saying he had witnesses and all like that said we're innocent we shouldn't be in here what'd you tell him? told him how you caught us and what we didn't know we told him there wasn't any witnesses we could see just us and that clerk but we killed him sure but blaine was saying him and his friend saw us down by some corral or something i don't know he was all mixed up tell me if either one of you ever seen this blaine before oh no marshal never laid eyes on him and that's the truth that's right marshal me and gorse we never tell lies yeah i know did blaine tell you what he's gonna do? what his plans are? narrow word marshal except he did save us to set up a holla that we didn't kill that fella oh he's crazy that blaine i couldn't get his drift at all well i'll tell you what it is orlo for some reason that i don't know blaine wants you two out of jail he may come here with a mob and try and get you out well he can't do that we're under arrest here yeah i know but he might try what do we do about it marshal? nothing gorse nothing i'll handle it sure marshal uh... let me know if you need anything huh? oh we're fine marshal thanks just the same sure okay i'll see you later then ah hello doc what are you doing here? here there might be some excitement Matt oh you did huh? yeah right here at the jail too give doc a gun jester we can use another man name your preference doc shotgun or uh... you sit right where you are jester i'm not a gun fighter my work begins well you fellas leave off well you may have a busy evening doc but i hope not you never can tell Matt but i take things as they come yeah i know i'd better go and get my office cleaned up if anyone gets shot you send them right up there it doesn't improve a man's temper to spend the afternoon sitting around and waiting for a mob to form a mob that's gonna head his way when it gets its spirits high enough jester and i didn't talk much we just sat and waited long about dusk we saw a couple of dozen men gather in the middle of the plaza men blame appeared and he began haranguing them and the crowd grew and a little while it started moving down front street down toward the jail and us looks like everybody in dog taken an interest in doing will use shotguns just i never saw a mob yet that was eager to jump a shotgun here's yours mr. dillon let's go meet him outside jester this is good enough pretty big crowd coming mr. dillon now maybe most of them are just curious i sure am anyway what do you mean sir i haven't got this blame figure that's all sure that's what i mean good morning all right holding man holding man i'll see if i can talk some sense into the marshal first well marshal i was right there seemed to be a lot of men in dodge interested in justice we want orlo and gorse out of that jail marshal we want them freed aren't you going to say anything marshal i don't see your two partners blame whatever their names are don't you worry about them marshal now you tell us you're going to turn those prisoners loose or do you want us to do it speak up marshal which way is it going to be all right i have all heard blaine story he claims he and his friend so orlo and gorse at kelly stable when the shooting took place now that's pretty good evidence that they didn't kill that clerk and it could be true i'm going to go inside and i'm going to talk to him about it i'll give you my answer in half an hour is that fair enough half hour just about do it marshal i think it will blame but no matter what you decide we're going to turn them loose right just keep an eye on blaine don't let him leave here if you have to shoot him to keep him around yes sir but i don't understand what you're just do as i say yes sir but i just might find out dodge is a mighty strange place wanting to turn prisoners loose yeah i'll be back soon oh you're going to break my window with those rocks get on here doc i need you on hurry oh well sure man i stand out of the window here and i'll climb down on top of you yeah it's only a few feet okay all right come on hurry yeah well what's this all about mad where we're going we're going to express company first but what for it's closed maybe not it's not quite six everybody in dodge is out there in the street i was watching from the front window not quite everybody doc blaine's two friends aren't there yeah right i'm working on a hunch doc if i'm right i want you as a witness and it will go back and show that mob what fools they are whatever you say that but i haven't got a gun don't worry i'll do the shooting we reached the rear of the express company and i took a quick look through the window the single room was deserted and the only other place would be the bank if i was right and i was two horses were tied to a tree outside the back entrance the door of which was a jar i made doc get around the corner of the building where he'd be safe and i stood close to the door and waited about five minutes i heard him coming out the hardest stuff the stable go down and join blaine probably lower late now get your hands up this is a shotgun don't use it you got us don't shoot well you're not the fight in this man i ever saw all right i'll take your guns now and don't try anything and yours doc well what do you know blaine's partners the sure guess right man now who's inside uh we didn't hurt him marshal just tied him up who i said well that old man the banker all right go take a look at him doc take those money bags with him but be quick we haven't got much time a company for you shortly gentlemen so you just sit quiet huh blaine's gonna be mighty surprised at this come on doc you're gonna be smart you're gonna turn them loose you're under arrest blaine well marshal don't be a fool you aren't arresting anybody is he man tell him who i just locked up doc all right uh that's right man marshal just arrested blaine's two friends you make one move and i'll cut you one hand blaine all right go ahead doc i was right there with him caught him up the street right in the bank there locked up inside right now well there are no friends of mine we've been drinking together that's all besides i wasn't anywhere near that bank i was right here yeah you weren't saw me here and you got nearly everybody else in town here too blaine so your partners could work unmolested take his gun chester yes all right all right you men now you've made fools enough of yourself for one evening now you go back where you came from and stay there now go on inside blaine your friends are waiting for you i never did find out just who blaine was he kept his mouth shut all through the trial it could be that he'd never been arrested before but anyway he and his partners got five years that's better than arlo and gorse made up they stood up and told their whole story as straight as if i told it myself i guess telling the truth was about the only sense of right and wrong the war had left them weren't bad men but they were dangerous and early one morning a month later up in haze city on the order of the court arlo and gorse were hung smoke under the direction of norman mcdonnell stars william conrad as matt dillon u.s. marshal tonight's story was specially written for gun smoke by john meston with music composed and conducted by rex quarry featured in the cast were john daner and harry barter with lorence dobkin and luke rugman parley bearer is chester howard mcnear as doc and georgia ellis is kitty gun smoke is heard by our troops overseas through the facilities of the armed forces radio service join us again next week as matt dillon u.s. marshal fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the west in gun smoke this monday evening dan daily and ever a pageant are the stars in deadline usa a dramatic thriller adapted from the movie and presented by your luxe radio theater it's an action filled story of a newspaper 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