 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 u.s. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke Gun smoke starring William Conrad the story of the violence that moved west with young America Story of a man who moved with it Matt Dillon United States Marshall and his horse over here Benson sure Jake Wait, will we get him up on his horse before you tie that rope to wall every too much slack otherwise Couldn't hang you very good with your feet touching the ground could we tell him no Jake you couldn't Leave a neighbor's longtime Tillman I Could figure some way to make the noose bust your neck. I'd do it for you It's all right, but you get to hanging I could put a bullet in you I'd be beholden to you. Okay, I'll do it then Would you drop by and tell my wife on your way home Jack sure figure down doing that anyway? Thanks Hours like you Tillman kind too bad about this Joe Your mighty calm for a man with a noose around his neck You men got your minds made up Well, we can't have no man stealing horses around here with none of us feel safe less than we caught and hung them I Recognize feel the same way Jake of course you would you'd hang me just as fast as I done it. I would Only differences I'd want to be awful sure it was you that done it. Oh, I'm sure Heck we caught your red-handed didn't we? I told you a hundred times. I found them horses running wild. I was driving them back to you now Kilman you was headed in the other direction He got away from me. I was trying to turn him back Except him. We don't believe you None of us do well ask Jennings He saw me rounding them up for you Jennings ain't here. Oh, why don't you find them? Can't take the time You delay a hanging the first thing you know, the man has got loose Did you just encourage horse Stephen? Like I said You got your minds made up We've got to protect ourselves still man. Here's his horse Jake Get them out of children sure Okay, do wall take up the slack and tie it. Hey, hey look out there Jake someone's coming So they are let's get this done Might have trouble. He's a long way off yet. We got time You want to slap this horse Benson? No You do it Jake Okay So long Kilman So long. Oh, Jay. Come on inside. Oh, thanks, ma'am. I'll stay out here Suit yourself. My husband ain't here Jake. He's out in the prairie someplace. I know Claves around though want to see him. No, I want to see you me. What about? About your husband miss Tillman Something's happened to him Well Was like this ma'am You know me and do wall and Benson has been losing some horses lately. I heard but Tillman ain't somehow And when we caught him driving a bunch of mine this afternoon we figured it was him who's been stealing them I don't believe it. My husband's an honest man. I know that now Jennings saw him rounding them up where he found them running wild on the prairie I guess whoever had stole them got scared and left them there Where's my husband Jake? That's what I want to explain to you ma'am Jennings come and told us about it But he got there too late Too late. We'd already hung them Hung them. Yes ma'am. Out here. What is it ma'am? Hello there Jake. Hello Clave. Tell him what you've done Jake Done Clave We hung your old man's afternoon You what? We hung them for stealing horses Pa? They found out he didn't do it after. Yeah I Guess the jokes aren't us all right Wait ma'am. He's kind of upset Clave. You better go with it Somebody ought to kill you Jake. No don't talk like that. I said we were sorry I gotta get home Kind of late Cheer up man. Spring will be here in a few months. Yeah You're still bothered by the Tillman hanging aren't you? He was lynched kitty. All right lynched You'll never find out who did it now. That was nearly three weeks ago. I got a pretty good idea who did it Then I can't be sure. No Who? Probably some of the ranchers out there who've been losing horses Benson and Duvall and Jake Kaiser in particular Benson I He got shot the other night right in his own house. Yeah, I did Just a week ago Maybe his conscience was bothering him Matt. No What do you mean? Well, maybe the other two killed him to keep him from talking I may be or anyway had it come until it's still murder kitty You feel worse about Tillman, don't you? It's not that I hate more than a lynching And no until man my guess is he was completely innocent What about Mrs. Tillman and the boy do they have any ideas? Well, they have they didn't tell me Well, you've done all you can Matt. Yeah matters will be in St. Louis, huh? I'd like St. Louis Matt. Why don't you go of it? I Don't know I Guess I'm afraid of the dark Well, what are you talking about? Never mind Matt. Oh Matt. Oh, hello, Doc. Well, hello kitty. Sit down doc. Oh, thank you Don't mind if I do it Say that fella do ball Matt. Yeah, what about it? He's over in my office Well, what for he's been shot man shot did what his hired hand brought him in What did this happen? Well early tonight? He said, you know, it's funny thing that do ball was shot through the window of his house With a 50 caliber rifle I dug the bullet out Just like Benson. Yeah, I thought it was kind of interesting myself that makes Jake Kaiser the only one left Matt Why do you think Jake didn't I? Don't know Well, he's been sitting right over there in a card game since the noon Are you sure of that kitty? Well, I was gone for an hour But he was there when I left and he's there when I got back Well, he couldn't have done it in an hour Matt. No Look Matt, he's leaving. Yeah, excuse me. I'll be right back Jake Hello Marshall, uh Jake let's sit on a minute. Hey, I want to talk to you. Sure Marshall What's it about? Here's the tape. I'm kind of late getting out home Jake Your ball was shot tonight He was yeah killed the same way Benson was Same way, uh-huh You know anything about it I'm beginning to Marshall Is that Tillman boy clave? I know it is Why would he do it? Oh, he's crazy. That's why Marshall, I'll tell you Claves took it into his head that we hung this old man. Oh How do you know he has I saw him right here in town this morning and He was here last Saturday to come to think of it. You talk to him sure and he keeps saying that we done it Why? Don't you believe anything he says nor miss Tillman either they're both liars Marshal I've known them a long time to be liars Jake did Claves threaten you sure he did You go arresting Marshall There's not much evidence. I just told you Yeah, I know You mean you ain't going to arrest him? No, not yet. Well, he ain't gonna shoot me I'm gonna go kill him on the way home Right tonight. You're talking to a US Marshal Jake. Oh Yeah All right, then you do something about it. I will But you get any ideas of shooting him out of your head if you'll arrest in my will and Don't you forget what liars? They are out there. You leave it to me check here sure Not for long Marshall Not for very long We will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment But first a reminder to you Western fans America's favorite singing cowboy Jean Autry rides to new adventure and sings plenty of songs with the melody ranch gang tomorrow night You want to follow Jean's latest exciting adventures of the wide-open West and you'll enjoy the offerings down melody ranch way too When CBS radio sends the Jean Autry show galloping your way tomorrow night on most of these same stations Now the second act of gun smoke Jake Kaiser was a senseless kind of man And I knew we'd probably go kill young clave Tillman the first time it happened to occur to him again Still I couldn't arrest clave for two murders just on Jake's word that he threatened him I Needed a lot more evidence than that and the only way of getting it. I could think I was From clade himself so the next morning Chester, and I wrote out to the children place It was only about 15 miles from town and we got there early I just don't understand these people mr. Dylan. Oh, what do you mean Chester? Well, sir if young clave were sure enough about Duval and Benson to kill him I didn't come to you and have him arrested He's taking an awful chance this way. Oh, nobody came to the law when they hanged Tillman That's maybe someday they'll learn to know they won't as they can go on murdering each other and get by with it Let's tie up here Chester. Oh Nice place Tillman made here ain't it? Well, he worked hard on a Chester Yeah Come on. Let's see if clubs around. I'd like to have me a place like this He didn't build it on gambling money just it. Hello Marshall Chester. Morning, miss. Oh, ma'am Come on inside. Thank you. Sit down. Thank you. Well, uh, I don't want to bother you ma'am. No bother Well, I was looking for clave I'd like to talk to him. He's out back. He'll be here in a minute. Oh good Miss Tillman, have you heard about Duval? He was killed last night All right. Well, don't you care? Several people have been murdered around here lately Marshall including my husband Well, do you think Benson and Duval were in on that? I didn't say they were what about Jake Kaiser You're priin Marshall That's the trouble with the law. It's always priin What do you want clave for? Well, I thought he might tell me what he knows You won't we don't know nothing And clave ain't shocked nobody. He was in dodge yesterday. Yeah, I know he was I wouldn't put it past Jake to have shot Duval himself Well, I've thought of that too. Do you have any idea why he might have? No Here's clave now We got visitors. Hello clave Marshall Yes, all right clave you have been hunting this morning No, put that rifle back where belongs son Okay, mom. I was shooting hawks with it yesterday left it in the barn. You should have brought it in last night son sure, but Well, it was dark when I got back ma. I Didn't see it out there. Yeah, I should have brought it in myself What are you doing here Marshall? Duval was murdered last night clave. He was yeah shop same as Benson Well, what do you know Jake Kaiser thinks that? You did it He doesn't uh-huh. He also said that you threatened to kill him next Maybe our clave don't talk like that Okay, ma How are you gonna prove I killed anybody Marshall? Well, if you have I'll find out somehow Go ahead There's a law against murder clave. They murdered my pa. Where was the law then I'd have had him in jail right now If I knew who they were too bad you weren't there Marshall Well, I could still arrest Jake. We don't know nothing about Jake. Do we son? No No, we don't know nothing Leave us alone Marshall. We got trouble enough. Okay. Okay, Clay But you'll hang for murder if you kill Jake come along Chester I just saw a miss Dylan walking right up front street. Oh, Clay. Yes, sir It's Saturday and he's back in town. Just like you said me. Well, I wasn't too sure Chester Jake might have killed him during the week. It must have slipped his mind somehow. I know what you're thinking, mr. Dylan Babe's gonna ride past Jake's face on his way home, ain't he? Well, the man's been killed each Saturday the last two weeks Could happen again. You're gonna stop it Get our horses Chester. We'll ride out to Jake's now Haven't we ought to follow clave when he leaves? No, it's Jake. I want to keep an eye on I Don't understand. Just get the horses Chester Yes, and be sure there's a roof on my saddle, huh? We're gonna hang somebody. No now get going Yes, sir. Jake's just sitting in the house there Plum run concerned, mr. Dylan Somebody just got off a horse out there by the corral. I thought I heard a horse. Gosh, I wish there was a moon tonight It's better dark Stay out of the way of my rope Chester. You're gonna rope me? Quiet now. All right now Chester All right grab the rifle Chester. Yes, I got it. No, no let me go Why is there one mr. Dylan? Yeah, that's why I used the rope all right stand up now miss Tillman. Come on Shouldn't it stop me Marshall? I won't do any good. Two murders are enough, aren't they? I was saving Jake for the last I wanted him to sweat and I'll kill him yet. Who's out there? It's Marshall Dullin Jake Now put the gun down. What's going on here? Why is miss Tillman? Yeah She wants to kill you Jake Woman that's a 50 caliber sharps. I think that'll do it. You sure would You killed Benson Duvall with a dint you now kill you if I have to use a knife Jake Kaiser woman Going around killing people That's terrible. You hung my husband one of the best men that ever lived. I told you was a mistake I said we were sorry. That's what I've been waiting to hear Jake All right get his gun Chester Here it is mr. Dillon. All right throw it away with pleasure Now you're both under arrest miss Tillman well as long as Jake hangs too He'll hang What will clades think? He knew about this when he found your rifle in the barn last week, but I guess he figured there was no way to stop you You found the only way Marshall I Guess maybe I should have told you everything from the first. Yeah Yeah, but it's too late now. I'm sorry Don't you feel bad about it Marshall? I Don't mind I Don't really mind at all. I know you don't miss Tillman and that's the worst part of it Gun smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall Tonight's story was specially written for gun smoke by John Meston with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey Featured in the cast were John Daner Helen Clebe Sam Edwards Ted Bliss and Herb Ellis Polly Bear is Chester Howard McNear is Doc and Georgia Ellis is Kitty Gun smoke has been selected by the Armed Forces radio service to be heard by our troops overseas Join us again next week as Matt Dillon US Marshall fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in gun smoke A transatlantic telephone call with Ingrid Bergman about her plans to tour as Joan of art a preview of the London company of Kismet and An introduction to Renee Jean Mayor star of the forthcoming Broadway production the girl in the pink tights All this and more it takes place on Mike Wallace's stage truck now heard Sundays on most of these same CBS radio stations Tomorrow at its new Sunday afternoon time go stage struck at the stars address George Waltz speaking Lionel Barrymore's Radio Hall of Fame is great Sunday night drama on the CBS radio network