 city and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers and that's with the US Marshall and the smell of guns smoke 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 Marshall the first man they look for and the last they want to meet it's a chance a job that it makes a man watchful and a little lonely look you there Sam the big fellas about to start the show now everybody I heard you dodge city folks we're up and coming ready to pay the price for a real thrilling spectacle well this is it a feat of Darren the lack of which ain't been seen since the days are he's a pretty funny talker any put your money in the hat are there won't be any show come on Sam thank you hey thank you very much is that your little boy mr. tell what you want to find out mr. here you know this is my partner mr. little Murray he may be small but he ain't no boy as you just found out who to put some money in there we're sure sure I'll put you using to shoot that tin can off in the little fellas head I shoot one off in his head he shoots one off in mine if you put in your money oh well sure his mind now gentlemen stand back that way that's it that's it thank you now I place this small can on my head please do nothing to distract my partner this is a serious moment you ain't joking as he counts as a law about firing guns and a straight hair mr. but Marshall this is an exhibition a theatrical performance you might say it's even education I don't care what you call it there's lead flying and it can kill somebody one of you even that's what makes a performance Marshall that's what they pay to see you're risking a lot for that little hat full of money we trust each other's marksmanship Marshall nobody's that good every time we're gambling Marshall how do you want this time go ahead and split the pot but we haven't finished here all right everybody that shows over long let's go on now and suppose we move outside time no laws and he gets little target practice is it now but this kind of target practice if you miss you'll face a murder charge well I told you we're gamblers Marshall we're going to set up a game here any objections not if your game is honest but your name anyway Grover Cranston P at your service and this is my partner a little Mari I hardly remember his last name but I think it's Smith I'll bet like yours is Grover now that ain't too friendly of you Marshall I'm not paid to be friendly a mister remove ourselves in the marshal that's just how much you wish to know not for me just a doc it no not me but you go on oh yes just you have another just the thing for you know I reckon I'm better not miss Keith oh don't let him scare you just I'll go out to the kitchen and get it for you myself sure she'll get it for a chest and I'll start figuring what the charge to cure you oh no doc I mean I mean it's just another inch around the middle and you're gonna have trouble boy I noticed yesterday how short of breath you were just walking out of the town limits huh let the cat out of the bag oh oh man now you knew about those two putting on their William tell act again yesterday didn't you that's the first time in two weeks yeah sure doc I just didn't know that you and Chester were there so Mr. Young I figured maybe somebody or to make sure they is really over the line now hope you had a good first row seat Chester yes sure how about you doc were you able to see all right well when I thought that there might be a chance of the professional services that they might be needed sure that's exactly what brought a couple of hundred others out there it's too bad they disappointed you there you are Chester oh thank you Mr. Getty yeah what I can't figure out is why they stay in that crummy boarding house where you steer them Chester you're not dark miss Ganser under a real nice place what I mean is well it's real nice yeah what you mean is the boarding house is bad the food is worse but the widow Gans is young and pretty would you please Marshall yeah all right you was watching our poker game last night you have to do that but I keep an eye on every game in town you had any complaints about ours if I had you'd be in jail we don't have to cheat I hear you made quite a pile on the last couple of weeks are we done all right yeah but you're greedy you put on your act again yesterday didn't you and it was outside of town you know you'll go on to one of his debt I'll tell Grover what you said when I find him Marshall I saw him about an hour ago over on Bridge Street with Effigyans Effigyans yeah did I say something wrong I don't know Kelly you did seem a little sore about so you know Grover was sweet talking Effigyans she's a widow you figure those fellas might be pulling some game on it I doubt a kitty she's not rich enough more likely to be the other way around if you ask me oh doc she's real nice oh sure and she's real pretty too but so is a rattlesnake if you want to look at that way the shovel in started at the little town of Rome in New York State back in 1817 and on July 4th 1967 the post office released a special sesquic centennial stamp there in honor of the big ditch they dug which it says on the stamp in my album here was the Erie canal now in case you don't know that canal went all the way from Buffalo on Lake Erie to the Hudson River connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean the biggest waterway ever built in the United States at the time and it was done mostly by the Irish just over from the old country who did their digging with spit and muscle made lots of money for years on tolls and the traffic in freight and people through the canal was mainly responsible for building up the Midwest and keeping business in the east busy doing it well of course the Erie canal ain't what she used to be because the railroads do most of the job now but the big ditch is still there and so is all the history that went through it open up the game you coming I've been looking for you where you've been all morning why around town who with what do you mean who with lots of people and everybody wants to see the act again I I think we ought to put it on this afternoon crowd gets bigger every time you know why they keep coming back to see it sure I hope someday we'll miss and someday we will go over let's get out of this town why we're doing fine I don't like it and we got enough now more than we ever had before let's go somewhere else and start a real business what about it well we'll talk about it tonight one more William tell act this afternoon maybe we'll have enough just one more on seat down place yeah I'll be long I'm just gonna wash up okay already gone miss Gans oh what are you staring at you miss Gans you in love with Grover well now I I never whatever gave you that idea he did he didn't but I know I'm pretty well miss Gans well what you're wrong now I don't say I don't like him but then I like you too more right you mean that miss Gans what why sure most women don't like little men like me miss Gans could you find it in yourself to love me I don't know if there wasn't no Grover if there was only one of us could you find it in yourself to leave here go away and get married one now where'd you get such an idea is that I don't know what you're talking about I don't like such talk you better like it miss Gans you better say have you heard the talk there's gonna be another of those William tell acts late this afternoon I can't stop it that there's something else of her to mr. Bodkin doubt the bank says the widow Gans is leaving town sold her house for cash and she might have some more saved up somewhere what are you saying those two might be fleecing here Matt you said it'd be more like the other way around a rattlesnake can be pretty if you see it that way all right if you want me to talk to a dark asker she's being fleece you think she'll thank me for it more likely to slap your face I might find out something I think I'll try it what do you want Marshall I'll just talk to you for a minute I'm listening I heard you sold your house there are lots of big mouths in this town I see you got your bag in there you will leave town I don't see it any of your business Marshall I just thought it might be miss Gans why you know it is a widow with a little money is fair game especially if she's pretty what are you driving at Marshall you've been seen around with this man Grover just might be planning to leave town with him now you listen to me Marshall I'm a widow yes but I don't have to like it it don't have to mean my life is finished now does it know ma'am of course not all right then if a man loves me and wants me to love him it's no business of yours I'm sorry miss Gans all right maybe you meant well but I don't thank you what I do is my own business even if I lose everything now you get out homes in America have a lot in common and yet they're each one of a kind take for example Palm Springs California the chief industries of Palm Springs are fun and sun after that there aren't anymore there are more privately owned swimming pools per capita in the village than in any other city in the world but don't get the idea that it's all resort and nothing but funding and sunning and swimming the school system in Palm Springs is one of the best with Nellie Kaufman junior high Palm Springs high and the new junior college out at Palm Desert the annual police benefit has moved indoors and the desert sun and KPAL still keep folks pretty well informed and entertained meanwhile things are still busy at the youth center on Bilardo road across from old Donald golf course but if your hometown is Palm Springs you already know this we only wanted to remind you it's still there that's right Grover can you see good from there Marshall yeah I can see go ahead uh oh and Maury you let me go first today no I'll go first what's the matter are you nervous because of the law I'm not nervous are you of course not don't worry I'll put the bullet exactly where I want it well go ahead then on out about 10 paces Maury well this is terrible terrible rest of you from murder Maury was an accident everybody here saw it was an accident you said yourself it could have happened any time I said if it did you'd stand trial for murder now look Marshall do you really think any jury would convict me with with all these witnesses here to testify for me adults then are you going to lock me up let me take the body of my partner and bury only I swear I don't understand you of course it was an accident we all have seen it Chester why do you think I wanted to be there this time well I don't know I expected there might be an accident you did yeah I didn't figure it this way where are we going to the Whittagans I want to be there when little Maury shows up except for that one light in the front room there well let's get a little closer that suitcase packed somebody coming did it go all right as he did it took so long I was worried well come on in don't stand out there I got the money all here and it's me Maury I had the first shot and I figured what you two was planning so I just changed the plan a little oh no Grober's dead all right that don't matter we'll go instead you and me with all that money and there's more here from the act this afternoon all this one was a real killing no don't you touch me you said you might could love me well you will now come on all right that's enough Maury Marshall you heard what he did I heard what you were planning to do to Miss Gans cannot be my business after all did it oh no no you wouldn't yes I wouldn't she's coming with me let go of her Maury you can't stop us Marshall you know how I can shoot you've seen me don't try me Maury even with a woman to shield you why not Chester all right here Mr. Dillon I can hit him easy there you drop your gun Maury you call that fair this is no game mister not drop it been directed by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall featured in the cast were parley bear as Chester Howard McNear as Doc and Georgia Ellis as Kitty George Walsh speaking join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on guns is the United States armed forces radio and television service