 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 a US Marshal and the smell of guns 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 look for and the last they want to meet It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely Hello, McClooney, can you spare a minute doc? Well, I know now They stand right there If you've got another one of those all samples you want me to test for you I'll tell you right now. It wouldn't take you no time at all doc And I've got some real high-grade pen and this time over then take it up the street to the assay office Oh, no, I don't trust him not on wet assay. Oh, no, besides they'll charge you. Is that it? Well, I'm running a doctor's office not a metallurgical laboratory Shucks you've got the scales there and acid there, but I haven't got the time and the answer is no Against the law for a doctor to refuse medical help when it's asked of him Oh, hello there. It's got nothing to do with medical help McClooney here wants me to test another one of those sacks of Pyrites he drags in out of the hills. It ain't Pyrite. It's good I've run a half a dozen employ in the last three years and every one of them was Pyrite's well You might use some bad acid or something bad Why don't you take this stuff over to the assay office because they'll charge him for it That's why and he figures I'll do it for nothing. Well, I'd pay him for it Marshall if I had any money When did you ever have any money you made you fool? You finally come sneaking in out of the Rockies with you Why don't you go to Denver instead of coming clear back here all the time? No mania. I like it here My son, you know what this scrawny old goat done to me on my Clooney here Just slipped my mind to time So help me it did last time he was in town better than six months ago I washed up all his dirty dogs boy done them up nice and clean and then by golly He took off for Colorado in the middle of the night and didn't pay me a cent Well, I had just forgot so all but I got me a job now Loading hides over to railroad. I'll pay you 10 to week on a style we now I suppose you've got every stick you own dirty again now, and you probably think I'm gonna wash them for you Well, it's mighty kind of you to offer me. Oh for the love of All right Where are they? I got a bundle right there on the horse You got any shirts that need washing this week Marshall as a matter of fact I do miss Doug's if you stop over the jail Just don't give him to you. Yeah, and I sure am obliged to you, baby I'll say you are for two washings now And you ain't getting this and back till you pay me for both of them. Oh, I'll pay you now Don't you worry in money money, too? That fools gold you keep lugging back from Colorado territory. Well, it's real gold, baby I keep telling you that. Oh sure you do I'll pick up your things Marshal get them back to you tomorrow Or a doc let me leave one of these sample sacks with you just in case you find some tie won't find time Well, I want your bike to you down that way to it come back here Confounded lunatic I Don't know doc is pretty good at getting people to do things for always loony Matt This is nothing but fools gold and he's got that shack of his down the river bottom Stacked full of it. Well as long as you're sure that one of you bother testing it and you said I was gonna test it I did a mat you're out of your mind. I wouldn't wait five minutes on this. Yeah You want a bet is that your dog? Of course. It's me open up that Oh, what is it? I just went over to repop McCloney's shack to take him the results on that assay I run for him. Oh, what's all the excitement about you find gold? Oh, of course not It was just pyrite same zealous, but somebody must have figured he had gold. Oh, what do you mean? Well, you better get dressed Matt. McCloney's dead. He's been murdered another visit with Joe and Daphne foresight Joe Yeah, Daphne Look at this story about savings bonds in the paper. Yeah, what about it? Do you think that's the best way to tell people about savings bonds? Why not? Look see it says here that savings bonds are a guaranteed investment Right now they pay off at the rate of four bucks at maturity for every three bucks invested You're not convinced Why not? No salesmanship. No salesmanship. What more do you need to know? Why right now more than eight million Americans are buying saving bonds regularly through the payroll savings plan So so what? That's what I say. So what now look Daphne if millions of Americans are convinced that saving bonds are their best investment Not only financially, but for the future of their country. What the heck is bothering you? Well, I think they could sell a lot more with salesmanship You know slogans and jingle let listen if you're spending more and saving less Try a savings bond. Oh boy. Oh, or maybe Savings bond pay good like an investment should Daphne you get a lot to like in the savings bond Interest earnings guaranteed. Wow. Well, did I say you? Yeah, but I forgot what it was you were selling Savings bond. I'll take a hundred. Oh Joe Oh Miss kitty, huh? Oh Hello, Justin. Hey, miss kitty. You ain't so much going to have it. Oh, no I guess he's pretty busy trying to find who killed old pop McCleoney. Well, yes, he's doing that. All right We both men but he's supposed to meet me here around about now. Oh, he'll be showing up Sit down wait for him. I'll just do that Oh Sweet spirit my feet is plain killing me Chester may have any idea who killed McCleoney. No, not yet. He ain't He took Indian Joe out there this afternoon to look at some horse track. We found around the shack Horse tracks. Well, somebody rode all around the place. I ended up a guest If the horse is still in town Indian Joe can probably find it from stuck in the tracks Oh Say if you don't mind this kitty, I yeah, I think I'll just eat these boots often My that feels good I know it's a shame Chester Oh pop was nice. Even if he was a little crazy. I was thinking it found gold Well, he must have convinced somebody had they took up a couple floorboards and Dubs around underneath his shack. How was the kill Chester? Somebody hit him over the head with a chunk of stove wood. Oh died right away Gordon had docked Too bad. Oh All he had in that shack was a wood stove and a bunk and a table and his clothes stacked on the shelf in the corner And of course them sacks of food go piled up all over the place Fulls gold Yeah, that's the only kind there is Well, it kindly worked out that way for him guest piece. He died thinking he was rich and that's more than most people can ever Look, there's mr. Dillon now He looks tired my stars. He ain't been to bed and stuff woke him up last night to tell him about it Hello kitty Chester sit on Matt Thanks Wanna go out to beer So What's he doing? Oh little maybe it's hard to tell you Matt, why would anyone do it? The whole town knew pop was kind of queer. They knew he didn't have any gold hidden out Yeah, but somebody from out of town might not have known it kitty. Oh, what do you mean? I mean a stranger who didn't know pop who might have believed his stories Yeah, but it has to be a stranger Everybody who lives in dodge knows about him like last night All the boys were pretending to believe him. They didn't of course They were just egging him on to keep him talking. Oh was popping here last night. Oh sure. He always came in here since he had tongue Waiting for somebody to set up the drinks and talked about his big gold strike. Yeah Kitty Was there anybody paying special attention to him last night? Oh Not that I remember I Didn't particularly notice was it was there a gambler in here last night a new man in town who calls himself Jack King Jack King. Oh, yeah, he was here And he was talking to pop. I'd forgotten about it Why him special, Mr. You know, I'm indian Joe located that horse a while ago had one shoe that had worn thin It was partly broken belongs to the livery stable. Mm-hmm. They hired it out a couple of days ago to this Jack King He brought it back this afternoon. You think he killed pop. Oh, he was out there last night There's no doubt about that the tracks prove it. What did he say about it? No, no better when I find him I've been looking everywhere. Well, it's no wonder the government don't pay peace office as much When they spend all their time loafing around slugs now here, Mr. Dylan just this minute got here dog What in the world are you doing with your boots off you live in here now Oh, I'm not living here now. I reckon a man's feet can hurt here as well. They can any other place can't take Dog wouldn't know Chester. The only way he gets tired is from sit Say Matt, here's a letter that came for pop McClooney, just a high tower of the Depot. He didn't know what to do with it Yeah, let me have it. I'll take care of it. I Suppose you've got the killer under lock and key. Well, I will have soon as a locating dog. Oh, you mean You know who he is. I'm betting on a fellow named Jack King That gambler now Then you better get moving back. Oh, why because I just saw him over the Depot buying the ticket on the Santa Fe the St. Louis Mr.. Scott scared and started to make the run for Yeah, it kind of looks that way sure don't see no sign of an error in platform He might be on the train Mr.. High Tower said that he was still here a few minutes ago He couldn't wait a minute What is it? What's matter over there to the baggage truck there? Bags turn. I guess he hasn't saw us You've seen us. All right, you leave in town. Oh Are you Marshall? Your bag already on the train. Oh, no, it's right over there What difference would make where it is? I'm afraid you're gonna have to postpone your trip. I didn't do it Marshall You didn't do what I know why you come looking for me, but you're wrong Marshall because I didn't do it You'll have a chance to prove it now. I went out there last night. Yes, I did but but he was already dead. Is that so? Well, you can search my bag. I didn't rob him I believe that but Tony doesn't have anything to steal We kept talking about his gold all the time that gold is was a pipe dream and everybody in town knew it You'd only been here a couple of days, so you wouldn't have known it Got his bag Jesse. Yes, I know what you are up to you lawmen out here. You're all alike We are anything that happens try to hang it out of some stranger in town You don't care who killed him all you want to do a string up somebody I've already told you if you're innocent you'll get a chance to prove it Now we take him over to the jail All right, King you're under arrest. No No, you're not taking me. Oh, yes. I I'm not gonna hang for somebody else's killing. You're crazy All right, Chester, pick up his gun Did you shoot him in the arm of purpose matter of fact Chester I was aiming for his other arm Come on. Let's just start walking Wouldn't eat a bite of breakfast mr. Dump. Oh, that's his privilege. Just sit there in his cell staring at the floor Act like we're fixing to hang him or something. Yeah. Now. He's got his mind made up about that. All right No, I told him he was all wrong. We don't go around hanging people here without a trial. I'm not usually no Guess by now. He's my sorry. He went and killed old man. Clooney Chester people aren't usually sorry for what they've done. They're just sorry that they got caught You'll be sorry enough after he's convicted and I thought he'll be convicted What do you mean? We just haven't got much of a case against him when you come right down to it I'm sure would hate to see him go free Crazy or not. Oh, pop McLooney was a real nice old thought. Yes. He was Oh Did I show you this letter to McLooney? Came the day after he was killed doc picked it up at the depot wasn't it? This is to But Mr. Dillon and there've been a dozen more like it over the last two years. I Telegraph Denver last night and I got an answer this morning Well, my gracious six. I just can't believe this. Yeah, I'll come in One in my shirt. Mr. Chester. Oh, come on in. Oh, thank you kindly. I Brung your washing back. Oh, thanks. You can just leave it there on the table. Oh, yes, sir That fellow confessed yet the one that killed old man McLooney. Oh, no, no, not yet. Well hanging too good for him I was always joshing pop, but I had a fondness for him. Yeah, I guess everybody in town liked him Person just never knows Why who'd ever thought that that afternoon I run into all of you there in the street would be the last time I'd ever see him alive That was the day before he was killed you Took some clothes of his to wash as I recall He'd always come back out of Colorado there were stitchy on need washing. That's funny You wouldn't expect him to live like that a man as rich as he was rich Him a letter came for him yesterday from an assay office in Denver It's a report on a sample of concentrates that pops in him It shows 60% free gold And that's only the last of a dozen samples pop sent in the last few years all up and just as rich He was smart miss Doug's that act with a fool's goal was just a blind so that nobody tried to rob him But I guess he you aren't smart of himself in the end So did you miss Doug's me? What did you do with it? He might as well tell me we're gonna search your cabinet. We'll find it. I Don't know what you're talking about and I'll probably guess sooner if I'd known he was rich what I was looking for a stranger in Tom You just said you hadn't seen him since that afternoon on the street But I saw his clean laundry stacked on a shelf in the corner of his shack Well, I guess Is the side of all that gold done it? I walked in on him that night and caught him counting it I've worked hard muscle My whole life and it just didn't seem fair Dirty old codger like him having all that gold hid out. So you killed him and took it Forgetting to take that laundry back with me That's where I made my mistake You really believe that was your only mistake. Well, of course You hadn't seen that laundry you never would have guessed Wasn't exactly what I meant What else did I do wrong Marshal? You killed a man, but I guess that doesn't mean much to you Gunsmoke produced and directed by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon U.S. Marshall Descript 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 Features in the cast were Parley Bayer as Chester Howard Mcmere as Doc and Georgia Ellis as Kitty George Walsh speaking Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on Gunsmoke It is the United States armed forces radio and television service