 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 The story of a man who moved with it Matt Dillon United States Marshall Chester had been helping me with some paperwork after the regular day ended And we didn't get through until about 10 o'clock Had we were both kind of tired sure never did think I'd hold out mr. Dillon I got a cramp in my hand and a crick in the neck What I need to be here I'll join you Chester Locked up the office and walked down to the Texas Trail with Chester. I Guess the best thing that could be said for the night was It was still Not cold not warm Somewhere in that Between that makes you wish it would be one thing or the other Or maybe it was because we were tired that it didn't feel right The bar wasn't crowded and right off kitty came over to our table with beer. I Thought she looked kind of worried Hard day man. Oh, no, no nothing much. Oh I declare him his kitty this beer tastes darker than usual new brew probably Chester I suppose say Matt You ever seen the stranger before the tall one bar Huh heavens mr. Dillon. He is a lofty man, and that's for sure look at him stretch out. Yeah What about him kitty? Well, I don't know Sam gave me the eye a bit ago just before you came in You're trying to make trouble Sam's not sure Fellows have been drinking straight for more than two hours, and he doesn't say anything he just Looks like he's getting ready maybe Wait for something. Yeah Is the woman with him? Yeah He was a lean almost stringy man better than usual tall And he might have served in the army once because he wore his gun, but forward As we sat Chester and me drinking our beer he turned around a couple of times and looked at the door I Never saw a man with eyes as gray or With a skin to his face so dry and tough you'd swear you could get sparks off it with a flint the woman standing next to him talked loud and often but He didn't appear to be listening much It's like kitty said he He was waiting About an hour went by the place began to quiet down Most of the men drifted out to wherever their way was taken Excuse me mr. Dylan You want to get on back Chester? Well, yes, sir. I was thinking about it. His beer is so dark. It's making me sleepy Well, you go ahead. I'll see you in the morning you stay Yeah, yeah for a while, I think I'm kind of that tall fellow Yeah, maybe Guess I'll get a little whisk in sugar Might keep me awake. No, you go on Chester. Sorry If it's all the same to you mr. Dylan, I ain't sleepy Okay Shut up You ain't got no call to talk to the man like that. He's just being helpful. Say mr. Dylan Chester be quiet I'm tired. I want to go to bed Trip on the stage and travel all day. I swear. I never miss it. Let's talk too much Be quiet Staying here with me, but talking ever since we come in here Stop where I'm gonna hit you Might not be a bad thing if you did mr. Dylan. There's anything in this world. I hate it's a woman who does nothing but clobber her guns Kitty I bet he is miserable to be wed to though What are you reconciling here? I don't know Chester. You're still here. Yeah, sit on a minute. Will you kitty? You don't know their names do you? No I came in on a six o'clock stage from Oklahoma territory. That's all I know She's been talking a lot, but mostly about clothes and liquor. He don't say anything You think they're married She's wearing a ring Mm-hmm. I've never seen a man drink as much mad. It's like water with honey Hey you honey. Yeah Yeah, sure You want that boy you want to see you sure? Thank you What do you think you're going? I'm gonna freshen up Jack. Hmm. I'm coming right back. See you do The woman had just got out of sight when we heard the horses coming down the street outside There were only six of us left in the place Sam kitty Chester and me the stranger at the bar and a cowboy Sleeping it off at a table across the room The tall man called Jack with the sound of the horses turned to the door And there was a gun in his hand. You fellas at the table Get up Come over here I kind of wondered what you were waiting for I know you've been wondering That's why you've been hanging around. I don't want no trouble with you Stay out of the way you won't get hurt Don't you put your gun away? Mr. Don't bother me Trouble coming through that door any minute put it back. I don't allow gunplay in dodge What you allow ain't up to you now, mr. If you're in trouble. It's my job to protect you and your wife This is private trouble You want part of it. I'll give it to you right now In the belly Jack They're here outside. I know we can get out the back. I ain't running no more You either come on get behind the bar. Yeah You two fellas unhitch your belts Leave them lay where they fall Give me a gun. I'll give you one. I'll give you one wait a minute. Okay You two get around behind a bar All right at the end you and a lady Well, listen, you can't shoot up this Sam Do what he says Chester and I did as we were told and got behind the bar along with kitty and Sam The tall man picked up our guns and tossed one to the woman then dropped the others beside him on the floor And then we waited All of us behind the bar Except for the cowboy drunk asleep at the table They only had that mirror in for a month. It's gonna be busted for sure honey We should have kept going got the train in the morning for the West It had to stop somewhere This is as good a place as any listen, mister I'm going over and get the boy sleeping at the table there. He's gonna get hurt You move an inch from where you're at now shoot you I Shut up all of you. I hear not that. Yeah Start shooting when that door swings in mr. Dylan Stay down kitty. Don't worry Matt The shooting went on for about five seconds and when the glass started to come down behind us we covered up And if that I felt a war trickle along the side of my face for a splinter and slash me There wasn't anybody behind the bar hurt beyond a scratch or two from the glass But out there by the door and sprawled out beyond on to the walk were four men They never had a chance. They'd never have another Watch out for the glass Jackie. We got him. We got him. Yeah Yeah, we got him honey When I'm still alive, who is it? It's acting Let me never did like him Come on. Let's go. All right Jackie Sorry messed up your place, honey Don't you try coming after us, mr. Jack's had a taste of blood come on. Come on Jackie We're gonna have to ride now. Yeah You all right kitty, I think so look at that mirror just look at it Yeah Jester get some guns from the office saddle up and get back here. Yes Kitty Get doc quick. What is it man? This man isn't dead. Well go on hurry up. Will you oh, yeah, sure She ran out into the night for doc And I stayed in the Texas trail watching the life flow out of the bullet hole in the chest of the man The killers had called acting We will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment But first you can help your fighting men and our children win the fight for life if you act now On the battlefront our fighting men need blood to replace the precious substance. They have so valiantly lost Only through contributions to your Red Cross fund drive Can we keep up that lifeline of blood to our wounded men? But time is running out give now Your Red Cross must also have funds to transform blood into anti polio serum The polio season is just around the corner Red Cross gamma globulin is the one weapon that will spare our children from death or the crippling paralysis of polio this summer Polio won't wait your community your neighbors Perhaps your own child can be saved from the horrible effects of the dread disease if we do something now Your Red Cross will not distribute the anti polio serum It will be sent to critical areas by government health agencies There will not be enough to protect every child this year But many thousands will be spared polio paralysis this summer because you gave to your Red Cross When your Red Cross fund volunteer calls give generously do it today you give they live Now the second act of gun smoke His eyes were open, but he didn't see me And when I talked to him he didn't hear while I waited for doc. I went through his papers His name was Brad Acton That's all I could find About two minutes later kitty came back with doc Didn't take doc long to shake his head poor fella He's done that. There's not a living chance If I could just get him to talk We got to find out who he is and what they've done those two. I don't know. He's putting it gone. We can't yeah Acton Acton. Can you hear me? Acton to met fella Jack Farrow He and the woman what did they do? Oh, there's no use Matt Acton Now listen to me Acton Matt Acton who are they? Why did they shoot you? He's trying the poor devil. He come on. Come on. Now you're wasting time. I gotta get after him Now what did they do? We've all got to die I Kindly mr. I want you to wake up. Do you hear what I'm saying? Here if I was on my feet now listen to me ferro I heard you call him ferro and the woman Now what about him? Why did you come gunning for him? Had it come why? What did they do? No, it matters If you're gonna die get it off yourself Now come on You and your pals there if you did nothing wrong. You'll die more comfortable. Oh mad. Let's hear be it's not mad. Don't what about it Acton? Matt now you can't do it. That's enough Doc! California California Farrow me and the boys We held up a stage in Farrow Took the money and I'll get out with that woman We We've been following Look out for her She's mean with a gun Martha Lou he's gone Matt. Yeah, I guess you had to do it that way Matt but But what? Nothing All right, Chester you going after a Matt Why not they don't murder have me You have to figure the odds of a man forgiving you for what you do when a thing has to be done And then you split the difference Independent on the reasons for doing it you feel better or worse. I Had to do what I did because I had to find out about them But it didn't help Even if he was a gunman I Had given no peace to a dying man And for that he had to die harder A man a long way from home Chester and I rode out into the east The way we figured Farrow and his wife would be headed Son's coming up. Mr. Dillon. I Got eyes Yes There's a homestead up around the bend We'll stop and find out if they've seen anything no more than a half hour ago Marshall I was fixing to fetch some water when I heard they stopped them. Yeah, the woman looked tuckered out Never see a woman with all them skirts ride Right the way she did it was some picture. How long did they stay five minutes? Maybe wife had some coffee and they drank it scald and then took off head at East. Yeah They wanted to know how far to Kinsley or Maybe they wanted to know the next station and I told him Kinsley. I don't know Santa Fe is doing their perhitchens in about eight They do something wrong Marshall Just for murders back in dodge Come on Chester The Ferros had enough start on us that if they got the train in Kinsley before we caught up We'd have to use the telegraph Hope they could be stopped further down the line with killers like that. There'd be a lot of shooting And I forget it was my job to be there when it happened We rode hard It lacked a couple of minutes before eight when we saw the smoke of the engine We still had a couple of miles to go to reach the station and she was moving out when we got there I swung a board and held out a hand for Chester Running like that. Give me a stitch in the side and the puffs Take it easy Chester I sure wish we'd have had time to find out if they's on this train mr. Dillon They ain't we've lost them good. Oh, we'll see Now look, there's a lot of people in those cars up ahead The ferros see us and they're gonna start shooting and I don't want that So go slow We see them first get out of sight We'll wait until I get off the train. Yes, sir. Okay No Chester put away the gun no shooting on the train. Yes, mr. Dillon We started from the last car and moved up that way they wouldn't see us first I hope we could get them without any gunplay at all Mostly for folks who would get hurt But I didn't have any stomach for shooting a woman even though she was a killer We got to the third car when Chester spotted them there. They are mr. Dillon. All right get back Okay, we'll just stay here conductors coming this way good Howdy Marshall mr. Hindson you on a pleasure rider business business mr. Hindson That couple there in the fourth fifth seat from the front told you yeah, no woman Yeah, I wanted about them when they got on Sure funny pair. She looks cool. We're out. They've both done murder Marshall there's kids in the car. I want to get them without any shooting as long as they don't see us It'll be all right Now where's your next stop about 30 miles down a line now Well, we'll try to figure something out. I hope you can Marshall The train rolled on I Saw Ms. Farah take a kid on her lap Play with it And the mother in the next seat looked on with fond eyes. I Wonder what she would have said if she knew Jack Farah just looked out the window We didn't make a move at the next stop two men got off and there were still some 20 people left in the car besides the killers About 15 miles beyond the train pulled up again. I could see a big herd of cattle crossing the tracks It was going to take a few minutes Mr. Hindson came down the aisle to the platform where we were standing I got my D. See what you think yeah, we'll be about 10 minutes waiting till that herd gets cross How about if I tell the folks in the car they can get out stretch legs for a bit might give you a chance All right, go ahead We watched Slowly one of the time they made up their minds The women glad to let the kids work off steam The men to size up strange land or somebody else's herd And they straggled out There was one old couple that wouldn't move though And I saw mr. Hindson making an eye and a shrug at me Then they changed their minds and hobbled off And that left the car empty except for the pharaohs Chester mr. Hindson and me It's your deal marshal Lucky they didn't decide to get off. I didn't think they would All right, go ahead mr. Hindson and get those people down the line a bit, huh? Yes How far you think it goes like this You won't take my gun for a while Dig them in the rear Honey I said hold on to it. All right, get your hands up. Both of you high and don't turn around But she must have had her gun already in her hand wanting to give it to Farah the whole she was fast one minute She was upright in the seat, and then she was gone Fire into this room behind the seat All right, throw out your gun miss Farah Throw out your gun and stand up. I don't want to hurt you Look out mr. Dylan she's gone for his gun. Yeah Chester give me a hand She was like a crazy woman It took both of us to hold her and we couldn't even do that right until we had our handcuffed to the seat Then she shut up. You just sat there looking at her husband's body Well, we got off at the next stop to wait for the next train back to dodge Jack Farah was taken away in a wagon To be buried his wife stood by the tracks watching it as it moved off And it wasn't until the wagon became a dust cloud out on the plane that she started to cry Gun smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall Tonight's story was specially written for gun smoke by Anthony Ellis with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey featured in the cast were Michael and Barrett and Tom Tully with John Daener Lawrence Dobkin and Jack Krushen Parley Bear is Chester Howard McNear is 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 US Marshall fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in Gun smoke the scholastic standards are rigid at Madison High You must have a sense of humor to attend Listen in to Eve Arden as English teaching our miss Brooks any Sunday evening and you'll get the point when Eve takes over the class Everybody's favorite subject is comedy So don't forget your Sunday Eve is our miss Brooks over most of these same CBS radio stations be sure to enjoy her tomorrow night George waltz speaking America's 45 million radio families listen most to the CBS radio network